At the time of Cold War, both sides employed the use of bugs (remote listening devices) in order to spy the other side by listening in on a room, a building, or, in the case of East Berlin, an entire city. But in case of America’s war with Afghanistan, the US
DNA acts as a kind of read-only biological data storage device. Now biologists have managed to turn DNA into a form of rewritable memory, just like our computers. However, it’s not the first rewritable biological storage system to be made, earlier proteins which bond to DNA was used to do the
Access now restored (update 21st May) Access to the Twitter site had been blocked for 8 hours on Sunday, but it had no real effect on the ability to tweet, with users able to use smartphones and download apps to avoid the ban. According to the Washington Post the blockade
We hear tech-myths all the time, and we even spread to our friends—but most of these are just a waste of time and in some cases, they can actually harm your gadgets too. Here are some of the worst offenders. 10. Better Hardware Means Better Gadgets If you are thinking to
While we haven’t heard much from Microsoft about Windows 8 lately other than the coming launch of the Release Preview in early June, a couple of leaks this week have revealed some tantalizing details. Microsoft reporter Mary Jo Foley first reported that the company intends to provide cheap upgrades for new Windows customers over the summer. According
Android tablet owners may have opted for their device over an iPad due to support for widgets, but a new home screen app called Chameleon is like widgets on steroids. And Chameleon’s developers are using Kickstarter to sell their app before it’s even released: A $5 backing will get you a
Hacker group Anonymous has announced it has taken down India’s Supreme Court and All India Congress websites. Anonymous announced the attack via Twitter, claiming the reason is “Internet censorship” and suggesting India should “install” a new government. Both websites are unavailable at the time of this writing. Namaste #India, your time has come to trash
Researchers are putting viruses to work in the lab, using them to build tiny devices that gather energy from mechanical forces, like the press of a finger, to run a small liquid-crystal display. “More research is needed, but our work is a promising first step toward the development of personal
By far one of the greatest challenges of sign language has been to translate it for everyday folk that wouldn’t know where to begin a conversation with the deaf. Cornell University engineering students Ranjay Krishna, Seonwoo Lee and Si Ping Wang — along with some help from Jonathan Lang — used their final project time this past semester
It was in the 19th week of 1992 that controversial first-person shooter Wolfenstein 3D made its first splash. Twenty years later and it’s back, reprogrammed for the browser age. Wolfenstein was released as DOS shareware in 1992. It was designed by John Romero. The web was largely unknown and bulletin
Teleportation, sci-fi as it sounds, is actually not fictional or even new; two years ago, Chinese physicists broke the then-current record for quantum teleportation by teleporting photons over 10 miles. But a new effort from that same team demolishes that record, beaming the photons over 97 kilometers. The physicists, working from
Facebook announces its new App Center to be accessible soon. The App Center will give developers an additional way to grow their apps and creates opportunities for more types of apps to be successful. In the coming weeks, the App Center would be accessible on the web and in the iOS
Earlier Blueseed came up with the idea to create a seaborne startup community in international waters off the coast of northern California. A new report released by the company says it has 133 tech startups on board to move their operations offshore when it launches next year. The idea is to create a place that requires
Researchers from the University of Leeds, UK and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology are say that magnetic bacteria can be used to create tiny computing components, or even the biological computers in the future. The bacterium is known as Magnetospirilllum magneticum which is a naturally occurring microorganism that lives in water. It uses
Till now people just played on XBox Kinect using their physical gestures, but now they can even control their PC’s with their physical gestures. But unlike Kinect this new technology doesn’t uses any cameras!!!!!!!!! Rather it uses “inaudible sound waves” to detect your gestures. This new technology is known as
Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins dispelled the notion that the company would rid its BlackBerry devices of their physical keyboards. “We are not abandoning the BlackBerry physical keyboard,” Heins told reporters at the company’s show here, adding that RIM is about to undergo a major change that he hopes
No Galaxy Nexus for Indians! Yes, you read it absolutely right. Samsung has announced that the company is not going to launch the Galaxy Nexus smartphone in India. “The Galaxy nexus will not be launched in India,” said Samsung in a tweet reply on its Samsung India Twitter page. This
The startlingly realistic appearance came courtesy of AV Concepts, a company specializing in holographic projection technology. According to AV Concepts, the holographic return of Tupac required months of planning in conjunction with Dr. Dre’s production company. There are quite a few YouTube videos of the performance floating around, showing the
NetTools : Network Tool Suite for hackers & network admins. This is a compilation of different utilities used by network admins in daily chores. NetTools was inspired from the NetTools software by “ahmadi” which found a rife use by hackers and network administrators. NetTools is an utility suite. It has
Reaching new levels of Artificial Intelligence, Wolfram the analytical search engine now has the capability to analyze literary works. For hundreds of years, scholars have carefully studied the plays of Shakespeare, breaking down the language and carefully dissecting every act and scene. Wolfram Alpha uploaded the complete catalog of Shakespeare’s plays
Google’s Project Glass demo is certainly the coolest hardware demo so far this year. Behind the scenes is something equally intriguing: artificial-intelligence software. The augmented-reality glasses, which Google co-founder Sergey Brin was spotted wearing sometime before, created a huge buzz Wednesday when Google released a video showing, from the wearer’s perspective,
The latest news published in Nature is that diamonds are a quantum computer’s best friend — particularly if they’re flawed. An international team of scientists sought out sub-atomic impurities in a 1mm-thick fragment of over-priced carbon and used these as qubits to perform successful calculations. A team that includes scientists
Larry Page has always been a bit shy from public expression, but on Thursday he published a 3,459-word “update”after his first year back as chief executive of Google. In it, he underscored Google’s commitment to making big long-term bets and to its social networkGoogle+, but he did not make any big
87 people Like this. Refresh (F5) 89 people Like this. Refresh (F5) 92 people Like this. If you are still eager to refresh and see the Like-meter go running at a bullet speed, then you might have wished our very own Facebook with birthday wishes on 4th February. This year,
The Auto Expo is a biennial trade fair of automobile and auto component manufacturers organized at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India. Organized jointly by the Automotive Component Manufacturers Association (ACMA), Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)and Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM); it is the Asia’s only and the largest Complete