Samsung unveiled its latest smart gadget at Germany’s IFA event, which is set to rival the likes of Apple, Sony and Google in the wearable computing market.
Samsung revealed its Galaxy Gear smartwatch which is designed to connect with a smartphone, also the user to send text messages browse the web and do the usual calling too.
The company’s Mobile head JK Shin said that the watch is set to become a new fashion icon around the world.
A new research has showed that an ice sheet located on West Antarctica existed 20 million years earlier than previously thought.
The findings indicate that ice sheets first grew on the West Antarctic subcontinent at the start of a global transition from warm greenhouse conditions to a cool icehouse climate 34 million years ago.
Previous computer simulations were unable to produce the amount of ice that geological records suggest existed at that time because neighbouring East Antarctica alone could not support it.
Apple reportedly sent colourful invitations to media companies for the much anticipated new iPhone range which was speculated to be come in a variety of colours along with a cheaper version of the flagship product.
The launch event scheduled for September 10 will witness the tech giant introducing a range of low-cost iPhones in a variety of colours along with a speculated gold-coloured phone apart from the basic black and white versions.
Astronomers have successfully synthesized the distribution of atomic carbon around a planetary nebula NGC 6302 in test observations with the ALMA Band 8 receiver.
This is the first 500 GHz band astronomical image captured by a radio interferometer with unprecedentedly high resolution.
NGC 6302 is a planetary nebula, which is in the final stage of the life of a star with a mass several times that of the Sun. Visible light image shows a bipolar shape of gas ejected from the dying star.
Cyber crime cases in the country registered under the IT Act last year rose by about 61 per cent to 2,876 with Maharashtra recording the most number of cases, Parliament was informed yesterday.
The country had witnessed 1,791 cases registered under the Information Technology (IT) Act in 2011, Minister of State for Communication and IT Milind Deora said in a written reply to Rajya Sabha.
The Supreme Court today made it clear that the government will have to take steps to block porn sites particularly those showing child pornography and granted four weeks time to chart out plan of action.
“Nothing, you have to do it,” a bench headed by Justice B S Chauhan said when Additional Solicitor General K V Viswanathan sought time to file response on a plea for blocking such sites in the country.
On July 12, the apex court had granted four weeks time to the Centre to devise a mechanism to block such sites.
NASA airborne science mission has help reveal evidence of a large and previously unknown canyon hidden a mile under Greenland ice.
The canyon has the characteristics of a winding river channel and is at least 460 miles (750 kilometers) long, making it longer than the Grand Canyon.
In some places, it is as deep as 2,600 feet (800 meters), on scale with segments of the Grand Canyon.
This immense feature is thought to predate the ice sheet that has covered Greenland for the last few million years.
Google Glass has recently been used to assist surgeons and medical students at the Ohio State University, and has been said to give an experience to surgeons that they never had before. According to ABC News, Christopher Kaeding, an orthopaedic surgeon at OSU, accepted the wearable computer for a standard surgical procedure, repairing a torn ACL.
Google Glass has recently been used to assist surgeons and medical students at the Ohio State University, and has been said to give an experience to surgeons that they never had before.
According to ABC News, Christopher Kaeding, an orthopaedic surgeon at OSU, accepted the wearable computer for a standard surgical procedure, repairing a torn ACL.
In this particular procedure, Glass’s sole aim was to allow Kaeding to join a Google Hangout, Google’s video conferencing service, the report said.
UBC astronomers have discovered the first Trojan asteroid sharing the orbit of Uranus.
It is believed 2011 QF99 is part of a larger-than-expected population of transient objects temporarily trapped by the gravitational pull of the Solar System’s giant planets.
Trojans are asteroids that share the orbit of a planet, occupying stable positions known as Lagrangian points.
Astronomers considered their presence at Uranus unlikely because the gravitational pull of larger neighbouring planets would destabilize and expel any Uranian Trojans over the age of the Solar System.
A new research has claimed that East Antarctic Ice Sheet could be at a higher risk to the effects of climate change than previously believed.
A team from Durham University’s Department of Geography used declassified spy satellite imagery to create the first long-term record of changes in the terminus of outlet glaciers – where they meet the sea – along 5,400km of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet’s coastline.
The imagery covered almost half a century from 1963 to 2012.
India’s first ‘military’ satellite (GSAT-7) was successfully put into the geosynchronous transfer orbit early Friday by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) heavy rocket, authorities said.
It was launched in the early hours from its spaceport at Kourou in French Guiana off the Pacific coast.
“The advanced multi-band communication satellite was deployed in the transfer orbit, around 36,000 km from above the earth, by the Ariane-5 rocket of the ESA’s Arianespace 34 minutes after its lift-off at 2 a.m. IST,” the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement here.
Google’s Android is the most popular OS for mobiles yet it is the most vulnerable to malware attacks as revealed by a study conducted by the US Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
According to their study, Android despite being the dominant platform is the primary target of malware attacks as users do not upgrade the software to its higher version.
Android was a target for 79 percent of all malware threats to mobile operating systems in 2012 with text messages representing about half of the malicious applications, Stuff.co.nz reports.
Instant messaging and video-calling service Skype is reportedly working on the prospects of 3D video calling and the current limitations with the 3D technologies stopped the company from launching the feature.
Microsoft”s corporate vice-president for Skype , Mark Gillett said that the lab experimentation has been done to analyse the capability of 3D-screens and 3D-capture.
Pro-Assad hacktivist group Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), which claimed responsibility for disrupting major news websites including the latest attack on the New York Times site was reportedly taken down by their domain name registrar for breach of contact.
The SEA posted a tweet which read that their domain name registrar Name.com had suspended their account for breach of contact after the NYT attack.
According to Fox News, the hackers set up alternative websites, posting stories about the chemical attacks in Syria after hacking the NYT site.
Scientists have found evidence of water in mineral grains on the moon from an unknown source under the surface.
“Using data from NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument aboard the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists remotely detected magmatic water, or water that originates from deep within the moon’s interior, on the surface of the moon,” the space agency said in a statement.
In a senior level rejig, Bharti Airtel on Wednesday appointed Christian de Faria as the new CEO for African operations while Manoj Kohli, MD and CEO (International) will relocate to India.
The appointment will be effective January 1, 2014.
Kohli, who is in-charge of Africa, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka operations, is based in Airtel’s Africa headquarters in Nairobi.
Researchers have put graphene’s tensile strength to test by using it in a composite that consists of copper and nickel.
The graphene is able to make the copper 500 times as strong as it would be on its own and it makes nickel 180 times as strong, Discovery News reported.
In the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) research, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) was used to grow a single layer of graphene on a metallic deposited substrate, and then another metal layer was deposited on it.
718 elephants have died in since 2000 due to different reasons, Odisha government Tuesday told the state assembly.
This was stated by Forest and Environment Minister Bijayshree Routray while replying a question. He said the state government had identified 14 elephant corridors in the and taken up a five-year comprehensive project for their development in an effort to reduce man-animal conflict.
“We aim to complete the Rs 45.79-crore project by the end of 2016-17,” Routray said.
The flight-test of GSLV with indigenous cryogenic engine, called off ten days ago following a leak in the second stage of the rocket, is now expected to take place only in December, Indian Space Research Organisation said on Wednesday.
ISRO has started the process of de-stacking the rocket and the second stage would be shifted to Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC), a facility of the space agency located at Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu, for an investigation into the cause of the leakage.
US space agency NASA has said it has successfully conducted a hot-fire test on the largest 3D printed rocket engine component it has.
The Aug 22 test, which generated a record 20,000 pounds (9 tonnes) of thrust, is “a milestone” for one of many important advances the agency is making to reduce the cost of space hardware, Xinhua reported citing the space agency.
Researchers including an Indian origin have performed what they believe is the first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface where one person is able to send a brain signal via the Internet to control the hand motions of a fellow researcher.
Using electrical brain recordings and a form of magnetic stimulation, Rajesh Rao sent a brain signal to Andrea Stocco on the other side of the University of Washington campus, causing Stocco’s finger to move on a keyboard.
Facebook today said it received more than 25,000 government data requests in the first half of 2013, with the largest number from the US followed by India.
The company’s first “transparency report” showed Facebook received between 11,000 and 12,000 requests for data in the United States, affecting between 20,000 and 21,000 users.
It also received more than 14,800 requests from 70 other countries.
Facebook said the report includes “both criminal and national security requests” but without a detailed breakdown.
Tech giant Apple”s highly anticipated iPhone 5S is speculated to have a higher processing chip which would speed up the phone”s functioning by 31 percent.
Sources said that the new iPhone will have an A7 chip which will be faster than the current A6 model.
According to the Daily Express, Apple is also testing 64-bit processors which would enable the phone to process better graphics at a smoother level.
Analysts believe that the same chip or a more advanced one is likely to feature in Apple”s next generation of iPad tablet computers.
Evidence of water from deep under the lunar crust have been found in the central peaks of Bullialdus Crater, indicating that water was there when the moon was formed.
According to the study, the moon probably had water when it first formed four and a half billion years ago, Discovery News reported.
Research found evidence of water that was brought to the surface from deep within the lunar mantle by a series of ancient impacts.