Data

Aadhaar Cards in India. Photo courtesy: UIDAI (file photo)

November 20, 2017December 7, 2017 - E-Governance, Feature, Masses

Was Aadhaar Data of Indian Citizens Hacked and Stolen?

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) claimed today that Aadhaar data was neither breached nor leaked from the government…

Ravi Shankar Prasad launching the Hackathon, at a function, in New Delhi on September 12, 2017

September 13, 2017October 11, 2017 - E-Governance, Feature, Masses

App Developers Invited to #OpenGovDataHack Hackathon

India’s Minister for Electronics & Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad launched Tuesday a nation-wide hackathon #OpenGovDataHack. Covering seven states of…

The Minister of State for Communications (Independent Charge) and Railways, Shri Manoj Sinha addressing at the 10th Anniversary Celebrations of IPTV Society, in New Delhi on July 14, 2017

July 15, 2017September 19, 2017 - Applications, Enterprise, Enterprise Events, Events, Feature

Data to Drive Telecom Industry in Future: Manoj Sinha

India’s Minister of Communications, Manoj Sinha, said Friday that the Telecom Ministry is dealing with an extremely dynamic industry and…

Christopher Lutz of IBM Research - Almaden in San Jose, Calif. stands with IBM's Nobel-prize winning microscope used to store data on a single atom magnet. IBM scientists used its scanning tunneling microscope to demonstrate technology that could someday store all 35 million songs on iTunes library on the area of a credit card. (Stan Olszewski for IBM)

March 9, 2017April 6, 2017 - Applications, Enterprise, Feature, Video

How IBM Researchers Store Data on World’s Smallest Magnet

IBM announced Wednesday it has created the world’s smallest magnet using a single atom – and stored one bit of…

January 27, 2017February 8, 2017 - Consumer, Feature, Mobiles, Video

How World Bank Collects Data Using Mobile Phones

The World Bank Group suggests that the proliferation of mobile phones has opened up new opportunities for conducting surveys in…

Wilted crops in Neno district, Malawi. Photo: OCHA/Tamara van Vliet

January 19, 2017February 7, 2017 - Enterprise Tech, Feature

NASA Data Shows 2016 Warmest Year on Record Globally

Earth’s 2016 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and…