Chennai (IANS) The Madras High Court's Madurai Bench on Wednesday lifted the ban on video mobile application TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, subject to certain conditions.
Deciding the case filed by advocate…
New Delhi (IANS) Global cybersecurity firm Avast on Tuesday announced that it has discovered 40 adware apps on the Google Play Store with over 20 million downloads.
The identified adware persistently displays full screen ads, and in some cases,…
Chennai (IANS) Despite Netflix's move to encrypt all its video streams in order to better protect user privacy, hackers may still get to know what interactive content you watch on the popular streaming service, new research from the Indian Institute…
Miami (IANS) Thick plumes of smoke rose over a SpaceX facility in Florida during a test fire of a Crew Dragon spacecraft and the issue was serious, it could derail plans to fly astronauts aboard the capsule later this year, the media reported.
New York (IANS) As the debate over gun regulations rages globally, researchers now report that the Dark Web has become a big market for weapons trade.
Sixty-four per cent of the products advertised were handguns, 17 per cent semi-automatic…
Washington (IANS) A joint team comprising government officials from nine countries, as well as members of the three US federal agencies, will investigate how the Boeing 737 Max aircraft was initially certified, according to the Federal Aviation Administration…
New York (IANS) Asian countries are in the early stages of a tobacco smoking epidemic with habits mirroring those of the US from past decades -- setting the stage for a spike in future deaths from smoking-related diseases, warn researchers.
Using…
San Francisco (IANS) In a bid to take on Amazon Alexa or Google Home, Facebook is working on a voice-based assistant for its Portal video chat service and other future projects.
According to a report in CNBC on Wednesday, the social network…
Washington (IANS) As billions of people on Earth stare at an imminent water shortage, precious, ancient water is being released into the lunar atmosphere by meteor showers from the Moon that can hamper future long-term exploration on the lunar surface.
…Washington (IANS) NASA's new exoplanet hunter Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size world.
The planet, HD 21749c, is about 89 per cent of Earth's diameter, NASA said on Tuesday.
The…