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Google to build personal hardware devises to replace passwords

March 15, 2013

Google is conducting a research to build a more secure personal hardware device which can be used to login to a computer or an online account, thus doing away with the need for a password. Designed in the shape of ..

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Curiosity finds key ingredients required to support life on mars

March 15, 2013

NASA’s Curiosity rover, which is exploring Mars, has identified sulphur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon – some of the key chemical ingredients required to support life – in the powder it drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ..

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Fact Box: FUA (Flexible Use of Airspace)

March 11, 2013

Government approves Flexible Use of Airspace (FUA) The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) cleared Flexible Use of Airspace (FUA) by civil and military users. The issue was pending for last so many years. Why such a step ? In the ..

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Our closest neighboring galaxy is 163,000 light years away

March 10, 2013

It is for the first time that scientist have accurately calculated the distance to our nearest galaxy known as Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) located at 163,000 light years away or 49.97 kiloparsecs. The LMC is a dwarf galaxy and it ..

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‘Electronics Project Proposal System (e-PPS) launched by Ministry of Communication and IT

March 8, 2013

The Ministry of Communications and IT has launched the `Electronics Project Proposal System (e-PPS), developed by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, through the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). What is e-PPS? The Electronic Project Proposal System ..

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Compost Plant in New Delhi is first composting plant in India to get carbon credits from UNFCCC

March 6, 2013

The composting plant in Okhla, New Delhi has become the first in India to receive the carbon credits from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The plant has received Rs 25 lakh as an advance against the ..

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India's BARC developing world's largest magnet

March 6, 2013

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre which is India’s state-owned research establishment has claimed to be developing the world’s largest magnet, weighing 50,000 tons. It would be bigger than the one at the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at CERN in Geneva. Why ..

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`Office 365’ launched for businesses in India

March 6, 2013

Microsoft unveiled its Office 365 suite for businesses in India, which will offer smooth sharing of data across PCs and mobiles using cloud computing technology. This will allow users to access their mails and files through desktops, laptops and mobile ..

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For the first time scientists measure the spin rate of Super-massive black hole

March 1, 2013

Scientists, for the first time, have measured the spin rate of a super-massive black hole — and found it is rotating at nearly the speed of light. How did they measure this? Astronomers measured the spin rate of the super-massive ..

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Sugata Mitra wins TED Prize for Extraordinary Creativity

March 1, 2013

Educational researcher Sugata Mitra has been awarded the million-dollar TED Prize for pursuing his idea for building the schools in the Internet. Mitra is Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, ..

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