Now, Google lets you search in English and Hindi – Read how!
In yet another significant addition to the field of technology, search engine giant Google has recently rolled out a tab for users in India that allows to search in English and Hindi.
Jun 30, 2016, 19:44 PM IST
Facebook train employees on how to manage political bias
"Facebook plans to add a section on 'political bias' to its class on 'managing bias.' All Facebook executives and many employees have taken the class which focuses on identifying and neutralising racial, age, gender and other types of bias," Wall Street Journal quoted Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer, Facebook, as saying.
Unexpected mineral spotted on Mars: NASA
Scientists claim to have discovered tridymite -- an unexpected silica mineral in a rock sample at Gale Crater on Mars that may alter our understanding of how the Red Planet evolved.
Jun 24, 2016, 15:33 PM IST
Facebook Live to roll out Snapchat-like filters
Users can soon go live from the face-swapping MSQRD app and utilise different Snapchat-like masks and filters while the video is running.
Jun 24, 2016, 13:27 PM IST
'Super' Grand Canyon on Pluto's moon Charon
The deep canyon named Argo Chasma is approximately 700 km long while Arizona's Grand Canyon is 450 km long.
Jun 24, 2016, 10:45 AM IST
'CashEnglish' app rewards users with real cash
A South Korea-based educational startup named BeNative has launched this app called CashEnglish, which will reward users with real cash for playing educational games.
Jun 24, 2016, 09:38 AM IST
Google teams up with Udacity to initiate programme for Android beginners
“Android basics Nanodegree by Google” programme in India will provide a guided path for beginners to learn essential skills for building apps for Android
Jun 24, 2016, 09:17 AM IST
Smoking damages sperm DNA, affects fertility: Experts
Male infertility accounts for about 30 to 50 percent of all infertility cases, and infertile men tend to have high levels of damage to the sperm DNA.
Jun 23, 2016, 16:44 PM IST
Itchy inflammation of mosquito bites helps viruses replicate
The study, led by the University of Leeds in the UK, found that inflammation where the insect has bitten makes viral infections spread by the insects far worse.
Jun 23, 2016, 13:42 PM IST
Employees use social media to kill mental fatigue: Survey
Nearly 34 percent of the people surveyed said they use social media at work to take a mental break from their job, revealed a Pew Research Centre survey of 2,003 US adults.
Jun 23, 2016, 12:39 PM IST
Gazing at smartphone in the dark may cause 'blindness'
This comes as a warning for all those who keep their smartphone devices next to them while sleeping and have a habit of gazing at their precious phones in the dark.
Jun 23, 2016, 10:36 AM IST
Abortion demand 'soars' amid Zika fear
Fears over the Zika virus have contributed to a "huge" increase in the number of women in Latin America wanting abortions, researchers said.
Jun 23, 2016, 09:08 AM IST
Visual perception may decline with age: Study
It is a known fact that staying on a topic may be more difficult for oldies than for younger people. The reason behind this is that older adults begin to experience a decline in what is known as inhibition -- the ability to inhibit other thoughts in order to pursue the storyline.
Jun 22, 2016, 14:54 PM IST
Blueberries can improve memory, vision
The researchers wanted to determine how much consumers know about blueberry health benefits and see if there is a knowledge gap with blueberry health benefits among demographic groups.
Jun 22, 2016, 12:37 PM IST
Childhood hunger can fuel violence later in life
Medical experts have suggested that kids who go hungry more than two times are likely to become more vulnerable to violence and anger in later stages of life.
Jun 22, 2016, 09:16 AM IST
'Guided chemotherapy missiles' to target cancer cells
Although chemotherapy drugs do often effectively kill cancer cells, they also damage other quickly dividing cells in the body, causing side effects ranging from cosmetic, like hair loss, to disabling.
Jun 19, 2016, 20:27 PM IST
Impaired decision-making may contribute to Parkinson's
Undertaken by researchers from the University of California - Los Angeles, the study suggested that the neurological factors underlying Parkinson's may be more complex than commonly believed.
Jun 19, 2016, 18:25 PM IST
Extra-terrestrials will take at least 1,500 years to reach Earth, claim astronomers
A team of researchers from Cornell University made this assumption by deconstructing the Fermi paradox and paring it with the mediocrity principle into a fresh equation.
Jun 18, 2016, 20:07 PM IST
No threat to polio-free status of India, says WHO
Noting that all the countries including India maintain a "high vigil" for the detection of the disease, the World Health Organisation's South-East Asia Regional Office (WHO SEARO) said that no child has been afflicted by wild poliovirus since the last case was reported from West Bengal in January, 2011.
Jun 18, 2016, 18:54 PM IST
Potential drug target for Zika, similar viruses identified
The findings showed that disabling SPCS1 -- in both human and insect cells -- reduces viral infection and does not negatively affect the cells themselves.
