British Deputy High Commissioner, Mumbai, Kumar Iyer has announced that the British Government will be helping selected cities of India in developing them to smart cities. Moreover, he further reveals the names of the cities. The Deputy High Commissioner “It would be our endeavour t…
We’re delighted to announce the availability of Google Play services 8.3. There’s a lot of new information to share with you about what’s available to you in this release. A big part of this release is focused on user identity. We’ve revamped the Sign In with Google APIs to make impleme…
While Mars doesn't have much in the way of Earth-like weather, it does evidently share one kind of weird meteorology: acid fog.
The carbon cycle is central to life on Earth. It describes how carbon flows between living organisms, and the ocean, atmosphere and rock of our planet, and is driven by the energy from our sun. But a carbon cycle also exists for our galaxy, and astronomers are opening new wind…
Tiny spacecraft have their ambitions of space exploration too. The small-sized satellites called CubeSats, made of box-shaped four-inch units, are successfully operating in the low Earth orbit, conducting a variety of scientific research. Now, space agencies like NASA and ESA a planning…
The highest-resolution radar images of asteroid 2015 TB145's safe flyby of Earth have been processed and yield new information about its surface features.
Astronomers have discovered a giant gathering of galaxies in a very remote part of the universe, thanks to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The galaxy cluster, located 8.5 billion light-years away, is the most massive structure yet fo…
New calculations suggest that vast valley networks that spider across the southern highlands of Mars may have been carved by a surprisingly small volume of water The study, published in the November issue of Planetary and Space Science , finds that the minimum water volume re…
Regardless of who you talk to, everybody agrees that the IoT will be the next big “thing” (no pun intended). The excitement for IoT is supported by: ever shrinking hardware ubiquitous connectivity rich IoT application platforms an increasing number of IoT use cases and indu…
The Smart Home , a long standing promise for over 30 years, is becoming a reality today. ZigBee has developed as the wireless communication technology of choice. Actually, ZigBee is the low-power wireless technology that complements WiFi technology to make our homes smarter, safer, mo…
Intelligent networks for producing and storing electricity and heat
New assistance system prevents car-pedestrian accidents. If there is a risk of an accident involving a pedestrian, an evasive maneuver is computed in a flash. If the driver is not steering hard enough, the assistance system intervenes. When talking about driver safety, it is all t…
Bioengineers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a new method of 3-D printing that allows production of complex micro-scale objects smaller than the width of a human hair. The technique, using patterned ultraviolet light and a custom-sha…
Get ready for a man-made fireball. A object discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on Oct 3rd temporarily designated WT1190F is predicted to impact the Earth about 60 miles (100 km) of the southern coast of Sri Lanka around 6:20 Universal Time (12:20 a.m CST) on November 13.
Facebook on Tuesday revealed it's experimenting with making video clips easier for users to find in its mobile and desktop applications. Facebook Sets New Lures for Video Viewers In coming days, a limited number of users will see the additions, which include a video button at th…
Yahoo on Thursday announced a password-free Yahoo Mail app that can manage email accounts from Outlook.com, Hotmail and AOL Mail. Yahoo's New Email App Dumps Passwords There was no mention of syncing with Gmail or Apple's iCloud Mail. Yahoo has been working to improve emai…
Facebook has decided not to offer its photo-sharing app Moments in Europe because of regulator concerns over its facial recognition technology. And earlier this week, talks between US tech firms and privacy campaigners broke down over fears about how the industry is planning to us…
JPeg pictures could soon have built-in restrictions making them harder to copy, if recommendations by the body overseeing the format are implemented. The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPeg) committee has called for controls over how image data in .jpg files is accessed. It i…
A new chat tool has been launched in an effort to improve the security of online messaging. Tor Messenger allows users to chat over the Tor (The Onion Router) network in a way which hides the location of participants. It means that the contents of messages will only be visible t…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai last week lit up his first earnings call with accounts of a solid third quarter and machine learning dreams that could permeate all the company's products. The Q3 2015 report was the first in which Google reported earnings through its recently formed…
