Google in partnership with Orange, a tech giant recently announced that they are building an undersea cable across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. This cable would be 5500 kilometers long connecting the coasts of France and the United States.  The cable will open in 2020. The Cable is named ‘Durant’ after Henry Durant, founder […]

More than 9 million formerly broken Wikipedia links were restored by Internet Archive in its mission to build a better web for the users across the globe. Wikipedia is used by millions of users across the world. Every regular Wikipedia or internet user can tell that they usually come across pages that are not found […]

Google shocked its users when it announced the end of Google+ all across the globe. Google+, a social media network was developed to give Facebook a competition but it failed in doing so. According to the company, Google+ failed to get the attention of the users and that the lack of audience is the main […]

The first original Apple computer, also known as Apple-1 from 1976 was sold at an auction for $375,000 on Tuesday, 25th September 2018 in Boston. It was purchased by an Anonymous buyer. Apple-1 from 1976 is one of the few model that are still functional after so many years. Apple-1 as last sold in April […]

Duolingo, a huge language learning platform, announced that it will hire more women engineers. Duolingo‘ s CEO, Luis Von Ahn took a very bold step earlier in 2018 when he announced that company will maintain a 50:50 ratio gender ratio among its employees. This was done to promote diversity in the organization. In 2017, Duolingo […]

Researchers have developed a model that predicts the chances of success and failure of a business venture within six months with 80% accuracy. The information that led to the formation of this model was taken from the social media and transport data over the past few years. The business environment of today’s world is very […]

Your privacy might not be yours anymore! A massive Facebook data breach was reported, where about 50 million Facebook users were affected. This breach of users’ login details, their personal account information is an identity theft in which the criminals used a bug to access details of 50 million users. This bug was in the […]

Walmart, an American multinational retail corporation filed a patent for its new smart shopping cart in August. This cart is equipped with biometric sensors that can track your heart rate, body temperature, grip on cart handle, stress levels and walking speed around the store.  This is similar to smartwatches which can measure the same things […]

One of the largest life insurance provider, a North American Insurance company, John Hancock will now only provide interactive insurance policies that collect the health data of their customers through wearable gadgets and smart devices. John Hancock launched its first ever interactive policy in 2015 but now it will apply this model to all of […]

Apple, a worldwide tech giant was forced to remove gambling apps on its china app store when CCTV and Chinese media lodged complaints against Apple for hosting 25000 gambling apps on its china app store. As soon as the CCTV news was aired, Apple quickly removed all the gambling apps from its apps store. CCTV […]