Author: Dinpuii Hranleh

21st century Earth is doing reasonably well with its pace of technological advancement. We’ve witnessed the computer revolution, the smartphone revolution, and now smartwatches are up next. But let’s not forget drones. These new bots have been in an out of the news over the past decade, and today, we are witnessing an undeniably rapid surge in their application. Drones were previously popularly known with different names – Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’s), Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) or Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS). The term ‘drone’ seems to have made it to mass public usage thanks to its frequent use by the…

A while ago, we discussed using WiFi to power our gadgets – the equivalent of wireless electricity. We’re not anywhere close to commercial deployment yet, and there’s already more disruption to the wireless industry. Meet ‘LiFi’ – the astonishing cousin of our familiar WiFi. LiFi or Light Fidelity is a form of visible light communication which makes use of LED lights for data transmission, and its basic difference from WiFi is that LiFi makes use of visible light rays whereas the latter uses radio waves. Related: Where’s True Wireless Charging? Visible light communication (VLC) itself is not a new concept at all.…

On the 29th of July 2015, Microsoft launched its first version of Windows 10. It was a moment awaited by many – from tech lovers to regular Windows users all over the world as Microsoft had been sounding quite confident about the uniqueness of its new operating system. It fit well with the company’s new strategy of “mobile-first, cloud-first”. And Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows as further updates with be released as an upgrade to Windows 10 itself. Windows 10 has seem some insanely fast adoption by Microsoft’s standards. Within 3 months of release, it’s running on 110 million devices, and the number…

The term ‘clone’ was first used by J.B.S Haldane, a British biologist, in 1963. A ‘clone’ is a genetic copy of an organism, and ‘cloning’ involves the various processes used to create clones. Cloning is actually a very common process of reproduction for micro-organisms and plants. Reproduction isn’t truly cloning when it comes to multicellular organisms like animals and humans – primarily because of the variations involved in cellular copying. But when humans begin to indulge in it artificially – it comes with a lot of issues, both scientific and ethical. Human cloning is looked at with contempt and anger, almost…