Expanding its convergent audio video (CAV) category, LG on Tuesday launched three new speakers with improved features in India. The three speakers — SJ5 Sound Bar System, FJ5 or X Boom ‘Party Maker’ and the OJ98 or X Boom ‘Typhoon’ — are now available in retail stores. “With the introductionRead More

Washington Men and women who have younger spouses are happier with their marriage, but this marital satisfaction fades over time in couples who have a significant age gap, a study has found. The findings, which examined 13 years of data from thousands of households, also suggest that marriages with largeRead More

Melbourne Scientists have discovered a novel use for discarded cigarette butts in building roads, an advance that could reduce heat in urban areas as well as tackle the problem of waste accumulation. Trillions of cigarette butts are produced every year worldwide, with most discarded into the environment. They take agesRead More

Washington NASA’s Curiosity rover that found evidence that ancient Mars had the right conditions to support microbial life has marked five years of exploring the red planet. Curiosity, which landed near Mount Sharp five years ago, is examining clues on that mountain about long-ago lakes on Mars. On August 5,Read More

Paris, Earth Overshoot Day. The day humanity exhausts its allowance of planetary resources such as water, soil, and clean air for all of 2017, as per environmental groups. Earth Overshoot Day has arrived on August 2 this year, a day earlier than in 2016, according to environmental groups WWF andRead More

New York, August 4 Popular microblogging website Twitter may be a powerful tool to forecast criminal activity, according to a study that analysed over 1.5 million public tweets. “My initial hypothesis was that there would be no correlation between Twitter use and crime. After all, people do not share withRead More

Melbourne, August 4 A mobile learning app that uses game elements such as leader boards and digital badges may have positive effects on student academic performance, engagement and retention, according to a study. Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia developed the fully customisable app that allowed lecturers toRead More

London, August 2 ‘Celebrity’ Twitter handles display bot-like behaviour, according to a study that found accounts with more than 10 million followers tend to retweet at a rate similar to automated systems. Researchers from University of Cambridge in the UK found that in smaller accounts, bots tweet far more thanRead More

Washington To tap into brain’s ‘out-of-the box’ thinking, scientists are now relying on magic tricks and illusions. Here’s one you can try using a tabletop mirror. Place your left hand on the table in front of the mirror’s reflective surface and your right hand behind the mirror, about six inchesRead More

Las Vegas, July 31 A group of Chinese researchers have demonstrated an “evil attack” called the “Ghost Telephonist” which allows hackers to take over phone numbers and gather call and message content. The demonstration was made on Sunday by the UnicornTeam researchers from 360 Technology, China’s leading security company, atRead More