Facebook takes search warrant challenge to top court

Published On: February 7, 2017 01:40 PM NPT By: Associated Press

ALBANY, N.Y, Feb 7: Facebook is heading to New York state's highest court to challenge search warrants seeking information from user accounts.

Nokia Q4 sales up but profit down at $682 million

Published On: February 5, 2017 09:54 AM NPT By: Associated Press

HELSINKI, Feb 5: Nokia Corp. says fourth-quarter profit fell to 633 million euros ($682 million) from 1.8 billion euros a year earlier, but sales almost doubled to 6.6 billion euros.

Microsoft to disable older versions of Skype for Mac, Windows

Published On: February 4, 2017 04:00 PM NPT By: IANS

From March 1, people will no longer be able to log in to version 7.16 of Skype for Windows desktop and older versions and version 7.18 of Skype for Mac.

Univhub simplifies US & Australia college application

Published On: February 2, 2017 09:38 AM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, Feb 2: Sroth Code Academy is set to launch an app called ‘Univhub’ for mobile phones that will help students who are applying abroad for higher studies research on the different universities based on their interests and grades.

We use data to better our society

Published On: February 2, 2017 09:33 AM NPT By: Republica

YoungInnovations is a technology company established in 2007. It is a special type of technological company which specializes in global development by building partnerships with development organizations to create a bigger impact.

Facebook will pay, promote longer videos in News Feed

Published On: January 29, 2017 01:21 PM NPT By: IANS

In a bid to improve the content on its platform, Facebook will now credit publishers if their video is watched for a minimum of three seconds and take down those which have minimum “views”. The social media giant would now use a new algorithm that would determine the value of a video and it would rank that clip accordingly in a user’s News Feed.

Space travel may cause genetic changes: NASA

Published On: January 28, 2017 02:40 PM NPT By: IANS

NASA scientists in an unprecedented study have found that space travel may alter gene expression. The study involved astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent a year in space and his identical twin Mark who stayed on Earth.

Microsoft’s market value tops $500 billion again after 17 years

Published On: January 28, 2017 02:15 PM NPT By: Agencies

Microsoft Corp’s market capitalization topped $500 billion for the first time since 2000 on Friday, after the technology giant’s stock rose following another quarter of results that beat Wall Street’s expectations.

To minimize data breach, Facebook has added a new login option with ‘security keys’ that requires a user to enter a special security code from their phone in addition to the password when they login from a new browser.

Google took down 1.7 billion ‘bad’ ads in 2016

Published On: January 28, 2017 11:21 AM NPT By: IANS

To protect consumers from misleading, inappropriate or harmful ads, Google on Friday announced that it took down 1.7 billion ads in 2016 that violated its advertising policies. The number is more than double the amount of bad ads it took down in 2015, the company said in its annual “Better Ads Report”.