San Francisco, Feb 24 Taking on Apple and Google, Microsoft and Chinese electronics major Xiaomi have signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered budget speakers and smartphones. The companies would work closely in Cloud computing, AI and hardware. Since they have chosen to sign a memorandum, theirRead More

LOS ANGELES: Social media experiences of teenagers may spill over into real life and affect their relationships, a study suggests. According to researchers at University of California, Irvine in the US, a new digital divide appears to be emerging over the types of experiences teens have online. In the researchRead More

Washington, February 22 Scientists, including those of Indian origin, have developed a laser emitter that can safely charge a smartphone across a room as quickly as a standard USB cable. Researchers mounted a thin power cell to the back of a smartphone, which charges the smartphone using power from theRead More

Washington Average brain size of humans increased gradually and consistently over the past three million years, growing to over three times larger than our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, shows that the trend was caused primarily byRead More

Melbourne Scientists have developed a 3D printable clip-on that allows anyone to turn their smartphone into a fully functional microscope. The smartphone microscope is powerful enough to visualise specimens as small as 1/200th of a millimetre, including microscopic organisms, animal and plant cells, blood cells, cell nuclei and more, researchersRead More

Washington NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity—which completed 5,000 Martian days—has spotted “rock stripes” on the red planet similar to those seen on some mountain slopes on Earth that result from repeated cycles of freezing and thawing of wet soil. However, the stripes might also be due to wind, downhill transport,Read More

London Scientists have confirmed the discovery of the most distant supernova ever detected—a huge cosmic explosion that took place 10.5 billion years ago, or three-quarters the age of the universe. A supernova is the explosion of a massive star at the end of its life cycle. The exploding star, namedRead More

Mumbai, Feb 19 Google Arts and Culture on Monday unveiled 10 3D-printed ceramic vases at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) museum here to mark the culmination of its ‘Future Relics’ project — the first-ever lab experiment in India. The “Future Relics” project, which was announced in November 2017,Read More

New York A stroke in a baby—even a big one—may not have the same lasting impact as it could in an adult. Researchers have found that they regain language function in the “opposite side” of the brain if they experience a stroke around the time of birth. About one inRead More

Washington NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity—which completed 5,000 Martian days—has spotted “rock stripes” on the red planet similar to those seen on some mountain slopes on Earth that result from repeated cycles of freezing and thawing of wet soil. However, the stripes might also be due to wind, downhill transport,Read More