Miscellaneous

London, Oct 17: The final book of late physicist Stephen Hawking was published on Tuesday, October 16, week and one of the most prominent explanations coming from the renowned personality is about God. In the book titled,'Brief Answers to the Big Questions', Hawking writes, "Do I have faith? We are each free to believe what we want, and it's my view that the simplest explanation is that there is

Washington, Oct 13: Social media giant Facebook, which has its largest user base in India, said that a recent hacking into its system has affected about 30 million users. Facebook product management vice president Guy Rosen on Friday said the cyber attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook's code that existed between July 2017 and September 2018. The vulnerability has now been fixed, but not

London, Oct 11: Scientists have for the first time put a figure on how many faces people actually remember -- a staggering 5,000 on average. Researchers from the University of York in the UK tested participants on how many faces they could recall from their personal lives and the media, as well as the number of famous faces they recognised. Humans have typically lived in small groups of around one

NASA's Voyager 2 probe is approaching interstellar space and has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system, the US space agency said. Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 is a little less than 17.7 billion kilometres from Earth, or more than 118 times the distance from Earth to the Sun. Since 2007 the probe has been travelling through the outermost layer of the heliosphere

Moscow, Oct 3: Russia may bring an Indian astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS) on board a Soyuz spacecraft for a short training mission in 2022, a source in the Russian space industry said. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in August this year that his country would send a national crew to space on board domestically-developed Gaganyaan spacecraft by 2022, when

Amreli, Oct 2: The Forest department of Gujarat, after a seemingly futile attempt to cover-up the death of Gir lions due to a suspected outbreak of some infectious disease in a particular range of Gir, the sole abode of Asiatic lions in the world, has finally confirmed the deaths of total 21 lions. In a statement issued on Monday evening, the Forest department said that after the death of 11 lions

San Francisco, Sept 29: Facebook on Thursday confirmed that advertisers were privy to phone numbers given by members of the social network for enhanced security. A study by two US universities, first reported by news website Gizmodo, found that phone numbers given to Facebook for two-factor authentication were also used to target advertising. Two-factor authentication is intended to enhance

New Delhi, Sept 23: Under pressure to clamp down on sinister messages, WhatsApp has appointed a grievance officer for India and detailed out the process for users to flag concerns and complaints, including those around fake news. Meeting one of the key demands that India had put on WhatsApp to curb fake messages that triggered mob killings, the Facebook-owned company has updated its website to

Cuddalore, Sep 18: Owing to the skyrocketing prices of fuel, a group of friends here decided to gift petrol as a wedding present. The group made the unusual move of gifting two bottles filled with petrol to their newly-wedded friends in order to highlight the plight being faced by common people due to steep rise in fuel prices across the country. Speaking to ANI, Vijay, one of the friends, said

Bengaluru, Sept 15: Air Chief Marshal B S Dhanoa on Friday said that being online for longer hours on social media is causing sleep deprivation in pilots. Speaking at the 57th annual conference by Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine, the Air Force chief said that being active on social media till late hours causes sleep deprivations in pilots and it is very important to have a check mechanism for