Two US college campuses are getting a cereal-mixing robot that prepares a breakfast-ready bowl. These breakfast-dispensing robots, created as a joint pilot between Kellogg’s and Chowbotics, have been rolled out at Florida State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. On the Kellogg’s Bowl Bot, operated through a touchscreen interface or the Chowbotics app …Read More
Monthly Archives: July 2022
A coalition of US labour unions took renewed aim at Amazon, saying a need for speed in warehouses leads to workers being injured.Read More
The United States announced 25 percent tariffs on over $2 billion (roughly Rs. 14,625.51 crores) worth of imports from six countries over their digital services taxes, but immediately suspended the duties to allow time for international tax negotiations to continue.Read More
Amazon is testing its front-line staff in Britain for coronavirus variants and feeding the data to public health officials, including in hotspots where a strain first found in India is spreading fast.Read More
The US Department of Justice is elevating investigations of ransomware attacks to a similar priority as terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack and mounting damage caused by cyber criminals, a senior department official said.Read More
Among the 350 winners from 35 different countries of the WWDC21 Swift Student Challenge were a few students from India. We caught up with few of them who shared their experience participating in the challenge, their love for Apple (or otherwise), and their hopes for the future.Read More
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is developing an IT system to help schools in the preparation of Class 12 results. Class 12 board exams for 2021 were cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.Read More
Professors from top universities and research institutes are together demanding a ban on the use of lethal autonomous weapons against humans. In their appeal to the world governments, they cited a recent UN report of a drone airstrike in Libya by a devious Turkish-made weapons system, STM Kargu-2, that needed no human oversight.Read More
Kavyiat India is planning to launch Boschung S2.0 Electric Road Sweeper in India and is in the process of seeking approval from the New Delhi Municipal Council. The urban road sweeper claims to be a much more energy efficient option as compared to currently running diesel-based road sweepers, and is expected to bring down the…
Reliance will invest Rs. 75,000 crores in clean energy and set up Giga factories to make solar photovoltaic cells, green hydrogen, batteries, and fuel cells over the next three years, CEO Mukesh Ambani announced on Thursday, June 24 at the Reliance AGM 2021.Read More