Harvard scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have created the world's largest robotic swarm -- 1,024 little bots standing on pin-like legs -- that can assemble into predetermined shapes.
Object recognition is one of the most widely studied problems in computer vision, researchers said.
'Now when I walk down the street people point me out to their daughters and say, "That's Tabbu. You should be like her",' says Tabbu Afroz, 18, when she received the Breakthrough Changemaker Inspiration Award in New York.
'The film released when I was in Class 8. Most of the characters in it inspired me' says Sarvesh Mehtani.
Satya Nadella is the highest-paid CEO in the US. So how do the other Indian-American executives fare?
Mars One's ambitious mission to send four people to colonise the red planet in 2024,has been pushed back by two years.
Overseas education consultant NNS Chandra offers advice on how to pick the right course and college.
Robo Brain -- a large-scale computational system that learns from publicly available Internet resources -- is currently downloading and processing about 1 billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos, and 100 million how-to documents and appliance manuals.
Heavy rains lashing Mumbai since Sunday have thrown rail, air and road traffic out of gear, with several trains and flights being cancelled. With IMD forecast of heavy rains for Tuesday, the authorities declared a holiday in the city and adjoining regions, asking people to avoid stepping out of their houses.
Ayan Pramanik and Shivani Shinde Nadhe report on the uncertainties that have dragged down shares of TCS, Tech Mahindra and HCL Technologies.
The deadline has been termed as "impractical" by many college principals, who could not manage to meet it.
Tejas Mangeshkar tells us how he is creating waves in the realm of design.
They are asking TRAI to reject the plan in the interest of protecting the citizens' right to use Internet
Investors are already factoring in the impact. The IT Index on the BSE exchange dipped 2.5 per cent, with Infosys, Wipro and TCS showing a decline.
The number of offers per recruiter has come down by anywhere between 10 and 20 per cent at different IITs.
Take a look at the skills that matter and how you can acquire them.
Analysts say the impact on Indian entities would not be immediate
Indian students, who are living and studying away from home, tell us how they are dealing with the COVID-19 crisis and what they discovered on their journey back home.
This is the story of Kirthi Jayakumar.
Google is investing heavily in creating business tools and products, driven by open source technology and machine learning
In an online chat with readers, Jason Baran, spokesperson for the GRE programme at Educational Testing Service (ETS) addressed queries related to the entrance exam and offered crucial advice.
President Kalam was loved by the youth of India. Something evidenced by the mass of student volunteers who have arrived in Rameswaram to mourn and to help out other mourners who have arrived in the island town to pay their last homage to India's 'Missile Man.'
Dear Kate has released it's new lookbook featuring tech bosses in their undies.
The stories of exclusions illustrate so tragically, the need of the hour is to bolster biometrics and 'smart' technologies with something more old-fashioned - the good old fashioned, compassionate human touch, says Geetanjali Krishna.
22-year-old Prisiliya Madan pedalled her way through 1,800 km journeying from people's homes to the southernmost tip of the country.
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Rohan Murty was speaking at the 50th anniversary symposium of the computer science department at Cornell University.
The Tanzania-born, India-bred, US-educated vice-president of search is responsible for helping to answer queries in the shortest time possible on desktops, tablets and phones.
'Running a start-up is hard.' 'We almost always will have obstacles.' 'There are two ways to tackle it.' 'We can either take them head on or let them hold you back.'
The jury is still out on whether this will lead to re-skilling.
The jury trial of Susan Xiao Ping Su, the president and owner of the now shutdown Tri-Valley University in California, began on March 3.
She had got 849th rank in the 2014 civil services exam and was allotted the Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise).
In a start-up set up, nothing is fixed, not even your job-description
Here's a list of the full first-time ministers in the second term of the Narendra Modi government.
I was given two mandates -- to work on individual productivity and to drive automation, says N R Narayana Murthy's son.
Students enrolled to Silicon Valley University, California, are in a state of panic after some of them were barred by Air India to board its flight.
Lt Col Raja "Grinder" Chari, 39 is in the batch of 2017.
In an online chat, career counsellor Amit Bansal shared crucial career advice with readers on how to pick the right stream and college to study engineering.
Sudha Murty has various roles -- philanthropist, author, teacher, wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt -- and she revels in each one of them, discovers Savera R Someshwar.
The inspiring story of B Udhaya Krishna and his friends is the story of today's aspirational India, the India that encourages entrepreneurial spirit. Hurdles like poverty, discouragement and insults are just temporary hindrances in front of them to work hard to achieve their dreams.
Rohini Bhajibhakare won't waste a moment on this statistic because she has far more important things to do.
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