Heart surgery stalled as computer crashes
Washington, May 7 (IANS) A patient undergoing heart surgery at a US hospital was put at risk when the computer software being used to help carry out the procedure crashed due to an untimely anti-virus…
Technology
Gadkari urges enhanced use of IT for better transportation
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday advocated the enhanced use of Information Technology (IT) to improve the transportation and logistic facilities in India. “We know we…
Now, track your kids with Auxus waterproof GPS device
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) To help parents keep a tab on the location of their children, Hong-Kong-based electronics manufacturer iberry Auxus has launched a waterproof GPS-based tracking device for the Indian market. At any…
Miniature camera helps people with low vision read better
New York, May 6 (IANS) Researchers have developed a miniature camera that can be mounted onto the eyeglasses of people who are legally blind — vision with 20/200 or worse in the better eye –…
Control data use on Netflix with new tool
New York, May 6 (IANS) Streaming service Netflix has announced a new tool to help its users better control how much data they use while streaming on cellular networks. The default setting will enable you…
Special ‘ring’ turns lower arm into smartwatch touchpad
New York, May 6 (IANS) A team of scientists from Carnegie Mellon University has developed a new wearable technology that can turn your lower arm into a smartwatch touchpad. Called SkinTrack and developed by the…
Smartphone app may replace heart palpitation monitors
New York, May 6 (IANS) Offering heart patients, who need to monitor their rapid or irregular heart beat, an easier solution, researchers have found promise in a palpitation tracking smartphone app that provides comparable performance…
Facebook, Twitter to support Republican convention despite anti-Trump calls
Washington, May 6 (IANS) Despite activist groups mounting anti-Donald Trump pressure, social networking giant Facebook and micro-blogging website Twitter will support the Republican National Convention in July where Trump is expected to be announced the…
Can IT companies stand up to government on date security?
By Hardev Sanotra Las Vegas (US), May 6 (IANS) Can other technology companies defy the government the way Apple did when asked to help US federal investigators to crack the code of iPhone 5C? Unlikely….
Honeybee-inspired model to help build flying robots
London, May 6 (IANS) A computer model that shows how honeybees use vision to detect the movement of the world around them and avoid crashing can lead to develop better aerial robotics and autonomous robots,…
Two-minute warnings to turn TV off make things worse for kids
Washington, May 6 (IANS) If you always find it difficult to make your kids stop watching television or playing games on the smartphone, giving them a two-minute warning that “screen time” is about to end,…
Robot to sit for China’s national college entrance exam
Beijing, May 6 (IANS) A robot is being designed to compete with grade 12 students during the college entrance examination in 2017 and get a score qualifying it to enter first-class universities in China. The…
China to test first hybrid-power train
Beijing, May 6 (IANS) Chinese authorities will test the country’s first hybrid-power train next month, sources said. The train will complete its technical debugging phase by the end of this month in Jilin province and…
Three railway stations get free Wi-Fi service
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Thursday launched free Wi-Fi service at the railway stations at Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh, Raipur in Chhattisgarh and Kacheguda in Telengana via videoconferencing here. The…
IRCTC website not hacked: Official
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corp (IRCTC) on Thursday denied that its website, which is visited by around 22 lakh people a day, had been hacked. “IRCTC website was…
‘Young adults spending over three hours a day on smartphones’
Toronto, May 5 (IANS) Millennials — those born in the two decades after 1980s — are hooked to their smartphones or phablet screens for over three hours a day, media reported. The amount of time…
This mobile game can help fight dementia
London, May 5 (IANS) A newly developed smartphone game that tracks how the brain navigates may help scientists determine what goes wrong in the brain for people with dementia. The “Sea Hero Quest” game can…
Public cloud services in India to reach $1.26 bn in 2016
Mumbai, May 5 (IANS) The public cloud services market in India is projected to grow 30.4 percent this year to reach $1.26 billion, market research firm Gartner said on Thursday. The highest growth will come…
Comet craters brought ‘seed of life’ on Earth
London, May 5 (IANS) Large meteorite and comet impacts in the sea created structures that provided conditions favourable for life on Earth, reveal geochemists from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. Water then interacted with impact-heated…
App to convert smartphone into remote-sensing device
London, May 5 (IANS) Researchers from University of Exeter have created an app which can help aid humanitarian rescue work in disaster-struck regions by using geographic data to map landscapes. The android app can convert…