We could just be two years away from seeing a “mammophant”. Having successfully extracted sequenceable DNA from a pair of Woolly Mammoth carcasses dug out from Siberia’s permafrost in 2014, a team of Harvard researchers have now disclosed, they are tantalizingly close to cloning the extinct animal. The Harvard researchers made the claim just two weeks…
Lenovo needs to get its act together before it loses too much market share to Oppo, Vivo and Huawei. Although Lenovo’s financials have stood the test of time, it doesn’t mean that the company is immune to a tepid smartphone market. Lenovo reported that its mobile division lost $112 million with its sales, including its…
Google is looking for coders who can design machine learning algorithms for tagging 700,000 audio video files in its YouTibe-8M dataset. Machine learning coding teams are welcome to join the competition. Although most of us may not have heard of YouTube-8M, for those of you who are into machine learning, YouTube-8M is a big deal,…
The next big developments in technology is the artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented and virtual realities (AR/VR), believes many tech giants and visionaries and such people and firms have been rallying around these two technologies and keeping a close eye on the day to day development in this aspect. One such company that is envisioned to be leader in…
McDonald’s new straws hit a new high of perfection. Take a look at the video on how engineers redesigned the humble straw. Of all the technological innovations coming out in this world, would you ever think that the humble straw can be redesigned? Surprise, Surprise. A team of aerospace and robotic engineers did exactly that.…
The Trojan has been linked to a Russian hacking group which supposedly has the backing of the Russian state. A Russian hacking group which supposedly has the support of the Russian state, which earlier has been accused of hacking the computers of the Democratic National Committee has now reportedly extended its repertoire. Researchers from Bitdefender…
The latest plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHVs) will catch on with consumers far more rapidly than the original Prius did, expects Toyota Motor Corp’s chairman, who led the development of the Toyota Prius. Takeshi Uchiyamada said he expected to sell 1 million plug-in hybrids in less than 10 years, the time it took for sales of…
General Motors Co and French automaker PSA Group are in talks that could result in PSA buying GM’s European auto operations and could be a move that could shake up the global auto industry, the companies announced recently. Vaulting it into second place in the region, ahead of French rival Renault SA and behind Germany’s…
After Toshiba Corp said that it may sell more of its prized flash-memory chip business than planned to urgently raise funds and would book a $6.3 billion hit to its U.S. nuclear unit, shares in the conglomerate tumbled sharply. In a decision that has investors questioning whether the company has a long-term future without the…
Wholehearted adoption of EVs could help reduce CO2 levels, especially since as per the EPA 25% of CO2 emissions can be traced to the transportation sector. In signs of growing consumer awareness towards the environment Toyota has disclosed that as of January 31, it has sold more than 10 million hybrid cars and 1 million…
