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Antarctica is gaining ice but Nasa warns that it may reverse in few decades (Source: NASA)
An increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.
Areas of the continent like the Antarctic peninsula have increased their mass loss in the last decades, says a new NASA study.
The research challenges the conclusion of other studies, including Intergovernmental Panel on Climate

Google get government support for its Project Loon to beam internet from floating balloons
Internet giant Google is working with the government on a pilot project for providing Internet connectivity by using large balloons.
Google, under its ‘Project Loon’, is using big balloons floating at a height of 20 kilometers above earth surface for transmission of Internet services. It has already tested this technology in New Zealand, California (the US) and Brazil.
“Google approached

Snapchat gives a better communication experience and is linked to more social enjoyment and positive mood than Facebook or other social media
Snapchat gives a better communication experience and is linked to more social enjoyment and positive mood than Facebook or other social media, according to a study by the University of Michigan.
Snapchat is a mobile application known as a form of “ephemeral social media”, which are platforms displaying shared content for a brief period.
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Canon’s latest Pixma G series printers come with refillable ink tanks and a print yield of up to 6000 pages (Source: Canon India)
While a global launch for smartphones in India has become common, Canon has announced the global launch of its Pixma range of printers with refillable ink in India.
Canon has launched four new models in its Pixma G series – G1000, G2000, G2002 and G3000 in India. Canon now has total of 33 inkjet printers. The USP of these printers is the integrated ink ta

Brainwavz’s new Bluetooth headphone KV-100 is a wireless headphone designed specifically for children (Source: Brainwavz)
Brainwavz Audio has announced the launch of Kidwavz KV-100 bluetooth headphones for children in India. The bluetooth are designed for children in the age group 4 to 14 years old.
The Kidwavz KV-100 comes with a volume limit of 85dB to protect the ears of kids when used in Bluetooth mode. Brainwavz says it has engineered the audio drivers to lower the bass and enable cr

Researchers have used a neural network computer to find that the perfect selfie is that of a female with long hair, with a slightly tilted head and the top edge of the frame cutting off the forehead.
Andrej Karpathy, a researcher at Stanford University’s Computer Vision Lab, trained a neural network computer to learn what makes the perfect selfie by analysing millions of them and identifying specific traits from the ones that were most popular.
Karpathy used a Convolutional Neural Network

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Micromax Canvas Lapbook is the first ever laptop from Indian mobile manufacturer and it runs Windows 10 out-of-the-box
We live in the post-PC era and our smartphones and tablets have taken over as primary computing device but that does not mean PCs have turned obsolete yet. When it comes to getting things done, we always rely on PCs and what better proof than a mobile manufacturer entering the domain.
Micromax Canvas LapbookThe Canvas Lapbook does not feature a micro-USB port for charging like

Gionee S Plus is a 4G LTE smartphone launched exclusively for Indian consumers (Source: Gionee India)
Gionee has launched new S Plus smartphone with USB Type C port exclusively for Indian consumers. The smartphone is the newest addition to the S series and features USB Type C port.
The Gionee S Plus is 5.5-inch smartphone with 720p HD AMOLED display protected by a Corning Gorilla Glass 3. The 4G LTE smartphone is powered by a 1.3GHz octa-core processor coupled with 3G RAM and 16GB expandable st

InFocus M535 with full metal-body has been launched for Rs 9999 on Snapdeal only.
InFocus Mobiles, the US-technology company, has launched a new smartphone in India: the M535 with a full metal body.
InFocus M535 is priced at Rs 9,999, and will be available exclusively on Snapdeal starting November 2. InFocu M535 comes with a 5.5-inch HD screen, 64-Bit, Mediatek MT6735 Quad-core processor clocked at 1.5 GHz, 2GB and 16 GB (expandable upto 64 GB). Share This ArticleRelated ArticleInFocu

Apple iPad Pro will go on sale on November 11. (Source: AP)
Apple’s iPad Pro will go on sale in the US by November 11 both online and offline, says a report on 9to5Mac.
Apple showed off the new bigger-screen iPad at the launch of the new iPhone 6s event. The new iPad Pro is aimed at increasing productivity, and moves away from the traditional media-entertainment centred iPads that we have seen in the past.
According to 9to5Mac report, the Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard will be also avail

Mobile VR will succeed much before PC VR, says Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey.
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has put a series of tweets highlighting that for virtual reality, the future is all mobile. He blames wires and cables for holding back the PC Virtual reality revolution.
Luckey wrote in a series of tweets, “Cables are going to be a major obstacle in the VR industry for a long time. Mobile VR will be successful long before PC VR goes wireless. It is important to design both hardw

NBA 2K16 has the best career mode we have seen so far in any sports game.
NBA 2K16 is one of those sports games which allows you to step into the shoes of a superstar and craft your own rags-to-riches story.  2K games have set a high example of what a top-end sports game should look like and NBA 2K16 is no different. EA Sports (FIFA 2016) and Konami (PES 2016) should probably take down some notes from these guys.
But is this the best sports game of all time? Here’s what we thought ba

George Boole’s 200th birth anniversay is being celebrated by the Google Doodle today.
Google Doodle today celebrates the 200th birthday of mathematician, logician George Boole, who devised ‘Boolean Algebra and Logic’, that have profoundly impacted our society.
Boole’s alegbra and logic forms the ground work for computer science and engineering. The Google Doodle today is in the form of a Boolean algebraic code and uses “and, or, not, xor” symbols which are co