MUMBAI: Indian students who dread not making it to school before the 6.55am assembly bell, may find it comforting that a British scientist wants to prove that schools deprive children of much-needed sleep by starting early. Oxford University professor Paul Kelly, who is working along with America

Today, smartphones have become an integral part of our lives - they have entered our homes, workplaces and classrooms. With almost an omnispresence in our lives, there is an urgent need for people to practice some smartphone etiquettes. Here are few tips you can follow to avoid being a smartphone

Want to score a programming gig at Google? Don't hesitate looking up for complicated queries on Google. That's precisely how Max Rosett recently landed a job at the search giant. In a blog post, Rosett has taken the lid off a rather unconventional recruiting practice by Google. The world's bigges

NEW DELHI: For the first time since their launch in 2010, Google has unveiled two Nexus smartphones at the same time, one featuring a 5.2-inch display and the other sporting a 5.7-inch screen. At an event in San Francisco, Google announced that it has partnered with Huawei and LG to make the new

NEW DELHI | MUMBAI: The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are seeing a jump of up to 50% in pre-placement offers (PPOs) from the year before. That's good news for students at the premier engineering schools — more of them will now have jobs in hand even before final placements kick off in Decem

Microsoft’s continued focus on making its products available cross-platform continues today with the launch of its communications apps, Skype for Android Wear smartwatches. The app, which rolls out with the latest version of Skype 6.4 for Android, allows you to receive notifications and read your me

(CNN)Potentially life-giving water still flows across the ancient surface of Mars from time to time, NASA scientists said Monday in revealing a potential breakthrough in both the search for life beyond Earth and human hopes to one day travel there. While the discovery doesn't by itself offe

People around the world are watching the skies to observe a rare celestial event, as a lunar eclipse coincides with a so-called "supermoon". A supermoon occurs when the Moon is in the closest part of its orbit to Earth, meaning it appears larger in the sky. The eclipse - which made the Moon ap

SAN FRANCISCO/SYDNEY: The iPhone 6S and 6S Plus have hit stores around the world, kicking off what is expected to be a record weekend of sales as customers scrambled to buy Apple Inc's marquee product in pink for the first time. Eager buyers -- joined by at least one robot -- flocked to Apple sto

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced the availability of Office 2016 for Windows desktop platform. Used by more than 1 billion people worldwide, Office is not only the most popular productivity suite available on the planet, it is also one of the biggest revenue channels for the company. Microsoft dro

Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) who are looking for a job back home are likely to get more offers now than the past few months. According to latest reports, vacancies are on the rise now after the lull seen in the job market since February of this year. Findings by jobs website TimesJobs RecruiteX

Micromax on Thursday launched three new budget 4G smartphones in India: Canvas Blaze 4G, Canvas Fire 4G and Canvas Play 4G. While the Canvas Blaze 4G and Canvas Fire 4G are priced at Rs. 6,999 each, the Canvas Play 4G is priced at Rs. 12,499. All three smartphone run Android 5.1 Lollipop out-of-the-

A modified smartphone with a new app can act as a ‘pocket optician’ to effectively test eyesight and even scan the eye for cataracts, researchers have found. Researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine believe the smartphone app can transform eye care for millions of people

The Centre plans to set up a national board for publication of school textbooks and also allow higher educational institutions to establish their own units for publication of academic journals and books. It also proposes to set up publishing units in public private partnership framework to augmen

It is one of the most hi-tech tanks ever created - and doesn't even need a driver. The US Army has revealed it has been testing the vehicle, known as Ripsaw. The 'drone tank' is controlled remotely, and can reload itself and even change weapons at the touch of a button. Army bosses say it c

NEW DELHI: Indian IT companies are among the 10 worst paymasters in the world, says a survey -- a mid-level IT manager draws an average salary of $41,213 while his Swiss counterpart gets over four times more. According to recruitment platform MyHiringClub.com's Worldwide IT Salary 2015 survey, In

ASTRONOMERS have discovered two massive black holes are on course to collide causing a titanic blast capable of destroying an entire galaxy. But before you break out your end-of-the-world survival packs, fear not, the galaxy is not ours. (Phew?!). Researchers using data from NASA’s Galaxy Evol

The US government whistleblower Edward Snowden believes encryption might make it difficult or even impossible to distinguish signals from alien species from cosmic background radiation. On Friday night, Snowden appeared from Moscow on the astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyso