Google Fiber today said it will provide free Internet access at gigabit speeds to residents in affordable housing. Google Fiber was already providing free Internet in public housing, but speeds were limited to 5Mbps downloads and 1Mbps uploads.
Muhongo noted that neighbouring countries within the east African region including Kenya and Ethiopia are already exploiting geothermal power and has ordered the TGDC to start drilling by June this year, reports Business Week.
VR may be the next big thing, but the Teslasuit goes beyond headsets and headphones. So, what is it and how does it simulate human touch?
A new research has suggested that Planets Similar to Earth Have Identical Interiors.
Researchers have found signs of two new exoplanets that are roughly twice the mass of Jupiter, orbiting a 1.6-billion-year-old evolved star called HD 47366, that lies 260 light-years from Earth.
A Japanese space telescope with X-ray vision sharpened by Canadian technology heads into orbit on Friday. Canadian scientists believe it will help them solve longstanding mysteries about black holes and supernovas.
A research team led by Assistant Professor Duong Hai Minh from the National University of Singapore
A study of stressed-out adults suggests that mindfulness meditation causes brain changes that can lower inflammation levels.
A device the size of a matchstick, implanted next to the brain’s motor cortex, could one day help paralysed people move their limbs.
Rumor has it that gravitational waves might be detected soon - a late triumph for Einstein
Rigetti Computing uses liquid helium to cool experimental quantum computer chips to a fraction of a degree from absolute zero. The two-year-old company is trying to build the hardware needed to power a quantum computer, which could trounce any conventional machine by tapping into quantum mechanics.
Sugata Mitra is professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, England. “Our current system is training clerks. We have to change it if we don’t want to make people like machines,” said Mitra.
Canadian animal protection laws are routinely criticized for being weak, and certainly there is plenty of room for improvement. However, the reality is that both provincial and federal law ostensibly prohibit harming animals, with few exceptions.
In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope cosmic snapshot, the spectacularly symmetrical wings of Hen 2-437 show up in a magnificent icy blue hue. Hen 2-437 is a planetary nebula, one of around 3000 such objects known to reside within the Milky Way.
