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New Delhi [India], Oct 26 : Taxi aggregator Ola has launched two brand new tech features to further enhance cab booking and boarding experience.

The 'Just in Time' feature sends real-time smart notifications to users, at the instant when a cab becomes available or when peak pricing for user's desired cab category ends.

Ola has also rolled out 'Rich Notifications' on its app, which help users track their booked ride through real-time Push Notifications.

New Delhi [India], Oct 26 : Amidst the popular belief of the Indian startup ecosystem's slowdown, India continues to harbor the third largest start-up base, marginally behind the UK as per the NASSCOM-ZINNOV start-up report titled "Indian Start-up Ecosystem Maturing - 2016".

The report further states that the ecosystem is poised to grow by an impressive 2.2X to reach more than 10,500 start-ups by the year 2020.

The report was launched on the side-lines of NASSCOM Product Conclave 2016 in Bengaluru today in the presence of CP Gurnani, Chairman, NASSCOM; R Chandrashekhar, President, NASSCOM, Ravi Gururaj, Chairman, NASSCOM Product Council and Pari Natarajan, CEO, Zinnov.

WahingtonD.C. [US], Oct. 26 : Drinking highly caffeinated alcoholic beverages trigger changes in the adolescent brain, similar to taking cocaine, and the consequences last into adulthood, according to a recent research conducted at Purdue University.

Lead researcher Richard van Rijn looked at the effects of highly caffeinated energy drinks and highly caffeinated alcohol in adolescent mice.

These alcohol studies cannot be performed in adolescent humans but changes seen in mouse brains with drugs of abuse have been shown to correlate to those in humans in many drug studies.

These energy drinks can contain as much as 10 times the caffeine as soda and are often marketed to adolescents.

Washington D.C. [USA], Oct. 26 : Katy Perry recently turned 32 and as part of an X-rated celebration, she was gifted a Goddess Box which included a baby pink woolen-knit vagina.

The patriotic pop star took to social media to share the journey of the big day with fans, that began with a massage and even bacon cake for breakfast.

Perry posted a couple of Snapchat photos that showed the gift box and candle lit bacon rolls captioned "bacon cake for birthday breaky". The picture of the fuzzy vagina was captioned as, "love you baby clee."

She also shared a video of herself dropping in the ballot and wrote alongside, "GAVE MYSELF THE BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT EVER BY VOTING TODAY."

WashingtonD.C. [US], Oct. 26 : A new study investigates the brain's capability to process visual information after many years of total blindness, by studying patients affected by Retinitis Pigmentosa, a hereditary illness of the retina that gradually leads to complete blindness.

The perceptual and brain responses of a group of patients were assessed before and after the implantation of a prosthetic implant that senses visual signals and transmits them to the brain by stimulating axons of retinal ganglion cells.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers found that patients learned to recognize unusual visual stimuli, such as flashes of light, and that this ability correlated with increased brain activity.

Washington D.C. [USA], Oct. 26 : Blake Lively recently posted a special message for her husband after his 40th birthday and close friend Taylor Swift could not help "drowning in tears of joy."

The 'Gossip Girl' star took to social media to post a photo taken at Ryan Reynolds' birthday bash in New York City.

The caption on Instagram reads, "@_o_ya_ We fell in love at your restaurant in Boston. We stay in love at your restaurant in NY. Thank you for the BEST food and memories! You are our FAVORITE!! Another happy birthday with @vancityreynolds. Hey, Reynolds, I like you a whole lot. Just sayin'..."