Technology

Washington, Sep 24: As NASA prepares to launch its much-anticipated Artemis 1 Moon mission next week, there is only a 20 per cent chance that the weather will be ideal for the launch. The US space agency is monitoring the forecast…

San Francisco, Sep 24: Chinese short-form video app TikTok has announced to roll out its comment dislike button to all users globally. TikTok began testing the feature back in April to help people identify…

One of my great joys in life is one of the simplest: looking at the world around me. I often walk along the C&O Canal, a defunct marvel of 19th century transportation engineering that reaches west from Washington, D.C. As I…

Space palettes The stunning first pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope provide the deepest and clearest look yet into outer space, Lisa Grossman reported in “Postcards from a new space telescope” (SN: 8/13/22, p.…

Humankind is seeing Neptune’s rings in a whole new light thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. In an infrared image released September 21, Neptune and its gossamer diadems of dust take on an ethereal glow against the inky…

As people around the world marveled in July at the most detailed pictures of the cosmos snapped by the James Webb Space Telescope, biologists got their first glimpses of a different set of images — ones that could help…

Tecno Pova Neo 5G is now official in India. It is now available for pre-booking at retail stores and will be available for purchase from September 26, 2022. Key features include a 6,000mAh battery, an FHD+ display,…

An intelligent artificial limb - developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) - is expected to be commercialised soon. The artificial limb is likely to be about 10 times cheaper than available options, and it would help…

New Delhi: Elon Musk-run affordable satellite internet service Starlink is expanding fast -- from Antarctica to Royal Caribbean cruise ships -- but its speed has decreased in almost all countries it operates as more…

New Delhi: Microsoft has unveiled a new security feature in Windows 11 that will make it extremely difficult for hackers to steal user credentials. Called the SMB authentication rate limiter, it is available in…

San Francisco: Tech giant Google has announced that it is expanding this lineup with the new Chromecast with Google TV (HD). Chromecast with Google TV (HD) is available for $29.99 in classic snow colour across 19…

San Francisco: Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday said Tesla is not physically recalling 1.1 million vehicles, saying the company is only issuing a "tiny software" update to fix the pinching window problem. The earlier…

Realme C30s is now available for sale in India. The handset was launched in the country on 15 September 15, 2022, and now, it is listed on Flipkart for purchase. Customers purchasing the device will get an instant…

New Delhi: Facebook's parent company Meta and Google are reducing staff to cut costs amid the economic downturn, apparently putting some of them on traditional 30 to 60 days "lists" to find a new role within the…

San Francisco: Tech giant Apple has asked its supplier Foxconn to retool some iPhone 14 production lines in order to accommodate the iPhone 14 Pro models, media reports say. According to AppleInsider, Zhengzhou has…

San Francisco: Tech giant Apple has released a new update -- iOS 16.0.2 -- that addresses a variety of bugs for users, including the iPhone 14 Pro camera shaking bug. The new update comes two weeks after the launch…

San Francisco: Following a two-hour outage affecting several iOS and Android users' login activities worldwide, Meta-owned photo and video-sharing platform Instagram has said it is now back online. According to…

Amazon Great Indian Festival Sale 2022 is live for all users across the country. Amazon Prime Members got access to the sale 24 hours earlier than regular members. The Great Indian Festival Sale 2022 comes with…

Flipkart Big Billion Days Sale 2022 is now live for all users and brings massive discounts on smartphones, wearables, tablets, electronics, beauty products and more. The e-commerce platform has partnered with Axis…

New Delhi, September 23: Reliance New Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries, has signed agreements to invest in the US-based perovskite-based solar technology company Caelux…

New Delhi: Toughening its stand against video communication and calling apps, the Centre has proposed to bring Meta-owned WhatsApp, Zoom, and Google Duo under the ambit of telecom licence, as written in the draft of…

In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. A spacecraft named Dart will zero in on the asteroid Monday, intent on slamming it head-on at 14,000 mph…

On Thursday, several users of the photo-sharing app Instagram said that the app was down after they faced issues while using the app. Some users also took to Twitter and said that they were unable to post or shares…

Facebook-owned photos and video sharing platform Instagram is down yet again for several users. Online platform Downdetector which gives real-time information about the status of websites and services confirmed…

The answer to one of the greatest mysteries of the universe may come down to one of the smallest, and spookiest, particles. Matter is common in the cosmos. Everything around us — from planets to stars to puppies —  is made up…

Face masks — the unofficial symbol of the COVID-19 pandemic — are leveling up. A mask outfitted with special electronics can detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and other airborne viruses within 10 minutes of…

Bengaluru: Global technology brand OnePlus on Thursday unveiled an exciting range of offers across its product portfolio for the festive season this Diwali, including the OnePlus 10R Prime Blue 5G Edition that will…

London, September 22: The UK's communication regulator Ofcom on Thursday announced a probe into the Cloud market dominance of Amazon, Microsoft and Google in the country's 15 billion pound Cloud services market and…

New Delhi: Microsoft has made it official to launch next line-up of Surface laptops on October 12, that are likely to include a new 2-in-1 device called the Surface Pro 9 as well as Surface Laptop 5. The "Microsoft…

Vivo, the Chinese phone maker, officially launched the X80 Lite 5G smartphone in the Czech Republic. The device is listed online on the country's retail website 'Electro World'. It comes in two colour options -…