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In a management reshuffle, HTC Chairwoman and co-founder Cher Wang has been stepped up as the company's new chief executive. The announcement came on Friday.

The Taiwanese electronics maker, in a press release, said that Cher Wang, Chairman and co-founder of HTC, is replacing Peter Chou. Now, Chou will be getting a "strategic" position in product development as the leader of HTC's Future Development Lab.

According to the company, in the last two years, Chou's main attention was on product development, while he handled over more of his chief executive responsibilities to Wang.

The company said that both the board of directors and executive team has decided that the time has come to formalize and finalize the changes in corporate position.

According to a new research, quantity of carbon absorbed by the Amazon rainforest has decreased by approximately one-third in the past 10 years. It was found in the study of 321 plots in parts of the Amazon that growth of forest had failed to increase in the past few years. It was also found that the net amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the forest had declined from 2.0 billion tonnes a year in the 1990s to 1.4 billion tonnes in the 2000s.

On Thursday, scientists announced the discovery of a 9-foot-long crocodilian ancestor that roamed prehistoric North Carolina 231 million years ago.

The discovery of the new species known as Carolina butcher or Carnufex carolinensis was published in a paper in the journal Scientific Reports.

The scientists also announced the species' discovery with a public presentation at the science museum in downtown Raleigh starting at 11 am.

The presentation includes what the creature might have looked like, based on the few bones that were found in the Pekin Formation in Chatham County, North Carolina. Palaeontologists found parts of the crocodile's skull, spine and upper forelimb.

A team of astronomers and geologists at Durham University have come up with a new map of the moon's most rare volcano. The map unveiled that the volcano's eruption spits out material in a greater area than thought.

The researchers have studied an area of lunar surface in the Compton-Belkovich Volcanic Complex. They mapped thorium, radioactive element, which was spewed out during the eruption. Astronomers came to know that the volcano's debris covered an area equivalent to the size of Scotland.

The eruption happened 3.5 billion years ago. The researchers used data from NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft that spotted the volcano site for the first time in 1999. The researchers have used a pixon image enhancement technique to improve the map.

Climatic conditions are threatening Antarctic glaciers as the region could face irreversible ice loss. As per researchers, if East Antarctic's Totten glacier would melt then it would lead to a 10 feet sea level rise in America.

The researchers affirmed that warm water that flows beneath the Antarctic glacier is the main reason considered for melting of the glacier. Through two earlier unknown pathways, the warm water is flowing from the ocean's depths and is reducing the thickness of Totten Glacier severely.

Earlier research suggested that warmer and saltier water could be flowing beneath colder water off the coast of Antarctic. The new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has unveiled that warmer water is moving up on the seafloor towards the coastline.

A former Facebook employee is taking legal action against the social media giant for number of claims involving sex discrimination, sexual harassment, race discrimination, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

The lawsuit was filed at the San Mateo County Superior Court and named Facebook as the defendant and Chia Hong as the plaintiff. Hong, who started working at Facebook in 2010, claimed that the company had a 'hostile work environment', where she was asked to organize parties and serve drinks to male colleagues. According to Hong, Facebook fired her in 2013 because she submitted a complaint against her boss Anil Wilson.