BEIJING: China has built the world’s fastest supercomputer, almost twice as fast as the previous US holder and underlining the country’s rise as a science and technology powerhouse.
BEIJING: A Chinese supercomputer is the fastest in the world, according to survey results announced yesterday, comfortably overtaking a US machine which now ranks second
Scientists will try to revive two species of giant Galapagos tortoises thought to have been extinct by breeding genetic relatives in captivity, experts leading the effor
Swiss researchers said yesterday they have created a small four-legged, high-speed robot that runs like a cat in a bid to create a new breed of robots for use in search
A solar-powered plane nearing the close of a cross-continental journey landed at Dulles International Airport outside the nation’s capital early Sunday, only one short leg to New York remaining on a
Google revealed top-secret plans yesterday to send balloons to the edge of space with the lofty aim of bringing Internet to the two-thirds of the global population curre
NEW YORK: Speech-to-text devices in new cars fail to overcome the well-known perils of hands-on texting while driving, a US study published Wednesday suggests.
SPAIN’S NATIONAL police has built up an army of over half a million followers on Twitter, using them to help swoop on fugitives and get tip-offs on drug dealers in
SAN FRANCISCO: Google is buying online mapping service Waze in a $1.03 billion deal that keeps a potentially valuable tool away from its rivals while allowing it to gain technology that could improve
