Category: Tech News
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CTRL-Kit: The First Mind-Controlled Armband and its Demonstration
Imagine having a small bracelet on your wrist that could be controlled by your brain. What seems like something out of a sci-fi movie is no longer fiction, is happening now in CTRL-Labs. CTRL-Labs have developed an electronic bracelet which will allow mental control of computers. CTRL-Lab and the CTRL-kit project Founded in 2015, CTRL-Lab…
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Worldwide Developer Conference 2018: What we can expect from Apple
Apple is looking forward to holding the WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference) 2018 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. A keynote address will reveal a list of announcements from Apple. Last year, Apple revealed a list of new devices including the HomePod, new iPad Pro, the first iMac Pro. What can we expect…
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Once homeless, now on his way to Harvard | Never Give Up
Richard Jenkins Has Spent most of His Life Living in Poverty Jenkins’ mom, Quiana McLaughlin, moved from Philadelphia when he was in elementary school partly because of the violence in their neighborhoods. Jenkins recalled moving a lot when he was a kid, first to Tennessee and then to Florida, where his mother would pay for…
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Apple wins $539 million in seven year old patent-run against Samsung
For over seven years, Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. have been involved in a smartphone patent-run. The latest verdict was carried out in Apple’s favor when the court demanded Samsung to pay $539 million to Apple for infringing five patents with Android phones sold in 2010 and 2011. Early Cases What started from 2011,…
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New Research at UCLA: 3D Bioprinting will be used to make Artificial Tissues
3D bioprinting is opening new doors to improving the medical diagnosis of tissues, significantly after the recent experimentation at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). A research team led by Ali Khademhosseini, Professor of Engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, have developed a new technique that has used 3D printing to build…
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What does a quantum computer do? | Latest Research & experiments
Researchers at the University of Michigan and Germany have performed experiments opening new doorways to quantum computing. They demonstrated how could be used to shift electrons between two states in a thin semiconductor sheet. These two states can be called as the 1 and 0 states in binary digits. Quantum Computing Researchers were immediately hooked…
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AI Technology Now leading to the First-ever fully-Functional Robotic Arm
The US government just paid $120 million dollars to manufacture a robotic arm. Yes, the world’s first fully functional mind-controlled artificial arm. This arm was designed by John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab and was also funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The program named “Revolutionizing Prosthetics” focused on creating prosthetics that could…
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What’s Next | NASA Sending a Tiny Helicopter to Mars in 2020
NASA Next Mission to Put a “Mars-copter” on Mars NASA released a press release on 12th May giving an update on the Mars 2020 rover mission. Now, the mission objective will include a “landing a helicopter” on Mars. Mars 2020 Mission update: This autonomous helicopter is being designed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The mars…