Cosmic junk in the space has been a matter of worry for all countries. Half a century of space exploration has created more than 500,000 pieces of 'space junk'. Japan launched an experimental space scavenger into the orbit, which will study the possibility of getting rid of this junk.
NASA had tracked 500,000 pieces of junk circling our planet which...
Among the reports surfacing about the Samsung Galaxy S8, the latest claims that the phone will most likely have an “all-screen design”.
For a very long time now, smartphone manufacturers have been in a constant search for ways to minimize the size of the bezels. The display of the S8 is rumoured to have finally done away with it, at...
Microsoft’s bid to acquire social network LinkedIn has met the approval of the European Union. The tech giant now has all the required regulatory approvals to go ahead with the acquisition that was announced earlier this year.
A blog post on Microsoft said that the European Commission had passed approval of the $26 billion deal on the basis of certain...
Facebook, Microsoft, YouTube and Twitter have made it known that they will collaborate on attempts to curb the spread of 'terrorist content' on their respective websites.
In this joint blog post, the companies announced that they will be creating a “shared industry database” of digital “fingerprints” called hashes, for content that has already been removed from the websites, which includes violent...
Apple Inc confirmed that it was working on developing technology for self driving cars in a letter to the U.S. highway regulator.
Apple’s director of product integrity, Steve Kenner, said in a letter to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), “The company is investing heavily in the study of machine learning and automation, and is excited about the potential...
The periodic table now has a filled seventh row with the addition of four new elements to it.
The four new elements- Nihonium, Moscovium, Tennessine and Oganesson- were synthesized in labs around the world between the years 2002 and 2010. These names, at numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118 replace placeholders ununtrium, ununpentium, ununseptium, ununoctium.
The superheavy elements were officially recognized...
The problem of nuclear waste management has seen an effective solution with a new technology that generates electricity from nuclear waste.
This feat was achieved by a team of physicists and chemists from the University of Bristol, who utilized nuclear waste and converted it into man-made diamond batteries that can generate a small electric current for the longest duration.
This much-needed innovation...
Jussi Adler Olsen's Mercy is a gripping psychological crime fiction novel set in Denmark. It is the first in a series and has earned worldwide acclaim. The series is to revolve around a dark and bizarre organization known only as Department Q.
Carl Mørck plays the stereotypical gritty, grimy crusader that's become withdrawn after witnessing a traumatic shooting that took...
CERN’s NA64 experiment is looking for the mysterious dark photon.
The concept of dark photons was first proposed in 2008 as a possible explanation for the movement of hydrogen in the Milky Way, which defies the rules of gravity. It is purported to be the fifth force, besides electromagnetism, gravity, and strong and weak nuclear forces. Since then, dark matter...
The rumour mill is rife with reports of Apple making prototypes of and testing a set of augmented reality glasses. Apple's first foray into virtual reality through a Google Glass-esque wearable is going to have to overcome hurdles that its predecessors couldn't. The late coming could, however, prove to be prodigious allowing Apple to learn from the mistakes of...
