In a bid to counter the threat posed by Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio, the state-run telecom company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has slashed the 3G mobile internet rates to Rs 36 per GB. The customers will now get four times more data on existing data STVs (special tariff vouchers).Read More

Los Angeles Hitting ‘likes’ on Facebook posts and updating your status on the social networking site more often may be harmful to your mental and physical health, a new study has warned. Holly Shakya, an assistant professor at University of California, San Diego and colleagues analysed data from about 5,200Read More

San Francisco, February 5 An Indian-American student has found a cheaper and easier method to turn saltwater into drinkable fresh water and his research has caught the attention of major technology firms and universities. Chaitanya Karamchedu from Portland, Oregon, is turning heads across the country all because of a scienceRead More

New York: From March 1, people will no longer be able to log in to version 7.16 of Skype for Windows desktop and older versions, and version 7.18 of Skype for Mac. According to a report in Venture Beat, both the versions came out in December 2015. “If you’re oneRead More

London,  Irritated by the sound of chewing or repeated pen clicking? Your brain may be wired to go into overdrive on hearing such trigger noises, researchers including one of Indian-origin have found. Researchers from Newcastle University in the UK found the physical basis for people suffering from a condition calledRead More

Panasonic Corp said on Thursday its avionics unit is being investigated by US authorities under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and that it had replaced the long-time head of the business. In a stock exchange filing, the Japanese electronics maker said Panasonic Avionics Corp, a major supplier of inflightRead More

iaomi is preparing to launch a new Redmi phone, purported to be the Redmi Pro 2, featuring up to 6GB of RAM, and 4500mAh of battery. The Redmi Pro 2 smartphone is rumoured to be launched in two models—4GBRAM/64GB ROM and 6GB RAM/128GB ROM, at a price of $230 (approx.Read More

London In a significant milestone for artificial intelligence, a computer system has successfully beaten four human players in a poker marathon match lasting 20 days, winning more than $1.5 millions worth of chips. Libratus, an AI programme developed at Carnegie Mellon University in the US, was trained to play aRead More

New Delhi, February 1 The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked global search engines Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and social media platforms Facebook and Whatsapp to stop rape videos from being uploaded. A Bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur asked the companies to use “firewalls” such as the one China usedRead More

New York: An India-origin researcher has put together a system that would help analyse whether your tweet is credible or not, a report said. A team led by Georgia Tech Ph.D. candidate Tanushree Mitra scanned 66 million tweets linked to nearly 1,400 real-world events to build a language model thatRead More