Month: <span>August 2019</span>

This Bengaluru school has robots as teachers and teachers as mentors A humanoid robot teaching in a Bengaluru school in India could perhaps be the first in the country to be a teacher assistant. Meet Eagle 2.0, a humanoid robot, who was introduced as an assistant teacher in Indus International School in Bengaluru. Dressed in a white […]

Former Google engineer indicted for stealing trade secrets, giving to Uber The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday filed a criminal indictment against an ex-Google and Uber engineer for stealing self-driving technology from Google before joining its rival, Uber Technologies Inc. The accused, Anthony Scott Levandowski, a 39-year-old engineer and former head of Uber’s self-driving vehicle […]

Facebook Quietly Changed Its Homepage Slogan This Month Facebook has quietly replaced its long-time slogan on its sign-up homepage with a new one and no one knows why. The tagline has been changed from “It’s free and always will be” to “It’s quick and easy.” According to Business Insider, who traced the switch using internet archive Wayback […]

World’s First-Ever Iron-Ion Battery Developed By Indian Researchers Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras have officially developed the world’s first iron-ion battery, which could be a possible low-cost replacement to the existing mainstream lithium-ion battery. “The major limitations of lithium-ion batteries are the unavailability of lithium in conjunction with the safety issues. […]

Beware! Malicious Code Found In CamScanner Android App With More Than 100 Million Downloads Security researchers from antivirus company, Kaspersky Lab recently discovered a malware in an Android app that is capable of downloading malicious files on infected devices. The affected app is called CamScanner, which has more than 100 million downloads in Google Play, […]

Are you looking for a simple way to capture a screenshot on mac? Well, in this article, we have listed three secure methods to take a screenshot on macOS. A screenshot is an image taken of whatever’s on your screen. macOS allows users to capture full-screen screenshots, window-based screenshot, and free-form screenshot. Well, the question […]

Apple, Samsung are facing lawsuit in the U.S. over handset RF emissions Apple and Samsung, two of the world’s three largest smartphone manufacturers, are being sued in the U.S. after a test report from the Chicago Tribune revealed that their smartphones were leaking harmful radio frequency (RF) emissions more than what’s considered safe. According to the class-action […]

Apple shelves iPhone ‘Walkie-Talkie’ feature for offline messaging Apple was reportedly working on a ‘Walkie-Talkie’- a feature that would have allowed iPhone users to send iMessage in areas without cellular connectivity or nearby Wi-Fi networks. Apparently, Apple has shelved the ‘Walkie-Talkie’ feature for the time being, according to a new report from The Information citing sources familiar […]

Intel Announces 10th-Gen “Comet Lake” Mobile Processors Intel yesterday officially expanded its 10th Gen Intel Core family of mobile processors by announcing eight new ‘Comet Lake’ processors for laptops and 2-in-1 devices. “Our 10th Gen Intel Core mobile processors provide customers with the industry-leading range of products that deliver the best balance of performance, features, […]

One of the most ingenious elements of the cryptocurrency movement is its emphasis on empowering users. While sending transactions to friends, family, and customers through a bank transfer relies on the bank itself, a crypto transaction gives complete autonomy to the recipient and sender, thanks to peer-to-peer decentralized technology. Many digital assets are able to […]