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Facebook launches new “graph search” tool

January 19, 2013

Facebook has unveiled a new friends-based search tool “graph search” which will help its users search for people and places within the social network. The new tool which is available as a beta version will initially let users browse mainly ..

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Air India halts operations of all its Dreamliners

January 19, 2013

Air India has grounded its entire six Boeing 787 Dreamliners aircrafts. The move came following the decision of Europe, the U.S. and Japan to put Boeing 787 Dreamliners out of action. The aircraft will not be allowed to fly until ..

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Battery safety concerns ground Boeing 787 and the issue with using “Lithium-ion Batteries”

January 19, 2013

The US and Japan have grounded their Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircrafts due to concerns over it battery safety. Recently, a battery-fault warning on an All Nippon Airways Dreamliner in Japan forced an emergency landing. A battery overheated and started a ..

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India among major victims of ‘Red October’

January 18, 2013

What is RED OCTOBER ?  ‘Red October’ (or ‘Rocra’ for short) = A Cyber spying campaign (a cyber-espionage network) launched in 2007 by unidentified criminals that have been secretly stealing important data from many computer systems used by government agencies, ..

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Source of Iodine oxide gas responsible for destruction of ozone over oceans identified

January 17, 2013

Scientists at the University of York and Leeds in Britain have established that the majority of ozone-depleting gas iodine oxide observed over the remote ocean comes from a previously unknown marine source. As per researchers, the main source of iodine ..

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Internet Activist Aaron Swarth died

January 15, 2013

Internet activist and co-founder of Reditt, Aaron Swarth (26), died. He was computer genius was the developer of the early version of the RSS (Rich Site Summary) – web feed system. He was facing federal charges in cases of a ..

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Largest cosmic structure in the universe discovered

January 15, 2013

Astronomers from the University of Central Lancashire have discovered the largest known structure in the Universe called Large Quasar Group (LQG) that is powered by cluster of super massive black holes spanning across 4 billion light years. What are Quasars?c ..

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DRDO to complete technology demonstration of PGMs in a year

January 15, 2013

The Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) will complete the technology demonstration of an ambitious project to fire hi-tech Precision-Guided Munitions (PGMs) from a mother missile at various targets simultaneously. After technology demonstration, the first test fire of a 200-km ..

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Scientists engineered bacteria to produce fuel from sunlight

January 14, 2013

Scientists at University of California have engineered a bacteria which could help grow chemical derivatives for fuels and plastics. They have used Cyanobacteria (also called blue-green algae) to convert carbon dioxide into 2,3 butanediol, a chemical that can be used ..

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Scientists develop drug to help paralyzed walk again

January 12, 2013

As per scientists at Stanford University, they have developed a drug called LM11A-31 which they claim could help paralyzed people walk again. During tests on mice with no movement in their lower limbs, the drug was found to allow them ..

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