Information technology
Perfect communication with imperfect chips
04 Aug 2011
Successful data transmission through LED beams
03 Aug 2011
Brain cap technology turns thought into motion
01 Aug 2011
IBM unveils breakthrough storage performance
23 Jul 2011
Researchers from IBM yesterday demonstrated the future of large-scale storage systems by successfully scanning 10 billion files on a single system in just 43 minutes
Software to beat internet censors developed in the US
20 Jul 2011
The software could allow users to get to their desired internet destination without censors being aware about it
Computer learns language by playing games
12 Jul 2011
Chips hold the key to understanding the human brain
12 Jul 2011
Cientists have taken a key step towards producing a high-performance computer which aims to create working models of human brain functions
New algorithm could help prevent midair collisions
By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 05 Jul 2011
IBM develops low-cost, 100 times faster-than-Flash memory
02 Jul 2011
Unlike Flash, PCM is also very durable and can endure at least 10 million write cycles, compared to current enterprise-class Flash at 30,000 cycles or consumer-class Flash at 3,000 cycles.
The future of chip manufacturing
By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 01 Jul 2011
MIT researchers show how to make e-beam lithography, commonly used to prototype computer chips, more practical as a mass-production technique.
Transferring computing tasks across devices
By ByLarry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 18 Jun 2011
A new system lets you transfer open applications between a computer and a cellphone simply by pointing the phone’s camera at the computer’s screen
Global test run of next-gen internet protocol IPv6 begins today
07 Jun 2011
Around 200 technology companies including Akamai, Facebook, and Google will conduct the first global-scale trial of IPv6 for a 24-hour period, for 24 hours on 8 June
World record in ultra-rapid data transmission
26 May 2011
Scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have succeeded in encoding data at a rate of 26 terabits per second on a single laser beam, transmitting them over a distance of 50 km, and decoding them successfully.
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By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation