FRENCH inventor Franky Zapata made history as the first person to cross the English Channel by a jet-powered hoverboard, taking off on August 5 from Sangatte on France’s northern coast and touching down near Dover, England. The elite jet skier’s daring display over the 22-mile (35.4 km) channel between France and the U.K. took just […]
Infotech
Artificial Intelligence is opening up innovative prospects
ARTIFICIAL intelligence is a branch of computer science that aims to create intelligent machines. It has become an essential part of the technology industry. Artificial Intelligence is a massively powerful tool that comes with a great deal of responsibility. As society changes to accommodate an all-machine service world, it also opens up new jobs for […]
Huawei sales up 23% despite the US ban
Huawei— the world’s largest network equipment supplier and a leader in 5G technology –––made $32.2 billion in revenue in the April-June quarter, a 23 percent increase over the previous quarter despite the escalation of the US-China trade war cutting off its business with American companies. Net profit margin was 8.7 percent on 401.3 billion yuan […]
Li-Fi to compete with Wi-Fi
A digital-to-analog converter has been developed at the University of Edinburgh helps LEDs act as communications devices. As LEDs become a more common source for room lighting, they’re opening a new pathway for linking mobile devices to the Internet, with the potential for wider bandwidth and quicker response time than Wi-Fi. At least that’s what […]
Huawei sales up 23% despite the US ban
Huawei— the world’s largest network equipment supplier and a leader in 5G technology –––made $32.2 billion in revenue in the April-June quarter, a 23 percent increase over the previous quarter despite the escalation of the US-China trade war cutting off its business with American companies. Net profit margin was 8.7 percent on 401.3 billion yuan […]
Li-Fi to compete with Wi-Fi
A digital-to-analog converter has been developed at the University of Edinburgh helps LEDs act as communications devices. As LEDs become a more common source for room lighting, they’re opening a new pathway for linking mobile devices to the Internet, with the potential for wider bandwidth and quicker response time than Wi-Fi. At least that’s what […]
MIND-CONTROLLED ROBOTIC DEVICE
Non-invasive brain-computer interface developed TECHNOLOGY has the potential to change patients and their families’ lives dramatically for the better. In collaboration with the University of Minnesota, a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University has made a breakthrough in the field of noninvasive robotic device control. Using a noninvasive brain-computer interface (BCI), researchers have developed […]
AT &T, IBM expand partnership
AS PART of the deal, IBM will serve as the primary cloud provider for AT&T Business and will help manage AT&T’s hybrid cloud infrastructure. To help facilitate the cloud migration, IBM will help modernize AT&T Business Solutions’ internal software applications. AT&T Business will continue using Red Hat’s open source platform to manage workloads associated with […]
New solar tech to offer power, clean water to millions
A COMPACT device that uses waste heat shed by solar cells to purify water could one day change the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the globe.The new spin on old technology promises to ease increasing pressures on the nexus point between water and energy that threatens our future. These two resources are […]
Huawei’s 5G phone is launching soon
HUAWEI’s debut 5G phone, the Huawei Mate 20 X 5G, will launch in select markets this July, despite continued uncertainty around Huawei’s future as a manufacturer of Android devices. China’s state-run Global Times reports that the phone will go on sale in China on July 26th, while VentureBeat notes that the phone is currently available […]