Information Systems Updates

New York, Dec 14 (IANS) Researchers at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in the US are developing a smartphone app that can help reduce risk of injuries in factory workers due to the strain of repetitive motion required to perform their work.

​New York, Dec 11 (IANS) You may soon be able to charge cell phones and power Bluetooth headsets with the swipe of a finger as scientists have developed a device that can harvest energy from human motion.

​New York, Dec 19 (IANS) Apple is rumoured to release iPhone 8 in OLED and LCD variants next year, of which OLED models are likely to sport curved displays.

"Apple may or may not use new technology which enables the phone to respond when users touch any side of the device," appleinsider.com reported on Sunday.

New York, Dec 9 (IANS) Global open source solution provider Red Hat on Friday launched its "OpenShift Dedicated" solution -- a cloud-based service targeting enterprise IT and development teams -- on the Google Cloud Platform.

​New York, Dec 6 (IANS) After a disastrous launch of its previous chatbot Tay, Microsoft is reportedly releasing another artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot named 'Zo' on the social messaging app 'Kik', reports said on Tuesday.

​San Francisco, Dec 21 (IANS) After successfully rolling out the live video feature, Facebook has now introduced "Live Audio" option - like traditional radio or podcasting -- in your News Feed where users will be able to broadcast audio directly to the social network.

​New York, Dec 13 (IANS) In a move aimed at doing away with the rigid touch most robots are associated with, researchers have devised a way for a soft robot to feel its surroundings internally, in much the same way humans do.

​New York, Dec 6 (IANS) In an effort to stop the proliferation of fake news, Facebook has initiated a "Survey" that asks users to what extent they think an article uses misleading language.

​New York, Dec 4 (IANS) A month after Volvo got an order of 100 self-driving cars from Uber, Apple has hinted that it will enter the driverless cars market where bigwigs like Tesla and Google have already made deep inroads, a media report said.

​New York, Dec 4 (IANS) Even though the online social platforms are offering several privacy controls to users, it depends on the user how to use them making privacy a debatable issue, a new study has found.