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Indian-origin UK graduate wins £2 million software deal

Jawanda did his BSc in information technology management for business at Birmingham City University.(File photo) Hardeep ‘Harry’ Jawanda, a former England hockey player, has secured a £2 million deal with a global education technology firm that will see his software spread across the UK and Australasia. Jawanda,

Tesla Loses Autopilot Software Chief After Less Than Six Months

Tesla Motor Inc. associates work on the Model S electric car at the company’s factory in Fremont, California. Tesla Inc.’s team developing self-driving car capabilities lost a top engineer hired less than six months ago from Apple Inc., adding to a spate of executive shakeups at tech

Software on Mars rover allows it to pick research targets autonomously

Taking only 21,000 of the Curiosity mission’s total 3.8 million lines of code, AEGIS accurately selected desired targets over 2.5 kilometers of unexplored Martian terrain 93% of the time, compared to the 24% expected without the software. …more (Phys.org)—A team of researchers form the U.S., Denmark and

Bomb techs strengthen their hand with Sandia’s XTK software

  In the chaos that followed the terrorist attack at the 2013 Boston Marathon, bomb squads scanned packages at the scene for explosive devices. Two homemade pressure cooker bombs had killed three people and injured more than 250, and techs quickly had to determine if more were

Google serves a ‘Nougat’ to enthusiasts of its Android software

Google is serving a new morsel for enthusiasts of its Android software: The next version has been dubbed “Nougat,” extending Google’s tradition of nicknaming every overhaul of Android after a sweet meals. The Nougat name announced Thursday comes seven weeks after Google sought guidelines during its annual

Talking in track: New singalong software program brings sweet melody to any cacophonous cry

whether you supply it your high-quality effort or your worst, voice synthesis software evolved at Singapore’s organisation for technology, generation and research (A*megastar) will make you sound like the melodious singer you’ve got always desired to be. known as I2R Speech2Singing, this software is the first to

Economic dynamic between the two leading software delivery models

Cloud computing software has brought many changes to the business landscape and currently, the implementation of such a service is common. New research from Simon Business School at the University of Rochester sheds light on the growing competition between two widely used software models -Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and

MEGA evolutionary software re-engineered to handle today’s big data demands

A Temple University-led research team has released a new version of their popular MEGA (Molecular Evolutionary Genomics Analysis) software, one of the most highly downloaded and widely used tools used by scientists worldwide to harness large-scale DNA sets for comparative studies. At its core, MEGA is a

New open source software for high resolution microscopy

The images show a liver cell before and after processing the data with the software developed at Bielefeld University. Credit: Photo: Bielefeld University With their special microscopes, experimental physicists can already observe single molecules. However, unlike conventional light microscopes, the raw image data from some ultra-high resolution

A robot prepared for self-awareness: Expanded software architecture for walking robot Hector

A year ago, researchers at Bielefeld University showed that their software endowed the walking robot Hector with a simple form of consciousness. Their new research goes a step further: they have now developed a software architecture that could enable Hector to see himself as others see him.