Saturday, 17 September 2016

Geek Speak: Varun Srinivas

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When one observes the various students that assemble for a class or a session, one cannot help but wonder the diversity each one of them bring to the gathering. These young minds which may vary from being all knowing to all observing add a unique flavour to the classroom. While the faculty is the...

Tapia robot claims to understand human emotions

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Can robots eventually end up as our mates one day? Who knows, and that is one particular topic that has been approached many times in science fiction endeavors, be it in print or on the silver screen. Until that fateful day arrives, however, plenty of work needs to be done — including making sure...

Friday, 16 September 2016

Geek Speak: Anirudh

06:34 Posted by Anonymous No comments
When one thinks of schooling and the fun associated with it, it is usually only till grade ten. All the fun and frolic the school life can give is usually done by the end of class 10. After that it’s only board exams, then a major leap in the toughness subjects in class 11 and bam comes class 12 where...

Thursday, 15 September 2016

The Great Indian Engineering Bungle ! !

06:41 Posted by Anonymous 1 comment
If we’ve had a look at the calendars today, not many of us would’ve bothered to look twice. It is a relatively normal date, September 15. But what the many of us do not know is that today is Engineer’s day, a day that commemorates the birthday of Shri. M. Visvesvaraya, a great Indian engineering...

Wednesday, 14 September 2016

Volvo's autonomous truck navigates itself through a dark mine

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Earlier in the year, Volvo unveiled a fully autonomous construction truck that it planned to test in underground mines and that it said would "revolutionize the mining industry." Today, it has revealed more details of the planned testing and released footage of the truck operating beneath the...

MIT Invented a Camera That Can Read Closed Books

06:12 Posted by Anonymous 4 comments
With help from their colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a prototype imaging system that aims to read through closed books. In their recent study, the team tested the system using a stack of...