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Bill Gates & Toshiba team-up to solve two of the biggest problems of the world!
Mar 26th
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, who is also the owner and advocate of Nuclear-startup TerraPower is in talks with Japanese technology company Toshiba to develop a small nuclear reactor.
The team of Terra Power and Toshiba will focus on nuclear traveling wave reactor technology(TWR),which is a new type of small nuclear reactor design that can use the waste byproduct of the enrichment process i.e. It can consume depleted uranium as fuel. TWR’s have been under development since the 1990’s, but TerraPower is one of the first companies to have come up with a implementable design for this technology.
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Loading ...WiFi tops best technological innovation poll
Dec 23rd
Surfing the net has become a lot more easier since wireless internet has come into being, and now Wi-Fi has rightly topped the poll for the greatest technological advance of the last decade, according to a survey.
With 35.5 percent votes, Wi-Fi has beaten Sky+, Sat Navs, iPods and Blackberries to win the poll conducted by More >
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Chinese hackers may be jailed for 7yrs under proposed law
Dec 23rd
Hackers who steal data or manipulate large number of computers may be jailed for up to seven years, according to a proposed amendment to the Chinese Criminal Law.
The penalties will also be applicable to those who offer software or tools for hacking to any intruder.
The existing law offers punishment only for intruding into networks of More >
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Volvo to unveil world’s ‘first accident-proof car’ next month
Dec 23rd
Car giant Volvo is set to unveil its first ever “accident-proof car”, which will drive itself in traffic by using radar to control the distance.
The Swedish manufacturer will unveil Volvo S60 with automatic brakes at the next month’s Detroit motor show. It will go on the market in 2010.
“This technology helps us take an important More >
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Fossil hunters discover two new dino species in Sahara desert
Dec 17th
An expedition to the Sahara desert has found the fossilized remains of what are thought to be two new species of dinosaurs.
According to a report in The Times, the ancient remains discovered in Morocco, belong to a giant flying pterosaur and plant-eating sauropod.
Initial examinations suggest that both specimens are unknown to science.
They were unearthed More >
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Sea levels will rise much faster than predicted
Dec 17th
A new study has found that sea levels will rise much faster than previously predicted, as the world’s glaciers and ice sheets are melting at an alarming rate.
According to a report in The Times, the study, commissioned by the US Climate Change Science Program, said that the rises will substantially exceed forecasts that do not More >
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...GLOBAL MARKETS – Asia shares advance, but economy fears weigh
Oct 17th
HONG KONG, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Asian shares rose on Friday after encouraging earnings signals from technology firms such as IBM and a slowly improving tone in beleaguered short-term money markets helped ease concerns about a global recession.
Asian stocks posted their first weekly gain in seven, with advances in the last trading day underpinned by More >
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Titanic survivor to sell off mementoes to pay medical fees
Oct 17th
London, Oct 17 (DPA) The last remaining survivor of the Titanic in Britain has said she is forced to sell mementoes from the ill-fated cruise liner to pay for her nursing home fees, reports said.
Millvina Dean, 96, is hoping to raise more than 3,000 pounds ($5,200) from selling a suitcase full of clothes given to More >
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Soon, fridges that will text or e-mail you when food is going off!
Oct 17th
Fridges that will be able to send consumers email or text alerts when food is going off are being created by a group of researchers.
Ten scientists at Manchester University are working on an advanced device that will be able to send consumers email or text alerts.
Project head Dr Bruce Grieve said: “Food wastage costs in More >
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...‘US cannot shape the world without India’
Oct 17th
Washington, Oct 17 (IANS) Describing the India-US civil nuclear deal as a ‘game-changing’ success story, a senior Republican leader has advised the next US president that American efforts to shape the world may not succeed fully without India.
‘The bottom line is that American efforts to shape the world are unlikely to succeed fully without the More >
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