Two new species from dinosaur age, discovered by Indian scientists

The discovery of the two new species was published in July issue of Asian Journal of Conservation Biology. Indian scientists claim to have discovered two new Cycads species of plants in Odisha northern Eastern Ghats of India Cycas nayagarhensis, C. orixensis and Orixenses subsect.nov, which were dominant some 201 million to 145 million years ago,…

Paypal eclipses eBay after their split

The eBay and its PayPal payments division will be splitting in to two. PayPal revenue  grew 16 per cent  in the second quarter.  After the fall out from cyber attack and slower customer activity last year resulted in revenue declines at the eBay marketplace. The combined company will take a £512m ($800m) write down on…

Pluto flyby photos

Pluto, the dwarf planet send amazing surface pictures via New Horizon spacecraft after travelling 9 years and 3 billion miles. The detailed image send back to earth about 7, 750 miles above the surface, roughly the distance from Mumbai to New York. Pluto is the dwarf planet in a region of space at the edge…

Who ditched you?

“Who Deleted Me on Facebook”, a new iOS app in Facebook lets you track your enemy, and are able to know who precisely ‘un-friended’ you on Facebook. We look for someone who we know to be a friend of ours on Facebook and they are no longer on our list of friends. A search for…

900 million Gmail users can now recall a email within 30 seconds!

900 million Gmail users can now cancel the delivery of an email within 30seconds of hitting the send button. Google has announced that a new feature on Gmail will delay delivering emails, thereby allowing the sender to think first, or cool down, and stop the message from being sent should they change their mind. “Previously…

Watch out, you are being tracked!

Facebook can recognise you in photos even if you are not looking, as you are being secretly tracked with facial recognition- a computer application for automatically identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or video frame and video source, by providing 3 core vision detection of 83 points of the face, recognition of…

“We don’t ask Apple for free iPhones, so please don’t expect to provide our music without compensation” words that forced Apple to Swift it’s payment policy.

    Taylor Alison Swift, American singer-songwriter, country music star and actress, forced Tech giant Apple Music to reversed its payment policy, a day after the singer said she was refusing to allow the company to stream her album 1989. Her third single “Our song” made her the youngest person to single handedly write and…

Picture passwords are here to stay!

Intelligent Environments, a British company has launched an emoji alternative to the traditional four-digit Pin code commonly used for accessing online banking, which would be more secure as there are more potential combinations of the 44 emojis than there are of the numbers 0-9. Digital banks are examining it closely to incorporate in their security…

India’ second lunar probe Chandrayaan-2 planned for 2017

India’s second lunar probe, Chandrayaan-2, is planned to be launched in 2017. ‘The Chandrayaan-2, India’s second mission to the Moon, has Orbiter, Lander and Rover configuration. It is planned to be launched during 2017-2018 time frame by Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre. According to the Indian Space Research Organisation, Chandrayaan-2…

US data gaint offers £2.3bn bid for UK’s Telecity

Telecity Group plc (formerly TelecityRedbus and before that Telecity), a European carrier-neutral datacentre and colocation centre provider which specialises in the design, build and management of highly connected, resilient and secure environments in which customers can house their telecoms, internet and IT infrastructure  had an offer of £2.31bn by Equinix, the largest US data centre group by market value…