New Delhi: Hand-written passports of Indian citizens are no longer valid from Wednesday as per government’s directive. The government had asked those having hand-written passports to get machine-readable ones having bar codes by 24 November. The government had decided to discontinue hand-written passports in accordance with recommendations of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to…
New Delhi: With an aim of promoting interests of 5.77 crore small businesses, an online portal ‘e-lala’ was launched to promote business-to-business and trader-to-customer transactions and reduce costs. Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated ‘e-lala’, an e-commerce portal of Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT). Naidu complimented CAIT for e-lala initiative which is aimed…
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 26: India Met Department has forecast four days of heavy to very rains for Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and coastal Andhra Pradesh from tomorrow (Friday). Satellite pictures this morning showed an advance batch of clouds having penetrated the North Tamil Nadu coast after travelling hundreds of km from South Andaman Sea. ‘Low’ brewing It…
Decades ago, teens in the classroom communicated by passing notes between desks. Today, cellphones and text messaging serve that purpose. According to a 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center, 63 percent of teens surveyed send text messages daily, and the average teen cellphone user sends up to 60 messages daily. Teen texting can lead…
Q. Should I update to Windows 10 now that I’ve gotten used to Windows 8.1? How big a change is it? A. Windows 8.1 has more in common with Windows 10 visually than does Windows 7, but there are differences. For one, Windows 10 includes the voice-activated Cortana assistant software, which can respond to commands…
Just about every major tech company, like Apple and Microsoft, has some sort of wearable computer. Caeden, a wearable tech start-up, thinks that with most of these smartwatches and fitness accessories, an important first step was skipped: They don’t look like something you would want to wear. On Tuesday, the one-year-old company is opening orders for Sona, its…
NEW DELHI: Instant messaging app like Whatsapp and social networks are the first things that most consumers check on their smartphones in the morning, a study by professional services firm Deloitte said. According to Deloitte’s Mobile Consumer Survey 2015, about 78% of respondents owning smartphones said they checked their phones within 15 minutes of waking…
Flowers could be blooming on the International Space Station (ISS) after the New Year, thanks to NASA’s first flowering crop experiment on the orbiting laboratory. NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren activated the Veggie plant growth system and its rooting “pillows” containing Zinnia seeds on the space station on Monday. Growing Zinnias in orbit will help provide…
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft was once the epitome of everything wrong with security in technology. Its products were so infested with vulnerabilities that the company’s co-founder, Bill Gates, once ordered all of Microsoft engineers to stop writing new code for a month and focus on fixing the bugs in software they had already built. But…
A tooth fossil discovered in a Siberian cave has yielded DNA from a vanished branch of the human tree, mysterious cousins called the Denisovans, scientists said Monday. Their analysis pushes back the oldest known evidence for Denisovans by 60,000 years, suggesting that the species was able to thrive in harsh climates for thousands of generations….
