John Farese’s plane engine quit without a sputter, and he began to plummet. Farese, a US lawyer with 42 years experience flying his 1978 Cessna 182 plane, had failed to register that there was a problem with the fuel tanks. He was too slow in a banked turn, so theContinue Reading
Washington: Microsoft said on Monday that it was buying the professional social network LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in cash, a move that helps refocus the US tech giant around cloud computing and services. With its biggest-ever acquisition and one of the largest in the tech sector, Microsoft takes a bigContinue Reading
Google’s brand worth has grown 32% over the past year, while Apple’s has dropped 8%. Google has overtaken Apple as the most valuable global brand. This is according to a report from Millward Brown and WPP that saw Google’s brand grow 32% to take first place on the 2016 BrandZContinue Reading
India’s Home Ministry has rejected Google’s plan to include photography of the country’s roads, tourist attractions, rivers and mountains in its free Street View mapping service. A panel consisting of security agencies and defense forces concluded Alphabet Inc’s Google could not offer the 360-degree imagery to users due to securityContinue Reading
NEW DELHI – India’s forecasting of the monsoon – the crop-nourishing seasonal rains that are the lifeblood for farmers in the country of 1.3 billion people – is getting a high-tech makeover. Jettisoning a statistical method introduced under British colonial rule in the 1920s, India’s meteorology office is spending $60Continue Reading
A woman from Cairns, Australia, used Siri to call an ambulance for her one-year-old daughter when she stopped breathing. Stacey Gleeson grabbed her iPhone and ran to the child’s room to help her but dropped it as she turned on the light. She shouted at the handset to activate SiriContinue Reading
India is fitting panic buttons and other emergency devices on buses across the country, in response to a deadly 2012 gang rape in New Delhi that triggered global condemnation and widespread protests in the country. The measure, which was passed by parliament to prevent sexual violence, became law on Thursday.Continue Reading
Ever been on Wikipedia to look up an article? More often than not, we start with one topic, click a few links and within no time, are reading about something else. Qwikipedia is a game that tries to quench this curiosity in us. The objective is to get to aContinue Reading
The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) on Wednesday launched India’s first and largest multilingual knowledge portal www.bharatavani.in that has more than 130 dictionaries, glossaries and terminology books in text and PDF formats. “All the content in print and other formats will be completely digitized and put onto the portalContinue Reading
Google will begin testing an alternative to passwords next month, in a move that could do away with complicated logins for good. The new feature, introduced to developers at the company’s I/O conference, is called the Trust API, and will initially be tested with “several very large financial institutions” inContinue Reading