Put on moustache, grow unicorn horns during Zoom video meets

New Delhi (IANS) Video conferencing platform Zoom on Wednesday launched new features like filters, lighting, reactions, noise cancellation and more control on presentations.

Users will now have an option to put on moustache, grow unicorn horns,…

US drugmaker starts phase 3 trial for COVID-19 antibody treatment

Washington (IANS) American pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly and Company has announced the start of its phase 3 trial to study whether one of its experimental COVID-19 antibody treatments can prevent the virus infection in residents and staff at long-term…

Egypt invites Musk to see whether aliens built pyramids

Cairo (IANS) One of Egypt's top government officials has invited multi-billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk to visit the country and see for himself that the great pyramids were not built by aliens.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Musk earlier tweeted:…

Apple unveils new 27-inch iMac in India, starts from 1.70 lakh

Cupertino (California) (IANS) Apple on Tuesday unveiled a new 27-inch iMac with faster performance, SSDs across the line, a stunning Retina 5K display and higher quality camera, speakers and mics.

The new Mac that will start from Rs 169,990…

SpaceX Crew Dragon returns with 2 NASA astronauts

Washington (IANS) Two NASA astronauts have safely returned to Earth from the International Space Station onboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, marking the completion of a historic flight called demonstration (Demo-2) mission.

The Demo-2…

Game downloads increase by nearly 1 bn in India in Q2

San Francisco (IANS) Global player spending in mobile games increased by 27 per cent year-over-year in the second quarter of this year to $19.3 billion even as game downloads in India increased by nearly one billion during the quarter, said a report…

ISRO checking space enthusiast's claim of moon rover rolling on lunar surface

Chennai (IANS) Space enthusiast Shanmuga Subramanian, who found the debris of India's moonlander Vikram, said on Saturday that Chandrayaan-2's rover Pragyan seems to be intact on the moon's surface and had rolled out a few metres from…

Apple grows 25% as global smartphone market declines in Q2

Bengaluru (IANS) As the global smartphone market plummeted 14 per cent in the June quarter, Apple was the only vendor to grow as it shipped 45.1 million iPhones globally, a growth of 25 per cent compared to the previous year, according to a new report.

Covid-19 vaccine will be 'reality' by year-end: Fauci

New York (IANS) A safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine will be a "reality" by the end of the year, Anthony Fauci, America's leading authority on the pandemic, said on Friday.

"I don't think it is dreaming, I believe it is a reality and…

Big Tech beats pandemic, ad boycotts to log record profits

San Francisco (IANS) A pandemic-hit period, ad boycotts and probes over anti-competition practices, data privacy and security did not stop the four Big Tech firms (Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Alphabet with a combined market cap of nearly $5 trillion)…