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Why WhatsApp won't trace origin of message in India

As experts demand Facebook-owned WhatsApp to disclose information about where a message in question has originated from, the company has reiterated that such proposed changes are overboard and are not consistent with the strong privacy protections that are important to people.

AR filters must carry warnings on beauty enhancement

The augmented reality (AR) filters and lenses available on social networking platforms like Instagram and Snapchat should come with health warnings, experts believe.

NASA to return humans to Moon within 5 years

NASA has accepted a challenge from the Donald Trump administration to return humans to the Moon by 2024, four years ahead of the US space agency's earlier set target.

Non-motorized skill series introduced by Technogym

Inspired by athletes, Technogym - the leading producer of design and technology-driven fitness equipment and solutions announced the launch of non motorized series of wellness equipments like SKILLMILL, SKILLRUN, SKILLROW and SKILLBIKE, which combines power, speed, stamina and agility training, aerobic capacity, neuromuscular abilities in a single solution.As Official supplier to 7 Olympic Games and partner to the world's best performing teams and athletes, Technogym has the first-hand experience in the training methods and systems of thousands of worldwide sports champions in over 100 different disciplines. This know-how is at the heart of Athletic Performance Training, a new methodology that helps to create high-intensity workouts aimed to improve sports performance.1. SKILLMILL - Benefiting the user by increasing their metabolic rate and encouraging maximum muscle activation, this groundbreaking and highly effective piece of equipment are capable of training all the body's energy ..

Payjo Announces interface, a New Brand and Industry-first Model-driven Platform for Intelligent Virtual Assistants

/ -- "We understand the power of technology and its last mile limitations. While many companies are working towards powering humans to use technology better, there is a need to look at this problem in a fundamentally different way. We think technology is broken, not humans," said Srinivas Njay, Founder & CEO, interface. "Today we are launching our new brand and platform, interface. interface makes technology better for humans. Our platform is built ground up to fundamentally reinvent how machines understand human languages," he adds. interface is launching the industry-first model-driven platform which combines language, knowledge graph, business logic and response models that help enterprises to create and maintain richer Intelligent Virtual Assistants or IVAs in no time. Here is what the CTO of interface thinks about the global opportunity and challenges ahead for IVAs. "Language understanding is still an active area of research for academia and many large enterprises. With our .

WhatsApp dark mode being tested in Beta

Dark mode sure saves battery and now Facebook-owned WhatsApp is working towards bringing this feature for Android devices.

India gets anti-satellite capability to become space superpower: PM

India on Wednesday became "a space superpower" by becoming the fourth country to acquire anti-satellite capability, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Wednesday, calling it "a proud moment".

Wood-based flexible tech creates electricity from body heat

Scientists, including one of Indian origin, have transformed a piece of wood into a flexible membrane that generates power from the same type of electric current that the human body runs on. This energy is generated using charged channel walls and other unique properties of the wood's natural nanostructures, according to researchers from University of Maryland in the US. With the technology, researchers can use a small temperature difference to efficiently generate voltage. Trees grow channels that move water between the roots and the leaves. These are made up of fractally-smaller channels, and at the level of a single cell, channels just nanometres or less across. The team has harnessed these channels to regulate ions, according to the study published in the journal Nature Materials. The researchers used basswood, which is a fast-growing tree with low environmental impact. They treated the wood and removed two components - lignin, that makes the wood brown and adds strength, and ...

AI discovers two planets from space telescope data

Scientists have used artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover two more hidden planets in the data collected by the Kepler space telescope. The technique shows promise for identifying many additional planets that traditional methods could not catch. Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin in the US created an algorithm that sifts through the data taken by Kepler to ferret out signals that were missed by traditional planet-hunting methods. The process, described in the The Astronomical Journal, should help astronomers find many more missed planets hiding in Kepler data. "K2 data is more challenging to work with because the spacecraft is moving around all the time," said Andrew Vanderburg, from UT Austin. This change came about after a mechanical failure. While mission planners found a workaround, the spacecraft was left with a wobble that AI had to take into account. The Kepler and K2 missions have already discovered thousands of planets around other stars, with an equal ...

External group to monitor Google's AI development

Google has established an external advisory council to help the tech giant develop the Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology in an ethical and responsible way.

Facebook shuts down thousands of fake Pages, accounts

Facebook has removed 2,632 Pages, Groups and accounts that were engaged in coordinated inauthentic behaviour from Iran, Russia, Macedonia and Kosovo on its platform, as well as on Instagram.

Apple facing US import ban on some iPhones in tech dispute

A trade court judge will recommend banning some iPhones from being imported into the US after concluding Apple's best-selling device infringed on technology owned by mobile chip maker Qualcomm. The US Trade International Trade Commission decision is the latest twist in a bitter legal dispute between Qualcomm and Apple over the rights to some of the technology that enables the iPhone to connect to the internet. It's unclear if the recommended ban will be imposed or even which iPhone models would be affected. McNamara's recommendation still must be weighed by the full trade commission. Qualcomm applauded the decision. Apple didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

HTC Vive Focus Plus now available at USD 799

HTC has announced that its Vive Focus Plus headset will be finally available for purchase, starting mid-April. The headset will be available at USD 799 in 25 markets around the world.The upgraded model features dual six degrees of freedom controllers allowing for an even more immersive and natural experience, Engadget reported.Built for enterprise applications, the headset offers improved graphics and comfort for prolonged use. It is targeted at showrooms, training simulations, virtual conferences, and other purposes.The headset is listed on the official Vive website. The HTC Vive Focus Plus made its debut at the Mobile World Congress, held last month in Barcelona, Spain.

McDonald's to acquire big data firm for USD 300 million: Report

Do big data and fast food go together? If you ask McDonald's, the answer would be yes. The fast-food chain is reportedly acquiring a Tel Aviv-based big data firm Dynamic Yield for a whopping USD 300 million.Dynamic Yield is a startup known for its algorithmically driven 'decision logic' technology. When you add any product to your cart, it is this technology that nudges you about what others purchased, Wired reports.The acquisition will make it McDonald's biggest purchase ever since it acquired Boston Market in 1999.

Xiaomi's new charger can charge a phone in less than 10 minutes

Xiaomi is working towards a new record. This time, it is an upcoming 100W charger that is claimed to be so fast that it can charge your phone in less than 10 minutes.Xiaomi chairman, Lin Bin, shared a video on Weibo of the charger in action. The 100W charger was able to charge a phone with a mammoth 4,000mAh battery from 0 to 50 percent in just seven minutes and the remaining charge was accomplished in the next 10 minutes, The Next Web notes.This rate is twice as fast as Oppo's SuperVOOC charging with a 50W charger. Although the video is a demo of the technology, Xiaomi has confirmed that it will soon go into mass production, which basically means, the need to carry around a charger will further become less required.

Smartphone prices down 16% in 10 years: Report

The average selling price of smartphones in India has declined by 16 per cent during 2009-2018, a joint-report by ICEA and KPMG said on Tuesday.

Facebook pulls over 2,000 Russian, Iranian accounts linked to deceptive behaviour

Thousands of accounts, which were found engaging in coordinated inauthentic behaviour, have been removed from Facebook and Instagram.Facebook announced on its blog that 2,632 Pages, Groups, and accounts found connected to Iran, Russia, Macedonia, and Kosovo have been removed.These accounts used tactics such as creating networks of accounts to mislead other users into who they were and what they were doing, Facebook explained in its blog. Some accounts engaged in spam, while some were found engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior as part of multiple networks tied to Iran.Some of these accounts operated in Egypt, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Kashmir, and Kazakhstan. The account owners represented themselves as locals and made-up media entities using fake accounts and impersonated real political groups and media organisations to spread news stories on the current events.Shockingly, millions of users followed one or more of these Pages and joined these Groups. A significant ...

Samsung announces Galaxy A70 with triple camera

Samsung Electronics on Tuesday announced the launch of Galaxy A70 in its popular Galaxy A range next month.

Huawei unveils P30 series with next-gen camera system

Chinese telecommunications and consumer electronics manufacturer Huawei on Tuesday launched two industry-first, advanced camera smartphones -- Huawei P30 and P30 Pro.

TV viewers may soon be able to switch service providers without changing set top box

TV viewers may be able to switch their DTH or cable service providers without changing the set top box (STB) by the end of this year, according to regulator Trai's Chairman R S Sharma. "Since last two years we have been trying to make STBs interoperable. Large part of problem has been resolved. There are some business challenges (which) remain... we are looking at this to happen by end of this year," Sharma told reporters at an event here Tuesday. He added that interoperability in a product should not come as an "after thought" but should be in place at the product planning stage itself. "Open systems are going to be the future. Entire back-end of Aadhaar has been developed on open source software except biometric de-duplication system," Sharma said. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chairman released a study on open ecosystem for devices in India, prepared by the Indian Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA) and consultant firm KPMG, which showed that 89 per cent