Facebook CEO speaks out against SOPA, PIPA

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's against a pair of proposed anti-piracy bills that sparked a blackout of several websites in protests, adding the social network "will continue to oppose any laws that will hurt the internet."Mark ZuckerbergIn a status update posted to his public profile, Zuckerberg spoke out against the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act, saying the bills would hamper the growth of the Web."The internet is the most powerful tool we have for creating a more open and connected...

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Life spotted on Venus: Russian scientist

Several objects resembling living beings were detected on photographs taken by a Russian landing probe in 1982 during a Venus mission, says an article published in the Solar System Research magazine.Leonid Ksanfomaliti of the Space Research Institute of Russia's Academy of Sciences published a research that analysed the photographs from the Venus mission made by a Soviet landing probe, Venus-13, in 1982.The photographs feature several objects, which Ksanfomaliti said, resembled a "disk", a "black...

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New gesture and voice-controlled TVs to come soon replacing remote control

Remote controls could soon become outdated with the advent of new generation gesture and voice-controlled televisions, tech observers say.The new technology allows viewers to control a new line of TV sets simply by speaking or gesturing at them, eliminating the need for clunky pointing devices and opening up a range of new ways people can use and interact with their televisions, the Los Angeles Times reported.At a giant booth constructed by Samsung Electronics for the Consumer Electronics Show last...

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Get wireless mouse that has no batteries!!!

Almost everyone of you may hate wires running around all over your computer desk. Then again, you may have tried wireless mice many times over the years and always go back to a wired one after forgetting to recharge the wireless mouse or not having a spare battery handy. People who like to be green are also concerned about using a bunch of batteries that will be thrown away, while rechargeable ones are hard on the environment when they reach the end of their lifespan. But Genius has a new product...

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Italian man with two hearts suffers a double heart attack - and lives

In what can be called a medical miracle, doctors have managed to save the life of a 71-year-old Italian man who had two hearts and suffered double heart attacks at the same time.At first, doctors thought they had a typical case of cardiac arrest – the man was short of breath, sweating profusely and his blood pressure was low.However, they were in for a surprise when upon closer inspection it was found that the patient had been walking around with two hearts and had now suffered a dueling attack.According...

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Megaupload.com Owner Kim Dotcom Arrested in newzland

Some uninvited guests showed up at Kim Dotcom's mansion outside Auckland, New Zealand, on Friday: The police, in two helicopters.They had an arrest warrant for Dotcom, 37, who was born Kim Schmitz and is accused by U.S.authorities of criminal copyright infringement through the website Megaupload, which he founded.Kim dotcom Owner of Megaupload.comFinding their target was not easy. When Dotcom, who holds Finnish and German citizenship, first saw the police, he ran inside and activated several electronic...

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Artificial Meat to come in market soon !!!

Are you fond of eating meat but afraid to eat meat because you don’t like animals to be killed? If yes, than your problem seems to be solved as scientists have discovered how to grow artificial meat in a laboratory and now working out how they can sell it in shops. The artificial meat is grown in Petri dish using muscles cells. It currently takes a long time to produce and is very expensive process. However nearly 30 teams around the world are trying to develop the project so that it can eventually...

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Chinese supercomputer begins operations

As everyone knows china is growing economically to be the greatest economy of the world in coming days but may be fewer know that Chinais turning out to be a technological Giant. Yes China is the third country to develop supercomputer of its own. China's Sunway BlueLight supercomputer, which was built with domestically-produced microprocessors and is capable of performing around 1,000 trillion calculations per second, has officially begun operations. The computer began working Thursday at the National...

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Darwin's fossil collection discovered by chance

Fossils unearthed by Charles Darwin have been discovered in a dusty old cabinet in London after being lost for 165 years.Found by chance at the British Geological Survey, they've been photographed, and can now be  seen online."This is quite a remarkable discovery," says  Dr John Ludden, executive director of the Geological Survey. "It really makes one wonder what else might be hiding in our collections."The discovery was made quite by chance by Dr Howard Falcon-Lang, from the Department...

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Your DNA may tell how long you will live

How long someone will live may be predicted by measuring their genes as early as a newborn baby, say scientists.The Glasgow Universityscientists said that life expectancy is written into our DNA and is there to be seen from the day we are born.It all depends on the length of the telomeres, which are described as 'acting like the plastic ends on shoelaces' to protect chromosomes from wear and tear.Telomeres are being studied extensively - and are thought to hold the key to ageing.DNA And the longer...

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Dark chocolate and red wine 'the real food of love'

Dark chocolate and red wine have "positive components that are good for your heart", a new study has claimed.According to Susan Ofria from Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, red wine and dark chocolate with a cocoa content of 70 percent or higher contain resveratrol, which has been found to lower blood sugar.Red wine is also a source of catechins, which could help improve "good" HDL cholesterol.Dark choclate "You are not even choosing between the lesser of two evils, red wine and dark chocolate have positive...

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Bill Gates sad as Pakistani child prodigy dies

Microsoft Chief Bill Gates was saddened to learn about the death of Pakistan's Arfa Karim who became the world's youngest Microsoft certified professional in 2004 when she was barely nine.Arfa Karim in front of Microsoft OfficeArfa Karim Randhawa was 16. She died Saturday night after complications resulting from an epileptic stroke.After she was taken to hospital, Gates offered to pay for her medical care, reported the Daily Mail.He also proposed moving the wonder kid to the US for better treatment.Arfa...

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Radio telescopes to try taking first photo of black hole

A radio telescope project that would connect up to 50 telescopes scattered around the globe could help photograph a black hole for the first time, scientists have said.The radio telescopes would include those on the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii and also a dish at the South Pole, the Daily Mail reported.The project, called the Event Horizon Telescope, could capture the first images of the huge black hole --four million times the mass of the sun -- at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy.Artist Imagination...

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Auto-pilot' car that drives itself at up to 80mph is about to come

Can you imagine driving car with out driver? If you are thinking not to hire driver, than your imagination is about to turn into reality. A leading carmaker Volkswagen has developed a new temporary auto pilot system that takes complete control over braking, steering and speeds up to 80mph, without letting the drivers do a thing.The research car is being used as a 'test bed' for autopilot technologies - and these are slowly filtering through into Volkswagen's new cars, the Daily Mail reported.The...

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Scientists create world’s smallest hard drive from just 96 atoms

Nanotechnology deals in making or developing materials, devices or structures by manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. It is very diverse. Now, scientists from IBM and German Center for Free-Electron Laser service have invented the world’s smallest hard drive with the help of nanotechnology. Scientists have just used 96 atoms to create data worth one byte. Drives used today at least require half a billion atoms for each byte. It won’t be long when one would find hard drive of the...

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Windows 8 likely to come in October 2012!!!

Are you waiting for new version of Operating System? If yes now wait is about to over.Apparently the next major evolution in Microsoft operating systems is about nine months away.Pocket-lint.com quoted a Microsoft spokesperson during CES when asked about the potential Windows 8 launch window."Windows releases come round about every three years and this year will be three years in October since we launched Windows 7. So I think that's a good guideline to consider," the company rep reportedly...

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Wikipedia to shut down website for 24 hours

Popular online encyclopaedia Wikipedia will voluntarily shut down for 24 hours Wednesday as a protest against internet piracy laws in the US. Co-founder Jimmy Wales said the internet "will not tolerate censorship" in response to allegations of copyright infringement. Walessaid the decision to either enforce a "US-only" blackout versus a global blackout was made after a vote of the community."The community vote on the choice of US-only blackout versus global blackout was 479 to 591 in favour of going...

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Soon, e-books to let you flip pages like paper-based magazines

Are you adapted to read on your computer? Of course its hard to read e-books than paper books. The problem has now been solved and you are able to read e-books easily in laptop, PCs or smartphone. Researchers have come up with a technology that will make reading on smartphone and tablet PCs easier than it is now."Smart E-book System", developed by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) headed by Howon Lee from the IT Convergence Research Institute, allows users of smartphones...

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New Load Shedding Schedule of Nepal ( effective From 16th january 2012)

Dear residents of nepal , the Loadshedding hours in nepal have been increased and New Schedule will eb effective from  16th january 2012. So its necessary to know the schedule to perform the housework perfectly. So here is the new Schedule of Loadshedding that will be effective from today. Depending upon the condition, load-shedding could increase/decrease by one hour. The load-shedding will be two more hours in the areas of the feeders where 40 to 50 per cent of electricity leakage is...

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Breast-fed babies cry more and laugh less

Breast-fed babies tend to cry more and laugh less when compared to their bottle-fed counterparts, who are the best behaved, a new study has revealed. A study of British infants also found that those who were breast-fed were harder to soothe and get off to sleep than their formula-fed babies.However, the Cambridgeresearchers have asserted that the irritability linked to breastfeeding is only natural, and is not an indication of stress or even necessarily hunger.Instead, it is the baby's way of bonding...

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New Particle was discovered that could help to cool Earth

Scientists have discovered a particle that could "cool the planet" and naturally clean up the atmosphere.According to researchers from The University of Manchester, The University of Bristol and Sandia National Laboratories, Criegee biradicals are invisible chemical intermediates and are powerful oxidisers of pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide, produced by combustion.Although these chemical intermediates were hypothesised in the 1950s, it is only now that they have been detected....

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World's biggest Koran with 7ft-high pages is unveiled in Afghanistan

The completion of the world's largest Koran was hailed as a major achievement for the Afghanistan when it was officially unveiled in the nation's capital.Measuring more than 7ft long and 10ft wide, the text's 218 pages are decorated in 30 different calligraphy designs and took almost five years to finish.Its inauguration ceremony was held yesterday in front of key religious figures, clerics, scholars and government officials to coincide with the opening of Hakim Nasir Khusraw Balkhi Cultural Center...

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