Elon Musk’s wild Hyperloop has captivated engineers ever since he almost casually mentioned the idea three years ago. After all, who wouldn’t want to contribute to a potentially revolutionary transportation system that would shoot people across vast distances at high speeds through a giant network of tubes? The idea’s attracted the attention of at least…
Royal Enfield on Monday unveiled Himalayan, an all-terrain 411cc motorcycle, as part of its plans to expand its product range in the mid-sized bike segment. “For Royal Enfield, the Himalayas have always been very important. So the idea was to build a model ground up which can do a variety of roles, including off road,”…
WASHINGTON — President Obama is being pressed by some of his national security aides, including his top military advisers, to approve the use of American forces in Libya to open another front against the Islamic State. But Mr. Obama, wary of embarking on an intervention in another Muslim country, has told his aides to redouble their efforts…
Japan-based VAIO will reportedly reveal concrete details on its first Windows 10 Mobile smartphone at a press event on Thursday, Feb. 4. This will be the first such device for the company that’s best known for its thin-and-light laptops. VAIO, which spun off from Sony in 2015, first revealed its plans to launch a Windows…
Microsoft has come up with a radical new way to store data – under the sea. Testing of the firm’s first underwater data centre – dubbed Leona Philpot after a character in an Xbox game – has just been completed in an initiative called Project Natick. Data centres are believed to consume up to 3%…
Glassdoor recently published a report on the top 25 lucrative, in-demand jobs. More than half of the jobs listed are in tech and require programming skills. If you’re interested in a fast-growing and lucrative career, you might want to make learning to code next on your checklist! Next comes the hard part – deciding on the…
India, with its huge education-hungry population, is the prime target of one of the world’s biggest online university providers. Coursera, with 17 million registered students and free online courses from 140 universities, wants to be part of India’s drive to expand access to higher education. This Californian company is one of the trailblazers of the…
Graduation is a watershed in one’s career as rest of the professional life of an individual is guided by what career he/she chooses after graduation. Though a lot depends on the personal taste and choice of an individual, there are various career options after graduation. Right from the field of science and engineering to tourism…
Several myths surround the UPSC examination, but here is what you need to do to succeed. The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) is the central authority that conducts various examinations to recruit candidates for various government services such as civil services, engineering services, defence services and so on. The civil services, however, have always had…
Reasons behind discounts of diamond jewels: Here is the reason why jewellery shops are selling their diamonds with a flat 20% to 30% offer !! Now-a-days you can see the advertisements buzzing with diamond jewels at a great offer , its only because of the world wide fall in the diamond rates and the jewellery…
