A drone would hopefully help Facebook extend internet connectivity to every corner of the planet. The company expressed this hope after successfully completing a test flight of a solar-powered drone for this purpose. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post on his Facebook page that the test was conducted in Yuma, Arizona where Aquila,…
If you are a Verizon Wireless customer who regularly crosses 100GB a month, you would benefit from reading this. It turns out Verizon’s “unlimited” plans are in fact limited. Verizon Wireless has disclosed that those customers who regularly cross more than 100GB per month, will either be forced to switch to a limited data plan…
Although Qualcomm’s first quarter results have exceeded analysts’ expectations, if Apple were to switch is chip for modem to Intel, its bottom line could be affected. In a development that has helped bolster its sales for the quarter, Qualcomm has shipped more Snapdragon chips than it expected. It has reportedly beaten its sales estimate of by more…
Last year, FZI had demonstrated an autonomous bartender at the same event. Do you believe the taste in food comes from its ingredients? What about the amount of love put into it by the person cooking it? Why is two chefs cooking the same dish cant reproduce the exact taste? Before you get too deep…
The company has ingeniously used materials which were not designed for laser based internet access and has achieved speeds of upto 2Gbps. Dedicated hardware designed for this purpose could bump this up by 5 times. If you ever wondered how high speed internet access can be achieved through lasers, checkout Facebook’s efforts in that direction.…
Robot technology is all set to significantly shake up one of the oldest economic activities on Earth – agriculture, sooner than later. The continuous innovations and research into workable robots have lowered the prices continuously and hence human labor is set to get increasing competition from robots even though employing robots is still relatively costly,…
Mercedes-Benz’s CityPilot platform is based on a version of Daimler’s Highway Pilot autonomous trucking technology. Mercedes-Benz’s foray into automatic autonomous vehicles just got very real, with the test of its CityPilot bus technology doing a long range test drive on the highways and streets of Netherlands. In what is likely to be the coming future, one…
While human inspectors took near about 2 hours, the drones completed the job in 10-15 minutes. However, the drones are not replacing the job done by human aircraft inspectors. One of the things that could ensure a safer flight is the inspection of aircraft but ironically, the job itself can be a little unsafe for…
Its aggressive approach towards purging extremist’s tweets on its network is a welcome move. In the last few years, the speed at which Twitter responds to online extremism has changed dramatically. According to observers at the Counter Extremism Project the social network acted with great speed to remove the tweets and accounts of pro-extremists, in…
Disrupting enemy communications could be key to saving civilian lives. Michael S. Rogers, the Command in Chief of U.S Cyber Command, has created a dedicated team tasked to develop a suite of digital weaponry, including malware, with which the United States can wage war in the Cyberspace against ISIS. Earlier this year, the Pentagon had…
