By inexpensively turning salt water into drinking water using sustainable solar power, a team from MIT in the US has not only come up with a portable desalination system for use anywhere in the world that needs it, but it’s just won the 2015 Desal Prize - a competition run by USAID to encourage better solutions to water shortages in developing countries, reports sciencealert.com.

Microsoft Corp is making it easier for apps written for rival Google Inc's Android and Apple Inc's iOS systems to work on Windows phones, in a bid to attract users to its unpopular mobile devices.

Prison is fun only in the virtual world where you're not the one dropping the soap.

The lost planet in question is a frozen wasteland inhabited by giant bugs.

Europe's Sentinel-1a satellite has got its first good look at the aftermath of Saturday's big quake in Nepal.

A faulty app caused American Airlines to ground dozens of its jets.

Yahoo is working on a way of unlocking a mobile phone using the owner's ear rather than a password or fingerprint.

Samsung Electronics Bangladesh has brought an amazing consumer promotion offer for TV to start the Bengali New Year 1422. Now with every Samsung TV purchase, one lucky customer can win the newest flagship device of Samsung, the Samsung Galaxy S6 for free by purchasing any Samsung TV every day.

Video calling in Messenger is launching for people using Apple or Android devices in a number of countries and will hit more countries over the coming months.

Analysts say Apple will become the overnight leader in the nascent segment. Strategy Analytics predicts Apple will sell 15.4 million units worldwide in 2015, giving Apple a 55 percent market share.

British supercar maestros getting ready to roll out two new models to take the fight to the Italians.

Arguably one of the most important events in the history of the Internet took place with the first video being uploaded to a fledgling website called YouTube 10 years ago Thursday, reports CNBC.

Hackers can take copies of fingerprints used to unlock the Samsung Galaxy S5 phone, claim security researchers.

Google unveils a new service that switches between cellular and Wi-Fi signals and lets customers pay for only what data they use.

Ray Kurzweil told the annual conference of the Society of Automotive Engineers that the rapidly declining cost of computing power and the advances in artificial intelligence will make autonomous driving a reality.

The all-new Suzuki Ciaz is a competitive entry in the global C-segment sedan market. It combines a roomy, comfortable interior, great

Jurassic Beast

The Vitz, also known as Yaris, always did what it was asked but had limitations. It just wasn't cool. It was a toaster with a couple of added features. So what happens when Toyota adds an RS badge?

The 2015 Bangladesh Rallycross organized by CEMS last week was the second of its kind. Some cars aced it. Others were beached like a whale. Others were sliding off trying to regain control. Here are the 'whys' and 'why nots'.

A Japanese magnetic levitation train has broken its own world speed record, hitting 603km/h (374mph) in a test run near Mount Fuji.