Technology - general
Using drones to monitor birds
16 Feb 2017
Engineers shrink microscope to dime-sized device
16 Feb 2017
Researchers develop technology to allow users’ physical intimacy across remote locations
16 Feb 2017
Researchers engineer 'thubber,' a stretchable rubber that packs a thermal conductive punch
14 Feb 2017
Researchers engineer 'thubber,' a stretchable rubber that packs a thermal conductive punch
14 Feb 2017
It’s not just humans – dogs like good manners too
14 Feb 2017
New research by scientists at Kyoto University has found that dogs judge humans based on how they treat other people
New study of ferroelectrics offers roadmap to multivalued logic for neuromorphic computing
13 Feb 2017
Cooling without an air conditioner
13 Feb 2017
Protecting bulk power systems from hackers
11 Feb 2017
Hackers target specific parts of the control network of power infrastructure and they focus on the mechanisms that control it to cause power outages and blackouts
Online media use shows strong genetic influence
09 Feb 2017
Indian-American teen finds cheap way to make saltwater potable
06 Feb 2017
Major technology firms and research institutions are looking seriously at a breakthrough that is estimated to impact millions of lives — cheaply deslainating seawater
Terahertz wireless could make spaceborne satellite links as fast as fibre-optic links
06 Feb 2017
A new technology enables data rates 10 times or more faster than that offered by the fifth-generation mobile networks (5G), expected to appear around 2020
Apple formally joins AI alliance
28 Jan 2017
Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM, and now Apple have joined ‘Partnership on AI’, which aims to ensure that artificial intelligence benefits society and doesn’t harm it
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation