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SpaceX reveals plan for manned journey to Mars

SpaceX reveals plan for manned journey to Mars

Technology September 29, 2017 at 6:41 pm 0 comments

Adelaide, September 29 SpaceX on Friday unveiled its plans to put humans on Mars as early as 2024. Speaking on the final day of the 68th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) here, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk made the announcement of the plans, reports Xinhua news agency. Musk, who alsoRead More

Hubble spots farthest active inbound comet

Technology September 29, 2017 at 6:40 pm 0 comments

Los Angeles The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the farthest active inbound comet ever seen, at a whopping distance of over 2.4 billion kilometres from the Sun. Slightly warmed by the Sun, it has already begun to develop a fuzzy cloud of dust over 100,000 kilometres wide, called a coma,Read More

Facebook adds new feature to encourage blood donation in India

Facebook adds new feature to encourage blood donation in India

Technology September 28, 2017 at 5:15 pm 0 comments

New Delhi: Social networking giant Facebook is rolling out a new feature that will enable individuals and blood banks to connect easily with donors. The feature, which has been designed for India, will go live from October 1. Facebook will also show a message on user’s News Feed to encourageRead More

Twitter aims to boost appeal with new 280-character tweet limit

Technology September 28, 2017 at 5:14 pm 0 comments

San Francisco, Twitter has announced a test project allowing tweets to be expanded to 280 characters—double the existing limit—in the latest effort to boost flagging growth at the social network. San Francisco-based Twitter said the new limit, a major shift for the messaging platform known for its 140-character tweets, aims toRead More

Happy Birthday Google – and 19 years of saying ‘just Google it’

Happy Birthday Google – and 19 years of saying ‘just Google it’

Technology September 27, 2017 at 5:18 pm 0 comments

New Delhi: Want to know 99 ways to impress your crush, dying to make that delicious chocolate cake or anxious to learn whether that nagging headache is something serious? Just Google it, of course. For 19 years, the search engine has been the answer to all our queries, from theRead More

Microsoft Office 2019 to be released in 2018

Technology September 27, 2017 at 5:18 pm 0 comments

San Francisco: The next version of Microsoft Office — Office 2019 — will be released in the second half of 2018 and its previews will start shipping mid-year. The release will include perpetual versions of the Office apps including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook and servers including Exchange, SharePoint andRead More

Faster Internet speed spurring OTT growth in India

Technology September 27, 2017 at 5:17 pm 0 comments

New Delhi: The improvement in average Internet speed in India over the last few months is spurring growth in the Over-The-Top (OTT) sphere and may bring about a behavioural shift among Indian consumers, industry players have emphasised. OTT, or the delivery of video content via Internet, is looking up asRead More

Rs 44,990 Sony Xperia XZ1 with ‘3D Creator’ launched in India

Rs 44,990 Sony Xperia XZ1 with ‘3D Creator’ launched in India

Technology September 25, 2017 at 9:21 am 0 comments

New Delhi Sony India on Monday expanded its premium device portfolio with “Xperia XZ1” — the first smartphone with a 3D Creator — for Rs 44,990. The device boasts an industry-first 19MP “MotionEye” camera that has predictive “Hybrid AF” burst and predictive capture with face expression features. The device featuresRead More

Facebook tests WhatsApp shortcut in its app

Technology September 25, 2017 at 9:16 am 0 comments

San Francisco, September 25 Facebook appears to be testing a new feature which will allow the users to launch WhatsApp directly from its app. A dedicated WhatsApp button showed up in the Facebook app of some users on the Android platform, which acted like a shortcut to open the chatRead More

Jellyfish found to be first animals without brains that sleep

Technology September 25, 2017 at 9:16 am 0 comments

Los Angeles Scientists, including one of Indian origin, have found that jellyfish go into a sleep-like state, making them the first animals without a brain or central nervous system to do so. The findings push the origin of sleep further down the evolutionary tree of life – to before theRead More