New York: A team of US scientists has developed a new technology that uses smartphone to track agricultural water use by allowing farmers to produce field-scale maps of water consumption. The team from University of Nebraska, with partners at Google and University of Idaho, introduced the latest evolution of MetricRead More

Washington DC: A new study has revealed about China’s censorship. In March 2015 a video documentary about air pollution in China, entitled ‘Under the Dome’, went viral. Yet, while it is well known that the video disappeared offline following government objection, what is lesser known is that hundreds of postsRead More

Washington DC: A new study has revealed the new algorithm to get you more retweets. Researchers at the University of Maryland have demonstrated that an algorithm that takes into account the past activity of each of your followers and makes predictions about future tweeting can lead to more “retweets” thanRead More

WhatsApp users will no more have to worry about memory storage capacity of their smartphones as it has announced a back-up feature for Android platform that will help store chats and multimedia content in Google Drive. “…you don’t want your memories stuck on your phone. (What if something happens?!) SoRead More

New York: Within days of Jack Dorsey taking over Twitter’s command as permanent CEO, come some sombre news. The company is reportedly preparing to hand out pink slips across the board. The social networking giant is planning company-wide layoffs next week. It is unclear how much of the staff willRead More

NEW YORK: ‘Liking’ on Facebook is about to get interesting with six new ‘reaction’ emoticons. The new “reactions” will let users express love, laughter, happiness, shock, sadness and anger. It works by hovering or long-pressing the Like button and selecting the relevant emoji that you want to put in yourRead More

New Delhi: Internet giant Google on Thursday launched a new app — Delhi Public Transport App — which aims to make it easier for the residents of the national capital to get around on public transport. The new experimental app will be built into Google Maps and will help usersRead More

New Delhi: Internet giant Google on Thursday launched a new app — Delhi Public Transport App — which aims to make it easier for the residents of the national capital to get around on public transport. The new experimental app will be built into Google Maps and will help usersRead More

New York: The micro-blogging site Twitter has launched Moments – a tab that will show you the best of what is happening on Twitter in an instant and in real time. “Moments helps you find the best of Twitter as easily as tapping an icon – regardless of who youRead More

New York: Google has filed a patent application to use holograms on its eye-wearable device Google Glass that will improve the augmented reality experiences that allows computer-generated imagery (CGI) to interact with the real world. To make “smart” eyewear, allowing projected content to interact and react to the real-world behindRead More