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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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 [...]
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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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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 [...]
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Washington: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), popularly known as the “Big Bang Machine”, has taken its first step toward finding the “God Particle”, as the first scientific results from the recently restarted particle accelerator have been announced. The LHC, which is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres in [...]
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Washington: Scientists have used lasers to create the first practical macroscopic yarns from boron nitride fibers, opening the door for an array of applications, from radiation-shielded spacecraft to stronger body armor. Researchers at NASA”s Langley Research Center, the Department of Energy”s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and the National Institute of Aerospace created a new [...]
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San Francisco: Google has began weaving an automated language translation feature into its universal search service. A new “translated search” tool lets people direct Google to seek results from Web pages written in an array of languages and then deliver results in a searcher’s preferred tongue. The feature has been available at the Google Translate [...]
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San Francisco: Microsoft has released a revamped version of Bing Maps with street views and other features already offered by rival Google’s free online mapping service. The Bing Maps upgrade released in beta, or test, form also boasts a gallery for applications, such as live traffic data feeds or input from travel webcams or Twitter [...]
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