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First Blue Moon Total Eclipse in 150 Years to Occur This Month
Popularly referred to as a Blue Moon - is set to take place on January 31 for the first time in over 150 years.
Smart Homes: Not Just For Tech Geeks Anymore
Market research groups are seeing increased sales of lights that turn off when you say “good night,” smart locks that let in your friends before you get home and similar smart-home gadgets.
Xiaomi Mi A1 Gets Android 8.0 Oreo (OTA) Update as a First in a Budget Smartphone: Here's How to Upgrade
The first if its kind Android One device by Xiaomi - called the Mi A1, has now started receiving the Android 8.0 Oreo update. Read how to upgrade the smartphone to the latest Android OS and why it makes the budget proposition by Xiaomi even more attractiv...
NASA's Flying Telescope to Study Saturn's Moon, Comets
Sofia is a Boeing 747SP jetliner modified to carry a 100-inch diameter telescope. It is a joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Centre, DLR.
India to Launch 31 Satellites on January 10
The first space mission in 2018 onboard the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C40) comes four months after a similar rocket failed to deliver the country's eighth navigation satellite in the earth's lower orbit on August 31.
Amazon Acquires Home Automation Startup Blink
Amazon has acquired a startup named Blink that builds wireless home monitoring systems, including connected Wi-Fi home security cameras.
Magic Leap Unveils Mixed-Reality Goggles
Although there's no demo of the Magic Leap One goggles in action, the startup has posted a series of photos of the upcoming product on its official website.
New system Uses Twitter, AI to Predict Floods
Researchers from the University of Dundee in the UK have shown how AI can be used to extract data from Twitter and crowdsourced information from mobile phone apps to build up hyper-resolution monitoring of urban flooding.
Sun-Like Star Found Eating Its Own Planetary Offspring
The researchers found the star's temperature to be about 5,330 degrees Celsius -- only slightly cooler than our Sun's. The study also showed that the star could be relatively young.
Scientists Teach Robots How to Respect Human Space
Using "impedance" control, the researchers at the Institute of Automatics of the National University of San Juan in Argentina aimed to regulate the social dynamics between the robot's movements and the interactions of the robot's environment.
Google Appoints Key Chip Designer From Apple
According to a report, the hiring is part of a brewing effort by Google to design its own chipsets for consumer devices like the Pixel phone.
In Silicon Valley, Much-Feared Tax Bill Pays Dividends For Workers
Estimates by three experts, using roughly similar assumptions, show that a home-owning couple earning a combined $250,000 in Silicon Valley would likely see an increase or decrease in their tax bill of a few hundred dollars.
Airtel Board Okays ‘Scheme’ For Takeover of Tata’s Telco Biz
Outlining the details, Airtel said the deal would entail demerger of consumer wireless business of Tata Teleservices (TTSL) to Airtel except for Rajasthan circle, which is being demerged to subsidiary company Bharti Hexacom.
Apple Slows Some Older iPhones Because of Flagging Batteries
On Monday, the blog Primate Labs, a company that makes an app for measuring the speed of an iPhone's processor, published data that appeared to show slower performance in the Apple's iPhone 6s and iPhone 7 models as they aged.
Google to Introduce Native Ad-Blocking in Chrome Browser From February 15
The "Better Ads Experience Programme" which provides guidelines for companies using the "Better Ads Standards" to improve the experience of users with online ads.
Italian Budget Commission Approves Web Tax on Digital Services
Italy has long complained that companies such as Amazon, Apple and Google have avoided taxes by maintaining that they do not have a "stable presence" in the county, even though they generate huge revenues here.