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Telstra rebrands for technology push
The Australian Financial Review
Telstra will undergo its first major brand shakeup in five years as it looks to pivot away from being viewed as a telecommunications business towards a technology company. Telstra began the project close to seven months ago and will roll out the ...
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Pokémon GO was launched in Britain on Thursday (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)
Three students have been robbed at knife-point of their mobile phones while playing Pokémon Go. The report was published in the Telegraph which stated that the students were targeted in Hulme, Manchester, on Friday.
Greater Manchester Police warned of the dangers of using the phone app and said it was concerned that the app could provide another online avenue for criminals to exploit.
The augmented real

Social platforms like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook are using hashtag #WorldEmojiDay to share Emoji Day plans.
The world is celebrating Emoji Day today. Emojis is increasingly becoming one of the most popular ways of communicating and social platforms like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook are using hashtag #WorldEmojiDay to share Emoji Day plans.
Twitter, recently rolled out support for Unicode 9.0 emojis including facepalm and selfie emojis. Google, ahead of the World Emoji Day, had unveiled

Pokémon GO has a lot of apps out there that will tell you where to find rare Pokémons
If you have been playing Pokémon GO like us, we are sure that you are tired of finding Pidgeys, Zubats and Rattatas everywhere. So where are all the other Pokémons – the rare ones? Well, there is an app that will help you find just that.
Pokémon GO has consumed people of all ages and has been the top trending topic for some time now. At one point the augmented reality g

Scientists believe that the algorithm used in DURUS may find applications in the medical field. (Representational Picture)
Scientists have developed a new robot – with human sized feet laced up in a pair of sneakers – that closely imitates the walking motion of humans, making it more energy-efficient and better at navigating uneven terrain.
The bipedal robot steps with a heel-toe motion that copies human locomotion more closely than flat-footed robot walkers can, according to Christ

3D printing has huge potential in commercial markets as well as for individuals
A team comprising of Indian-origin researchers has found cybersecurity risks in 3D printing by examining two aspects – printing orientation and insertion of fine defects. They found that since Computer-Aided Drafting (CAD) files – used in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimisation of a design – do not give instructions for printer head orientation, malefactors could alter the process wit

Gross anatomy and layered architecture of the neocortex during prenatal and postnatal development. (Source: Allen Institute for Brain Science)
Researchers have created a comprehensive molecular atlas of brain development in non-human primate that could shed crucial light on what makes human brain development distinct.
This analysis uncovered features of the genetic code underlying brain development in our close evolutionary relative, while revealing distinct features of human brain development

Dr Reddy’s Laboratories had posted a consolidated net income from sales and services of Rs 15,470.8 crore for 2015-16 fiscal. (Source: Express Archive)
Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (DRL) expects complex generics, proprietary products, including creation of branded generics platform in the US, to be the main drivers of its growth going forward.
“Our growth, going forward, will be driven by the attractive pipeline of complex generics as well as our new proprietary products,” Dr

Reliance Jio claims that 1.5 million users have tested their network
Speculations came to an end with the announcement of Reliance Industries much-awaited commercial launch of the Reliance Jio Infocomm to start offering its 4G services, barring four circles where it could take four to six more weeks to prepare the network.
The announcement was made during the first-quarter earnings briefing of Reliance Industries.Head of strategy and planning at Reliance Jio, Anshuman Thakur, said: “We ha

Last week, we reviewed MEE Audio M6 In-Ear Sport headphones, Zagg Pocket keyboard, Amzer Bluetooth Selfie Stick, Transcend JetFlash 890S, Fiio A1 portable Headphone Amplifier.
Indianexpress.com recently concluded ‘Mobile Accessory Week’ where we reviewed all sorts of mobile accessories ranging from selfie stick to portable headphone amplifier. Last week, we reviewed MEE Audio M6 In-Ear Sport headphones, Zagg Pocket keyboard, Amzer Bluetooth Selfie Stick, Transcend JetFlash 890S

Bharti Airtel has announced revised rates for some its prepaid data recharge packs.
In what seems to be preparation for the competition from Relaice Jio services expected to launch next month, Bharti Airtel has announced revised rates for some its prepaid data recharge packs. Airtel says the new scheme increases data benefits on prepaid packs by up to 67 per cent.
Under the revised Airtel data benefits, the Rs 655 4G/3G monthly recharge pack will now offer 5GB data, as compared to 3GB earlier.

Curiosity is powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator that uses Plutonium-238
NASA has successfully captured the imagination of space explorers all over the world with missions reaching outer space, but the space agency (and the world) is running out of the fuel that powers these programmes – Plutonium-238.NASA currently uses Plutonium-238 for its Radioisotope Power System (RPS), which converts heat from the natural radioactive decay into electricity. The Voyager-1 spacecraft, l

Pokemon GO’s popularity has reached such heights that it is fraying into political campaigning territory. (Source: IANS)
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has started to use the newly-launched Augmented Reality (AR) game Pokémon Go as a campaigning tool to register voters.
The game, which came out on July 6, encourages users to walk around and visit “PokéStops” where they can acquire items for the game like Poké Balls and “gyms” w

Bharti Airtel has announced revised rates for some its prepaid data recharge packs.
In what seems to be preparation for the competition from Relaice Jio services expected to launch next month, Bharti Airtel has announced revised rates for some its prepaid data recharge packs. Airtel says the new scheme increases data benefits on prepaid packs by up to 67 per cent.
Under the revised Airtel data benefits, the Rs 655 4G/3G monthly recharge pack will now offer 5GB data, as compared to 3GB earlier.

Pokémon GO users have been roaming around the streets to catch em all, and this involves a certain amount of risk.
Pokémon GO has now led to a shooting in Florida, says a report in USA Today. According to the report, two teenagers aged 19 and 16 were shot at while they were sitting in a car and playing Pokémon GO. The incident happened around 1:30 am on Primrose Lanem when a man walked out of his house with a gun and fired at the car.
The teenagers sped off and tried checki

The new development by the scientists may not exactly lead to the invisibility cloak from Harry Potter, but it could have greater technological and industrial outcomes. (Representational Picture)
In a first, scientists from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have made an object disappear by using a material with nano-size particles that can enhance specific properties on the object’s surface.
Researchers from QMUL’s school of electronic engineering and computer science demonstra

Rapid climate change is believed to be behind the loss of land and marine creatures over several years, suggesting that rapid global climate change can and did play a major role in driving extinction.
While it is widely accepted that an asteroid impact caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs and other life forms, researchers have been stumped by the process of how. In other words, they had figured out the killer, but not the murder weapon.
A new study has now said that when the asteroid hit the

In Delhi, the AAP government has promised 100 per cent WiFi coverage in the national capital, which has not rolled out so fast.
Recently Gurugram announced free public Wifi hotspots in the city in partnership with Airtel. In Gurugram, users in select parts of the city will get 30 minutes of free WiFi access. Customers can continue to use the Wi-Fi service after 30 minutes also, but they will to pay after this time limit.
While Airtel users will be charged on their data plan/packs, non-Airtel us

With the use of Google Glass, Boeing says it reduced production time for the harnesses by 25 percent and cut error rates in half. (Representational Picture)
Tech giant Google’s augmented reality (AR) eyewear Google Glass may not have worked among real life consumers but the device is helping US aircraft manufacturing company Boeing build airplanes, media reported this week.
Citing a report from news website CIO.com, The Verge said that members of Boeing’s research and technology div

In the May 7 crash that killed Joshua D. Brown, 40, of Canton, Ohio, cameras in his Tesla Model S failed to distinguish the white side of a turning tractor-trailer from a brightly lit sky, and the car didn’t automatically. (File Photo)
Tesla Motors is working on modifications to its Autopilot system after it failed to stop for a tractor-trailer rig in a Florida crash that killed the driver of a Model S sedan.
CEO Elon Musk, in a Twitter post Thursday night, said Tesla is working on improv

With battery-draining apps like Pokemon GO gaining ground in the smartphone gaming market, manufacturers may look to insert larger batteries in phones making them bulkier. (Representational Picture)
The popular Pokemon GO that requires you to keep the screen on all the time may drive smartphone manufacturers to insert a large battery, making smartphones thicker.
“As Pokemon GO continues to gain steam, smartphone manufacturers will turn out devices that have features aimed specifically at

Apple iOS 10 public beta is ready for download. After a week-long daily blog, we now try and summarise the entire experience.
Over the past week I have been trying the Apple iOS 10 public beta on a iPhone 6s Plus. The new software update is expected to hit all iOS devices in a few months, but what is the experience going to be like for the users.
After a week-long daily blog, I now try and summarise the entire experience.
READ: Apple iOS 10 beta live blog: Navigating Mail is now much easie

The aircraft had arrived in Cairo on Wednesday after a two-day flight from Spain, finishing the 3,745 kilometre (2,327 mile) journey with an average speed of 76.7 kilometres an hour. (Jean Revillard, Rezo via the AP)
The final leg of an unprecedented world tour by a solar-powered plane was postponed due to the pilot’s health, he said in a message on Twitter.
The Solar Impulse 2 had been scheduled to leave Cairo for Abu Dhabi.
“I’m sick. Stomach upset. I prefer t

Apart from the US, Pokémon Go is yet to release elsewhere
I was busy, writing, when a Telegram message trickled in. It was a friend who asked me if I had looked at the new Pokémon Go game which has been getting more attention than national elections and global warfare in the USA lately. A location-based augmented reality game that involves the users moving around their physical environments “collecting” pokemon characters that appear hiding in different locations has a

The research:
Ionising water at room temperature, thus allowing it to conduct electricity
R K Kotnala & his PhD student Jyoti Shah
CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi
For several decades now, scientists have been attempting to find that ideal source of energy that is clean as well as renewable. It has led them to harness the energy of the sun, wind and nuclear power. All of these have already been deployed, though each of them has major shortcomings: sun or wind is not always avail