Showing posts from November, 2015
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 re…
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 releas…
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. …
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, con…
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 …
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 t…
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 con…
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…
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 eno…
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 th…
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 souther…
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 …
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…
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 fi…
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) c…
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 loc…
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 …
Hello, my name is Jack Sparrow. I'm a 50 year old self-employed Pirate from the Caribbean. 
