San Francisco, March 8 Facebook has introduced video chat in Messenger Lite, a slimmed down version of Messenger for Android intended for people with older devices and/or slower Internet connections. Messenger Lite is under 10MB, making it fast to install and quick to start up. It offers core messaging capabilitiesRead More

Washington Coca-Cola has announced plans to launch an alcoholic drink for the first time in the company’s 125-year history — with an alcopop-style product in Japan. The company is experimenting with the creation of a popular type of Japanese alcopop known as Chu-Hi, containing distilled shochu alcohol mixed with flavouredRead More

Beijing, March 8 A two-year-old boy in Shanghai locked his mother’s iPhone for the equivalent of 47 years after playing with it and repeatedly entering the wrong passcode, according to a Chinese media report. The mother, identified by her family name as Lu, returned home and found that the phoneRead More

San Francisco, March 8 Facebook has introduced video chat in Messenger Lite, a slimmed down version of Messenger for Android intended for people with older devices and/or slower Internet connections. Messenger Lite is under 10MB, making it fast to install and quick to start up. It offers core messaging capabilitiesRead More

Washington Permafrost in the coldest northern Arctic will thaw enough to become a permanent source of carbon to the atmosphere this century, with the peak transition occurring in 40 to 60 years, a NASA study warns. The region was formerly thought to be at least temporarily shielded from global warmingRead More

London, March 5 Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has accused Facebook and Google of raking in profits from “pop-up” brothels on their platforms. According to a report in The Sunday Times, “Pop-up” sex clubs were discovered in Cornwall, Cambridge, Swindon and holiday cottages in the Peak district. The NCA accusedRead More

New York, March 5 There was absolutely nothing before the Big Bang, according to British physicist Stephen Hawking, who explained what happened prior to the existence of our universe. The Big Bang theory proposes that a tiny speck of matter and energy began to grow, bringing about the birth ofRead More

BERLIN: Male hunting spiders wrap morsels of food in their silk and offer these as gifts to prospective mates, a study has found. Unlike many other species, male hunting spiders do not use chemical signals such as sex pheromones to attract a mate. Instead, they make their mark by uniquelyRead More

Toronto Smartphones and data centres will be the most damaging information and communications technologies to the environment by 2040, warns a new study. For the study, the researchers studied the carbon footprint of consumer devices such as smartphones, laptops, tablets, desktops as well as data centres and communication networks. TheirRead More

Goa (Cavelossim), March 4 It is easy to differentiate between an ordinary malware from ‘state-sponsored’ ones by identifying the patters on the victims, said researchers at the 9th annual edition of the Nullcon, the international security conference, that kicked off in Goa on Friday. Leading security researcher Eva Galperin, DirectorRead More