Soldiers with bad aim may get help from a new high-tech sniper-bullet system that can track and direct the bullet to the target. The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency recently conducted its......
The United States will on Thursday test flight an unmanned rocket launched aircraft capable of attaining top speeds of 21,580 kph as part of development of a new generation of hypersonic weapons......
The US Air Force is developing the miniature spy craft with the goal of making them so small that they resemble birds and even insects.They may look like toys but are far more capable and serve a......
The United States military has tested a 'smart' bullet that can change direction mid-air after it has been fired to hit its target. The precision guided bullet will make it harder for a soldier to......
The United States is close to developing a hypersonic bomber able to reach any target on the globe in under an hour.The US military hopes to fly such hypersonic planes capable of moving at 20 times......
An Indian American scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is working on a project aimed at making hand-held computing "as easy as breathing."Anant Agarwal, a professor and......
And if you have started wondering why such innovations come only from American companies, Ajit Balakrishnan offers the answer. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com If you have ever experienced......
It is widely but wrongly believed that the more inactive the Indian state, the better the chances of a start-up culture flowering, notes Ajit Balakrishnan It is the start-up season. It......
Why don’t Indian universities (and the Indian Institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Management and the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences) and Indian businesses converse with......
but are we chasing yesterday's dreams, asks Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com 'Apple planning to shift its iPhone manufacturing away from China to India', screamed......