US – founder of social networking site Facebook, Mark Zuckerbeg has recently added to his amazing achievements. He has been awarded ‘Time’ magazine person of the year 2010. Since his overwhelming success of the website, he has become the second youngest ever to have been given the outstanding achievement, recognized around the world. At 26 [...]
United Kingdom – In the last five years alone, crimes relating to the social networking site Facebook as topped 100,000 in the U.K. Almost 8,000 phone calls were made to police chiefs stretching over 16 forces by people who have been alerted by suspicious activity and alleged offenses linked to terrorism, firearms offenses, sudden deaths [...]
Massachusetts, US – A recent discovery by scientists has found a rare metal that is capable of being able to store sunlight once it has been absorbed, until it is needed. According to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the metal contains properties that may even be utilized when heating a home in the [...]
United Kingdom – This Christmas is due to see a huge surge in sales for the gaming industry with big names competing against each other such as Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony Playstation. Since its introduction, the Nintendo Wii has dominated the market involving motion sensor gadgets but the Playstation ‘Move’ and the Microsoft ‘Kinect’ that [...]
Cape Canaveral, Florida – The latest launch of the Delta-4 Heavy rocket on Sunday had taken onboard one of Washington’s greatest tools for eavesdropping in the form of the most state of the art and up to date reconnaissance satellites. The National Reconnaissance Office has regarded the satellite, which they classed as one of the [...]
Argentina – A journey that has involved students from London’s imperial college have recently completed an historic journey, which started in Alaska and finished in Argentina, all completed in an electric sportscar. The SRZero car managed to reach a top speed of 124mph and took seven seconds to get from 0-60mph completed a 16,000-mile journey, [...]
Facebook will be joining Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple and others in establishing a data center in the state of North Carolina. Facebook has chosen Forest City, N.C. as the site for its second data center built from the ground up, the first located in Prineville, OR and scheduled to debut next year. Currently, Facebook is [...]
No sooner did the Honda CRZ splash onto the US market did it make its presence felt by bumping off the Toyota Camry Hybrid off of the EPA’s Top 10 overall most fuel-efficient cars in the country. In fact, the Honda CRZ made two impressions on the EPA list, landing in spot number 4 for [...]
Originally launched in 2005, Deep Impact, a spacecraft by NASA, can still be used after five years of tracking down two comets. On November 4, this explorer cruised near Comet Hartley 2. It went as near as 435 miles (700km) from the comet and has captured thousands of photos of the icy comet. The pictures [...]
There may soon be a 3G access on Mount Everest, thanks to the Nepalese telecom company Ncell.
Japan – Electronics giant Sony Corp has recorded a huge jump in its profits mainly due to the rising amount of sales of Vaio laptops and Playstations. Despite a 26.3bn loss from a three month period leading to September last year, for the same time period this, year the company boasted a profit of 31bn [...]
France – Only 24 hours after the French launched their W3B spacecraft, which was carried onboard an Ariane rocket, the satellite failed and the Eutelsat company lost contact with it. According to the manufacturing team of experts, the propellant system had suffered a leak and was unable to lift itself into the necessary orbit. The [...]
California, US – As scientists look towards the heavens, the future of space travel and a trip to mars to eventually colonise the red planet is being investigated by Nasa with a possible manned-mission to take place within the next two decades, but the volunteer candidates will likely to be given just a one-way ticket. [...]
China – A state of the art, high-resolution mapping service called Map World has been unveiled by China’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping which has extremely detailed images of the country and other nations. The online service can be seen in 3D if people who visit the site install a browser plug-in which will [...]
World – Over 1.5 million cars have been recalled by car manufacturing giant Toyota to repair a brake fluid leak which can over a long period of time ruin the braking capabilities. The flaw in the braking system could cause the a leak of the brake fluid from the brake master cylinder which would in [...]
England – A website that is available which lets people report potential thieves and shoplifters has sparked controversy over civil liberty and the general protection of the public. Subscribers can log into the site named, ‘Internet Eyes’ and watch live feeds of shops and other businesses that record the public on their CCTV systems. Campaigners [...]
Tokyo, Japan – A set of augmented reality (AR) spectacles has first showed in Japan that are able to overlay the environment by using electronic digital data which include guidance and directions. Olympus and telephone manufacturer NTT Docomo made the spectacles and consequently they are the very first of their kind. They provide a miniscule [...]
Tokyo, Japan – Toshiba currently have revealed their most up-to-date three-dimensional TV sets, that they lay claim doesn’t need unique eyeglasses to see a 3D image, the first of its kind. The television will be able to generate the illusion of 3D by using just the naked eye. This utilizes a special lenticular sheet which [...]
President Obama’s Administration are moving toward fuel standards that would mandate cars to get 47 to 62 miles per gallon by the year 2025. This is a move that supports states with aggressive timetables for reducing emissions from automobiles. The Environmental Protection Agency described the announcement as “scenarios,” not guidelines. It’s objective is to limit [...]
Kazakhstan – The Soyuz space capsule, which was carrying three astronauts, has returned safely back to Earth after having spent six months onboard the International Space Station. Onboard the Soyuz was US Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson and also Russian Astronauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko. Minor problems undocking had delayed their landing but they finally [...]
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