People are more willing to reveal personal information when using smartphones, say researchers, as opposed to when they are using desktops.
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Other than being a writer, editor, moderator, and events' curator, I help companies devise an integrated communications strategy. I'm passionate about digital transformation and deep-tech topics such as artificial intelligence (AI), big data analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, fintech, electric vehicles, solar power and autonomous vehicles. I am an MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow (2010-11), Boston; EARLIER ASSIGNMENTS include: Editor-South and National Technology Editor, Mint (HT Media) -- India; and Associate Editor, Business Standard.
Engineering researchers have developed a gas-permeable ultrathin, stretchable electronic material, designed specifically for use in biomedical or wearable technologies
You were probably among the thousands who searched online to potentially buy drugs like chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, recently touted as unproven cures for COVID-19 by some high-profile politicians and influencers. Was it a wise decision?
The popularity of an account on Instagram you fully trusted and followed zealously can be rigged with the help of underground Pods, say New York University (NYU) researchers
By when do you see countries using COVID-19 vaccines?
Even as most people acknowledge that self- and imposed-quarantines are necessary steps to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, some researchers argue that it thwarts the natural human impulse to huddle together in times of danger.
Most of us fear bats that are in the news now as they are also natural carriers of coronaviruses. We also typically associate bats with Batman in the cave, or…
Virtual reality, or VR, can help ease the psychological impact of social isolation, notes new research. It also provides a link to a free 3-dimensional 360 video and suggestions on how to use it.
Hong Kong appears to have averted a major COVID-19 outbreak up to March 31 by adopting far less drastic control measures than most other countries.
On 9 March, researchers at Yale University published a study which suggested that humans may warm up to social robots more if the latter make, or admit, mistakes. Published in…