After being listed on the company site, the Micromax Canvas Play (Q355) has now been made available to purchase via a third-party online retailer at Rs. 7,490. The dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) Micromax Canvas Play smartphone runs Android 5.0 Lollipop out-of-the-box. It features a 5.5-inch (480×854 pixels) FWVGA display. The smartphone is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek (MT6582M) processor coupled …

  Earlier today, the director of Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro claimed that Silent Hills, a PlayStation 4 game he was working on with Metal Gear Solid creator, Hideo Kojima and The Walking Dead actor, Norman Reedus is “not gonna happen.” “It’s not gonna happen and that breaks my greasy heart,” del Toro said during a Q&A at …

    Surfers catching waves and mountain bikers pedaling through forests are used to the occasional low flying pelican or diving hawk, but these days outdoor recreationalists can find what’s up in the air isn’t a bird at all, it’s a drone. This week top drone-makers, along with investors, regulators and inventors, are gathering in one of the most popular …

  “Call of Duty: Black Ops 3” is enlisting a few new recruits. The third installment in Treyarch’s popular military shooter saga is adding the option to play cooperatively with other gamers in the plot-driven campaign. The developer is also ditching traditional avatar customization in its multiplayer mode, instead opting for players to pick among nine distinct characters, each with …

  Immersive interfaces like virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality are becoming ever more powerful, eliciting investment from the likes of Google, Samsung and Microsoft. As these technologies become commercially available, their use in education is expected to grow. Chris Dede, a professor of learning technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, has studied immersion and learning technologies for twenty …

  A startup business that wants to link the realm of physical objects to the digital world of the Internet is basing its future on low-cost, highly engineered, one-of-a-kind plastic stamps. What began as a means to inform shoppers about the environmental consequences of their purchases has morphed into a company that makes unique plastic stamps that, when pressed against …

  Flying in a plane is not only safer than driving a car, it’s also better for the environment, says a University of Michigan researcher. In a follow-up study from last year, Michael Sivak of the U-M Transportation Research Institute found that it takes twice as much energy to drive than to fly. He examined recent trends in energy intensity—the …

A combined team of researchers with MIT and India based, JAIN Irrigations Systems has won the top Desal Prize—a competition to see who could come up with the best desalination system for providing water for crops in arid places. The team has won US $140,000 for their efforts. The timing for the competition could not have been better as the …

Nokia notes recent news reports claiming the company communicated an intention to manufacture consumer handsets out of a R&D facility in China,” the company said in a statement. “These reports are false, and include comments incorrectly attributed to a Nokia Networks executive.” Nokia was said to be working on a secret projectthat would result in the company announcing a new …

  A computer outage affecting registers forced Starbucks to give away free drinks Friday before closing stores early. The coffee chain said the outage affected 7,000 company-operated stores in the U.S. and 1,000 in Canada. It did not say when it expects registers to be back up and running, or explain exactly what caused the outage. The outage began in …