Inside one of the laboratories of a city engineering college, a group of students are hard at work. They are building two satellites that will hopefully go into orbit as successors to a miniature craft launched into space by another set of students in 2010. STUDSAT-2 is in the worksContinue Reading
Stock markets were today in the red after Apple shares sank by seven per cent. At the same time, Twitter shares dived by 12.3 per cent after the social media site report a revenue of $594.5millon (£406m), against expectations of around $607million (£415m). Apple had revealed last night, its first dropContinue Reading
Apple Inc on Tuesday posted its first-ever decline in iPhone sales and its first revenue drop in 13 years as the company credited with inventing the smartphone struggles with an increasingly saturated market. The company’s sales dropped by more than a quarter in China, its most important market after theContinue Reading
Vijayawada : For more than two decades now, 45-year-old Padmavati has been visiting pregnant women, mothers and newborn children in the Vijayawada district of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. With her, she carries several hardback paper registers – one for each village she visits – and carefully logs healthcareContinue Reading
It was a few minutes before noon when it hit. The massive earthquake in Nepal touched off multiple avalanches in the snow-capped Himalayas, forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes. That day in April, a year ago today, turned into the bloodiest Mount Everest has ever seen. The quake killedContinue Reading
The driverless car race is heating up. There are now 30 companies involved in the development of autonomous vehicles, according to research from analyst firm CB Insights. The companies were identified using CB Insights’ investment, acquisition, and partnership data. Apple, Google, and Uber are among the tech heavyweights looking to cash inContinue Reading
Intel’s planned layoff of 12,000 adds to a lengthy list of job cuts by VMware, EMC, IBM, Microsoft. Intel’s announcement on Tuesday about cutting 12,000 jobs is just one more example of an increasingly tough 12-month period for tech sector employees. Over the past year, the computer industry has slashed 72,333 jobs,Continue Reading
Mumbai: Women will now be able to step out with greater confidence in the knowledge that the police are just minutes away – seven minutes, to be precise. Mumbai Police is launching a new safety app for women called Pratisaad (response), which they claim will ensure cops can reach aContinue Reading
Apple’s recycling program is doing very well. As part of its annual environmental report that the company released yesterday, Apple declared that it had recovered nearly 90 million pounds of materials from Apple devices recycled through is program in 2015. Sixty-one million pounds of those materials are reusable in future products,Continue Reading
How Deccan’s Kalamkari textile-paintings gained pan-Indian appeal? Which are the famed Uttarakhand tribal foods and how are they prepared? Where exactly is Yamuna Biodiversity Park; what all does it house? What are the varieties of Chhau dance in the country’s east? Reliable answers to these and more such questions areContinue Reading
