Portable, dry brain monitoring system in the offing
NEW YORK-- In their bid to get brain monitoring out of the lab, scientists have developed the world's first portable and dry wearable brain...
Gollakota and Talla achieve passive Wi-Fi at 10,000 times less power
Washington-- In an effort to curb battery drainage as you use Wi-Fi to play games or watch movies, a team of engineers including Indian-origin...
With 1.9bn users, YouTube streams 180mn hours to TV screens daily
San Francisco-- Over 1.9 billion users are logging into Google-owned YouTube each month and on average, users now watch over 180 million hours of...
Voice control everywhere: Chip could make speech recognition ubiquitous in electronics
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- The butt of jokes as little as 10 years ago, automatic speech recognition is now on the verge of becoming people’s...
Can technology hamper kids’ early communication skills?
New York-- Are you a tech buff and have filled your house with latest technologies from Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri to the Google...
4,000 viewed NZ mosques shootings live: Facebook
San Francisco-- Facing the flak over its inability to spot and remove the livestreaming of New Zealand mosque's shooting, Facebook on Tuesday said 4,000...
Independent body to moderate content at Facebook
San Francisco-- Facebook will establish an independent body next year to oversee user appeals of content, thereby admitting that it should not take a...
India-first ‘two-wheeler mode’ in Google Maps expands to Asia
New Delhi-- The "two-wheeler mode" in Google Maps that first arrived in India last December has been extended to Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar,...
Apple hires Facebook critic on its privacy team: Report
San Francisco-- Apple has reportedly hired a former Facebook employee -- who testified before the British Parliament on the social media giant's data-sharing policies...
Use blockchain technology to prevent PNB type fraud: Expert
By Biswajit Choudhury
New Delhi-- With Indian industry calling for adopting hi-tech control systems to check financial frauds, a foreign data protection expert has suggested...
