Daily Archives: March 30, 2016

New Skype update brings Bots feature

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As part of its ongoing Build 2016 conference, Microsoft rolled out a new feature to its Skype messaging app. Dubbed Skype Bots, the feature is described by the company as “a new way to bring expertise, products, services and entertainment into your daily messaging on Skype.”

The Redmond, Washington-based company demonstrated the feature by showing off a Cortana integrated Skype client where-in the virtual assistant acted as a Skype Bot to help users identify people, places, and things in their messages, as well as display more info about them.

In addition, it could also perform other…

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Nature Inspired Nanotexturing Gives Graphene Boost In Light Absorption

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The humble moth has provided inspiration to a team of top researchers at the Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey, who have engineered graphene, a material that is usually terrible at absorbing light, to create a nanotextured graphene that can absorb 95% of incident light – all by mimicking the nanostructure found on on the eye of a moth.

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Google’s VR View will embed VR content into apps and websites

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Thanks to Google, there is now going to be a web viewer for VR which can be integrated right into a website along with apps for Android and iOS. The new HTML and JavaScript code is up on Github for you to start embedding your vacation 360 images right away.

I’ve embedded a sample VR View of the coral reefs just above this text. You’ll need to be using the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari all for desktop, iOS 8 and above, or KitKat 4.4 and above for mobile.

The desktop viewer is a simple image viewer which can go fullscreen and allows…

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At The Age of 15 She Invented Building Material From Indian Rice Waste

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After seeing the environmental hazards that burning rice waste was causing at her family farm in North India, then-15 year old Bisman Deu saw an opportunity to create something useful, and developed an environmentally sustainable building material out of the farm?s biggest waste product.

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