Author: Shweta Goyal

Disney never leaves you disappointed in the race of animated movies, and it has another frontrunner in the shape of Moana. Coming from directors Ron Clements and John Musker, it is a tale of a Polynesian teenager who embarks an adventurous journey to restore the Heart of Te Fiti stolen by demigod Maui. In fact, the film opens with a story of an island goddess who has the power to create life but turns into a volcanic demon when her heart is stolen. Now out on DVD by Sony DADC, we review it for you. Moana, who is a daughter…

Cloud platform adoption is only headed in one direction – forwards. The incentives it offers are obvious – cost savings, agility and innovation. The cloud lays a strategic foundation for implementing future applications implementing digital business solutions. The cloud market is currently dominated by Amazon Web Services followed by Microsoft’s Azure. Amazon Web Services (AWS) controls the lion’s share of the market despite other large IT players like Microsoft, IBM and Oracle or for that matter more niche players such as Digital Ocean. Until last year, it was a two- horse race with Amazon running first and Microsoft pushing itself to…

Mobile applications, social media marketing, and online games have ensued sheer pandemonium in the marketing segment. AR (Augmented Reality) is one such technology piquing into the market and changing the consumer experiences. Augmented Reality has the ability to overlay virtual content on the physical world and have the two interact in real time. AR offers scope to engage consumers with campaigns Augmented reality has transformed how consumer try out or buy products. Companies like Ray-Ban, IKEA, Cover Girl, L’Oréal have already successfully implemented AR. Consumers can now try any cosmetic product, shades or sunglasses on their face and experiment with their looks. AR…

Do you remember what you dreamt of last night? More importantly – why were you dreaming that specific dream? Centuries have gone by, pondering over the meaning of dreams. There have been great interpretations about dreams and their science. Some people attached physiological theories to it whereas some said it is more of a neurobiological phenomenon. Freud’s theory was centered around the idea that dreaming allows us to sort through the various repressed wishes whereas memory specialists have argued that it is a neurobiological phenomenon which says that dreams are electrical impulses in our brain, a theory known as “activation-synthesis hypothesis”.…

Disney has always enthralled us with movies having stunning visual quality, good story line and a wonderful experience to take home with us. Finding Dory hit theaters in 2016. With Finding Nemo as its predecessor, high expectations were obvious. Finding Dory takes us on a journey with the other fish – Dory, who is an amnesiac bright blue tang. The movie which is less adventurous like other Disney movies such as Brave, Frozen or Toy Story but makes a successful entry in the box office. It endures the theme of parent-child bond and embrace of family and friends in all instances.  While not…

Online streaming is the preferred mode of listening to music for a large part of America & Europe. The concept hasn’t gained a lot of traction in India though, primarily due to high data usage costs and the price sensitivity of the market. All that is changing however, with big players now vying for a portion of the streaming revenue pie. Saavn, Gaana and Airtel’s Wynk Music are the major players competing with each other. Related: The Best Music Mixing Apps for Android Saavn launched back in 2007 in the United States. It was initially a B2B distributor of Bollywood content, but reinvented…

In 1913, Henry ford came up with the revolutionary idea of assembly lines – which brought entirely new occupational changes and reduced the time needed to build a single car from 12 hours to an astonishing 30 minutes. Not surprisingly, every other industry, from manufacturing to IT, came up with more such innovations, in an attempt to automate everything. Innovation & advanced tech lead to fascinating concept that has been the centre of attention for many globally – a robot. Mechanical beings that could replace us, without all the extra baggage an employer may have to deal with – like emotions, and working…

I was 16 when I first bought a phone. Getting a camera phone with 2 megapixel camera on its back was a proud moment back then. In the last decade, the smartphone industry has seen more than just rapid development. Spectacular cameras, loud and clear speakers, larger and larger battery life, sturdy design, large storage space – your smartphone may do everything, and yet, another will be launched that can deliver more. Related: Is The Flagship Smartphone Dead? But as a result, we’ve reached a saturation point. Almost all smartphones within a price range now deliver the same functions, perform equally well, and approximately…

Remember In Time? The Justin Timberlake movie delivered an interesting take on an original idea. An idea that involved humans not physically ageing after 25. One of the standout scenes from the movie involves Timberlake being introduced to a mother, wife, and a daughter – all the exact same age. How realistic can this scenario get? The question here is can we prevent ageing? That is, can we prevent the damage of cells, tissues, macromolecules and organs? Can we make homo sapiens immortal where anything from a malignancy to a natural calamity would not stop the heart from beating? Related: The War…

The concept of invisibility cloaks, often seen in Star Trek, Star Wars, Harry Potter, and many other fictional universes, seems to be making strong progress in the real world. Visual invisibility cloaking allows us to render objects or individuals partially or wholly invisible to parts of electromagnetic spectrum or simply to redirect the light around the shape, from all the directions, in order to make that object disappear to the naked eye. Early Development The earliest cloaking devices, used back in 2006, were composed of metamaterial. Physicists rendered a cylinder invisible by coating it with metamaterial, but unlike Potteresque robes, people could…

It’s the 3rd decade of this century. We’re living at the pinnacle of human technology, with every year touching a new high in terms of our scientific and technological prowess. We’re using physics to manipulate electrons and atoms – which give us electricity and internet – the very foundation of modern life as we know it. Today, we’re surrounded by multiple products manipulating high energy particles – from cellphones to microwaves. The last time you went to a medical clinic to get an X-ray or MRI, you experienced radiation treatment, to put it simply. Although of course, all this is…