The UK app market is expected to hit £31 billion mark in a decade’s time, new research reveals. According to research conducted by App Annie, commissioned by the Financial Times (via Advanced…
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New Smart Keyboard is smart enough to recognize typing patterns
Scientists have developed a new smart keyboard which as its name suggest is smart enough to recognize the typing patterns of individual users. Developed by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology,…
New type of glass will double your smartphone’s battery life, new research claims
Researchers at ETH Zurich have discovered a new type of glass material that could be used as an electrode in Lithium-ion batteries to almost double the life of smartphone batteries. The researcher…
Tech giants, AI experts sign open letter pledging to protect mankind from machines
Artificial intelligence (AI) experts from all across the globe are signing an open letter urging that AI research should not only be done to make it more capable, but should also proceed…
Latest 3D printing technology mimics children’s pop-up book
A team of researchers have developed a new technique for 3D printing that is not only unique, but also as simple as popping up a structure in children’s pop-up book. The technology…
Caution! Free mobile apps can expose your handset to hacking, new research claims
Vulnerabilities found in free mobile apps can expose users’ handsets to hacking, new research claims. According to a research conducted by security consultancy MWR InfoSecurity, code used by advertisers and third parties…
Are you an Insomniac? Here’s ‘Sleepful’ social network that could help you
Researchers over at the Loughborough University in the UK have developed a social network platform dubbed ‘Sleepful’ specifically aimed at insomniacs enabling them to garner access to a ‘talking therapy’ that could…
Tweets embedded with images, hashtags have more chances of being re-tweeted: Research
Tweets loaded with images and hashtags are four times more likely to get re-tweeted, new research claims. According to a study conducted by digital marketing agency Stone Temple Consulting from Framington, Massachusetts,…
Long hours of video gaming may lead to health issues, new report claims
Playing video games for long may lead to serious health issues, new research claims. According to a report on the Independent, team of Dutch researchers gathered all reported cases of Nintendo-related injuries…
Bristol University researchers develop touchable holograms
Researchers at the University of Bristol have come up with a new technology that lets people see and feel holograms with their bare hands. The research, led by Dr Ben Long and…
MIT Researchers’ new robot inspired by Cheetah!
Researchers at the Massachusetts of Technology (MIT) are reportedly working on a robot that takes inspiration from the world’s fastest land animal and operates using video game technology. The robot dubbed ‘the…
Facebook, Twitter data not reflective of true human behaviour claims new research
A new study, published in journal Science, claims that researchers who mine data from social networks including Facebook and Twitter should be vary of their usefulness as serious pitfalls may arise from…
New image recognition software claims to describe images almost similar to human descriptions
Google’s research scientists and a separate team of scientists working at Stanford University have independently developed an image recognition software that tends to recognize as well as describe the content of photographs…
Twitter unlocks its vast database for selected pool of researchers
Twitter has given access to its vast database to a selected pool of researchers allowing them to study tweets and find answers to a variety of issues under its ambitious data grant…