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Houston, Apr 17: Scientists, including one of Indian origin, have developed a unique camera that can capture detailed images of distant objects without using a long lens, an advance that could lead to telescopes that are less bulky. The system known as SAVI – for “Synthetic Apertures for long-range, subdiffraction-limited Visible Imaging” – does not need a long lens to take a picture of a faraway...

Rome, Apr 16: Emma Morano, at 117 the world's oldest person who is also believed to have been the last surviving person born in the 1800s, died Saturday at her home in northern Italy, her physician said. Dr. Carlo Bava said that Morano's caretaker had called him to say she had stopped breathing in the afternoon while sitting in an armchair at her home in Verbania, a town on Italy's Lake Maggiore...

London, Apr 11: Hackers can steal your PINs and passwords just from the motion of your phone when you type in the information, warn experts who have unveiled how easy it is for malicious websites and installed apps to spy on you. Cyber experts at Newcastle University in the UK have shown it is possible to crack four-digit PINs with a 70 per cent accuracy on the first guess - 100 per cent by the...

New Delhi, Apr 10: Nokia phones might be making a comeback in a partnership with HMD Global, but the Finnish company is also investing heavily in networks and communications across the world, particularly 5G technology. Nokia had in March announced partnerships with Airtel and BSNL for preparing 5G networks in India, and now according to a report in Economic Times, the company has MOUs with both...

New York, Apr 8: In a tough challenge to team collaboration tool Slack, Facebook has announced to offer a version of Workplace for free. Workplace, Facebook`s messaging service for businesses, is one of the many products used by businesses to chat and share files within their select groups. According to a report in Fortune, the new free version announced by Facebook this week joins a previously...

Kasargod, Apr 7: A 10-year-old boy, who was suffering from physical deformities, died at his home at the hilly township of Rajapuram. Akshad Liju, whose name was included in the official list of endosulfan victims, passed away on Wednesday at the house of his mother Babitha, sources here said. Akshad’s father, Liju Joseph, serving in the Army near Mumbai, reportedly said that he lost his son as...

New Delhi, Apr 6: There is a great news for people who love sleeping the most. Exciting news for all such lazy lads out there! What if you get paid for doing the easiest task in the world – lying in the bed? Sounds too good to be true, right? But it"s true as there is a job offer which pays you €16,000 (£13,700 or $17k or Rs 11.2 Lakh) for spending two months or 60 days lying in bed. The offer...

New Delhi, Apr 5: In a first for the IPL, social media platform Twitter today unveiled special emojis for 30 of the league's biggest stars. "Fans can just Tweet using the designated player hashtag (i.e. #ViratKohli for Virat Kohli) and an emoji version of that player will automatically appear after the hashtag within the Tweet," the company stated in a press release. There will also be an emoji...

Manipla, Apr 5: Professor Madhu Veeraraghavan has been appointed as Director of TAPMI. Prof. Veeraraghavan joined the institute in June 2013 and holds the T. A. Pai Chair Professor of Finance. He obtained his B.Com from university of Mumbai and an MBA (Finance & Investments) and PhD (Finance –Asset Pricing) from Australia. Prof. Veeraraghavan was instrumental in setting up the Largest Finance Lab...

Kannur, Apr 5: The police investigating the attack on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) functionary near here last month arrested three Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) workers here on Tuesday. The arrested have been identified as K.P. Shiras (28), N.V. Muhammad Janfar (24), and Mahroof (20). The police said they were among the eight PFI and Campus Front workers directly involved in the attack...