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Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a simple, low-cost clip that uses a smartphone's camera and flash to monitor blood pressure at the user's fingertip. The clip works with a custom smartphone app and…

Bouncing between apps and programs can become a time suck—a problem that Microsoft Edge’s newest features want to nip in the bud. Splashiest among them is the integration of Microsoft’s Dall-E powered Bing Image Creator, which lets you…

Picture Lee Unkrich, one of Pixar’s most distinguished animators, as a seventh grader. He’s staring at an image of a train locomotive on the screen of his school’s first computer. Wow, he thinks. Some of the magic wears off, however, when…

Credit: kkssr/Shutterstock As data storage has become more accessible than ever, the amount of digital "stuff" we all have stashed away is on…

From BYOD and social media to ergonomics and encryption, TechRepublic Premium has dozens of ready-made, downloadable IT policy templates. Image: Gorodenkoff/Adobe Stock Crafting an effective IT policy can be a daunting…

It is the crucial season for theatres when families, schools and panto-lovers traditionally crowd into festive shows and fill venues’ coffers for the year ahead. But this winter, amid rising Covid case numbers and the spread of the…

The wait is finally over! The most unprecedented, latest, revised, 10th-anniversary edition of Objective NCERT at Your Fingertips is released now! The Fingertips series bestows its tribute to millions of readers who fondly trusted the book…

The snapping of a finger was first depicted in ancient Greek art around 300 B.C. Today, that same snap initiates evil forces for the villain Thanos in Marvel's latest Avengers movie. Both media inspired a group of researchers from the…

There were many similar devices in the past where most of them required intense physical activities by the user. This device cancels out such needs by making use of our sweaty fingers to power some small wearable electronics during sleep.…

For many, the ability to see and hear our family, friends and colleagues using digital devices like mobile phones and video-calls has long been a reality—never more so than during the pandemic. But one day, we may also be able…