In a country where women often have to walk miles to find and collect drinking water for their families, the WaterMaker project to produce water from thin air is no less than magical. It is, in the words of one grateful recipient, “khuda ka paani.” What is the first thing that comes to mind when…
Pink leather and bright lights. The colour and the concept are creating a stir in cricket circles on the eve of the sport’s first day-night test match. Australia will host New Zealand at the Adelaide Oval in a match which starts Friday afternoon and is set to span five days and nights. It’s a real…
‘This is due to a combination of a strong El Niũo and human-induced global warming’. This year is set to be the hottest on record and 2016 could be even hotter due to the current El Niũo weather pattern, the U.N. weather agency said on Wednesday. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said global average surface…
Authorities near Chennai have sent back rain-affected families from a relief centre so that the school that was turned into a shelter can reopen, the families claim. Latha Vijayan, a domestic help is back to knee deep sewage contaminated waters back home at Varadarajapuram. Last week floods inundated her home and she had to take…
CHENNAI: GAIL (India) Ltd would use drones and satellite imagery to map and monitor its pipeline network while expanding its Sahyogi (partner) scheme to detect/prevent encroachment and terror attack threats, a senior official said. “In 10-15 days, we will issue a tender for drones to monitor our 200-km long pipeline in Madhya Pradesh’s Chambal area,”…
The ability to perceive the five basic tastes – sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami (savoury) – is hardwired in our brains, according to scientists who were able to switch taste on and off through brain manipulation. “Taste, the way you and I think of it, is ultimately in the brain,” said study leader Charles…
Scientists have produced a strain of mosquitoes carrying genes that block the transmission of the malaria parasite, with the hope they could breed with wild populations and produce offspring that cannot spread the disease. The American researchers used gene-editing, a genetic engineering technique in which DNA can be inserted, replaced or deleted from a genome,…
NEW DELHI: Microsoft announced the Windows 10 last year, a news that elated scores of Windows 8 users who finally had a better version of Windows to look forward to. The Redmond-based tech giant incorporated a number of changes to the new version of Windows, including the new task view, Continuum, universal search, etc. Windows…
MUMBAI: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and France-based Gfi Informatique – a value-added IT services and software vendor – on Tuesday said they have entered into a strategic partnership agreement on smart cities to meet the requirements of digital initiatives in public transportation, water, and energy. The French company will include Intelligent Urban Exchange – an…
Fourteen-year-old Lucas Etter dragged the world record for solving a 3×3 Rubik’s Cube under 5 seconds at Saturday’s River Hill Fall competition in Clarksville, Maryland, where he solved a cube in 4.904 seconds. The World Cube Association verified the achievement with a post on its website early this morning. Etter’s performance shaved three-tenths of a second from…
