Washington: Google’s Life Sciences division, which is now a subsidiary of the much-talked about Alphabet, is developing a bandage-sized, cloud-connected sensor to help people monitor their glucose levels. The product is being developed in partnership with DexCom, a California-based company known for its diabetes-management devices, reports the Verge. It isRead More

Mumbai: Micro-blogging platform Twitter on Thursday said it has increased the Direct Message (DM) limit to 10,000 characters from the existing 140, enabling the users to send longer private messages to friends. “Twitter has eliminated the 140-character limit for DM, and users can now exchange messages privately of up toRead More

California: On the lines of Twitter, Facebook is working on a new standalone news app. This new app will send breaking news alerts straight to your phone. However, the app is now in alpha testing stage and details about it are still vague. Facebook hasn’t confirmed anything yet and noRead More

New York: Silicon Valley giants Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Twitter are working with Britain’s Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to implement a new system that will help detect and block images of child pornography online. WF, a charitable foundation, has introduced a new technology that enables it to tag imagesRead More

London: Beware! If you put your phone number on your Facebook profile, anybody can then find your details and location by just typing the number in Facebook search bar despite your privacy settings — and your details could be misused by cyber criminals. Reza Moaiandin, technical director of Salt.agency, usedRead More

New Delhi: Indian army is surely ruling the popularity charts on Facebook! For the second time in as many months, the Indian Army’s Facebook page has topped the People Talking About That (PTAT) ranking for Facebook pages. And with this, it has managed to leave behind a host of foreignRead More

New Delhi: With government of India making it clear that it has no intention to invade into the privacy of its citizens, the danger that your children will use Internet for reasons other than what is acceptable is once again very real. Here’s how you can minimise the risk. 1.AsRead More

London: Scientists have developed robot controllers that are able to efficiently self-organise their tasks. Taking inspiration from the way in which ants organise their work and divide tasks, Eliseo Ferrante from University of Leuven, Belgium and colleagues evolved complex robot behaviours using artificial evolution and detailed robotics simulations. Just likeRead More

New York: One can now use online social networking service Twitter to buy products as well. Twitter is teaming up with Shopify — which boasts of about 100,000 merchants using its software — and other e-commerce software companies to expand its range, Time reported. The new ‘Buy’ button allows usersRead More

New York: One can now use online social networking service Twitter to buy products as well. Twitter is teaming up with Shopify — which boasts of about 100,000 merchants using its software — and other e-commerce software companies to expand its range, Time reported. The new ‘Buy’ button allows usersRead More