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….
NEW DELHI: In a new study on the effect of Facebook activity on stress levels in teens, Canadian researchers have found that having more than 300 Facebook friends increased teens’ levels of stress while teens who act in ways that support their Facebook friends — for example, by liking what they posted or sending them…
Are you aware that every time you pick up your phone and choose to text rather than dialling the number to talk and convey what you want to say, you are actually allowing yourself to turn into a borderline schizoid personality? Characterised by emotional detachment and social withdrawal, people with this personality disorder, have difficulty…
When Google was officially announced, it’s an understatement to say the device bombed. tech enthusiasts everywhere, while they probably liked the idea behind the hardware, just couldn’t come to grips with having to wear half a pair of glasses on their head all the time. And though the less than welcome reception has put Google Glass…
New Delhi: Indian cyclist Aashu Sharma bagged the Individual Pursuit (2 km) bronze in the junior women’s category on the second day of the Track Asia Cup at the Indira Gandhi Stadium Complex Velodrome here on Thursday. Aashu clocked a time of two minutes and 47.652 seconds while Foorozan Abdohlahi (1:23.347) of Iran and Uzbekistan’s…
FC Goa would be looking to maintain their top position when they take on Mumbai City in an Indian Super League match on Tuesday at the Nehru Stadium in Margao, Goa. FC Goa, along with FC Pune City and Delhi Dynamos, has 15 points, but has played one match less than them. On Tuesday, the…
