While touch sensing is common on small, flat surfaces such as smartphone or tablet screens, researchers have now developed a technology to turn surfaces of a wide variety of shapes and sizes
Photo sharing website Instagram on Thursday launched new tools to support people struggling with self-injury or suicidal thoughts globally, including in India. The tools, that offer options such as talk to a
A muffled voice hidden in a YouTube video can issue commands to a nearby smartphone without you even knowing it, researchers reveal. According to Micah Sherr, professor at Georgetown University, voice recognition
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba wowed investors when it went public in the US in September 2014, and its profits have bucked Wall Street expectations amid the Chinese economy’s slowdown. Yet its unorthodox
Deploying sniffer dogs to scour crowded buses and trains or a packed stadium for explosives first requires cordoning off the area which isn’t a mean task. But now there’s an easy way
A new type of wireless internet technology has been developed that could provide a connection that’s 100 times faster than traditional WiFi. The tech is called LiFi, and was tested by an
BEIJING: China’s Tianhe-2 supercomputer has maintained its position as the world’s most powerful system for the sixth consecutive time, according to a biannual Top500 list of supercomputers. Tianhe-2 or Milky Way 2,