Science & Technology

UC Browser has disappeared from the Google Play store. The Alibaba-owned mobile browser, which garnered more than 500 million downloads last month and has over 100 million users in India, is no longer visible on search – though other UCWeb applications – UC Browser Mini and UC News – still are. The development emerges months after the Chinese app had ...

As part of the series of Road to GES events, in the run up to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, NITI Aayog along with Proffer, a blockchain startup founded by graduates of MIT and Harvard, are organising a Blockchain summit and hackathon at IIT Delhi from Nov 10-13, 2017. The objective of the event is to explore how blockchain architectures can ...

BharatNet, a flagship project of the Government of India to provide Broadband services in rural and remote areas has entered in service provisioning phase. As on 05.11.2017, Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) connectivity has been achieved in 1,03,275 GPs by laying fibre for 2,38,677 km. Due to several measures initiated to accelerate the end-to-end connectivity, GPON equipment has been installed in ...

WhatsApp services in Europe, India, Malaysia appear to have been badly hit and even parts of the US and Africa appear to have been affected. Judging by Twitter traffic and information from sites like istheservicedown.com and various news agencies the outage appears to have started in the Europe at around 8 am IST. This is the third big outage WhatsApp ...

Stephen Hawking recently spoke about his belief that robots will eventually replace humans completely. The renowned physicist believes that someday someone will design Artificial Intelligence (AI) which will improve itself to an extent where it will “outperform humans.” According to Cambridge News, in an interview with Wired magazine, Professor Hawking said “I fear that AI may replace humans altogether. If ...

WhatsApp is soon launching its “delete for everyone” option, which can enable users to delete a message that has already been sent, for all people within a conversation. The much-anticipated solution, however, is still in its pilot phase, and has not been rolled out for WhatsApp’s complete user base. Rumours have been doing the rounds for a while now, but ...

In a landmark decision, Saudi Arabia became the first country to grant citizenship to a robot. The machine has been identified as Sophia the Humanoid, and she is supposed to bear a resemblance to American actress and activist Audrey Hepburn. “I am very honoured and proud for this unique distinction,” Sophia said in an interview with moderator Andrew Ross Sorkin, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Central Grounder Water Authority (CGWA) has sent Draft guidelines for “issuance of NOC” for ground water withdrawal and draft “Public Notice” to the Chief Secretaries of all the State and Administrators of Union Territories for their comments within 60 days. Due to the increasing number of litigations in the National Green Tribunal, various branches of Tribunal ...

WhatsApp group calling is on its way, going by the code spotted in the latest beta version for the iPhone app. While group voice calling for WhatsApp is pretty much confirmed due to multiple references, there is only a single mention of group video calls for the platform. Nonetheless, it will be a worthwhile addition to the app, which has ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU “There are nearly one million Indian origin scientists and engineers working in the United States.  the process of ‘brain drain’ has now been reversed to ‘brain gain’, as many young scientists have started returning to India. Core activities could be scaled up only if the funding is enhanced” said Dr Harsh Vardhan, while talking with visiting US ...