Angry Birds drains your battery faster

Are You addicted to Games like Angry Bird? If Yes be cautious the Life of The battery of your cell will be decreasing. According to TG Daily  Free mobile apps using third party services to display ads are draining users' batteries, researchers from Purdue University and Microsoft say.The team monitored the power use of Android and Windows Phone devices using a tool called Eprof, and found that up to 70 percent of the power used by free apps was caused by downloading advertisements and tracking...

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Kashmir scientists clone Pashmina kid

Scientists in Kashmir have cloned the first Pashmina goat using advanced reproductive techniques, officials at the Shere- Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences &Technology (SKUAST) said on Thursday. The March 9 birth of female kid Noori could spark breeding programmes across the region and mass production of the highpriced wool, lead project scientist Dr Riaz Ahmad Shah said. Shah and six other scientists took two years to clone Noori, using the relatively new “ handmade” cloning...

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New iPad will go on sale at exactly 8 AM Friday

Those who weren't quick enough to pre-order their new iPad online have one last resort.  That would be going to an Apple Store on the actual release date this Friday. And now, the company has confirmed exactly what time the device will go on sale at every location chainwide.The metaphorical vault will open at 8:00 AM local time. That means people in Eastern Australia technically get the first crack at it, as the time zones cascade and the units begin selling in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore,...

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Charge your mobile phone with your breath

You may have faced problem due to shut down of cell phone as battery was finished. If so there may be a solution as researchers have come up with a new device that could breathe new life into your mobile phone by using air from your lungs to charge it.The kit, dubbed the AIRE mask, harnesses the wind power generated by breathing and converts it into electricity to run anything ranging from an iPod to a mobile.The electronic mask consist tiny wind turbines and the energy created is transferred through...

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How to Create Windows 8 Bootable DVD or USB Drive Easily

This tutorial will help you on how to create Windows 8 bootable DVD or USB drive easily using official “Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool” from Microsoft.After Developer preview, Microsoft has stepped into the future of Windows 8 with the consumer preview. This version combines more features and improvements than the previous version of Windows 8. Well if you are willing to give a try to Windows 8 consumer preview then this tutorial is going to help you a lot.To install Windows 8 consumer preview...

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Scientists capture first image of two atoms vibrating INSIDE a molecule

A new photograph shows two atoms vibrating together inside a molecule - a first for science.Researchers used a mind-boggling technique where they turned an electron into a 'flash bulb' to capture the image. The precise control required to set off the 'flash' has offered hope that scientists may one day be able to control chemicals at the atomic scale.The team used ultrafast laser pulses to knock one electron out of its natural orbit in a molecule. When it returns to the molecule, the atoms...

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Features in new Apple iPad3!!

With 4G LTE wireless, retina display, and a high-definition camera, Apple's third tablet is no doubt the best iPad yet, say those in the industry. who introduced the new iPad in San Francisco Wednesday, called it the "poster child of the post-PC world", the Christian Science Monitor reported. The new iPad has a breathtaking screen. Weighing in at 2048 by 1536 pixels, it boasts 3.1 million, one million more than a 1080p HDTV, which has only 1920 by 1080 pixels."The most ever in a mobile device,"...

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Facebook launches Messenger for Windows

Here is something that can make you even more addicted to Facebook. The social networking giant, Facebook, has now officially launched Facebook  Messenger for Windows, which is a standalone app that lets you IM friends via Windows 7.The newly introduced app lets you chat, receive notifications, and read your news feed from your desktop. In other words, the messenger lets you use Facebook without being on www.facebook.com. However, missing elements from the app are video chat (through Skype)...

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Earliest human ancestor discovered in canada

British and canadian researchers have confirmed that a 505 million-year-old creature is the most primitive known vertebrate - and therefore the ancestor of us all. Found only in the Burgess Shale fossil beds in Canada’s Yoho National Park, Pikaia gracilens has been confirmed as the most primitive member of the chordate family - the group of animals that today includes fish, amphibians, birds, reptiles and mammals.Averaging about five centimetres in length, it was a sideways-flattened creature something...

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Terrafugia preps flying car for New York auto show(Watch Video )

Flying cars have been the stuff of dreams for decades, and thus far, remains limited to the realm of science fiction.Yes, many people have tried to make the dream of flying cars a reality for the masses, yet the only company that appears to have some form of limited success is Terrafugia with its Transition Roadable Aircraft.This small car is designed with folding wings and can fit inside most normal garages for storage. The wings fold for normal driving, and when you feel like taking to the air,...

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Can be useful to developing country: Waste water can generate electricity

American scientists have built a device that can generate electricity from waste water.BBC said the team from Pennsylvania State Universitysaid the technology would simultaneously also treat the water. The scientists suggested the process could be adopted in developing countries to provide clean water as well as power for homes.The study has been published in the journal Science.Device that can generate electricity from waste waterResearchers in the Netherlandshave for some years been exploring...

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Mars to glow at its ‘brightest’ tomorrow

Red planet Mars will be brightest and closest “it can get” to earth tomorrow 5th of march 2012, giving sky gazers an opportunity to see it with naked eyes.“On March 3, Mars was at opposition to sun because of which it would be brightest and closest it can get to earth on March 5,” General Secretary of Planetary Society of India N Raghunandan said.Brightest mars seen in 2012In positional astronomy, opposition defines the position of a celestial object when it is on the opposite side of the sun in...

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Oxygen detected in Saturn's moon Dione

A NASA spacecraft circling Saturn has discovered a wispy oxygen atmosphere on the ringed planet's icy moon, Dione The discovery - made using the Cassini spacecraft, which flew by Dione nearly two years ago - supports a theory that suggests all of the moons near Saturn and Jupiter might have oxygen around them.According to co-author Andrew Coates of University College London, Dione has no liquid water and so does not have the conditions to support life. But it is possible that other moons of Jupiter...

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New species of turtle that lived with dinosaurs found in Spain

Researchers have discovered and described a new species of turtle from the end of the age of dinosaurs. They have named this new species as Polysternon isonae, in recognition of the municipality of Isona I Conca Della (Catalonia, Spain), where the fossil remains of the specimen type have been found.The team behind the discovery include researchers at the Institut Catala de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), the Museu de la Conca Della (MCD) and the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB).The...

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Obama nominates Peter W Bodde new US ambassador to Nepal

US President Barack Obama has nominated Peter W Bodde, the new US Ambassador to Nepal.According to the press statement issued by White House, President Obama nominated Bodde after he nominated present ambassador Scott H. DeLisi to Uganda.Peter  W BoddeCurrently Bodde is Assistant Chief of Mission for Assistance Transition in Iraq and Coordinator for Minority Issues at the US Embassy in Baghdad.A career foreign service official, Bodde had earlier served in various capacities in India, Nepal...

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Virgin Galactic's first commercial spaceship to test-fly this year

Virgin Galactic, an offshoot of Richard Branson's Virgin Group, is planning to test-fly its first spaceship beyond the Earth's atmosphere this year, with commercial suborbital passenger service to follow in 2013 or 2014, company officials have announced.Nearly 500 customers have signed up for rides on SpaceShipTwo, a six-passenger, two-pilot spaceship being built and tested by Scaled Composites, an aerospace company founded by aircraft designer Burt Rutan and now owned by Northrop Grumman.The suborbital...

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Is your phone battery low? Recharge it with water

Barcelona It is the nightmare of the wired world — a smartphone low on battery. Now Swedish group myFC says its water-powered charger could be the fix anywhere while battery giant Duracell is championing a push for cars and even stadiums to be built with energy ‘mats' that would power up phones.A Californian firm, meanwhile, has launched a phone that it claims can remain charged for up to 15 years, making it the perfect spare in emergencies or disasters."The difference between the energy on a phone...

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Don't panic - asteroid highly unlikely to hit

An asteroid discovered last year could hit the Earth on 5 February 2040, says NASA - but really probably won't.Asteroid 2011 AG5 - nicknamed Apophis -registers as 1 on the Torinoscale, meaning it 'merits careful monitoring'. It's 460 feet across, and is much smaller than the asteroid believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs, but could still make quite a mess if it hit.However, scientists say there's very little chance of an impact - and the odds are likely to improve as more data's gathered...

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New asteroid could hit earth in 2040: NASA

A new asteroid, identified by NASA, could potentially hit the earth on February 5, 2040, even though it is much smaller than the one - nine miles across - which wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.The UN Action Team on near-Earth objects, which has taken note of the 460-ft asteroid, placed the odds of its hitting the earth at one-in-625, though that could change nearer the time.Scientists have not yet been able to work out much more about it than its size as they have only been able to...

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