'The majority of the spread is by people coughing, or sneezing or talking loudly, in a very short distance, two metres from one another, and a mask will prevent that sort of transmission.'......
'Everybody says 5G and communication is important.' 'Everybody says automation, robotics, human computing interfaces -- people and machines working together -- is the future.' 'Everybody agrees......
A cancer research center in the University of Texas has announced a collaboration with Bangalore-based Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Sansthana to scientifically validate the age-old belief......
The Department of Atomic Energy is planning to use its captive seismic network for predicting tsunamis in the Indian ocean. The network was originally set up decades ago to detect underground......
A year ago, totally new in these parts, I wrote my first rediff column titled Sounding silly in Silicon Valley. It did capture my state of befuddlement then about not only technology, but......
Chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporation Satya Nadella's son Zain has passed away. IMAGE: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Photograph: Lindsey Wasson/Reuters. As per Mashable, Zain, who had been born......
In areas of Sri Lanka devastated by the tsunami of 2004, hundreds of children attend new schools and thousands are served by a mobile medical clinic courtesy of Hasbro, the Pawtucket, R.I.,......
It has been a good year for business books. Spoilt for choice, readers have had a tough time making up their minds. Should they find out why Nassim Nicholas Taleb is urging everybody to imagine the......
It may not top the must-see list of many tourists. But to appreciate Shanghai's ambitious view of its future, there is no better place than the Urban Planning Exhibition Hall, a glass-and-metal......