Mike Zimmerman likes to shock his guests by using a hammer to drive a nail through a solid polymer lithium metal battery. Nothing happens — and that’s a good thing.
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Sci & Tech
<p>Read the latest news about Iran's technology industries, from startups, mobile networks, innovative companies and e-commerce.</p>
Students at Sharif University of Technology ranked first in the 18th round of Tehran ACM ICPC 2016, a five-hour programming competition.
The student teams competed to solve 12 programming…
The 22nd round of the International Exhibition of Electronics, Computer and E-Commerce (Elecomp 2016) was held Dec. 15-18 in Tehran. One major attraction was the sector named Elecom Stars that…
The first edition of the Startup Entrepreneurs Conference was held at the National Library of Iran earlier in the week.
It brought together entrepreneurs, startup aficionados, press corps…
During the first meeting of Science and Technology Exchange Program of Islamic Countries (STEP) in the Malaysian capital, a Jordanian scientist claimed that there is an unequal distribution of…
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone has been taken out of the sky after entering the no-fly zone near the Presidential office area in downtown Tehran on December 23.
Mohsen Hamedani,…
A new research document released in the US suggests with the help of artificial intelligence cancer could quickly become a disease of the past.
Scientists at the Pharmaceutical Artificial…
Researchers at Iran’s Islamic Azad University, have developed a new strain of plants with the addition of FSG-plasma (fluorosilicate glass), according to Mehr News Agency. Non-thermal plasma…
Online booking industry in Iran is becoming increasingly crowded, with several new entrants vying for the money in the pockets of travelers.
Two foreign-backed travel websites, namely WeGo.…
SoftBank Group Corp has agreed to invest $1 billion in US satellite venture OneWeb Ltd, marking the first tranche of a $50 billion US investment the Japanese telecoms and technology company’s…
The world’s largest digital survey of the visible Universe, mapping billions of stars and galaxies, has been publicly released to the general public.
Italy and Iran have agreed to cooperate in the field of biotechnology research, Mehr News Agency reported on Monday. The agreement follows a meeting in Tehran on 'Technological Innovation…
Internet bandwidth in Iran is set to increase from four to 100 terabytes per second in the next five years, said the deputy minister of communications and information, Barat Qanbari, at a recent…
The 22nd round of the International Exhibition of Electronics, Computer and E-Commerce (Elecomp 2016) was held this week by the Iranian ICT Guild Organization (IIG) at Tehran’s…
Researchers at Iran’s Amir Kabir University have developed a “brain stimulator” or trans-cranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) which can be used in treating Parkinson’s patients, Mehr News…
A survey conducted by Iran’s Communications and Information Technology News Agency (CITNA) on how people in November/December 2016 source their news content in Iran marks a worrying era for the…
The University of California, Berkeley’s network of smartphone earthquake detectors has recorded nearly 400 earthquakes since the MyShake app was made available for download in February, Eureka…
In President Hassan Rouhani’s budget for the next fiscal year (starts in March 2017), which was presented to the Majlis last week, the telecoms sector is likely to get a cut, initial reports show…
HMD Global, the Finnish company that owns the rights to use the Nokia brand on mobile phones, announced its first new products on December 13 - two basic handsets without internet access priced at…
According to a Persian language report by Khabar Online, a study carried out in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences proves that severe electro-magnetic waves increase the risk of infertility,…
Persian Gulf city state Abu Dhabi has signed the United Arab Emirates’ second hyperloop feasibility study to build a futuristic high-speed rail transport system connecting the cities of Abu Dhabi…
Voice services such as Microsoft’s Skype and Facebook’s WhatsApp services face stricter rules on how they handle customer data under new security laws due to be proposed by the European Union.
Hessam Oqbaei, director of the Tehran Association of Real Estate Agents, said on December 6 that he would “destroy [the] Divar,” sending shockwaves through the local e-commerce industry, in what…
In President Hassan Rouhani’s budget for the next fiscal that was presented to the Majlis last week, science and technology are likely to get a boost, according to initial reports.
An Irish fashion e-commerce retailer, iClothing.com, has announced it will expand into the Iranian market, according to an interview with Dublin’s Business Post.
iClothing.com is an Irish-…
