New Delhi: A super-fast alternative to WiFi known as ‘LiFi’ has just been tested in the real world and has been proven capable of sending data at up to 224 GB per second and has the potential to revolutionize internet usage. Which means you can download 18 movies of 1.5 GB each second. LiFi, or light fidelity,…
Mark Zuckerberg today through a Facebook post announced that all Reliance subscribers across India can now access free Internet, for limited basic services, via Facebook’s Free Basics. In October last year, Facebook had launched Internet.org to provide basic Internet services for free of cost to Reliance customers in six Indian states- Tamil Nadu, Mahararashtra, Andhra…
Qatar was hit by heavy flooding today causing gridlock on the desert country’s roads as well as closures of schools and the US embassy. Overnight rain made many roads near impassable for commuters amid reports on social media that even Doha’s Hamad International Airport was affected, due to leaks at the estimated USD 17 billion…
A twisting skyscraper that towers over the Basra province in Iraq could become the world’s tallest building, if the plans come to fruition. AMBS Architects, which was founded by Iraqi architect Ali Mousawi, have designed a 230-storey building as part of a new masterplan for the city. The overarching plan, commissioned by the Basra Governorate, aims to maximise the…
ANTARCTIC temperatures have cooled over the past six years, according to US space agency NASA. An intensive scientific study of both Earth’s poles has found that from 2009 to 2016 overall temperature has dropped in the southern polar region. NASA’s Operation IceBridge is an airborne survey of polar ice and has finalised two overlapping research…
New Delhi: Hand-written passports of Indian citizens are no longer valid from Wednesday as per government’s directive.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…
