San Francisco, June 19   Google has reportedly killed the ability of direct Uber ride booking from inside Google Maps without giving any reason. The feature allowing users to book Uber rides through Google Maps was added in January last year, with which users could enter a location, identify theirRead More

Shanghai: Huawei has sold six million units of its acclaimed P20 series since its global launch in late March this year, the company announced on Thursday. According to Huawei Consumer Business Group, the P20 performance is up 81 per cent globally compared to P10 Series` performance last year. “The incredibleRead More

Taipei: Taiwan-based technology giant ASUS on Monday unveiled two new “Republic of Gamers (ROG)” gaming laptops tweaked for players for two different gaming genres. The “Strix Scar II” is aimed at audiences who play games in first-person perspective in “frames per second (FPS)” and “Strik Hero II” that targets “multiplayerRead More

Washington A volcano in Ecuador with a deep cylindrical crater may be the largest musical instrument on Earth, producing unique sounds that could help scientists monitor eruptions, finds a study. The volcano’s crater changed shape after a sequence of eruptions in 2015. The deep narrow crater forced air to reverberateRead More

Bengaluru: Aiming to strengthen its business in India, Truecaller on Wednesday announced it has acquired Chillr — the country’s first multi-bank payments app. Truecaller forayed into the digital payments segment in India in March last year. “Since launching ‘Truecaller Pay’ in 2017, we’ve seen an increasing number of use casesRead More

New Delhi: Driven by exclusive online launches and strong promotions, e-commerce platforms captured a record 38 percent share of the total smartphone channels in India in the first quarter of 2018, a new report said on Friday. According to Counterpoint Research`s “Market Monitor” service, Flipkart continued its dominance in theRead More

San Francisco: Twitter has announced that it will put more live news events in your timeline and notifications and might also send users customised push notification if an event is happening that they may be interested in. “We’ve been working to change how you discover all the information around news,Read More

New York Playing with blocks may help preschool-age children improve their mathematical skills and the ability to pay attention, a study has found. Researchers from the Purdue University in the US found that a semi-structured block play intervention improved math skills, such as numeracy, shape recognition and mathematical language, andRead More

London Scientists have discovered two new planetary systems, one of which hosts three Earth-sized planets. Researchers from Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Oviedo in Spain analysed the data collected by the K2 mission of NASA’s Kepler satellite, which started in November 2013. The study, publishedRead More

Washington The largest iceberg ever recorded, that broke away from Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf 18 years ago, could be nearing the end of its voyage, according to NASA. When iceberg B-15 first broke away in March 2000, it measured about 296 kilometres long and 37 kilometres wide. B-15 has sinceRead More