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Apple rebuilds mapping app

Apple rebuilds mapping app

-- 2018-07-01 13:28:06

Apple Inc is rebuilding the widely used mapping application on its iPhones from the ground up with its own dataset, but Amsterdam-based TomTom NV will continue to be a data provider for Apple’s...

Portuguese tech firm making smartphone using cork

Portuguese tech firm making smartphone using cork

-- 2018-06-30 14:55:42

A Portuguese tech firm is uncorking an Android smartphone whose case is made from cork, a natural and renewable material native to the Iberian country. The Ikimobile phone is one of the first to use...

AI robot Sophia loses parts on way to Ethiopia

AI robot Sophia loses parts on way to Ethiopia

-- 2018-06-29 20:31:42

Sophia, the famous artificial intelligence (AI) humanoid robot, has arrived in Ethiopia – but without some of her body parts. A bag containing some of the robot was lost at Frankfurt airport, w...

Saturn moon a step closer to hosting life

Saturn moon a step closer to hosting life

-- 2018-06-29 17:22:10

Scientists have found complex carbon-based molecules in the waters of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Compounds like this have only previously been found on Earth, and in some meteorites. They are thought...

Robot on its way to help astronauts in space

Robot on its way to help astronauts in space

-- 2018-06-29 15:16:13

A science fiction-inspired robot hardwired to assist astronauts will launch from Florida early Friday morning to become the first personal, artificial intelligence-powered companion in space. The C...

Twitter, Facebook roll out ad transparency tools

Twitter, Facebook roll out ad transparency tools

-- 2018-06-29 14:36:39

Twitter Inc renowned online news and social networking service on Thursday made it easier for users to identify political campaign ads and know who paid for them, as social media platforms faced the t...

World's biggest battery factory opens up in China

World's biggest battery factory opens up in China

-- 2018-06-28 15:39:46

Chinese electric carmaker BYD Co Ltd has opened a new lithium battery plant in the northwestern province of Qinghai, which will be the world’s biggest when construction is fully completed next y...

Japanese spacecraft reaches destination in space

Japanese spacecraft reaches destination in space

-- 2018-06-27 16:31:40

A Japanese spacecraft has arrived at its target - an asteroid shaped like a diamond or, according to some, a spinning top. Hayabusa 2 has been travelling toward the space rock Ryugu since launching f...

Facebook eases ban on cryptocurrency ads

Facebook eases ban on cryptocurrency ads

-- 2018-06-27 14:06:48

Facebook has decided to allow certain ads promoting cryptocurrency and related content from pre-approved advertisers, official said in an official blog post. The social media on Tuesday decided to al...

Adobe claims to identify faked images using AI

Adobe claims to identify faked images using AI

-- 2018-06-26 17:30:19

The company behind the photo-editing program Photoshop says it has developed a tool that can detect if an image has been tampered with. Vlad Morarium, an Adobe researcher, employed artificial intelli...

When a text can trigger a lynching

When a text can trigger a lynching

-- 2018-06-26 15:14:28

A WhatsApp text circulating in some districts of India’s central Madhya Pradesh state helped to inflame a mob of 50-60 villagers into savagely beating up two innocent men last week on suspicion...

YouTube faces criticism from content creators

YouTube faces criticism from content creators

-- 2018-06-26 12:13:40

Video makers with millions of subscribers on YouTube expressed frustration at a trade show last week that the service notifies only a portion of their followers about new posts, causing declines in vi...

China's tech giants splash out in cartoon arms race

China's tech giants splash out in cartoon arms race

-- 2018-06-24 14:07:50

Growing up in the Chinese port city of Dalian in the 1990s, Zhang Hongchang spent hours immersed in Japanese cartoons like Dragon Ball and Naruto. China’s home-grown cartoons paled in compariso...

Researchers create world's smallest ‘computer’

Researchers create world's smallest ‘computer’

-- 2018-06-24 14:06:15

Researchers at the University of Michigan (UM) in the United States have come out with the world's smallest ‘computer’, a device that measures just 0.3 mm to a side, completely dwarfed by...

YouTube fans to fund favourite film-makers

YouTube fans to fund favourite film-makers

-- 2018-06-23 12:49:05

YouTube is adding more ways for video-makers to make money, following criticism from bloggers and increased competition from rival platforms. Many video-makers have complained that changes to YouTube...

Air over India, neighbouring countries looks different from space

Air over India, neighbouring countries looks different from space

-- 2018-06-22 19:08:12

There is something very distinct about the air over India and the surrounding countries in South Asia. It is the presence of formaldehyde - a colourless gas that is naturally released by vegetation b...

Tesla to close a dozen solar facilities

Tesla to close a dozen solar facilities

-- 2018-06-22 14:35:38

Electric car maker Tesla's move last week to cut 9 per cent of its workforce will sharply downsize the residential solar business it bought two years ago in a controversial $2.6 billion deal, accordin...

Toyota captures data goldmine, invests $1b in Grab

Toyota captures data goldmine, invests $1b in Grab

-- 2018-06-20 15:59:14

By pumping $1 billion into ride-hailing firm Grab, Toyota Motor Corp stands to gain a passenger-side view of tens of thousands of cars across Southeast Asia, tracking how fast they drive, how far they...

Mars approaching closest to Earth in 15 years

Mars approaching closest to Earth in 15 years

-- 2018-06-19 14:23:31

Mars will look bigger and brighter in the coming weeks than it has appeared in the last 15 years, according to NASA. On July 31, Mars will travel to the closest point in its orbit to Earth, about 57....

Global survey finds 37pc software unlicensed

Global survey finds 37pc software unlicensed

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2018-06-19 11:05:54

Around 37 per cent of software installed on personal computers across the world is still unlicensed, according to a new survey. The BSA Global Software Survey, which came out earlier this month, foun...

The bigger Cryptocurrencies get, the worse they perform: BIS

The bigger Cryptocurrencies get, the worse they perform: BIS

-- 2018-06-18 12:25:32

Cryptocurrencies are not scalable and are more likely to suffer a breakdown in trust and efficiency the greater the number of people using them, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) said on Sun...

Antarctica melting rate tripled since 2007

Antarctica melting rate tripled since 2007

-- 2018-06-16 22:12:01

Antarctica is melting at an alarming rate -- and that rate continues to speed up. The rate at which Antarctica is losing ice has tripled since 2007, according to a new report published this week in t...

Large Hadron Collider getting an upgrade

Large Hadron Collider getting an upgrade

-- 2018-06-16 20:29:59

Smashing together a billion protons a second wasn’t enough for the Large Hadron Collider. The particle accelerator, located at CERN in Geneva, is getting spiffed up to allow it to carry out c...

Social media changes nature of Eid greetings

Social media changes nature of Eid greetings

-- 2018-06-16 14:53:16

The nature of Eid greetings has drastically changed now as most people turn to social media platforms for reaching out to each other instead of sharing it with cards. Apart from exchanging greetings,...

Ice melting in Antarctica speeds up

Ice melting in Antarctica speeds up

-- 2018-06-14 18:14:10

Antarctica is shedding ice at an accelerating rate. Satellites monitoring the state of the White Continent indicate some 200 billion tonnes a year are now being lost to the ocean as a result of melti...

Apple closing iPhone security hole used by cops, criminals

Apple closing iPhone security hole used by cops, criminals

-- 2018-06-14 14:30:01

Apple says it is to change the default settings of its iPhone to stop hackers and others unlocking devices without proper legal authorisation. The move will also make it more difficult for police to...

Govt targets 5G trial-run in July

Govt targets 5G trial-run in July

Nashir Uddin 2018-06-14 10:19:29

The government has chalked out an ambitious plan to roll out a test-run of fifth generation wireless systems, abbreviated as 5G network services, in the country. As per the plan, the 5G trial-run wil...

Uber applies for patent to detect drunk passengers

Uber applies for patent to detect drunk passengers

-- 2018-06-13 12:35:10

Taxi app company Uber has applied for a patent to use artificial intelligence to determine how drunk potential passengers might be. The app used to summon rides could also feed other information to t...

US builds world's fastest supercomputer

US builds world's fastest supercomputer

-- 2018-06-12 21:11:21

Summit, the US's new supercomputer, is more than twice as powerful as the current world leader. The machine can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second - or 200 petaflops. China's Sunway T...

Tesla's Autopilot 'full self-driving feature' coming in August

Tesla's Autopilot 'full self-driving feature' coming in August

-- 2018-06-12 13:23:29

Tesla promises to install ‘full self-driving feature’ for autopilot in its cars in August Shares of Tesla Inc rose as much as 5 per cent on Monday after Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk...