Toshiba introduces 'world's thinnest tablet'

Toshiba will begin shipping its newest tablet, the Excite LE, next week.And in a market where every tablet absolutely has to be differentiated or it simply will not stand out, Toshiba claims this one is the thinnest model in the world.With a 10.1-inch display, it is only 0.3 inches thick. The iPad 2, by comparison, measures in with a thickness of 0.34 inches, so the Excite LE is more than 10% thinner. The question is whether or not that will be enough to attract consumers en masse.world Thieniset...

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Windows 8 Consumer Preview now available

The final beta of Microsoft's new operating system has been released.The company chose the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain as the official launch venue. Before this iteration, no one would have thought of a mobile trade show as a place for Windows, but this new platform is a brand new experience with mobile at its core.In fact, some have criticized the OS as being "too optimized" for the mobile environment, because of features like touch controls that simply won't work on a traditional...

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iPad 3 debuts on March 7 in San Francisco

Apple has sent out official invites for a media event that will be held next Wednesday, March 7, in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts at 10 a.m. Pacific time.

The invitation, which reads "we have something you really have to see and touch," features a finger pressing a slick looking iOS calendar icon.

As AppleInsider notes, the long-awaited iPad 3 is likely to boast a high-res Retina Display capable of display an impressive resolution of 2,048 by 1,536 pixels - twice the...

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Nokia unveils 41 megapixel phone that outperforms most SLR cameras

Nokia has unveiled a 41 megapixel camera-phone - designed so phone users can 'zoom in' without a bulky lens.The 41-megapixel sensor is around three times more powerful than the ones in any existing handsets.A Nokia executive says, 'It shows what we can do.' The phone will be launched in May and cost 480 Euros.Nokia says the technology is designed so users can zoom in quickly and easily without losing picture quality. Nokia Smart Phone with 41 megapixel CameraMost smartphones use digital...

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Eye-controlled computer games for disabled children

Computer games which can be controlled by eye movements are being developed by researchers at a UK university.The project at De Montfort University aims to allow severely-disabled youngsters to play computer games.Learning to control games by eye tracking is also intended to help disabled children navigate real-world environments.Eye control "adds a whole new level of intelligence to games", says research leader Stephen Vickers.The use of eye tracking as a way of interacting with devices has been...

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IBM maps electric charge in single molecule

Big Blue's long had a fascination with the tiny, and now IBM scientists have for the first time been able to measure how charge is distributed within a single molecule.The discovery could make it possible to image the charge distribution within functional molecular devices, with implications for solar photoconversion, energy storage and molecular scale computing devices.The team directly imaged the charge distribution within a single naphthalocyanine molecule using what's called Kelvin probe force...

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Laser beams used to detect explosives

Austrian scientists say they've developed a way of using a laser to sniff out explosives from more than 100 meters away. Vienna University of Technology researchers are using what's known as  Raman-spectroscopy, which involves irradiating a sample with a laser beam. When the light is scattered by the molecules of the sample, it can change the light's wavelength, and thus its colour.And by analyzing the colour spectrum of the scattered light, it's possible to work out what type of molecules...

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'Perfect' single-atom transistor brings quantum computer closer to reality

Physicists have created a working transistor consisting of a single atom placed precisely in a silicon crystal, making a remarkable feat in micro-engineering. The tiny electronic device uses as its active component an individual phosphorus atom patterned between atomic-scale electrodes and electrostatic control gates.This unprecedented atomic accuracy may yield the elementary building block for a future quantum computer with unparalleled computational efficiency.Until now, single-atom transistors have been realised only by chance, where researchers...

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Bomb explosion kills three in Capital City of Nepal Kathmandu

At least three people, including a woman, were killed Monday in a powerful petrol bomb blast in the Nepali capital, media reports said.More than six people were injured -- five of them critically, Xinhua reported. Local media reports said the blast took place around 1 p.m. outside the gate of the Nepal Oil Corporation's central office in Babarmahal area, close to the country's seat of government Singhadurbar. The Samyukta Jatiya Mukti Morcha-Bishwokranti (SJMM), an...

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Bomb explosion kills three in Capital City of Nepal Kathmandu

At least three people, including a woman, were killed Monday in a powerful petrol bomb blast in the Nepali capital, media reports said.More than six people were injured -- five of them critically, Xinhua reported. Local media reports said the blast took place around 1 p.m. outside the gate of the Nepal Oil Corporation's central office in Babarmahal area, close to the country's seat of government Singhadurbar. The Samyukta Jatiya Mukti Morcha-Bishwokranti (SJMM), an...

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Study: Little electrical shocks to the brain improve memory?

According to US researchers, bringing a small  shock in  a person’s brain just before they discovered  a new task  seemed  to strengthen memory in a handful of patients with epilepsy, a tantalizing result that could have implications for Alzheimer’s disease.Pacemaker devices which are also known to be  deep brain stimulators created by Medtronicand St. Jude Medical are already utilized  to relax  muscle tremors in patients with Parkinson’s...

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Italian designer envisages Hospital boat for medical aids at seas

Quite a number of people go to sea for various purposes like fishing, traveling, sporting and others. However, since we don't have facilities to provide immediate medical aid for the victims of an unexpected natural disaster or accidents at seas, the concern has led the 29-year-old Italian yacht designer Marino Alfani to envisage a hospital boat concept. Designed like a catamaran, the boat can come close to the shore and offer immediate medical aids to patients. The hospital boat has been conceptualized...

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Soon, eat your bottles once you've drunk what's inside

People will soon be able to eat their bottles after they have finished their drink - thanks to an avant-garde edible material developed by scientists. The product, a membrane created using a biodegradable plastic combined with food particles, could either be peeled off or potentially eaten as a whole and can taste like the drink inside.Until now, experts at Harvard University have filled an orange membrane with orange juice, a tomato-flavoured enclosure with gazpacho and grape packages with wine.They...

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Space elevator could be built by 2050

Are you thinking about reaching to space? If yes the days are not far to reach space via space elevator. Japanese construction company Obayashi says it's working on plans for a space elevator that could take people to orbit by 2050. The company's told the Daily Yomiuri that it's a serious venture, but that it would need to work with other organizations round the world.As anyone that's read Arthur C Clarke'sFountains of Paradise will know, the space elevator, or orbital tower, is a way...

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Soon, driverless cars will zoom in streets with no stoplights

Traffic red lights will soon be a history, says a computer scientist who is developing virtual intersection systems for fully autonomous vehicles.According to Peter Stone, a professor of computer science at The University of Texas at Austin, intersections of the future will not need stop lights or stop signs, but will look like a somewhat chaotic flow of driverless, autonomous cars slipping past one another as they are managed by a virtual traffic controller."A future where sitting in the backseat...

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Phones could be powered by user's body heat

Dead cellphones could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a new technology that can harvest enough juice for another call from the user's own body heat. Developed by researchers in the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials at Wake Forest University, Power Felt is based on tiny carbon nanotubes encased in flexible plastic fibers and uses temperature differences – room temperature versus body temperature, for instance – to create a charge."We waste a lot of energy in the form of...

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Einstein Theory is still Correct !! Flaw found in 'faster-than-light' experiment

CERN scientists believe they've established just how neutrinos were apparently able to travel faster than light. Last September, scientists working on CERN's Opera experiment reported that the subatomic particles were reaching Gran Sasso in Italy very slightly sooner than they should. If true, this would have meant that Einstein's special theory of relativity was wrong, and that the speed of light could be exceeded.The team eventually identified two possible sources of error - the crystal oscillator...

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Chemically modified graphene could lead to flexible electronics

Researchers have come a step closer in creating faster, thinner, flexible electronics with the development of a new method for chemically altering graphene.Highly desired for its many promising attributes, graphene is a one-atom thick, honeycomb-shaped lattice of carbon atoms with exceptional strength and conductivity.Among graphene's many possible applications is electronics: Many experts believe it could rival silicon, transforming integrated circuits and leading to ultra-fast computers, cellphones...

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Pirate Bay faces UK blockade

The PirateBay could be blocked in the UK following a court ruling that it illegally encourages users to infringe music copyright. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) - which represents labels including Sony, EMI, Universal and and Warner - succeeded yesterday in persuading High Court Justice Arnold that the site was breaching copyright on a massive scale.The decision also criminalizes users of The Pirate Bay."In my judgment, the operators of TPB do authorise its users' infringing acts of copying...

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Boy is world's first to survive being born with heart outside his body

When Ryan Marquiss was born with his heart outside of his body, doctors didn’t expect him to survive.It is an incredibly rare condition and usually babies are stillborn or die within three days.His heart also hadn’t developed and so he only had half a heart - a combination of defects which is so rare that Ryan is the only one of his kind in the world.Doctors advised his devastated parents to terminate the pregnancy when his mother was just 12 weeks pregnant, but they bravely refused.Ryan Before...

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New load Shedding Schedule Effective from 23 february 2012; 11 Falgun 2068.

Good News for Nepalese as Nepalelectricity authority had reduced time of load shedding by one hour. According to NEA the reduction in load shedding is due to the reserve water in Kulekhani and there capacity to control leakage. Though load shedding has been reduced but the common can’t feel the reduction in load shedding is only in early morning when most of the people remain sleeping.New Loadshedding Schedule Effectice from todat that is Falgun 11 2068 or February 23 2012 is as follows.&nb...

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