Washington, Men under the influence of alcohol are more likely to see women as sexual objects, a study has found. Researchers from University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the US went beyond the mere anecdotal evidence to investigate some of the circumstances and factors that influence why men objectify women. The study, publishedRead More

New York, December 20 India, the largest audience country for Facebook, requested for data 9,853 times in the first half of 2017 – up from 6,324 times in the first half of 2016, according to a latest report by the social media giant. Facebook released its latest ‘Government Requests Report’Read More

London, December 20 France’s privacy watchdog has issued formal notice to WhatsApp, asking the popular mobile messaging app to stop sharing user data with the parent company Facebook within a month. The Chair of the National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) had asked WhatsApp to provide a sample of the FrenchRead More

San Francisco, December 18 Aimed at reducing hateful content on its platform, Twitter will start penalising accounts from Monday that include “hateful imagery and display names”, or those who “use username, display name, or profile bio to engage in abusive behaviour”, the media reported. According to a report in ReCodeRead More

New Delhi, December 18 After the government hiked the customs duty from 10 per cent to 15 per cent for mobile handsets last week, Apple on Monday became the first manufacturer to raise prices (on MRP) across iPhone models, except iPhone SE that the company assembles in the country. “AsRead More

London, December 18 Scientists have developed the first robotic car that can drive over snow covered roads, paving the way for autonomous vehicles that can safely navigate through slippery stretches. The fully autonomous robot car Martti, developed by researchers at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, also succeeded inRead More

WASHINGTON: Women receive less credit for speaking up in the workplace than their male counterparts, a study has found. “In sum, we find that when men speak up with ideas on how to change their team for the better they gain the respect of their teammates–since speaking up indicates knowledgeRead More

London Geologists exploring volcanic rocks on Scotland’s Isle of Skye have found ejecta from a previously unknown 60 million-year-old meteorite impact. The discovery, the first meteorite impact described within the British Paleogene Igneous Province (BPIP), raises questions about the impact and its possible connection to Paleogene volcanic activity across theRead More

London, December 17 NASA has done what it does best — making new and groundbreaking researches. The space organisation announced on Thursday that the space agency’s Kepler Space Telescope, for the first time, has discovered an eighth planet in an alien solar system, meaning it has at least as manyRead More

Toronto, December 13 Pokemon Go may help people who struggle socially, according to a study which found that the popular augmented reality game has a lot of social aspects and requires players to have good social competence. Researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada recruited 101 PokemonRead More