Snap Inc is redesigning its disappearing-message app Snapchat in an attempt to reach a broader audience, going back to the drawing board as Wall Street clobbered it for another quarter of slowing user growth. The Venice, California-based firm, whose March stock market debut was the hottest of any tech stockRead More

San Francisco, November 8 After running a successful trial with few users, Twitter has finally rolled out its new 280-character limit virtually for all users. In September, Twitter launched a test that expanded the 140-character limit so that users could express themselves easily in a tweet. “Our goal was toRead More

WASHINGTON: A geothermal heat source called a mantle plume lies deep below West Antarctica, explaining some of the melting that creates lakes and rivers under the ice sheet, confirms a new NASA study. The heat source may help explain why the West Antarctic ice sheet collapsed rapidly in an earlierRead More

New Delhi: The fake and malicious version of Facebook-owned WhatsApp was downloaded more than a million times from the Google Play Store. The fake app has now been removed from the Play Store. The original WhatsApp has 1 billion downloads. Spotted by users on web forum Reddit, the fake containedRead More

New Delhi: Joining the bandwagon to launch bezel-less (edge-to-edge) display devices, Chinese smartphone maker Gionee will launch “M7 Power” on November 15. Introduced in September in China and other markets, the mid-price segment device is the first product from the Gionee stable to have a Full-View Display, industry sources toldRead More

London In the day and age of increasing cybercrime, download of verified apps has been stressed upon time and again. However, as fake downloads continue to take place, cyber criminals are encashing on this exact loophole; the latest method being through the circulation of a fake WhatsApp. The app, whichRead More

Washington, November 6 International scientific collaboration in the Arctic can help align common interests among countries experiencing geopolitical conflict, including the US and Russia, researchers say. The assessment builds upon the Agreement on Enhancing International Arctic Scientific Cooperation that was signed in May this year by the foreign ministers ofRead More

Melbourne Scientists have discovered the most ancient spiral galaxy in the universe that existed 11 billion years ago and could provide insights into the early cosmos. The galaxy, known as A1689B11, existed just 2.6 billion years after the Big Bang, when the universe was only one fifth of its presentRead More

London, Already under lens for its role in Russia’s meddling into the 2016 US eelction, Facebook has admitted that up to 270 million accounts on the platform are either fake or duplicate. The social media giant this week released its third quarter earning and buried in those results, it disclosed thatRead More

San Francisco, Facing criticism over the years for its poor handling of “abuse”, Twitter has “updated” its rules, to clarify its policies on graphic violence, spam and self-harm among others. “On Saturday, we’re publishing a new version of the ‘Twitter Rules’ to clarify our policies and how we enforce them. “TheRead More