New Delhi: Google celebrates Children’s Day with the doodle created by ‘Doodle 4 Google’ winner depicting the colourful and aesthetically rich state of Assam. This year Google decided to celebrate Children’s Day in a unique manner. Google used the doodle created by Pune’s Vaidehi Reddy, who was announced as theRead More

New York: The social networking site Facebook has launched a personalised video creation tool, to push more users to share the videos. The video tool ‘Say Thanks’ was launched to let users put together personalised video cards combining present themes and their own posts and photos. It also allows theRead More

New Delhi: Google celebrates the historic landing of European Space Agency robotic probe called the ‘Philae lander’ on a comet after detaching from its mothership Rosetta with a doodle on its homepage. The doodle features an animated version of the successful Philae comet lander along with the tagline “first controlledRead More

London: Intimate messaging with strangers on WhatsApp has led to an increase in divorce rates in Italy, according to a leading Italian lawyer. “Forty percent of divorce cases that cited adultery have used WhatsApp messages swapped by unfaithful spouses and their lovers as evidence,” Gian Ettore Gassani, president of the ItalianRead More

Washington: We know that the weather has a profound physiological and psychological impact on us. Now, researchers at the Stanford University have analysed tweets for indications of mood changes and their correlations with the weather. According to them, some moods are clearly correlated with certain types of weather and whileRead More

New York: If you have unwillingly accepted friend requests from annoying acquaintances, who occupy unnecessary space in your Facebook news feed, you could now unfollow them without unfriending them. Facebook has launched a News Feed settings tool to let you control posts that you do not want to see, theRead More

Washington: The micro-blogging site has finally given access to its vast database to a selected pool of researchers to study tweets and find answers to a variety of issues. As part of its ambitious data grant programme, Twitter is allowing academic researchers across various fields to “go back and studyRead More

Singapore: Asian-origin mobile applications LINE, YAY and WeChat are posing challenges to technology giants Apple, Facebook, Google and other telecoms carriers, cutting into their market shares, according to a Singapore -based firm. These social messaging services have become alternatives and offer more options for product advertisers, providers of goods andRead More

London: A new study reveals how overuse of smartphones, especially, during midnight hours can destroy intimacy in relationships, leading to break-ups, cheating and divorce in modern days. The study pointed that as the quality of our physical connections gets diluted, people expect less and forget what real romance is. ForRead More

London, Having a large number of followers on Twitter is a more efficient strategy to gain popularity on the social networking site than increasing your number of tweets, said a study. Messages from influential people have much more impact and less popular users can gain popularity by increasing their activityRead More