Science & Technology

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has congratulated ISRO team for the successful launch of its 100th satellite. “My heartiest congratulations to ISRO and its scientists on the successful launch of PSLV today. This success in the New Year will bring benefits of the country’s rapid strides in space technology to our citizens, farmers, fishermen etc. The launch of the ...

Indian Railways has set a target of December 2018 to link all its locomotives via ISRO satellites, making it easy to track trains and communicate with their crew in real time, officials said. By year-end, all 10,800 locos of the railways will have antennas fixed on them and they will be monitored inside the driver’s cabin, senior officials of the ...

WhatsApp, a popular messaging service owned by Facebook Inc, suffered a global outage for about an hour on Sunday before the problem was fixed. “WhatsApp users around the world experienced a brief outage today that has now been resolved”, a WhatsApp spokeswoman said in an emailed statement. The cause of the outage, about an hour long, was not immediately known. ...

Elon Musk’s dream project Space X that plans to put a Tesla on mars! just became a step closer to reality. A Red Car for the Red Planet https://t.co/PakS3rvp5C pic.twitter.com/440bvUHJeO — SpaceX (@SpaceX) December 22, 2017 A reused SpaceX rocket carried 10 satellites into orbit from California on Friday, leaving behind a trail of mystery and wonder as it soared ...

Just days after the Moto G5S and Moto G5S Plus received a temporary price cut on Amazon; Lenovo brand Moto has temporarily slashed the price of the Moto G5 in India for its Christmas sale. Other smartphones like the Moto M, Moto Z2 Play, Moto E4, and Moto C are also available at discounted prices. The discounts are available via ...

The United States officially accused North Korea late on Monday of carrying out the massive WannaCry attack that infected some 300,000 computers in 150 countries earlier this year. North Korea was widely suspected of being behind the computer virus and ransomware, which demanded payment to restore access. It has been denounced as such by Britain, but the United States had ...

McAfee today announced further collaboration with Samsung to support the back-end for Samsung’s newly pre-installed Wi-Fi protection, Secure Wi-Fi on the Galaxy Note8, in the U.S. and Europe. With the pre-installed application, Galaxy Note8 users will benefit from increased privacy while on the go, enabling them to experience the digital world with greater confidence. Per a recent McAfee survey, 58% ...

Samsung has announced its partnership with the Paytm Mall, to offer cashback up to Rs 8,000 on select Galaxy smartphones. The offer is available Galaxy Note 8, Galaxy S8+, Galaxy S8, Galaxy C9 Pro, Galaxy C7 Pro and Galaxy J5 Prime. The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 gets the maximum cashback of Rs 8,000, making the final price of Rs 59,900. ...

A Bangalore-based startup is claimed to have become the first company in the world to successfully complete a difficult 20-part challenge in Artificial Intelligence created by Facebook in 2015. Using a unique approach, DataVal Analytics successfully completed all 20 tasks of the test, known as the (20) QA bAbi Tasks, with 100 per cent accuracy. The test, hosted by Facebook ...

All of the Apple iPhones till now have sported a single SIM slot, but according to Macrumors, via a report by Ming-Chi Kuo from KGI Securities, the Cupertino based company’s 2018 iPhones could sport dual-SIM capabilities. The analyst said in his latest report that the upcoming iPhone will feature Intel’s XMM 7560 and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X20 modems, which will enable ...