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“You are supposed to write about the internet, why do you keep talking about all this politics?” I was taken aback when I was faced with this question. It is true – since the year has begun, I have talked about digital education and the ways in which it needs to account for unexpected and underserved communities, about net neutrality and why the Indian government needs to build a stronger, safer, and a more inclusive digital ecosystem. I have written about freedom of speech and

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No fictional technology has captured the imagination of sci-fi writers like a teleporter. From Star Trek to The Fly to Doctor Who, hundreds of science fiction stories have extensively used interstellar transporters, much to the delight of nerds across the world. However, biologist P Z Myers tweeted an article which took a rather serious look at what using such a technology would entail. The article states that for a teleporter to work, it would have to rip people a

There are enormous possibilities of nanoscience applications in diverse fields such as health, drug delivery, food processing, water purification, electronics, and many others.
A nanoparticle (or nanopowder or nanocluster or nanocrystal) is a microscopic particle with at least one of its dimensions less than 100 nanometres (nm). One nanometre is a billionth of a metre. Typically, a nanoparticle would be about thousand times smaller than the tip of human hair. Share This ArticleRelated ArticleBi

Samsung worried over large Apple shop-in-shops at Croma; to hike marketing spends (Reuters) The Apple-Samsung war is intensifying in India, with both tech giants vying for more visibility and retail space.
Infiniti Retail’s electronic retail chain Croma has become the latest battleground, with Apple opening its 500 sq ft shop-in-shop format at Croma, forcing Samsung to re-negotiate with Croma for providing better visibility.
Threatened by the Apple shop-in-shops, Samsung is planning to in

Samsung Galaxy S7 edge has arguably become the best smartphone camera with its 12MP f/1.7 image sensor (Source: Nandagopal Rajan)
Samsung Galaxy S7 edge has taken the crown for best smartphone camera at DxOMark’s test labs. DxO Labs which thoroughly tests the camera for their inclusion in the DxOMark mobile camera category has rated S7 edge with an overall score of 88.
Samsung Galaxy S7 edge has scored one point higher than the previous top scorer Samsung’s own Galaxy S6 edge+ and S

LENOVO HAS launched its Vibe X3 smartphone in India. It’s a phone that promises to fit the home theatre in your pocket, courtesy its Theatermax wide-screen cinematic feature. Theatermax makes use of a split-screen technology to project images twice, using a software to create an immersive experience. The phone has a 5.5-inch PerfectView full-HD display, Snapdragon 808 processor, 3 GB RAM, 32 GB ROM, 21 MP rear and 8 MP selfie camera, noise-cancelling three-mic system and a fingerprint read

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) just overcame a new hurdle: learning to play Go, a game considered thousands of times more complex than chess—well enough to beat the greatest human player at his own game. South Korean national Lee Se-dol, one of the world’s top Go players, won only one of the five matches against Google’s AlphaGo, missing out on the $1-million prize up for grabs in a recent ‘challenge’ held in Seoul.
AlphaGo, an AI system developed by Google DeepMind,

Samsung Galaxy S7 edge has arguably become the best smartphone camera with its 12MP f/1.7 image sensor (Source: Nandagopal Rajan)
Samsung Galaxy S7 edge has taken the crown for best smartphone camera at DxOMark’s test labs. DxO Labs which thoroughly tests the camera for their inclusion in the DxOMark mobile camera category has rated S7 edge with an overall score of 88.
Samsung Galaxy S7 edge has scored one point higher than the previous top scorer Samsung’s own Galaxy S6 edge+ and S

IMAGINE WATCHING frantic shopkeepers busily extinguish the ‘Great Fire of London’ (a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London for three days in 1666), or sheltering from Nazi bomb raids during the Blitz (the period of strategic bombing of the UK by Nazi Germany during World War II).
Now, thanks to a new virtual reality app, one can travel back in time to be immersed in these events.
A new London-based app, Timelooper, allows users to expe

Facebook has hidden a basketball game inside its Messenger app
Facebook has introduced a secret basketball mini-game into its Messenger service, a media report said on Saturday.
The hoop shooting game can be unlocked by sending a basketball emoji to a friend or group in the latest version of the Messenger app and then simply clicking on it, Tech Crunch reported.To shoot, you need to slide your finger or thumb on the screen. A point is scored for every consecutive basket that you net and the sco

Asus ZenWatch 2 now supports voice calls with native speaker support and audible alarms
Taiwanese smartphone maker ASUS on Friday rolled out the update for ZenWatch 2 models, thus, offering improvements and new features in the device.
The update to its ZenWatch 2 models WI501Q & WI502Q includes a speaker support for making phone calls (WI501Q) when connected to your smartphone via Bluetooth, setting audible alarms and hear app notification alerts and sound effects.
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Amid reports that Twitter is mulling to expand its 140-character limit on tweets, the microblogging site’s CEO Jack Dorsey said it is “a beautiful constraint” and staying for good. (Reuters) Amid reports that Twitter is mulling to expand its 140-character limit on tweets, the microblogging site’s CEO Jack Dorsey said it is “a beautiful constraint” and staying for good.
“It’s staying,” said 39-year-old Dorsey when asked if the character limit

Russian Soyuz capsule carrying a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station on Friday, ending a nearly six-hour flight (Source: AP)
A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station on Friday, ending a nearly six-hour flight, a NASA TV broadcast showed.
U.S. astronaut Jeff Williams and cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Alexey Ovchinin blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhsta

Sennheiser is not in the can-do-the-job business, it is the how-best-to-do-the-job business. This headphone is pure luxury and luxury does come at a price.
I have been a fan of Sennheiser Momentum headphones from when the first version was launched a couple of years back. Now there is an all-new wireless version of this bit of audio luxury. But not all audiophiles are okay with wireless due to the fears that there will be some loss in quality at the end of the day. Can the Sennheiser Momentum W

Microsoft’s head of Xbox Phil Spencer has apologised for or hiring dancers dressed as skimpily-clad schoolgirls for its GDC afterparty (Source: AP)
Microsoft Corp apologized for hiring dancers dressed as skimpily-clad schoolgirls for its Game Developer Conference (GDC) afterparty in San Francisco on Thursday night, responding to media reports citing attendees’ pictures on Twitter and Instagram.
“It has come to my attention that at Xbox-hosted events at GDC this past week, we r

Facebook has hidden a basketball game inside its Messenger app
Facebook has introduced a secret basketball mini-game into its Messenger service, a media report said on Saturday.
The hoop shooting game can be unlocked by sending a basketball emoji to a friend or group in the latest version of the Messenger app and then simply clicking on it, Tech Crunch reported.To shoot, you need to slide your finger or thumb on the screen. A point is scored for every consecutive basket that you net and the sco

Asus ZenWatch 2 now supports voice calls with native speaker support and audible alarms
Taiwanese smartphone maker ASUS on Friday rolled out the update for ZenWatch 2 models, thus, offering improvements and new features in the device.
The update to its ZenWatch 2 models WI501Q & WI502Q includes a speaker support for making phone calls (WI501Q) when connected to your smartphone via Bluetooth, setting audible alarms and hear app notification alerts and sound effects.
Scroll through cards, ope

This is not the first time the social networking site has dropped games into its Messenger service. But this time around it seems more compelling than the chess game that arrived last month. (Reuters) The hoop shooting game can be unlocked by sending a basketball emoji to a friend or group in the latest version of the Messenger app and then simply clicking on it, Tech Crunch reported.
To shoot, you need to slide your finger or thumb on the screen. A point is scored for every consecutive basket

It’s staying. It’s a good constraint for us and it allows for of-the-moment brevity
Twitter Inc’s 140-character tweets are here to stay, Chief Executive Jack Dorsey said on Friday, ending speculation that the microblogging site might abandon one of its trademark features for a 10,000-character limit.
“It’s staying. It’s a good constraint for us and it allows for of-the-moment brevity,” Dorsey said on NBC’s Today Show.
A Twitter spokesman declined

The updated version of the app will be able to view multiple search results on the same map, follow redesigned turn-by-turn instructions when driving
Good news for Windows 10 mobile users. Microsoft has added new features and made a series of tweaks to its Windows 10 Maps app gifting users better search and driving interface.
Users of the updated version of the app will be able to view multiple search results on the same map, follow redesigned turn-by-turn instructions when driving, and see fav

Google wants Congress to create new federal powers that would let the tech giant bring to market a self-driving car sooner than expected (Source: Reuters)
Google wants Congress to create new federal powers that would let the tech giant receive special, expedited permission to bring to market a self-driving car that has no steering wheel or pedals.
The proposal, laid out in a letter to top federal transportation officials, reveals Google’s solution to a major regulatory roadblock: U.S. law

Flipkart says its CEO Binny Bansal’s email account was spoofed and not hacked (Source: Flipkart)
Refuting media reports that Flipkart CEO Binny Bansal’s email account has been hacked, the etailer on Friday said it was spoofed but not hacked.
“We would like to clarify it is not a case of hacking. Flipkart’s corporate email system leverages the highest standards of security including but not limited to two-factor authentication,” it said in a statement.
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Apple will launch smaller 9.7-inch iPad Pro at its ‘Loop You In’ event on March 21 and it will start at $599 for base model (Source: Nandagopal Rajan)
Apple is set to launch a 9.7-inch iPad Pro along with the 4-inch iPhone SE on March 21. According to 9to5Mac, the rumoured 9.7-inch iPad Pro will start at $599 which will be a first for 9.7-inch iPad.
Apple’s 9.7-inch iPads have always started at $499 since their introduction way back in 2010. With 9.7-inch iPad Pro, Apple is si

Amazon’s voice assistant will tell you how well you slept and how much more exercise you need (Source: AP)
Alexa, what can you tell me about my health?
Starting Thursday, Amazon’s voice assistant will tell you how well you slept and how much more exercise you need – at least if you have a Fitbit fitness tracker and an Alexa-compatible device, such as Amazon’s Echo speaker and Fire TV streaming devices.
Alexa, Amazon.com Inc.’s answer to Apple’s Siri, Google N

Earlier in January, media reports said that Twitter is building a new feature that will allow users to tweet longer than its traditional 140-character limit. If you thought you will be able to convey more to your friends and policymakers on Twitter soon, hold on. According to the micro-blogging site, there is still time for you to tweet in 10,000 characters and its original 140-character limit is here to stay.
Appearing on a TV show, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that the 140-character limit is

The 5.1-inch Galaxy S7 and 5.5-inch Galaxy S7 Edge are made up of 3D glass and metal and given ergonomic curves for a comfortable grip. Samsung Galaxy S7 and Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge launched priced at Rs 48,900 and Rs 56,900, respectively is now available on Flipkart.
Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge smartphone is available on e-commerce major Flipkart in two colours – Gold Platinum and Silver Titanium while Samsung Galaxy S7 is available in three colours – Gold Platinum,  Black Onyx and

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NBN to trial fibre to the distribution point technology next month, confident of clear upgrade path
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THE national broadband network (NBN) will next month trial new technology that it hopes will help “provide a pathway to upgrade” when Australians require greater internet speeds in the future. The new technology known as fibre to the distribution point ...and more »

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New technology allows users to instantly edit videos to make people say and express things they're not
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March 19, 2016: Researchers have shared ground-breaking footage of new video-editing technology that allows users to replace the expressions of filmed subjects with their own. FTBAPGL. Researchers have shared ground-breaking footage of new ...

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Technology and startup industry happy
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The technology and startup industry of Karnataka is pleased with the Budget. Experts said the proposals establish the government's special focus on the industry. For 2016–17, Rs. 222 crore has been allocated for information technology, biotechnology ...
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