Washington Astronomers at Chile’s Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observatory have discovered cold dust around the closest star to Earth, indicating an elaborate planetary system, says a report. Proxima Centauri is a faint red dwarf lying just four light-years away in the southern constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur), orbited byRead More

New Delhi: Twitter on Friday launched a “Video Website Card” to advertisers in India that is designed to work across a variety of brand`s objectives. It features an auto-playing video, a customisable headline and destination URL paired with a large tap target. Advertisers can elect to run this creative unitRead More

New Delhi: Ever regretted sending a WhatsApp message to someone and wished you could delete it? The popular Internet-based messaging service is now making that possible with its latest update. Deleting messages for everyone allows you to delete specific messages you have sent to either a group or an individualRead More

San Francisco: As Facebook posted an increase in its daily and monthly active users in the third quarter financial results, the features of its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp also recorded growth with active users touching the 300 million mark. On Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that `Instagram Stories` andRead More

Periscope, a mobile app that lets users live-stream video, said Wednesday it will give all earnings from a select program, save for an administrative fee, back to the users who broadcast from Periscope. The app, founded in 2014 and bought by Twitter Inc in 2015, is hiking payments to itsRead More

Washington You may soon be able to read from your smartphone even under bright sunlight, thanks to ‘invisible glass’ developed by scientists — including those from India — that reflects almost no light. Most of today’s electronics devices are equipped with glass or plastic covers for protection against dust, moisture,Read More

SAN FRANCISCO: A security researcher has discovered bugs in Google’s platform that deals with bugs and unpatched vulnerabilities, leading him to gain access to the company’s sensitive internal systems. According to a report in Motherboard in Wednesday, Alex Birsan found vulnerabilities inside the Google Issue Tracker — used internally toRead More

Washington NASA said its Mars 2020 mission would have more “eyes” than any rover before it — a grand total of 23, to create sweeping panoramas, reveal obstacles, study the atmosphere and assist science instruments. They will provide dramatic views during the rover’s descent to Mars and be the firstRead More

Washington: Apple will let you unlock the iPhone X with your face — a move likely to bring facial recognition to the masses, along with concerns over how the technology may be used for nefarious purposes. Apple’s newest device, set to go on sale November 3, is designed to beRead More

London, October 30 Cambridge University researchers have pinpointed the date of what could be the oldest solar eclipse yet recorded. The event, which occurred on October 30, 1207 BC, is mentioned in the Bible, and could help historians to date Egyptian pharaohs. “Solar eclipses are often used as a fixedRead More