The location-sharing app company Foursquare has decided to offer a more personal feel to its users by giving a more personal app that will provide them sharing intimate location details. Insiders say, the company has planned to split its core app into two separate experiences. While one part will provide recommendations on locations, another will guide users about “social heat map” where they … [Read more...]
NASA releases selfies sent by Curiosity rover
US space agency NASA has released lateast pictures of Mars and its surface alongwith some of the selfie of Curiosity. The rare images, clicked by Curiosity on April 27 and 28, were assembled by space blogger Jason Major. The latest selfie of Curiosity rover shows its ‘face’ i.e. the eye-like navigation cameras and the workhorse Mastcam. The pictures were taken by a camera mounted on an arm … [Read more...]
Facebook to give tough fight to Google, Twitter by introducing newswire
After staging war against micro-blogging site Twitter, Facebook seems to be now ready to take on search giant Google. Besides sharing your thoughts, your pictures and staying connected with your closed ones, the social networking site is going to offer you its new service i.e. newswire. It means while scrolling your profile and going through what’s on your friends’ mind, you can stay updated … [Read more...]
Twitter to beat Facebook by offering mobile ads via MoPub
Micro-blogging site Twitter and social networking giant Facebook are moving neck-and-neck as far as their services are concerned. Be it the introduction of hash tags or trending topics, Facebook and Twitter are leaving no stone unturned to beat eachother in terms of popularity. In this row, Twitter has started offering mobile ads to the advertisers in a bid to boost its ad business and beat its … [Read more...]
Researchers apply third law of thermodynamics in thin films of spin ice
Researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) and the Oxford and Cambridge scientists have made a major discovery in the field of Physics, where they say the Third Law of Thermodynamics could be again restored in the thin films of magnetic material spin ice. According to the researchers, thin films of spin ice have astonishing properties that they believe may help further in the … [Read more...]
ESA’s Venus Express orbiter captures Glory for first time
The Venus Express orbiter of European Space Agency (ESA) has for the first time caught a rainbow like feature in the atmosphere of our neighbouring planet Venus. The captured rainbow like feature is 1200 km wide. It was captured on 24 July 2011. Astronauts say, this is for the first time that a complete image of 'glory' (rainbow like feature) has been captured in the atmosphere of another … [Read more...]
Oscar 2014: NASA honors ‘Gravity’ by tweeting real space images
The 86th Academy Awards was announced in Los Angeles on Sunday night with the Alfonso Cuarón-directed ‘Gravity’ claiming seven Oscars this year. As the ‘Gravity’ team was busy in clinching the awards, US space agency NASA went to the micro-blogging site Twitter to share the real photos taken in space, in a tribute to the film. NASA posted the pictures under the hashtag #RealGravity. The images … [Read more...]
Spitzer Space Telescope Captures Speedster Star Producing Stunning Bow Shock
US space agency NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has captured images of the fugitive stars, charging through the Milky Way galaxy at high speed, thereby creating arcs. The revelations have been made in recent images released by NASA. The star under review has been named Cassiopeiae or HD 2905. Scientists say, it is a huge, hot supergiant traveling at about 2.5 million mph relative to … [Read more...]
Jailbreaker Winocm to join Apple
“Winocm”, a 17-year-old hacker, has taken to the Twitter to announce that he will be taking a job at Apple later this year. The well-known jailbreaker declined to comment on what his new role at Apple would be, beside keeping mum on further details like his real name. Hiding real names is a common practice amongst high-profile jailbreak hackers, who prefer being behind their online … [Read more...]
ESA develops PLATO telescope to explore Earth-like planets
The European Space Agency (ESA) is on a lookout for Earth like planets outside our solar system and for the mission it is developing a unique telescope. According to the ESA officials, it would be a three-year mission which will commence in 2024. The mission has been named PLATO and it is expected to cost more than 800 million euros. The mission will use Planetary Transits and Oscillations … [Read more...]
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