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    Iraqis Find Escape, Success on a Virtual Battleground

    The online star, known as G2G, is one of many Iraqis hooked on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds—a battle royale first-person shooter game that's reminiscent of the...

    Australia Installs Record-Breaking Number of Rooftop Solar Panels

    Data from the Clean Energy Regulator analyzed by CSIRO shows that in 2020, around Australia, over 362,000 rooftop solar PV installations were issued with...

    Amazon, Apple and Google Unite to Certify Smart Home Devices

    Tech giants Amazon, Apple, and Google have announced their support of Matter, a standard focusing on capable and secure smart devices for homes. Also...

    Security Researcher Manages to Jailbreak the Apple AirTag

    After Apple's recent release of the AirTag for locating misplaced items, security researchers have just succeeded in jailbreaking the new tagging device. The German...

    The Brain Game: What Causes Engagement and Addiction to Video Games?

    History tells us that games are an inseparable facet of humanity, and mainly for good reasons. Advocates of video games laud their pros: they...

    Smartphone Breath Alcohol Testing Devices Vary Widely in Accuracy

    Alcohol-impaired driving kills 29 people a day and costs $121 billion a year in the U.S. After years of progress in reducing alcohol-impaired driving fatalities, efforts...

    The World’s Data Explained: How Much We’re Producing and Where it’s all Stored

    Ancient humans stored information in cave paintings, the oldest we know of is over 40,000 years old. As humans evolved, the emergence of languages...

    Online Gaming Industry Touches Rs 7,700 crore: Study

    Slouched on a bean bag Saturday afternoon and tapping the smartphone screen in lazy elegance reminiscent of Laxman’s ‘very, very special’ silken drives through...

    Gaming Industry Worth $300 bn After Pandemic Surge: Study

    The value of the gaming industry has topped $300 billion following a pandemic-fueled surge, with some 2.7 billion players worldwide, a research report said...

    AI is Improving Google Assistant Conversations

    In order for Google Assistant to really help users with daily tasks, the tool should be able to understand the human user. This means...

    AI Enabled Gaming Characters, Sony’s Latest Ace in the Hole

    A recently published patent has revealed that the entertainment company Sony has managed to program artificial intelligence to help users customize their video game...

    Researchers Develop Smartphone-Powered Emergency Alert System

    A team of computer science researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have created and tested a new, Bluetooth-based system for disseminating emergency...

    This Tool can Help to Spot Fake News

    Several years of research and development are behind the News Evaluator, a tool that teaches an evidence-based method for online source criticism. The tool...

    Toyota Plans its Global Line-up of Electric Vehicles

    Toyota, which pioneered hybrid cars, unveiled plans for its first global line-up of battery electric vehicles(EVs) as other carmakers have pulled ahead in electrification. The...

    IIT-Roorkee Launches Online Certificate Courses in Data Science, Machine Learning, AI

    The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee has launched two online certificate programmes. The first course is data science and machine learning, and the...

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