Ola Auto Service Expanded to 12 More Indian Cities

Transportation mobile app Ola Wednesday launched auto rickshaws in 12 more cities, taking the service to a total of 24 cities across the country. Ola said it is targeting to serve at least two million daily rides by end of 2017 through its app by getting on-board hundreds of thousands of auto rickshaw drivers on its platform over the year in these cities. “Ola has over 1,00,000 auto rickshaws registered on its platform across 24 cities and plans to launch in more cities in the coming months,” the company said…

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HTC 10 Battery Life Touted; More Leaks Emerge Ahead of Tuesday Launch

HTC is all set to launch its next flagship smartphone, the HTC 10, at an event on Tuesday. The Taiwanese company has been creating hype around its upcoming smartphone for weeks now and some recent teasers indicate some new details such as a powerful battery and an OIS-enabled front camera. The HTC 10 has also been allegedly leaked in live images showing the handset’s design in full glory. In addition, Qualcomm has touted HTC 10’s Snapdragon SoC ahead of the official unveiling on Tuesday. HTC in a recent tweet promised…

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Women Experience More Neck Pain Than Men

  Shedding new light on how differently men and women experience pain, researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have found that women are 1.38 times more likely than men to report neck pain due to cervical degenerative disc disease. Cervical degenerative disc disease is a common cause of neck pain. Symptoms include stiff or inflexible neck, burning, tingling and numbness. Pain is most prevalent when the patient is upright or moving the head. The study by Meda Raghavendra and Joseph Holtman from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine included 3,337…

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Exercising More May Not Lead to an Increased Calorie Loss

According to a recent study published in the in the journal Current Biology, people do not necessarily burn extra calories even if they exercise more. This is due to the fact that their bodies adapt to higher activity levels. Researchers from City University of New York measured the daily energy expenditure and activity levels of more than 300 men and women over the course of a week. In the data they collected, they saw a weak but measurable effect of physical activity on daily energy expenditure. However, further analysis showed…

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Amazon’s Mega Mobile Sale: Discounts on Moto G, OnePlus X, and More

Amazon has kicked off its Mega Mobile Sale on Monday where the online marketplace is offering discounts on smartphones. In addition to these deals, consumers shopping on Amazon until Thursday can also get an additional 10 percent extra discount on every purchase made via Citi Bank debit and credit cards during the Mega Mobile Sale. Some of the smartphones available under the new Amazon’s Mega Mobile Sale are the Motorola Moto G (Gen 3) 16GB model available at Rs. 9,999 after a flat Rs. 1,000 off; Coolpad Note 3 16GB…

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FBI Says More Time Needed to Know if iPhone Can Be Unlocked

It will take at least two weeks to know whether an alternate method will unlock an encrypted iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers, the head of the FBI’s Los Angeles office said Tuesday, adding that federal investigators think they have “a good shot.” Government officials were asked to file a status report in court about the alternate method by April 5 because that’s how long they think it will take to know if the method will unlock the phone without compromising the data it contains, said David…

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