San Francisco: India-born Google CEO Sundar Pichai has pledged $1 billion in new initiatives to prepare people for the next generation technology jobs. At an event in Pittsburgh, Pichai said Google will spend the money over the next five years to fund grants to nonprofits globally, CNET reported late onRead More

San Francisco: There is early excitement for the iPhones releasing in 2018 and Apple is likely to ditch Touch ID feature and move to Face ID, said reports. Despite initially believing Apple might re-adopt the fingerprint technology — an identity sensor that makes it easy for the user to getRead More

Seoul: As Samsung plans to launch a bendable smartphone “Galaxy X” in 2018, Apple has reportedly begun work on a foldable iPhone with LG Display. According to a report in the Korean website The Investor, Apple has decided to go with LG and not Samsung (Samsung OLED displays are theRead More

San Francisco: Twitter has launched a new feature called “Happening Now” that will showcase newcomers on its platform tweets about events. “Happening Now” will highlight groups of tweets about a topic — starting with sports — and will expand to other areas like entertainment and breaking news, TechCrunch reported onRead More

San Francisco, Oct 13 :Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft have teamed up to launch an open-source and deep learning interface ‘Gluon’ that will help developers to deploy machine learning models across several platforms. According to a report in ZDNet, the interface would give developers a place where they canRead More

A reader said she saw me in her city. “But I’ve never been there,” I said. “I just have a common face.” This happens a lot. I once recognised myself on the other side of a crowded bar once before, realising that it was probably someone else. (It was lateRead More

San Francisco, Oct 11  : Twitter has launched a new feature called “Happening Now” that will showcase newcomers on its platform tweets about events. “Happening Now” will highlight groups of tweets about a topic — starting with sports — and will expand to other areas like entertainment and breaking news,Read More

San Francisco, Oct 11 :  Apple has received a US patent for creating self-adjusting Apple Watch bands which means magnetic clasps and other fasteners seen in current generation hardware could be things of the past soon. Apple’s new patent is for “Dynamic fit adjustment for wearable electronic devices” that detailsRead More

San Francisco, Oct 11 : Microsoft is introducing an update for its Skype chat app that will have built-in support for its digital assistant Cortana. Cortana “will be gradually rolled out” for Skype on both Android and iOS platforms, starting with the US, The Verge reported late on Tuesday. UsersRead More

Dubai: China-based TCL Communication has officially launched BlackBerry “Motion” — an all-touch smartphone — that comes with a massive 4,000mAh battery and is said to be similar to the popular BlackBerry “KEYone” sans the physical keyboard. The smartphone sports 5.5-inch full-HD LCD display and is likely to be a mid-rangeRead More