New Delhi: While the Indian tablet PC market recorded a 4 percent decline (Year-on-Year) in the third quarter this year, Lenovo captured 20.3 percent share to lead the segment, witnessing 94 percent growth over the previous quarter, market research firm CMR said on Monday. Acer grabbed the second spot withRead More

SAN FRANCISCO: After Google reportedly confirmed the practice of gathering location data from Android devices even when the service was disabled by users, regulators in South Korea summoned representatives of the tech giant this week for questioning. Data protection officials in Britain are also looking into the matter, CNNMoney reportedRead More

SAN FRANCISCO: Micro-blogging site Twitter has admitted that specific locations included with some of its users’ tweets were revealed without their permission last week due to a “bug”. “We’ve discovered an issue for a small percentage of people who recently had location-sharing on, Tweeted from https://twitter.com, and tapped to addRead More

New York, November 24 Twitter is testing a new feature ‘Bookmarks’ that allows its over 300 million active users to privately save tweets for reading them later. It has been one of the most sought-after features by the users of the social media giant. Tina Koyama, a staff product designerRead More

New York, November 24 Researchers have converted a natural bacterial immune system into the world’s smallest data recorder, laying the groundwork for a new class of technologies that use bacterial cells for everything from disease diagnosis to environmental monitoring. The researchers at the Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) in theRead More

New Delhi, November 22 When it comes to the premium smartphone segment in India, Samsung and Apple rule the roost, with Google round the corner. Now, almost doubling its market share in the premium category — capturing 28 per cent market share in the third quarter this year — ChineseRead More

WASHINGTON: An expert human pilot was successfully able to beat flying drones controlled by artificial intelligence (AI) systems in a race organised by NASA. However, the AI-driven drones were more consistent in their performance, scientists said. Drone racing is a high-speed sport demanding instinctive reflexes. Researchers at NASA’s Jet PropulsionRead More

Berlin, November 21 Materialistic people use Facebook more frequently and intensely, treat their online friends as “digital objects” and feel a greater need to compare themselves to their peers on the social networking website, scientists say. The research also found that they have more friends than people who are lessRead More

Berlin Scientists have found the world’s oldest drawings of pet dogs in 8,000-year-old hunting scenes etched into rock walls in Saudi Arabia, suggesting that humans were training canines even before they settled down into farming communities. While documenting thousands of rock-art panels from the sites of Shuwaymis and Jubbah inRead More

London With the aim of contacting alien life, astronomers have sent a radio message to a neighbouring star system, one of the closest known to contain a potentially habitable planet. The target star is GJ 273, also known as Luyten’s star, a red dwarf in the northern constellation of CanisRead More