Dr Rahul Raveendran Nair, a 34-year-old professor at the National Graphene Institute and school of Chemical Engineering and analytical Science at the University of Manchester in UK, developed a graphene-oxide membrane that makes whisky clear , paving way for new commercial application of Graphene membrane. His latest research was published in the Nature Materials on…
John Collison who grow up in rural Republic of Ireland, and a drop out of the university, is the co-founder of a US-based software business called Stripe, which is not widely known because it does not sell anything that consumers can buy instead its software enable companies around the world to accept more easily…
Seven weeks after hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, in late September 2017, the island has struggled to repair power lines, water pumps, cell phone towers, roads and bridges. The electrical system and power provider Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority was bankrupt going into the disaster, despite that they have managed to reconnect 40 per cent…
The Chinese group behind messaging App WeChat has Chinese group per cent stake worth more than $2bn in Snap, the US parent of Snapchat. US teenagers continue to adore Snapchat, using the app more than 25 times a day, but much of rest of the world remains flummoxed and indifferent. Evan Spiegel, the Los…
Apple’s Q4, 2017 earnings include the first days of sales for the company’s newest iPhone, the flagship product, delivered its best quarterly growth record with strong sales in all of its key products. The results also were driven by sales of iPhone X the highest-priced mobile phone ever. iPhone sales account for about two-thirds of…
The Kepler space telescope has already made number of discoveries since spying in the skies for the last eight years. Twenty new exo-planets that have a good chance of being within the habitable zone of their stars, including one that has an orbit very close to that of Earth. According to a new research paper…
A red-looking sun has been seen across parts of England including the South West, the Midlands, North West and North East. One theory could be the debris and dust from forest fires in Portugal and Spain. The red Sun and golden sky are partly due to the fatal hurricane and Storm Ophelia.
Samsung Electronics was crowned the most profitable tech group this summer, marking its decade-long metamorphosis from a purveyor of cheap consumer goods to a household name. The group announced record-breaking profits for the third quarter of Won 14.5tn ( £9.6billion) – a near trebling from the same period a year earlier. The Group – the jewel in…
Cassini’s grand finale. After 20 years study of Saturn by Cassini space probe is coming to an end by crashing in to the planet on Friday 15th September 2017. A joint venture between the European space agency and the US space agency, the Cassini Huygens mission which has been orbiting around Saturn since July 2004.…
Santa Clara-based Cyphort, an innovator in the software security space, had raised £ 22.5million ($30 million) in venture funding from investors including Sapphire Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and Matrix Partners. Sunnyvale-based Juniper Networks Inc. has agreed to buy Cyphort Inc., a security software startup run by Manoj Leelaniwas, one of Juniper’s former executives, who previously…