May 2009 News

Spacecrafts – travel faster then light (Soon)

Published: May 13, 2009

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Washington, May 10: Two physicists at Baylor University, US, have an idea that can turn travelling at the speed of light from science fiction to real science, just like the warp speed at which spacecraft travel in the fictional TV and film series ‘Star Trek’.
Dr. Gerald Cleaver, associate professor of physics at Baylor, and Dr. [...]


Is Apple buying Twitter?

Published: May 5, 2009

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Twitter is the new darling of web 2.0 and it’s attracting potential investors like flies to a ripe cowpat. The list of interest companies has now grown to include Facebook, Google and, most surprisingly, Apple. That’s according to the Silicon Valley gossips at TechCrunch anyway.
Allegedly, Apple is in “late stage negotiations” which means that all [...]


Sending Cell Phones into the Cloud

Published: May 5, 2009

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The problem with mobile phones, says Allan Knies, associate director of Intel Research at Berkeley, is that everyone wants them to perform like a regular computer, despite their relatively paltry hardware. Byung-Gon Chun, a research scientist at Intel Research Berkeley, thinks that he might have the solution to that problem: create a supercharged clone of [...]


Would you like to have porche engine in your room?

Published: May 4, 2009

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World’s oldest computer?

Published: May 2, 2009

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It looks like a heap of rubbish, feels like flaky pastry and has been linked to aliens. For decades, scientists have puzzled over the complex collection of cogs, wheels and dials seen as the most sophisticated object from antiquity, writes Helena Smith. But 102 years after the discovery of the calcium-encrusted bronze mechanism on the [...]