If you have used a smartphone in the past 15 years, you must have definitely used Google Maps. For the uninitiated, Maps is a service developed by Google that uses satellite imagery and street-level cameras in order to create very accurate maps of any area. This app works on most phones and is an indispensable … Read more
The Silicon Valley is an area in the state of California, USA. It is widely known as the center for technological innovation and progress in the world. Upon its inception, it was restricted to the Santa Clara Valley in the Santa Clara county. However., due to a rapid expansion of the various industries housed within … Read more
Vine was one of the most used social video sharing platforms when it was still active. Its unique focus on heavily edited short-form videos brought it mass appeal. However, it was shut down in 2016 and left a niche open to be captured. Here is where the Chinese app Douyin came forward to shine. Recognizing … Read more
Computers have become ubiquitous in every aspect of our life. They are used for everything from simple tasks like controlling streetlights and powering calculators to extremely complex tasks like charting orbits for space travel. The most complex tasks are performed by extremely powerful computers known as ‘Supercomputers.’ These supercomputers can perform quadrillions of floating-point calculations … Read more
Intel is an American company specializing in creating semiconductor-based circuits. These circuits are used for a multitude of purposes, including microprocessors, memory units, etc. Its headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Intel is most popularly known for its consumer processors, mainly the Pentium and Core series. They are also the inventors of the x86 architecture of processors, … Read more
Apple is one of the most successful companies in the world. It was the first US-based company to be worth $1 trillion and only the second modern company to do so, after PetroChina. Arguably its most famous products are the iPhone and the iPad. Both of these devices run on Apple’s proprietary mobile operating software … Read more
Drones are autonomous flying vehicles (also known as UAVs, RPAs, etc.) controlled remotely by pilots using a variety of control schemes. Drones are becoming increasingly common due to their declining costs and improved battery life. They are very versatile with their uses from being used to deliver pizzas to being used as lethal killing machines. … Read more
Video games were created in 1958, thus saving the world from not having video games. Since then, games have evolved a lot. Modern video games have production budgets larger than most movies, and nearly photorealistic graphics. They have stories that resonate with the players and characters that make us cry and laugh with them. They … Read more
Virtual reality is an artificially created environment which leads its users to suspend their perception of the real world and accept the artificial, or virtual world as reality. VR tech completely immerses its users into the software-generated world, overpowering the audio-visual senses of its users to change their perception of reality. These virtual worlds range … Read more
A startup company refers to any company or project that is started by an entrepreneur to effectively develop an idea or a product into a scalable business model. Almost every company starts in this way. These startups are the backbone of any economy. By their very nature, startups begin as a very small-scale operation, often … Read more