Science News Updates

New Delhi: Twitter on Wednesday announced to discontinue its live-streaming service Periscope as a separate mobile app by March 2021. The company will, however, continue to offer live video streaming through its integrated Twitter Live feature within the main app. “The truth is that the Periscope app is in an unsustainable maintenance-mode state, and has […]

New Delhi: Twitter is ending its experiment that encouraged users to quote tweet rather than retweet as the new feature did not go well with the users, the company announced on Thrusday. The micro-blogging platform will no longer automatically show the quote tweet (QT) prompt when users try to retweet on its platform. “Our goal with […]

New Delhi: In a bid to deliver a richer language experience to millions of its users, Google India on Thursday announced to let people toggle their Search results between English and four additional languages: Tamil, Telugu, Bangla and Marathi. The company said that over the next month, Search will start to show relevant content in […]

Srihairkota (Andhra Pradesh): India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C50 (PSLV-C50) rocket laden with the country’s communication satellite CMS-01 (formerly GSAT-12R) lifted off from the rocket port at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday evening. The rocket with India’s 42nd communication satellite CMS-01 lifted-off from the second launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in […]

New Delhi: Twitter India on Friday said that its new verification policy will be implemented from January 20 and the company will begin automatically removing the verified badge from inactive and incomplete accounts. Under the new policy, Twitter may also remove verification from accounts that are found to be in severe or repeated violation of […]

Washington: NASA has approved the Mars Sample Return (MSR) multi-mission effort to advance to the next phase in preparation to bring the first pristine samples from Mars back to Earth. During this phase, the programme will mature critical technologies and make critical design decisions, as well as assess industry partnerships, NASA said on Friday. The […]

San Francisco: Google has announced that Android Things, a heavily stripped-down Android-based operating system for Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, will shut down early next year. The Android Things Dashboard, which is used for managing devices, will stop accepting new devices and projects in just three weeks-on January 5, 2021. Developers will be able to continue updating […]

Moscow: Russia has successfully launched its Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket, delivering 36 satellites from the UK-based OneWeb company into space. The rocket blasted off from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the country’s Far East at 3.26 p.m. on Friday, Xinhua news agency quoted the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos as saying in a statement. The upper stage, […]

New Delhi: Extramarital dating app Gleeden on Tuesday said that it has crossed 13 lakh subscribers in India during the Covid-19 period. The dating app added that its subscription rate skyrocketed over the past three months. During September, October and November subscriptions from India grew by over 246 per cent as compared to June, July […]

Washington: An astronomer has spotted a little tiny speck flying past the Sun which is a recently discovered rare comet, as the world witnessed the total solar eclipse this month. This comet was first spotted in satellite data by Thai amateur astronomer Worachate Boonplod on the NASA-funded Sungrazer Project, as Chile and Argentina witnessed the […]

Bengaluru: For the first time in over 400 years, sky gazers will be able to witness the great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. Both the planets will merge in the night sky on Monday, December 21, appearing closer to one another than they have since the 17th century. The reunion of Jupiter and Saturn is […]