Source: BBC India is once again trying to make low-cost computers available to students across the country. The country’s president has unveiled an upgraded version of the world’s cheapest tablet computer – despite the functionality and distribution problems faced by the device’s predecessor. Made by UK-based Datawind, the Aakash 2 […]
Source: Spiegel International Astronomers have long had a basic understanding of how stars are formed. But observing and proving the theory has proven elusive. Now, a German-American project, complete with […]
Source: R&D Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a thermal energy storage system that will work as a viable alternative to current methods used for storing energy collected from solar panels. Incorporating the researchers’ design into the operation of a concentrated solar power plant will dramatically increase […]
Source: The Daily Beast. By Nina Strochlic When a camper’s dad unexpectedly died last month, Andy Braner didn’t send him a condolence email or Facebook message. He got on a plane and flew from Colorado to Texas to be with the grieving teen. For Braner, social media is a means […]
United Arab Emirates: PRESS RELEASE AMEINFO.COM Hosted at the inaugural episode of ‘Faith in Finance’, a new six-part series launched by Bloomberg TV and exclusively sponsored by ADIB, Tirad Al Mahmoud, CEO, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank depicted a positive outlook for Shari’a-compliant banking as a viable, resilient and ethical business […]
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. –Tao Te Ching Intelligence is Overrated: What You Really Need to Succeed –by Keld Jensen, Original Story, May 05, 2012 Albert Einstein’s was estimated at 160, Madonna’s is 140, and John F. […]
By Spencer Wells DNA is more than 99% similar among all humans, so all claims for discrimination, like caste system, polygenetic theory of human origin or some people being the ‘chosen people’ are only self indulgence. There is very little difference in the intellectual abilities of different races or families. […]
by Andreas Keiser, swissinfo.ch Switzerland tops all major research and innovation rankings worldwide, largely thanks to generous funding and a clear separation between public and private research, as well as […]
Businessinsider.com: This year Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley are splitting the Nobel Prize for Economics, and it’s about time. Each has made a huge impact on both the theory and the real world practice of economics, and have saved thousands of lives in doing so. Shapley is the more senior of the pair, and scores […]
Source: CNN Money/Fortune By Philip Elmer-DeWitt FORTUNE — Developers often complain about the hoops Apple (AAPL) makes them jump through to get their wares into the iOS App Store. But the company has its reasons — besides its 30% cut of the revenue — and one of them was illustrated […]
Source: Microsoft started October with a bang, unveiling Anders Hejlsberg’s newest creation: TypeScript, a superset of Javascript aimed at making the language’s big jobs easier. Key features of TypeScript include: module support class declarations static typing a Visual Studio 2012 plugin S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Developer Division, […]
Source: Gulf Times By Mizan Rahman The Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission’s anti-cyber crime cell has received, in the last nine months, over a thousand complaints, most of which were directed at the popular social networking site Facebook and were lodged by female students, official said yesterday. Bangladesh Computer Security Incident […]
Story Summary Since the dawn of the industrial age, a recurrent fear has been that technological change will spawn mass unemployment. However, neoclassical economists disagreed, predicting that this would not happen because people would find other jobs, albeit possibly after a long period of painful adjustment. Two hundred years of […]
Forget a diamond the size of the Ritz – astronomers have discovered a planet partly made out of diamond, and at an incredible 40 light years away from Earth, it is visible to the naked eye. While visually appealing, with no atmosphere and temperatures reaching 1,648 degrees Celsius it’s hardly […]
LUMS: The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) is proud to announce its campaign to create an Abdus Salam Chair at LUMS and encourages all to contribute to it generously […]
Beekeepers in northeastern France are all abuzz after their bees started producing blue honey. Since August beekeepers in the town of Ribeauville have witnessed their bees returning to the cluster […]
RT: Think twice the next time you play a videogame or surf the Net: ‘Internet-use disorder’ is set to be added to the list of mental illnesses in the worldwide psychiatric manual. Kids are identified as being especially at risk. The international mental health encyclopedia known as the ‘Diagnostic and […]
Source: R&D An exciting advance in solar cell technology developed at the University of Kansas (KU) has produced the world’s most efficient photovoltaic (PV) cells made from nanocarbons, materials that have the potential to dramatically drop the costs of PV technology in the future. “We actually broke the all-carbon PV […]
A Swiss study commissioned by the government shows that GM plants are safe, but many aren’t convinced by Marc-Andre Miserez, swissinfo.ch Banned from Switzerland until the end of 2013, genetically […]
Source: TOI This image provided by NASA shows shows a Martian rock outcrop near the landing site of the rover Curiosity thought to be the site of an ancient streambed. (AP Photo) CAPE CANAVERAL: NASA’s Mars rover, Curiosity, dispatched to learn if the most Earth-like planet in the solar system […]