India's second Moon mission gets delayed again

Bengaluru (IANS): India's second Moon mission Chandrayaan-2 that was to be launched on Thursday with a lander and rover got delayed again, officials said on Thursday.

"The next launch date of Chandrayaan-2 has not been confirmed yet,"…

India plans to launch 32 space missions in 2019

Bengaluru (IANS) India is planning to launch 32 space missions in 2019, a top space official said here.

"The year 2019 promises to be challenging to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) community with 32 planned missions,"…

ASUS ROG Phone: Power-packed beast for gaming enthusiasts (Tech Review)

New Delhi (IANS): As demands for high-end mobile games continue to rise in the country, Taiwanese electronics major ASUS recently launched its first gaming-centric smartphone under its Republic of Gamers (ROG) brand in India.

The company's…

Google introduces spam protection for text messages

San Francisco (IANS): Google has begun rolling out its spam protection feature for Messages after almost over six months of developing it for Android users.

Based on reports from a handful of tipsters, that spam protection feature is now going…

Google to shift Messages web app from Android.com: Report

San Francisco (IANS): In a blow to brand Android, Google is planning to shift its Messages web app -- which allows users to manage SMS/MMS messages on their phone from another device -- from Android.com to Google.com, a media report said.

The…

Saankhya Labs launches multi-standard 'Pruthvi-3' chipset

New Delhi (IANS): Bengaluru-based Saankhya Labs on Thursday launched an indigenous multi-standard "Next Generation" System-on-Chip (SoC) named Pruthvi-3.

Union Communications Minister Manoj Sinha unveiled the chipset here in the presence…

Indian enterprises face over 2.8 lakh cyber threats daily: Report

New Delhi (IANS): Enterprises in India faced more than 2.6 crore cyber threats during the third quarter of 2018 -- translating to over 2.8 lakhs threats every day, according to a new report from Seqrite, the enterprise arm of global IT security firm…

Human mission to Mars 'stupid': Astronaut

London (IANS): Bill Anders, one of the first men to orbit the Moon has that it is "stupid" to plan human missions to Mars.

Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Anders, lunar module pilot of Apollo 8, the first human spaceflight to leave…

Robotic surgeries to begin from January in Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital

New Delhi (IANS): Safdarjung Hospital in the national capital is all set to start surgeries using robotic technology in the Urology Department from January 2019 onwards, with the aim to increase the number of treatments in OTs.

"Currently…

NASA's InSight lander places first instrument on Mars

Los Angeles (IANS) NASA's InSight lander has deployed its first instrument onto the surface of Mars, marking the first time a seismometer had ever been placed onto the surface of another planet.

New images from the lander showed…