Knowledge Update

New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) Most of us may not realise this but as cyber security threats rise globally, even a non-secure, multi-function printer can fall prey to hackers who can break into an organisation's network to steal confidential information, global PC and printer major HP India said on Tuesday.

​New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) The number of people who are concerned about their security and are ready to protect themselves against cyberthreats has increased in the second half of 2016, Kaspersky Lab's updated index has revealed.

​New York, April 14 (IANS) Google's digital wallet Android Pay is joining several banks around the world including Bank of America, Bank of New Zealand, Discover, mBank and USAA, to make it even easier for its users to pay with Android Pay.

New York, April 13 (IANS) Over 1.2 billion people use Facebook Messenger every month globally to stay in touch with the people and businesses that matter to them the most.

In the last few months, Facebook has added group video calling, a powerful and fast camera -- preloaded with stickers, masks, frames, effects and the ability to share photos

​New York, April 13 (IANS) A secret team of biomedical engineers at Apple is working on an initiative to develop sensors that can non-invasively and continuously monitor blood sugar levels to better treat diabetes.

​New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Global software major Adobe on Wednesday unveiled Adobe Captivate, a latest version of its eLearning authoring tool and Adobe Captivate Prime -- a learning management system (LMS) -- to bolster the personalised learning experiences.

New York, April 12 (IANS) Software giant Microsoft has finally said goodbye to 10-year-old Windows Vista operating system that had debuted with severe criticism.

According to a report in Verge on Tuesday, the users of Windows Vista will have to move to a more recent version of Windows to remain secure.

​New York, April 11 (IANS) Software giant Microsoft has bought startup Deis that specialises in containers -- a modern way to develop and deploy software.

The deal is seen as a boost to Microsoft's cloud because software containers are termed as the new building blocks of cloud-based applications.

​New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) Alibaba Group's news app UC News has crossed 100 million monthly active users (MAUs) in India and Indonesia, the company said on Tuesday.

UC News was launched in June 2016 and since then it has grown rapidly in the Indian and Indonesian markets.

​New York, April 8 (IANS) In a tough challenge to team collaboration tool Slack, Facebook has announced to offer a version of Workplace for free.

Workplace, Facebook's messaging service for businesses, is one of the many products used by businesses to chat and share files within their select groups.