Beagle 2 Mars mission was close to succeed, but it failed to unfurl all its solar panels, according to a latest study carried out by a team of scientists from the University of Leicester and De Montfort University. For over a decade, it was believed that the Beagle 2 – launched in early 2003 […]
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Scientists Provide Further Details of ‘Mud Dragon’ Tongtianlong Limosus Dinosaur Unearthed in China
A team of scientists have given further details about the fossil of a Tongtianlong limosus dinosaur, a species that roamed on earth about 15 million years before dinosaurs became extinct. “They just look weird,” said Dr Stephen L Brusatte, a paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and one of the authors of the […]
Twitter’s COO Adam Bain Quits the Company; CFO Anthony Noto to Fill the Post
Twitter Chief Operating Officer Adam Bain has resigned from his job as well as the company. Chief Financial Officer Anthony Noto has now been named as the new COO of the company, and Twitter has now started search for a new CFO. Anthony Noto is acknowledged as the person who built the company’s business model. […]
GoPro Decides to Recall 2,500 of its Recently Launched Karma Drones
GoPro has decided to recall about 2,500 units of its Karma drone that was launched in September. The company said it decided to recall the new drone after finding power loss issue during operation in some units. The company also revealed the refund program for consumers who can return the product for immediate refund. The […]
India discontinues 500 and 1000 Rupee Note
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the country tonight and announced government’s decision to discontinue notes of Rupee 500 and 1000 from midnight. The government’s decision means that 500 and 1000 rupee notes in India will now become invalid. “These notes are just papers from tomorrow,” says the prime minister. Narendra Modi addressed the nation […]
Google DeepMind Announces to Team up with Blizzard to Conquer ‘StarCraft II’
Google’s DeepMind, the artificial intelligence company, has announced to build an AI that can beat “StarCraft II” DeepMind has teamed up with Blizzard to release “StarCraft” as an AI research environment. The aim is to create an AI-friendly environment for the game and integrate the features of AIs to access in order to understand this […]
BMW Says It has Sold 100,000th Electrified Vehicle
BMW has sold its 100,000 electrified vehicle, three years after the i3 first hit the markets in November 2013. According to BMW, i3 is the most successful EV in the premium compact segment. In comparison, the full-size Tesla Model S hit the milestone of 150,000 units a few months back, while the Nissan Leaf has […]
Alphabet’s CapitalG Quietly Discloses Investment in Snapchat
CapitalG, the venture capital arm of Alphabet Inc, has quietly disclosed an investment in Snapchat. No formal announcement has been made by CapitalG or Alphabet Inc, but the unit – earlier known as Google Capital – was found to have added Snapchat’s logo on its investment portfolio section of its website. Snapchat’s logo can be […]
NASA Releases 4K Video of International Space Station
NASA has released an 18-minute Ultra HD 4K video tour of the International Space Station (ISS), showing the ISS in its full high-definition glory and also revealing what life onboard ISS is like. The Space Station Fisheye Fly-Through 4K (Ultra HD) video has been captured and produced by Harmonic company for NASA TV UHD, which […]
Instagram is Testing Live Video Feature Called ‘Go Insta’: Report
A Russian news website T Journal has claimed that Instagram is currently testing the live video feature called ‘Go Insta’ for some users on the beta Android app in Russia. The new feature has been added in ‘Stories’ section, and for these users, the feature appears at the top of the page with a red […]
Nintendo Switch will be Available in March 2017
Nintendo has revealed further details about its new home console/portable console hybrid that will hit the markets in March 2017. Earlier in September, Ubisoft had announced that Nintendo Switch is going to put Nintendo back in the race. The company released a trailer revealing how Nintendo Switch – the latest console from Nintendo – looks […]
Reliance Rolls out Lyf F1 in India – The Price and Specifications of Lyf F1
Reliance has launched its Lyf F1 smartphone in India. The phone priced at Rs 13,399 in India is now available for purchase at Reliance Digital stores. Buyers of Lyf F1 will also get a free Bluetooth speaker worth Rs. 3,000, as well as a Reliance Retail gift voucher worth Rs. 15,000. A 10 percent cashback […]
Mahindra Rolls out e2o Plus Electric Car in India
Mahindra has launched its new electric car e2o Plus in India. The new e2o Plus electric car provides seating for four people and also offers a number of improvements, including more range and faster charging, compared to its predecessor e2o. There are three variants being offered for Mahindra e2o Plus. The P4 variant is priced […]
BMW Launches 2016 BMW 3GT in India
BMW has launched the 2016 BMW 3 series Gran Turismo in India. The car will be available in three variants. The base model Sport Line diesel (320d) is priced at Rs 43.30 lakh, while the Luxury Line diesel and the Luxury Line petrol (330i) will be available at Rs 46.50 lakh and Rs 47.50 lakh […]
Researchers of ScanPyramids Project Believe They have Discovered Two Secret Chambers in the Great Pyramid of Giza
Members of the Operation ScanPyramids project team are stunned after having discovered two hidden chambers in the Great Pyramid of Giza. These “cavities” or “voids” have been discovered in the new scans of Egypt’s largest pyramid, and according to researchers, these chambers were previously never found in the Great Pyramid of Giza. However, the Egyptian […]
Spectacular Orionid Meteor Shower to Peak This Week
Get ready for the very famous annual Orionid meteor shower that is expected to peak later this week and early next week. With the onset of autumn, the Orionid meteor shower is technically visible from October 2 to November 7 will attain its primary peak on the Thursday night and Friday early morning. Meteor showers […]
Chinese Astronauts Reach Tiangong 2 Space Station to Stay for Next 30 Days
Two Chinese astronauts have successfully arrived at Tiangong 2 space station and now will stay there for next 30 days, according to China’s official news agency Xinhua. The crew arrived at the space station through Shenzhou (Divine Vessel) 11 manned spacecraft which docked with the space lab on October 19. The Shenzhou 11 blasted of […]
Coffee is the Most Popular Food on Twitter, Finds New Study
A new study carried out by researchers at the University of Utah has found that coffee is the most tweeted-about consumable in the United States. The researchers—who received $721,825 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to carry out this study—analyzed about 80 million tweets sent by 603,363 unique users between April 2015 and March […]
HTC Bolt Details Leaked Again, the Phone may Arrive in October
Images and other details of HTC’s latest smartphone HTC Bolt have leaked online for a second time, thanks to VentureBeat Editor Evan Blass. Based on the leaked information, it appears that smartphone lover will soon get some more good options in midrange section. During earlier leaks, it was suggested that HTC Bolt would most likely […]
Microsoft’s Cloud Service Dynamics 365 to Arrive in India on November 1, 2016
Microsoft has announced that its cloud service Dynamics 365 will be available in India from November 1 onwards. Microsoft’ cloud service combines the existing Dynamics CRM and ERP products to provide end to end business services. Dynamics 365 is expected to come with better intelligence capabilities (advanced analytics and machine learning) and a variety of […]
India was the Frontrunner in Facebook’s Bug Bounty Program in Jan-June 2016
Facebook paid US$611,741 to 149 researchers during first half of the year as part of its Bug Bounty program, and Indian researchers got the largest share of the bounty for finding flaws. The first and second runners up in the program were the US and Mexico. Facebook however did not reveal the breakup of the […]
Hubble Data Analysis Reveals 2,000 Billion Galaxies in the Universe
A fresh analysis of data from Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories carried out by a team of astronomers from the UK has revealed that there are 2,000 billion galaxies in the Universe. The new count of galaxies is almost ten times more than the previous count. In astronomy, a fundamental question most frequently asked […]
Pictures of Huawei Mate 9 Leaked on Twitter
The Chinese phone company Huawei is working hard on its next smartphone Mate 9, the successor to Mate 8 phablet device that was praised for its powerful battery and other features. Pictures of new Mate 9 have been leaked online for the first time on Twitter, and the person who posted these pictures is none […]
Huawei and UC Berkeley Announce a Partnership to Develop Artificial Intelligence
The Chinese company Huawei and the University of California, Berkeley have decided to enter into a partnership to develop artificial intelligence (AI) that will apply to our daily lives and better contribute to society. Huawei will invest $1 million into the new research partnership. Huawei’s research unit Noah’s Ark Laboratory will set up the partnership […]
Facebook Workplace – a Business Messaging Service – Launched for Companies, Nonprofits and Organizations
Facebook has launched Workplace, a business messaging service created for professional to enable them communicate from anywhere in an easy way. Facebook tested the service on more than 1,000 organizations in the US, UK and India before announcing the formal launch of the service. “The workplace is about more than just communicating between desks within […]
Samsung Halts Production of Galaxy Note 7: Reports
Production of Samsung’s troubled Galaxy Note 7 has temporarily been suspended, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap, which cited an unnamed source at a Samsung supplier. The latest smartphone from the South Korean company is still catching fire, and several mobile carriers in the US and Australia have halted the sale of the phone. […]
NASA’s Simulated ‘Martian Gardens’ to Help Scientists Find Best Vegetables to Grow on Mars
NASA’s simulated “Martian gardens” developed at Kennedy Space Centre and the Florida Tech Buzz Aldrin Space Institute are helping scientists to find out the best vegetable to grow during future manned mission to Red Planet. The Martian soil is completely differently from Earth’s soil, which means growing crops/vegetables on Mars is much different and difficult […]
Royal Mail Refuses to Ship Samsung Galaxy Note 7 over Explosion Fears
Royal Mail, a leading delivery firm in the UK, has said that it would no longer be sending out the Samsung’s flagship smartphone Galaxy Note 7 over fears of explosion. The latest smartphone from Samsung is set to go on sale this month in the UK, but the latest decision from Royal Mail means the […]
Facebook Planning to Give ‘Free’ Internet to US: Report
Facebook is planning to give free internet to millions of users in the US and is currently in talk with government officials and wireless carriers, according to a report published in The Washington Post. The company wants to launch an American version of the app that would provide Free Basics service in the US, […]
The British Consumer Watchdog ICO Imposes a Fine of 400,000 Pounds on TalkTalk for Failing to Protect Customers’ Data from Hackers
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK has imposed a record fine of £400,000 ($509,000) on British broadband provider TalkTalk for failing to protect personal details of thousands of customers from hackers. Last year, TalkTalk was hacked between 15 and 21 October, and during this much-publicized cyberattack details of over 157,000 customers’ were stolen. […]