Reliance Industrial Investments and Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries, has picked up 12.7% stake in US-based tech firm Skytran that develops technology in the field of Personal Rapid Transit Systems. Founded in 2011, Skytran is backed by Innovation Endeavours, the venture capital firm started by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. The investment […]
Tech giant Apple contended that the lack of judicial oversight could reduce customer trust and security, among other reservations over Australia’s draft decryption legislation Australia recently joined forces with the US, the UK, Canada and New Zealand (called the Five Eyes alliance) to propose mandatory backdoors in encrypted chat in a bid to strengthen national […]
No system or network is 100% secure. Attacks can happen to anyone, or any business, at any time. Find out how you can make security central to your business, and protect it against the likely threats that it will encounter. Threats to your business are going nowhere Billions of devices connect to the internet every […]
What is Amazon Go, where is it, & how does it work? Amazon has finally opened its Amazon Go store. Situated in Seattle, it gives you the option to buy your goods from Amazon in person rather than through Amazon.com. However, unlike other physical shops, it doesn’t have any registers. You simply walk in, pick […]
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office just published another patent from Apple that revolves around an interactive 3D display system, or a hologram. Apple filed for the patent in Oct. 2012, and according to Apple Insider, it combines a number of “known display techniques” to create this version of a hologram. The idea is that […]
Rob Janoff, designer of the Apple logo Well, I’m probably the least religious person, so Adam and Eve didn’t have anything to do with it. The bite of knowledge sounds fabulous, but that’s not it. And there is a whole lot of other lore about it. Turing the famous supposed father of computer science who […]
Global tech major Accenture today said it has developed artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR)-based applications to aid the microlending sector. Those include a multi-lingual chatbot which will help potential borrowers ‘read’ contents of a brochure before availing a loan, the company said in a statement. The borrower can hold the smartphone over the […]
Neuromarketing is the application of neuroscience to marketing. Neuromarketing includes the direct use of brain imaging, scanning, or other brain activity measurement technology to measure a subject’s response to specific products, packaging, advertising, or other marketing elements. In some cases, the brain responses measured by these techniques may not be consciously perceived by the subject; […]
The adoption of blockchain by India’s banks could help avert frauds such as the one at Punjab National Bank as the disaggregated and transparent nature of the technology, which updates information across all users simultaneously, would have ensured that various officials would have instantly been alerted to the creation of the letters of undertaking (LoUs), […]