Technology News

Washington, May 16 (ANI): MIT researchers claim they have boosted the power output of one type of fuel cell by more than 50 percent through technology that could help these environmentally friendly energy storage devices find a much wider market, especially in portable electronics.

Melbourne, May 16 (ANI): Aussie employees better start looking for some reasons other than a sudden sickness to take a day off work, for lie detectors with a new generation of voice analysis systems used in the UK are all set to enter Down Under.

London, May 15 (ANI): Leakage of credit card and bank account details on the internet has been a regular scenario, but the latest entrant in this virtual world of identity frauds involves hackers tapping into voice-over IP telephony accounts.

London, May 15 (ANI): It was like a merger of high technology and high art when a robot conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Washington, May 14 (ANI): Every household is filled with dozens of silicon-based electronics, whose main component is usually a silicon-based transistor. But now, a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute student's invention will replace this omnipresent technology with a new generation of transistors that will not only cut energy consumption but also work under extreme conditions.

Washington, May 14 (ANI): Data exchange through satellites is usually done by radio waves, but now researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen have replaced these radio signals with lasers - a technology that could increase the data rate hundredfold.

London, May 14 (ANI): A robot system conceptualised to guard millions of biological samples in sub-zero temperatures, will be competing for the MacRobert Award this year.

London, May 14 (ANI): British scientists are trying to find out if a robot can safely be employed to stir soup in a kitchen and for this they have won a grant worth 1 million pounds, it has emerged.

Washington, May 13 (ANI): A University of Leicester space scientist has shown the astonishingly overpriced nature of text messaging from mobile phones, by estimating that the service is at least four times more expensive than downloading information from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Melbourne, May 13 (ANI): Google has come up with a new technology that blurs human faces in street pictures it has taken for its popular mapping service called Street View.

Canberra, May 13 (ANI): Microsoft has launched a free downloadable software that can turn any computer into mini Hubble telescopes capable of displaying high resolution images of millions of stars, planets and other celestial bodies.

London, May 13 (ANI): Need a puff? Start wishing that your baby face swaps itself for a few wrinkles or liver spots, at least if you're a school going kid in Japan, for the Land of the Rising Sun will soon be introducing cigarette vending machines to judge their user's age from their appearance.

London, May 12 (ANI): Soon, shoppers would not be running around from one shop to another in search of gadgets of their choice, for the experts believe that they would soon "grow" their own gadgets.

London, May 11 (ANI): Airbags in cars have been proven to decrease traffic deaths for passengers and drivers in recent years, and now similar safeguards could be extended to the outside of vehicles, softening the blow for pedestrians and cyclists hit by cars.

Washington, May 11 (ANI): Software as a service and cloud computing might not ring a bell for many today, but that's what is going to rule the roost in future for corporate giants. And with Google unveiling a re-branded Web Security for Enterprise, it has raced ahead of Microsoft in taking a major step towards the future.

Washington, May 11 (ANI): Robotic engineers have long been trying to develop robots near to having human intelligence, and now European researchers are working towards piecing together a new generation of machines that are more aware of their environment and better able to interact with humans.

Washington, May 11 (ANI): After introducing space heater, Hello Kitty, known for its merchandise of stationery products, has now come up with a solar charger.

Washington, May 11 (ANI): Soon, you will be able to drive a car that informs about an oncoming vehicle in your lane on a blind curve, improves your driving skills and starts a decent conversation to soothe your nerves when some jerk cuts you off.

Washington, May 11 (ANI): The latest video scoring viral gold on YouTube is of a handful of agile hipsters effortlessly hopping, leaping and even back-flipping into their 'Levi Strauss' jeans.