Business
Pinterest to pay $440 million to Amazon Web Services for Cloud Services Usage
Every single day, Pinterest processes & saves millions of food, vacation, fashion photos & videos through Amazon’s cloud. Recently, in the initial public offering filing, Pinterest revealed that they are dedicated to spend around seven hundred and fifty million dollars on Amazon Web Services over a six-year period, which will get over in July 2023. Towards the end of 2018, the remaining amount was over four hundred million dollars, which
Chemical
Goodfellow Introduces Boron Nitride Nanotubes to its Product Range
Recently, Goodfellow introduced boron nitride nanotubes to its range of boron nitride products. Even though it is a little similar to carbon nanotubes, when it comes to its characteristics such as mechanical strength, stability, and light weight, some of its features are quite different. Unlike CNT that may be semiconducting or metallic, boron nitride nanotubes is an electric insulator that has a bandgap of ~5.5 eV. BN structure that is
Healthcare
Computer Program can Predict Irregular Heart Beats, Says Researcher
Collaborating a huge amount of data taken from past research with information from over five hundred patients, an international researchers’ team from John Hopkins has come up with a computer-based set of rules that correctly predicts when individuals with an uncommon heart issue may benefit or not from crucial inserted defibrillators. Latest study released online on March 27 in the European Heart Journal offers physicians with a risk prediction tool
Lifestyle
Climate Changes is Impacting Fish in Ontario Lakes, Says University of Guelph’s Researchers
As per the latest research by University of Guelph’s researchers, warm climate is having an adverse impact on food webs present in Ontario lakes. Researchers have identified that warmer average climate changes in the last ten years have forced fish to rummage in deeper water. They pursue various prey species, which in turn leads to environment-induced rewiring of food webs, changing the energy flow & nutrients present in the waterbody.
Technology
How Technology can Help Smart Cities in Efficient Waste Management
Currently, every single city aspires to be greener, cleaner & more sustainable. The way to this mission begins at the basic level – city’s waste management & recycling at the right time and efficiently. It is one of the important functions of a well operated city. One of the biggest issues when it comes to handling waste & recycling is picking up the materials efficiently and also ensuring that the
