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UST Global joins hands with Microsoft

Digital technology services company UST Global on Wednesday joined hands with Microsoft to decode the future of technology, the company said.

Rs 11,300 boost to dedicated defence communications network

The cabinet on Wednesday gave its nod to enhance the budget by Rs 11,330 crore for a dedicated communications network being set up for the defence forces.

Nokia vows to develop 500 smart villages in India

In line with the government's Digital India programme, Nokia on Wednesday launched a "Smartpur" digital village project with the aim of developing 500 digitally integrated villages across the country in five years.

Google updates Wi-Fi routers to check multiple connections

Google has added a new feature to its Wi-Fi network technology that lets users measure how each individual device is performing on their wireless Internet network.

Facebook shut 583 million fake accounts

Facebook axed 583 million fake accounts in the first three months of 2018, the social media giant has said, detailing how it enforces "community standards" against sexual or violent images, terrorist propaganda or hate speech. Responding to calls for transparency after the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, Facebook yesterday said those closures came on top of blocking millions of attempts to create fake accounts every day. Despite this, the group said fake profiles still make up 3-4 percent of all active accounts. It claimed to detect almost 100 percent of spam and to have removed 837 million posts assimilated to spam over the same period. Facebook pulled or slapped warnings on nearly 30 million posts containing sexual or violent images, terrorist propaganda or hate speech during the first quarter. Improved technology using artificial intelligence had helped it act on 3.4 million posts containing graphic violence, nearly three times more than it had in the last quarter of ...

Samsung's Galaxy S9 devices to now support Google's ARCore

Samsung's latest flagships, Galaxy S9 and S9+ will reportedly now support Google's augmented reality (AR) developer platform, ARCore.

Sennheiser Bluetooth in-ear headphones in India for Rs 14,990

German audio brand Sennheiser has added a new member to its acclaimed "MOMENTUM" headphone family with the launch of a new wireless model in India for Rs 14,990.

AI, analytics not the fiefdom of a few businesses (Book Review)

Title: AI and Analytics: Accelerating Business Decisions; Author: Sameer Dhanrajani; Publisher: Wiley; Pages: 372; Price: 599

WhatsApp facilitates group descriptions, admin controls

Instant messaging platform WhatsApp announced the rollout of a number of new features for group chats, in a bid to make the platform more interactive and engaging.Among the new features is group descriptions, wherein a short blurb will appear under the group info tab that allows users to set the purpose, guidelines, or topics for the group.Furthermore, when a new member joins a group, the description will show up at the top of the chat.In a move to give group administrators more authority, WhatsApp introduced a new control that will allow the former to restrict who can change the group's subject, icon, and description. Admins can also remove admin permissions of other group participants, while group creators can no longer be removed from the group they started.Among other features, WhatsApp also introduced a 'group catch up' option, whereby a user, who has been away from a group chat, can quickly catch up on messages that mention or reply to them by tapping on a new @ button that ...

HTC working on blockchain-powered Android smartphone: Report

Taiwanese tech giant HTC is reportedly working on a new Android phone named "Exodus" that will be powered by blockchain technology.

Why India needs AI to work for agriculture, healthcare and education (Tech Trend)

While the Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is making its presence felt across the spectrum globally, India needs to prioritise AI-based predictive analysis to improve outcomes in three core areas -- agriculture, healthcare and education, a top Microsoft executive has emphasised.

Facebook CEO refuses to face-off with British parliamentarians

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has no plans as of now to face members of a British parliamentary committee probing the misuse of the firm's data its practice of collecting user information, the media reported.

Fastest growing blackhole of the universe discovered

Scientists have discovered the fastest-growing black hole known in the universe, describing it as a monster that devours a mass equivalent to our Sun every two days. The astronomers have looked back more than 12 billion years to the early dark ages of the universe, when this supermassive black hole was estimated to be the size of about 20 billion suns with a one per cent growth rate every one million years. "This black hole is growing so rapidly that it's shining thousands of times more brightly than an entire galaxy, due to all of the gases it sucks in daily that cause lots of friction and heat," said Christian Wolf from Australian National University (ANU). "If we had this monster sitting at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy, it would appear 10 times brighter than a full moon. It would appear as an incredibly bright pin-point star that would almost wash out all of the stars in the sky," said Wolf. The energy emitted from this newly discovered supermassive black hole, also known as .

Aliens exist but may be in parallel Universe: Study

Radio astronomers from around the world have been glued to their sets for decades to listen to that one sound from somewhere in space which would prove that an alien life, sufficiently advanced, exists somewhere in our universe.Well, reliable evidence is yet to come to our notice, but, according to an international team of scientists, they could be living in a parallel universe, says an article posted on livescience.com.The team comprising researchers from England, Australia and the Netherlands came to this conclusion after running a programme called 'Evolution and Assembly of Galaxies and their Environments'.The team has published its results in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.Under the programme, researchers ran some computer simulations with various genesis conditions and found out that as opposed to earlier, conditions for the birth of life are not that limited.In their research, dark energy (opposite of gravity) appeared as a crucial factor.They ...

Facebook opens up about efforts to scrub offensive content

Facebook believes its policing system is better at scrubbing graphic violence, gratuitous nudity and terrorist propaganda from its social network than it is at removing racist, sexist and other hateful remarks. Tuesday's self-assessment Facebook's first breakdown of how much material it removes came three weeks after Facebook tried to give a clearer explanation of the kinds of posts that it won't tolerate. The statistics cover a relatively short period, from October 2017 through March of this year, and don't disclose how long, on average, it takes Facebook to remove material violating its standards. The increased transparency comes as the Menlo Park, California, company tries to make amends for a privacy scandal triggered by loose policies that allowed a data-mining company with ties to President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign to harvest personal information on as many as 87 million users. The content screening has nothing to do with privacy protection, though, and is aimed at ...

Knudge.me raises funds from Indian Angel Network

Indian Angel Network (IAN), India's largest horizontal seed/early stage platform on Tuesday announced its investment in Knudge.me, a gamified social learning platform.Knudge.me aims to create a global edutainment platform from India and is currently focusing on helping people improve their English skills.Knudge.me was part of Axilor's Summer '17 Accelerator batch. Axilor also participated in the current round."We want to build Knudge.me as a global edutainment platform that makes learning fun for everyone. We already have seen interest from users in countries like the United States, Brazil and Indonesia. We believe that the phenomenon of game-based learning can be applied to a variety of learning contexts. We are truly excited at building a global consumer product out of India," said Zunaid Ahmed, co-founder and CEO, Knudge.me.The startup is currently working on a plug-and-play gamification model which will allow its users to create, share, and play games on any topic they're ...

Samsung Galaxy S9, S9+ beat rivals on download speed

With download speeds up to 42 per cent faster than its closest competitor Apple, long-lasting battery and more storage, Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ were on Tuesday touted as the fastest smartphones in the global market.

Special Report: Philip Morris device knows a lot about your smoking habit

TOKYO/NEUCHATEL, Switzerland (Reuters) - In seeking regulatory approval for a new smoking device called iQOS, Philip Morris International Inc is claiming the electronic gadget is less likely to cause disease than traditional cigarettes. But the iQOS holds another, less obvious advantage over regular smokes: the ability to harvest personal data about users' smoking habits.

OPPO unveils its sub-brand 'Realme 1' in India

Targeted at millennials, Chinese smartphone maker OPPO on Tuesday debuted its sub-brand "Realme 1" smartphone in India for Rs 8,990 (3GB RAM and 32GB internal storage model).

HP's new 'all-in-one' PC to come pre-installed with Alexa

With the rising popularity of Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa, HP Inc's new 34-inch curved all-in-one (AiO) PC is expected to come with the built-in digital assistant app.