By: C.M. Paul Guwahati :Two out of three teams from Assam Don Bosco University (ADBU) were in the final eight of the latest All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)-organised ‘Smart India Hackathon 2017’ and one of them was declared winner of the contest, along with three other teams. The ADBUContinue Reading
Sreedeep Alavil from Kannur district in the southern India state of Kerala has been chosen to the coveted Google Hall of Fame. Sreedeep was given the recognition for spotting a bug known as Cross-site Scripting (XSS), wherein a hacker can execute malicious scripts to a legitimate website or web applications.Continue Reading
Usually accustomed to spending most of their time making nuclear weapons, scientists at Bhaba Atomic Research Centre have developed a small credit card-sized electro cardiogram (ECG) that can help many people. The machine developed can record the electrical activity of the heart and can most often prevent heart attacks inContinue Reading
Kochi: In the coming years, rather than being known for its literacy levels, Kerala will be called as ‘The Internet State’ of the country. This will be the case because Kerala state finance minister Thomas Issac has proposed to make internet access a basic human right in his budget speech.Continue Reading
Hyperloop One Tuesday hosted it’s first-ever summit with government officials in New Delhi to discuss India’s most promising Hyperloop routes. The company showcased the possibility of travelling to Mumbai from Delhi in just 55 minutes, faster than any commercial airline. The Hyperloop One Vision For India summit also showcased fiveContinue Reading
A drone that can carry people will begin “regular operations” in Dubai from July, the head of the city’s Roads and Transportation Agency has announced at the World Government Summit. The Chinese model eHang 184 has already had test flights, said Matt al-Tayer. The drone can carry one passenger weighingContinue Reading
Tech giant Google has announced that its Gmail service will stop working on some Chrome browsers by the end of 2017. According to a blog posted by Google, it has informed that Gmail will stop working on 53 or lower version of its Chrome browser. The process of stopping GmailContinue Reading
A future in which human workers are replaced by machines is about to become a reality at an insurance firm in Japan, where more than 30 employees are being laid off and replaced with an artificial intelligence system that can calculate payouts to policyholders. Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance believes itContinue Reading
New Delhi: The countdown for the new year 2017 will be delayed by a second as horologists will compensate for a slowdown in the Earths rotation. The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is to introduce a “leap second” after 23.59:59 on December 31. “The Earth and rotation around its own axisContinue Reading
Indian engineers could be hurt in more ways than one by US president-elect Donald Trump’s promise to bring back jobs for Americans. From the early days of his campaign, Trump’s anti-immigrant stance has included plans to cut down on work visas, known as H-1B, that allow skilled foreign workers toContinue Reading