A clear night sky has intensified further the cold wave conditions in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. Leh is coldest at minus 9.4 degrees Celsius, the Met said. “The night temperatures dropped further today throughout the state. Present cold wave conditions are likely to continue till Sunday or Monday,” a MET department official said. The […]
White House senior advisor Jared Kushner met Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team where he was specifically asked about former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn as part of an ongoing probe into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, a media report said. The conversation that took place earlier this month lasted less than 90 […]
More than four million donors in India have signed up for Facebook’s blood donation feature and the company will now expand this feature to Bangladesh, the social media giant has said. In October, Facebook launched a new blood donations feature, starting in India, to make it easier for people to donate blood. “There are now […]
China’s Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) has detected unexpected and mysterious signals in its measurement of high-energy cosmic rays. The satellite, also called Wukong or “Monkey King”, has measured more than 3.5 billion cosmic ray particles with the highest energy up to 100 tera-electron-volts (TeV), including 20 million electrons and positrons, with unprecedented high energy […]
Phablets (smartphones with screen size of 5.5-7 inches) will far outpace total market growth by climbing from 611 million units in 2017 to one billion units in 2021, representing a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.1 per cent. In comparison, the total smartphone market is expected to grow at three per cent CAGR […]
US President Donald Trump has publicly rebuked British Prime Minister Theresa May after she criticised his sharing of far-right videos, the media reported. “Theresa @theresamay, don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom,” Trump tweeted on Wednesday night. “We are doing just fine!” Trump’s […]
Google on Thursday launched an app designed to help Android phone users understand, control and save on their expensive mobile data. This app, called Datally, allows users to track their data usage in real time, and get personalised recommendations on saving data along with notifications of public Wi-Fi spots available nearby. The app is now […]
South Korea, Japan and the US have requested an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to analyse the latest ballistic missile launch by North Korea. According to diplomatic sources, the date for the meeting, which usually takes place behind closed doors, is under discussion, Efe news reported. The meeting could take place […]
acebook and Twitter have agreed to share details with British authorities on Russia’s interference in the Brexit referendum by using their platforms. According to the Guardian on Wednesday, Facebook and Twitter will share those posts with the House of Commons media watchdog. “Facebook said it would respond with information by early December, while Twitter said […]
Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques, Facebook is successfully removing all Islamic State (IS) and Al Qaeda-related terror content from its platform before anyone flags it, the social media giant said on Wednesday. “Today, 99 per cent of the IS and Al Qaeda-related terror content we remove from Facebook is content we […]