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11 May 2016
TechnologyNASA’s Kepler mission announces 1,284 new exo-planets
NASA announced that the existence of 1,284 new exoplanets (which orbit stars outside our solar system) discovered by Kepler; it is the biggest collection of planets ever verified.
10 May 2016
TechnologyGileads's expensive hepatitis drug gets patent in India
In direct contradiction to its earlier order, the Indian Patent Office granted American pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences the patent for the blockbuster Hepatitis C drug Sovaldi in India.
7 May 2016
TechnologyBARC develops desalination plant using nuclear energy
In a first, BARC scientists successfully devised a method to produce cheaper drinking water from sea water; BARC also designed low-cost membranes to purify water.
6 May 2016
TechnologyMercury transiting Sun would be visible from India
India would have an opportunity to witness one of the rare astronomical events, the Mercury transit over the Sun's face on 9 May'16.
2 May 2016
TechnologyLadakh may host the world's largest telescope
The proposed largest telescope project in the world, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), is facing protests in Hawaii, USA.
30 Apr 2016
TechnologyClaude Shannon’s 100th anniversary, Google celebrates with doodle
Claude Shannon-'Father of the Information Age' who coined the term 'bit' (fundamental unit of digital information) would have turned 100 had he been alive.
21 Apr 2016
TechnologyScientists develop new way to predict Indian monsoon
Researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany have claimed to have developed a new way to predict the Indian monsoons.
21 Apr 2016
TechnologyISRO low-cost launch vehicles damaging US space companies
The US space industry displayed its displeasure towards the large-scale utilization of India's low-cost ISRO launch vehicles for installing American satellites into orbits.
20 Apr 2016
TechnologyISRO scientists build artificial heart pump
Rocket scientists at Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), have built a cardiovascular pump which can pump human blood and replicate the functions of a human heart.
18 Apr 2016
TechnologyAlphabet's Sidewalk Labs wants to build test city
Google's parent company Alphabet's subsidiary Sidewalk Labs wants to build a hi-tech test city in the U.S. from the ground up.
18 Apr 2016
TechnologyNext energy revolution to happen in a decade
According to the Sussex Energy Group, a leading UK think tank, the global dependence on fossil fuels will reduce drastically leading to their eventual phase out in less than a decade.
16 Apr 2016
TechnologyInflatable module to be installed in ISS
The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), an experimental inflatable space habitat, is set to be installed in the International Space Station (ISS).
13 Apr 2016
TechnologyFacebook launches chatbots for Messenger
Facebook announced that it was bringing chatbots into its popular messaging app, 'Messenger'.
13 Apr 2016
TechnologyBillionaire pledges $100mn to send spaceships to other galaxy
Russian billionaire, Yuri Milner has announced that he will invest $100 million to send spaceships to far off planets and stars of other galaxies.
6 Apr 2016
TechnologyGoogle launches health cards in India
Now, accessing health-related information is just a click away, thanks to Google India's newly launched health cards in Knowledge Graph.
5 Apr 2016
TechnologyFacebook rolls out AI-based technology for visually-impaired
Facebook began using the AI-based technology, which recognizes and describes the posted pictures aloud, for its visually-challenged users.
31 Mar 2016
TechnologyMicrosoft kicks off its annual developer conference, 'Build'
Microsoft began its annual developer conference 'Build' in San Francisco on Wednesday, bringing together software and web developers using Windows, Windows Phone, Microsoft Azure and other Microsoft technologies
29 Mar 2016
TechnologySeven in ten want Dark Web to be banned
An Ipsos poll revealed that seven out of ten participants stated that 'Dark Web' must be shut down.
23 Mar 2016
TechnologyBritish troops test Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak
During trials conducted at Fort Benning in Georgia in the USA, British troops from 3rd Battalion-The Rifles tested a Harry Potter-style "invisibility cloak", manufactured by VATEC Concealment Systems.
15 Mar 2016
TechnologyBritish mathematician wins Abel Prize 2016
British mathematician, Sir Andrew J. Wiles, was named the winner of the Abel Prize 2016 by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters "for his stunning proof of Fermat's Last Theorem" which opened "a new era in number theory".
14 Mar 2016
TechnologyGo champion finally wins against Google's AlphaGo program
Top echelon South Korean Go player Lee Sedol won his first match against an artificial intelligence program called AlphaGo deveploped by DeepMind, one of Google's subsidiaries.
4 Mar 2016
TechnologyAstronomers discover the most distant galaxy till date
NASA announced that astronomers used Hubble telescope to spot a galaxy that was formed 400 million years after the Big Bang explosion, the most distant galaxy found to date.
29 Feb 2016
TechnologyChinese surgeon in trouble over Antarctic vegetables
A Chinese surgeon, who grew vegetables in Antarctica while taking part in an official expedition to the South Pole, has been accused of violating the Antarctic Treaty.
22 Feb 2016
Mobile World CongressSamsung Galaxy S7 series finally arrives
The newly-launched Samsung smartphones, Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge come with 4GB RAM and have liquid-cooling-technology to prevent over-heating.
16 Feb 2016
TechnologyWake Forest University Scientists print living body parts
Scientists from Wake Forest University printed a transplantable human ear, muscles and bone tissues using an advanced bio printer, in a US Army funded study.
9 Feb 2016
TechnologyIndians spend Rs.1.5 lakh crore on diabetes care
According to a study published in the reputed British medical journal, The Lancet, Indians spend Rs.1,50,000 crore annually on diabetes treatment.
8 Feb 2016
TechnologyGoogle doodle for 'Father of Periodic Table'
Google commemorated the 182nd birthday of Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, the Russian chemist and inventor with a doodle.
7 Feb 2016
TechnologyPM urges scientists to make innovation available to people
PM Modi urged scientists to make innovation beneficial to the masses and advance technology that is accessible to the people with "zero defect" and "zero effect" on the environment.
31 Jan 2016
TechnologyNow, a technique to extract gold from e-waste
Scientists from University of Saskatchewan in Canada have discovered a novel technique to extract gold from e-waste.
27 Jan 2016
TechnologyDoomsday Clock: It's 3 minutes to midnight
The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic countdown to the world's end, stands still at three minutes until midnight, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced.
25 Jan 2016
TechnologyWikimedia Foundation distances itself from Free Basics
A US-based non-profit organisation- The Wikimedia Foundation which maintains and owns Wikipedia and other autonomous sites has also inched itself away from Facebook's Free Basics programme.
22 Jan 2016
TechnologyCaltech scientists say Planet X exists
According to respected planetary scientists Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), evidence points to the existence of a ninth planet in the solar system.
12 Jan 2016
TechnologyCES 2016 demonstrates how tech is changing
The 2016 version of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), held in Las Vegas every year in January, did not produce any revolutionary technologies but demonstrated how the world and technology in general is changing.
31 Dec 2015
TechnologyA look at the science/tech breakthroughs of 2015
Technology is perhaps the greatest agent of change and as 2015 comes to an end, we take a look at the most ingenious and revolutionary breakthroughs of 2015.
24 Dec 2015
TechnologyHello Kitty security loophole fixed
Sanrio, owner of popular character Hello Kitty, said that it has fixed the security loophole in its website SanrioTown.com after researcher Chris Vickrey uncovered a leak in its database.
9 Dec 2015
TechnologyGoogle, NASA display quantum computing tech
Google and NASA made a public debut of their new quantum supercomputing system that will revolutionize the computing industry.
7 Dec 2015
TechnologySecurity of VTech toys breached, 6 million affected
VTech, the giant of children's learning toys announced that its Kidizoom smartwatches and VTech InnoTab tablet had exposed the children to identity theft.
24 Nov 2015
TechnologyGoogle Doodle honors Lucy- the Australopithecus
Today's Google Doodle marks the discovery of Lucy, a skeleton found 41 years ago in Ethiopia.
23 Nov 2015
TechnologyTitan-HP to launch smart watch
Watch-maker Titan and IT major HP have joined hands to launch a range of smart watches.
19 Nov 2015
TechnologyAnonymous posts success against IS
Anonymous- the collective hackers declared their first success against the IS.
