San Francisco, March 19 (IANS) Long awaited, SpaceX Starship vehicle could launch on its first-ever orbital test flight by the end of April this year, according to CEO Elon Musk. However, the first flight depends on licence approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). "SpaceX will be ready to ...

New Delhi, March 17 Google security teams have discovered 18 zero-day vulnerabilities in Samsung Exynos chips used in several top Android smartphones and wearables that may put those devices at risk. Google's Project Zero head Tim Willis said in a blog post that the four most severe of these vulnerabilities ...

London, March 16 People who sleep less than five hours a night could be at 74 per cent risk of developing peripheral artery disease (PAD) compared with seven to eight hours, according to a new study. More than 200 million people globally have peripheral artery disease (PAD), where arteries in ...

San Francisco, March 16 Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has rolled out a new feature for Family Center, called "Content Controls", which will allow parents to limit the type of content their teens watch on the application. Last year, the company introduced "Family Center" on Snapchat to offer parents ...

San Francisco, March 15 Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is rolling out a new "Boost Status" shortcut for businesses on Android and iOS beta which allows them to advertise their status updates on Facebook and Instagram. The new feature allows businesses to forward status updates to the Facebook or Instagram application. ...

London, March 15 Children infected with the seasonal common cold are likely to have immunity against Covid-19, according to research. During the pandemic, medical doctors and researchers noticed that children and adolescents infected with Covid became less ill than adults. To understand this, researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, studied ...

London, March 15 A single dose of the Jynneos vaccine is 78 per cent effective against symptomatic mpox infection, according to a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) is caused by a virus that is related to the virus that causes smallpox. Jynneos, is ...

San Francisco, March 14 Meta-owned Instagram is reportedly testing a new feature that will let users quickly access their recently shared Reels, making it easier for them to reshare them later to other friends. A Turkey-based account called Dijital Aglar shared a post about the feature, indicating that Instagram is ...

London, March 14 Wearing an eye mask can potentially enhance cognitive functions of the brain as it blocks ambient light while we sleep, suggests a study. Sleep is crucial for alertness and for preparing the human brain to encode new information. However, ambient light, like an outdoor street light shining ...

San Francisco, March 13 Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly working to bring communities to its "WhatsApp Business" application for iOS. The platform is likely to add a new entry point for the new feature within the app settings, instead of removing the business tools tab which was introduced last ...