San Francisco: Facebook, making a bigger push to deliver personalized information to its members, said Monday it was expanding its mobile alerts to include sports scores, weather updates and local news updates. Until now, the huge social network’s alerts to smartphone users had been focused around postings by friends, birthdaysRead More

Washington: For the first time, scientists have designed an insect-like robot smaller than a paperclip that can both fly and swim – paving the way for future dual aerial aquatic robotic vehicles. The biggest challenge is conflicting design requirements: aerial vehicles require large airfoils like wings or sails to generateRead More

London: Researchers have developed a new light-weight robot with 3D sensors that can move around without colliding with the people and objects in its way. This provides new opportunities for more friendly interaction between people and machines, researchers said. Modern industrial robots commonly weigh in at several tonnes and forRead More

Washington D.C: An important step towards next-generation ultra-compact photonic and optoelectronic devices has been taken with the realization of a two-dimensional excitonic laser. Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) embedded a monolayer of tungsten disulfide into a special microdisk resonator to achieveRead More

Sydney: YouTube videos of drowsy drivers give useful insights into how people perceive sleepy driving as a common yet controllable behaviour, according to a new study. “In-vehicle footage relating to driver fatigue is present on YouTube and is actively engaged with by viewers,” said author Ashleigh Filtness from Australia’s QueenslandRead More

Washington: Microblogging site Twitter announced that it has expanded its polling feature to all users. Polls, which were earlier accessible only to a limited users, will soon be available to all. “We’re excited to share that in the coming days, everyone will be able to create polls on Twitter. And,Read More

Amsterdam: Google has announced a new update for the Google Maps on Android. According to The Next Web, the update will arrive over the next few weeks and will allow the users to view gas stops along their route, including their price for regular-grade fuel, as well as how longRead More

New York: Photo-sharing platform Instagram is the most popular social media site among teenagers in the US, reveals a new survey. Facebook, which bought Instagram in 2012, was fourth in the popularity scale, showed the results of the survey by Piper Jaffray, a leading investment bank and asset management firm.Read More

New York: You would no longer need a password to access your Yahoo mail account thanks to a new update called Yahoo Account Key, the company has announced in a blog post. Instead of the traditional password punched in at sign-in, the app will use what’s called the Yahoo AccountRead More

St Petersburg: Google has announced the closure of its development centre in St Petersburg following a tightening of Russian regulatory procedures. Law changes in 2014 required Google to house all data pertaining to Russian citizens on servers located within the Russian Federation, reported Xinhua. Google, however, described the move asRead More