Miscellaneous

New Delhi, Jun 23: India, on Thursday, created history after NASA launched the world"s smallest satellite, built by 18-year old Tamil Nadu student Rifath Sharook and his team. Named as Kalamsat, after former President APJ Abdul Kalam, the tiny satellite weighs around 64 grams. According to news agency, the satellite was flown into the space in a NASA sounding rocket from a NASA facility in Wallops

Los Angeles, Jun 22: Facebook has introduced new tools in India that will allow users to protect their profile pictures from being downloaded and shared, a move that may help reduce misuse of images on the popular social networking site. Profile pictures are an important part of building community on Facebook because they help people easily find friends make connections. However, not everyone

San Francisco, Jun 17: : A report on Friday alleged that Facebook had put the safety of its content moderators at risk after accidentally exposing their personal details to suspected terrorist users of the social network. As per The Guardian, a bug in the software, identified in late 2016, affected more than 1,000 workers across 22 departments at Facebook, who used the company"s moderation

A lawmaker from Kerala has announced that he is returning to eating meat, fish and eggs after practising vegetarianism for nearly two decades. There's nothing unusual about a lapsed vegetarian but V T Balram said his decision was prompted by the Central 'Hindu nationalist' BJP government's attempt to seize the people's right to eat what they wanted. “I have been living without eating meat, fish or

Washington, Jun 13: Humans may be able to detect alien life within the next two decades, according to experts who believe that the hunt for life beyond our planet may soon yield results. In the next few years, researchers will be able to use the James Web Space Telescope and other detection devices to look for biomarkers such as oxygen and methane in the atmospheres of these Earth-like planets

London, Jun 12: A teddy bear rose to 100,000 feet into space after it was tied to a helium balloon by a group of school children in the UK. The teddy bear, named as Roffa by the children of King's Rochester Preparatory School field in Boley Hill, Kent, reached the stratosphere, the second major layer of Earth's atmosphere, and travelled around 29 km (18 miles) before the balloon exploded due to

London, Jun 11: News and sports websites have some of the lowest levels of security adoption, making them vulnerable to cyber attacks, a new study has found. Researchers looked at the security protocols used by the top 500 sites in various industries and online sectors. They found that fewer than 10 per cent of news and sports websites used basic security protocols such as Transport Layer Security

Jun 11: Nobody likes hitchhikers.. especially when it's a large, unwelcome snake slithering on your vehicle. Ryan McMurphy from Georgia, US was driving on the highway when he noticed the reptile crawling on his car's hood, making its way towards him. The fact that the car was moving didn't stop the cheeky snake from wriggling towards the driver. In a matter of seconds, the snake reached the driver

Washington, Jun 10: Scientists have developed a new form of ultra strong, lightweight carbon that is elastic and electrically conductive, and may serve a wide variety of applications from aerospace engineering to military armour. Researchers, including those from Carnegie Institution for Science in the US, pressurised and heated a structurally disordered form of carbon called glassy carbon. They

Mumbai, Jun 9: Internet users in the country will double by 2021 to 829 million users from 373 million users in 2016, driven by digital transformation according to a recent report. This means roughly 59 per cent of the Indian population will use the internet. Also, there would be two billion networked devices in 2021 up from 1.4 billion in 2016. Overall IP traffic is expected to grow 4-fold during