While DNA profiling is typically used to identify one’s biological parents and in criminal investigations, a University of Central Florida (UCF) research team has developed a facial recognition tool that…
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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…
Researchers in the Decentralized Information Group (DIG) at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are developing a protocol they call “HTTP with Accountability,” or HTTPA, which will automatically…
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…
Based on the mechanisms adopted by birds, bats, insects and snakes, 14 research teams have developed solutions to some of the common problems that flying robots, or drones, could face…
Future generations living and working on the moon, the Mars or even a distant asteroid may get to watch high-definition streaming movies, thanks to the efforts of a team of…
Should robots be allowed to decide for themselves who they should kill, or keep alive, on the battlefield? This is central to what experts from the Convention on Certain Conventional…
Nitin Gandhi, the 23-year-old founder of Chandigarh-based LBD Makers, has sold more than five entry-level three-dimensional (3D) printers that cost between Rs.75,000 and Rs.1.5 lakh since he started manufacturing 3D…
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…
India’s Eka, which once figured among the world’s top 10, falls to 129 in global rankings; China takes lead in Asia By Leslie D’Monte In November 2007, India’s Eka was ranked…