NEW DELHI: Chinese smartphone start-up OnePlus is offering OnePlus One phones free in Bengaluru, if they aren’t delivered within 60 minutes of the order being accepted. Sounds like a pizza delivery promotion gone wild, but OnePlus is serious about this promotion offer. “Can you ever imagine receiving a smartphone in about the same time as…
The 3D Printed Mars Habitat Challenge organized by NASA results are out. There were more than 165 submissions that were then narrowed to 30 best entries. The first-place award of $25,000 went to Team Space Exploration Architecture and Clouds Architecture Office for their design, Mars Ice House. The second place was grabbed by Team Gamma…
London: British spies can hack into phones remotely with a simple text message and make audio recordings or take photos without owners knowing, former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden said on Monday. “They want to own your phone instead of you,” the whistleblower said in an interview with the BBC’s Panorama programme, referring to Britain’s…
LONDON: Japanese scientist Takaaki Kajita and Canadian physicist Arthur B McDonald have won the Nobel prize in Physics 2015 “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”. Neutrinos are one of the fundamental particles which make up the universe. These subatomic particles produced by the decay of radioactive elements that lack…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has debuted at the 13th spot in ‘Bloomberg Markets Most Influential’ annual ranking topped by US Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen. Chinese premier Xi Jinping, US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are other politicians ranked above PM Modi in the coveted list of 50 people. “He won election…
MUMBAI: Boeing and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay ( IIT Bombay) will jointly host a global summit on aerospace innovation in New Delhi on October 16, the US plane maker said Monday. As part of Boeing’s global celebrations to mark its centennial in 2016, the summit will include panelists from government, industry, academia and…
NEW DELHI: India and Germany on Monday signed a deal to fast-track business approvals, an arrangement to make it easier for German companies to operate in Asia’s third largest economy that was announced as Chancellor Angela Merkel visited New Delhi. The fast-track approvals process will ensure that German firms will have a single point of…
The Apple Watch has been on sale since the spring, and like all Apple products, it has been the subject of intense speculation, criticism, fawning and doomsaying. Expect all of it to accelerate, because on Monday Apple is releasing the first major upgrade of the watch’s operating system. The new software had been scheduled for…
Robots: Our new underwater ‘astronauts’ Soon it may be easier to design, plan and carry out infrastructure operations in deep water. Soon it may be easier to design, plan and carry out infrastructure operations in deep water. The EU project called “SWARMs” aims to achieve this by integrating autonomous vehicles such as ROVs and AUVs….
The “City of Dreams” has a new hero. Mumbai boy Eshan Balbale, 17, has built a makeshift bamboo bridge for the kids at Sathe Nagar, who had to walk across a stream of industrial slush to reach school. Eshan studies in Class XII at the Bedekar College in Thane. Though his effort has placed him…
