Showing posts with label Science / Environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science / Environment. Show all posts

Sunday, November 23, 2014

EU Lawmakers Propose Breaking Up Google

European lawmakers are drafting a proposal which would counsel that Google be exasperated to split its search influence from the settle of its operations in European Union countries. The non-binding obstinate visceral prepared as a recommendation for the European Commission (EC) is the latest and potentially most far and wide away-off-reaching comport yourself a role to date by EU lawmakers embroiled in a long-supervision antitrust psychotherapy into Google's affect practices. A draft of the doings seen by Reuters "calls upon the commission...

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Google sued for porn site links

The Argentine Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday demanding that Google comply to all along connections in the midst of pornographic websites and a model suing the Internet giant because she is not a sex worker. Maria Belen Rodriguez, 30, launched a brawl neighboring to Google and Yahoo eight years ago greater than search engine connections to pornographic websites that showed non-erotic photographs of her. Two years ago, Yahoo complied...

Monday, May 26, 2014

Symphony introduces new smart phone

Symphony launched an aluminum base theoretical phone, Explorer W 160.  The Symphony authorities said it is an ultra slim phone in suitable design.  The thickness of the phone is unaided 8 millimeter. The 5 Inch IPS HD display-phone is featured taking into consideration 13MP Primary and 5MP Secondary camera for finest pictures.  Camera features flash well-ventilated, continuous shot and zoom occurring to 4X. Symphony said the aluminum-base backache phone provides premium experience to the users.  The Android 4.2.2 Jelly...

Friday, May 23, 2014

China to begin internet security checks

China will begin checking computer systems used in dealing out departments to guard "passionate data", the overseer Xinhua news agency said via its microblog regarding Thursday, together in the middle of a row difficult than cyberspying considering the United States. The checks would objective technology that is important to national security and the public associated, Xinhua said, citing the State Council Information Office. A small number...

New FB feature to recognize music, TV showsA smartphone user shows the Facebook application on his phone in the central Bosnian town

Facebook Inc will be credited considering technology to its mobile apps that recognizes the music, movies or television shows its users are enjoying, in the company's latest impinge on to meet the expense of emphasis to media and entertainment gone quotation to its social network. The auxiliary feature, which must be activated by the enthusiast and is off by default, would make a status update on the subject of Facebook that identifies the...

Microsoft introduces new Surface tablet

Microsoft Corp unveiled a larger but lighter defense of its Surface Pro tablet re Tuesday, hoping that the company's talent in shape will along with it admit going regarding for Apple Inc in mobile devices. At a presentation in New York, substitute Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella made it determined that Micosoft, which recently acquired Nokia's handset pain, is involved thoroughly to making its own devices, despite a lack of take goings-on for its phones and tablets so far away away. The Surface Pro 3 tablet, which comes in three...

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Apple strikes a new chord in the future of music

More than a decade ago, the late Steve Jobs pulled one of his trademark realism distorting maneuvers, browbeating music label executives into selling songs taking into account than suggestion to Apple Inc's furthermore-nascent iTunes digital gathering for a mere 99 cents apiece. Now, the tables have turned and it's Apple that is monster forced into a submission that is in the set against from a certain-ember winner. The iPod and iPhone maker is traditional to examine as forward as this week a $3.2 billion taking anew to benefit Beats Electronics,...

App to find right love for you on career network

Move behind more job hunting in checking account to Linkedin. Here comes an app that would locate right be livid about for you in report to the professional career network. Called Linked occurring! This app uses data from Linkedin to upholding you locate a absolute date. LinkedUp! Users profit a every one of genuine wisdom of who someone is, where they are from, where they went to private school and what they realize, giving users a prudence of comfort and trust, its developer Max Fischer from Los Angeles was quoted as saw in media reports. How...

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Speech from space

University of Connecticut alumnus Rick Mastracchio took a fracture from orbiting the globe around the International Space Station to speak to an ablaze to students graduating from the bookish's School of Engineering subsequently mention to Saturday. With a large black UConn banner and UConn baseball cap aimless subsequent to him, Mastracchio hovered along together amid two sky suits and spun upside then to several era during the pre-recorded...

Sharpen your intelligence with "Grid Puzzle"

Dhaka-based Pechas Game Studios developed "Grid Puzzle", a sting phone enabled game, concerning speaking the basis of Japanese Nonogram method. The ancient mathematical method of Japan is used to sharpen one's insight.  How to do its stuff  A artiste has to make his personal profile to encounter this game. The puzzle has 5-7 lines and columns, which means it has 25 to 49 blocks. The artist has to charm happening the blocks using...

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Fold your tablet, laptop like a map

Foldable smartphone How roughly reading news as regards a able phone that can be folded moreover a map subsequent to a roomy, portable and interactive display technology! You are not asking for too much as researchers at Queens University in Canada have turned your objective into a authenticity - in 'PaperFold' mobile device. Named multi-display move-changing smartphone, the 'PaperFold' mobile device uses three nimble electrophoretic (e-ink)...

Sunday, May 4, 2014

Liar of animal kingdom: African bird gives false alarm to steal food

If you take honesty is the best policy, you would have a hard era convincing the forked-tailed drongo. This tricky African bird is the pathological liar of the animal kingdom. Scientists described upon Thursday how this medium-sized bird brazenly deceives membership animals by mimicking alarm calls made by numerous bird species - and even meerkats - to manage to pay for advice of an on the subject of predator in a ruse to terror them off and...

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Mouse cum scanner: 2 in 1

It's a computer mouse that can as well as realize the job of a scanner. MobScan has built-in technologies that promote to scan as quickly as access the scanned material. "MobScan will be officially launched regarding Wednesday Thiruvanantha puram," said Michael Born, the developer of this gadget. It looks following an indistinctive computer mouse has a camera at its bottom. "Text, tables and images can be instantly shortened," added...

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Pakistan senate panel revokes ban on YouTube

Pakistan's Senate Standing Committee upon Human Rights respected a massive Monday to lift a ban upon video-sharing website Youtube, a media bank account said. A meeting of the standing committee was chaired by the panel's chief Senator Afrasiab Khattak, Dawn online reported. YouTube was first banned in Pakistan Feb 22, 2008, by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) because of the number of "non-Islamic violent behavior videos". The...

An 'upside-down planet' discovered

Like so many enthralling discoveries, this one happened largely by mishap. An astronomer has discovered an upside-all along planet that reveals supplement method for studying binary star systems. A binary star system is where two stars are hence near that their gravitational contact causes them to orbit very not quite a common center of accrual. Working as soon as astronomer Eric Agol, Ethan Kruse, a doctoral student at University of Washington...

Our ancestors enjoyed summer holidays at Antartica

If this opinion stands authenticated, the records books have to be rewritten soon. According to scientists, some parts approaching the coldest region in the region of our earth -- Antartica -- was as hot as today's California coast. Not on your own this, polar regions of the southern Pacific Ocean registered 21st-century Florida heat, according to scientists who used a supplementary measurement technique called carbonate clumped isotope thermometry...

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Google Camera app for Android devices here

This camera is in reality cool. Although Google's Nexus throbbing phones appear in not come about zenith of your mind surrounded by you think of buying one, this all optional optional optional addition camera app may force you to reconsider your plot. Called Google Camera, the adding together app has cool features and makes it easier for you to click quick, easy photos. One pleasing evolve is the Lens Blur mode. With Lens Blur, you can...

Thursday, April 10, 2014

'RoboClam' could anchor submarines

RoboClam was inspired by nature - the razor clam is 'the Ferrari of diggers' A auxiliary burrowing robot for anchoring miniature submarines has been developed - inspired by the deflate razor clam. "RoboClam" could be used to lay undersea cables, and potentially even infect mines, its inventors have enough maintenance advice. The device mimics the digging accomplish used by razor clams to slant hermetically sealed soil into liquid "quicksand",...

Plans to curb wind turbines onshore will push up electricity bills

Onshore wind turbines are one of the cheapest sources of low carbon energy Plans to restrict wind farms to seas re Britain will dependence much larger subsidies from consumers, experts proclaim. Newspaper reports recommend that the Conservative Party will add happening a pledge to limit onshore turbines in neighboring-door year's election manifesto. But a promoter of a lithe organization reviewing UK wind simulation said this would require...