San Francisco: Google will soon launch a useful update to Google Maps that will give users live guidance and interactive real-time notifications during their journey. The real-time updates will be given while a user is are on his/her transit journey and the updates will appear in the Google Maps app.Read More

Los Angeles, December 9 Scientists have proven the existence of new form of matter called excitonium – which was first theorised almost 50 years ago. Researchers from University of California Berkeley and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the US studied non-doped crystals of the transition metal dichalcogenide titanium diselenideRead More

London The Martian atmosphere is well protected from the effects of the solar wind, despite the absence of an Earth-like magnetic dipole, a study has found. Present-day Mars is a cold and dry planet with less than one per of Earth’s atmospheric pressure at the surface. However many geological featuresRead More

San Francisco: Popular photo-sharing platform Instagram is working on “Direct” — a standalone app for private messages which will reportedly remove messaging features from the main app. “`Direct`, which opens to the camera in the same way Snapchat does, will become available on Android and iOS in six countries includingRead More

Washington, December 8 Scientists have successfully 3D printed lifelike artificial organ models that mimic the structure, properties and feel of real organs. These patient-specific organ models, which include integrated soft sensors, can be used for practice surgeries to improve surgical outcomes in thousands of patients worldwide, researchers said. “We areRead More

New Delhi: Google has introduced an app to help Android smartphone users stay under the limits of pricey mobile data packages. This app, called Datally, allows users to track their data usage in real time, and get personalised recommendations on saving data along with notifications of public Wi-Fi spots availableRead More

The unavailability of the iPhone X during the three months ended October pulled down the market share for Apple`s iPhones in some key regions, while phones running on Google`s Android recorded higher sales, data from a research firm showed on Tuesday. The market share for Apple Inc`s iPhones, as measuredRead More

New Delhi: Chinese handset maker Xiaomi has slashed the price of Mi A1 in India. The device has has recieved a temporary price cut of Rs 2,000. The smartphone, was launched in India in at Rs 14,999 in September this year. It will be available at Rs 12,999 on bothRead More

London, December 5 YouTube will hire 10,000 people to monitor and control violent extremism on the popular video streaming platform, along with curbing content that endangers children. In an interview to The Daily Telegraph, Susan Wojcicki, Chief Executive of the Google-owned video-sharing site, said on Monday that “bad actors areRead More

New York Are you worried about the consequences of your child encountering online risks, such as sexual soliciting, cyber-bullying and explicit material? Take heart as researchers have found that for most teenagers, the negative effects of such exposure vanish in less than a week. “I think if there is aRead More