Snapchat is testing a new Status feature that allows you to check-in and show what you’re currently up to on the service’s Snap Map. The feature, which was first spotted by app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, allows you to set a custom pose for your Bitmoji avatar, which will then be visible on your f

Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, WhatsApp announced a new privacy setting to the Group invite system to give users more control over who can add them to groups. Users now have three options to select from – ‘Nobody,’ ‘My Contacts’ or ‘Everyone.’ Previously, WhatsApp users could be added to groups w

Google's email service Gmail that has nearly 1.5 billion monthly active users turned 15 on Monday. Created by Paul Buchheit on April 1, 2004, Gmail started with an initial storage capacity of one gigabyte per user. It's still a free product for consumers but Gmail has now become a paid suite of e

Facing flak after the New Zealand terror attack that was live-streamed on its platform, the social media giant is now exploring restrictions on who can use its "Facebook Live" feature. Facebook came under pressure after a white man live-streamed a terror attack on two mosques in Christchurch on F

Apple has called off its "AirPower" product that was supposed to charge an iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPod at the same time. Citing difficulty meeting its own standards, the tech giant finally bid goodbye to "AirPower" which was a wireless charging mat, originally announced in September 2017. "

New Delhi: When it comes to jobs in Google and Microsoft, Indians always think about IITs as both tech giants are known for hiring IITans. However, Mumbai's 21-year-old Abdullah Khan who failed to crack IIT entrance exam has landed a job at Google's London office. While the starting salary package f

  Chandrayaan-2 will reportedly carry laser retroreflector arrays for the US space organisation, which will help us measure the exact distance between us and the Moon. Some of these instruments are also flying out to our natural satellite before India's mission, on board the Israeli Bereshee

Earlier this month, NASA announced that the universe's first-ever all-female spacewalk would be happening on 29 March. This first-all female spacewalk was set to be performed by American astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch at the International Space Station. However, this historic breaking

Microsoft last year embraced Google’s Chromium open-source engine to rebuild its Edge browser. The revamped Edge browser, however, looks very similar to Google’s Chrome browser and even supports apps from Chrome store. Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser is expected to be available to Windows I

Microsoft is rolling out a notification update to existing Windows 7 users, informing them that the software giant is pulling away support for the operating system (OS) version. “After 10 years of servicing, January 14, 2020, is the last day Microsoft will offer security updates for computers run

CBSE Class 10 English: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will conduct Class 10 English paper on Saturday, March 23, 2019. The students who will be appearing for the examinations on Saturday should revise the last year questions well, as it mostly follow NCERT pattern. The students s

Scientists have discovered evidence of abundant water-bearing minerals on the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Using early spectral data from NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft orbiting the asteroid, the team identified infrared properties similar to those in a type of meteorite called carbona

As per the exact new tests undertaken by AV-Comparatives, out of the Android antivirus apps available for devices two-thirds of the apps offer no protection at all. To offer systemic testing of security software in its ongoing assignment, the autonomous organization put 250 Android antivirus apps

WhatsApp is developing a new feature in its beta channel that would allow users to search an image on the Web that they have received or sent in their chats. The messaging service owned by Facebook submitted the update through the Google Play Beta Program bringing the version up to 2.19.73, as repor

Qualcomm Inc. won the first U.S. jury trial in its global dispute with Apple Inc. over how much the iPhone maker should pay for using the chipmaker’s patented technology. A federal jury in San Diego on Friday awarded Qualcomm about $31.6 million in damages on its patent infringement claims. Th

Telegram seems to have had a great Wednesday on the expense of Facebook. As Facebook and its chat apps grappled with an outage spanning globally, Telegram added three million users in just 24 hours. For the UK-based chat app, which boasts of 200 million monthly active users as per the data shared in

Japanese carmaker Toyota has announced plans to have a manned lunar rover on the moon in the year 2029. The company is partnering with Japan’s space agency Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for the mission. The lunar rover will be able to carry two astronauts, who will then be able to live i

The first person on Mars is ‘likely to be a woman’, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has said. “It’s likely to be a woman, the first next person on the Moon. It’s also true that the first person on Mars is likely to be a woman,” CNN cited Bridenstine as saying on a science and technology radio