Why we need self driving cars

After being enlightened about Google’s new self-driving electric car, I spent my whole afternoon cheating on FIFA whilst reading about this god-sent technology. Instead of a steering wheel and pedals this battery-powered electric vehicle has...

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When Poop became Water

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.With this philosophy, Bill Gates, the philanthropist has taken up the task to end the misery of billions of people when it comes to clean drinking water. But how does he do it and that too in the cheapest way possible? BY TURNING POOP INTO WATER! ...

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The wonder material

Curiosity driven research-that’s what led to the inception of the wonder material on a serendipitous evening in 2002, when Dr. Andre Geim was pondering about Carbon. He contemplated about how ultra thin layers of Carbon might behave under experimental conditions. Unequivocally, Graphite was the most...

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The Internet of Things: Key to a techno centric community

The first time I heard the term ‘The Internet of Things’ (IoT), I thought I had made a mistake and somehow missed out a portion of a sentence that talked about the internet and an unrelated thing. It turned out to be a good thing though, as the term stayed in my head till I could find a way to figure...

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Hues of a Technocentric Community

There’s a reason that those with orthodox inclinations have fallen far behind the liberals or the ‘Techno Centric’ on the technology front. We read Wired or Digit or any gadget blog and note how definitively liberal the publications are—pro-science, pro-progress and pro-net neutrality. We are not...

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On an epic journey of Science: Interstellar 1

Whether you actually agree with the science or not, Interstellar is generally considered a masterpiece. A visual treat with truly great acting and story. But that is not all Interstellar is. The visual treatment of the blackhole isn’t made out of pure imagination, though the depiction is unlike anything...

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