Washington: Dip a piece of paper into ink infused with carbon nanotubes and silver nanowires, it morphs into a real battery. Crumple the piece of paper and it still works. These are some of the newest ways of storing power, says Stanford University researcher Yi Cui, assisitant professor of material science and engineering. Stanford scientists [...]
December 9, 2009 | Posted in
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London: Although pop-ups on a computer screen may only last a few seconds, they tend to set back our performance, say researchers. Helen Hodgetts and Dylan Jones, professor of psychology at Cardiff University, examined the cost of such interruptions in terms of the time taken to complete a simple seven-step computer task. “Our findings suggest [...]
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London: A new database enabling visitors to search for spoken English ranging from people talking to their dogs to ministers addressing their congregation is being created at the Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory. Professor John Coleman and his team are one of four teams to win the ‘Digging into Data’ competition set up to encourage imaginative, [...]
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Tokyo: Japan’s government agreed on a $81 billion stimulus package on Tuesday, aimed at preventing the economy from tipping back into recession as deflation persists and a strong yen threatens exports. Economists said the 7.2 trillion yen plan, equal to about 1.5 per cent of gross domestic product, would not provide a significant lift to [...]
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San Francisco: An annual security report being released on Tuesday by technology titan Cisco warns that banks and online social networks are prime targets for increasingly sophisticated cyber crooks. “Criminals have been taking note of the large crowds in social-networking sites,” said Cisco security researcher Scott Olechowski. “They steal them with various techniques.” Tactics used [...]
December 8, 2009 | Posted in
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Mumbai: Bollywood actress Sameera Reddy goes hot and sexy for the latest issue of Maxim magazine. The Bollywood beauty has almost shown her assets during photo session for the magazine in a deep-neck black top. Sameera never looked so hot before this. For the December issue of ‘Maxim’ cover, Sameera has also given several hot [...]
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Mountain View: Google began adding real time results to its Internet search engine on Monday, channeling feeds from Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other fresh content into responses to queries. “We are here today to announce Google real time search,” Google fellow Amit Singhal said at a press event held near the firm’s headquarters in Mountain [...]
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Ranchi: Voting began on Tuesday morning for the third phase of Jharkhand Assembly polls, an official said. Voting began at 0700 hrs IST . Third phase of polling will cover 11 of the 81 assembly seats and decide the electoral fate of 273 candidates. The 11 Assembly seats covered in the third phase are – [...]
December 8, 2009 | Posted in
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Beijing: Chinese authorities have offered rewards of up to 10,000 yuan (1,465 dollars) to Internet users who report websites that feature pornography, state media reported Sunday. However, the censors’ latest campaign against content that harms public morality appears to have encouraged Internet users to look for porn online. Within the first 24 hours, a hotline [...]
December 7, 2009 | Posted in
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New Delhi : Tareq and Michaele Salahi may have become the world’s most famous gatecrashers for tricking their way into the White House’s state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last month, but they are not the first people to breach the US President’s security. A secret report compiled by the Secret Service reveals [...]
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