Sci & Tech

<p>Read the latest news about Iran's technology industries, from startups, mobile networks, innovative companies and e-commerce.</p>

  • Iran's University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences plans to set up the first Next Generation Sequencing center in the coming months, said the president of the university. …

  • Iran's Scientific and Industrial Research Organization has announced that one of its subsidiaries has designed and manufactured hovercrafts in Iran.

  • A new range of cellphone numbers will soon be offered by the Mobile Telecommunications Company of Iran, abbreviated as MCI, following the approval of the Communications Regulatory Authority.

  • Google Inc announced a surprise overhaul of its operating structure on Monday, creating a holding company called Alphabet to pool its many subsidiaries and separate the core web advertising…

  • The second edition of Tech Bazaar: Modern Urban Technologies is currently underway in Tehran.

    Scientific and research deputy of the Presidential Office, Mehdi Seyyedi, and head of Tehran…

  • Brucellosis can now be diagnosed faster and easier, thanks to the electrochemical geno-sensor based on nanomaterials developed by Dr. Hossein Heli, a researcher and faculty member at Shiraz…

  • The technical and engineering faculties of Tehran University have been ranked 56th in the world for having shown strength in producing research related to a variety of engineering subjects. These…

  • Britons have begun to show interest in doing business with Iran. The laggard position of the British government seems to be out of step with that of the general business community in the British…

  • Britain's Carphone Warehouse, the largest and oldest independent mobile phone retailer, has said customers should change their online passwords, amid fears that fraudsters will exploit a data…

  • Around 27 million devices are now running on Windows 10, according to estimates.

    Neowin's Brad Sams reports that Microsoft insiders say the number of PCs upgraded to Windows 10 are now more…

  • Isfahan will host Startup Grind powered by Google for Entrepreneurs on August 9.  

    The central Iran event will this time host talks from leading local e-commerce companies, including…

  • Researchers at a knowledge-based company have developed a nanomaterial capable of absorbing toxic gases. Alireza Monjazipour, the project director, told Mehr News Agency, the nano-sorbent can…

  • Microsoft has just released a bunch of apps for wearable devices—not for their Band, but for Android Wear smartwatches and the Apple Watch.

    First for the Apple Watch is Outlook, which…

  • Iranian Minister of Science Mohammad Farhadi said Iranian science and technology parks exported products worth $24 million.

    “Thirty-six science and technology parks, which housed 600…

  • Royan, a renowned Iranian institute working in the field of biomedicine, has cloned a type of wild ram that is in danger of extinction, the institute’s chief said.

  • Smartphone users spend almost two hours (114 minutes) every day using the Internet on their mobile phone, almost twice as much time as the average adult spends going online via a PC or laptop (69…

  • Iran will host the international robot soccer competitions (FIRA) next year, said the head of Robotics Research Center at Amirkabir University of Technology.

    Saeed Shiri added that the…

  • A locally developed messenger app called "Gap" has been released. The application works like other more well-known applications and allows users to join group chats, send pictures and have secure…

  • Microsoft has bought a startup with a way of using game play to boost the sales teams' performance. Microsoft did not disclose terms of the deal in which it bought Incent Games, developer of…

  • Iranian researchers have produced the world’s third strategic metal using mining waste.

    Iranian researchers at a Science Park in Markazi Province, central Iran, recovered slag from zinc…

  • Students from Sharif University of Technology ranked eighth at the 22nd International Mathematics Competition (IMC) for University Students in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.

    Iran’s mathematics team…

  • Researchers of Iran's Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology have reported great advancements for the treatment of children suffering from cerebral palsy and polio.

    "They used…

  • Children as young as 10 can learn the basics of coding at a summer event named CodeKadeh planned in the Iranian capital Tehran.

  • German carmakers BMW, Audi (VW) and Daimler will pay around $2.75 billion to buy Nokia's maps business, a transformational deal that will help them to develop self-driving cars.

    Daimler,…

  • Sony has launched the Xperia C5 Ultra and Xperia M5 camera-focused smartphones on Monday in India and announced that the new handsets will be available in single-and dual-SIM variants.

    Both…