Watson supercomputer (named after IBM’s first president, Thomas J. Watson) was first in news in 2011, when it played the popular quiz show Jeopardy in 2011. Recently IBM...
Dario urops is the scientific name of a new species of freshwater fish in a stream in the Western Ghats in southern Karnataka in June 2012. The study...
Dr. Daniel Hillel is the winner of the 2012 World Food Prize. He was awarded for conceiving and implementing micro-irrigation in arid and dry land regions. He has...
Search engine for Multimedia Environment generated content (SMART) is a new project to develop a search engine which will draw its results from sensors. This European-funded project aims...
India’s Western Ghats are one of the biodiversity hotspots of the world. The region is specially rich in endemic fauna and flora. This region is also known for...
In May 2012, the hacktivist group “Anonymous” which had weighed in favour of Anna Hazare’s campaign, was in news because it again launched distributed denial of service (DDoS)...
Recently, the Wipro Technologies has announced the launch of a mobility app designed for the manufacturing sector. Wipro m-eXecute is the first ever mobility app for the manufacturing...
PEM Fuel cell refers to Proton exchange membrane fuel cells. They are also known as Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) fuel cells. The PEM cells were recently in news...
International Cancer Genome Consortium is an alliance of laboratories that is trying to produce a definitive list of the genetic mutations that cause cancer. The ICGC was launched...
