Science

Washington, August 11: A new supercomputer simulation designed to track the fate of the universe’s first black holes has found that the mysterious cosmic objects couldn’t efficiently gorge themselves on nearby gas, and thus had to keep themselves on a strict diet, starving in the process.

“The first stars were much more massive than most stars we see today, upwards of 100 times the mass of our sun,” said John Wise, a post-doctoral fellow at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and one of the study’s authors.

Mumbai, August 11: Nokia plans to be a game changer in the Indian handset market. The change will be by moving from a la carte mobile music offering to an all-you-can eat buffet experience.
The Finnish mobile company has more than one reason to make music the core of its marketing strategy in India.

According to a Soundbuzz-PricewaterhouseCoopers report on entertainment, India’s mobile music industry will be the world’s largest at Rs 3,600 crore by 2009-10, with the demand for full-track downloads and true tones increasing.

Washington, August 10: Climate change will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics, The New York Times reported.

Citing military and intelligence analysts, the newspaper said climate-induced crises could topple governments, feed terrorist movements or destabilise entire regions.

Tuktoyaktuk, August 10: The Arctic Ocean has given up tens of thousands more square kilometres of ice in a relentless summer of melt, with scientists watching through satellite eyes for a possible record low polar ice cap.

From the barren Arctic shore of this village in Canada’s far northwest, about 2 414km north of Seattle, veteran observer Eddie Gruben has seen the summer ice retreating more each decade as the world has warmed. By this weekend the ice edge lay about 128km at sea.

“Forty years ago, it was 64km out,” said Gruben, 89, patriarch of a local contracting business.

Seoul, August 10: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday that climate change is the greatest challenge facing a world beset by crises and called on governments to reach a deal on the environment at a meeting in Denmark later this year.

Ban said the world has “less than 10 years to halt (the) global rise in greenhouse gas emissions if we are to avoid catastrophic consequences for people and the planet”.

“It is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family,” Ban said in a keynote speech at a gathering in Seoul of the World Federation of UN Associations.

Kathmandu, August 10: A flying frog, the world’s smallest deer and the first new monkey to be found in over a century are among 350 new species discovered in the eastern Himalayas in the past decade, the WWF said on Monday.

But the environmental group said the vital habitats of the mountain range were facing growing pressures from unsustainable development in the region, which spans Nepal, China, India, Bhutan and Myanmar.

Bangalore, August 10: India is embarking on opening new uranium mines and boosting nuclear power generation capacity as fuel supplies are expected to get a major push from domestic and international sources, a top scientist said.

Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission Anil Kakodkar told PTI here that the first consignment of 120 tonnes of uranium pellets had already landed in India, and the government was engaged in a dialogue with international vendor countries to get more such supplies.

Tuktoyaktuk, August 10: The Arctic Ocean has given up tens of thousands more square miles (square kilometres) of ice on Sunday in a relentless summer of melt, with scientists watching through satellite eyes for a possible record low polar ice cap.

From the barren Arctic shore of this village in Canada’s far northwest, 1,500 miles (2,414 kilometers) north of Seattle, veteran observer Eddie Gruben has seen the summer ice retreating more each decade as the world has warmed. By this weekend the ice edge lay some 80 miles (128 kilometers) at sea.

Washington, August 10: A changing rainfall pattern may deprive a billion people of fresh water in the tropics and subtropics in the coming decades, according to the latest research.

The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of such fresh water has been creeping northwards for more than 300 years.

Washington, August 10: Scientists have created the first comprehensive visual atlas of global rainfall, which they claim shows the projections of downpour around the world over the next century.

An international team, led by the Australian National University, has created the Atlas of the Global Water Cycle based on all of the models used by India’s RK Pauchuri-headed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its report.

Tuktoyaktuk, August 10: The Arctic Ocean has given up tens of thousands more square miles (square kilometres) of ice on Sunday in a relentless summer of melt, with scientists watching through satellite eyes for a possible record low polar ice cap.

From the barren Arctic shore of this village in Canada’s far northwest, 1,500 miles (2,414 kilometers) north of Seattle, veteran observer Eddie Gruben has seen the summer ice retreating more each decade as the world has warmed. By this weekend the ice edge lay some 80 miles (128 kilometers) at sea.

New Delhi, August 09:Telecom major Bharti Airtel Sunday launched its wireless data card for prepaid users in Delhi and the national capital region (NCR) that will enable Internet connectivity for laptops and other computing devices while on the move.

The data card can work on all the partner networks of Airtel when on national roaming and is compatible with GSM network while on international roaming, the company said in a statement.

Washington, August 09: Sony has planned a new technology ‘Exmor R’ sensor in its newest Cyber-shot cameras — DSC-TX1 and DSC- WX1 which offers the best result even in the dim-light photography.

As the “Exmor R” image sensors technique just gather more and more light will be available in conventional sensors. This technology improves shooting in low-light scenarios, enhancing image clarity and drastically reducing grain.

Hamburg, August 09: Spending the summer in a dark basement isn’t everyone’s idea of a perfect summer. Then again, not everyone is a hard-core computer gamer with a predilection for spending time in online dungeons, immersed in the newest role-playing games.

For those people, August has a new crop of potential reasons to stay inside. Action is the name of the games, though developers have opted to give them titles like Dawn of Magic 2 and Ice & Blood, the sequel to Sacred 2.

Berlin, August 09: Ideally, every computer should have an anti-virus programme installed and every computer user should be vigilant about using and updating it.

But, it’s not a perfect world, which means people need to rely on early warning signals should something go awry with their computer.

Unfortunately, that approach is also starting to lose its effectiveness as modern computer viruses become even more pernicious.

Moscow, August 09: Indian and Russian scientists are close to final development and testing of the air-launched version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile.

A top Russian defence official said a new takeoff engine for launching of the missile in air and at extreme high altitudes had been developed.

Alexander Leonov, director of the Russian Machine Building Research and Production Centre, said: “we are ready for test launches.”

Washington, August 09: Telecommunications providers will not have to give the government sensitive revenue and Internet speed data for a program to map broadband use in U.S. homes and bring high-speed Internet service to more people.

The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday that companies such as Verizon Communications Inc, Comcast Corp and AT&T Inc do not have to share how much money they make from each Internet subscriber. Nor must they say how fast their Internet connections typically run.

New Delhi, August 08: Search engine Google today admitted its “mistake” of wrong depiction of certain areas of Arunachal Pradesh as parts of China and said its maps would be rectified shortly.

“Earlier, this week, as part of routine update to Google earth, we published new data for the Arunachal Pradesh region that changed the depiction of certain place names in the product. The change was a result of a mistake in our processing of new map data,” a spokesperson for the search giant said in a statement.

Washington, August 08: Dell after being familiar to the normal users and is now taking care of the game-loving peoples while keeping these things in mind Dell has planned a new gaming series laptops.

Dell Alienware M17x is configured according to the need of the gamer.
The look and features attract gamers toward this gadget and also Dell claims that this machine is the most powerful machine of the universe.

The Alienware M17x gamer dream laptop is defined in a universal standard size of 17-inch.

New Delhi, August 08: LG mobiles has launched latest 8 megapixel camera phone in the Indian market. The new LG Viewty Smart now is called as LG-GC900.

At last the LG lovers would able to grab the 8-MP camera phone Viewty Smart GC 900 in the Indian market too.

When we talk about the features then for the first time an Intelligent Shot Mode camera phone is launched that expose an excellent photos, automatic scene analyzing along with adjusting camera settings.

Washington, August 08: A new research indicates that Saturn’s haze-enshrouded moon Titan turns out to have much in common with Earth in the way that weather and geology shape its terrain.

Wind, rain, volcanoes, tectonics and other Earth-like processes all sculpt features on Titan’s complex and varied surface in an environment more than 100 degrees Celsius colder on average than Antarctica.

“It is really surprising how closely Titan’s surface resembles Earth’s,” said Rosaly Lopes, a planetary geologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

Washington, August 08: Recent images captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft are revealing new three-dimensional objects and structures in Saturn’s otherwise flat rings, thanks to the planet approaching equinox on August 11th.

Through the detections of shadows cast upon the rings, a moonlet has been spotted for the first time in Saturn’s dense B ring and narrow vertical structures are seen soaring upward from Saturn’s intricate F ring.

Geneva, August 08: When launched to great fanfare nearly a year ago, some feared the Large Hadron Collider would create a black hole that would suck in the world. It turns out the Hadron may be the black hole.

The world’s largest scientific machine has cost USD 10 billion, has worked only nine days and has yet to smash an atom. The unique equipment in a 17-mile (27-kilometer) circular tunnel with cathedral-sized detectors deep beneath the Swiss-French border has been assembled by specialists in many countries, with 8,970 physicists eagerly awaiting the startup.

New Delhi, August 08: SONY VAIO planned W series mini notebooks with colorful addition in the Indian market.

Sony mini notebook would have the same strength and performance that a usual Sony VAIO notebook offers.

This series is mainly designed to access email, instant messaging, Facebook, YouTube and more.

New Delhi, August 08: New Blackberry smartphone Curve 8520 is now available via T-mobile online service.

If we talk about the features of smartphone then Blackberry offers 2.64-inch 320×240 LCD display, QWERTY keyboard, standby time of 17 hours, 2 megapixel camera, it can synchronization with Microsoft Outlook, MP3 player with external controls that make easy for the users to go down with their headphones and drive music. The Blackberry comes with stereo Bluetooth wireless technology that allows users to connect their phone to PC.