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 …

The National Instruments-Kalasalingam University Technology Innovation Centre was inaugurated at Kalasalingam University in Krishnankovil on Friday. The centre, which has been set up at a cost of Rs four crore, will train students for National Instruments (NI) certification and teachers in innovative teaching methodologies. Presiding over the inaugural function, K. Sridharan, Chancellor, described the centre as a milestone in upgrading …

        With recent rapid advances in technology, clients now have access to investment apps on their phones that are on par with any wirehouse workstation. So, faced with a clientele increasingly comfortable with technology, how do top-performing financial advisers utilize tech compared to low-quintile producers? “They think more strategically about technology than lower-quintile performers,” said Joel Bruckenstein, …

      Automotive technology is rapidly evolving across the globe. India, which is expected to become the world’s third-largest automotive market by the end of this decade, is getting its due share. The good news is that the adoption of high-end technology is also happening in the Indian affordable car segment. We list a few technologies which are mainstream …

    A sod-cutting ceremony has marked the beginning of construction of a new specialist science and technology campus at Oundle School. Moments before headmaster Charles Bush broke the ground on the site of the new SciTec Campus, the last last part of the old school workshops was demolished. The new development will include a mathematics department and science labs, …