More than one million new people go online daily and 45% of the world – about 3.5 billion people annually – are logging in to their favourite social platforms, representing almost 9% increase y-o-y, according to the Digital 2019 report by Hootsuite and We Are Social.
A majority of active social users – 3.25 billion – are accessing social networks...
Microsoft has been working on a physical programming language for children who are blind or visually impaired. Dubbed Code Jumper, it allows children to learn coding by connecting physical blocks together. Each block is around the size of a softball, and brightly colored. There are different sizes for different commands, and children can connect them together to build a...
Malaysian startup is betting that there’s plenty of pent-up demand for a new browser that’s compliant with Islamic values, at a time of mounting concerns over privacy, bias and online abuse over the internet.
SalamWeb, a mobile browser, is designed to deliver a Muslim-friendly web experience. The app, which includes messaging, news and other features, is aimed at users in...
Meizu has announced Zero, the company’s latest top-end smartphone with an unique design that gets rid of all the ports and buttons ahead of the Vivo APEX 2019 announcement tomorrow. This gets rid of the 3.5mm audio jack, which is not surprising, but this also doesn’t have a USB Type-C port, instead it only relies on custom designed 18W...
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched its 46th flight of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C44) and put into space Microsat-R, an imaging satellite and student-made Kalamsat, a communication satellite named after former President Abdul Kalam, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
The launch took place at 11:37 pm. PSLV is a four-stage launch vehicle with alternating solid...
The Gmail mail service received new features for striking out text in a letter that can be found on the formatting panel. Also, Google has added undo and redo buttons, as well as the ability to download a letter along with an attachment in the.EML format, which other email clients recognize.
According to Google, EML format is recognized by other...
More than half of PC applications installed worldwide are out-of-date, according to an annual report by digital security company Avast. The report, titled the PC Trends Report 2019, also highlights that Adobe Shockwave comes as the leading application where updates are most frequently neglected, followed VLC Media Player and Skype. Avast also mentions in the report that while desktops...
On January 17, a ceremony was held at the Institute of Chemistry of Additives of ANAS on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the January 20 tragedy.
The memory of the January 20 victims was marked by a minute of silence.
Deputy –director of ICA, doctor of science on chemistry, prof. Mirza Movsumzade gave general information about the January 20...
Amazon.com Inc. spent more than $13.6 billion on technology in 2018, making it the biggest corporate IT spender in the world, according to new research from International Data Corp. Google parent Alphabet Inc. and Walmart Inc. were in second and third place, respectively, with each spending nearly $12 billion last year on software, hardware, services, telecommunications equipment and staff,...
The experts have named the little-known and unusual devices of the new generation.
The list includes the Pro-Selfie drone, which produces high-quality photographs. It is controlled by a smartphone. The drone charges quickly and takes up little space.
The second place in the list is taken by the CoolAir mobile air conditioner, which is quite cheap and compact. It operates from...