Notify radiation level

Dial in a headache

A study shows headache is more common among mobile phone users

Lest mountain slips

Wireless sensor network to predict landslides

Sounds bad!

Save power the smart way

India gets smart grid that monitors electricity use in real time

Cell towers, a health risk

Panel recommends restrictions on mobile phone towers

Confusing signal

As the government rushes to digitise cable TV network, analysts say it will only add to the burden of consumers

Cursory look at science-development links

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Clash of the cyberworlds

In an increasingly digital world, the issue of Internet freedom and governance has become hugely contested. Censorship and denial of access occur …

New cancer risk

WHO links excess mobile phone use to cancer; experts divided on health impact of radio frequencies

Hard time for honeybees

Entomologist May Berenbaum of University of Illinois in USA has inspired a character in TV series, X-Files. The winner of this year’s Tyler …

A P Mitra practical professor

Bytes

Inequalities keep shifting as knowledge enters market

Industry over public health

New DoT mobile tower guidelines fall short of meeting need of the hour

Heat of the matter

Skeptics lose their main foothold in the global warming debate

Mobile radiation scare in Jaipur

Rajasthan says levels within permissible limit. Critics claim even ‘safe’ levels are harmful

The right call?

Norms to curb mobile radiation do little to assuage people’s fear

File-sharing to become more responsible

Why do we need patents?

There is no empirical evidence that patents serve to increase innovation and productivity

On hold

UN rolls out COVID-19 communication tool in Africa

The mobile-based digital public communications platform aims to provide 600-800 million users with latest public health advice 

No need to make cellphone tower radiation norms more stringent, says government panel

Committee appointed on court's directions dismisses concerns over health impacts of EMF radiations, but calls for more studies on it

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