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Mankind’s appetite to colonize other planets isn’t as insatiable as its grandeur vision of filling the outer space with giant billboards.
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Wing, the Google X moonshot project which graduated to become an independent Alphabet company in July 2018, is all set to soar in Europe. Today, it announced an ambitious plan to deliver goods and packages of up to 1.5 kilograms (approx. 3.3 pounds) in a 10 kilometers radius (6.2 miles) in the spring of 2019 in Helsinki.
Wing is also launching a page to take suggestions on what might be most in demand to deliver by drone.
This will be the company’s first attempt to spread its wings in Europe. It has run four separate trials co...
For many years now, cell phone chipmakers have been on a race to miniaturize 5G components in order to win the biggest market quota when the devices become available. That race is still on. Today, Qualcomm announced that it has reduced its 5G millimeter wave antennas by 25%. As one of the top telecommunications equipment companies, Qualcomm 5G antennas are expected to feature massively in early 5G smartphones.
Qualcomm revealed QTM052 millimeter wave antennas (first Qualcomm 5G antennas) to the public earlier in July. The world’s f...
IDMvalidate has set the pace for how to provide instant ID authentication results for embassies, banks, cryptocurrency exchanges and other financial institutions who want to undergo a primary second-source verification.
Seth Sewornu, the former head of the Ghana Police Visa and Document Fraud Unit, once met a man who tried to rent his passport. The detective had a valid UK visa, and the man offered him $1,300 because they looked alike. If Sewornua had leased his passport to the visa fraudster—he did not—it would not have caused much ...
You are doing a final editing of a presentation on your Smartphone which is to be delivered in next 5 minutes. Meanwhile, the device simply slips from your hands. Now either the presentation will happen or there is another burn on your pocket. Okay, this is something similar to watching a horror movie and you don’t want to start your Monday like this.
Don’t worry, soon we may see no phones with broken screens, thanks to a German student named Philip Frenzel of the University of Aalen. He has designed an “airbag for Smartphone” as a p...
ECCO, the global leader in innovative comfort footwear and leather goods has taken up a customized footwear creation project, QUANT-U. Coming from Innovation Lab ECCO (ILE), the project revolves around developing customized 3D printed midsoles. Presently, the QUANT-U project is in the pilot phase and this innovative service is solely available at ECCO’s concept store W-21 Amsterdam.
The Denmark-based footwear brand, EECO was founded by shoemaker Karl Toosbuy in 1963. Since then, it has entered the complete supply chain starting from ...
LG Display on Tuesday announced that it has developed a new breakthrough to prevent Virtual Reality motion sickness, the symptoms associated with virtual reality technology, by reducing the motion delay time. The symptoms include headaches, dizziness, pallor, drowsiness, vomiting, etc.
According to The Investor, LG Display conducted the research jointly with Sagang University. And LG Display said the solution also resolved the low-resolution problem, turning VR content into higher-resolution images as soon as the breakthrough reduced...
Google’s I/O developer conference is starting in just a few hours from now, and we expect that the company has by now packaged all it has in store to show us during the event at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. With the various products and services provided by the tech giant in various tech industries, there’s a lot to see from tomorrow; a lot of surprises. However, before Google I/O 2018 dates in the month of May every year, we are able to decipher most of what Google has in store to present based on how it p...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday at the company's F8 developer conference acknowledged that 2018 has been an "intense year" for the company. And many would agree with that statement, including the faithful Facebook users who would either accept that data scandal is part of social media standards or pretend that Cambridge Analytica which is now shutting down has willingly given up the credentials to seamlessly sway their political choices in the nearest future.
Facebook unveiled several new features set to be included in its va...
We make use of the social networking sites on a daily basis. It brings to us new ideas and news from all across the globe. But it is also a fact that social media can never be trusted with whatever you read. We hate to admit that we too make use of the social networking sites more than we should but then at least we know (or we feel so) that we need to be more cautious than ever!
Technology has taken over humans in a way that is shocking and mind-boggling. The internet then came into play and took over people’s lives in unimaginable ...