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Facebook gets in game with new sports hub 21 Jan 2016 - 05:17 pm

Facebook launches Sports Stadium hub for you to chat about the big game San Francisco: Facebook announced a drive Thursday to be a...

Safety, savings fuel push for driverless trucks 21 Jan 2016 - 10:29 am

By Byron Kaye and Toby Sterling SYDNEY/AMSTERDAM: After decades checking their rearview mirrors for the threat from rail and air transport, truckers around...

Nielsen, Facebook team up to measure TV social media impact 21 Jan 2016 - 10:17 am

New York: Nielsen has reached agreement with Facebook to improve how it measures the social media impact of TV shows, a useful means...

Beat this! You just can't have more than 200 friends on Facebook 20 Jan 2016 - 09:39 am

London: If someone claims that he or she has over 1,000 friends on Facebook, he or she is probably lying. According to an...

Antarctic restorers uncover century-old artifacts left by early explorers 19 Jan 2016 - 03:17 pm

Mawson's Huts Foundation chief conservator, Dr Ian Godfrey, chips ice from the shelves in Sir Douglas Mawson's bedroom in Mawson's Hut at Cape...

French museum returns looted statue head to Cambodia 19 Jan 2016 - 03:12 pm

The head of Harihara statue Phnom Penh: A French museum has returned the head of a statue of a Hindu god that was...

Samsung begins mass producing world's fastest 4GB HBM DRAM 19 Jan 2016 - 03:00 pm

Seoul: Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that it has begun mass-producing the world's fastest 4-gigabyte high bandwidth memory (HBM) dynamic random access memory...

People in high-rise buildings may not survive cardiac arrest 19 Jan 2016 - 02:47 pm

Two visitors take in the view from the Shard. Reuters New York: Survival rates from cardiac arrest decreases the higher up the building...

Every French cook knows how to make this simple cake, and now you do, too 19 Jan 2016 - 12:00 am

By Dorie Greenspan I've been a part-time Parisian for almost 20 years, but you wouldn't know it if you judged my assimilation by...

Popping pills to manage pain can prove fatal for you 18 Jan 2016 - 06:01 pm

New York: The arrest of Indian-American psychiatrist Narendra Nagareddy for allegedly overprescribing opioids, leading to overdoses and several deaths, has once again highlighted...

Renault promises plan to cut emissions levels 18 Jan 2016 - 01:21 pm

Renault to develop a technical plan to lower harmful emissions Boulogne-Billancourt, France: French carmaker Renault on Monday promised to come up with a...

US pledges $4 bn to speed self-driving cars 16 Jan 2016 - 04:28 pm

Google self-driving project. Detroit: The US administration pledged Thursday to help clear the way for autonomous vehicles with an investment of $4 billion...

London’s KidZania: Fun is all in a day’s work 16 Jan 2016 - 04:05 pm

Kids training as fire fighters at KidZania. KidZania is a role-playing theme park where children ages 4 to 14 get to dress up...

Forget Grand Canyon, world's largest canyon hidden under Antarctic! 14 Jan 2016 - 11:50 am

The glacier flowing along the Princess Elizabeth Land in East Antarctica London: If you are in awe of the Grand Canyon in the...

GoPro trims jobs as revenue disappoints 14 Jan 2016 - 08:06 am

San Francisco: GoPro on Wednesday announced it will cut seven percent of its workforce and that revenue last year was less than expected,...

Dutch police hack into 'uncrackable' Blackberry 13 Jan 2016 - 06:50 pm

The Hague: Dutch police confirmed Wednesday they have found a way to hack into messages on Blackberry data-encrypted smartphones, which claim to be...

Lincoln, Cadillac battle luxury rivals via Chinese market 12 Jan 2016 - 08:41 am

n auto show worker details the tire of a 2016 Cadillac CT6 before press days of the North American International Auto Show at...

First trial against GM over faulty ignitions begins in NY 12 Jan 2016 - 08:29 am

Visitors inspect a General Motors' Saturn Ion vehicle during the New York International Automobile Show in 2002 (AFP Photo/Stan Honda) New York: The...