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Researcher Hacks Into 35 Tech Giants Including Tesla, Apple And Microsoft

Researcher Hacks Into 35 Tech Giants Including Tesla, Apple And Microsoft

A researcher has hacked into IT systems of some of the largest corporations in the world. Alex Birsan, a Romanian researcher has successfully assaulted Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, PayPal, Netflix and over 30 other corporations. Birsan said that he advised the companies in advance that he would test the security of their systems, but did not …

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Tesla Invests $1.5 Billion In Bitcoins And Will Soon Start Accepting Crypto Payments

Tesla Invests $1.5 Billion USD In Bitcoins And Will Soon Start Accepting Crypto Payments

Electric automaker Tesla on Monday announced that it has bought bitcoins worth $1.5 billion. Tesla bought the bitcoins for more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on their cash, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission by the company. The electric vehicle giant added that they will soon start accepting payments …

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Researchers Build Ultra-High-Speed Wireless Chip With 11 Gbit/s Data Rate

Researchers Build Ultra-High-Speed Wireless Chip With 11 Gbit/s Data Rate

A new chip has been developed by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Osaka University in Japan that helps faster transmission speeds for telecommunications. Researchers have shown that the chip can transmit terahertz (THz) waves resulting in a data rate of 11 Gigabits per second (Gbit/s), which can support real-time streaming of …

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Chitrakar: A Robotic System That Can Tranform Human Images Into Drawings

Chitrakar: A Robotic System That Can Transform Human Images Into Drawings

TCS researchers develop a robotic system called Chitrakar which can convert human portraits into Jordan curves using state of the art, deep-learning methods, image processing and robotics. This system was developed using two concepts namely Jordan curves and Travelling Salesman Problem(TSP) This system can make this Jordan curve drawing in just 30 minutes which is …

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Researchers Find A New Way To Make Rechargeable Zinc Batteries

Researchers Find A Way To Make Rechargeable Zinc Batteries

Researchers from the US, Germany and China have developed a method to make zinc batteries rechargeable. In a recent paper published in journal Science, the team describes that by using a non-alkaline electrolyte they created a battery that could operate using a two-electron zinc-oxygen-zinc peroxide process which is far more reversible than conventional designs.  Current …

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New Breakthrough Recycling Method Could Cut Down On Millions Of Tons Of Plastic

New Breakthrough Recycling Method Could Cut Down On Millions Of Tons Of Plastic

A team of engineers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has discovered a method for recycling multilayered plastics using solvents. They have named this technique as Solvent-Targeted Recovery and Precipitation (STRAP) processing. A paper outlining the proof-of-concept appeared on Nov. 20, 2020, in the journal Science Advances. What is Multi-Layered Plastics?Multilayer plastics are basically plastics made …

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A New MIT System Brings Deep Learning To Internet Of Things

A New MIT System Brings Deep Learning To Internet Of Things

Deep learning is everywhere. This branch of artificial intelligence curates your social media and serves your Google search results. Soon, deep learning could also check your vitals or set your thermostat. MIT researchers have developed a system that could bring deep learning neural networks to new — and much smaller — places, like the tiny …

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New Smart Fabric Can Find Fruits And Help With Watering The Plants

New Smart Fabric Can Identify Fruits And Help With Watering The Plants

A team of researchers from Dartmouth College and Microsoft Research has designed a smart table cloth that can detect various non-metallic objects ranging from avocadoes to credit cards. This new fabric is named as Capacitivo. A study outlining the new system was presented with a video at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and …

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New Technology Could Enable Whopping 10,000 Pixels Resolution

New Technology Could Enable Whopping 10,000 Pixels Resolution

Researchers from Stanford University and collaborators in Korea have developed a new architecture for OLED displays that could enable devices to have a resolution of up to 10,000 pixels per inch (PPI). A technology describing this new technology appeared in Oct. 22 Science paper journal. For example, today’s smartphones have around 400 to 500 PPI, …

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Ultrafast 3D Camera Capable Of Taking Upto 100 Billion Frames Per Second

Ultrafast 3D Camera Capable Of Taking Upto 100 Billion Frames Per Second

Researchers from Caltech have developed an ultrafast 3D camera capable of taking 100 billion frames per second. It is named as “single-shot stereo-polarimetric compressed ultrafast photography,” or SP-CUP The camera works like human eyes to capture an image in two views with an offset. The camera also posses the ability to see the polarization of …

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New Software For Testing Child's Understanding Of Sounds In Language

New Software For Testing Child’s Understanding Of Sounds In Language

A team of researchers from Michigan State University has developed new software to assess how children process the sound structure of words. Understanding sounds in a language is a skill in itself and very important for child literacy but this is often overlooked. This new tool can help in improving this skill. The researchers have …

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New VR Software Allows Scientists To 'Walk' Inside Cells

New VR Software Allows Scientists To ‘Walk’ Inside Cells

Scientists at the University of Cambridge and 3D image analysis software company Lume VR Ltd have created a software called vLUME which allows super-resolution microscopy data to be visualised and analysed in virtual reality and can be used to study everything from individual proteins to entire cells. This revolutionary software could be used to understand …

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Native American Tribe Gets Early Access to SpaceX's Starlink and Says It's Fast

Native American Tribe Gets Early Access to SpaceX’s Starlink and Says It’s Fast

According to a Native American tribe in Washington state, SpaceX’s upcoming satellite internet service can indeed supply fast internet to remote areas.  The Hoh tribe, on Wednesday, tweeted that SpaceX’s Starlink network has been supplying fast broadband to local residents in the area. “Our children can participate in remote learning, residents can access healthcare,” the …

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Researchers Create A Mobile Docking Stations To Keep Underwater Robots Charged

Researchers Create A Mobile Docking System To Keep Autonomous Underwater Robots Charged

A team of engineers from Purdue University has created a mobile docking system for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles which enables them to perform longer tasks. Robots are awesome, right? We can use them for search, rescue and studying places where humans can’t go. But a major drawback is that they must return to a base to …

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Rolls-Royce Completes Technology Testing of World's Fastest Electric Plane

Rolls-Royce Completes Technology Testing of World’s Fastest Electric Plane

Rolls-Royce has completed ground testing of the technology which will be used in its line of all-electric planes. The company claims that one of its planes will be the fastest electric plane in the world. The company mentioned that all the technologies have been tested on a full-scale replica of the plane’s core named ‘ionBird’. …

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Researchers develop 3d finger vein authentication

Move Over Finger Prints: 3D Finger Vein Authentication Is Here

The traditional passwords are being replaced by fingerprint and facial authentication systems really quickly. They are being used everywhere right from accessing a mobile phone to law enforcement systems. But now, it is time to shift to a better, more secure biometric authentication system: 3D finger vein authentication. A team of researchers have developed a …

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A Bioelectronic System That Can Control The Membrane Voltage in Living Cells

A Bioelectronic System That Can Control The Membrane Voltage in Living Cells

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz has achieved an unprecedented control of cell membrane voltage. The team which also includes researchers from Tufts University has developed a bioelectronic system driven by a machine learning algorithm that can shift the membrane voltage in living cells and maintain it at a …

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Scientists Develop a New Class of Materials For Optical Biointerfaces

Scientists Develop a New Class of Materials For Optical Biointerfaces

A team of researchers from the College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University has invented an optical platform that will likely become the new standard in optical biointerfaces. They have made the first-ever biocompatible and fully flexible integrated photonics platform. The team led by Maysam Chamanzar has labelled this new field of optical technology “Parylene photonics,“. …

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A Computer Can Now Predict Your Thoughts And Draw Images Based On Them

A Computer Can Now Predict Your Thoughts And Draw Images Based On Them

A team of researchers at the University of Helsinki has developed a first of its kind technique in which a computer models your visual perception by monitoring brain signals. Basically it is like computer trying to imagine what you are thinking about and thus the technique have resulted in completely fictional images. The research recently …

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