New Delhi Facebook on Wednesday said it entered into a partnership with National Commission for Women (NCW) to launch a digital literacy programme aimed at training 60,000 women in universities across India on safe use of the Internet, social media and email in a year. Launched in collaboration with CyberRead More

San Francisco, May 30 Hitting out at Facebook again, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel has told the social networking giant to not only copy Snapchat but also its data protection policies. During a ReCode event in California on Tuesday, the Snapchat chief said Facebook has failed to sufficiently overhaul its userRead More

London, May 30 In a first, scientists have created 3D printed human corneas that could solve the shortage of available eye donors and help millions of blind people gain sight again. As the outermost layer of the human eye, the cornea has an important role in focusing vision. Yet thereRead More

New Delhi: Popular dating app Tinder is testing a new location-sharing feature called Places. The feature is aimed at helping people find better match for themselves – people who like to hang out in the same bars, restaurants, and other public places. Tinder Places feature for now will be availableRead More

London, May 28 Around 15,000 lightning strikes were recorded in four hours across Britain, the BBC Weather said on Sunday. Many people got out their cameras to photograph and video the electrical storm on Saturday, which was called “utterly insane” and “like being under a strobe light”. Others remarked thatRead More

Washington The Chicxulub asteroid—which caused the extinction of dinosaurs—drove a long-lasting era of global warming when it smashed into Earth 65 million years ago, with a rapid temperature increase of 5 degree Celsius that endured for roughly 100,000 years, a study has found. The monumental event is a rare caseRead More

New York, May 26 A private conversation between a couple in the US was recorded by Alexa and then sent to a random person in their contact list. Tech giant Amazon has offered “a rather convoluted explanation”, said the media. The couple from Portland in Oregon had joked that theirRead More

Toronto Does your three-year-old child gets grumpy when someone else plays with his or her toys? It is because children’s judgements are more in line with adults, and can instinctively understand the ownership, say researchers. The researchers suggested that even very small children can understand ownership of an object basedRead More

Los Angeles, May 26 Posts on social media sites like Twitter can predict whether a protest is likely to turn violent, a study has found. People are more likely to endorse violence when they moralise the issue that they are protesting, and when they believe that others in their socialRead More

Los Angeles, May 24 Posts on social media sites like Twitter can predict whether a protest is likely to turn violent, a study has found. People are more likely to endorse violence when they moralise the issue that they are protesting, and when they believe that others in their socialRead More