Washington, In a bid to put Facebook at the centre of all your communications, the company has launched an Android-only dialer app called, Hello. The app is available on Google Play store for free and replaces the native Android dialer with a significantly more Facebook-centric version, reported The Verge. HelloRead More

New York: The ‘popstar’ YouTube that actually made several popstars what they are today, including Justin Bieber and Zoella, has turned 10 on Thursday. It’s been 10 years since Jawed Karim — the man behind the concept of the video sharing site — uploaded the first ever video of hisRead More

New York, Using mobile apps in preschool classrooms may help improve early literacy skills and boost school readiness for children, says a new study. “Guided use of an educational app may be a source of motivation and engagement for children in their early years,” said study author Susan Neuman, professor ofRead More

Washington, Researchers have developed a computer algorithm that is capable of identifying anti-social behaviour as demonstrated in website comment sections. On the Internet, people who engage in anti-social ways in the comments section of web content, have come to be known as trolls. Researchers from Cornell University and Stanford University builtRead More

San Francisco: Facebook on Friday said that its war against fake likes is paying off so well that many `bad actors` who built businesses on the tactic are closing shop. Advances in technology for recognizing suspicious patterns of likes has enabled the social network to block such activity by maliciousRead More

San Francisco: Google search on Tuesday will start factoring in how easy websites are to read on smartphones or tablet computers, underlining the changing way people surf the Internet. The web titan said that the “mobile-friendliness” of websites will be a factor in ranking results to online searches done usingRead More

Washington: Retro Yeti, a team of students from the University of Utah’s Entertainment Arts and Engineering program have created a video game 404Sight which is based on net neutrality that has recently become a hot political topic. According to the Verge, net neutrality is a slightly twisted name for aRead More

Washington: Photo-sharing app Instagram has introduced new community guidelines to control harassment and pornography. According to the Verge, these were the biggest changes in the guidelines since Instagram was acquired by Facebook in 2012. The move by Instagram came after critics complained that the rules were lax and enforced withRead More

Boston, A new device can turn your smartphone into a low-cost tool that can diagnose cancer in just under an hour, scientists say. The device – called the D3 (digital diffraction diagnosis) system – features an imaging module with a battery-powered LED light clipped onto a standard smartphone that recordsRead More

New York, Now you can also access Facebook Messenger on the web and chat from your desktop computer. But one can already chat with contacts while using Facebook on the web — so what’s the novelty? Well, according to Facebook, the Messenger tool will help users chat “without distractions” thatRead More