A new version of Emojis, 10.0, is due out next June and the committee is currently deliberating over 51 new emojis.
The Unicode Consortium set up a subcommittee which will decide which emojis will be included in this new version. Some of the proposed emojis are a woman wearing a hijab, a vampire, a mermaid, a breastfeeding woman and a couple...
India's first banking software robot named Lakshmi was launched on Nov. 10 in Chennai. The robot is engaging, interactive and processes data with lightning speed. Created by the City Union Bank based in Kumbakonam, the artificial tech intelligence energized robot will be the first on-site bank assistant.
HDFC Bank, the top private lender is also currently testing robots to work...
Facebook has said it will stop its plans to share Whatsapp user data in Europe for the time being after officials objected to the move.
Facebook, which owns WhatApp, said that it will not share the user data for the purpose of product advertisement. Earlier, the United Kingdom Information Commission had objected to Facebook's plans of using user data for...
A team of researchers led by Dr Jinyao Tang from the University of Hong Kong has created the first of its kind, synthetic light seeking Nano-robots. These robots can help surgeons in dealing with tumor removal, cell targeted therapy and more precise medical operations.
Developing robots in nano-scale was a hurdle for scientists for a long time as the size ...
Intel has come up with a project to build drones that will fly in the night sky and create a light show.
The Intel Shooting Star drones are offering their service to different theme parks, cities, and entertainment companies to create light shows in the sky.
Last year a 100 of these drones flew in the sky creating different patterns including...
China adopted a new controversial cyber security law on Monday to tackle increasing cyber terrorism and protect leakage of government information.
The law was legislated by the Standing Committee of National People’s Congress and it will take effect from June 2017. The new law states that it will, "monitor, defend and handle cyber security risks and threats originating from within...
China has moved forward from creating cheap toys, lights and other consumer items to actually creating an artificial sun.
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Earlier this year in February, Chinese scientists were able to make a nuclear reactor plasma reach a temperature of 50 million Kelvins (or, 49.999 million degrees Celsius) -which is thrice as hot as the sun's 15 million Kelvins core. And now they...
HTC, one of the leading Taiwanese tech mammoths, plans to open hundreds of virtual reality arcade centers across Taiwan, China, the United States and Europe under its "Viveport Arcade" program.
The company is developing virtual reality games for its VR devices and hopes the gaming arcades will serve to promote its virtual reality Vive headset, according to The Taipei Times.
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Adobe announced Wednesday that it will next year launch the beta version of Project Nimbus, a new cloud-native photo editor that enables users to move back and forth between a desktop and mobile.
The Lightroom-like tool that Adobe is developing was unveiled at its ongoing MAX conference.
The tool removes complications involved in the company’s flagship photo-managing and editing application, replacing...
