Science &amp; Technology

SYDNEY: Apple is reportedly going to unveil an affordable iPhone 6C as part of the 2015 refresh cycle. According to...

Rio Mobiles presents Rio London R201 for Rs 3,399, Rio Paris R301 at Rs 4,399, Rio New York R501 at Rs 4,999

DELHI: Rio Mobile has rolled out three affordable Android smart phones in India in collaboration with Snapdeal. These handsets have...

New app ‘RakEM’ eliminates ‘text regret’ by allowing users to delete unwanted sent message, removing it from both devices

DELHI: Raketu developed a new app that allows users to 'unsend' a text by deleting the message from the receiver's...

Google announces major initiative for small business

LONDON: The tech giant Google has announced a major new small business initiative called Let’s Put Our Cities on the...

Solar eclipse thrilled thousands of sky gazers on remote Arctic islands

WASHINGTON: A solar eclipse thrilled thousands of sky gazers on remote Arctic islands last Friday but clouds disappointed some viewers...

Supermassive black hole greater 4m times of Sun lies at heart of Milky Way Galaxy

LONDON: The best observations so far of the dusty gas cloud G2 confirm that it made its closest approach to...

Galactic Smash-Up Shows Where Dark Matter Goes

FRANCE: By observing multiple collisions between huge clusters of galaxies, scientists have witnessed dark matter coasting straight through the turmoil....

‘Pillars of Eternity’ lands on Windows, OS X, Linux

TOKYO: Obsidian Entertainment production Pillars of Eternity is finally out for Windows, OS X, and Linux. One of the first...

Password strength meters fails to protect the user’s account from password cracking attacks, Concordia University research

DELHI: In this digital life passwords have become a norm for protecting our account details. Though it is well known...

Astronomers identify best supernovae for measuring cosmic distances

NEW YORK: The bright explosions of dead stars have been used for years to light the far-flung reaches of our...

Next space station crew preps for 1 year-long stay in space

EUROPE: A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday, sending a U.S.-Russia crew to...

Virtual reality, artificial intelligence, drones enables Facebook lifelike, useful social network

SAN FRANCISCO: Virtual reality, artificial intelligence and drones will enable Facebook to create a more lifelike and useful social network,...

New kit for Parse: Facebook to make it easy for apps built on Parse to share data with connected devices

LONDON: Facebook introducing a new software development kit for Parse, company it acquired in 2013, that provides cloud backend for...

WWF-Pakistan celebrations Earth hour 2015 at Sindh assembly

KARACHI: WWF-Pakistan will celebrate one of its world’s largest symbolic environmental movements, Earth Hour, today (Saturday), with a candles lighting...

US, Russian astronauts spend 1 year on space station

BAIKONUR: The capsule carrying an American and a Russian who are to spend a year away from Earth docked Saturday...

Halo a killer game for Microsoft and Xbox: Now Halo series going to be a PC exclusive

WASHINGTON: Game giant Microsoft has announced that a new title under the sci-fi first-person shooter series will be launched, a...

Heart Health Meter: New mobile app tells heart status and gives tips to reduce risk

NEW DELHI: The mobile application, named 'Heart Health Meter' (HHM App), was launched at a function in Thane last evening...

Microsoft acquires office collaboration tool developer ‘LiveLoop’

San Francisco: Microsoft has acquired an Office collaboration tool developer named LiveLoop for an undisclosed amount. The Redmond giant confirmed...

Xbox One to bring voice messaging feature for April update, now NAT issues can be discussed with friends

WASHINGTON: Director of Programming for Xbox, Larry 'Major Nelson' Hyrb has said that Xbox One will bring a voice messaging...

Apple approves developers to release apps with Apple Watch support