Archive for the Category ‘Technology’
The Kepler space telescope science team has confirmed the discovery of 11 star systems piled with 26 exoplanets.
With this latest revelation, the number of known multi-planetary star systems has just tripled and the list of confirmed planets beyond our solar
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Twitter has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis.
The additional flexibility announced on Thursday is likely to raise fears that Twitter’s commitment to free speech may be weakening as the short-messaging company expands into new
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A new method, dubbed “repair-and-go” could soon be able to heal small-scale scratches on digital device surfaces, researchers say. A digital device may sustain hard-to-pinpoint nanoscale cracks, which can cause the device as a whole to malfunction.
A team of researchers
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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to Delhi Police on a petition filed against summons issued by a trial court to 21 websites, including Google, Yahoo and YouTube, for allegedly hosting obscene and derogatory content. Challenging a
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Communications Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday took strong exception to the uploading of disparaging
and defamatory content, particularly those related to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh, on some social networking sites, and asked these websites to remove all
such
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There is now every sign that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) or the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban is turning out to be a victim of low expectations. Four days into the otherwise high-profile conference,
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Three Indian researchers at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland claimed to have developed a method to tackle the counterfeiting of whisky using laser technology. They have come up with a user-friendly device that can prove if a whisky
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The population of endangered migratory bird species is either decreasing or stable, but the central government is working to protect them during their sojourn, says Environment and Forests Minister Jayanthi Natarajan.
The number of migratory birds arriving in India depends on
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The U.N. weather office says world temperatures maintained a long-term upward trend and Arctic sea ice shrank to record low volumes this year.The report by the International Meteorological Organization, released in Geneva and at the U.N. climate talks on Tuesday,
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Oxygen is likely to be 2.48 billion years old, a new research has suggested.
An international team says that banded ironstone core samples from the Pilbara rocks in Australia have aided in dating the first appearance of atmospheric oxygen at 2.48
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Plastic bottles, water and bleach light up lives in Kenyan slums.In this maze of windowless tin shacks, school classes are often held outside because even in daytime it is too dark to see the blackboard. Now a youth group is
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That the neutrinos travelled 60 billionths of a second faster than light has been reconfirmed
If extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidences, as Carl Sagan’s dictum goes, then scientists involved in an experiment called OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus)
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Yahoo! India on Tuesday launched its premium video service Yahoo! Video, available at video. yahoo.in. The service offers content across multiple genres including news, entertainment, lifestyle and movies. It promises high-quality video experience, free for all Internet users in India.
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What governs the movement of groups of bacteria or fish in the medium in which they live? Physicist Sriram Ramaswamy, winner of the Infosys Prize 2011 is working to understand such organised structures.
Anyone who has seen the popular animation classicThe
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Governments worldwide have successfully deployed mobile-based technologies for providing a wide variety of public services, and the Indian States are following suit.
A few years ago, Kerala launched ‘Dr. SMS,’ an m-health information system, for providing information on medical facilities available
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Through the Dynamical Casimir Effect, scientists have stimulated a vacuum to shed some of the myriad “virtual” particles that fleet in and out of existence, making them real and detectable.
Scientists claim to have produced particles of light out
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Google unveiled its much-anticipated digital music store, opening a new front in its battle with Apple to provide services over mobile devices.
For the first time, Google Inc. will sell songs on the Android Market, its online store for apps, movies
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A spacecraft carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts on Wednesday successfully docked to the International Space Station.
The Soyuz TMA-22 with NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russians Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin onboard docked to
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