The all-popular virtual card game pastime has now been ported to our pocket smartphones. The ubiquitous pre-installed windows game is now available on the Android and iOS platform as "Solitaire Collection"
Users can download the app for free, both on Android and iOS and one month of free Premium Edition access for everyone who installs the game before December 31,...
Microsoft has doubled up its investment in quantum computers, the stuff of science fiction.
Long time Microsoft executive Tom Holmdahl has been appointed to lead its quantum computing division. Holmdahl has formerly worked on the development of the Xbox, Kinect and HoloLens. He is joined by Leo Kouwenhoven and Charles Marcus, leaders in the field of quantum computing.
Quantum computing as...
Log books of the Antarctic explorers, Sir Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, have revealed that the area of sea ice around the continent has barely undergone any changes in size over the last 100 years.
A recent study that was published in the European Geosciences Union journal, The Cryosphere, had suggested that sea ice around Antarctica was not too sensitive...
A UN report reveals that more than half of the world's population is still offline. According to the United Nations International Telecommunication Union report, the online population has increased from 43% in 2015 to 47.1%. Technological advancements that accompanied ubiquitous mobile network coverage have lead to an increase in internet connectivity. Mobile broadband networks geographically cover around 84% of...
In a bid to re-enter China after a seven-year ban, Facebook has developed a tool to geographically censor posts on the website, The New York Times reported.
Three current and former employees of Facebook, who requested anonymity, told the newspaper that the tool had been quietly developed with the support of CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Facebook itself will not suppress or censor...
India successfully test-fired its indigenously built nuclear capable Agni-I ballistic missile on Nov 22.
Agni-I was launched off the Odisha coast from the Interim Test Range (ITR). It is a surface-to-surface missile and is powered by solid propellants. Defence officials said it was launched from the Launch Pad-4 of the ITR at the Abdul Defense Island (Wheeler Island).
"The launch was undertaken...
Oracle, the enterprise services company, announced on Monday that it had bought Dyn, the popular DNS provider that was the subject of a large-scale web attack in October, which paralyzed some of the world’s biggest and very popular websites.
The leading software company plans to add Dyn’s DNS solutions to its bigger cloud computing platform, which already sells and provides...
Google’s foray into the field of Wi-Fi routers appears to be proving successful. Google Wifi has come out on top in a test conducted by Allion USA, where it was pitted against Eero and Luma.
Google Wifi is a mesh router. Rather than using a single router for wireless connectivity, mesh systems use a group of routers communicating wirelessly to...
Instagram is desperately trying to be your one-stop-shop for best videos. In August, it had come up with Stories (like snapchat) and on Monday it launched two new updates: live video on Instagram Stories and disappearing photos and videos for groups and friends in Instagram Direct.
The first update lets you stream videos live. This is one step forward from Snapchat...
Defence minister Manohar Parrikar commissioned the INS Chennai, the largest warship made in India, this Monday. It is the third originally designed guided missile destroyer in the Kolkata class. It was built at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited in Mumbai. This put an end to the Project 15A to build Kolkata-class guided missile destroyers. Admiral Sunil Lanba, chief of the...
