Google has received a new patent recently for a device that’ll not only ward off body odour but also warn you that friends are nearby in case of those bad-smelling situations.
This “fragrance emission device” includes several sensors that can detect the physical activity of the user and also gives access to Social media accounts through “a wireless or wired communication network,” the Daily Express reported.
Samsung seems to be working on its next major flagship phone Galaxy S6 launch.
According to PC World, the company is jumping into full promo mode, renaming its @SamsungMobile Twitter account “TheNextGalaxy” and tweeting a teaser video.
While no actual hardware is to be seen in the video, the company has dropped its biggest clue that @ SamsungMobile’s Twitter logo is now a camera icon, the report says. (ANI)
Scientists have developed an antibody that promises better chances of survival for patients suffering from influenza and pneumonia.
Researchers from NTU Singapore claim that the antibody proved effective in lab tests, and is now being made suitable for use in humans. They are also using the new antibody to develop a diagnostic kit which can help doctors accurately track the recovery progress of flu and pneumonia patients.
A new research has revealed that a “megadrought” will hit the Southwest US and much of America’s breadbasket, the Great Plains, late in this century.
Toby Ault from Cornell University said that the results were striking and as a society, people’ve weighted the dice toward megadrought because data clearly point to a high risk in the Southwest and Great Plains, as they continue to add carbon dioxide into atmosphere.
Ault added that however, if people manage to get serious about lowering greenhouse gases within the next 10 years, they could face a lower risk.
A new study has revealed that Twitter is the right prescription for sharing health research as using it can help physicians be better prepared to answer questions from their patients.
The study from the University of British Columbia, presented today at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), finds more and more health care professionals are embracing social media, which challenges common opinion that physicians are reluctant to jump on the social media bandwagon.
In a bid to study the Earth’s past more closely, NASA is reportedly planning a future mission to Saturn’s moon Titan.
Studying Titan is thought to be looking back in time at an embryonic Earth as Titan is the only moon in the solar system to have a significant atmosphere and this atmosphere is known to possess its own methane cycle, like Earth’s water cycle.
NASA has showcased their vision of a submersible robot that could explore Titan’s vast lakes of liquid methane and ethane, reported Discovery News.
Pinterest is planning to launch a buy button on the website that could turn the online scrapbooking service into an online shopping powerhouse, according to reports.
The buy button will allow users to order and purchase goods that are pinned to Pinterest boards without leaving the app or website, reported the Verge.
The feature could roll out in three to six months but may take longer or first launch in a limited trial.
Payments company Stripe, a San Francisco-based startup may handle the transactions as it has similar deals in place with Facebook and Twitter.
The origin of Russian chelyabinsk meteor remains elusive even after two years of the incident that injured hundreds of people.
Astronomers had originally predicted that a 2-km near-Earth asteroid (NEA) designated (86039) 1999 NC43 could be the source body from which the Chelyabinsk meteoroid was ejected prior to its encounter with the Earth.
However, reanalysis of the orbital parameters and spectral data by an international team of researchers led by Reddy has shown that the link between Chelyabinsk and 1999 NC43 was unlikely.
India Saturday successfully test fired the supersonic BrahMos cruise missile from INS Kolkata, the navy`s most powerful and newest warship, in Arabian sea, an official said.
The launch was flawless and the missile met all its designed parameters, BrahMos Aerospace spokesperson Praveen Pathak told IANS.
The Indian Navy commissioned INS Kolkata Aug 16, 2014. This is the first ship of this class, with two more in the pipeline.
All the three ships will be quipped with the vertical-launched BrahMos system as the prime strike weapon.
Apple CEO Tim Cook says that every person has a right to privacy and security.
According to CNN, speaking at the White House cyber security summit on Friday, and defended Apple’s right to protect its customers’ privacy.
He said that it was Apple’s responsibility to safeguard users’ personal information.
He said that that people have entrusted the company with their most personal information, adding that Apple owed them nothing less than the best protections that it can possibly provide by harnessing the technology at its disposal.
(ANI)
The chief internet “evangelist” and Vice President at Google Vint Cerf has warned that the 21st century may become an “information black hole” to future generations because of a lack of proper storage of digital records in a format that can be read and understood in the years to come.
According to the Independent, Cerf said that computer operating systems, Software programs and hardware are changing so fast that pictures, spreadsheets, emails, documents and other digital objects are becoming unreadable after some years of being created.
A team of researchers will begin work on a revolutionary “traffic light pacemaker” that controls the beating of damaged hearts using blue and yellow fibre optic lights inside the body.
After heart attacks and other major cardiac problems that can damage the heart muscle, patients become vulnerable to dangerous disruptions in the heart’s rhythm, known as arrhythmia, often leading to heart failure, the Independent reported.
Apple has reportedly put a ban on the practice of bonded labour where recruits were charged a fee for being employed in its factories.
New workers were often charged a fee, sometimes equal to a month’s salary, for being introduced to the factory typically by third-party recruiters. It meant that workers began working at the factory in debt. Some even had their passports confiscated.
Following an audit of factory conditions, the iPhone maker said that any such fee must be paid by its supplier and not the employee, reported the BBC.
A report suggests that at least 1 billion data records were compromised by over 1,500 data breaches in 2014.
According to the Verge, the report from the security firm Gemalto shows 54 percent of the data breaches were related to identity theft – up from 23 percent last year – surprisingly outpacing attacks for access to financial information, which only accounted for 17 percent of the breaches in 2014.
As compared to 2013, the overall data breaches rose by 49 percent while compromised data records went up by 78 percent.
Monkeys have such robust curiosity that they are willing to give up a surprisingly large portion of a potential prize in order to quickly find out if they selected the winning option at a game of chance, new research has found.
“It is like buying a lottery ticket that you can scratch off and find out if you win immediately, or you can buy one that has a drawing after the evening news,” explained co-senior author of the study Benjamin Hayden, professor at University of Rochester in the US.
Astronomers have captured supernova remnant, called G299.2-2.9, which looked like a blooming comic flower from Earth.
Because the debris fields of exploded stars, known as supernova remnants, are very hot, energetic, and glow brightly in X-ray light, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has proven to be a valuable tool in studying them. The supernova remnant called G299.2-2.9 (or G299 for short) is located within Earth’s Milky Way galaxy, but Chandra’s new image of it is reminiscent of a beautiful flower here on Earth.
Scientists have recently revealed that 8m tons of plastic clutters oceans each year.
Ocean currents have been carrying floating debris into all five of the world’s major oceanic gyres for decades. The rotating currents of these so-called “garbage patches” create vortexes of trash, much of it plastic. However, exactly how much plastic is making its way into the world’s oceans and from where it originates has been a mystery, until now.
A team of scientists has for the first time discovered a killing mechanism that could underpin a range of the most intractable neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS.
The new study revealed the mechanism of toxicity of a misfolded form of the protein that underlies prion diseases, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (“mad cow disease”) and its human equivalent, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
A new research has revealed that in a quest to find mismatched star pairs known as extreme mass-ratio binaries, astronomers have discovered a new class of binary stars, in which one star is fully formed while the other is still in its infancy.
The majority of stars in our galaxy come in pairs, in particular, the most massive stars usually have a companion and these fraternal twins tend to be somewhat equal partners when it comes to mass, but not always.
Fears that a major program to contact alien life could spell disaster for planet Earth were dismissed as “paranoid” by scientists who hope to beam messages to distant worlds from powerful radio telescopes.
Scientists at a US conference have said it was time to try actively to contact intelligent life on other worlds, the BBC reported.
The call was made by the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence institute (SETI) at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Jose. But others argued that making our presence known might be dangerous.
A new study has examined that when fighting chronic viral infections or cancers, a key division of the immune system, known as CD8 T cells, sometimes loses its ability to effectively fight foreign invaders.
The study conducted at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology report that the shift is masterminded in part by NFAT, short for Nuclear Factor of Activated T cells, and best known for its crucial role in getting CD8 T cells battle-ready.
Laxman Muthiyah from India has received a 12,500 dollar bounty for discovering a Facebook bug that allowed hackers to arbitrarily delete photos from accounts.
According to TechCrunch, the bug allowed anyone with a bit of technical know-how to delete any photo on Facebook.
Facebook fixed the bug shortly after it was discovered.
Laxman has a breakdown of how the bug , that deletes another users’ photos, works.
(ANI)
A new study has revealed that dogs can tell the difference between happy and angry human faces.
The researchers of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna said that the discovery represents the first solid evidence that an animal other than humans can discriminate between emotional expressions in another species.
Researcher Corsin Muller added that they think the dogs in their study could have solved the task only by applying their knowledge of emotional expressions in humans to the unfamiliar pictures they presented to them.
Facebook has reportedly introduced a new feature that will allow people to have their account deleted permanently when they die or appoint a friend or family member to take care of some aspects of their account.
While bringing in the new feature, Facebook said that the decision was aimed at supporting people who were grieving and those who wanted a say in what happens to their account after death. The social media platform added, “When a person passes away, their account can become a memorial of their life, friendships and experience,” reported the BBC.
A new research suggests that during a short get-to-know-you conversation people show they’re attracted in a way that matches their flirting style.
Researcher Jeffrey Hall at the University of Kansas said that this is the first study to show that different ways of communicating attraction reveal a person’s flirting style, adding “how you flirt says a lot about what flirting means to you.”
Hall breaks down flirting styles into physical, traditional, sincere, polite and playful categories.