Sci & Tech

Mark Zuckerberg’s 2016 goal: Code his own AI, says there’s nothing to fear

Zuckerberg plans to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) system to help run his life. [fb_embed_post href=”https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102620559534481/” width=”null”/] Although, Mark who has always dedicate himself to reading and investing in new goal every year has had a successful track record. In 2015, he dedicated himself to reading a new book every two weeks. According to his […]

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‘Larry Page’s obsessions became Google’s business’

THREE years ago, Charles Chase, an engineer who manages Lockheed Martin’s nuclear fusion programme, was sitting on a white leather couch at Google’s Solve for X conference when a man he had never met knelt down to talk to him. They spent 20 minutes discussing how much time, money and technology separated humanity from a […]

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Increase in space junk could lead to war, Says Russian Scientists

STEADY increase of space junk floating around Earth could lead to a political row or even war if damage to military satellites were to be mistaken for an attack, Russian scientists have warned. Space agencies in the US and Russia track more than 20,000 pieces of space junk measuring larger than 10cm across in order […]

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Apple announce new Music App for iOS

Apple has announced a new addition and a major update to its family of music-making apps for iOS. An all-new app called Music Memos lets musicians and songwriters quickly capture, organise and develop their musical ideas right on their iPhone. And a major update to its free music creation app GarageBand introduces multiple new features, […]

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17 words only Facebook employees understand

EVERY company crafts its own culture, and language is a key part of that. Facebook is a huge company with approximately 12,000 employees, so it is only natural that there will be some words that may sound like gibberish to outsiders. If you take a visit to Facebook’s campus in Menlo Park, words like “purple […]

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Astronomers discovered a 9th planet in our solar system

THE solar system may host a ninth planet that is about 10 times bigger than Earth and orbiting far beyond Neptune, according to research published on Wednesday. According to Reuters Computer simulations show that the mystery planet, if it exists, would orbit more than 50 times farther from the sun than Earth, astronomers with the […]

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Twitter blames outages on glitchy software update

TWITTER has reversed a glitchy software update and resolved outages widely reported across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and North America that affected users of the social network on computers and phones. In a status update at 1800 GMT (1 pm EST), Twitter said an “intermittent issue affecting some users” was related to “an internal […]

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Study: ‘You just can’t have more than 200 friends on Facebook’

If someone claims that he or she has over 1,000 friends on Facebook, he or she is probably lying. ACCORDING to an interesting research, the average number of real close friends people have on the social networking site is less than 200, and here too women triumph with more genuine friends than men. According to […]

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Bad News For Humanity: We’re About To Wipe Ourselves Out – Prof Stephen Hawking

CHERRY physicist Professor Stephen Hawking says that mankind could be wiped out by our own creations within the next 100 years, Yahoo report. Answering audience questions at this year’s BBC Reith Lectures, he said that our rush to understand and improve life through science and technology could be humanity’s undoing. He has previously suggested that […]

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33 toughest Apple job interview questions

APPLE is known for being one of the most challenging and exciting places to work, so it’s not surprising to learn that getting a job there is no easy task. Like Google and other big tech companies, Apple asks both technical questions based on your past work experience and some mind-boggling puzzles. Indiatimes While some […]

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Twitter breaks down, suffer total outage

TWITTER was unavailable for users worldwide on Tuesday morning, with the site apparently suffering a total outage followed by serious access problems lasting over an hour. Access to the service began failing over the web, mobile and its API (application programming interface, the system that applications use to speak to the Twitter service) at 8:20am […]

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Faith in Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer; Shaken

MARISSA Mayer, the glamorous, geeky Google executive hired to turn around Yahoo in 2012, used to inspire hope in Yahoo’s workforce just by visiting the cafeteria for ice cream and mingling. IndiaTimes Now, morale has sunk so low that some employees refer to Mayer, Yahoo’s chief executive, as “Evita” — an allusion to Eva Peron, the […]

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