Google’s immense focus on development of artificial intelligence technologies has today proven that the day we switch on our own SkyNet...
Google’s AlphaGo beats the world’s best Go player to take the crown in three-match series
Former SpaceX technician sues company for cutting corners, falsifying manned rocket test results
Courtesy of Intel, Thunderbolt 3 port may soon be everywhere!
Android Pay to enter India in 2017 through UPI
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Digital health startup Klinify secures undisclosed investment to expand across Asia
Singapore-headquartered Klinify has secured an undisclosed investment from healthcare services provider Zuellig Pharma.
As per a report published on...
OnePlus 5 will be India’s first-ever Qualcomm Snapdragon 835-powered smartphone
The flagship killer, OnePlus 5 is expected to mark its entry into this year’s uber-competitive market soon enough. While we had already been...
Rocket Lab makes history, launches first 3D-printed rocket from private site in New Zealand
It surely has been long but another private space company is now joining the big league to send off small satellites into the eternity beyond...
Xiaomi Mi Max 2 with Snapdragon 625 chip & 4GB RAM launched in China, starts at CNY 1,699
As promised earlier, Xioami has today launched the successor of its Mi Max smartphone, dubbed as Mi Max 2, in China. Just like its predecessor, the...
Practo’s integration with Bing enables you to search and book doctor’s appointment
Bing, the search engine from Microsoft, has rolled out a new feature which allows users to search and look for the doctor through the search engine...
Lenovo’s Q4 profit dips 41% and revenue jumps 4.9% as PC shipments show improvement
Lenovo, the world’s largest PC manufacturer, has today announced its fourth quarterly earnings and it is still quite the topsy-turvy ride for...
Brazil-based Uber rival 99 secures a ballooning $100Mn from SoftBank
Brazil-based 99 has raised a whopping $100 million from SoftBank in funding, just a few months after raising the same amount from Didi Chuxing in...
Google’s AlphaGo beats the world’s best Go player to take the crown in three-match series
Google’s immense focus on development of artificial intelligence technologies has today proven that the day we switch on our own SkyNet...
Former SpaceX technician sues company for cutting corners, falsifying manned rocket test results
Ever since the sudden explosion earlier last year, SpaceX has been having a great year till date. It has either landed or expended its Falcon 9...
Adtech startup Unlockd bags $23Mn to expand vigorously across Asia
Mobile advertising startup Unlockd has nabbed $23 million (A$30.7 million) from Malaysia-based Axiata Digital, the digital arm of Axiata Group...
Twitter tops up its micro-blogging platform with 69 new emojis
On one hand, Twitter is continuously pushing to induce growth into its micro-blogging social platform, while on the other it has today announced a...
Google shortlists six Indian startups for its latest Launchpad Accelerator Program
In September 2016, Google invited Indian applicants for the third edition of its Launchpad Accelerator Program. The aim was to support technology...
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OnePlus 5 will be India’s first-ever Qualcomm Snapdragon 835-powered smartphone
The flagship killer, OnePlus 5 is expected to mark its entry into this year’s uber-competitive market soon enough. While we had already been...
Rocket Lab makes history, launches first 3D-printed rocket from private site in New Zealand
It surely has been long but another private space company is now joining the big league to send off small satellites into the eternity beyond...
Xiaomi Mi Max 2 with Snapdragon 625 chip & 4GB RAM launched in China, starts at CNY 1,699
As promised earlier, Xioami has today launched the successor of its Mi Max smartphone, dubbed as Mi Max 2, in China. Just like its predecessor, the...
OnePlus 5 will be India’s first-ever Qualcomm Snapdragon 835-powered smartphone
The flagship killer, OnePlus 5 is expected to mark its entry into this year’s uber-competitive market soon enough. While we had already been...
Rocket Lab makes history, launches first 3D-printed rocket from private site in New Zealand
It surely has been long but another private space company is now joining the big league to send off small satellites into the eternity beyond...
Xiaomi Mi Max 2 with Snapdragon 625 chip & 4GB RAM launched in China, starts at CNY 1,699
As promised earlier, Xioami has today launched the successor of its Mi Max smartphone, dubbed as Mi Max 2, in China. Just like its predecessor, the...
Lenovo’s Q4 profit dips 41% and revenue jumps 4.9% as PC shipments show improvement
Lenovo, the world’s largest PC manufacturer, has today announced its fourth quarterly earnings and it is still quite the topsy-turvy ride for...
Google’s AlphaGo beats the world’s best Go player to take the crown in three-match series
Google’s immense focus on development of artificial intelligence technologies has today proven that the day we switch on our own SkyNet...
Former SpaceX technician sues company for cutting corners, falsifying manned rocket test results
Ever since the sudden explosion earlier last year, SpaceX has been having a great year till date. It has either landed or expended its Falcon 9...
Twitter tops up its micro-blogging platform with 69 new emojis
On one hand, Twitter is continuously pushing to induce growth into its micro-blogging social platform, while on the other it has today announced a...
Courtesy of Intel, Thunderbolt 3 port may soon be everywhere!
As USB-C is steadily gaining universal acceptance, Intel is taking a much-needed step in the right direction. The chipmaker today announced that...
Trump administration seeks new, drone-destructive powers from the US congress
The Trump administration does not want any drones over the US soil — no unauthorized ones anyhow. It has approached the US congress and sought...
Apple Watch is the most reliable when it comes to measuring heart rate
Standford University has recently come up with a brand new study that hails the Apple Watch as the best when it comes to the accuracy of modern...
Facebook has signed video content deals with Buzzfeed, Vox and others
Facebook has signed a slew of deals with several popular media platforms. The aim of these deals is to ensure that there is plenty of content...
Lower tier engineering and MBA colleges may see a significantly reduced turnout of IT firms this year
There are people saying that the Indian IT sector is going through a slump. And there are people who are denying this as well. However, a new report...
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Singapore-headquartered Klinify has secured an undisclosed investment from healthcare services provider Zuellig Pharma.
As per a report published on e27, the...
Bing, the search engine from Microsoft, has rolled out a new feature which allows users to search and look for the doctor through the search engine. Further...
Brazil-based 99 has raised a whopping $100 million from SoftBank in funding, just a few months after raising the same amount from Didi Chuxing in January...
Adtech startup Unlockd bags $23Mn to expand vigorously across Asia
Mobile advertising startup Unlockd has nabbed $23 million (A$30.7 million) from Malaysia-based Axiata Digital, the digital arm of Axiata Group...
Google shortlists six Indian startups for its latest Launchpad Accelerator Program
In September 2016, Google invited Indian applicants for the third edition of its Launchpad Accelerator Program. The aim was to support technology...
IFC invests $3 million in pi Ventures’ maiden fund, focused on AI, ML and IoT
International Finance Corporation (IFC), which is a part of the World Bank Group, is investing $3 million in pi Ventures’ maiden fund. The...
ItzCash secures ₹800 crore funding from Ebix, existing investors Matrix, Intel Capital & Lightspeed exit
ItzCash, a Mumbai-based finance technology company, has raised ₹800 crore in its latest funding round. The investment comes from US-based Ebix, a...
RegTech startup Regnosys raises $900K to accelerate product development
Regnosys, a RegTech startup founded by two former Goldman Sachs employees, has managed to rake in $900,000 in funding.
Co-founded in 2016 by Leo...
Airbnb has come upon the perfect way to teach data science to its employees
Airbnb has come up with its own university style program for imparting data science education to students. The students being its employees. The...
Snapdeal-Flipkart deal moves a step ahead, SoftBank buys out Kalaari and founders’ shares
In the latest development around the potential acquisition of Snapdeal by Flipkart, Snapdeal’s major shareholder — Japanese investor...
Medical booking platform DocPlanner scores €15Mn to step into new markets
Poland-based DocPlanner has raked in €15 million in a Series D round of funding led by Enern Investments. The round saw participation from Target...
apps
Google Photos’ newest update debuts an Archive feature
At the Google I/O 2017 developer conference, it was announced that the Google Photos app now had over 500 million monthly active users. With the...
Android Pay to enter India in 2017 through UPI
Google plans to launch Android Pay, its digital wallet, in India later this year. The search giant is preparing to anchor the platform to...
Sony’s Digital Paper tablet has been updated with a brand new screen and interface
In case you still remember the colossal 13-inch Digital Paper tablet of Sony, which was much like a ginormous Kindle which you could also write...
Uber integrates custom Snapchat filters into its ride-hailing app
Starting tomorrow, you’ll not hail just any other ordinary Uber ride but you’ll hail a ride in utmost style. The ride-hailing behemoth...
Apple aims to support the growing app economy with new Swift app development curriculum
Apple’s primary programming language, Swift has been growing in popularity over the years. To further support the growth of its develop...
PayPal integration in Android Pay is going live
In January 2017, a teardown of the APK of a new version of Android Pay revealed that Android Pay would soon allow the use of PayPal cards. In March...
Clash Of Clans’ latest update decoded: Everything you need to know
Well, hello Clashers! The powers that may be, have released a huge, mega update for Clash Of Clans and all your wildest dreams are coming true. Night...
Supercell has shelled out $55 million to acquire a majority stake in Space Ape Games
Supercell has acquired a majority stake in London based Space Ape Games. The Clash of Clans maker shelled out $55.8 million to acquire a 62 percent...
gadgets
The flagship killer, OnePlus 5 is expected to mark its entry into this year’s uber-competitive market soon enough. While we had already been briefed about Qualcomm...
As promised earlier, Xioami has today launched the successor of its Mi Max smartphone, dubbed as Mi Max 2, in China. Just like its predecessor, the major highlight of...
Lenovo’s Q4 profit dips 41% and revenue jumps 4.9% as PC shipments show improvement
Lenovo, the world’s largest PC manufacturer, has today announced its fourth quarterly earnings and it is still quite the topsy-turvy ride for...
Former SpaceX technician sues company for cutting corners, falsifying manned rocket test results
Ever since the sudden explosion earlier last year, SpaceX has been having a great year till date. It has either landed or expended its Falcon 9...
Courtesy of Intel, Thunderbolt 3 port may soon be everywhere!
As USB-C is steadily gaining universal acceptance, Intel is taking a much-needed step in the right direction. The chipmaker today announced that...
Apple Watch is the most reliable when it comes to measuring heart rate
Standford University has recently come up with a brand new study that hails the Apple Watch as the best when it comes to the accuracy of modern...
code
This Twitter bug could’ve allowed hackers to tweet from almost any account
Twitter account falling into the hands of a hacker spells extreme trouble. And if it is anyone’s user account that they can access then it...
Researcher discover brand new ransomware EternalRocks, stronger than WannaCry
Researchers have discovered a brand new Malware that also goes after the same vulnerability WannaCry brought to the fore. However, this particular...
Android chief Dave Burke talks about Fuchsia at Google I/O, says it’ll be an ‘independent project’
The past couple of days have been extremely exciting for Google/Android developers, who were present at Google I/O 2017 to learn more about upcoming...
Google adds support for Kotlin as an official programming language for Android
Android developers, here’s some exciting announcement for you. During the developer keynote at Google I/O 2017, the search giant has announced...
Google has announced the first developer preview of Android Studio 3.0
If you are an Android Developer, the Android Studio should probably feel like a second home to you. At its I/O conference, the company gave us a...
Second-generation Tensor Processing Units are coming to Google Cloud!
Today at its I/O event, Google has announced that its second generation Tensor Processing Units are coming to the Google Cloud. The addition will...
Samsung takes the wraps off Tizen 4.0, focused towards the IoT ecosystem
At the Tizen Developer Conference, currently being organized in San Francisco, Samsung has unveiled the next iteration of its in-house operating...
Google’s globally distributed relational database service, Cloud Spanner, is now generally available
Cloud spanner, Google’s globally distributed take on relational databases, is now generally available. The service was in beta for past four...
the internet
To help businesses perfect their online presence and ensure that visitors stick around, Melbourne-based startup Loop11 has developed a platform that...
The New South Wales(NSW) government has announced that it will be turning to Twitter to announce delays and details on the state’s train network...
Amazon has finally begun integrating its games with Twitch
A couple of years ago when Amazon acquired Twitch for over a billion bucks, we just knew that at some point Amazon Games Studios titles would be...
Arduino makes hardware hacking easier than ever with its new ESLOV IoT Invention Kit
The electronics market today is filled with hundreds of thousands of devices. And yeah, that means there is more than one device that has the same...
Google Optimize 360 becomes free, new analytics solutions announced
Google made an announcement at SMX East in New York City, that its Optimize 360 service is getting a new free version that anyone can use. The...
Project Springfield: Microsoft’s new AI-based fuzz-testing tool
Fuzz testing, one of the oldest methods of finding vulnerabilities and bugs in a software, is finally getting a dose of innovation thanks to...
this is our future
It surely has been long but another private space company is now joining the big league to send off small satellites into the eternity beyond Earth. Called Rocket Lab, the company has created history with two prominent feats to its name —...
Google’s AlphaGo beats the world’s best Go player to take the crown in three-match series
Google’s immense focus on development of artificial intelligence technologies has today proven that the day we switch on our own SkyNet...
Apple to kick-start experimental testing of 5G wireless technology in Cupertino: Report
Apple is looking to give your iPhone and other connected devices a wireless speed boost with its next-generation 5G technology. It is presently being...
Tesla’s forthcoming Autopilot updated will make the drive ‘smooth as silk’
At least that is what Elon Musk tweeted today, while giving out minute details on the upcoming Autopilot updates set to arrive to Tesla cars. The...
Toyota is planning to deploy blockchain in vehicles of the future
Toyota is taking some solid steps towards expanding its reach into the space of autonomous and electric vehicle manufacturing. Through its Toyota...
NASA-ISRO satellite to be put in space by Indian GSLV rocket in 2021
In 1992, the United States President George Bush placed several sanctions on the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). These sanctions prevented...
Softbank’s $100 billion Vision Fund carries great promise, as well as grave risks
How much is too much? How much venture capital do you raise, before you can be certain of possessing the ability to invest in every niche, every...
Federal court: Americans need not register personal drones with the FAA
An appeals court ruled out the need to register for a personal drone as a per a FAA (The Federal Aviation Administration) requirement. The case...
Microsoft shows off its Google Glass-like prototype augmented reality glasses
Microsoft’s augmented reality efforts are currently being led by the bulky HoloLens, but Redmond is also experimenting with small near-eye...