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How tech firms could cut their carbon footprint
Digital technology companies could reduce the carbon footprint of services like YouTube by making changes to how they are designed, experts say.
OnePlus 7 Pro to support HDR10+ display
Premium smartphone maker OnePlus' upcoming OnePlus 7 Pro will feature a HDR10+ certified display, thus providing users with a more dynamic, detailed and vivid viewing experience.
Hubble data used to create portrait of distant universe
Scientists have put together a deep-sky mosaic, providing a portrait of the distant universe containing 265,000 galaxies that stretch back through 13.3 billion years of time, using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The image is the largest and most comprehensive "history book" of galaxies dating back to just 500 million years after the Big Bang, researchers said. Created from nearly 7,500 individual exposures, the image stiches together 16 years' worth of observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. The portrait shows how galaxies change over time, building themselves up to become the giant galaxies seen in the nearby universe. The ambitious endeavour, called the Hubble Legacy Field, also combines observations taken by several Hubble deep-field surveys, including the eXtreme Deep Field (XDF), the deepest view of the universe. The wavelength range stretches from ultraviolet to near-infrared light, capturing the key features of galaxy assembly over time. "Now that we have gone ..
EU to probe Spotify's rivalry claims against Apple
The European Union (EU) has decided to investigate Swedish music-streaming giant Spotify's allegations accusing Apple of unfairly hindering its rivals and favouring Apple Music through its App Store policies.
Hike starts academia partnership with IIIT-D for AI, ML development
Homegrown mobile messaging platform Hike Monday announced collaboration with Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-D) for developing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the country. This collaboration is in line with the company's goal to facilitate research collaboration with Indian universities and research institutions, Hike said in a statement. By facilitating this research opportunity, we want to help enable the Indian academia to connect to early-stage research and support the translation of that research to fuel advancement in the AI and ML ecosystem, Anshuman Misra, VP Operations, Hike said. According to research by Itihaasa, India currently ranks third, far behind China as the leader of research in the field of AI. Through this initiative, Hike aims to help bridge that gap along with stakeholders in the ecosystem The goal of the research collaboration initiative is to work with stakeholders and academia to help enable more ...
Lok Sabha polls: 12.65 per cent polling recorded till 10 am in 7 states
An estimated voter turn out of 12.65 per cent was recorded in 51 constituencies spread across seven states in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections till 10 am, said Election Commission of India (ECI).The highest voter turnout of 16.56 per cent was registered in West Bengal and the lowest of 1.36 per cent in Jammu and Kashmir, the ECI data stated.In Madhya Pradesh, the voter turnout was recorded at 13.18 per cent till 10 am, while in Jharkhand it was 13.46 per cent. In Bihar and Rajasthan, the voter turn out was 11.51 per cent and 14 per cent respectively.Lok Sabha elections are being held in seven phases from April 11 to May 19. The results will be announced on May 23.
Apple to change antenna structure in 2019 iPhones
The 2019 line-up of iPhones is expected to come with a changed antenna structure, according to famed Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
Ducon secures another FGD project order in India
On 06 May 2019
SCIKEY Talent Commerce Platform User Registrations Soar in its First Month of Beta Launch
/ -- Disruptive business model powered by great tech does the trick After the beta launch of the first-of-its-kind fully automated AI based talent commerce platform 'SCIKEY,' it has been a great month as far as customer responses are concerned. "We met more than fifty customers over the last 30 days in India and Malaysia and showcased our product and got excellent response from every customer without any exception. The experience has been amazing. While we realized that we are filling a significant gap in the industry by automating a large part of hiring, the true benefit SCIKEY can achieve got realised after engaging with the customers. Right from the true cost of hiring, delays in onboarding, manual nature, and clutter of the overall process and unpredictable joining certainty of candidates add much stress in corporate recruitment teams that resonates directly on the company's performance. SCIKEY seems to be an apt and a much desired solution as per our customers," says Karunjit ...
UK begins accepting Apple Pay, Google Pay
The UK government has started accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay for some of its online consumer services.
Microsoft unveils its own Blockchain-based service
Joining the Blockchain bandwagon, Microsoft has unveiled fully-managed Azure Blockchain Service that would simplify the formation, management and governance so that businesses can focus on workflow logic and application development.
Snakelike robot may help save white rhinos from extinction
Scientists have created a flexible, snakelike robot that can perform artificial insemination and embryo transfer on rhinos, an advance that may potentially rescue the northern white rhinos from the brink of extinction. Decades of poaching and habitat loss have led to the dramatic decline of the northern white rhino -- with just two northern white rhinos remaining in the world, both of whom are female. Hope for their survival now rests on the ability to develop innovative methods for repopulating the species, according to researchers from the University of California San Diego and San Diego Zoo Global in the US. The device is a long, thin catheter that can be steered through a rhino's cervix to deliver a specimen to the uterus, said Michael Yip, a professor at UC San Diego. Navigating a female rhino's reproductive anatomy is incredibly complicated. "The rhino cervix is very large and tortuous," said Barbara Durrant, from the San Diego Zoo Global. It has a series of twists and turns ...
Knitting machines used to create robotic plush toys
Scientists have used computationally controlled knitting machines to create robotic plush toys and other knitted objects, an approach that may be used to cost-effectively make soft robots and wearable technologies. The researchers created lampshades that change shape, stuffed figures that give hugs when poked in the stomach and even a sweater with a sleeve that moves on its own. The software developed at Carnegie Mellon University in the US makes it possible for the objects to emerge from the knitting machines in their desired shapes and with tendons already embedded. They can then be stuffed and the tendons attached to motors, as necessary. "The idea is to build robots from materials that are inherently safe for people to be near, so it would be very hard to hurt someone. Actuated soft components would be cheap to produce on commercial knitting machines," said Lea Albaugh, a PhD student who led the research effort. "We have so many soft objects in our lives and many of them could be .
OnePlus 7 Pro pricing, specifications leaked online
With OnePlus gearing up for the official launch of its flagship device OnePlus 7 Pro on May 14, the specifications and pricing of the latest smartphone have been leaked online.
Panasonic introduces next-gen convenience store in Yokohama
Prominent Japanese electronics producer Panasonic and convenience store mega-chain FamilyMart have launched a new store here as a joint demonstration project between them.This experimental project utilises IoT technology and various data to achieve enhanced operational efficiency for customers.With the latest facial recognition and image analysis technology developed by Panasonic, customers can register their photo and credit card information and then check out using the unmanned register.When desired items are put in the centre of check out corner, the price is automatically calculated and the money is withdrawn from the user's pre-registered credit card.The store is thoroughly equipped with camera and sensor to digitize information in the store. Camera and infrared radiation sensors are installed in the general shopping area to detect customer movement and the number of products on the shelf.Dwell time heat maps are also generated from camera and sensor combined with Smartphone ...
How YouTube engineers plotted to kill Internet Explorer 6
A former Google employee has revealed how a group of engineers plotted to kill Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 on its YouTube platform nearly 10 years ago.
Re-polling in Shahjahanpur, Hamirpur, Agra on May 6
Re-polling will be held in 10 polling stations in Uttar Pradesh on Monday.
eSIM in car set to jazz up your weekend road trips
In October 2013, GSMA which is the mobile network operators' trade body worldwide, revealed it was developing a new kind of SIM that could be soldered in place and then programmed to connect to a chosen carrier remotely.
Zuckerberg vs Sharma: WhatsApp Pay can gobble up Paytm
When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on April 24 that the company is actively working on to launch WhatsApp Pay in India, the message was clear to the digital payments leader in the country: Brace for the landfall.
'Apple Store at Carnegie Library to focus on creativity'
Suggesting that the soon-to-open Apple Store at Washington DC's Carnegie Library will do much more than just selling iPhones and other products, Apple CEO Tim Cook has said that the outlet will focus on community and creativity, the media reported.
