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An all-inclusive electronic card reportedly slims down the otherwise bulky wallet and makes credit card management easy.

Coin wants to create a sort of ‘one card to rule them all’ solution to the problem of sifting through all credit and debit cards.

According to Tech Crunch, the Coin card has received an overwhelming early response after it went online and users can still order it for 50 dollars with additional shipping charges.

A new tool to make mobile-friendly website reportedly pulls in a person’s Facebook information and creates a customized site.

Strikingly has one-click feature that takes content from a user’s Facebook page and turns it into a personal website.

According to PC World, once it is permitted to acess Facebook information, it takes in all the relevant data like profile picture, work experience and places of residence and arranges them together in an attractive web page that is customizable.

The GE Brillion mobile app has added a new update that lets users control the oven even when outside the house from their smartphones .

The new GE app upgrade for existing wall oven models PT9050, PT9550, PK7000, PK7500 removes the restriction on the user to stay inside the house on the same Wi-Fi network connection as the oven, Mashable reports.

Four Wi-Fi-enabled GE wall ovens already allow users to control the temperature, set the timer and monitor the cooking status via the app.

Gigahertz, megapixels, apps by the thousands. The more of them we get, the more commoditised technology gets. Hundreds of competing phones run the same chips, the same Android OS, the same apps. How do you tell one from the other?

You can’t even tell any more from the specs how good a product is. The 4 MP (megapixel) camera in an HTC One beats most 8 MP camera-phones. A 2GHz processor is no guarantee of a phone being faster than one with a 1 GHz chip.

But there’s one way to tell if a product is better. And that’s if it draws lower power.

The successful launch of India’s heavier rocket – the geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle-D5 (GSLV-D5) – Sunday not only means the indigenous cryogenic engine is performing well but also would pave way for sizeable savings, the space agency’s chief said Saturday.

“When GSLV-D5 succeeds in its mission Sunday, it means the Indian cryogenic stage/engine is performing well. It is a culmination of major indigenous technology development,” Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K.Radhakrishnan.

Samsung has reportedly announced that its Smart TV control for 2014 would include more gestures, smaller trackpad, and more buttons, including actual DVR controls.

Digital music sales declined for the first time in 2013 since the iTunes Store opened a decade before, according to report.

The new data from Nielsen SoundScan reevaled that sales of tracks declined 5.7 percent, to 1.34 billion units, while album sales fell 0.1 percent, to 117.6 million.

According to the Verge, the chief culprit for the decline was streaming services like Spotify and Pandora.

At around 10 dollars a month for unlimited listening, the streaming services are proving to be an attractive alternative to albums that cost 10 dollars apiece, the report added. (ANI)

Yahoo’s advertising servers have been distributing malware to hundreds of thousands of users over the last few days.

The attack appears to be the work of malicious parties who have hacked Yahoo’s advertising network.

Fox IT, a security firm based in the Netherlands , wrote a blog post on Friday describing the problem.

According to the Washington Post, the firm said that clients visiting yahoo.com received advertisements served by ads.yahoo.com, adding that some of the advertisements are malicious.

Researchers have observed mating for the first time in the microbes responsible for African sleeping sickness.

This tropical disease is caused by trypanosomes, single-celled parasites that are found in the blood of those afflicted.
University of Bristol researchers were able to see what the trypanosomes were getting up to inside the tsetse flies that carry the disease by using fluorescent markers.

Digitally mapping and visualising the ancient cities of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa right on your tab or mobile is now a step closer – via Google Earth.

Kristina Neumann at University of Cincinnati has developed a visual representation where she can zoom along the boundaries of ancient Roman Antioch – a populous city of ancient Syria and now a major town of south-central Turkey – during the beginning of Roman takeover, thanks to the Google Earth software.

Internet calling and messaging service Skype said that user data is safe after the Syrian Electronic Army momentarily took control of the company’s Twitter feed and Facebook page.

The SEA, a group of hackers who support Syrian President Bashar Assad, launched a cyberattack Wednesday to protest against Skype owner Microsoft’s cooperation with the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance efforts.

The 29-hour countdown for the launch of India’s heavy rocket geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle-development 5 (GSLV-D5) with the indigenous engine began Saturday 11.18 am at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, officials said.

The Rs 356 crore launch mission has twin purpose – to flight test the cryogenic engine designed and built by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and to put in orbit communication satellite GSAT-14.

The launch is scheduled for 4.18 pm Sunday. The rocket port is located about 80 km from Chennai.

Chipmaker giant Intel is reportedly planning to launch a new brand of computer that runs both Windows and Android using virtualization techniques.

Intel”s new idea, internally known as “Dual OS,” would see Android running inside of Windows, so that both the apps could run side by side without rebooting the machine, the Verge reports.

Intel might introduce its new PC in the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week, the report added.

A new nano-generator has been designed to convert movement from walking into electricity.

Zhong Lin Wang and colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found a way to generate electricity by bringing two differently charged surfaces into contact, then separating them, New Scientist reported.

The new technology uses the triboelectric effect, the same process that causes static electricity shocks.

While testing, the 2 kilogram backpack generated over 1 watt of power during walking, which is sufficient to run 40 LEDs simultaneously. (ANI)

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Saturn’s iconic rings likely formed about 4.4 billion years ago, shortly after the planet itself took shape, researchers say.

The origin of Saturn’s ring system has long been the subject of debate, with some researchers arguing that it’s a relatively young structure and others holding that it coalesced long ago, at roughly the same time as the gas giant’s many satellites.

Researchers have developed a solar-powered concept car that will follow the sun to maximize its energy collection.

Ford’s C-MAX Solar Energi Concept vehicle is the first-ever solar-powered hybrid, that will be able to “creep” back and forth a short distance to get the best exposure for its rooftop collection panels.

And those panels will get a powerful assist from a special energy concentrator device.

The C-MAX Solar Energi Concept will feature a rooftop solar panel array developed in partnership with SunPower Corp. of San Jose, California.

One of the best meteor showers of the year is about to peak on Friday night. Quadrantids, which are known for producing lots of bright fireballs in the night sky, visits every New Year, Cnet reported.

The Quadrantid s peak only lasts for a few hours, compared to peaks that can last for a few days for the better known meteor groups.