Technology

The moon on Sunday, when Indians will celebrate the festival of Raksha Bandhan, will be a blue moon, the American Astronomical Society has predicted. Contrary to what folklore tells us the moon does not actually turn blue on such nights…

Xiaomi India expanded its Redmi Note 10 series by adding a new Cosmic Purple colour variant. It's the fourth colour that the Redmi Note 10S will now be available in, apart from Shadow Black, Frost White and Deep Sea…

Motorola India launched the Motorola Edge 20 series in the country earlier this week with prices starting from Rs 21,499. In India, Motorola Edge 20 series comes with two variants - Edge 20 Fusion and Edge 20. The…

Digital currency is one of the newest areas of global finance and so it is frequently intimidating to new users. With stories about hacks and losses in volatile assets like Bitcoin frequently hitting the headlines,…

New Delhi: An enormous asteroid, which is bigger than Burj Khalifa in size, will be passing the Earth tonight. According to the reports, the astroid will pass our planet today and will be closest in more than six decades, with a distance of…

Twitter users this morning discovered a new "feature". They found that if a tweet is posted with #81921CB23227 then like button shows a colourful animation whenever someone hits it. Following the discovery, …

An asteroid will fly past Earth at a distance of just 3.4 million kilometres or 2.1 million miles, the closest approach in more than six decades. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) has listed asteroid 2016 AJ193,…

The W particle may have been found — Science News, August 21, 1971 Physicists distinguish four different kinds of force by which objects in the universe act upon each other: the strong nuclear force, the weak force,…

Raksha Bandhan is around the corner and it will be celebrated on August 22 this year. On this day, sisters of all ages tie an amulet called Rakhi around the wrists of their brothers which symbolises a vow of…

Paleontologists can spend years carefully splitting rocks in search of the perfect fossil. But with a 310-million-year-old horseshoe crab brain, nature did the work, breaking the fossil in just the right way to reveal the ancient…

From electric cars to smart fridges and e-cigarettes, the world is experiencing a global manufacturing slowdown as a shortage in semiconductors continues to push back new product releases and delay production…

Tokyo, August 20: Hackers have stolen cryptocurrencies worth nearly $100m from digital wallets of Japan-based Liquid, a cryptocurrency exchange. Liquid on Thursday announced that some of its "warm" wallets have been…

San Francisco: Tech giant Google's recently launched smartphone -- Google Pixel 5a -- is facing overheating issues while recording videos, media reports said. According to GizmoChina, the phone is not able to handle…

When the fans are away, the home team loses its sway, new research suggests.During the 2019–2020 season, European soccer teams played in front of vacant stadium seats due to COVID-19 (SN: 3/13/20). Home teams won less, lost more and…

Vivo, the Chinese smartphone maker officially launched the Y21 smartphone today in India. The smartphone is now available for sale starting from today across Vivo India E-Store, Amazon India, Flipkart, TataCliq and…

Last month, we heard reports about the OnePlus ditching the OnePlus 9T smartphone. Now as per a new report, OnePlus will launch a new handset under the T series in October 2021. According to a report from Android…

San Francisco: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced that his company is working on a humanoid robot and the prototype will arrive sometime next year. The 5.8-inch bot would be used to handle automated…

New Delhi: Micro-blogging platform Twitter has said that the users can now share the same tweet in up to 20 separate DM conversations. This functionality is part of several new features that Twitter announced to its…

Xiaomi, the Chinese tech giant is all set to host its Smarter Living event on August 26, 2021. During the event, the company will launch its Mi Band 6 fitness tracker. This information has been confirmed by the…

San Francisco: Epic Games on Thursday announced that it is releasing Unreal Engine 4.27 with new features for creators across game development, film and television, architecture, automotive and beyond. The…

WASHINGTON: NASA agreed on Thursday to temporarily halt work on a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract awarded to Elon Musk`s SpaceX after rival billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos`s Blue Origin sued the U.S government, an agency spokeswoman…

At least 65 million years of evolution separate humans and greater sac-winged bats, but these two mammals share a key feature of learning how to speak: babbling. Just as human infants babble their way from “da-da-da-da” to “Dad,”…

Washington, August 19: Microsoft has unveiled a refreshed Xbox stereo headset, a USD 59.99 wired model that's more affordable than its stellar USD 100 wireless headset that launched earlier in 2021. According to the…

New Delhi, August 19: Amazon on Thursday said megastar Amitabh Bachchan's voice will now be available on Alexa that will allow users to ask for music, set alarms and even get weather updates in Bachchan's signature…

Some people who have been infected with coronavirus have questioned whether they really need vaccines.   The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends people get vaccinated regardless of whether they’ve already had…

New Delhi, August 19: The Delhi-Chandigarh Highway has become the first e-vehicle friendly highway in the country, with a network of Solar-based Electric Vehicle Charging stations (SEVCs) set up by Bharat Heavy…

World Photography Day is celebrated on August 19 every year. The day is not only celebrated by professional photographers but also by people who are passionate about photography. Nowadays, to click high-quality…

In February, NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars and went to work. The rover has seen the first flight of a Martian robot, gotten its drill bit dirty and begun traversing the floor of Jezero crater, thought to be the…

Michael Williams’ wife pleaded with him to remember their fishing trips with the grandchildren, how he used to braid her hair, anything to jar him back to his world outside the concrete walls of Cook County Jail.His three daily calls to…

After launching the Motorola Edge 20 & Edge 20 Fusion, the company is all set to launch the Edge 20 Pro smartphone in the Indian market soon. This piece of information has been shared by the Country Head of…