Science & Technology

Deutsche Bank and HCL Technologies (HCL), announced a strategic partnership to transform the bank’s global cheque processing operations. Under the terms of the agreement, HCL will build a cloud-based digital and fully scalable cheque processing platform for the bank. The new IT-platform is expected to go live in 2019. The new cloud-based IT-platform will enable Deutsche Bank to further reduce ...

NASA’s historic Parker Solar Probe – enroute to the Sun to unravel its mysteries – has become the closest spacecraft to it. The spacecraft passed the current record of 26.55 million miles from the Sun’s surface on October 29, as calculated by the Parker Solar Probe team, NASA said in a statement on Monday. The previous record for closest solar ...

‘For you’ tab is coming soon to more countries. The company has informed in its blog post that this feature will tell you where the new store is opening and what is happening around you. Millions of people in Google Maps search for those places where they go through Google Maps. If you want to know what’s going on around ...

Kailasavadivoo Sivan, Head of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), said that under the Digital India Mission launched by the Prime Minister, ISRO is trying to provide high speed data of 100 Gbps for rural and remote areas. For this, four communication satellites are being set up in space. One of them has been established this year, while three others will ...

Social media giant Facebook, which has its largest user base in India, said that a recent hacking into its system has affected about 30 million users. Facebook product management vice president Guy Rosen on Friday said the cyber attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook’s code that existed between July 2017 and September 2018. The vulnerability has now been fixed, but ...

After Facebook the data breach issue has plagued search engine giant Google’s Social Media site Google Plus. Google has said that a possible bug has been found in the 5 million Google Plus accounts, which can publicize their data. The company is currently shutting down Google Plus. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, citing security reasons Google ...

India International Science Festival has started with huge participation of scientists, students and experts from across the country and abroad. Union Minister of Science &Technology, Dr. Harsh Vardhan today inaugurated few of the major events at the four day science festival in Lucknow including Young Scientists’ Conference, Global Indian Science & Technology Stakeholders’ Meet (GIST) and the Mega Science, Technology ...

Using NASA’s Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, astronomers have uncovered tantalizing evidence of what could be the first discovery of a moon orbiting a planet outside our solar system. This moon candidate, which is 8,000 light-years from Earth in the Cygnus constellation, orbits a gas-giant planet that, in turn, orbits a star called Kepler-1625. Researchers caution that the moon hypothesis ...

Finnish company HMD Global, that sells Nokia smartphones, on Monday announced the availability of Nokia 5.1 Plus for Rs 10,999 in India. The online-exclusive smartphone will be available on Flipkart and the company’s own website from October 1, the company said in a statement. The device comes with Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities, sports a 5.8-inch notched display, glass body and ...

India’s maiden interplanetary mission — the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) — has completed four years orbiting the red planet, according to ISRO. The mission, launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on November 5, 2013, successfully placed itself into Martian orbit on September 24, 2014 in its first attempt. Although the designed mission life of MOM was six months, ...