Moto X4, the latest X-Series smartphone from Lenovo brand Moto, was originally set to launch in India on October 3, following its global unveiling at IFA 2017. However, the company then announced a postponement to the launch, without confirming a new date. That has changed - on Monday, the Moto Indi

CHENNAI: Who knew high school science classes could be fun - and even memorable enough for a Guinness World Record. But over a thousand students in Chennai managed exactly that when they got together for a one-of-kind biology lesson on Saturday as part of the ongoing India International Science Fest

The newest Beta version of WhatsApp for Android has several updates, including a smaller app size and a feature that would notify the contacts when you change your number, a media report said. According to technology website Teknepolis, the latest package 2.17.375 takes up less space when downloa

Your Whatsapp online status can help hackers figure out who you are talking to and when you go to sleep owing to a flaw in the micro-blogging platform, a software engineer has claimed. After discovering the flaw in WhatsApp, Rob Heaton -- who has made similar security-related findings in the past

In what could be the latest strike in the legal war between the two companies, Qualcomm has launched a new lawsuit against Apple in China. Although the lawsuit, which was filed on September 29, was revealed only today, the Chinese court has not yet made the filings public. According to Bloomberg,

The festive season is round the corner, and to commemorate that, telecom giants are introducing several 'value for money' offers and tariff plans for its customers. In line with the same, Vodafone India has now come up with a new plan for its prepaid users. Under the new plan, Vodafone users will ge

Samsung Electronics said Friday that its vice chairman and chief executive officer, Oh-Hyun Kwon, has decided to step down from management. That followed an early morning guidance from the South Korean tech giant that it was expecting record operating profits of about 14.5 trillion Korean won (

WASHINGTON: A small asteroid is scheduled to safely pass by Earth on Thursday at a distance of about 42,000 kilometres, allowing trackers around the world to test their ability to operate as an international asteroid warning network. The asteroid designated 2012 TC4 is estimated to be 15 to 30 me

A 21-year-old Chinese woman has been rendered partially blind after playing video game on her smartphone for 24 hours, the media reported. The unnamed gaming addict was reportedly playing the multi-player online game “Honour of Kings” when she suddenly lost vision from her right eye, the South Ch

Dubai International Airport has come up with a novel way for departing travelers to clear security: by walking through a virtual aquarium lined with facial recognition cameras. According to a report from The National, the virtual aquarium is shaped like a tunnel, and outfitted with 80 cameras tha

Xiaomi is all set to launch the Mi MIX 2 bezel-less display smartphone in India on Tuesday, October 10. Just ahead of the New Delhi launch event, which kicks off at 11:30am IST, Flipkart has revealed that the Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 will be exclusively available on its platform in India. To recall, the Mi M

London: Tired of watching your child play video games? Instead, join them, as researchers have found that playing video games can help boost memory in the young as well as in the elderly. This can lead to an increase in the number of gamers and an increase in gaming time. However, this is not as bad

October 1, The Independent So much of the Earth’s forest has been destroyed that the tropics now emit more carbon than they capture, scientists have found. Tropical forests previously acted as a vital carbon “sink”, taking carbon from the atmosphere and turning it into oxygen, but the trend ha

27, September Microsoft's attempts at capturing the smartphone market have all failed spectacularly, and it appears the company's co-founder has no faith in the current Windows 10 Mobile ecosystem. Under Satya Nadella's leadership, Microsoft has brought its much-used productivity software to both

26 September, United States A new source of vast amounts of renewable energy – the evaporation of water – has been discovered by scientists. Writing in the journal Nature Communications, researchers at Columbia University estimated that lakes in the US could generate 325 gigawatts of power, eq

Hyderabad: Toyota has no plans to launch an electric vehicle in India and would wait for the charging infrastructure to develop before taking a call on launching such models, according to a senior official of Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM). “We have no plans to go electric,” vice chairman and whole

SYDNEY: Smartphone apps are an effective treatment option for depression, a finding which may pave the way for safe and accessible interventions for the millions of people with the mental disorder, researchers have confirmed. The results showed that smartphones open up non-stigmatising and self-m

September 20, 2017 Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia will lift its ban on internet calling applications on Wednesday, authorities said. Voice and video calling apps such as WhatsApp and Skype will be "widely available to users", a government statement said on Tuesday, in a move aimed at improvin