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Bitcoin blockchain technology to revolutionize financial services
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Most people are familiar with bitcoin as a digital currency. It is believed more than 100,000 companies now accept bitcoin for payment. Blockchain technology underpins bitcoin transactions in the form of an algorithm that allows bitcoin to be traded ...
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The minister said the state-run BSNL aims to install 2,500 Wi-Fi hotspots at 256 places by the next fiscal.
The government plans to reach up to 50 crore internet subscribers in next 6-7 months, besides installing 2,500 Wi-Fi hotspots at 256 places by the next fiscal, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
“Today mobile penetration is 100 crore, while internet penetration is 40 crore. It took more than 3-4 years to become from 20 to 30 crore. It took less than a year to become from 30

The Le Max Pro would also include Snapdragon Sense ID fingerprint technology.
Chinese internet conglomerate Letv said on Saturday it would soon launch a series of world’s first smartphones powered by the Snapdragon 820 processor from Qualcomm Technologies.
The company’s Le Max Pro would be the first smartphone to pack the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor that offers better user-experience as well as the display quality than other processors.
“Letv has already established itse

The Le Max Pro would also include Snapdragon Sense ID fingerprint technology.
Chinese internet conglomerate Letv said on Saturday it would soon launch a series of world’s first smartphones powered by the Snapdragon 820 processor from Qualcomm Technologies.
The company’s Le Max Pro would be the first smartphone to pack the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor that offers better user-experience as well as the display quality than other processors.
“Letv has already established itse

Scientists are exploring the idea of “moon villages” that can serve as a potential springboard for future human missions to Mars and potentially other deeper space missions. (Source: Reuters)
Villages on the Moon, constructed through cooperation between astronauts and robotic systems on the lunar surface, can become a reality as early as 2030, a group of scientists has predicted.
Scientists are exploring the idea of “moon villages” that can serve as a potential springboa

NASA’s planet-hunting revamped Kepler mission has found more than 100 confirmed planets orbiting other stars.
NASA’s planet-hunting revamped Kepler mission has found more than 100 confirmed planets orbiting other stars.
The information about the planets, some of which are very different from what the spacecraft observed during its original mission, was shared by University of Arizona’s Ian Crossfield at a conference of the American Astronomical Society, National Geographic rep

The minister said the state-run BSNL aims to install 2,500 Wi-Fi hotspots at 256 places by the next fiscal.
The government plans to reach up to 50 crore internet subscribers in next 6-7 months, besides installing 2,500 Wi-Fi hotspots at 256 places by the next fiscal, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
“Today mobile penetration is 100 crore, while internet penetration is 40 crore. It took more than 3-4 years to become from 20 to 30 crore. It took less than a year to become from 30

The CES 2016 at Las Vegas had everything from car tech to audio to televisions and even a lot of futuristic gadgets that will never see mass production. Let us take a look at a few such products from this year’s show-
FitBit Blaze
The FitBit Blaze is the first touchscreen enabled fitness tracker from FitBit that was announced at CES 2016 this year. The FitBit Blaze is up for pre-order at $199.99 and has a heart-rate tracker, connected GPS and supports on-screen workouts. It’s definit

Although this experiment would require major resources, it could be used to test Einstein’s theory of general relativity. (Source: NASA)
Scientists have proposed a revolutionary device which they say could create detectable gravitational field, an advance that may transform physics and shake up Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
Until now, a scientific advance like this was a dream of science fiction, but it could open up many new applications such as telecommunications w

The Le Max Pro would also include Snapdragon Sense ID fingerprint technology.
Chinese internet conglomerate Letv said on Saturday it would soon launch a series of world’s first smartphones powered by the Snapdragon 820 processor from Qualcomm Technologies.
The company’s Le Max Pro would be the first smartphone to pack the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor that offers better user-experience as well as the display quality than other processors.
“Letv has already established itse

The CES 2016 at Las Vegas had everything from car tech to audio to televisions and even a lot of futuristic gadgets that will never see mass production. Let us take a look at a few such products from this year’s show-
FitBit Blaze
The FitBit Blaze is the first touchscreen enabled fitness tracker from FitBit that was announced at CES 2016 this year. The FitBit Blaze is up for pre-order at $199.99 and has a heart-rate tracker, connected GPS and supports on-screen workouts. It’s definit

Facebook is building an as-yet-unreleased Facebook Messenger app for Mac desktop that would help Apple users to instantly access it straight from the dock.
Facebook is building an as-yet-unreleased Facebook Messenger app for Mac desktop that would help Apple users to instantly access it straight from the dock, a media report said.
Instead of getting buried in one of many web browser tabs that users have to switch to so they can text friends, the dedicated Messenger desktop app would be instantl

BSE unveiled the service in partnership with Tata Docomo and users can avail free WiFi for 4 hours in a day.
BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) has announced free WiFi service around the area of PJ Tower in Mumbai. The company unveiled the service in partnership with Tata Docomo and users can avail free WiFi for 4 hours in a day. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Communications & Information Technology, Government of India inaugurated the launch event.
Watch: [Video] CES 2016: Check out FitBi

Hike Messenger has accused Facebook of blocking an option in its advertisements which lets people visit the chatting application’s website. (Reuters) Home-grown Hike Messenger has accused Facebook of blocking an option in its advertisements which lets people visit the chatting application’s website.
Run by Kavin Mittal, son of Bharti Enterprises Chairman Sunil Mittal, Hike competes with Facebook-owned WhatsApp. Hike is owned by a joint venture of Bharti and Japan’s Softbank.
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(Left) Stem cells that are not yet differentiated; nerve cells after differentiation, ready to perform specialised functions
When he cloned a frog as a student in the UK in 1962, John B Gurdon, now 82, had not been expecting the emergence of something useful for humans. The ‘Grandfather of Cloning’ has a different opinion now.
When Gurdon became the first man to clone an animal by manipulating the skin cells of an adult frog into an egg stripped of its nucleus, he did not expect to

T N Singh and team
Rock Sciences and Rock Engineering Laboratory, Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Bombay
Around the year 2000, the United States developed technologies to extract shale gas and in the last 15 years, increasing extraction of shale gas has totally transformed the energy economics in that country. It has triggered shale gas extraction in Canada as well. As of now, shale gas extraction is limited almost exclusively to these two countries. But these are not the only ones to have sha

Reed Hastings, co-founder and CEO of Netflix, delivers a keynote address at the 2016 CES trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Source: Reuters)
US-based internet TV service Netflix may have entered the Indian market earlier than expected, and even if it towers over domestic rivals Hotstar, Sony Liv, Ditto TV, HOOQ and Eros Now, to name a few, in terms of reputation, the industry is far from rattled. At least for now.
Agreed that Netflix has an impressive English content library — both license