SPR: Samsung is crazily desperate. Today, Korean smartphone maker has launched an aggressive 1$ promotional offer that allows the iPhone users to test drive its Galaxy phones including the Galaxy S6 Edge, along with S6 Edge+…
SPR: Ample of researches have been conducted worldwide that prove the harmful effect mobile phones have on the health of users. A new research conducted at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel further proves this…
16-year-old Indian-Origin Kid Claims His Search Engine Is 47% More Accurate Than Google
August 21, 2015
SPR: A sixteen-year-old Canadian kid of Indian-origin, Anmol Tukrel, has developed a personalized search engine. He claims it to be 47% more accurate than Google search results, and 21% more accurate on an average. Google is hands…
SPR’s: Many Windows 10 users are facing slow performance issue in Windows 10. This appears in the form of input lags and could be fixed by tweaking some Page File settings in Windows 10. Read more…
WhatsApp Web for Desktop Finally Comes to iPhone Users
August 21, 2015
SPR: WhatsApp Web has finally been updated to support iPhone. This feature is being rolled out slowly and some users might see the WhatsApp Web option in their WhatsApp iOS apps. Facebook acquired WhatsApp last year for a…
Google Now Launcher version 1.2 is now available for download and you can install it right now on your Android phones to get an Android Marshmallow experience. Earlier this week, Google finalized the name and…
Here Are The 5 Best Features of Android Marshmallow
August 20, 2015
SPR: The smartphone maker Samsung has released a nice and colorful infographic telling how your phone will change after Android Marshmallow update. It’s been less than a week since the restructuring of Google under Alphabet, but it…
SPR: Google has released the final preview of Android Marshmallow 6.0 and you can download it right now and install it on your Nexus devices. Read more for step-by-step tutorial. While the final release date of Android…
India Unveils World’s First Absolute Solar Powered Airport
August 20, 2015
SPR: The Cochin International Airport in the south Indian state of Kerala has now become world’s first absolute solar powered airport or “absolutely power neutral”. The solar power plant is set to cut the carbon emissions…
SPR: It’s a known fact that Google has been working on some healthcare projects to fight diseases like cancer and diabetes. Now, after the advent of Alphabet, Google is gearing up to make things happen on…
NASA Invites You To Send Your Name To Mars On InSight
August 20, 2015
SPR: For its latest InSight Mars lander mission, NASA has asked people to sign up for the “boarding pass” and send their names on the Red planet. NASA wants everyone to be a part of an…
Google’s Humanoid Robot ‘Atlas’ Stomps Through The Forests
August 20, 2015
Short Bytes: Google/Alphabet has cut loose its humanoid Atlas out in the open to get some sun. The Google humanoid sees the world with the same technology as the Google’s self-driving car. Machines are rising and…
Salaries of Software Engineers: Top Paying Skills, Top Roles and Best Engineering Schools
August 20, 2015
SPR: Making an attempt to inform you about the market trends of salaries of software engineers, we bring you an infographic telling you many helpful things in a simple graphical manner. If you’re working as an…
SPR: MIT and Samsung have discovered a way to increase the battery life “indefinitely”. Replacing the liquid electrolyte with the solid state electrolyte might do the trick of indefinite battery lifetime, and would mean a revolution…
SPR: Microsoft has released its first post-launch Windows 10 preview build (build 10525) to its Windows Insider community. This is a part of Microsoft’s promise to release builds and new features for the Insiders before everyone…
SPR: The news of dumping millions of black shade balls into LA’s water reservoirs has spread like a wildfire as this was an attempt to save city’s water supply. Today, we’ll explain you the science behind…
SPR: A professional overclocker from Hong Kong has managed o overclock the Intel Core i7-6700L Skylake microsprocessor to nearly 7GHz clock speeds. This overclocked speed is among the highest ever achievd by any product of Intel…
SPR: The News Corp CEO bashed the online content distributionists for devaluing journalism. He accused Google of zealotry, kleptocracy, and piracy and LinkedIn a pretender. As if Google and Facebook already had less haters, both these…
Oracle: Google Used Android to “Destroy” the Market for Java
August 19, 2015
SPR: Google is being accused by Oracle for copying code from Java in building Android platform. With the enormous growth of mobile market and expansion of Android from mobile phones to smart TV, wearable etc., Oracle’s…
SPR: According to a latest research, it has been found that there isn’t much evidence to support the claims that excessive internet usage results in a bad impact on children and youth. The use of the Internet…
How the Universe Works: Stephen Hawking’s Theory of Everything, Explained in 150 Seconds
August 19, 2015
SPR: Today we are bringing you a short animation that condenses the expansive work of physicist Stephen Hawking into a short 150-seconds film. Theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking is one of the greatest scientific minds…
SPR: Sony has advised the VAIO PC owners running Windows 8, 8.1 and 7 to wait till October/November for Windows 10 upgrade. Sony has taken this step as it hasn’t released the Windows 10 drivers for…
SPR: NASA has once again tested an engine that is known as the Ferrari of rocket engines. This RS-25 rocket is very complex and NASA had burned few before learning how to get them started. NASA…
Windows 10 Sends Tons of Data Every 30 Minutes to Microsoft Even When Told Not To SPR: Microsoft has some options in Windows 10 to enable the privacy protection, but according to some latest research done…
How to Check the Status of Popular Websites
August 13, 2015
How to Check the Status of Popular Websites SPR: Every popular online service exposes a status page to show the status of various service they offer to end user or customer. Status pages are primarily used…
Revenge of Mozilla: Firefox 40 for Windows 10 Changes Cortana’s Default Bing Search SPR: Mozilla has released Firefox 40 for Windows 10 and it comes with changes in user interface trying to blend with Windows 10’s…
Google, Apple and HTC Vets Launching Nextbit Smartphone That Gets Better With Age SPR: Nextbit is a startup founded by ex-employees from Google, HTC, Apple and Amazon. The company has announced that they’ll be dropping a…
Canonical Open Sources Ubuntu One File Syncing Service
August 13, 2015
Canonical Open Sources Ubuntu One File Syncing Service SPR: After shutting down Ubuntu One File Service on April 2nd 2014, Canonical Inc., the company behind the Ubuntu OS, announced that they have open sourced the biggest piece of…
SPR: This is the story of a guy who wrote a Twitter bot to automatically enter contests and ended up winning on average 4 contests per day, every day, for about 9 months straight. Hunter Scott, a…
Man Grows Ear on His Arm, Plans to Connect it to Internet
August 13, 2015
SPR: A professor based in the Curtin University has been trying to grow a human ear on his arm. His ear has started taking its shape and now he wants to connect the ear to the…