New Delhi In a bid to further improve the search experience for its users in India, Google on Thursday introduced latest update to its ‘Search’ app. The update, available in English, would provide users easy access to information like cricket scores and statistics, weather, nearby restaurants, ATMs, grocery stores andRead More

San Francisco, August 10 Facebook is rolling out a new video service offering professionally produced shows in a challenge to rivals such as YouTube, and potentially to streaming providers like Netflix. The Facebook service called Watch will include a range of shows, from reality to comedy to live sports, theRead More

New Delhi In a bid to further improve the search experience for its users in India, Google on Thursday introduced latest update to its ‘Search’ app. The update, available in English, would provide users easy access to information like cricket scores and statistics, weather, nearby restaurants, ATMs, grocery stores andRead More

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday offered a job to the Google employee who was fired for writing an anti-diversity memo a job that went viral inside the company and infuriated thousands of employees. Julian Assange, who is currently in the Ecuadorian Embassy, tweeted multiple times in support of JamesRead More

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