Samsung India partners Benow to let customers buy smartphones from home

Gurugram (IANS) Strengthening its online-to-offline strategy, Samsung India on Thursday partnered digital payments platform Benow to enable consumers buy Galaxy smartphones from their neighbourhood stores online.

The new digital platform will…

Multiple Indian Covid vaccines set to enter trial stages

New Delhi (IANS) With the focus shifting from containment to treatment of Covid-19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted a detailed review of the current status of India's efforts in vaccine development, drug discovery, diagnosis and testing.

Nest to bring two-factor authentication for all users starting this month

San Francisco (IANS) Google has announced that all Nest users will require to enroll in two-factor authentication to further protect their account, starting this month.

With the new update, when a user tries to log in using their username and…

Google once explored acquiring video meet app Zoom: Report

San Francisco (IANS) Google Cloud teams in 2018 explored to acquire California-based video meet app Zoom which has seen a definite surge in its popularity in social distancing times across the globe including in India.

According to a report…

Indian-American researcher identifies 4 possible treatments for COVID-19

New York  (IANS) An Indian-American scientist-led team from the University of Missouri has found that four antiviral drugs, including remdesivir, a drug originally developed to treat Ebola, are effective in inhibiting the replication of the coronavirus…

Musk says time to install Minecraft, Pokemon Go in Tesla cars

San Francisco, May 4 (IANS) After wreaking havoc on Tesla stock last week, Mush was back with his attention-grabbing tweets, saying it is a good idea to install games like Minecraft and Pokemon Go into Tesla cars.

"Minecraft has amazing legs,"…

Samsung Galaxy M21 gets price cut, now starts at Rs 12,699

New Delhi (IANS) Samsung on Monday announced that its budget smartphone 'Galaxy M21' 4/64GB variant is now available for Rs 12,699 and the 6/128 GB variant for Rs 14,999 on Amazon.in.

Consumers buying Galaxy M21 through offline retail…

15mn records from online store Tokopedia leaked by hacker

San Francisco (IANS) Records containing full names and phone numbers of about 15 million users registered on Indonesia's largest online store Tokopedia have been leaked by a hacker.

According to a report on ZDNet on Friday, the actual catch…

Texas A&M starts human trial of TB vaccine to fight COVID-19

New York (IANS) Researchers at Texas A&M University in the US are asking hundreds of frontline medical workers to participate in a Phase 4 clinical trial of a widely used tuberculosis vaccine that could blunt the devastating effects of COVID-19.

NASA awards $1.79bn contract to US firm for future Moon missions

Washington (IANS) In further boost to its Artemis Moon missions which will land the first woman and next man on the lunar surface by 2024, the US space agency on Saturday awarded a $1.79 billion contract to Aerojet Rocketdyne of Sacramento, California,…