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Researchers found the risk of obesity increased by 43 per cent if a smartphone was used five or more hours a day, as participating students were twice as likely to drink more sugary drinks, fast food, sweets, snacks and have decreased physical activity. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

5 Apps to help you sail through the festive season

suite of apps today can help you get everything done, right from getting your groceries ordered, to your house cleaned.

14 Oct 2019 1:35 PM

Today, there are tons of apps which help you pay for viewing the ad, making the payment, taking the surveys or shopping on certain stores (Photo: AP)

5 mobile apps that can pay users money

If you are looking to start earning extra bucks with just a few clicks on your smartphone, here are 5 apps that pay you...

2 Dec 2019 7:50 AM

This representative image shows a person monitoring a geofenced area (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - spytomobile.com)

IIT-Bombay develops two apps to help civic bodies ensure individuals...

The apps employ GPS data and geofencing to alert authorities of users breaching preset virtual geographical boundaries

30 March 2020 6:20 AM

A picture shows a surveillance camera in an underground passage in Moscow on January 27, 2020. - A vast and contentious network of facial-recognition cameras keeping watch over Moscow is now playing a key role in slowing the rapid spread of coronavirus in Russia. (Photo | AFP)

Privacy could become the next victim of the coronavirus as governments...

Authoritarian regimes such as China use COVID-19 as a pretext to suppress independent speech and restrict fundamental...

29 March 2020 6:42 AM

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his decision to bypass parliament at the time, arguing lives could be lost while lawmakers debated legislation. (Photo | AFP)

Stop using state spy agency to track phones for coronavirus tracing:...

The government had controversially approved Shin Bet's use of surveillance for the Covid-19 illness as an emergency...

10 Jun 2020 4:35 PM

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Period-tracking apps may be inaccurate: study

Researchers focused on nine different period tracking apps, and on what characteristics users liked or disliked

7 May 2017 12:14 PM

In the study, the app had an accuracy rating of 93.96 per cent.

Smartphone app that detects autism in children

One benefit of the technology is that parents could use it at home to determine if there is a need for clinical...

14 Nov 2016 9:52 AM

Overall, the smartphone shipments in India grew 18 per cent annually in 2016 compared to the global smartphone market, which grew 3 per cent. (Representational image)

Apps that will help you manage the monsoon fiasco

With the rains fast spreading throughout the country, here is what all you can do to relax yourself during this monsoon...

15 Jun 2017 8:25 AM

While apps have the potential to help with health, consumers should still be wary (Photo: AFP)

Health apps not always helpful despite top ratings

Nearly all the apps in the study let people enter information into their phone about their health that day.

16 Dec 2016 3:37 AM