What about a smartphone-readable device that can help authenticate currency, electronic parts and luxury goods to minimise counterfeit?
Chemical engineers from Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) have invented a new type of tiny, smartphone-readable particle that is invisible to the naked eye, contain colored stripes of nanocrystals that glow brightly when lit up with near-infrared light.
All of us have heard or seen trackers that would nail car or SUV thieves down but here comes a system that texts you if someone steals, or even touches, your motorbike in the parking!
The new Scorpio Ride ‘Core’ system from Massachusetts-based Scorpio Sounds uses an Apple or Android app to keep track of a module installed inside the bike.
The box plugs into the battery and relays everything from location to tyre pressure to your phone, tablet or computer.
Experts have revealed that if poaching continues at the present alarming rate, both white and black rhinos will be extinct by the year 2020.
Will Travers, chief executive of the Born Free Foundation, said that there are just 20,000 white rhino and 5,000 black rhino left in the wild and the poaching would devastate the numbers in the next six years, the Daily Express reported.
He said that there will probably be no free-living rhinos as the remaining numbers will be fenced off in military-style compounds which are alarmed and heavily guarded by armed patrols.
Microsoft has created a video game ahead of ending windows XP, in which users fight components of windows XP to send it back forever.
As Windows XP moves towards its end, Microsoft has made a satirical game which fights the windows components.
In the game you can see windows icons like – recycle bin, Internet E xplorer, printer’ coming towards the player, the player is armed with a gun and users shoot the icons to raise the score.
In the end of the game, a Microsoft support chopper comes in to rescue you and forces you to nuke XP once and for all. (ANI)
Researchers have said that about one-third of cases of Wilms tumor, a pediatric cancer of the kidney, are linked to a gene called Lin28.
Studies in the mouse model further suggest that controlled expression of Lin28 can promote kidney development and therefore may hold clues to regeneration of damaged kidneys in adults.
When examined under a microscope, the tumors resemble immature embryonic kidneys, leading doctors to conclude that Wilms tumors form when kidney development, normally complete by birth, persists into childhood.
A recent report by HP showed that 80 percent of the vulnerabilities, which an app faces, are user’s fault.
There is no app that can be considered invulnerable, though the security level may differ but all of them are at risk.
HP also examined about 180 Android and iOS apps and found nearly half of them leave data and personal information at risk.
iOS and Android platforms have the encryption capabilities, but if app developers don’t integrate them into the apps properly, the encryption can’t protect the data on the device. (ANI)
A new app called TapTalk, has entered the Android and iOS market that allows users to share video and pictures in a whole new way.
After connecting to Facebook, the app creates thumbnails with one’s friends’ pictures which then works as the user interface.
According to TechCrunch, users can tap a friend’s image to take a picture, tap-hold it to record a short video and send it to them.
Similar to Snapchat, users cannot retrieve the images once seen, while uploading from storage is also not available.
However, TapTalk is not really a photo app.
Researchers at Yale University have developed a dramatically faster method of identifying and characterizing complex alloys known as bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) – a versatile type of pliable glass that’s stronger than steel.
The new method allows researchers to screen about 3,000 alloys per day and simultaneously ascertain certain properties, such as melting temperature and malleability.
There is hope for those who have lost their nose to cancer or in an accident.
Scientists have reported the first-ever successful nose reconstruction surgery using cartilage grown in the laboratory.
Cartilage cells were extracted from the patient’s nasal septum, multiplied and expanded onto a collagen membrane.
The so-called engineered cartilage was then shaped according to the defect and implanted.
A robotic humanoid astronaut on the International Space Station is about to get its legs.
NASA has crafted a pair of space legs for Robonaut 2, its robotic astronaut torso on the space station now.
The legs will fly to space aboard SpaceX ‘s unmanned Dragon capsule, set to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Monday, Fox News reported.
Once installed, the legs will give Robonaut 2 – which is currently attached to a support post on the orbiting outpost – an extended leg span of nine feet, according to NASA.
Samsung”s latest smartphone, the Galaxy S5, will reportedly be launched in 125 markets around the world, including the United States, Europe, and much of Asia today.
An analysis of temperature data since 1500 rules out the possibility that global warming in the industrial era is just a natural fluctuation in the earth’s climate.
The study, by McGill University physics professor Shaun Lovejoy, represents a new approach to the question of whether global warming in the industrial era has been caused largely by man-made emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.
Apple has reportedly accused Samsung as ‘copycat’ once again claiming billions of dollars in damages.
Last week, Samsung had offered a brief preview of its plans, including an effort to downplay Apple’s copycat claims by focusing on features it offered that Apple hadn’t, like larger-screened phones with removable batteries, LTE, styluses, NFC sensors, and certain software features like multi-window applications
A graduate student in the Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology at UC Berkeley has done what may seem impossible to many – he digitally reconstructed plants which were thought to be long extinct.
Jeff Benca is an admitted uber-geek when it comes to prehistoric plants, so it was no surprise that, when he submitted a paper describing a new species of long-extinct lycopod for publication, he ditched the standard line drawing and insisted on a detailed and beautifully rendered color reconstruction of the plant.
Do you know the name of world’s rarest primate? It’s Hainan gibbon — a species found only in a tiny corner of an island in the South China Sea.
However, its long-term survival is in jeopardy, with only 23 to 25 of the animals believed to be inhabiting just 20 sq km of forest in China’s Hainan Island.
To chalk out a plan to save it, international primate researchers convened an emergency summit in Hainan last month, according to a report in nature.com.
The world’s largest ever swarm of genetically modified mosquitoes has been released in Brazil to combat infectious disease, according to reports.
Jacobina, a farming town in Bahia, has been plagued for years by dengue fever , a mosquito-borne tropical disease and a leading cause of illness and fatality in Brazil.
According to the Global Post, the newly hatched Aedes aegypti mosquitoes have been engineered to wipe out their own species, the Independent reported.
A new survey has revealed that more than half of cheaters use social platforms to contact their lovers.
According to Victoria Milan, that the study found that about 51 per cent used WhatsApp, Facebook, or Twitter to contact their lovers, News24.com reported.
Victoria Milan, which is a discreet social network that facilitates affairs, it conducted the poll among a pool of 12,500 people in the US and Europe.
The results also showed that 15 per cent of cheaters used SMS, 13.6 per cent used phone calls, and 9.89 per cent sent e-mails to contact their lovers. (ANI)
: Finding your lost friend in a crowded place is a difficult task, but your brain makes it simpler through its capacity of paying special attention to objects, a research has found.
Picking out a face in the crowd is a complicated because the brain has to retrieve the memory of the face you’re seeking, then hold it in place while scanning the crowd, paying special attention to finding a match, said the study.
The process of identifying an object is similar to finding out what is happening is a place, the finding showed.
The fifth generation of Samsung Electronics’ flagship Galaxy S smartphone will be available for Rs 51,500 starting today.
Based on the Android 4.4.2 KitKat operating system, the handset was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February, and its pre-bookings started on March 29.
“We are very encouraged by the pre-booking response for the S5 which is three times higher than that for the S4,” Samsung India Country Head (IT and mobile division) Vineet Taneja said in a statement.
It will be sold for Rs 51,500, the company said.
Apple has filed for a patent of ‘head mounted display,’ which the tech company described as a system that provides a personal TV viewing experience to users.
According to CNET, the goggle may include an outer cover, optical components for generating the media display, and lens on which the generated media displayed is provided to the user.
The application by Apple reads that the goggle system may include data processing circuitry operative to adjust left and right images generated by the optical components to display 3-D media, the report said.
Why is it that we find the initial hours of a journey longer than the final stretch?
The answer, according new research: because we consider the places ahead of us to be physically nearer than those behind, though the actual distance may be the same.
“Feeling close to or distant from something impacts our behaviour and judgment,” said Sam Maglio, an assistant professor at University of Toronto Scarborough, who led the team of researchers.
Scientists have found the mechanism used by fruit flies to regulate their flight speed from their antennae by using both vision and wind-sensing information.
The researchers traced the flies’ flight trajectories in a wind tunnel and found that the wind-sensing antennae stabilize the fly’s visual flight controller.
The results showed that in gusts, air drag causes part of the deceleration, but in addition, antennae sense airspeed changes and induce a response that causes the fly to decelerate even further.
India tonight successfully conducted maiden night test of its indigenously developed nuclear-capable Agni-I ballistic missile with strike range of 700 km from a test range off Odisha coast as part of a user trial by the Army.
Scientists have revealed that they have performed a proof-of-concept experiment that will aid the future development of programmable.
Researchers from University of Chicago and University College London have revealed that their experiment on a crystal containing trillions, rather than hundreds, of quantum mechanical spins, replicates some of the features of the current generation of much smaller, specialized computers.
Facebook is reportedly planning to punish pages that bait users into liking and sharing content, the company has said.
The move is seen as an attempt by the social network to clean up users’ News Feed.
According to Tech Crunch, while there are more and more Pages and friends competing for the finite amount of time people spend reading the feed, increasing competition plus limited attention equals decreasing reach.