Tech giants Microsoft and Facebook have taken a significant step towards building highest capacity data link between US and Europe. The companies will help design subsea cable which will connect one point…
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PayPal Credit Gives UK a Better Than the US
Payment platforms are the hottest things that are witnessing tremendous growth among businesses. These are the products that are surging in financial services and are being lapped up by several countries that…
Americans may not be great in Science, but it’s not their fault
American scientists have been at the pinnacle of scientific research, but when it comes to the general public science isn’t something that they excel in with a new study showing that Americans…
US Gov outs Body Weight Planner to let you keep track of your calorie intake
Governments are increasingly doing their bid to ensure that its citizens stay fit and healthy. A new tool dubbed ‘Body Weight Planner‘ has been released by the National Institutes of Health (NIH),…
Over 50% smartphone users check their phones few times every hour
Are smartphones take over our lives? It seems so from a new survey which found that over 50 per cent of users in the US are so used to their phones that…
Most Americans want 21 as the minimum age for sale of tobacco products
Over 75 per cent Americans are in favour of raising the minimum age of sale for all tobacco products including cigarettes to 21, a newly conducted study by Centres for Diseases Control…
Parents’ views on vaccines shifting owing to extensive media coverage
A nation-wide pole in the US has found that parents’ views towards vaccines are changing for the better and also provides a view of how vaccines are being perceived in different states….
US FDA approves cystic fibrosis drug
In a landmark development, the first cystic fibrosis drug – Orkambi (lumacaftor 200 mg/ivacaftor 125 mg) – capable of treating the cause of the disease in people who have two copies of…
Lyme disease cases on the rise; researchers blame flourishing blacklegged ticks
The notorious Lyme disease is gaining a foothold in areas previously known to have no registered cases of the disease and researchers have blamed the increasing number of blacklegged ticks and their…
‘Place an order’ feature will let you order food directly from Google search results
Google has rolled out new “place an order” feature which will let users order fast food directly from their search results. Google has partnered with six startup companies that specialize in food…
Breo Ellipta lands FDA approval for asthma treatment in US
GlaxoSmithKline plc and Theravance, Inc have announced that their drug Breo Ellipta (fluticasone furoate/vilanterol [FF/VI]) has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a once-daily treatment of asthma…
Study: 92% US teens go online daily; 24% constantly glued to the Internet
A new Pew research has found by that a whopping 92 per cent of US teens go online daily and nearly a quarter of them are constantly glued to the Internet. According…
China behind man-in-the-middle attacks on Google, Microsoft, Mozilla users
An anti-censorship group has said that China’s cyberspace administration is behind attacks on major Internet companies including Google, Microsoft and Mozilla urging internet companies to ramp up their security infrastructure. GreatFire.Org cited…
US regulators recommended lawsuit against Google in 2012
A new report by officials at the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) which was submitted in 2012 and recently brought to light reveals that regulators recommended filing an anti-trust lawsuit against Google…
China has hacked ‘every major company’ in US claims ex-spy chief
Mike McConnell, who served as director of national intelligence under President George W Bush, has claimed that hackers backed by the Chinese government have broken into computers and networks of nearly every…