French physician René Laennec envisioned in 1816 rolled sheets of paper into a tube that amplified sounds. He went on to invent the stethoscope and is considered the father of auscultation.
Well, a lot has not happened since then. The stethoscope has become an iconic symbol of the fact a doctor is in the house, or clinic, or hospital, but...
Twitter is reporting that revenue and profit and its daily user base all grew in the final three months of 2018.
But its monthly user count slipped and guidance for the current quarter was below some expectations and shares fell in premarket trading.
The San Francisco company disclosed its daily user base count for the first time, putting the figure at...
Medals for the 2020 Olympics will be made from recycled electronic devices, the Tokyo Organising Committee has announced.
It comes after millions of smartphones and tons of old digital products were donated.
Nearly 50,000 tons of devices, including cameras, games consoles and laptops, plus more than five million smartphones, were collected for the Old Metals New Medals project across Japan over...
A meeting of representatives of ANAS High-Tech Park was held under the guidance of Director of the Park, Ph.D. Nazim Shukurov with Academician-Secretary of the Department of Chemical Sciences, Director of academician A.Guliyev Institute of Chemistry of ANAS Academician Vagif Farzaliyev.
The works recommended for application by the institutes of the Department of Chemical...
Today is the international Safe Internet Day (Safer Internet Day).
Safer Internet Day was established in 2004 by the decision of the European Commission and is celebrated annually every Tuesday of the second week of February.
The goal of the International Safe Internet Day, which is being held this year under the slogan “Together for a better internet”, is to promote...
The next five years will not be easy for the information and communications technology (ICT) industry, analysts at IDC warn.
According to IDC estimates, the global ICT expenditures on equipment, software, services and communications will increase by an average of 4% by 2022 and reach 4.6 trillion dollars. Commercial customers will account for about $ 2.9 trillion, or 63.5% of...
A hacker going under the name "LimitedResults" has revealed how smart LIFX lighting bulbs could be compromised to access everything from Wi-Fi credentials to root certificates.
LimitedResults used the LIFX mini white as a test product, a $15.99 device which can be controlled via smartphone to change the temperature and dimness levels of lighting at home.
After installing the bulb's accompanying...
According to InfoWatch, the number and amount of fines imposed for the leakage of personal data in companies around the world are growing. Thus, in 2017, organizations paid about $ 45 million in fines for personal data leaks, and in 2018 the figure was already $ 320 million.
Thus, over the year, the global amount of monetary sanctions for financial...
More than one million new people go online daily and 45% of the world – about 3.5 billion people annually – are logging in to their favourite social platforms, representing almost 9% increase y-o-y, according to the Digital 2019 report by Hootsuite and We Are Social.
A majority of active social users – 3.25 billion – are accessing social networks...
Microsoft has been working on a physical programming language for children who are blind or visually impaired. Dubbed Code Jumper, it allows children to learn coding by connecting physical blocks together. Each block is around the size of a softball, and brightly colored. There are different sizes for different commands, and children can connect them together to build a...