Tag: technology

As the first part of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which deals with the physical science of climate change, is launched this week (30 January), SciDev.Net speaks to Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, the panel’s…

In 1908 in Manchester, some 500 people gathered in a lecture theatre to see prominent Egyptologist Margaret Murray supervise the unwrapping of a body from the Tomb of the Two Brothers from Manchester Museum’s mummy collection.

Dubbed The Boneyard, but officially known as the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) facility, this sprawling US airbase is reputed to be the world’s largest military aircraft cemetery. Spread across the huge 2,600 acre site, equivalent in size…

Small business owners, get ready. In 2014, new mobile gear will help you connect with customers, sell your product and stay productive wherever you are. In other words, these four burgeoning mobile technologies are primed to change how you do…

Agriculture experts have said that expanded adoption of conservation agriculture (CA) technologies can boost crop production at lower costs side by side making farm activities more profitable to ensure food security.

Ziaul Haque, a 32-year-old physically challenged youth, looks beaming this time as Union Information Service Centre (UISC) set up at Huzripara under Paba upazila of the district more than two and half years back, has brought a major change in…

Construction work of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) Training and Resource Centre began at Sadullapur upazila in the district very recently amid much enthusiasm to the teachers and the locals.

Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has been planning to bring its all operation and administration related information under online for the sake of infusing dynamism.

By Richard Taylor Google has unveiled an upgrade to the way it interprets users’ search requests.

Microsoft has unveiled the long-awaited Power Cover for its Surface tablets, which acts as both a keyboard as well as an external battery.

Last month, Aussie police reported that motorists who were trying to make it to the town of Mildura were instead getting routed into Murray Sunset National Park–43 miles away–by their iPhones, and getting stuck there overnight.

The district administration has taken a plan to hold a three-day Digital Innovation Fair-2013 at Independence Square of the town from October 3 to 5 through active participation of all.

A team of Android programmers has raised a $7m (£4.3m) investment to turn their hobby project into a rival to Google’s phone operating system.

From this weekend, users will no longer need to own a Blackberry device to access its BBM messaging service.

By Shira Ovide

By Matt Apuzzo

Europe has reached another milestone in its contribution to Hubble’s successor – the James Webb Space Telescope.

What looks like being the world’s first commercial space plane has just passed another technical milestone.

By Jonathan Amos

Samsung beat competitor Apple in the race to introduce a smartwatch. India will be one of the first 129 countries where the wearable device will be available on September 25.

The digitisation process has created an irreversible social renaissance for progress making civic life dependant on online digital services and facilities easing civic life everywhere in recent years.

German police, prosecutors and forensics experts are facing a mystery after a 10-year-old boy found a human mummy in a sarcophagus in a corner of his grandparents’ attic.

With AAA predicting the biggest Labor Day travel weekend since the recession hit, many Americans will be stealing away for that final summer trip. Unfortunately, they won’t be the only ones stealing.

By Eurasia Review