Washington: Twitter has killed its Discover tab and has instead decided to focus on Recaps and MagicRecs. The tab was although a favorite of co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey but had been stagnant for some time, reported The Verge. Recap is the selection of tweets marked “While You WereRead More

Washington: In a complaint filed to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), consumer watchdog groups have accused Google of blurring the difference between ads and original content in its YouTube Kids app. The complaint alleged that the videos on the app mixed “commercial and other content in ways that are deceptiveRead More

Washington: Amid fresh rumours that Google may launch a takeover bid for Twitter, the micro-blogging site added over $1 billion to its market cap Tuesday amid heavy buying. Two companies are believed to have contacted Twitter with “serious” interest, with Google identified as one of those firms, media reports said.Read More

Facebook’s Messenger app is evolving into a multitasking tool equipped to send an animated fist bump to a friend at one moment and then get a little business done in the next. In an effort to pull off the transformation, Facebook Inc. is opening Messenger so outside programmers can buildRead More

Parents with obese children may not be able to recognise their child is overweight unless they are at very extreme levels of obesity, researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have found. The study found that parents are additionally more likely to underestimate their child’s weight if they are Black or southRead More

Washington,  If you are well educated, it doesn’t necessarily mean that your chances of happiness in life are better than others, says a new study. A new mental health research from the University of Warwick, examined socioeconomic factors related to high mental wellbeing, such as level of education and personalRead More

Blackberry has now decided to offer a secure server for its BBM enterprise users across platforms to exchange secure messages through a new IM service. To prevent anything similar to the FREAK vulnerability, this service will use encryption keys which are generated by the communicating mobile devices themselves. Up until now,Read More

New York, Over-exposure to artificial light at night has serious long-term health implications like tendency to breast cancer, obesity, diabetes, depression, and possibly other forms of cancer, says a new study. “It’s a new analysis and synthesis of what we know up to now on the effect of lighting onRead More

Apple is reportedly inviting users to test its upcoming iOS update for the first time ever.The iPhone maker has started a page where interested users can sign up to try iOS 8.3 before it is released later this year. After gaining valuable feedback by running a public beta of OSRead More

New York, A team of engineers at Google is reportedly working to build a version of the Android operating system to power virtual-reality applications. The move comes on the heels of Facebook’s $2 billion purchase of Oculus VR. Wall Street Journal quoted “two people familiar with the project” as saying thatRead More