Science & Tech
Offering hope to more than 160 million people worldwide who are considered clinically blind, a bionic eye implant will be ready for human trials in 2013, reveals a study. .... more »
Search giant Google has announced that it will start paying some users in exchange for their search history as part of the company’s new project called ‘Screenwise’. .... more »
An Italian computer science professor whose research helped inspire Google launched a new search engine and social media network on Monday that he hopes will challenge the US technology giant.
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Facebook India on Monday filed its compliance report before the Delhi court which had ordered it and 21other websites to remove objectionable content from their websites.
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A new planet discovered some 22 light years from the earth is the most likely to hold water and possibly host life. .... more »
China on Monday released a set of 'world's highest resolution' lunar images taken by its second moon orbiter, Chang'e-2, as it braces to launch its next mission to land a rover to explore its surface.
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YouTube, Google Inc's video website, is streaming 4 billion online videos every day, a 25 per cent increase in the past eight months, according to the company.
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India's urban youth are suffering social-media 'fatigue,' prompting a number to delete their Facebook and other accounts, according to a new study. .... more »
Megaupload's detained founder on Monday denied wrongdoing after US authorities shut down his file-sharing website as new details emerged of a rock-star life featuring 'fast cars' and 'hot girls'. .... more »
Google's online social networking service 'Google Plus' has crossed 90 million users mark since its launch in June. .... more »
China plans to launch 21 rockets with 30 satellites in 2012, the China Aerospace and Technology Corporation (CASC) said on Wednesday. .... more »
Indian students are among the 60 finalists in a global science competition, 'YouTube Space Lab', and if they win, experiments they have designed will be conducted in space with the help of NASA, ESA and JAXA.
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Scientists have discovered a particle that could 'cool the planet' and naturally clean up the atmosphere.
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To answer the energy crisis in the world former President Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has suggested that solar energy can be harnessed by establishing space stations in outer space in order to tap solar power round the clock. .... more »
Astronomers may have spotted an exoplanet that ‘oozes’ supercritical liquid – thanks to NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. .... more »
Apple said Friday it was suspending sales of the iPhone 4S in its China stores after fans desperate to get their hands on the new device fought with a security guard and threw eggs at an official store. .... more »
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to Delhi Police on a petition filed against summons issued by a trial court to 21 websites, including Facebook, Google, Yahoo and YouTube, for allegedly hosting obscene and derogatory content. .... more »
Hewlett-Packard Co on Monday unveiled a new glass-encased laptop computer as the largest computer maker stepped up its efforts to chip away at rival Apple Inc's stronghold in high-end PC market. .... more »
Some recent Russian satellite failures may have been the result of sabotage by foreign forces, Russia's space chief said on Tuesday, in comments apparently aimed at the United States.
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At restaurants, at movies and at the office, checking Facebook has become a regular habit for many of the Internet social network's more than 800 million users.
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Nokia has declared war in the US smartphone market, with a Microsoft-powered handset tailored to take on Apple iPhones and Google-backed Android devices. .... more »
Smartphones and tablet computers will help push worldwide consumer electronics spending over $1 trillion this year but growth is sluggish compared to last year, according to industry analysts. .... more »
An Arizonan engineer has come up with a wearable LED television that can be worn as a jacket and shows episodes of American animated sitcom, The Simpsons. .... more »
Scientists have singled out mercury as one of the major factors behind the earth's greatest extinction 250 million years ago, obliterating most marine and land species. .... more »
Imagine leaving behind your passport at home and realising the same when you’re at the airport? Well, you could just try your luck by showing the officer a copy of your passport on your iPad. .... more »
It may be one of the technology world's most expensive efforts to give something away: Hewlett-Packard Co. said on Friday that it's making its webOS mobile system available as open-source software that anyone can use and modify freely. .... more »
Facebook is making it easier for people who express suicidal thoughts on the social networking site to get help.
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Decades of work have been devoted to the quest for a sub-atomic particle called the Higgs Boson, which may at last have been detected, scientists announced on Tuesday. .... more »
A physicist from the University of Dallas has successfully created strands of the elusive invisibility coat immortalised in the pages of Harry Potter. .... more »
China's unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8 blasted off from a launch centre in the northwestern Gobi desert on Tuesday. .... more »
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