Referees may soon have a new way of determining whether a football team has scored a touchdown or gotten a first down with researchers from North Carolina State University and…
Posts published in “Birds’ eye view”
On 12 June, during the opening of the FIFA 2014 World Cup in Brazil, a paralyzed person wearing a brain-controlled robotic exoskeleton is expected to make the first kick of…
When disruptive technologies get out of the labs and justify commercialization, we will see the world with new eyes The technology treadmill moves at such a rapid pace that even…
by Leslie D’Monte The so-called Internet Protocol or IP address typically finds itself in the news when authorities use it to track down cybercafes from which terrorists could have sent…
There are a few forces which could reshape the way we function in cyberspace. The tug o’ wars on the Wikileaks issue, handling of ‘net neutrality’, and the increasing concern…
Misha Angrist, an assistant professor at the Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, is 46 years old. He is severly allergiic to pollen, dust, ragweed and cats. And…
With loads of spam and other unimportant emails cluttering your inbox, you may have wondered at times if you could, perhaps, create a hierarchy of emails — listing them by…
MIT and Harvard are universities that hardly need an introduction. While MIT is primarily the mecca of science and engineering, Harvard is particularly known for its Arts stream and B-school.…