Infotech

MANY flies and flying insects in hospitals carry bacteria that could pose an infection risk to patients, and more than half of them carry the types that resist antibiotics, a new study says. British researchers used ultraviolet-light flytraps, electronic fly killers and sticky traps to collect nearly 20,000 flies, aphids, ants, wasps, bees and moths […]

Jian-Wei Pan turning China into a quantum superpower Infotech Feature CHINA is advancing rapidly and forging ahead in diverse fields of technology including space science. For the first time in human history China explored the far side of the Moon. China made history andb in January this year released images of Chang’e 4 moon lander […]

RESEARCHERS say that thousands of apps have found ways to cheat Android’s permissions system, phoning home device’s unique identifier and enough data to potentially reveal user’s location as well. Even if users say “no” to one app when it asks for permission to see those personally identifying bits of data, it might not be enough: […]

THE Sun went through violent outbursts of intense radiation when it was just a baby four billion years ago, spewing scorching, high-energy clouds and particles across the solar system. These growing pains helped seed life on early Earth by igniting chemical reactions that kept Earth warm and wet. Yet, this solar crankiness also may have […]

A molecular process involved in the action of anti-leukemia drugs has been discovered at Université de Montréal’s Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC). While calling into question a central tenet of oncology, this discovery, published today in the journal Cancer Cell, also holds promise for the development of effective treatments in the near […]

SYSTEMS engineering and lens development company Innovega has created eMacula, a new generation of eyewear that combines smart contact lenses and lightweight glasses. The system will be tailored to the needs of vision impaired patients who will benefit from both lens-based vision correction and from magnification and digital enhancement of the view of their surroundings. […]

LIKE most planets in our solar system, the Earth has its own magnetic field. Thanks to its largely molten iron core, our planet is in fact a bit like a bar magnet. It has a north and south magnetic pole, separate from the geographic poles, with a field connecting the two. This field protects our […]

SYSTEMS engineering and lens development company Innovega has created eMacula, a new generation of eyewear that combines smart contact lenses and lightweight glasses. The system will be tailored to the needs of vision impaired patients who will benefit from both lens-based vision correction and from magnification and digital enhancement of the view of their surroundings. […]

AMOLED displays are used in many applications today –––and are most common in smartphones. These displays can light up or turn off each of their pixels independently, and that means that they can offer better and more natural colours than LCD screens. OLED is the actual display technology in high-end smartphones and TVs for a […]

INTEL has launched its first batch of 10 nanometre CPUs, claiming its new chips will spearhead the next evolution of laptops almost a decade after it helped usher in the era of thin-and-light notebook PCs with its “Ultrabook” initiative. Intel showcased how the company, together with industry partners, is transforming intelligent computing for our data-centric […]