Technology

Small SUVs, hybrid vehicles, internet-powered auto technology, and more: Here’s what to expect from Geneva Motor Show 2016

While waiting for the much-discussed future of driverless cars to arrive, European automakers are focusing on tried-and-tested sales winners at this year’s Geneva International Auto Show — rolling out the small SUVs that are increasingly replacing hatchbacks and sedans in people’s driveways. Long after it has ceased to be an innovation, the small SUV category is drawing carmakers like catnip ... Read More »

The challenges of using blockchain technology

Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize financial transactions but companies will have to overcome several challenges in order to experience any benefits, according to industry experts. Blockchain was developed alongside the digital cryptocurrency bitcoin. It works like a huge, decentralized ledger which records every transaction and stores this information on a global network to prevent tampering. Bitcoin, itself, is ... Read More »

Don’t be smug, technology is eating middle-class jobs too

One million jobs to vanish in 10 years,” shout the Monday morning headlinesjust to get the week off to a good start. But it’s not another scary intervention in the referendum debate by a pro-European or a Brexiter. It’s more serious than that. The culprit on this occasion is the British Retail Consortium (BRC), the people who speak for shops ... Read More »

Dolby plays to eyes as well as ears with new technologies

The display mirrors Dolby’s recent efforts to move beyond sound enhancement to improve what people see when they watch films. Several of the movies up for Oscars on Sunday in Los Angeles were made with Dolby Vision, which has become an industry standard for image quality in movies. Best picture nominees “The Martian” and “The Revenant,” as well as Pixar’s ... Read More »

Drone technology a threat to Trident submarines, MPs to be told

The controversial idea that Britain’s nuclear submarines could be rendered irrelevant before the new fleet is even launched, will be bolstered this week by a report to be presented to MPs examining the Trident programme. Emerging drone technology, which could make the oceans “effectively transparent”, will make the submarines that carry the UK’s nuclear deterrent vulnerable to attack, warns the ... Read More »

Under the Digital India initiative: Software Technology Park of India

Apart from upgrading Common Service Centres (CSCs) in all districts with 69 additional e-services, Union Minister for Communication and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad and Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday announced that a Software Technology Park of India (STPI) would be set up in Panchkula under the Digital India initiative. With a total of 31 e-services already being ... Read More »

For Make in India to succeed, harness technology, foster innovation

The vision to increase the share of manufacturing in the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and creating employment may attract Indian and foreign capital as well as technological investment across an array of 25 sectors. Recognising the natural, cultural as well as economic diversity, including inherent advantages of specific regions, the ‘Make in India’ initiative hopes to harness and develop ... Read More »

Biggest fireball since Chelyabinsk streaks over Atlantic Ocean

The largest fireball to streak through the Earth’s atmosphere since the Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013 was detected over the Southern Atlantic Ocean on Feb. 6, NASA reports. The recent meteor was detected about 31 kilometres over the South Atlantic, more than 1,000 kilometres off the coast of southern Brazil, NASA reported on its Fireball and Bolide Reports website. It was ... Read More »

Code Crush at UNO helps girls get technology experience

Omaha, Neb. (KMTV) – Inside a classroom at the Peter Kiewit Institute, several dozen girls are feverishly typing away at computer screens, working together, and laughing. They’re not on SnapChat or Instagram though, they’re working on developing their own game for an app you’d find on your iPad. It’s part of a three day, four night series of classes called ... Read More »

3-D technology used to safely reveal the diet of ‘Chaucer’s children’

Biological anthropologists have discovered a new way of examining the fragile teeth of children who lived between the 11th and 15th centuries without damaging them. By using 3D microscopic imaging, researchers from the universities of Kent (UK) and Indianapolis (USA) have been able to safely reconstruct the diet of children who would have lived next door to Canterbury Cathedral when ... Read More »