Emblazoned on banners hung along the city’s main thoroughfare La Rambla are the words: “Liberty, equality, fraternity, and technology for all.” Exalted company for a few phones and gadgets, you might think — except the banners were hinting at something much bigger. As a product of the Age of Enlightenment and a guiding principle of the French Revolution, the phrase ... Read More »
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Fight brews over promising genetic-sequencing technology
Biomedical researchers are dismayed over a patent dispute that could threaten an innovative method for sequencing genomes. Sequencing giant Illumina said on 23 February that it has filed a lawsuit against UK-based Oxford Nanopore Technologies, the first company to commercialize nanopore sequencing. The technology reads single bases of genetic material as they pass through a nanoscale pore. The suit, by ... Read More »
Accedian Wins 2016 GLOMO Award for Best Technology Enabler
Judged by a panel of independent industry experts, Accedian’s technology was recognized for its ability to provide the real-time, network-wide view of performance and quality of experience (QoE) that acts as the nervous system driving SK Telecom’s software-defined network (SDN), a big data analytics driven, multi-vendor environment. Accedian was credited by the judges as being a foundational technology to deliver ... Read More »
Deadpool’ Technology Lands in Patent Fight
The patent wars have come to the cinemaplex. If you marveled at the facial animations of the current hit movie “Deadpool” or last year’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” you probably didn’t realize you werewatching technology called Mova. Mova captures every facial tick and motion of a human actor and places it on an animated figure. And it won an Academy ... Read More »
The Impact of Technology on HR and What’s Ahead
apid changes in technology have affected businesses in more ways than we can count, from globalization and organizational adjustments to a workforce clamoring for remote and mobile job opportunities — and human resources has had to adapt swiftly. If HR wants to continue to play a critical role in helping businesses anticipate and manage organizational change, it must have technology ... Read More »
Genetically engineered immune cells are saving the lives of cancer patients. That may be just the start.
eukemia bubbling in her veins. She’d had bags and bags of chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant. But the cancer still thrived. By last June, the 12-month-old was desperately ill. Her parents begged—wasn’t there anything? There was. In a freezer at her hospital—Great Ormond Street, in London—sat a vial of white blood cells. The cells had been genetically altered to ... Read More »
ECI Hosts Seminar on Leveraging Technology for Transparent and Credible Elections
Welcoming the delegates on behalf of the Election Commission of India, Mr. Umesh Sinha, Deputy Election Commissioner outlined the format of the Seminar, comprising of a Lead Presentation by India and country presentations by delegations from other Election Management Bodies (EMBs) participating in the Seminar. Commissioner Ms. Rosario Graciano de los Santos from Dominican Republic profusely thanked Election Commission of ... Read More »
The glasses-free technology that made me believe in 3D TV again
Quite frankly, 3D glasses have never failed to be anything but a headache inducing, slightly blurry mess for me. That might be why a recent demo of a new glasses-free 3D TV from Ultra-D blew me away. It just works. Six years or so after the industry declared that stereoscopic 3D displays were going to be the future of entertainment, 3D TVs ... Read More »
Rudeness is on the rise in the United States, and consumer
technology is partly to blame. That may seem a harsh indictment for such seemingly innocuous creations as the telephone answering machine, boom box radio-cassette player, and talking computer chip in automobiles. But they are relatively cheap to manufacture and insinuate themselves into every corner of daily life. The result is a decline of civilization as we have known it. As ... Read More »
Oppo’s new technology can fully charge a smartphone in just 15 minute
While Oppo hasn’t managed to break the smartphone market the way a few other Chinese brands have recently, it does have a relatively strong fan following of its own. And those fans are about to be in for a treat soon. The company launched a new quick charging technology yesterday at MWC 2016, called Super VOOC Flash Charge, that is ... Read More »