Columns Geekonic – WhatsApp Business Posted on January 24, 2018 By Team SPark As the most popular instant-messaging app in the world, WhatsApp has a user base of around 1.2 billion people. Last year in September, the Facebook-owned app came up with a new application called Whatsapp Business, which was targeted specifically at businesses. In its pilot stage, it saw the participation… Read more
Columns Meltdown and Spectre Posted on January 17, 2018 By Team SPark The dawn of 2018, unveiled to the world two new forms of security vulnerabilities which exploit the fundamental features of the modern microprocessors that power almost all of our gadgets. ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’ do not just exploit bugs but a process which is supposed to be carried out by the… Read more
Columns Self-Driving Cars Posted on December 28, 2017 By Team SPark Imagine yourself driving down the road, when all of a sudden a big SUV cuts you off without a warning, putting you at risk to a major accident. You, however, are busy reading your news-feed to notice it and instead of giving those bad drivers a honk and a middle finger, your… Read more
Columns The Future of Space Exploration Posted on November 30, 2017 By Team SPark Seemingly impossible achievements of yesterday have become realities of today and the revered space agency NASA has always been a step forward in supporting and encouraging the technology of tomorrow. Earlier this year, NASA funded 22 technology concepts that could spur giant leaps in space science and exploration via… Read more
Columns Geekonic – Quantum Computing Posted on November 22, 2017 By Team SPark Imagine you only have five minutes to find an “X” written on a page of a book in the Library of Congress (which has 50 million books). It would be impossible. But if you were in 50 million parallel realities, and in each reality you could look through the pages… Read more
Geekonic Geekonic: Music Unravelled (Part 2) Posted on November 16, 2017 By Team SPark If you haven’t read Part 1 yet, we highly recommend doing so. Before we see how compression works, there are two terms you should know, Codec and Container. 1) CODEC Say you recorded sound as digital data and want to listen to it now. To do this, you need a… Read more
Geekonic Geekonic: Music Unravelled (Part 1) Posted on November 15, 2017 By Team SPark Who hasn’t heard of MP3s? Chances are, you might’ve also heard of formats like WAV, OGG, AAC, and FLAC. Also when downloading music online, you may have seen terms like 128kbps and 320kbps. What do these mean exactly? We’ve compiled a detailed guide just for that. To understand these terms,… Read more
Columns Geekonic : The Dawn of 5G Posted on November 8, 2017 By Team SPark With network speeds that are blazingly fast, the next generation of mobile networks, 5G, will not only connect people to each other but also machines, automobiles, city infrastructure and more. Read on to learn about 5G and India’s efforts to adopt it. Read more
Columns Geekonic – Flow Machines Posted on October 25, 2017 By Team SPark If you’re living in the 21st century, you’ve probably heard of AI – Artificial Intelligence. Mentored by the world’s finest – Google, IBM, Apple and Amazon, AI is a child who is slowly learning to mirror human-like behaviour. AI’s today can perform medical diagnosis, they can guide aviation systems, make… Read more
Columns Geekonic – Internet Beaming Drones Posted on October 18, 2017 By Team SPark You’re probably reading this article via the good old internet, however at this very moment 4.3 billion people don’t have any sort of access to the World Wide Web. While Europe has a connection rate of about 75%, the connection rate in Africa is closer to just 20%. Cabling the… Read more