Information technology
Record for fastest data rate set
12 Feb 2016
Researchers in the UK have achieved a rate of 1.125 Tb/s as part of research on the capacity limits of optical transmission systems, designed to address the growing demand for fast data rates
New chip fabrication approach
01 Feb 2016
Depositing different materials within a single chip layer could lead to more efficient computers
Optoelectronic microprocessors built using existing chip manufacturing
29 Dec 2015
High-performance prototype means chip makers could now start building optoelectronic chips
New chip design could boost electronic performance by factor of a thousand
14 Dec 2015
In modern computer systems, processor and memory chips are laid out like single-story structures in a suburb. A new skyscraper-like design, based on materials more advanced than silicon, provides the next computing platform
Researchers in China unveil mind-controlled car
09 Dec 2015
Amplifying — or removing — visual variation
By By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 09 Nov 2015
Graphene key to high-density, energy-efficient memory chips, say Stanford engineers
03 Nov 2015
Engineers are developing memory chips based on new nanomaterials with capabilities that silicon can't match
A basis for all cryptography
03 Nov 2015
A tool that would provide a secure foundation for any cryptographic system may be close at hand
IBM breakthrough paves the way for carbon nanotube electronics
05 Oct 2015
IBM Research has announced a major engineering breakthrough that could accelerate carbon nanotubes replacing silicon transistors to power future computing technologies
Supercomputer predicts death with 95% probability
15 Sep 2015
The system collects data on patients every three minutes, measuring everything from oxygen levels to blood pressure, warning of the impending death of a patient
Using magnetic permeability to store information
11 Sep 2015
Research helping build computers from DNA
19 Aug 2015
Could Computers Reach Light Speed?
28 Jul 2015
Light waves trapped on a metal's surface travel nearly as fast as light through the air and far enough to possibly be useful for ultra-fast electronic circuit interconnects
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As costs of saying final goodbyes rise UK families resort to crowdfunding to pay for funerals
By Axel Miller | 16 Jan 2025
The cost of saying a final goodbye to loved ones in the UK has reached a grim new high, leaving families grappling with unexpected financial burdens.
The life and times of Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India
By Cygnus | 28 Dec 2024
On 27th December 2024 India and the world lost one of their finest statespersons in a hundred years. Manmohan Singh, born on 26th September 1932, in Gah, Punjab (now in Pakistan)
The remarkable Ratan Tata
By Kiron Kasbekar | 23 Oct 2024
One newspaper report of Ratan Tata’s passing away showed an old photo of him climbing into the cockpit of a Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter.
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
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
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