TWO robots named Rosie and James are making pancakes. It's a tough task that requires coordination, planning and a fine touch with a spatula. Midway through the process, Rosie slides the spatula under the half-cooked cake, lifts the pancake from the heat and carefully flips…

How can any organisation detect the onset of an attack on its computer network, giving it time to respond quickly and block any intrusion or compromise of its data? The answer could lie in game theory.Modern firewalls and other technology are already in place,…

NASA will somehow have to accomplish its most ambitious mission – landing on an asteriod within 15 years, after a presidential directive.The challenges are manifold, but NASA nerds are delirious at tackling the nitty gritty of such an inconceivably challenging project – though Hollywood…

Computer science students have come up with an innovative way to help children learn to read — a software that acts as a virtual reading coach.Ashley Steel, Luke Bjerring and Andre Meister of Waikato University worked with a curriculum coordinator in Switzerland and primary…

If you are an expert in computers and can decode a programme without much effort, give a thought to working with the Indian government or a multinational company to secure their websites from cyber attacks.As internet hacking has in recent years become a common…

A laptop prototype has been unveiled with a device that allows a user to control the computer by sight.The eye-tracking technology monitors the user’s gaze and works out where they’re looking on the computer screen and means, among other things, that users can play a…

As the next technology wave, cloud computing by enterprises has the potential to create about 100,000 new jobs in India, a study said Tuesday.“Of the projected $4.5-billion total cloud computing market in India by 2015, private cloud will account for $3.5 billion, generate about…

Warding off investors’ anger at their annual meeting at Waterloo near here Tuesday, BlackBerry co-CEOs announced that seven new smart phones running a new operating system will hit the market soon.Declining market share, shrinking revenue, profit warnings and delays in replacing the aging handsets…

Social network Facebook has hired a computer hacker who was recently sued by Sony for hacking the online game system PlayStation 3, The Sun reported.Facebook, however, did not reveal what 21-year-old George Hotz will do for the firm.Hotz – also known by the…

Human beings will meet creatures from outer space within the next 20 years, a top Russian scientist has said.“The genesis of life is as inevitable as the formation of atoms. Life exists on other planets and we will find it within 20 years,” Andrei…