The clue to astronauts’ immunity in outer space owing to prolonged travel lies in learning the negative impact of zero gravity on fruit flies. A team of researchers from the University of California at Davis and the University of Central Florida (UCF) has studied the impact weightlessness has on fruit flies bred in space. “Our […]
Microsoft Corp is close to naming a new chief executive, most likely its cloud-computing head Satya Nadella, a source close to the matter said on Thursday, concluding a five-month long search for a heavy-hitter to lead the world’s largest software company. As part of the move, co-founder Bill Gates may step aside as Chairman but […]
Usernames and passwords of some of Yahoo’s email customers have been stolen and used to gather personal information about people those Yahoo mail users have recently corresponded with, the company said Thursday. Yahoo didn’t say how many accounts have been affected. Yahoo is the second-largest email service worldwide, after Google’s Gmail, according to the research […]
Google’s fourth-quarter earnings rose 17 percent even though a long-running slump in its online ad prices deepened. The performance announced Thursday indicates that Google is still struggling to close the gap between the rates for ads shown on mobile devices and those on personal computers. Advertisers haven’t been willing to pay as much to reach […]
Samsung has finally unveiled its Galaxy Note 3 Neo phablet, without revealing the price details. The news was confirmed via Samsung Poland, which also announced that the Galaxy Note 3 Neo will be available in two variants: a 3G and an LTE model dubbed Galaxy Note 3 Neo LTE+. The press note by Samsung Poland […]
A team of scientists, led by an Indian-origin researcher Sibani Lisa Biswal, has developed a faster method to catch unwanted microbes before they can make people sick with food poisoning. The Rice University scientists used an array of tiny ‘nanomechanical cantilevers’, anchored at one end, kind of like little diving boards. The cantilevers have peptides […]
Facebook Inc delivered its strongest revenue growth in two years, beating Wall Street targets as the Internet company’s mobile ad sales continued to accelerate. Shares of Facebook surged 12 percent to $59.98 in after-hours trading on Wednesday. The world’s largest social networking company said that revenue from mobile ads represented 53 percent of its total […]
HTC has expanded its Desire range with the unveiling of a new mid-range smartphone, the Desire 310. HTC had on Wednesday temporarily listed the new smartphone on its European site without pricing and availability details. Soon after, the HTC Desire 310 page on the site was pulled, and is currently still down, with no word […]
NASA wants to produce its own water on the Moon and oxygen on Mars – not for the sake of fun, but to drastically cut the operational costs of missions to the earth’s satellite and the red planet. The initiatives are part of an evolving space exploration strategy that relies on indigenous resources, primarily to […]
Robotic floats armed with sensors will be launched in the Indian Ocean as part of a new India-Australia research partnership to study the Indian Ocean, authorities said Wednesday. Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) made the announcement, reported Xinhua. The Indian Ocean contains vast fisheries and mineral resources that are of strategic importance […]