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Flying at sea skimming height of about 15 meters at DRDO’s test range near Balasore, Lakshya-II the advanced version of DRDO’s Pilotless Target Aircraft (PTA) yesterday demonstrated its full capability. In a flight lasting over 30 minutes, it was made to dive down from an altitude of around 800 meters to just 12 m and maintained required altitude for the [...]
The UIDAI released a report titled “The Role of Biometric technology in Aadhaar Enrollment” which confirms the high degree of accuracy of biometrics used in the UID project in the context of large scale enrolments across India. This dispels the fear that the use of biometric technology in the Indian context would be unreliable and flawed. It has been affirmed [...]
A small asteroid with the size of a city bus came much nearer than the moon Friday (Jan 27), just days after its discovery, but it never posed a threat to our planet, space scientists said. The asteroid 2012 BX34 passed within 36,750 miles (59,044 kilometers) of Earth. The space rock is about 37 feet (11 meters) wide and would [...]
Technology giant Apple has launched a probe into a report that said factories in China that manufactured its products employed child labour and had 24-hour working days and unsafe conditions, a media report said. In an email sent to around 60,000 employees, the company’s chief executive Tim Cook said Apple “cares about every worker in its supply chain”, the Telegraph [...]
Male mice are able to sing melodic tunes to attract female partners, a study has said. The tunes are sung at ultrasonic range beyond human hearing, and each mouse has its own individual signature song, said the study by the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna. “It seems as though house mice might provide a new model organism for the [...]
American intelligence agency FBI is reportedly developing new software to scan social networks Twitter and Facebook to look for emerging threats and predict crimes. The FBI has asked technology firms to create software that can effectively scan the websites for words, phrases and other suspected behaviour, the Telegraph reported. It will also be able to translate from foreign languages as [...]
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will act against banks that do not implement its guidelines on electronic security of their transactions and operations by October 2012, a senior official said Friday. A working group, under the chairmanship of RBI Executive Director G. Gopalakrishna, has recommended strengthening the informattion technology architecture of banks and security measures to tackle cyber fraud. [...]
Some of the viruses are real con artists. They trick new bugs with genetic material filched from their previous bacterial hosts into working for them, reveals a study. The con occurs when a grifter virus injects its DNA into a bacterium living in a phosphorus-starved region of the ocean. MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) researchers are the very first to [...]
Global tablet shipments reached nearly 27 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011 with Android jumping to a record share of 39 percent, said a new research released Thursday. According to the research by consulting firm Strategy Analytics, global tablet shipments reached a record high of 26.8 million units in the last quarter of 2011, surging 250 percent from [...]
A patent application published by the US Patent and Trademark Office Thursday showed that Apple is working on a universal touchscreen remote capable of controlling multiple devices, shedding lights on the company’s much-anticipated plan on a smart TV product. The patent, titled “Apparatus and Method to Facilitate Universal Remote Control” was filed Sep 30, 2011, said that the remote will [...]
A 190 million-year-old dinosaur nesting site – the oldest ever – has been unearthed in South Africa. The discovery of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus has revealed significant clues about the evolution of complex reproductive behaviour in early dinosaurs. Led by University of Toronto (Mississauga) palaeontologist Robert Reisz, with co-author Eric Roberts from James Cook University and a group of international [...]
Mexican scientists inaugurated Latin America’s No. 2 supercomputer by size and speed, with the ability to process 24.9 trillion operations per second, authorities said. The computer, along with others at two major Mexican universities, is part of the new high-performance network Lancad, said the Center for Research and Advanced Studies, or Cinvestav in a communique. Cinvestav chief Rene Asomoza explained [...]
India’s Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) programme will facilitate the advancement of Trinidad and Tobago’ s objective of becoming the ICT hub of the Caribbean and Latin America, according to Minister of Foreign Affairs and Communications Surujrattan Rambachan. He told the 62nd anniversary function to mark India’s Republic Day at the residence of the Indian High Commissioneri Malay Mishra on [...]
A majority of tweets in Africa are made by young people from their mobile devices, thus driving the growth of Twitter Africa, new research has revealed. The study “How Africa Tweets” said African users of Twitter aged 20-29 are also active across a range of social media, including Facebook, YouTube, Google+ and LinkedIn. The research by Portland Communications and Tweetminster [...]
Israeli scientists are developing miniature satellites that can identify people in distress. Experts at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology aim to launch three small satellites weighing six kg each to orbit earth at an altitude of 600 km for one year. Once in orbit, the satellites would pinpoint people showing signs of distress, Xinhua reported quoting the daily Ma’ariv Wednesday. [...]
From humble beginnings of ferrying rocket parts on a bicycle to launching satellites of other countries and landing a craft on the moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has occupied a pride of place among Indians. However, this now seems to be taking a knock. Boosting the feel good factor was that ISRO had not landed in a row [...]
Sam Pitroda, advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Wednesday launched the country’s first cloud-based tablet solution for school students called ‘e-tutor tablet’. This can be used by students from Class 1 to 12. Priced at Rs.7,500, inclusive of content, the product would be available in the market from April onwards. The e-tutor tablet is a joint effort of Technopark-based e-tutor [...]
Birds don’t have to bother about overcrowded roads, but they do stick to a speed limit to avoid hitting trees or other objects. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) believe their findings could help the military fly unmanned drones as fast as possible without crashing. They looked at birds such as the daredevil northern goshawk and developed mathematical [...]
Former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief G. Madhavan Nair Wednesday described as “improper” the move to blacklist four scientists, including him, from a government job and said the space agency had “gone to the dogs”. In a Jan 13 order, the Department of Space barred Nair and three others from holding any government positions over the soured deal between [...]
Even though the Japanese have the world’s highest life expectancy, smoking and high blood pressure (BP) still remain the biggest health hazards, reveals a study. An analytical study, led by Nayu Ikeda from the University of Tokyo, found that in 2007, tobacco smoking and high BP among adults aged 30 years and above accounted for 129,000 and 104,000 deaths respectively [...]
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