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19 Aug 2016

San Francisco

Uber to roll out Self-Driving cars in Pittsburgh

By the end of August 2016, Uber's customers will be able to call for self-driving cars for their transit.

19 Aug 2016

United Nations (UN)

US announces handing over of the internet domain name system

On Tuesday, the US government approved the transition of managing the internet domain naming system in October to a non-profit organisation, ICANN, essentially privatizing the process under a multinational, multi-stakeholder model.

18 Aug 2016

Google

Could Google have a brand new OS?

Google appears to be heading towards a fresh start by developing a brand new operating system.

17 Aug 2016

iOS

Prisma- the photo editing app

Prisma was created by Moscow's Alexey Moiseenkov. It initially debuted only on iOS platform in June 2016 and was later released for Android users on 24th July 2016.

17 Aug 2016

iOS

Google launches its new video calling app 'Duo'

Google has launched a new video-calling app called Duo in order to challenge Skype, Apple's FaceTime and Facebook Messenger's video chat services.

15 Aug 2016

Technology

New test reveals risk of Alzheimer's disease in three hours

A London-based biotech company, Randox Laboaratories, has developed a £25 test to identify people at a higher risk for Alzheimer's in just 3 hours.

15 Aug 2016

Facebook

The POTUS Chatbot on Facebook

The page that handles the chatbot for President of the United States, Barack Obama, has created discontent for seeking users' personally identifiable information (name and address).

15 Aug 2016

Facebook

Facebook and a creativity platform

Social media trends have undergone immense transformation; from no-frills text content sharing to gaming, picture sharing and currently the hottest trend of all - imaginative content creating applications.

12 Aug 2016

India

Ringing Bells announces HD LED TV bookings on 15 Aug

Ringing Bells, the maker of the Freedom 251 smartphone, has announced that it would open bookings for HD LED TVs from 15 August, 2016.

12 Aug 2016

Facebook

People can now send messages to Obama through Facebook chatbot

White House announced in a blog that citizens would now be able to communicate their messages with the help of a chatbot on Facebook Messenger to President Barack Obama .

12 Aug 2016

Mumbai

Mahindra to develop self-driving tractors

Chairman of Mahindra & Mahindra (M & M), said it was in the agricultural sector where "productivity increases are sorely needed to feed the growing needs of the world".

11 Aug 2016

China

China's bus runs into allegations of scams

Reports from Chinese state media suggest that the elevated bus designed and inaugurated in China was funded illegally.

11 Aug 2016

Russia News

Google introduces security warnings for Gmail users

Google launched new alerts for its Gmail account users, where they are alerted when an unauthorized email hits their inbox.

09 Aug 2016

India

Mahindra Intertrade and MSTC to start Auto Shredding Joint Venture

On 9th August, 2016, Mahindra Intertrade and MSTC entered a joint venture agreement to build India's premiere auto shredding and vehicle recycling unit.

09 Aug 2016

Smartphones

Apple to release iPhone 7 in early September

According to the sources, Apple is preparing to unveil successors to iPhone6S and iPhone6S Plus as early as next month.

09 Aug 2016

India

Facebook tests its express Wi-Fi service

Facebook is planning to commercially launch its Express Wi-Fi programme aimed at bringing internet connectivity to billions of rural Indians.

09 Aug 2016

London

MI5's Anti-Terror Mind Reading Team

British domestic counter-intelligence agency MI5's Behavioural Science Unit (BSU) is a specialised team tasked with helping the intelligence agency prevent terror attacks.

08 Aug 2016

California

Chris Urmson quits as Google's self-driving car division

Google's Chief Technology Officer for its self-driving car unit, Chris Urmson, announced his exit from the technology company in an online post.

08 Aug 2016

Taiwan

Gogoro partners with Bosch to bring its scooters to Europe

Taiwan-based start-up Gogoro teamed up with a subsidiary of Bosch, called Coup, marking its entry into Europe.

07 Aug 2016

China

Modi asks Road Ministry to look into "straddling bus" technology

On seeing the successful run of the new "straddling bus" concept in China, PM Modi has asked the Road Ministry to get full details of the project.

06 Aug 2016

Technology

Microsoft update to introduce a more real gun as emoji

Microsoft revealed that changing its present "ray gun emoji to a revolver in the brand-new Windows 10 Anniversary Update."

06 Aug 2016

Finland

Torrentz.eu pulls its shutters down

Torrentz.eu, the world's largest torrent search engine, shut down this week without any explanation for the same.

06 Aug 2016

iPhone

Apple to offer cash rewards in its 'Bug Bounty' program

At the Black-Hat Cyber Security Conference on Thursday, Apple unveiled its plans to offer up to $200,000 rewards to researchers who will find security bugs in its products.

04 Aug 2016

Sri Lanka

Researchers find evidence supporting India-Antarctica supercontinent hypothesis

Geologists from Switzerland and India found evidence that India was a part of Antarctica 1.5 billion years ago.

04 Aug 2016

iOS

Google launches new map-based game 'Verne', challenges Pokemon Go

Google has now launched its newest addition to its spree of app-based games, which is enabled using their Google Maps platform.

04 Aug 2016

US Government

Moon Express gets approval for private moon landing

Spaceflight venture Moon Express (MoonEx) received approval from the US Government for an unmanned private mission to moon.

03 Aug 2016

Instagram

Instagram rolls out 'Stories'!

Instagram launched a Snapchat pioneered format with its own unique spin.

03 Aug 2016

China

China demonstrates its giant "Transit Elevated Bus"

According to China Xinhua News, China conducted the first road-test of 'Transit Elevated Bus' on Tuesday.

02 Aug 2016

Technology

200 million Yahoo accounts up for sale on dark web

Over 200 million Yahoo accounts have been put up for sale on the dark web.

02 Aug 2016

India

The Kumbh Mela experiment to advance predictive analysis

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Government of India, and two Indian startups - Tarah Technologies and Aarav Unmanned Systems - collected a huge amount of data during the Kumbh Mela 2016 for research purposes.

31 Jul 2016

Technology

SwiftKey app faces bug leaking users' search feeds

Recently, a whole lot of SwiftKey users faced a bug in the app, where their prediction columns were populated with search words and phrases that another user had searched for.

30 Jul 2016

Technology

INSPIRE Awards renamed as MANAK

The INSPIRE Awards (Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research) is a popular outreach program of the Department of Science and Technology (DST).

28 Jul 2016

Technology

Baidu creates composer AI

Chinese web services giant Baidu has created an artificial intelligence algorithm that can create music by looking at images.

27 Jul 2016

Technology

Cockroach milk to be a super health food?

According to recent research, cockroach milk could, one day in the future, become a super health food.

26 Jul 2016

Technology

Researchers look to enable information storage in DNA

Scientists and researchers are exploring options to store digital data in genetic DNA.

26 Jul 2016

Nokia Mobiles

Nokia's two Android 7.0 smartphones to hit the markets soon

According to reports, Nokia is planning to re-enter the market with two new smartphones powered by Google's latest Android Nougat.

24 Jul 2016

Technology

Edward Snowden designs phone cover that prevents data monitoring

Whistleblower Edward Snowden and hardware hacker Andrew "Bunnie" Huang have designed a phone cover; dubbed as the "introspection engine".

23 Jul 2016

Technology

Student satellites Swayam and Sathyabamasat launched successfully

On 22 June 2016, ISRO made history by launching the biggest consignment of 20 satellites.

23 Jul 2016

Technology

Aquila, Facebook's solar-powered drone successfully completes first test flight

Mark Zuckerberg announced the completion of Facebook's first successful test flight of a unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV), Aquila.

22 Jul 2016

Technology

WikiLeaks threatens Twitter over 'cyber feudalism'

WikiLeaks threatened the social media giant Twitter over an alleged issue of creating 'cyber feudalism'.