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It is estimated that about two million different types of proteins are present in the human body.
By: Ashwani Thakur
IIT Kanpur
Proteins are essential to living organisms. These large molecules, built up of long chains of amino acids, perform several functions that are vital for life. Proteins are present in every cell and are the smallest building block of all living beings. It is estimated that about two million different types of proteins are present in the human body.
Largely, proteins have

Microsoft could announce interactive live tiles at its annual developer conference, Build 2016 (Source: Reuters)
Microsoft’s annual developer conference, Build 2016, is just four days away and we already have the first set of hints on what could be in store. While Build 2016 could focus a lot on Universal Windows Apps and HoloLens developer edition hardware, Windows 10 is set to see a fresh set of change in terms of UI.
Microsoft’s Windows 10 has undoubtedly the best user interface

HTC 10 will launch on April 12 via an online-only event. It could be an effort to bring the company back to flagship smartphone business (Source: HTC/Twitter)
HTC has finally set the date for the launch of its 2016 flagship smartphone. HTC is planning to launch ‘HTC 10’ on April 12 via an online-only launch.
According to reports, the smartphone will start shipping from April 15, almost immediately after the launch.
Last month, Samsung, Xiaomi and LG all showcased their 2016 flagship

HTC 10 will launch on April 12 via an online-only event. It could be an effort to bring the company back to flagship smartphone business (Source: HTC/Twitter)
HTC has finally set the date for the launch of its 2016 flagship smartphone. HTC is planning to launch ‘HTC 10’ on April 12 via an online-only event.
According to reports, the smartphone will start shipping from April 15, almost immediately after the launch.
Last month, Samsung, Xiaomi and LG all showcased their 2016 flagship

Exploring new pose for selfies? Thighbrows and duckface poses are things of the past. The new Tyrannosaurus rex (T.rex) hands pose is the latest trend, the media reported on Thursday.
The selfie got its name because “if you zoom out and do it to both hands, you look kind of like a T-Rex”, explained Huda Kattan, Instagram celeb and beauty blogger, who started the trend and coined the term, reported metro.co.uk.
“Yes I made up T Rex hands,” said Kattan on Instagram.
The a b

HTC 10 will launch on April 12 via an online-only event. It could be an effort to bring the company back to flagship smartphone business (Source: HTC/Twitter)
HTC has finally set the date for the launch of its 2016 flagship smartphone. HTC is planning to launch ‘HTC 10’ on April 12 via an online-only launch.
Last month, Samsung, Xiaomi and LG all showcased their 2016 flagship devices at MWC 2016. Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 edge have already reached the hands of several consume

Microsoft could announce interactive live tiles at its annual developer conference, Build 2016 (Source: Reuters)
Microsoft’s annual developer conference, Build 2016, is just four days away and we already have the first set of hints on what could be in store. While Build 2016 could focus a lot on Universal Windows Apps and HoloLens developer edition hardware, Windows 10 is set to see a fresh set of change in terms of UI.
Microsoft’s Windows 10 has undoubtedly the best user interface

A file picture of Freedom 251 during its February 17 launch in New Delhi (Source: Shruti Dhapola)
Noida Police has registered a case of cheating against the owner of Ringing Bells who had offered to sell the world’s cheapest smartphone following a complaint filed by BJP leader Kirit Somaiya.
The police registered the case under Section 420 (cheating) of IPC and the IT Act on Tuesday. The owner of Ringing Bells Mohit Goel and company president Ashok Chaddha have been named in the FIR, poli

A file picture of Freedom 251 during its February 17 launch in New Delhi (Source: Shruti Dhapola)
Noida Police has registered a case of cheating against the owner of Ringing Bells who had offered to sell the world’s cheapest smartphone following a complaint filed by BJP leader Kirit Somaiya.
The police registered the case under Section 420 (cheating) of IPC and the IT Act on Tuesday. The owner of Ringing Bells Mohit Goel and company president Ashok Chaddha have been named in the FIR, poli

A file picture of Freedom 251 during its February 17 launch in New Delhi (Source: Shruti Dhapola)
Noida Police has registered a case of cheating against the owner of Ringing Bells who had offered to sell the world’s cheapest smartphone following a complaint filed by BJP leader Kirit Somaiya.
The police registered the case under Section 420 (cheating) of IPC and the IT Act on Tuesday. The owner of Ringing Bells Mohit Goel and company president Ashok Chaddha have been named in the FIR, poli

Microsoft is deeply sorry for the racist and sexist Twitter messages generated by the so-called chatbot
Microsoft is “deeply sorry” for the racist and sexist Twitter messages generated by the so-called chatbot it launched this week, a company official wrote on Friday, after the artificial intelligence program went on an embarrassing tirade.
The bot, known as Tay, was designed to become “smarter” as more users interacted with it. Instead, it quickly learned to parrot a sl

External factors are piling up in a way where it makes no sense for an average consumer to purchase a laptop for gaming any more (Source: Dell)
The nature of technology is such that new innovations often make existing gadgets redundant or unnecessary. For instance, the smartphone has crushed the GPS market and is slowly making point-and-shoot cameras outdated. It’s not the point-and-shoot camera’s fault. It’s just the cycle of technology.
Gaming laptops seem to face the same s

A file picture of Freedom 251 during its February 17 launch in New Delhi (Source: Shruti Dhapola)
Noida Police has registered a case of cheating against the owner of Ringing Bells who had offered to sell the world’s cheapest smartphone following a complaint filed by BJP leader Kirit Somaiya.
The police registered the case under Section 420 (cheating) of IPC and the IT Act on Tuesday. The owner of Ringing Bells Mohit Goel and company president Ashok Chaddha have been named in the FIR, poli

Reed Hastings, co-founder and CEO of Netflix, delivers a keynote address at the 2016 CES in Las Vegas (Source: Reuters)
Netflix Inc said it had been lowering the quality of its video for customers watching its service on wireless networks such as AT&T and Verizon Communications for more than five years, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
The company also said that it does not downgrade videos for T-Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp users because they had “more consumer-friendly

Scientists working on NASA’s Cassini mission have identified the highest point on Saturn’s largest moon Titan (Source: NASA)
In a nod to extraterrestrial mountaineers of the future, scientists working on NASA’s Cassini mission have identified the highest point on Saturn’s largest moon Titan.
Titan’s tallest peak is 10,948 feet high and is found within a trio of mountainous ridges called the Mithrim Montes.
The researchers found that all of Titan’s highest pea

Some of Saturn’s icy moons as well as its famous rings might be modern adornments, and their dramatic birth may have taken place a mere hundred million years ago, more recent than the reign of many dinosaurs, a new study suggests.
“Moons are always changing their orbits. That is inevitable. But that fact allows us to use computer simulations to tease out the history of Saturn’s inner moons,” said Matija Cuk from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in the U

Microsoft is deeply sorry for the racist and sexist Twitter messages generated by the so-called chatbot
Microsoft is “deeply sorry” for the racist and sexist Twitter messages generated by the so-called chatbot it launched this week, a company official wrote on Friday, after the artificial intelligence program went on an embarrassing tirade.
The bot, known as Tay, was designed to become “smarter” as more users interacted with it. Instead, it quickly learned to parrot a sl

Asus GL552JX is the latest attempt from the company and it’s a solid one in terms of gaming laptop (Source: Asus)
Asus is one of the few laptop makers in India who not only believes that gaming on PC has a thriving interest, but also believes that such PC gamers want to pack in all that hardware into a laptop with minimal upgradeable parts. So time after time, it releases a new gaming laptop.
The Asus GL552JX is its latest attempt, and it’s a solid one. But as good a device as it is

Apple wants a judge to delay government demands for data from a locked iPhone in a Brooklyn drug case citing FBI quest (Source: Reuters)
Apple wants a judge to delay government demands for data from a locked iPhone in a Brooklyn drug case while the FBI sees if it can get contents from a San Bernardino attacker’s phone without Apple’s help.
Apple attorney Marc Zwillinger asked US District Judge Margo Brodie in Brooklyn late Thursday to postpone deadlines until the Department of Justi

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Birds living among people are able to differentiate between individual humans but scientists have now found that skuas living in remote Antarctica can also recognise people who had previously accessed their nests.
The researchers from Inha University and Korea Polar Research Institute in South Korea performed a series of experiments on brown skuas living in Antarctica.
They checked the nests once a week to monitor the breeding status and the skuas attacked when researche

iPhone SE 64 GB version will come at 9 while the 16 GB model will cost users 9 (US price). It will be available in four colours including sleek rose gold, the company announced during its special “spring lineup” at the packed auditorium at its Cupertino, California-based headquarters, earlier this week. (AP) As Apple lovers started pre-ordering their 4-inch iPhone SE or 9.7-inch iPad Pro devices from Thursday (the device will start shipping to them from March 31), experts here are d