Technology News
Technology has changed the world in more ways than one, we cover all of that here.
06 Feb 2017
JapanNew wireless technology makes 5G look slow
A research team has developed a terahertz (THz) transmitter capable of wirelessly transmitting digital data at over 10 times the speed of the 5G mobile networks which are currently under trial and expected to hit markets in 2020.
06 Feb 2017
AfricaAfrica transformed by path-breaking digital image technology
Selfies, which swept across the world at lightning speed, were made possible due to cutting-edge engineering inventions in digital image sensors.
05 Feb 2017
IndiaTechnology-driven education for fast-digitizing India
India is undergoing a digital evolution, and seeing a boom in adoption of smartphones.
02 Feb 2017
IndiaUS, Indian researchers identify deadly Bihar disease
Researchers from the US Center for Disease Control and India's National Centre for Disease Control identified the mysterious illness that has killed hundreds of children annually in Bihar's Muzaffarpur and adjoining districts.
29 Jan 2017
GoogleApple to introduce data-sharing option to improve its AI
The next version of Apple's operating system, iOS 10.3, will feature an option for iOS users to share their iCloud data with Apple so that the company can improve their AI-powered software products like voice assistant Siri.
27 Jan 2017
Bharat PetroleumHP introduces indigenous fuel for high-end cars
State-owned Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HP) is launching a high performance fuel, poWer 99, targeting automobiles in the luxury and high-end segment.
24 Jan 2017
India2017 is likely to see noticeable technological influence
The business ecosystem, and even our lives, are fast changing, noticeably and un-noticeably, with the advent of what the International Data Corporation (IDC) calls the third platform of computing - social, mobile, analytics and cloud (SMAC) technologies.
23 Jan 2017
Elon MuskWill AI replace humans in the development of AI software?
While the development of machine-learning and artificial intelligence technology, as of now, is done mostly by humans, it could soon cease to be so.
23 Jan 2017
TechnologyMeet Doppler Labs' augmented reality earbuds
Noah Kraft, the CEO of Doppler Labs, announced that the company would start shipping their Here One wireless earbuds, which he described as "computers for the ear".
18 Jan 2017
TechnologyNew Gmail phishing scam is fooling veteran users
A new online phishing scam targeting Gmail users has surfaced, and reportedly, it is even fooling veteran tech-savvy users.
18 Jan 2017
TechnologyChinese court seizes ship, auctions on Alibaba for $2.4 million
A foreign ship seized by the Shanghai Maritime Court has been sold on Alibaba for a whopping $2.4 million!
16 Jan 2017
AndroidAndroid creator Andy Rubin on the verge of a comeback
Two years after leaving Google, Android creator Andy Rubin is on the verge of announcing his new company, dubbed Essential.
11 Jan 2017
IndiaThe story of the security team behind the BHIM app
The Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) app was launched on 30th December, 2016 by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).
11 Jan 2017
India42% cigarette tax increase would result in 66mn fewer smokers
A Rs.55 increase in excise tax per packet of cigarettes could lead to nearly 66 million fewer adult smokers globally, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) and US National Cancer Institute report.
10 Jan 2017
UberUber launches website giving access to its traffic data
In a bid to help city planners and researchers, Uber announced the launch of its new website called Movement.
06 Jan 2017
Ram (Random Access Memory)CES 2017 goes off to a good start
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is an annual event organized by the Consumer Technology Association.
05 Jan 2017
IndiaGoogle CEO visits his alma mater IIT-Kharagpur
Google CEO Sundar Pichai who is in India for a work and personal visit, went to his alma mater IIT-Kharagpur and interacted with students there.
03 Jan 2017
IndiaLeap second added to the Indian clock
A leap second was inserted into the Indian clock at 5:29:59 hours on 1 Jan'17 to synchronize with Earth's rotational clock.
01 Jan 2017
IBMBridgewater Associates to have AI management
The world's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, has taken up a software project called "The Book of the Future" headed by its billionaire founder Ray Dalio.
26 Dec 2016
LondonHuman-robot marriage to be legal by 2050, says experts
At the "Love and Sex with Robots" conference held this week at Goldsmith University, London, AI expert David Levy predicted that human-robot marriages would become legal by 2050.
25 Dec 2016
New ZealandScientists can tell who is likely to become a criminal
In a study published on the Nature Human Behaviour scientific journal, scientists have shown, using brain tests, that they can tell which children would grow up to be criminals.
24 Dec 2016
Google MapsGoogle discontinues eight products as 2016 comes to an end
While Google released some critically acclaimed products like the Pixel smartphone and the Daydream virtual reality platform this year, it also pulled the plug on several of its ongoing products/projects.
24 Dec 2016
HoustonNASA astronaut Piers Sellers dies at 61
Astronaut Piers Sellers died of pancreatic cancer in Houston today; he was 61 years old.
21 Dec 2016
Mark ZuckerbergMeet Mark Zuckerberg's home AI, Jarvis
Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg uploaded a video of his new home artificial intelligence, Jarvis.
17 Dec 2016
San FranciscoApple snags Porsche's technical director
Earlier this month, Apple snagged the technical director of Porsche's race car program, Alexander Hitzinger.
16 Dec 2016
DNA'Three-parent' babies approved in the UK
In a historic move, the apex fertility regulation body in the UK, the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HEFA), announced that it would start accepting applications for "three-parent" babies after it reviewed scientific evidence for the safety of the procedure.
13 Dec 2016
MicrosoftMicrosoft's consumer Surface sales hit a high
In a blog post, Microsoft stated that consumer Surface sales hit a high in the month of November.
13 Dec 2016
MangalyaanScientists who shone through Mangalyaan
India's first interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan brought out pictures of the women at ISRO dressed in brightly coloured silk sarees celebrating the mission.
13 Dec 2016
DNACould vitamin supplements harm you?
Vitamin supplements have over the decades become synonymous with keeping illnesses at bay and prolonged use of antioxidants may even slow-down ageing in humans.
10 Dec 2016
United States of AmericaE-cigarettes now a public health threat, according to Surgeon General
A new report released by the Surgeon General of the United States includes e-cigarettes as a major health threat to the public.
10 Dec 2016
International Space Station (ISS)NASA pumps $127 million into building a space robot
United States' space agency NASA has announced plans of building a space robot worth $127 million to help repair and refuel the agency's satellites.
04 Dec 2016
AustraliaAustralian school kids develop expensive HIV drug for pennies
School children at a Sydney school in Australia, have recreated an exorbitantly priced HIV drug, Daraprim, on a shoe string budget.
03 Dec 2016
University College LondonComputers are not emotionally intelligent? Think again
While popular opinion holds that computers are incapable of being emotionally intelligent, evidence suggests that new technology might already have a higher emotional intelligence (EQ) than human beings.
03 Dec 2016
Russia NewsUnmanned Russian cargo spaceship crashes shortly after launch
An unmanned Russian cargo spaceship traveling to the International Space Station crashed in the atmosphere six minutes after being launched.
02 Dec 2016
International Space Station (ISS)NASA's Space Poop Challenge
While scientists have to face seemingly impossible challenges to make space-travel possible, one particular challenge has them baffled.
01 Dec 2016
ChinaChinese couple developing an app for convenience marriages
32 year-old Chinese woman Ou Xiaobai and her girlfriend Yi Zhi, along with a team of part-time developers, are developing an app called iHomo which helps Chinese homosexuals find partners for convenience marriages so that they can appease their parents, relatives and employers.
23 Nov 2016
Pope Francis'Sindr', the Vatican's new confession finder app
In an attempt to engage with the "mobile generation", Archbishop Leo Cushley from the Archdiocese of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, announced "The Catholic App" outside St. Peter's Basilica yesterday.
21 Nov 2016
FacebookFacebook set to repurchase shares worth $6 billion
Social media giant Facebook announced plans to launch a share repurchase program worth nearly $6 billion.
20 Nov 2016
United Nations (UN)The approaching revolution in agriculture
The long-overdue revolution in agriculture is within a few years' reach as the agricultural sector stands poised on the brink of a technological upheaval.
20 Nov 2016
New South WalesSetting up microfactories to recycle e-waste
Several studies revealed old cellphones, tablets, computers and other electronic waste could be converted into "gold mines".
