Archive for December, 2009

Scientists have revealed a new nature of warbler in the forests of Vietnam and Laos. The small green and yellow bird was foremost sighted in 1994, but at the time was considerate to be a dissimilar species existing 1000km from its standard home. But, according to the report by BBC News, studies of the bird’s morphology, DNA and discourse have incorrigible it to be a sole species, and scientists [...]

Microsoft is being ordered to stop selling certain versions of its Word programme after a US court ruled it had infringed a rights held by a Canadian software company. The information technology chief was ordered to pay $290m (£180m) in damages to Toronto-based i4i Inc and told it will not be able to sell any more copies of Word 2007 unless alterations are made to the programme over the next three [...]

An American Airlines jet skidded off the ending of a runway while landing during a cloudburst Tuesday night in Kingston, Jamaica, critically injuring two passengers. The Boeing 737-800, which is one of the airline’s latest jet models, had 148 passengers on board and six crew members, the airline said. There were no losses, but a number of people were taken away from the sight for treatment. The [...]

A journal, timely study, journal named “Human Factors” suggests that texting while driving is riskier than talking on a cell phone or with another passenger sitting beside. Researchers at the University of Utah found that texters in a driving simulator had more crashes, because human factors responded more slowly to brake lights on cars in front of them, and showed impairment in forward and lateral [...]

In Hamburg, German doctors have set in a special microchip in the Retina of a blind Finnish man, which enabled him to see, the news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday on its website. The 1,500-pixel sensor chip can copy the electrical signals sent by a healthy eye through the nervous system to the brain. The patient, 45-age, who was identified only by his first name, Miika, was able to orient himself [...]

An image was captured by NAS which is a quite dramatic image of light reflection in the northern hemisphere of Titan, the largest moon of the planet Saturn, illustrating the presence of surface liquid on the planetary body. The image, taken by the Cassini Spacecraft’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on July 8, is the first of its kind. The picture captured showing the reflection of water [...]

The downfall of twitter.com on Thursday appears that the microblogging site may have been hacked or the victim of a DNS hijacking. The site was inaccessible for about an hour starting around 10 p.m. PST, was defaced with the following image before it was taken offline: Showing image of twitter page while hacked The message at the bottom of the image appears to be written in Perso-Arabic script and [...]

A human baby needs a full year before it starts walking; while a newborn other mammal gets up on its legs almost directly after birth. Scientist unspecified that human motor growth is exceptional because our brain is unusually complex and because it is predominantly demanding to walk on two legs. A Lund University research group in Sweden has shown that human babies in fact start walking at the same [...]

An optical fiber of 270 kilometers has been transformed into the world’s longest laser, an achievement that its inventors trust will lead to a major new outlook on information transmission and secure communications. The Engineering academics at Aston University, UK, are leading research into ultra-long fiber lasers, to create a platform proficient of delivering ‘next generation’ information [...]

Insurgents of Iraq have apparently intercepted live video feeds from the U.S. military’s Predator drones using a $25.95 Windows application that allows them to track the pilotless aircraft concealed. Hackers working with Iraqi militants were able to determine which areas of the country were under observation by the U.S. military, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, adding that video [...]