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Google doodle celebrates 340th anniversary of Olaus Roemer's determining the speed of light

To honour Roemer and the 340th year of his discovery of the determination of the speed of light, Google made a fascinating Doodle today

NASA building robot to repair, refuel satellites in orbit

NASA said it also plans to transfer Restore-L's technologies to commercial entities to help jumpstart a new domestic servicing industry

Instagram now gives users more control over comments on posts

A user will have to tap "Advanced Settings" before posting and then select "Turn Off Commenting" option. It can be reversed any time after posting.

AI everywhere and beyond: '10 Hot Consumer Trends' to watch out for in 2017

AI took the lead with 35% of advanced internet users want an AI advisor at work

After Note 7 burn-out, iPhones users in China complain of handsets catching fire

According to the state-run Shanghai Consumer Council, 8 iPhone handsets caught fire while they were put for charging

WeChat is schooling Facebook on dealing with fake news

With more than 800 million users on its platform, WeChat is a sizable digital empire, reports Tech in Asia

Top trends for 2016: Demonetisation most significant Twitter moment

The social network recorded 650,000 tweets in 24 hours following the announcement

Despite growth in wearables market, Apple loses steam: IDC report

According to IDC's 'Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker' report, total wearables shipments reached 23 million in the third quarter

After 'disastrous' Tay, Microsoft to release another AI-powered chatbot 'Zo'

"Zo is essentially a censored Tay or an English-variant of Microsoft's Chinese chatbot Xiaoice," MSPoweruser reported

Uber launches app to increase fleet efficiency in India

The UberFleet app will help drivers achieve maximum performance and run fleets more efficiently

India takes a leaf out of China's book: QR codes everywhere for mobile payments

Paytm announced that 1 million merchants are using its QR codes for digital payments, reports Tech in Asia

OnePlus 3T review: The best has just become better

As an upgrade, the phone gets updated Snapdragon 821 processor, 16 Megapixel (MP) front-facing camera and 3400mAh battery

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft to create shared database against terrorist content

Participating companies can add hashes of terrorist images or videos that are identified on one of our platforms to the database.

Facebook uses 'survey' to find clickbait and fake news

Below an article on Facebook appears "to what extent do you think that this link's title uses misleading language?" and its response choices range from "Not at all" to "Completely".

SC notice to Google, Facebook on sexual offences videos, cybercrime

NGO Prajwala's plea sought a defined place where one could report such rape videos and seek their blocking

Learn to code: Despite what detractors say, coding is the new literacy

Programming is how humans talk to machines, reports Tech in Asia

How the Indian workforce can beat the robots taking their jobs

And if your job requires repetitive work, more bad news for you, reports Tech in Asia

Your smartphone knows a lot about you, but what about your mental health?

The habitual nature of people means this data could be used to give insight into our mental wellbeing

Free Internet data, talktime for 1.25 lakh Goa youth from today

The scheme will provide 100 minutes talk time and 3 GB Internet data free with a SIM card (every month) for youths aged between 16-30 years

Upgrade your phone: WhatsApp will stop working on older ones in 2017

Any iPhone 4, 4S, or 5 that has not been updated to newest version of operating system wouldn't support WhatsApp