HIGHLIGHTS OnePlus 5T Star Wars Limited Edition announced for India New Limited Edition to go on sale in the country on December 15 It’s expected to sport specifications identical to original OnePlus 5T Celebrating its third anniversary in India, OnePlus on Monday announced the OnePlus 5T Star Wars Limited Edition in association with Star Wars: The Last Jedi that is due to Read More

HIGHLIGHTS Stephen Hawking’s thesis has been made available online now The Cambridge University website is hosting the thesis It got a huge traffic, so much so that the website crashed Demand for acclaimed British physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking’s PhD thesis intermittently crashed part of Cambridge University’s website as physics enthusiasts flocked to read his work, the media reported on Tuesday. Hawking’s Read More

HIGHLIGHTS It can majorly improve energy-storage devices called supercapacitors The design doubles the amount of electrical energy the device can hold Supercapacitors are a promising, green alternative to regular batteries You may soon be able to charge your smartphone within seconds, thanks to a novel technology developed by researchers that can significantly improve energy-storage devices known as supercapacitors. The design Read More

A novel iPhone-based portable ultrasound machine that can help detect cancer easily at home has been developed by US researchers. The device called Butterfly IQ is a scanner of the size of an electric razor that can display black-and-white imagery of the body, when paired with an iPhone. Developed by Connecticut-based start-up Butterfly Network, the pocket sized device works by Read More

Young women with higher education qualifications are just as likely to be out of work as young men who have no qualifications, often due to the impact of having children, poor mental health or a lack of suitable jobs, a major new study has reported. Motherhood has a greater impact on a woman’s career prospects than her level of education, Read More

Before senior Drew Bent began his undergraduate studies at MIT, he considered his interests in education to be “side projects.” He had worked at the educational platform Khan Academy and at Sony Ericsson while he was a high school student, employing what he had considered his main skill set since he was a child: programming. “Basically, programming is all I Read More

Sally Mboumien remembers the day she pressed a steaming hot stone against her chest. In Bawock, the rural community of western Cameroon where she grew up, young girls often had their young, sprouting breasts flattened with a hot iron or a hammer or spatulas that had been heated over burning coals. This was good for the girls because it would Read More

Oppo F5 Youth (above) was first announced at the Oppo F5 launch event in India HIGHLIGHTS Oppo F5 Youth is initially available in the Philippines Oppo A79 is arriving in China next month Both the smartphones run on Android Nougat-based Color 3.2 Oppo has expanded its range of minimal-bezel featuring smartphones by unveiling the Oppo F5 Youth and the Oppo A79. Both the new Read More

HIGHLIGHTS The new Android version comes as over-the-air (OTA) update It includes a build number 41.3.A.0.401 There is Xperia Actions in addition to core Android Oreo features A month after delivering the latest experience on the Xperia XZ Premium, Sony has started rolling out Android 8.0 Oreo update for its Xperia XZ and Xperia XZs. Both the handsets were debuted at IFA 2016 with Android 7.1 Read More

HIGHLIGHTS Oppo F5 6GB RAM variant price in India Rs. 24,990 The 6GB RAM variant is already available to buy via Flipkart Oppo had launched 4GB RAM variant earlier this month Oppo F5 (Review) was launched in India earlier this month. At the time, the company had unveiled the smartphone in two RAM and storage variants, but had only made the 4GB RAM Read More