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Confirmed! Google's LG Nexus 5X, Huawei Nexus 6P to be launched in India on October 13
The Nexus 5X's prices start at Rs 31,900 and Nexus 6P will be available at Rs 39,999 onwards in India.
'Planned code change' the reason behind recent Facebook outages
Facebook was inaccessible for several minutes at a stretch for users around the world three times between September 17 and September 29.
Double trouble: Legal wars, market realities threaten Uber's global expansion plans
In China and other Asian countries Uber faces increasingly powerful competitors and idiosyncratic local transportation markets.
Google's 'don't be evil' motto becomes Alphabet's 'do the right thing'
Alphabet stresses that employees and its subsidiaries should ‘Do the right thing’ and ‘follow the law, act honourably, and treat each other with respect.’
Smartphone apps new-age nannies for Indian kids
Today there are a number of smartphone apps to make parents' life simple and more organised as far as kids are concerned.
Action video games improve attention skills, brain function: Study
Such video games are even better in their impact than "brain games", which are created specifically to improve cognitive function.
Commuters in Delhi will soon be able to hire autorickshaws using their phone
The government has decided to re-launch the PoochO app with additional features on October 22.
Tweets sent from smartphones more likely to be egocentric: Study
The researchers found that mobile tweets are not only more egocentric in language than any other group, but that the ratio of egocentric to non-egocentric tweets is consistently greater for mobile tweets than from non-mobile sources.
Quikr enters job-search vertical with 'QuikrJobs'
Quikr's latest vertical follows the launch of QuikrCars and QuikrHomes.
Words used in tweets can reveal your income level: Study
Text from those in lower income brackets includes more swear words, whereas those in higher brackets more frequently discuss politics, corporations and the non-profit world.
Twitter could finally go beyond 140-character limit with new product
The company's executives are also discussing changes to how the character limit is measured, such as excluding links and user handles from the count.
Greater Internet accessibility linked to increased racial hate crimes: Study
The addition of a single broadband provider led to as much as a 20 per cent rise in racial hate crimes in areas where racial tensions were especially high.
'Pepper' robot maker warns users not to engage in droid sex
Japan's mobile phone giant SoftBank, which sells the Pepper robot, states in its user agreement that the policy owner must not perform any sexual act or other indecent behaviour.
Full text of PM Narendra Modi's speech at India-US Startup Konnect
In his address the Prime Minister shared his vision of 'Start up India, Stand up India.'
Narendra Modi gets teary-eyed at Facebook while recalling his mother's hardships
Answering a question about the role of his mother at the Facebook townhall meeting, Modi said he hails from a humble and poor family.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Google, Facebook
Sundar Pichai took Narendra Modi around Google's office and gave the PM a first-hand look at the tech giant's technology.