Instagram is rolling out live video in its photo app, and hopes to lure users away from traditionally televised events. “Live is really exciting for us. I think it can enhance what we’re doing,” Kevin Systrom CEO of Instagram said. “ To strengthen relationships with someone I love, those streaming video to me live would…
Amazon launched its first e-reader nine years ago in November 2007. The original Kindle cost £320 ( $399) and had a 6-inch black and white ink-screen and a keyboard which sold out within hours. Today technology has improved in storage, battery life and weight and now the cheapest model costs only a fifth of that original price.…
British Scientists revealed that European Cod fish have regional accents and distinct dialects along the British coastline. Professor Steve Simpson, a Marine biologist professor and fish ecologist, leading a new study at University of Exeter said, “This species is highly vocal with traditional breeding grounds established over hundred or even thousands of years, so the potential…
Three British-born scientists won the 2106 Nobel Prize in Physics, for discoveries about strange forms of matter. David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, will share £727,000 ( 8m Kronor) prize. Their work could benefit improved materials for electronics including super-fast computing. The winners will join an elite list of 200 other Physics laureates recognised since…
Latest “Fortune.com” reports, Tech giant Apple’s progress on its new campus called a “spaceship”, with an estimated cost of $5billion featuring 2.8 million Square feet of office space and can house 12, 000 employees, and 7000 trees, and parking spaces which are expected to hold 11,000 vehicles, 700,000 Square feet of solar panels that will…
Scientists from NASA obtained further evidence to show that Jupiter’s icy moon throws jets of water out into space. Back in 2013, using Hubble telescope, scientists first reported this behaviour. Europa’s huge subsurface ocean of liquid water, is one of the most likely placed find microbial life beyond earth. Hubble made its latest identification by…
Federal Supreme Court in Brazil overturns judge’s order to mobile phone companies to block access after owner Facebook refused to intercept texts for police enquiry. Judge’s earlier ruling ordering mobile phone companies to indefinitely block access to Facebook’s WhatsApp – the third such block in the last eight months. WhatsApp is popular phone messaging app…
“Hackers stole information from 500 million users in 2014, including swathes of personal information like names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and encrypted passwords as well as “unencrypted security questions and answers but did not include any credit card data and suspect the attack was state-sponsored according to Yahoo spokesperson. The FBI has…
Google’s purchase of Software developer Apigee is certainly a boom for B2b marketers. The search engine giant has agreed to pay £482m ($625m) for Apigee Corp, a provider of cloud-based software tools that companies use to develop and manage application programming and interfaces, or APIs to transfer data between applications like e- commerce sites…
Inventors of radical imaging solutions including femto-photography- an ultra-fast imaging system can see around corners –low-cost eye-care solutions for developing world, and a camera that allows users to read pages of a book without opening the cover, Nasik-born Ramesh Rashkar (46) won the prestigious awards of $500, 000 Lemelson –MIT Prize 2016 and Dinesh Bharadia…