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Zedonk – Nothing about technology though but interesting
A four-day-old Zedonk, a rare cross between a zebra and a donkey, stands next to her mother at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in Lumpkin County, Ga. on Monday. The director of the preserve says it is the first time in 40 years that a zedonk has been born there. Tom Reed/The Times/AP
How the flying car works
The wings fold when in it is in car mode and the car can travel at speeds of up to 90 mph. The wings then unfold for flight mode in which it can cruise at a speed of 115 mph for up to 500 miles on a tank of unleaded gasoline. The “roadable aircraft” is [...]
IT labs in 3,000 middle schools next fiscal
After setting up computer labs in almost all high schools of the province, the Punjab government is set to establish similar computer labs in 3,000 of its 8,000 middle schools in the first phase in next fiscal year.The News has learnt that the provincial government is going to earmark Rs3 billion in the upcoming budget [...]
Google Confirms Employees Have ‘Google Phone’
Google confirmed Saturday that their internal developers are using an unreleased Android based phone, as contradictory rumors about a “Google Phone” flew back and forth across the Internet.On an official Google blog, vice president of product management Mario Queroz said that Google employees are using “a device that combines innovative hardware from a partner with [...]
Electric Contact Lense by Opto-electronic | Technology Bytes | Emagzine.Org
Now we can have a tiny computer display in our eye through the ongoing work with opto-electronic contact lenses taking place at the University of Washington in Seattle.The lab there has been showing off the latest prototype, the handiwork of Dr. Babak Parviz: a semi-transparent array – including an LED – embedded into a contact [...]
Twitter Now Asks “What’s Happening”
Twitter has implemented a small change today, which by comparison to Retweets and UI redesigns isn’t such a huge deal but it’s definitely worth mention. Twitter’s prompting question above the box from which you Tweet from has been “What are you doing” since the microblogging platform launched. Today, it’s been changed to “What’s Happening.” It’s [...]
IBM Researchers Go Way Beyond AI With Cat-Like Cognitive Computing
IBM researchers have developed a cognitive computer simulation that mimics the way a cat brain processes thought, and they expect to be able to mimic human thought processes within a decade. “A cognitive computer could quickly and accurately put together the disparate pieces of any complex data puzzle and help people make good decisions rapidly,” [...]
Google Releases Chrome OS Code
google chromium Google on Thursday released the code for its upcoming Chrome OS, and plans to have a netbook running the operating system available for sale before the 2010 holiday season.Chrome OS has now been open-sourced as part of the Chromium OS project and is open and free to the development community. It includes the [...]
‘Big Bang’ experiment to re-start
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment could be re-started on Saturday morning at the earliest, officials have said. Engineers are preparing to send a beam of sub-atomic particles all the way round the 27km-long circular tunnel which houses the LHC. The £6bn machine on the French-Swiss border is designed to shed light on fundamental questions [...]
It’s Google’s World And Handset Makers Just Live In It
When the Motorola Droid launched this month everyone was amazed that a company so down on its luck was able to put together a well-designed phone running a powerful, “brand new” OS. The whole package – hardware, software, and marketing – seemed flawless. In fact, phones running Android 1.5 now look hopelessly outdated and with [...]
