Kolkata: Envisaging an alternative future, a two-member student team from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur have come up with an innovation of a water tank inserted into walls that could potentially substitute air conditioners and lead to a 50 per cent reduction in cooling cost. The concept is India’s entry in the five finalists of […]
Washington: Humans have long been shaping Earth’s landscape, but now scientists know that we also can shape our near-space environment with radio communications. The impact of such communications extend out beyond our atmosphere, creating a bubble surrounding Earth, NASA’s Van Allen Probes, which study electrons and ions in the near-Earth environment, have revealed. A certain […]
San Francisco: As the world gets together to contain “WannaCrypt” ransomeware attack that exploited a vulnerability in a Microsoft software, the same Windows vulnerability (MS17-010) has been exploited to spread another type of virus that is fast generating digital cash from machines it has infected. According to a report in The Registrar on Wednesday, tens […]
New Delhi: Google on Wednesday marked the discovery of Antikythera Mechanism – believed to be the world’s first computer – 115 years ago. In 1902, Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais sifted through some artifacts from a shipwreck at Antikythera. The wrecked Roman cargo ship was discovered two years earlier, but Stais was the first to notice […]
Los Angeles: US engineers have developed a 3D-printed, four-legged robot that is capable of walking on rough surfaces such as sand and pebbles, the media reported on Wednesday. Researchers led by Michael Tolley, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), will present the robot at the IEEE International Conference on […]
Guwahati: Raising hopes of saving it from extinction, two of the most rare and critically-endangered species of vultures have been bred successfully in captivity at a conservation centre in Assam, officials announced on Sunday. A nestling each of the White-backed species and Slender-billed ones have hatched in captivity at the centre, located 40 kms from […]
Nagpur: National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) and Indian Water Works Association (IWWA) are jointly organising a workshop on `Community of Practice within Natural Water Systems and Treatment Technologies (NaWaTech)` here on Monday. The workshop has been organised on commencement of the Indo-European collaborative research project `NaWaTech`, which deals with water shortage in urbanised India […]
Washington: Mars rover Opportunity has reached the main destination of its current two-year extended mission — an ancient fluid-carved valley incised on the inner slope of a vast crater’s rim, NASA has said. As the rover approached the upper end of “Perseverance Valley” in early May, images from its cameras began showing parts of the […]
Chandigarh: Teams of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) would inspect the excavation being carried out at an archaeological site in Haryana’s Fatehabad district to verify claims of it being the oldest civilisation in the world. Archaeologists have recovered artefacts pre-dating the Harappan […]
New York: Facebook has brought back its purple flower emoji for Mother’s Day, the social media giant reported in a blogpost on Saturday. The purple flower — which stands for thankful — is added to the list of reactions that are available in every story, status update or pictures that are shared on Facebook. “When […]
Chennai: Buoyed by the successful launch of the South Asia Satellite, the Indian space agency is now busy preparing for the maiden launch of its heaviest rocket — the 640-tonne Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV Mk III). The notable aspect of this rocket is that the main and bigger cryogenic engine has been developed […]
Washington: US researchers have developed a “revolutionary” process for 3D printing stretchable electronic sensory devices that could give robots the ability to feel their environment, according to a study. The discovery, published online in the journal Advanced Materials, is a major step forward in printing electronics on real human skin, researchers said. The new process […]
San Francisco: Apple plans to announce Amazon Prime video app to its Apple TV App Store during its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 5 in San Jose, California. “The app is expected to go live this summer, but the hard launch date might change. Amazon had previously declined to even submit a Prime […]
New Delhi: Four of five mining and metals companies globally, including in India, expect to increase their spending on digital technologies like Cloud computing and data security over the next three years, a new Accenture survey said on Friday. With more than one-quarter (28 percent) of such firms planning significant investments, almost half (46 percent) […]
New York: A US judge has asked federal prosecutors to investigate Uber Technologies Inc and one of its engineers for potential theft of trade secrets from Google, a media report said. The judge also determined the lawsuit Google filed against Uber would head to trial, dealing a blow to Uber’s strategy, The Wall Street Journal […]
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