It has been translated by someone who goes by the emoticon 😎. How apt. 🙂 Although purists will shudder at the thought, the Bible has had a 21st century update: an emoji version has been created released keeping religious minded cyber savvy netizens in mind. According to a report that appeared in The Guardian, a…
This could have a significant impact across wearable technologies. Although today’s wearables are fantastic pieces of engineering, fact is they tend to be bulky and come with tethering related restrictions. So as to bypass this problem, researchers have created thinner and yet more powerful wearables that can be applied directly onto the skin. Scientists have…
No what you looks are and what others think of your looks, you CAN be smart and good-looking. That would be the message that one would receive when one stands in from of a mirror that Microsoft has turned up with. Called Microsoft’s Magic Mirror looks just as any other regular mirror about with special…
Chief executive of Troubled commodities trading firm Noble Group, Yusuf Alireza had quit for “family reasons,” the company has said. The stock of the company went down more than 3 percent in early trade soon after the announcement. With Jeff Frase, a former JPMorgan banker who joined Noble as president of its Americas business in November,…
Both the US IT giants Facebook and Microsoft have decided to go underwater. To help speed up their global internet services, the two technology companies recently made the announcement that they are going to install an undersea cable from the east coast of the US to Spain. Facebook, which wants to encourage users across the world…
The call by 150 health experts to postpone or move the Olympics from Rio de Janeiro because of the Zika epidemic has put Brazil under pressure even as the country is coping with the hit of recession and political turmoil. The current plans for the Games needed to be revised “in the name of public…
As India’s Tata Group seeks to cash in on rising purchasing power in a market dominated by deep-pocketed international retailers and startups backed by global tech investors, the biggest industrial conglomerate of India launched an e-commerce venture on Friday. With the aim of making its website a marketplace for in-house and partner companies to sell…
In a move that could seem strange to many, the iconic 122-year-old candy giant Hershey Co. whose annual revenue swelled to more than $7 billion selling chocolate with peanut butter, chocolate with almonds, and just plain chocolate, is now putting a lot of its fortunes at stake on a snack that’s not chocolate. Hershey saw…
Open source development got another shot in the arm with the court’s verdict. Oracle has reportedly said it will appeal the ruling. In what can be a counted as a victory for the future of the Android ecosystem and Google, after much deliberation, a jury has concluded that the JAVA APIs in Android don’t infringe…
The underwater cable will have a capacity of 160Tbps and will be ready by next October. In a move that will aid the movement of data back and forth from the U.S to Europe, Facebook and Microsoft have come launched a collaboration to build a massive underwater data cable that will connect both continents. Dubbed…
