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rtoz writes:
Bloomberg had reported that Samsung Electronics Co. is planning to release a Galaxy smartphone next year with a three-sided display that wraps around the edges so messages can be read from an angle.
The phone will use an upgraded version of Samsung’s technology called Youm, currently featured in the curved Galaxy Round handset.
Samsung plans to have each side of the display operate independently.
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rtoz writes:
Google has launched version 1.0 of its Dart SDK at the Devoxx conference in Belgium.
The first stable release of Dart can be downloaded from dartlang.org.
Dart is an open-source Web programming language developed by Google. It was first unveiled at the GOTO conference in Aarhus, 2011 October 10–12.
The goal of Dart is to replace javascript in web development as Google’s engineers felt that problems in javascript could not be solved by evolving the language. Anyway, Dart is currently not natively supported in any mainstream browser.
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rtoz writes:
Motorola today announced the Moto G, a new low-cost entry-level smartphone for global markets.
Motorola is selling Moto G for a very low price of $179 unlocked and without contract. And, Motorola says that its partners plan to offer it for even less.
Despite its low price, the Moto G has a 4.5-inch, 720p LCD TFT display, a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor, 1GB of RAM, 8 or 16GB of storage, a 5-megapixel rear camera and 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, and a 2,070mAh battery.
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rtoz writes:
MIT researchers have found that adding genetically modified viruses to the production of nanowires will boost the performance of lithium-air battery used in Electric Cars.
The key to their work was to increase the surface area of the wire, thus increasing the area where electrochemical activity takes place during charging or discharging of the battery.
The increase in surface area produced by their method can provide a big advantage in lithium-air batteries’ rate of charging and discharging. Unlike conventional fabrication methods, which involve energy-intensive high temperatures and hazardous chemicals, this process can be carried out at room temperature using a water-based process.
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rtoz writes:
Twitter has announced Custom Timelines, a new feature that allows users and brands to organize tweets around specific topics into dedicated timeline feeds.Twitter is also providing an API to allow developers to build this functionality into their products.
This new Custom Timelines feature of Twitter is similar to the Storify.
This is the first new major feature of Twitter since becoming a publicly traded company.
Using the TweetDeck app, users can create new custom timelines and name them whatever they want. Once the timeline is created, users can add tweets manually. Later on, users also will be able to program custom timelines to grab tweets on their own.
Once custom timelines are created, they can be shared via a link or embedded on websites.
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rtoz writes:
One World Trade Center Tower in New York is officially declared as tallest building in United States.
World Trade Center building (Freedom Tower) overtakes the Chicago’s Willis Tower(Sears Tower) when an international panel of architects announced that the needle atop the skyscraper can be counted when measuring the structure’s height.
With the needle, 1 World Trade Center is a symbolically important 1,776 feet tall. Without it, the building would have been only 1,368 feet tall — well short of the 1,451-foot Willis Tower.
The Height Committee of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat said the needle is not an antenna but a spire, and thus is a permanent part of the building.
The new World Trade Center tower remains under construction and is expected to open next year.
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rtoz writes:
Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Power plant was affected by Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. Power Plant Engineers sprayed seawater on the reactors to cool them. But it didn’t work out. Because, water droplets couldn’t land on surfaces that hot. They instantly begin to evaporate, forming a thin layer of vapor and then bouncing along it — just as they would in a hot cooking pan.
Now, MIT researchers have come up with a way to cool hot surfaces more effectively by keeping droplets from bouncing. Their solution: Decorate the surface with tiny structures and then coat it with particles about 100 times smaller. Using that approach, they produced textured surfaces that could be heated to temperatures at least 100 degrees Celsius higher than smooth ones before droplets bounced.
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rtoz writes:
YouTube has launched a “Fan Finder” program which allows the YouTube partners to advertise their Channel at no cost.
YouTube user has to submit his Channel ad video to the YouTube Fan Finder program which will promote the ad Video across YouTube, including on watch pages and search pages. It will show the Channel ad video as skippable TrueView ad too, at no cost.
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rtoz writes:
Gmail has announced that it is adding more “Quick Action Buttons” to help the Gmail users to easily take necessary actions for the emails even without opening them.
Gmail users can rate and review restaurants they ordered from on Seamless and even modify OpenTable reservations—all without opening an email.
Uploader of YouTube and Vimeo videos can view finished uploads with a single click with the new “View video” button. Similarly, Gmail users can also speedily open a Dropbox folder or Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides that have been shared with them.
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rtoz writes:
Sweden is taking steps to close many prisons due to lack of prisoners.
This year alone, four prisons and a detention center got closed in Sweden.
The percentage of the population in Sweden prison is significantly lower than in most other countries.
And,the Swedish prison system is not generally severe. For example, the top-of-the-line prison in Sollentuna, Sweden includes cells with comfortable mattresses and private bathrooms. After prisoners hit the weight room, they can cook up a meal in the state of the art kitchen before kicking back and watching TV on the couch. Sweden’s prison authorities are quick to point out that every square inch of the prison can be seen on a security camera.
Though the Sweden Government is taking steps to close the prisons, crime rate in sweden is not reduced. Actually Crime rate it getting increased in Sweden. It seems they are planning to take steps for preventing the crimes than focusing on sentencing the people involve in criminal activities.
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rtoz writes:
The European Space Agency(ESA)’s Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) has been orbiting Earth since March 2009 at the lowest altitude of any research satellite.
This Satellite GOCE runs out of fuel and begins its descent towards Earth from a height of about 224 km
Close to 01:00 CET on Monday 11th November, this satellite reentered Earth’s atmosphere on a descending orbit pass that extended across Siberia, the western Pacific Ocean, the eastern Indian Ocean and Antarctica.
As expected, the satellite disintegrated in the high atmosphere and no damage to property has been reported
While most of the 1100 kg satellite disintegrated in the atmosphere, an estimated 25% reached Earth’s surface.
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rtoz writes:
Two Russian cosmonauts are taking the torch for the Sochi Winter Olympics on its first historic spacewalk, ahead of next year’s games in Russia.
took the unlit version of the torch through the hatch of the International Space Station.
The torch will spend up to six hours in open space.
The Olympic torch has been carried into space twice before – in 1996 and 2000 – but it has never left a spaceship. It is not being lit aboard the space station as this would consume oxygen and pose a risk to the crew.
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rtoz writes:
A businessman who operates a virtual bank for holding digital currency has told that more than $1m of Bitcoins were stolen.
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rtoz writes:
MIT chemical engineers have designed tiny particles that can “steer” themselves along preprogrammed trajectories and align themselves to flow through the center of a microchannel, making it possible to control the particles’ flow through microfluidic devices without applying any external forces i-e without requiring any additional instrumentation devices.
Such particles could make it more feasible to design lab-on-a-chip devices, which hold potential as portable diagnostic devices for cancer and other diseases. These devices consist of microfluidic channels engraved on tiny chips, but current versions usually require a great deal of extra instrumentation attached to the chip, limiting their portability.
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rtoz writes:
A professor is working on technology named as Contour Crafting which can print an entire 2,500 sqft house in 20 hours
He was able to make a printhead that can extrude wet cement in such a way that the cement is able to keep its form as each successive layer is printed.
Using the Contour Crafting (CC) a single house or a colony of houses, each with possibly a different design, may be automatically constructed in a single run, embedded in each house all the conduits for electrical, plumbing and air-conditioning.
The professor believes that his technology would make the construction of efficient buildings so cheap and efficient that we could print houses for Millions of poor people living in slums across the world. And, this kind of building process will avoid the killings and injuries related to construction accidents.
Apart from printing Houses, Contour Crafting can be used for building habitats on other planets such as Moon and Mars which are being targeted for human colonization.
