Nikita Venkatesh

Shazam releases new feature aimed at musicians and their fans

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Music discovery platform Shazam has released a new feature in partnership with over two dozen artists that will allow Shazam users to see which songs their favorite musicians are listening to on the service

According to Shazam, the company has signed up over 30 top artists to participate in its new song-sharing feature, including well-known names like Pitbull, Calvin Harris, Maroon 5, Meghan Trainor, Coldplay, Usher, One Direction, Alicia Keys, Shakira, Mariah Carey, Imagine Dragons, Linkin Park and many others.

Google updates Hangout for iOS

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Google has released an update of Google Hangouts app for iOS.

According to thenextweb.com, the new update includes a new design and better support for adding stickers, emoji and pictures.

In addition, the dialer got a redesign for the user wants to make a phone call via Hangouts.

There’s also a new quick compose button that allows the user to quickly find contacts they chat with often. Users can also access images, stickers and emoji much easier with the new attachment buttons. Sharing multiple photos at once is also available in Hangouts 4.0.

Facebook Ads Manager launches on Android

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Facebook has rolled out its Ads Manager app which allows marketers to create and track campaigns on the move for Android.

According to thenextweb.com, the app lets the users set up new ads with text and images, edit existing ads and regulate their selected audience settings, budget and schedule on their device.

The app also notifies users when their ads are about to end as well as when they will hit their spending limit. They can also see how much they have spent at any time.

Twitteriffic adds facial recognition feature in pictures on iOS

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Twitteriffic has added a new feature that will now take better advantage of Twitter’s new quote tweet feature and use facial recognition software to help user frame their shots on iOS.

According to thenextweb.com, when someone quotes the users tweet, Twitteriffic will give them the option to see notifications on their iOS devices or Apple Watch.

The pop-up notifications let the users know they were quoted and by whom, just like they see with retweets.

In addition, the facial recognition feature is designed to deal with sloppy snaps, making people in an image the main focus.

Microsoft releases Windows 10 preview that comes with Microsoft Edge, Wi-Fi

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Microsoft has released a latest preview of Windows 10 along with other new features including Microsoft Edge and Wi-fi that will come with the platform.

The users will have to download Windows 10’s latest preview build for PCs, to use the new feature available.

Microsoft Edge, initially developed under the codename Project Spartan, is a web browser in development by Microsoft.

Beep! Samsung’s new technology may run your phone for a week with one charge

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If you too are done with your phone battery draining out quickly then this news might relief you as the leading electronic company Samsung will soon reportedly bring a new technology that will allow your phone to run for a week after a single charge.

According to Business Korea, Samsung’s next generation batteries will be made of a substance called graphene-coated silicon, which will be able to hold more energy than the current graphite cathode power cells, the Mirror reported.

LatentView Analytics named 2015 ‘Company of the Year: Analytics’

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LatentView Analytics, one of the largest and fastest growing specialty data analytics firms, today announced that it has been named the 2015 ‘Company of the Year: Analytics’ by Frost & Sullivan’s India ICT Awards.

The award recognizes LatentView’s outstanding business performance, innovative business strategies, and product offerings, as well as its efforts to improve the data analytics industry as a whole.

BJP dubs Congress as ‘anti-development party’

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday dubbed Congress as an ‘anti-development party’ saying that the latter wanted to obstruct the government from developing the nation.

“Congress is an anti-development, anti-people, anti-growth party. It wants to hinder the development of the country. They could not do anything in the past ten years. So, they want to create problems against the government from making the country progress,” said BJP leader Siddharth Nath Singh.

Don’t believe in settling deals with Govt. in Parliament, says Congress

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The Congress party on Wednesday denied that it would broker a deal with the government in Parliament on several outstanding issues.

“These are baseless reports. We don’t believe in setting deals with the government in Parliament on any issue,” Congress leader PL Punia said.

Media reports had earlier speculated that the Congress would look to broker a deal on issues like the Goods and Service Tax (GST) Bill and the Land Acquisition Bill in the upcoming Monsoon Session of the Parliament.

Congress campaign to throw mud at the Centre has failed, says BJP

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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday accused the Congress of launching a campaign against the Centre, adding that the recent by-poll results have shown that this crusade by the grand old party has failed.

“The recent by-poll results have shown that the support for the BJP has increased across the country. This shows that the Congress campaign to throw mud at the BJP-government at the Centre has really failed,” BJP spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao said.

Detailed story to follow. (ANI)

AAP ‘clueless’ about governance: Congress

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Critcising the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Government over the recently passed Value Added Tax (Amendment) Bill, Congress leader Barkha Singh Shukla on Wednesday said that the Delhi Government is ‘clueless’ about governance.

“These people (AAP) only want to create a ruckus and play the blame game. They do not want to do any concrete work as they don’t know how to. They are clueless about governance. That is why they keep blaming others for their mistakes,” said Shukla.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar conferred with Peru’s highest award ‘Grand Officer’

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Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was on Tuesday conferred with Peru’s one of the highest awards ‘Grand Officer’ for social work and mission to deliver peace through his foundation The Art of Living.

Andean Parliament in Lima honoured Sri with the award titled “Medalla de la Integracion en el Grado de Gran Oficial”.

While accepting the award he said, “We all need to work together to see this entire continent free from violence and stress.”

PM’s Digital India mega-plan kicks off today from Indore

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In a new initiative to improve digital network in both rural and urban areas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will formally launch the Digital India Project via video conferencing in two village panchayats of Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

The Digital India Project, a pet scheme of the Modi government, aims to connect all gram panchayats by broadband internet, promote e-governance and transform India into a connected knowledge economy.

Amarnath Yatra begins, Home Minister Rajnath Singh to join pilgrims today

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Amid tight security arrangements, annual Amarnath yatra begins from Jammu today. The first batch of nearly 5000 pilgrims including Home Minister Rajnath Singh will leave for 3,888-metre high cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas.

“The annual Amarnath yatra will begin from Jammu winter capital city tomorrow for its onward journey to cave shrine of Lord Shiva in south Kashmir Himalayas today,” Yatra officer and Additional Deputy Commissioner Jammu Piyush said.

VIP Culture! Devendra Fadnavis delays AI flight for an hour

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An Air India flight to Newark from Mumbai was delayed by nearly an hour after it was reported that an aide of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis travelling with him had not carried his passport with valid US visa.

“The allegation that I forced delay of the flight to Newark is false and misleading,” said Fadnavis.

When contacted, an Air India spokesperson said that the flight AI-191 in which Fadnavis was to travel was delayed by 57 minutes for a mix of reasons.

Sena leader suggests ministers facing allegations step down

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Even as two Maharashtra BJP ministers came under cloud over allegations of irregularities in awarding contracts, Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant today favoured their stepping down until proved innocent.

The Sena leader also said that the party will wait for Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ statement on the issue.

NASA to land astronauts on Mars, Phobos cost-effectively by 2039

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Forget Earth’s Moon, astronauts may now land on Mars and its moon Phobos. Also the trip may cost you not much. In fact NASA is considering options to put the cost-eefective step into process soon which will hopefully happen by 2039.

Now, NASA is planning to land astronauts on Mars cost-effectively by 2039 if the US space agency takes a stepwise approach that includes a manned trip to the red planet’s moon Phobos, scientists say.

Sending astronauts to Mars is the top long-term priority of NASA’s human-spaceflight programme.

At least 116 dead in Indonesia military plane crash

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At least 116 people were killed today when an Indonesian air force transport plane crashed into a major city shortly after take-off and exploded in a fireball, officials said.

Buildings were left in ruins and cars reduced to flaming wrecks when the Hercules C-130 came down in a residential area of Medan, a city of two million on the island of Sumatra.

Air force chief Agus Supriatna said the manifest showed there were 113 people on board the plane — 12 crew and 101 passengers—when it crashed, and he did not believe any had survived.

Solar Impulse reaches quarter way point in Japan-US flight

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A solar-powered aircraft on a round-the-world flight was high above the Pacific Ocean today, over a quarter of the way to Hawaii after leaving Japan, the mission website showed.

Solar Impulse 2 had travelled 26 per cent of the way to the tropical US state by 0500 GMT, having flown 2,204 kilometres (1,377 miles) with 6,136 kilometres more to go, according to the project.

That put the plane and its veteran pilot more than 36 hours into the toughest leg of the bid to circumnavigate the planet using only the power of the sun.

38 dead after Indonesian military plane crashes in flames

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An Indonesian air force transport plane today crashed into a residential area of a major city shortly after take-off, exploding in a fireball and killing at least 38 people.

Officials warned the death toll could rise after the Hercules C-130 came down in Medan, a city of two million on the island of Sumatra, leaving buildings severely damaged and cars reduced to flaming wrecks.

A major rescue operation swung into action, with ambulances ferrying bodies from the accident site, and crowds of anxious residents gathering around a police cordon to get a look.

If lucky you may find a diamond in this park!

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A lucky woman in the US has found an 8.52 carat white diamond at Arkansas’s Crater of Diamonds State Park after only 20 minutes of searching.

Clear white and icicle shaped, the gem is the fifth largest diamond found by a park visitor since the state park was established at Arkansas’s diamond site in 1972.

Bobbie Oskarson of Longmont, Colorado, found the diamond on June 24 in a couple of scoops she had dug from a small mound of dirt.

Tunisia attack: Horrific footage shows ordeal!

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Tunisia today said it had made its first arrests after a beach massacre that killed 38 people, as European officials paid tribute to victims of the country’s worst jihadist attack.

British Home Secretary Theresa May, speaking at the scene of Friday’s gun attack at a Tunisian holiday resort, vowed that “the terrorists will not win” after London warned that Britain’s death toll could rise to “around 30”.

In ‘first’, ISIS now beheads two women in Syria

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The Islamic State group has beheaded two women in Syria on accusations of “sorcery,” the first such execution of women in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said today.

“The Islamic State group executed two women by beheading them in Deir Ezzor province, and this is the first time the Observatory has documented women being killed by the group in this manner,” Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.

The Britain-based monitor said the executions took place on Monday and Sunday and involved two couples.

Suicide blasts hit Afghanistan; two dead, 60 injured

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Suicide attackers today targeted foreign troops in Kabul and a police headquarters in restive southern Afghanistan, killing two people and wounding nearly 60, as the Taliban’s bloody summer offensive showed no signs of letting up.

A powerful blast echoed around the Afghan capital as a suicide car bomber hit a convoy of foreign military vehicles on the main road to the airport, around 500 metres from the US embassy, wounding at least 17 people.