Science & Tech

Twitter suspends 486 more accounts linked to Iran, Russia


San Francisco, Aug 28: After suspending 284 accounts originating in Iran and Russia, Twitter on Tuesday announced it has cracked down on additional 486 such accounts that were designed to mislead people in the Middle East, Latin America, Britain and the US.Since our initial suspensions last week, we have continued our investigation, further building...

Samsung plans to install about 5 LED cinema screens in India by 2018 end


New Delhi, Aug 27: Samsung India is looking to install about five of its 4K Onyx Cinema LED displays at movie theatres across the country by the end of 2018, a senior company executive has said.The South Korean tech giant introduced the LED display for large screens in collaboration with multiplex theatre major PVR...

Google celebrates Don Bradman’s 110th birth anniversary


New Delhi, Aug 27: Internet search engine Google on Monday dedicated a doodle to cricketing great Donald George Bradman on his 110th birth anniversary.The doodle displays an animated image of Bradman, who played 52 Tests amassing scoring 6,996 runs at an unmatched average of 99.94, playing a shot with. The Australian legend is considered...

GIFs could now be musical on Snapchat


San Francisco, Aug 27: Photo-messaging app Snapchat has reportedly joined hands with third-party service TuneMoji to allow users to post musical Graphics Interchange Format (GIFs) to a personal chat or their Story.TuneMoji shows a searchable gallery of GIFs which users would be able to set to different licensed songs and sounds from which users...

Facebook tests tool that may help you befriend strangers


San Francisco, Aug 27: Facebook is testing a feature that can point to the commonalities you have with other random users -- whether you share a neighbourhood with them or went to the same university.The feature, called things in common, may help you connect with random commentators on public posts, Engadget reported on Sunday. The...

NASA’s Spitzer telescope completes 15 yrs in space


Washington, Aug 26: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the youngest member of the Great Observatory programme, has completed 15 years in space.The Great Observatories are four big-ticket space telescopes -- Spitzer, Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), and the Chandra X-ray Observatory -- designed to view the universe in different and complementary...

Tesla to remain on course as public company: Elon Musk


San Francisco, Aug 25: Paying heed to his investors' feedback, Tesla Chairman and CEO Elon Musk has decided not to veer the electric carmaker off the road and let it remain a publicly traded company to stay focus on becoming profitable.On August 7, Musk surprised the investment world with a Twitter announcement that he...

NASA probe captures first images of asteroid Bennu


Washington, Aug 25: NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft has captured the first glimpse of its distant target -- asteroid Bennu -- after almost two years of journey.Launched on September 8, 2016, the OSIRIS-REx, which is NASA's first mission to visit a near-Earth asteroid, is scheduled to arrive at Bennu...

Facebook fixes bug that marked some posts as spam


San Francisco, Aug 25: A day after some users complained about their Facebook posts being marked as spam, Facebook on Saturday said it has fixed the bug that caused the problem.We have fixed a bug that caused some posts to be incorrectly marked as spam. We've restored the posts that were affected and are...