Tel Aviv :Intel Corp is launching research in Israel into technology that mimics the human brain and develops devices that "learn" about their user. "Machine learning is such a huge opportunity," Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, told reporters in Tel Aviv. "Despite their name, smartphones are rather dumb devices. My smartphone doesn't know anything more about me than when I got it," he added. "All of these devices will...
10:05 AM, May 24, 2012
Shanghai: Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's No. 2 PC maker by sales, said on Monday that it will invest about 5 billion yuan ($793 million) over the next five years in an integrated mobile devices facility in China to meet rising global demand for smartphones and tablet computers. The Lenovo (Wuhan) Industrial Base, located in the city of Wuhan in central Hubei province, will carry out research and development, production...
11:14 AM, May 07, 2012
Dhaka: A six-year-old boy from Bangladesh who began typing as a three year-old and knew how to programme and download games at the age of four, is hoping to become the world's youngest computer expert and get recognition from the Guinness World Records. As a toddler, Wasik Farhan-Roopkotha started showing an aptitude for computers and mastered several popular video games, BBC reported. "I knew he was very different since his...
11:28 AM, Apr 30, 2012
New Delhi: The food and public distribution department has signed an agreement with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to scale up computerization of the targeted public distribution system (TPDS) in the country. "The WFP programme will assist the selected states to expedite their TPDS computerisation programmes and will complement the ongoing efforts being made for modernisation of TPDS by the government of India and state governments," the ministry...
08:17 PM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: Meet a 28-year-old computer wizard who's set up his own software company, raising $35 million dollars in investment. Sachin Dev Duggal has designed software for businesses around the world and he hopes his own company will be the next big thing in computers. At 14, he was a businessman, making pocket money by assembling computers. Sachin Dev Duggal, says, "I messed up my mom's computer by accident and...
10:39 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Bangalore: Tech Mahindra Ltd and Satyam Computer Services Ltd, which are in the process of a merger, aim to hire up to 10,000 staff for the combined entity in 2012/13 to meet an expected rise in demand for technology services. The companies also plan to complement their parent Mahindra & Mahindra group's move to become a major defence manufacturer, Tech Mahindra CEO Vineet Nayyar said on Tuesday. Tech Mahindra bought...
02:38 AM, Apr 11, 2012
Washington: Computer scientists, taking inspiration from the human face, are exploring whether machines can detect lies. In a study of 40 videotaped conversations, an automated system that analysed eye movements correctly identified whether subjects were lying or telling the truth 82.5 per cent of the time. That's a better accuracy rate than expert human interrogators typically achieve in lie-detection experiments, said Ifeoma Nwogu, research assistant professor at University of Buffalo's...
04:56 PM, Mar 27, 2012
London: A growing dissatisfaction among office workers with the clunky computers their employers force them to use, in contrast to the sleek Apple devices many have at home, could yet benefit incumbent suppliers like Dell, a top Dell executive said. As Apple's third-generation iPad went on sale on Friday, accompanied by the now traditional scenes of fans queuing round the block, Dell's chief commercial officer Steve Felice said the tablet...
10:41 AM, Mar 17, 2012
Tokyo: Hatsune Miku has a following that would make most Japanese pop stars green with envy, with thousands of fans at every concert and a big international following. She never misses a beat, fluffs a line or messes up a step. But then she doesn't really exist. Hatsune Miku is computer generated, based on a voice-synthesizing programme developed by the company Crypton Future Media that allows users to create their...
01:28 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Washington: Scientists in the US say they have developed a computer which can respond to students' emotions and boredom. A team from University of Notre Dame, the University of Memphis and Massachusetts Institute of Technology has in fact come up with what they claim is the "emotion-sensing" computer software that models and responds to students' cognitive and emotional states, including frustration and boredom. The new technology, that matches the interaction...
04:14 PM, Mar 03, 2012
BANGALORE: Indias fastest supercomputer will soon be housed in Bangalore. Sources with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation (CSIR C-MMACS) told Express, on the eve of National Science Day, that the yet-to-be-named high-performance computing system will be used for genome informatics, geo-science informatics (earth, ocean and atmosphere) and engineering sciences (aerodynamics of planes, development of smart materials and computer-aided drug...
08:11 AM, Feb 28, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The IT@School project has come up with a Resource Portal and YouTube channel to help with the preparations of the SSLC Examination for 4.50 lakh students in the state. A press statement here said that resource portal of IT@School Project www.resource.itschool.gov.in had been packed with contents of Science, Social Science and Mathematics for benefiting students appearing for the SSLC examination commencing next month.The portal has been designed to enable...
11:23 AM, Feb 20, 2012
From a man in Kashmir who fought for opening a dispensary in his village to a woman who fought for the full payment of her wages under the NREGA scheme, 2011 saw citizens taking up the nation's corrupt by its jugular and fighting for their rights. ...
08:31 PM, Feb 19, 2012
Washington: Scientists in the US claim to have developed the world's first "biological computer" that is made from biomolecules and can decipher images encrypted on DNA chips. A team from the Scripps Research Institute in California and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology claims it has created the computing system using bio-molecules, 'AngewandteChemie' journal reported. In the research, when suitable software was applied to the biological computer, the scientists found that...
05:29 PM, Feb 08, 2012
BANGALORE: While passengers of Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporations (BMTC) Vayu Vajra get new benefits like browsing the internet on touch-screen tablet PC installed in the buses, conductors and drivers of those buses are not a happy lot. They have been slapped with show-cause notices for not maintaining the electronic gadgets. As many as seven conductors and drivers received notices, issued by honchos of BMTC Volvo division, which hold them responsible...
09:58 AM, Jan 23, 2012
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