To make sure you’re not a robot, please look at these pictures and identify the street signs, the cars, the fire hydrants, the shop fronts, the numbers on the front doors, and the ever-growing sense of frustration. Why all this? In the late 90s the most popular search engine AltaVista had a spam problem. People…
VTOL stands for “vertical take-off and landing.” As the name implies, it denotes a kind of aircraft that can launch and land from a single spot. Since aerial vehicles equipped with VTOL technologies don’t require the horizontal space of a runway, they can start and end from virtually any location on the globe.The idea of…
The universe we exist in is one hot pot of entropy fuzzing with energy fluctuations and continuous conversion between different forms of energy/matter. No matter how far we reach out in space or how many times we zoom into matter, mankind’s efforts to find perfect nothingness has been futile. Empty space as we know it,…
Unmanned aerial vehicles have been in operation for many years, particularly for military purposes. However, recent advances in technology have increased the potential uses of drones, such as for aerial photography, agriculture, and search and rescue. Improvements in battery life, motor power and gyroscopes mean that users have more control over drones than ever before,…
Three weeks ago, I wouldn’t have said yes. Her eyes were like two glimmering pools of emotions in this dark night. She turned around and sighed. Dropping the fake smile, she trudged her way back to the chairs to give her feet some rest. It was an unsaid rule of the society that when a…
Tunneling is one of the oldest forms of engineering found in today’s world. From ancient times man has been creating structures called tunnels in intact rock and soil in order to achieve a certain purpose. Despite its ancient origins , tunneling in the modern era has taken a drastic step and is slowly advancing into…
Fuels are an important part of the world today. But as everybody knows, fuel resources are depleting at an exponential rate, and we as humans, need to contribute to help save fuel, and also save the environment for future generations. In simple terms, hybrid means a thing made by combining two elements. A hybrid vehicle…
If I were to give you a bunch of strings, how would you store them? Perhaps as an array or a list? But what if you’re required to search for a string? That’s a search complexity of O(n) (Where n is the number of strings stored). Can this be done more efficiently? Instead of storing…
Have you ever wondered what happens when you search for something on google? How does google manage to find the most useful data from such a huge collection of webpages Organizing Data This is basically done in two steps : Crawling and Indexing Crawling This happens before the search. The web crawlers gather information from…
Moist. Mucus. Phlegm. Slurp. Did you just unintentionally squirm as you read those words? The phenomenon of word aversion – seemingly normal, inoffensive words that just seem to rile people up- has received quite some attention in the past few years. It is just an irrational feeling of hate or distaste for a word not…