• ELECTRONICS
    Parker Solar Probe Operating as Planned, NASA Says

    NASA’s historic mission to solve the mysteries of the Sun which was launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket on August 12 is operating according to plan, mission controllers have said. As of 12pm EDT on August 16, the Parker Solar Probewas 4.6 million kms from Earth, travelling at 62,764 kms per hour, and heading […]

  • NEWS
    Facebook told to stop exploiting WhatsApp data during EU probe

    European privacy watchdogs don’t shy away from targeting big US technology firms, as previous probes into Facebook, Alphabet Inc.’s Google or Microsoft Corp. have shown. Photo: AFP Paris/Luxembourg: European Union (EU) privacy chiefs said Facebook Inc. must stop processing user data from its WhatsApp messaging service while they are investigating the privacy policy changes the […]

  • COMPUTERS
    Researchers Probe How Humans Recognise Images Better Than Computers

    What makes computers and a human brain different when it comes to recognising images? The presence of an “atomic” unit of recognition – a minimum amount of information an image must contain for the recognition to occur – in human brain, researchers report. Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and the Massachusetts […]

  • COMPUTERS
    Microsoft CEO Visiting China as Anti-Trust Probe Nears Third Year

    HIGHLIGHTS Nadella is expected to meet government officials to discuss the probe. Investigation relates to compatibility issues with Windows. Microsoft is one of several firms to have come under scrutiny in China. Microsoft Corp chief executive Satya Nadella is in Beijing this week, a company spokesman said on Tuesday, as China’s anti-trust investigation of the […]

  • COMPUTERS
    Researchers Probe How Humans Recognise Images Better Than Computers

    What makes computers and a human brain different when it comes to recognising images? The presence of an “atomic” unit of recognition – a minimum amount of information an image must contain for the recognition to occur – in human brain, researchers report. Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and the Massachusetts […]

  • COMPUTERS
    Mac Ransomware caught before huge quantity Of computers infected

    An Apple representative stated the employer fast took steps over the weekend to save you furtherinfections through revoking a digital certificates that enabled the rogue software program to install on Macs. the first recognised ransomware assault on Apple Inc’s Mac computer systems, which was determinedover the weekend, became downloaded more than 6,000 times earlier than […]

  • NEWS
    Nasa’s Planet-Hunting Kepler Probe Goes Into Emergency Mode

    In a bad news for astronomers searching for extraterrestrial life in deep space, Nasa’s planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler has gone into an emergency mode 75 million miles from the Earth. The last regular contact with Kepler probe was on April 4. As Nasa engineers tried to manoeuvre the spacecraft to the centre of the Milky Way […]

  • NEWS
    Nasa Recovers Planet-Hunting Kepler Probe From Emergency Mode

    In a good news for astronomers, Nasa engineers have successfully recovered the planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft from emergency mode (EM). The spacecraft is now in a stable state with the communication antenna pointed toward Earth, enabling telemetry and historical event data to be downloaded to the ground. The spacecraft is operating in its lowest fuel-burn mode, […]

  • NEWS
    HSBC facing probe for ‘abetting’ tax evasion

    Globally, HSBC reported a pre-tax loss of $858 million in 2015 compared with a profit of $1.73 billion in 2014. Photo: AP Mumbai: While declaring its earnings for the year ended December 2015, international lender HSBC Holdings Plc on Monday said it continues to face a tax inquiry in India for allegedly abetting tax evasion. […]