Your search for Bollywood news on Google just got better.

India is a nation of movie buffs with 1 out of 10 mobile searches in the country being related to cinema, technology giant Google said today.
The US-based company has now developed a "rich, immersive experience" for its 'search' product to cater to user's queries related to Bollywood and Tollywood, including links to videos and movie screening timings.
"Google Search now gives local cinema enthusiasts an easy way to discover and explore everything they want to know about their favourite movies, stars, music, dialogues, actors and more," Google India marketing head Sapna Chadha said.
She added that the move was influenced by the huge number of queries Google receives in India on its platform related to cinema.
While Chadha did not disclose the number of queries, she said 1 in 10 searches in India through mobile devices are about cinema.
Google offers a similar search experience for cricket in India.

"Google has a long history of building products for India, and we wanted to make sure that when these millions of Indian cinema fans ask Google about their favourite films, actors or songs, they get a delightful, local experience," Chadha said.
Satyajeet Salgar, product manager (Search) at Google said when users search for a cinema-related topic on the search engine, they will get answers to their queries through carousels powered by the Knowledge Graph, movie showtime and featured snippets.

4G on the rise in India, with close to 16 million devices imported in first quarter of 2016.

Over 15.8 million 4G/LTE devices were imported in the first quarter of 2016 in India, a report said on Friday. Of these, 97.9% were smartphones followed by internet data cards at 1.5% and the remaining 0.6% were tablet PCs.
This amounts to 63% of the cellular devices shipped through the quarter, said the report by market research company CyberMedia Research (CMR) "Quarterly India LTE Devices" report.

"The smartphone industry was the first to bank upon the 4G wave. Now as the services go live with multiple operators, it is the time for other devices to ride on the growth path," said Faisal Kawoosa, Lead Analyst (Telecoms) at CMR in a statement.

World's first microchip with 1,000 programmable processors launched.

Scientists have designed the world's first microchip containing 1,000 independent programmable processors, that can upto compute 1.78 trillion instructions per second. The energy-efficient "KiloCore" chip contains 621 million transistors, researchers said.
"To the best of our knowledge, it is the world's first 1,000-processor chip and it is the highest clock-rate processor ever designed in a university," said Bevan Baas, professor at the University of California, Davis, who led the team that designed the chip architecture.
While other multiple- processor chips have been created, none exceed about 300 processors, researchers said. Most were created for research purposes and few are sold commercially.

Each processor core can run its own small programme independently of the others, which is a fundamentally more flexible approach than the Single-Instruction-Multiple-Data approaches utilised by processors such as graphics processing unit (GPU).
The idea is to break an application up into many small pieces, each of which can run in parallel on different processors, enabling high throughput with lower energy use.