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Parents can now ask Google to lock their teenager's smartphone Google’s ‘Family Link’ made for parents to control the screen time and smart device usage for kids is now available for  teens  as well. The search giant has updated ‘Family Link’ that now lets parents lock the smartphones of teenagers using the same  Google accounts. Teens can still access the smart device once it has been locked by parents but it will send an alert to them. “Family Link originally launched for kids under-13, but we’ve heard overwhelmingly from parents that the app is still useful as their kids enter their teen years.  Unlike what’s there for kids, the new ‘Family Link’ features for teens won’t let parents change the passwords of their devices or change the device itself. They can however, simply ask  Google Assistant  to lock the devices. They can give a voice command “Hey Google, lock Tim’s device” giving them few minutes to finish off whatever they were doing on th...

How long a phone should lasts once its battery has been charged fully? Different people will give a different answer to this question. The upper ceiling of the battery life in a modern smartphone, even is many wish for it to be true, would be something like what the old Nokias used to provide. Once charged, they would last days. But that is not possible with smartphone. A smartphone does so many things that it just can't last for days, unless you are only using it to make calls. On the other spectrum, we all can agree that a smartphone that is constantly plugged to the charger is no good. In fact, if you are charging your phone more than twice in a day, it is safe to say that it has a poor battery life. The ideal battery of smartphone nowadays is somewhere in between these two extremes. And most smartphones do manage to meet this ideal line. But just in case, it is not enough for you the user, there are ways to prolong the battery life of your phone. These steps, ideally, s...

WhatsApp has become a lifeline for almost smartphone user since its launch in year 2009. It is the most popular chat app in the world and has over 1 billion monthly active users. But while a lot of people use WhatsApp, not everyone is keeping track of all the new features the app has got in the last several months. Also Read:  WhatsApp on Windows: How to use it In fact, since the beginning of this year the number of features coming to WhatsApp has grown at a rapid pace. Nowadays, almost every two weeks there is a new WhatsApp feature. So what does that mean for you, the WhatsApp user? You are probably not using WhatsApp in a very smart way. But worry not, we tell you some tips that will help you get most out of WhatsApp. To start with, 10 tips.  1  Tag people in group chats: Refer to someone in a group chat with a mention by typing the "@" symbol and selecting the person's name from the pop-up list. When you mention someone in a message, a notification ...

New 'Artificial Synapses' Pave Way for Brain-Like Computers A brain-inspired computing component provides the most faithful emulation yet of connections among neurons in the human brain, researchers say. The so-called memristor, an electrical component whose resistance relies on how much charge has passed through it in the past, mimics the way calcium ions behave at the junction between two neurons in the   human brain , the study said. That junction is known as a synapse. The researchers said the new device could lead to significant advances in brain-inspired — or neuromorphic — computers, which could be much better at perceptual and learning tasks than  traditional compute r s, as well as far more energy efficient