Knowledge Update

​New York, Dec 22 (IANS) Researchers have created a bacteria-powered battery on a single sheet of paper that can power disposable electronics.

The manufacturing technique reduces fabrication time and cost, and the design could revolutionise the use of bio-batteries as a power source in remote, dangerous and

​New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) Flock, a team messenger for businesses, on Tuesday launched world's first chat operating system "FlockOS" which allows developers to build customised apps, bots and integrations on Flock.

​New York, Dec 20 (IANS) If you are not physically with your family this Christmas, Facebook Messenger's latest group chat feature rolled out on Monday can mitigate the distance.

​New York, Dec 20 (IANS) Inspired by Iron Man's artificial assistant (AI) "Jarvis" and his capabilities, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has coded and developed his own "Jarvis" to run his home.

New York, Dec 19 (IANS) With Christmas just a few days away, Google has integrated its famous Santa Tracker into artificial intelligence-powered Google Assistant letting a user to check the location of Santa by asking "Where is Santa" or "Track Santa".

​San Francisco, Dec 16 (IANS) Responding to criticism from all quarters over the spread of fake news, Facebook has asked its users to flag fake news stories which will be verified by third party fact-checkers.

​New York, Dec 17 (IANS) Microsoft has released a set of 100,000 questions and answers that artificial intelligence (AI) researchers can use to create systems that can read and answer questions as precisely as a human.

​London, Dec 16 (IANS) US tech giant Microsoft has teamed up with traffic, navigation and mapping products company TomTom to bring enterprise-grade location-based services to Microsofts Azure Cloud platform.

​London, Dec 15 (IANS) Whim, a mobile app by Finland-based Mobility as Service (MaaS) operator MaaS Global, is set to be launched in the West Midlands metropolitan area in Britain in early 2017 which will become the first region to pilot the service to its residents.

​New York, Dec 15 (IANS) Next time when you send a message intended for your girlfriend mistakenly to someone else on WhatsApp, relax as you may be able to revoke such messages in the near future.