Science & Technology

Taiwanese handset maker Asus has unveiled the first smartphone in the ZenFone 4 series, the ZenFone 4 Max, boasting of a massive battery. The new Asus smartphone has been launched in Russia, and it also sports dual rear cameras. The new Asus ZenFone 4 Max (ZC554KL) price starts at RUB 13,900 (roughly Rs. 15,000) and will be going on sale ...

India’s latest communication satellite GSAT-17 was today successfully launched by a heavy duty rocket of Arianespace from Kourou in French Guiana, adding teeth to its current fleet of 17 working communication satellites. The GSAT series of geosynchronous satellites is a system developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) with an objective to make the country self-reliant in broadcasting services. The ...

A new cyberattack similar to WannaCry is spreading across Europe, hitting major companies from Rosneft PJSC in Moscow to A.P. Moller-Maersk in Copenhagen while disrupting government systems in Kiev. More than 80 companies in Russia and Ukraine were affected by the Petya virus that disabled computers on Tuesday and told users to pay $300 in cryptocurrency to unlock them, according ...

Australian scientists have developed a new efficient catalyst that converts carbon dioxide from the air into synthetic natural gas in a “clean” process, using solar energy. Undertaken by University of Adelaide in collaboration with CSIRO, the research could make viable a process that has enormous potential to replace fossil fuels and continue to use existing carbon-based fuel technologies without increasing ...

Google for Jobs will go live in the US, and users will now be able to find job listings on the search engine itself. Google had announced the Google for Jobs feature at its annual I/O conference 2017 in Mountain View in May this year. Google will also show employer ratings from current and former workers, as well as typical ...

Facebook-owned Instagram has introduced a new feature called “Archive” which lets you move previously shared posts into a private space much like photo-sharing app Snapchats “Memories”. Instagram hopes that “Archive” will not only stop people from deleting their photos but also make them more comfortable with sharing certain photos in the first place. “Your profile is a representation of who ...

Reliance Jio has announced yet another promotion. Customers who buy a Lyf smartphone will be eligible to receive 20 percent more 4G data from Jio for free. There are 10 eligible Lyf models, all in the Lyf Water series. The offer will be activated within 48 hours of a customer using these phones with a Jio SIM, and will be ...

Days after a malware called “Judy” hit over 36.5 million Android-based phones, Google has now increased the bounty for finding a bug in the Android operating system to as much as $200,000, a media report has said. According to cyber security firm Check Point, dozens of malicious apps were downloaded between 4.5 million to 18.5 million times from the Play ...

India today scripted history as it successfully launched its heaviest rocket GSLV MkIII-D1 carrying communication satellite GSAT-19. The 43.43 metre tall rocket lifted off at 5.28 pm from the second launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here and launched the 3,136 kg GSAT-19, the heaviest satellite to be launched from the country yet, into orbit about 16 minutes ...

NASA on Wednesday announced that it has renamed the Solar Probe Plus spacecraft – humanity’s first mission to a star, which will be launched in 2018 – as the Parker Solar Probe in honour of astrophysicist Eugene Parker. “This is the first time NASA has named a spacecraft for a living individual,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator for NASA’s Science ...