Chile – According to a group of scientists, an ancient galaxy has been discovered and is likely to be one of the most distant masses in the universe. The cluster of stars was named by the discoverers as Galaxy UDFy-38135539 and is said to be at least 13.1 billion light years away. The distance of [...]
San Jose, Chile – President Sebastian Pinera will be at the site, ready to greet each individual trapped miner as their two month long ordeal comes to an end. The equipment that will be used by the rescue teams during the operation has been successfully tested and both the miners and their loved ones are [...]
London, UK – According to the latest research, which involved over 50,000 participants associated with social networking, revealed that the country with the lowest amount of digital friends is Japan. The recent study intended to find online trends of behaviour from users spread across the globe and found that Malaysia ranked number one for having [...]
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 [...]
US – The founder of social networking site Facebook has publicly defended his recent contribution of $100m for US schools, which comes at the same time as a movie is about to be released covering the entrepreneurs life which is said to not portray him at his best. Despite having no connection with the schools [...]
Paris, France – Exactly a decade after BMW released their modernised and vamped up version of the Mini, the new electric Mini scooter E Concept has been revealed. The new Mini scooter is due to be a feature next week at the Paris motor show 2010. The first interpretation of three of the versions of [...]
UK – A recent book has brought to light what really happened that caused the Ocean liner Titanic to sink to the bottom of the ocean after it struck an iceberg. The author of the book, Louise Patten has revealed how her grandfather, Charles Lightoller, was the second officer on the white star line vessel [...]
San Jose, Chile – The plan C oil drill used at the site of the trapped miners as an alternative can possibly help to reach the trapped miners sooner than with the current methods being used. According to one of the representatives who is tasked with overseeing the aspects of the current rescue efforts, the [...]
Cape Canaveral, US – NASA’s huge team of experts have transported the space shuttle discovery to the launch pad, six weeks prior to its last ever scheduled flight. The trip took six hours and began at the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Well-wishers and followers arrived to cheer on the [...]
Marshall Space Flight Center, US – New and improved designs for advanced technology to propel a spacecraft down a long rail have been tested in mock-up settings after being evaluated at the Marshall Space Flight Center. The wedge-shaped air-breathing aircrafts have ‘Scramjet’ engines and will launch from a horizontal launcher. Oxygen and hydrogen are compressed [...]
San Jose, Chile – The latest design of a 21 inch in diameter rescue capsule for the trapped miners has been approved by the Chilean authorities who in charge of the rescue operation which is due to extract each man, one-by-one to the surface, from a depth of 2,300 feet. Each of the men is [...]
Upper atmosphere, Space – The International Space Station received a fresh load of supplies on Sunday when the Russian Progress 39 Space Freighter docked with the Space Station. It met up with the crew after the take-off on Friday was successful. It sent food and other important supplies weighing roughly two and a half tons [...]
Central Asian Spaceport, Kazakhstan – The International Space Station (ISS) can expect a delivery of food and other supplies after an unmanned Russian cargo ship took-off from the Central Asian Spaceport of Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Progress 39 Spacecraft launched after a two-day delay due to high winds and was laden with supplies for [...]
Berlin, Germany – Apple’s hugely successful and best-selling gadget the iPAD is at long last coming up against rival brands and their gadgetry. During the small time-span of just 80 days, sales for the flat hand-held device topped three million units. Apple certainly paved the way for what has been labelled as ‘tablet’ style gadgets [...]
Space, 220 miles altitude above Earth – an amazing image of the enormous category 4 Hurricane Earl was captured on a camera by one of the Astronauts onboard the International Space Station as the storm directs itself towards the west-northwest. It has a recorded maximum wind speed of 135mph (217kph). NASA’s American Astronaut, Douglas Wheelock, [...]
Google has launched a separate search engine, which intends to only produce real time results. The company had signed a number of deals towards the end of last year with the sole purpose of making its service more real-time. Twitter, Myspace and Facebook have signed deals with the Internet giant in order to allow anyone [...]
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