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Apple showed Tuesday that it has employed robotics megastar and Google X lab co-founder Yoky Matsuoka to paintings on fitness initiatives. Matsuoka, a winner of the MacArthur genius award, ultimate year left her activity as a vp at Google-owned Nest. Her plan to take a job at San Francisco-primarily based one-to-many messaging carrier Twitter becomederailed last year by using a ... Read More »

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Tuesday launched the undertaking management and facts gadget(PMIS) which could permit the railways to screen on-line the development of ongoing tasks across theunited states of america. “PMIS is an internet-enabled IT application which would cowl the complete lifestyles cycle of complextasks. it’s miles a step in leveraging resources which might empower railways in transforming the ... Read More »

The authorities is hopeful that India will contact 500 million internet customers mark by way of the quit of 2016, union Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad stated in New Delhi on Wednesday. “India now has four hundred million net connections. We idea we will have 500 million users by way of2017. however now i am hopeful that it will take ... Read More »

Used parts can be affordable alternatives to most products on the market. But what if you aren’t sure how to go about buying them? How can you be sure you’re shopping for the right parts from the right companies? Here are just a few tips for finding, selecting and purchasing used parts. 1. Know What You Need RF signal generators ... Read More »

After a successful trial in the US and Australia, social media giant Facebook has rolled out its suicide prevention tool in Britain that allows users to notify it if a friend is in distress. Created in consultation with British charity Samaritans, the tool will allow users to report content to Facebook or reach out to their friends. “We worked with ... Read More »

Samsung Gear VR is becoming more powerful. The South Korean electronics company announced that its virtual reality headset will be getting new features in a software update thanks to Facebook. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared at Samsung’s press conference ahead of Mobile World Congress to showcase the “dynamic streaming” feature while also underlining the social conglomerate’s increasingly growing focus towards ... Read More »

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg said Monday he was “sympathetic” with Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook in his stand-off with the US government over breaking into the iPhone of a mass shooter. “I don’t think that requiring back doors to encryption is either going to be an effective thing to increase security or is really the right thing to do. We are ... Read More »

Skype in 2014 introduced its Skype Qik video messaging app to take on rival services such as WeChat orSnapchat. However, the Microsoft-owned VoIP service has now decided to shutter its app. The company will be completely taking the Qik app off-the-grid by March 24. The company says that shutting down Skype Qik video messaging app should not be much of ... Read More »

Google and Facebook are among companies interested in using a $250 million (roughly Rs. 1,713 crores) submarine cable that will link Brazil directly to Europe as part of the South American country’s attempts to avoid US electronic espionage, according to Brazilian Communications Minister Andre Figueiredo. The cable is expected to be operational in late 2017 and “should be funded by ... Read More »

Google on Wednesday began delivering “blazingly fast” articles to smartphones and tablets in a stepped-up challenge to Facebook to be the leading mobile news hub. The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project that was announced late last year is now live, Google said. Challenging Facebook with its Instant Articles and the Apple News application,Google  is using its massive computing power to ... Read More »