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A famous albino gorilla that lived for 40 years at the Barcelona Zoo got its white coloring by way of inbreeding, new research shows. Snowflake was a male Western lowland gorilla. He was born in the wild and captured in 1966 by villagers in Equatorial Guinea. As the only known white gorilla in the world, Snowflake was a zoo celebrity until his death of skin cancer in 2003. A few studies had attem Read More »
Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet online.Eighteen months in the works, the top-secret project was announced Saturday in New Zealand, where up to 50 volunteer households are already beginning to receive the Internet briefly on their home computers via translucent helium balloo Read More »
Lego, maker of the plastic toy pieces and figures that spawned a global empire, isn't playing nice anymore. That's the finding of a recent study, which showed that an increasing number of Lego figures' faces are scowling, frowning or snarling rather than smiling. In the 1970s, when Lego added human figures to their successful line of construction blocks, most of the figures wore happy, contented Read More »
The ultimate accessory in exact timekeeping — the atomic clock — is set to become even more precise, after ultrashort laser pulses were successfully transmitted across open air to help synchronize the "ticking" of new optical atomic clocks. Keeping extremely precise time is not just a question of scientific achievement. It is a key to many modern technologies, from Global Positioning Systems (GPS Read More »
It was another Soviet first in space 50 years ago — putting a woman in orbit. And 26-year old Valentina Tereshkova carried her part with grace, shouting "Take off your hat, sky, I'm coming!" as she blasted off.President Vladimir Putin praised her during a meeting at his residence Friday, marking the anniversary of her flight, which came a little more than two years after the Soviet Union put the Read More »
The Swiss-made Solar Impulse plane took off from Cincinnati on Saturday and headed for Washington, the penultimate stop in a cross-continent, solar-powered odyssey.The overnight layover at Cincinnati Lunken Municipal Airport added a few new twists to the Solar Impulse routine: Cincinnati was added to the schedule just a few days ago when flight planners determined that cross winds and head winds Read More »
The Swiss-made Solar Impulse plane took off from Cincinnati on Saturday and headed for Washington, the penultimate stop in a cross-continent, solar-powered odyssey.The overnight layover at Cincinnati Lunken Municipal Airport added a few new twists to the Solar Impulse routine: Cincinnati was added to the schedule just a few days ago when flight planners determined that cross winds and head winds Read More »
The debate about the NSA spying program feels like a bad game of charades. Members of Congress and leaders of three-letter agencies keep saying how much they welcome public debate about spying, then immediately regretting that they're unable to talk in public about it. Winks and ear pulls follow. But one phrase has permeated the discussion over and over.“Nobody is listening to your phone calls.”I Read More »
Over the past half a century, duct tape has been keeping NASA's astronauts alive, putting airplanes back together, making race cars speedier and patching up millions of fix-it projects. It's even been used to remove warts. But the makers of duct tape aren't resting on their sticky, gray laurels: On the contrary, engineers and designers are adding some new twists to the decades-old standby."Ten ye Read More »
BlackBerry has released the 10.2 beta SDK for developers to help port more Android apps to its platform. Along with new features, the 10.2 version adds an updated Adobe Air and the much-awaited Android 4.2 Jelly Bean runtimes. BlackBerry had added an Android runtime on BB10 devices and BlackBerry’s PlayBook that would run Android apps, but it was stuck on Android 2.3 Gingerbread for the longest t Read More »
Today, Google has dropped another one of its moonshot projects on the world. This time around it’s called Project Loon, which strives to deploy balloons to transmit wireless Internet to the world and it has been developed by the Google X team that is headed by co-founder Sergey Brin. The idea is to deploy a number of giant balloons in the stratosphere so that they are able to deploy Internet in r Read More »
Apple’s much-awaited iOS 7 was finally unveiled at WWDC 2013 earlier this week, and was received with mixed reactions from all quarters. Many who weren’t happy with icons or the color scheme are in for a surprise; the folks at 9To5Mac have spotted a set of icons on Apple’s mobile website that are different to one seen on the iOS 7 beta available for developers. The icons in question are the weath Read More »
Telenor ASA’s proposal to own 74 percent stake in an Indian telecom company has been approved by the Indian government, WSJ reports. This will now allow the company to increase its stakes to 74 percent in its Indian telecom partner. This, according to the current FDI policies, is the maximum percent of holding allowed for a foreign investor to get in an Indian telecom firm. At present, Telenor op Read More »
With the number of registered users on its website touching around one million and Internet connectivity increasing in tier-two cities, Big Flicks Pvt. Ltd. is planning to increase the number of movie titles in its library by 1,000 to 3,000 this year, said a senior official. “We see there is good acceptance of the product as lot of people want movies online, which is convenient and advertisement Read More »
Indian smartphone vendor Celkon Mobiles has announced a new entry-level Android smartphone called A8+. There’s currently no mention of any price though. In terms of specifications, the A8+ sports a 3.5-inch capacitive display and is powered by a 1GHz processor. The device also includes features like a 2-megapixel rear camera, VGA secondary camera, connectivity options like dual-SIM card slot, Wi- Read More »
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