This picture shows the spectrum of light.You may have seen similar images in the past, but this one is something special-because it’s made of star light. In April 2015, two so-called laser frequency combs were installed at the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) planet-finding instrument of the European Southern Observatory’s 3.6-metre telescope at the La …

    Everyone wants to go wireless these days, and hence we are seeing a whole lot of action in this space. Luckily for us, the growth in demand has also brought down the prices of the Bluetooth-enabled devices from where they were few years back. The only way to upgrade from wired-to-wireless was predominantly based on you upgrading to …

    When Google I/O is around the corner, all we can hear is the jibber jabber around the possibility of next Android flavour and what it might be called. And there are also interesting nuggets floating around the Nexus range of devices. Google did manage to give a Nexus tablet in 2014, but as per some of the reports …

What Is It? A 13.3-inch MacBook Air-styled laptop running Windows 8.1 instead. Thinner and lighter than the MacBook Air, but not as stupidly thin as Apple’s latest MacBook. Incredible build quality and specs for a machine this cheap. The processor’s nothing special-a relatively weak Core M-but where else are you going to find 8GB of RAM, 256GB of solid state …

      Makers of the Firefox browser, Mozilla, have expressed interest in launching Firefox OS phones for the highly demanding budget segment. We’ve even seen a couple of handsets from Chinese manufacturers launching in select locations as well. However, the company’s rise to fame was said to be the $25 (Rs 1600 approximately) Firefox OS phone. Well, the popular …

        LONDON : Watching 3D movies is beneficial for enhancing and boosting brain power, new research says. According to British researchers, watching 3D films helps improve cognitive abilities. The team led by neuroscientist Patrick Fagan from Goldsmiths University found a 23 percent increase in cognitive processing ability among participants after watching a 3D movie. The subjects’ reaction …

    A new hyperlens can help us see tiny objects that elude even the most powerful optical systems. Called a metamaterial hyperlens, the lens may someday help detect some of the most lethal forms of cancer. “Today’s high-resolution endoscopes can resolve objects to about 10,000 nanometers. The hyperlens could improve that to at least 250 nanometers or better,” said …

    NASA     When you do a simple internet search on a topic, the results that appear are not the whole story. Most of the information is buried in the “Deep Web” in the mysterious online world. Now, NASA researchers have joined the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to harness the benefits of “Deep Web” searching …

        The never-ending debate about smartphone camera vs DLSR continues to rage on but with future developments, don’t be surprised if the former manages to upstage the latter. Few years back, Nokia brought different camera dimensions to smartphone with its 41MP powered Lumia 1020 Windows phone. Cut to circa 2015, we might just catch glimpse of first …

  A new piece of technology could have prevented the Amtrak train in Philadelphia from speeding, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. It’s called “positive train control,” or PTC, and it’s in the process of being installed and tested throughout the country. According to the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority, the PTC technology senses when a train is …