Apple has recently rejected ‘Cecil’s revenge’, an app that is meant to be a homage to Cecil the lion and said to be modelled after the popular game Asteroids. It happens to be the first game created by developers David Kotkin and Glenn Cutler and an effort to pay homage to Cecil the lion that…
Apple has unveiled a larger iPad PRO which could reinvigorate interest. The iPad Pro has a 12.9in (32.8cm) display, making its shortest edge the length of its earlier models’ height. Apple, suggested the larger screen suited work tasks, video games and both editing and watching movies. Sales of the company’s smaller iPads had been on…
According to International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) Elqui Valley, in Northeren Chile, a wine-growing region some 400 km north of the Chilean capital Santiago, ‘has been recognised and designated as the first International Dark Sky Sanctuary in the world’. Electricity, here is a nuisance to serious and amateur astronomers, who tend not to seek…
The auction website eBay has grown from humble beginnings on September 3, 1995, in San Jose, California, eBay ( NASDAQ:EBAY) just days after Windows 95 was launched, to a mega retail giant. eBay now employs over 10,000 people world-wide. His vision, for connecting commerce open to everyone, enabled by people and powered by technology, and…
Sony’s Xperia Z5 Premium can both capture video in “ultra-high definition” quality and then play it back on its 5.5in (14cm) display without downgrading the footage, as all their Z5 handsets feature a new 23 megapixel sensor camera module. The Z5 Premium’s ultra impressive screen which has 4K resolution of the 5.5-inch display gives an…
Turn you Android smartphone to heat seeking infrared camera. Heat sensed by infrared camera can be very precisely measured, allowing you to snoop into the thermal world not visible to naked eye. Just insert the Micro USB into your phone and run the app. Your smart phone should be running Android 4.3 or later and…
Internet giant Google on Tuesday revealed that the sixth version of its Android operating system (OS) Project M, will be called Marshmallow and opened it to app developers for testing. The new OS will be renamed and follow Google’s nomenclature rules of naming operating system after sweet treats. Earlier operating systems were named Jelly Bean,…
Sundar Pichai 43, one the alumni of the Indian Institute of technology (IIT) in Kharagpur ( India), a passionate nerd and previous head of product at Google, has been promoted to chief executive. His name is not known to everybody, but chances are you know some of the products Google’s new CEO, Sundar Pichai, has…
India’s Mars Orbiter Mission Mangalyaan celebrated its 69th Independence Day of India by sending home three-dimensional images of the Solar system’s largest Valles Marineris canyon on Mars. The picture captured with special Mars colour camera, at an attitude of 1154miles 1857km from the surface of the red planet Mars. The Valles Marineris canyon system is…
From nearly 1 million miles,160,000 km away, a NASA’s Polychromatic imaging 4 megapixel CCD camera and telescope aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite has captured a stunning view of the far side of the moon as it moved in front of the sun-lit side of Earth last month. The images show the fully…