Technology

A star’s death usually comes without warning. But an early sign of one star’s imminent demise hints at what happens before some stellar explosions. In a last hurrah before exploding, a star brightened, suggesting that it blasted…

Washington, January 14: Social media giant Instagram is currently testing a new vertical scroll for Stories in Turkey and Brazil. According to GSM Arena, Instagram said back in February 2021 that it was working…

London, Jan 14: Meta (formerly Facebook) is facing a $3.1 billion class-action lawsuit in the UK over allegedly abusing its market dominance and if the lawsuit succeeds nearly 44 million British Facebook users could…

Washington, January 14: Months after requesting documents from more than a dozen social platforms, the House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection has issued subpoenas targeting Twitter, Meta, Reddit and…

Five hundred meters below the ice covering Antarctica’s Weddell Sea sits the world’s largest known colony of breeding fish, a new study finds. An estimated 60 million active nests of a type of icefish stretch across at least 240…

If you’re superstitious, a black cat in your path is bad luck, even if you keep your distance. Likewise, in quantum physics, particles can feel the influence of magnetic fields that they never come into direct contact with. Now…

When researchers in 1996 reported they had found organic molecules nestled in an ancient Martian meteorite discovered in Antarctica, it caused quite a buzz. Some insisted the compounds were big-if-true evidence of life having existed…

The Tecno Pop 5 LTE was recently introduced in India as the latest addition to the brand's Pop series. Priced at Rs 6,299 for the sole 2GB + 32GB variant, the budget smartphone will go on sale starting January 16,…

The Chinese smartphone brand Oppo recently launched a new smartphone under its A-series. The new Oppo A16K comes as a sole 3GB+32GB variant priced at Rs 10,490. The handset is offered in three colours - Black, Blue,…

Motorola will launch Moto Tab G70 in India on January 18, 2022. The latest offering from the Lenovo-owned brand will debut during the Flipkart Big Saving Days sale, which will go live on January 17, 2022. Ahead of…

Some of the same researchers who found the first purported exomoon now say that they’ve found another. Dubbed Kepler 1708 b i, the satellite has a radius about 2.6 times that of Earth, and circles a Jupiter-sized exoplanet that…

San Francisco, Jan 13: Tech giant Microsoft has stopped manufacturing all Xbox One consoles, media reports say. According to The Verge, the company originally discontinued the Xbox One X and digital Xbox One S…

San Francisco, Jan 13: Apple is expected to announce the iPhone 14 series in or around September and now a new report suggests the Pro models would come with a big camera upgrade. Current Pro iPhones ship with…

Bengaluru, January 13: Flipkart Group on Thursday said it has acquired electronics recommerce company Yaantra for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition, said Flipkart, will augment its existing refurbishment business…

San Francisco, January 13: Popular social media app Snapchat has added some new features along with bitmoji reactions to facilitate fun interaction. According to Engadget, there are seven options to choose from,…

Astronomers have finally announced that an exoplanet discovered a few years ago is somewhat similar to a potato. The planet, named WASP-103b, is located in the constellation “Hercules”, at a distance of about 1,800 light-years from the…

Abuja, January 13: The Nigerian government on Wednesday ended its suspension of Twitter, seven months after it halted the operation of the California-based microblogging platform in Africa's most populous…

Scientists are like prospectors, excavating the natural world seeking gems of knowledge about physical reality. And in the century just past, scientists have dug deep enough to discover that reality’s foundations do not mirror the…

Fossils from the oldest known Homo sapiens individual in East Africa are more ancient than previously thought. A partial H. sapiens skull and associated skeletal parts found in 1967 in the Kibish rock formation along Ethiopia’s Omo…

New Delhi, Jan 12: German audio giant Sennheiser on Tuesday launched a new noise-cancelling Bluetooth headphone -- HD 450SE -- in India at Rs 14,990. The company said that the noise-cancelling headphone is…

Washington, January 12: The James Webb Space Telescope is set to replace the Hubble Space Telescope. It will study the origin of the universe. The James Webb Space Telescope is equipped with sophisticated cameras.…

New York, January 12: Masks, social distancing, proper hygiene and ventilation can help reduce the transmission of Covid-19 in public places, but even with these measures, scientists have detected airborne…

Bengaluru, Jan 12: South Korean video game developer Krafton on Tuesday announced that its battle royale game PUBG: Battlegrounds is now free-to-play (F2P) on PC and consoles. With the game's transition to F2P,…

Mumbai, January 12: As the COVID-19 cases are rising again and the possibility of lockdown is increasing, a word-based game is going viral on the internet. Players have to correctly guess a pre-selected word by…

The Information and Broacasting Ministry's official Twitter account was reportedly hacked on Wednesday for a short period of time. Notably, several tweets with Elon Musk's image was posted on the official Twitter…

New year, new variant. As 2022 gets under way, omicron, a fast-moving version of the virus that causes COVID-19, is well into its march across the world. As of January 11, a record-breaking total of 145,982 people were hospitalized in…

The Chinese smartphone brand OnePlus has finally unveiled the much-awaited OnePlus 10 Pro in the home market. The flagship device comes with high-end specifications making it a true premium offering. Interested…

Amazon, the leading e-commerce marketplace has teased the Great Republic Day Sale 2022, which will go live very soon. However, the e-commerce giant is yet to announce the sale date. If the market reports are to be…

NEW YORK: In first-of-its-kind transplant surgery, a 57-year-old American citizen in Maryland with terminal heart disease has received a genetically modified pig heart. The doctors transplanted a pig heart into the patient in a last-ditch…

What’s in a number? The goals of the 2021 United Nations’ climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, called for nations to keep a warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius “within reach.” But when it comes to communicating climate change to the…