Museums show how the past and the present are intricately linked together. By exhibiting material dating back in time, museums provide visitors with information needed to imagine a collective present, as nations or as human species. Advances in information and telecommunication technologies …Continue reading
An insight into e-voting in 2019 Indian elections
Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi is a former chief election commissioner of India. He has authored the book An Undocumented Wonder – The Making of the Great Indian Election. MIT Technology Review reached out to him for insight on technological interventions undertaken over the …Continue reading
Technology and Cricket: An Uneasy Alliance?
When Saeed Ajmal made a late entry into the international cricketing circuit at age 32, he quickly went on to fill a void left in the Pakistani squad after an earlier-than-expected retirement of legendary off spinner Saqlain Mushtaq in 2004. Best known …Continue reading
Implantable device offsets food cravings, aids weight loss
A new battery-free, implantable weight-loss device developed by engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison could be humanity’s newest weapon in the battle against obesity. Measuring less than a centimeter across, the tiny device — which scientists claim is safe for use in …Continue reading
Battling to breathe
At the onset of winter in 2016, Lahore saw smog for the first time. Visually, the scene was similar to the usual fog the city experiences in winter season, and many thought that fog had arrived early. But soon, when residents of …Continue reading
Third genetically modified baby could be on its way, announces rogue Chinese scientist
Just three days after Chinese researcher He Jiankui shocked the world by announcing that he had altered the genome of twin girls to make them more resistant to HIV, he claims that another gene-edited baby is on its way. Jiankui announced this …Continue reading
Paralysis patients operate tablet with their minds
New research at the BrainGate initiative — a research team focused on the development of brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies for people with neurological disease — may soon allow disabled individuals to operate tablets by simply thinking about cursor movements and clicks. In …Continue reading
MIT engineers create aircraft prototype with no moving parts
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created an aircraft that doesn’t get its thrust from propellers and turbines, but ionic wind — a silent flow of ions that generates the thrust required to keep the plane airborne. The plane …Continue reading
Transforming Policing Through Technology
In 2011, the Punjab province saw a deadly outbreak of dengue fever, affecting 21,685 people, of whom 310 lost their lives. To prevent another outbreak the following year, the provincial government undertook a massive dengue surveillance and eradication effort powered by smartphone-based …Continue reading
Researchers create personalized tissue implants
Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) have created the world’s first fully personalized tissue implant, which has been engineered using the patient’s own materials and cells. This new biotechnology makes it possible to engineer any kind of tissue implant from one small …Continue reading