Wonder material Graphene has one more use – as a coolant for components in electronic circuitry including chips – a new research has revealed. A team of scientists led by Johan Liu,…
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Apple releases iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan public betas
Apple on Thursday rolled out public betas of its mobile operating system iOS 9 and next version of operating system used by Macs dubbed OS X El Capitan. The public betas will…
Google rolls out Android M Developer Preview 2
Google on Thursday rolled out the first update to the developer preview of Android M in the form of Android M Developer Preview 2. The latest Developer Preview 2 comes with build…
Microsoft finally rolls out Office 2016 for Mac
Microsoft has officially rolled out Office 2016 for Mac in 139 countries and 16 languages. This means that the Redmond’s productivity suite for Mac, which was in preview testing since March, will…
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…
Google Nexus 9 now up to £119 cheaper in the UK; starts at £200
Google has cut the prices of its Nexus 9 tablet in the UK by up to £119 thereby making the 16GB variant of the tablet available for just £200. Both Amazon and…
Microsoft Surface Pro 4’s release to get delayed until 2016, report claims
Recent reports suggest Microsoft’s much anticipated Surface Pro 4 laptop/tablet hybrid release will get delayed by another year. Previously, the Surface Pro 3 successor was expected to be launched at the same…
Genomics to push big data to its limits
Big data emerged out of the challenges companies were facing while storing and processing huge amounts of data generated by their customers, internal processes, external data requirements among other things and owing…
Microsoft confirms fresh round of layoffs
Satya Nadella has confirmed in an email to Microsoft employees that the company is eyeing fresh round of layoffs in a bid to curb costs amid lackluster demand for some of the…
UK’s lowest priced 4G smartphone is EE’s Rook
Everything Everywhere has announced UK’s lowest priced 4G smartphone dubbed Rook making it available for just £39 for existing EE customers and £49 for new EE customers. Available from EE stores, EE…
Instant messaging to soon surpass email, new research finds
Instant messaging will soon surpass email in terms of usage, a new research report claims. According to new data from research and analytical firm Juniper Research, 43 trillion instant messages will be…
Targeted ads aren’t fair to the fairer sex, study says
A new study into targeted ads has found that the mechanism of delivering such ads may be biased because fewer women than men were shown online ads that promised them help getting…
BBC unveils final design of ‘Micro:bit’ – the pocket-sized coding device
BBC on Tuesday announced the launch of the new pocket-sized, codeable computer dubbed Micro:bit that will be distributed to around one million 11 to 12 year-old UK schoolchildren as part of the…
Microsoft Xbox Music is now ‘Groove’; Xbox Video rebranded to ‘Movies & TV’
Microsoft has rebranded its Xbox Music and Xbox Video service as ‘Groove’ and ‘Movies & TV’ respectively. In addition to the new name, Groove is also getting some new features, including redesigned…
Microsoft Azure prices increased; UK unaffected
Microsoft has increased the price for Azure cloud in a bid to take on fluctuating global exchange rates. The price rise will be effective from August 1, this year and it will…