The researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have designed a scientific device using 3D printing which can generate electricity from falling snow. Researchers are also found that when falling snow touches sillicon, a charge is produced which the device captures, creating electricity and could be used to monitor athletes performance.
Apple and Qualcomm have decided to drop all ongoing litigation and settle their royalty disputes by reaching an agreement on global patent license and chipset supply. The Trump administration’s vision of finding a national technology front runner for the forthcoming wave of 5G wireless communication may be coming true. Qualcomm’s legal settlement with Apple this…
Bugs of a different kind, bed bugs temporarily shut down a 24-hours on New York City’s Fifth Avenue. Staff were ordered to pack their belongings in plastic bags last Friday after a bed bug was spotted in a manager’s office. Eventually a beagle dog sniffed out the bugs in the locker area. According to an…
For the first times since the industrial revolution, China will be at the forefront of a major economic transformation – the advent of revolution in Artificial Intelligence according to Kai-FU Lee , former president of Google China and now a leading venture capitalist in Chinese technology. China’s “Sputnik movement”, when Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo defeated Ke…
Astronomers have captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) the first ever image of a black hole, which is located in a distant galaxy, 500 million trillion Km away and was photographed by a network of 8 telescopes across the world. The black hole measures 40 billion km across – three million times the size…
Microsoft will close its personal health records service HealthVault launched in 2009, on November 20 , 2019, as per an email sent to users and accessed of by ZDNet . Any data within the service will be deleted on the shutdown date, Microsoft said. It allows businesses and consumers to store personal health records…
Google is launching its Stadia cloud gaming service at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today. Sundar Pichai says he plays FIFA 19 qutie a hit introduced the Stadia service during a special keynote at GDC this morning describing it as a platform for everyone. Stadia will stream games from the cloud to the…
China’s Great Firewall once a glorified porn filter has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world In China you can erase and delete all your Twitter posts after publishing a data analysis of government officials, plagiarised academic work. Over the past year, Beijing’s censors have for the first time tried…
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web in 1989, unified the world’s largest physics laboratory, CERN, was a stockpile of ideas and information stored on multiple incompatible computers and linked information across different computers and platforms. His Proposal in March 1989 called “ Information Management : A Proposal”. By 1991 his vision of…
Donald Trump Tweeted “I want the United States to win through competition, not by blocking out currently more advanced technologies.” His latest comments struck a dovish tone than many others in his administration who have been lobbying US allies not to use Huawei technology in their own telecom networks for fear they could be used …