With the potential to raise billions, social media firm Snap Inc may be the highest profile tech IPO planned for 2017. According to investment bankers and advisers who work on IPOs, little-known names such as Apttus, Tintri and Okta – could be just as important in thawing a long-frozen IPO market as more than a…
In a real-world scenario, a Model X installed with Autopilot 8.0 which had the system turned on, avoided a high speed car crash saving itself as well as its occupant. Check out the link to see the original video for yourself. Although the EV’s luxury segment is getting crowded and hot with car manufacturing companies…
While the flying warehouses will carry Amazon’s goodies, smaller drones will shuttle up and down to service consumers as well as for restocking purposes. Amazon’s flying ambitions doesn’t just stop with drone deliveries, the world’s largest online retailer has dreams of launching big floating warehouses close to crowded areas and happenings, like sporting events. While…
These super-efficient wires can conduct electricity without any loss of energy. It can also be knitted into a fabric. Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy and from Stanford University have devised a method to make incredibly thin wires which have extraordinary properties. Researchers have used diamondoids, the smallest possible forms of diamond, to build…
This smart investment could give Oculus products an edge since the eye-tracking is the next big challenge in the VR landscape. Turns out Google isn’t the only company interested in the future of eye-tracking for virtual reality, Oculus VR is also very much interested. The Facebook-backed company has now confirmed that it has recently acquired…
Be prepared for discounts of upto 50% on digital downloads, which range from e-books, music, games, comics, movies, videos, etc Although many have termed Amazon’s Prime Day as an excuse to clear out slow-moving products, it however, clearly is a huge success. Amazon, the world’s largest internet retailer, is now aiming to repeat that success…
This could eventually lead to improved and cheaper biofuels. In a major breakthrough researchers have for the first time been able to capture the exact set of chemical reactions that make a photosynthesis. The discovery proves that the chemical reactions which strip electrons from water and thus initiate the conversion of solar energy into chemical…
It could significantly reduce charging time through “flash-charging”. Although Tesla’s Superchargers are way faster than most public EV stations, they are however still slower than what most consumers hope for: they take 40 minutes to give you an 80% charge so you can’t really grab and go as you would in a regular gas station.…
The impact of its paper could be potential manifold but is yet to be identified. When Apple disclosed that it would publish its research paper on artificial intelligence the pertinent question on people’s mind was would it include the data publicly? Or would it keep potential trade secrets close to its chest? Now that Apple’s…
In Normandy village of Tourouvre-au-Perche, France, now there is a road that is a ‘solar road’ and is now open for use. Ségolène Royal, the French minister of environment unveiled the one kilometer trial installation, known as Wattway, and which is made up of 2,880 photovoltaic panels. 280 megawatt hour per year is expected to…
