Washington: Social networking giant Facebook is developing a stand-alone camera app akin to photo-sharing app Snapchat, as per a report in The Wall Street Journal. The app, which is being reportedly developed by Facebook’s “friend-sharing” team in London, is in its early stages and may never come to fruition.The ideaRead More

Cambridge,Mass: A robot named Root has been developed to expose kids of all ages to coding in a way that brings the often daunting world of computer science to life. Root looks like a smoke detector but is actually a sophisticated robot. A magnetic surface, wheels, and an impressive arsenalRead More

New Delhi: Over a million Facebook users are using the social networking site through Tor “dark web”-which maintains user privacy and leaves no digital trail. According to Facebook, the growth of Tor over the past few years has been “roughly” linear, noting that some 525,000 people who accessed the serviceRead More

New Delhi: In the latest, Microsoft Corporation and Alphabet Inclusive’s Google have agreed upon a deal to drop all the regulatory complaints against each other. “Microsoft has agreed to withdraw its regulatory complaints against Google, reflecting our changing legal priorities. We will continue to focus on competing vigorously for businessRead More

Beijing: Apple Inc`s online book and film services have gone dark in China, after Beijing introduced regulations in March imposing strict curbs on online publishing, particularly for foreign firms. Attempts by Reuters to access Apple`s iBooks Store and iTunes Movies services were met with a message in Chinese saying theyRead More

KOLLAM: A 20-year-old computer geek’s casual outing in online platform has won him a cash prize of `7 lakh from social media giant Facebook. Arun S Kumar, a computer engineering student with the MES Institute of Technology and Management, Chathanoor here, said that the prize money was presented to himRead More

New Delhi: Following the footsteps of larger rival WhatsApp, instant messaging app Viber will encrypt user messages to protect texts and calls on its platform from “interception”.”Our team at Viber has been working hard to give you more control over your private conversations. Today we are taking another step inRead More

TORONTO, April 19 — Tech companies should comply with lawful requests to access protected data, BlackBerry Chief Executive John Chen said yesterday, in thinly veiled criticism of rival Apple Inc for its recent standoff with the FBI. Chen made the comment in a blog posting after reports by Vice andRead More

If a new report is to be believed then Apple will ditch use of aluminium casing for its iPhone next year, in favour of an all-glass enclosure. The new claims (via 9to5mac) have been made by reliable KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo who adds that apart from the all-glass enclosure,Read More

New York: An Indian-origin engineer has developed a novel technology that doubles Wi-Fi speeds with a single antenna — an achievement with potential to transform the telecommunications field in future.Columbia University’s Harish Krishnaswamy, an electrical engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology -Madras, has for the first time integratedRead More