Technology

Researchers from the University of Cambridge say the touchscreen technology used behind smartphones could be effective sensors for soil & water contamination. They demonstrated how a typical smartphone touch screen can detect ionic contaminants in soil or drinking water by dropping liquid samples on the screen. This discovery could lead to the expansion of touchscreen technology in many sensing applications, including for biosensing or medical diagnostics, right from the phone in your pocket. The smartphone is everywhere, so touch screen technology. The touchscreen contained a grid of electrodes. When a…

Major websites and applications went down for some time on Thursday in a widespread outage linked to content distribution network Akamai. However, soon akamai confirmed that it fixed the issue. Akamai is a global content delivery network that helps to move data across the internet. The problem appears like came from an outage with the Edge DNS service provided by Akamai The popular company oracle also accused akamai as the source of the issue since the outage also impacted some Oracle cloud properties, but it said resources within its cloud…

It has been reported that a group of scientists discovered 15,000 years old viruses in ice samples taken from Tibetan Plateau, China. Their frozen state led them to survive this long. The findings came to light after they got published in the journal Microbiome. The journal also reveals that the scientists implemented a new method for analyzing viruses in ice without contaminating it. The ice was collected from the Guliya ice cap in western China. The cores are collected at high altitudes, where this ice originated, which is 22,000 feet…

Mercedes Benz announces their plan to become an electric-only automaker by 2030. As part of the production, Mercedes-Benz is going to install a battery cell capacity of more than 200 Gigawatt hours with its partners and plans to build eight battery factories. Ola Kallenius, CEO of Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz AG said “The EV shift is picking up speed – especially in the luxury segment, where Mercedes-Benz belongs. The tipping point is getting closer, and we will be ready as markets switch to electric-only by the end of this decade,”…

We live in a world where smart devices conquer most of the time by conveniently involving in our daily tasks. They listen to us, obey us, and offer help with a variety of everyday tasks. But if you are a person who enjoys privacy a bit more, then you should restrict google assistant from listening to everything you say. Google assistants are sensitive towards voice cues or sometimes you just need to be alone. Whatever the reason, you can turn off Google Assistant in a few quick steps. Begin with…

Twitter confirmed testing upvote & downvote buttons for a tiny group of iOS users to highlight relevant comments on a long conversation. Upvotes and downvotes may appear in different styles for iOS users (up and down arrows, a heart icon, and a down arrow, and thumbs up and thumbs down icons). The Twitter official tweet revealed that “Some of you on iOS may see different options to up or down vote on replies. We’re testing this to understand the types of replies you find relevant in a conversation, so we…

Google introduced Ai-powered transit crowdedness estimates on its Maps that allow users to avoid crowds in buses, trains, or the subway. Initially, the feature rolled out in 200 cities across the world, and now, Google announced its expansion to over 10,000 transit agencies in 100 countries. This lets users avoid the jam-packed mass transit or find vacant seats. google integrated Ai technology to make accurate predictions and used data from google maps users, historical location trends through the Location History data, which is held private using anonymization technology. The tech…

Back in May, Google had expressed its interest to build quantum computers that can perform large-scale calculations without errors at the Google I/O developer conference. According to a published research paper by Industrial giant Honeywell, it had consorted multiple physical qubits (the storage and processing units of quantum computers) that could resist disturbances from vibration, electromagnetic emissions, etc. Honeywell released a research paper after google research has shown logical qubits get the better of errors. quantum error correction, identify and resolve qubit errors. Many companies including the popular one’s are…

Amazon announces a new set of tools and features to the developer community Amazon announces a new set of tools and features for the Alexa developer community at the Alexa Live Developer Event. It is said to be the biggest new tool launch to date. Amazon decided to host new features after seeing Alexa’s down curve in skill growth over the past year. The new features are expected to bring Alexa back into our daily lives while providing more interactive skills and new tools to earn money. Even though it…

FTC published report on “anti-competitive repair restrictions in the month of May influenced president joe biden to release an executive order to create new Right to Repair rules. As per the latest report, FTC has unanimously voted for a new policy statement that’s looking to restore “Right to Repair for small businesses, workers, consumers, and government entities.” FTC’s new update on its website says, “The Federal Trade Commission today unanimously voted to ramp up law enforcement against repair restrictions that prevent small businesses, workers, consumers, and even government entities from…