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Syngenta Starts 10,000km ‘Drone Yatra’ Across 13 States to Educate Farmers on Spraying Pesticides With Drones
Syngenta, a Swiss agrochemical firm, has started a ‘drone yatra’ to cover 10,000 km in India and educate 10,000 farmers about the use of drones to spray pesticides. The program will cover 13 states over three months. It has also announced a biodiversity sensor technology developed with IIP-Ropar in Punjab and Fraunhofer Institute of Germany for...
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H.266/VVC Video Compression Standard Debuts, Claimed to Cut Streaming Data Use by Half Even on 4K, 8K Videos
A new video compression standard, called H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC), has been developed to offer around 50 percent data efficiency is streaming videos. It is touted to have been built in a collaboration with companies including Apple, Ericsson, Intel, Huawei, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Sony.
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IIM Bangalore, German B-schools Tie Up To Launch International Management Programme For Technologists
IIM Bangalore has announced a partnership with two premier German B-schools - the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Germany for an International Management Programme for Technologists (IMPT).
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Parents, Take Note! Inflatable Pool Toys Can Put Your Kid at Cancer Risk
Researchers from Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV in Germany have warned that inflatable pool toys may contain certainpotentially hazardous substances that can put your child at the risk of cancer.
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IIT Madras To Set Up Centre On Automotive Research
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, has proposed to set up a Centre for Advanced Automotive Research in collaboration with German-based Fraunhofer Gesellschaft.
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New Google Glass App to Detect Emotions by Analysing Facial Expressions
The new SHORE app will be soon released for Google Glass, and also detects a person's age and their gender.
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Smartphones to act as secure and versatile keys
Researchers have developed a new software that makes the technology of opening car and home doors using smartphone apps more secure and versatile.
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A device that won't let motorists fall asleep
Scientists have developed a device to prevent motorists from falling asleep -- potentially saving 300,000 people from sudden deaths worldwide.The system, devised at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, involves tiny cameras that monitor eye movements which trigger an alarm when drivers seem about to nod off.Cameras are set up to follow the line of ...
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Syngenta Starts 10,000km ‘Drone Yatra’ Across 13 States to Educate Farmers on Spraying Pesticides With Drones
Syngenta, a Swiss agrochemical firm, has started a ‘drone yatra’ to cover 10,000 km in India and educate 10,000 farmers about the use of drones to spray pesticides. The program will cover 13 states over three months. It has also announced a biodiversity sensor technology developed with IIP-Ropar in Punjab and Fraunhofer Institute of Germany for...
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H.266/VVC Video Compression Standard Debuts, Claimed to Cut Streaming Data Use by Half Even on 4K, 8K Videos
A new video compression standard, called H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC), has been developed to offer around 50 percent data efficiency is streaming videos. It is touted to have been built in a collaboration with companies including Apple, Ericsson, Intel, Huawei, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Sony.
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IIM Bangalore, German B-schools Tie Up To Launch International Management Programme For Technologists
IIM Bangalore has announced a partnership with two premier German B-schools - the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Germany for an International Management Programme for Technologists (IMPT).
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Parents, Take Note! Inflatable Pool Toys Can Put Your Kid at Cancer Risk
Researchers from Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV in Germany have warned that inflatable pool toys may contain certainpotentially hazardous substances that can put your child at the risk of cancer.
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IIT Madras To Set Up Centre On Automotive Research
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, has proposed to set up a Centre for Advanced Automotive Research in collaboration with German-based Fraunhofer Gesellschaft.
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New Google Glass App to Detect Emotions by Analysing Facial Expressions
The new SHORE app will be soon released for Google Glass, and also detects a person's age and their gender.
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Smartphones to act as secure and versatile keys
Researchers have developed a new software that makes the technology of opening car and home doors using smartphone apps more secure and versatile.
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A device that won't let motorists fall asleep
Scientists have developed a device to prevent motorists from falling asleep -- potentially saving 300,000 people from sudden deaths worldwide.The system, devised at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, involves tiny cameras that monitor eye movements which trigger an alarm when drivers seem about to nod off.Cameras are set up to follow the line of ...
