Need some help from all that back breaking work of raising your 3 month old baby. Easy- Get the neighbours to do it... For Free!. Well though that is very unlikely to happen in our world, in the world of butterflies it is happening already. Researchers from Denmark have found that the Alcon Blue Butterfly is capable of producing larvae with a chemical coating similar to that of local Myrmica rubra ants. The butterflies deposit their larvae on marsh gentian plants where exploring ants find them, identify the chemical coating, and take the butterfly larvae back to the ant colony and feed them until they grow up and leave. Hmmm... Tricking another species to feed your kids, that's something we humans are yet to accomplish!
Source Msnbc
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Thursday, January 3, 2008
Ants Look After Butterflies Young Ones
GPS device Leads Man To Oncoming Train
A Computer Consultant in New York apparently got his car smashed up by a train right on the tracks. He was using the instructions on his GPS device for driving directions when the device signalled a right turn. The car though got stuck right on the tracks as a train was accelerating towards him. He got out of the car just in time as the train smashed into it at 60mph hurling it to a distance of about 100 feet.Some 500 train passengers were stranded for more than two hours during the Wednesday evening rush hour. The accident also heavily damaged about 250 feet of rail
Source Msnbc
10 year old's Mp3 Player loaded with Porn
A 10-year girl who got an Mp3 player as a christmas gift from her parents burst into tears when she found out that it was loaded with pornographic movie clips, graphic war scenes and explicit songs. The girl's father Daryl Hill had bought three Mp3 players for his children from a Wal-Mart store in sparta; However it turned out that one of the Mp3 players had been returned by an owner who had loaded all the adult rated stuff into it. The girl of course did not know about this and burst into tears on seeing all the x rated stuff. Oh and Walmart has offered to replace the Mp3 player(how kind of them !). The Hills though are hanging onto it until they talk to a lawyer.
Source Kctv5
Friday, December 28, 2007
UK Worker Rakes In Huge Internet Bill
Ian Simpson, a UK resident is the newest entrant in the "High Paying Netizens" club by raking in an internet bill of....£27,322. He apparently downloaded nearly 30TV shows each of 250MB on his £7.5 monthly connection which had a limited monthly download of just 120 MB.(No Wonder) The poor guy thought that it was an unlimited connection only to find out that it was his bill which turned out to be unlimited.And although Vodafone wasn't to blame (technically atleast), their rates were a bit absurd with extra charges of upto £18 per minute
Source Wired
Amazon Sales Chart Zooms Ahead
17 Wiis sold on Amazon! That doesn't sound much does it? But hold on that's 17 Wiis sold per second...yes PER SECOND!.Amazon.com says it's holiday season sales this year was its bestever with strong sales from Nintendo's Wii and "Harry Potter And The Order Of the Phoenix" movie DVD. Also on December 10th the company averaged overall sales at about 62 items Per Second with over 3.9 million items sold in one day.WTF? At this rate they should probably change the company's name to "Amazoom" instead.
Source Cnn
Wiki Search - More Transparency
Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia plans to launch Wikia Search which is a search engine service similar to Google, Yahoo and the like. Users will be able filter sites and rank search results using a model similar to that of Wikipedia. The service he says will enhance transparency by allowing users to see how search results are arrived at, something which none of the "Big Boys" like Yahoo (or) Google offer. Launch date - Jan 7th
Source Yahoo News
Did Bell Invent The Telephone?
A new book"The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret written by Seth Shulman claims that Bell pinched ideas for his telephone from a rival, Elisha Gray.Bell's lab notebook which was digitised and widely available in 1999 gives details about the false starts he and his assistant Watson encountered when they tried transmitting sound over a wire.Then, after a 12-day gap in 1876 when Bell went to Washington to sort out patent questions about his work — he suddenly began trying another kind of voice transmitter which proved successful. The technique used was very similar to that which was listed in Gray's patent documents. Also Bell's transmitter design appears hastily written in the margin of his patent and he was quite nervous during his demonstration.
Source Yahoo News
Movie Rental Service On iTunes
iPod and iPhone might soon be able to rent movies from Apple's iTunes store. Reports have come in that Apple and Twentieth Century Fox Film have signed a deal which would allow iTunes users to download new movies and keep them for a specific period of time.TC.Fox is also going to make use of Apple's FairPlay digital rights management technology on its DVD releases, which would enable the movies to be ripped on to computers using iTunes and also onto iPods and iPhones. CEO, Steve Jobs will make news of this at Macworld on Jan 14th
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Sugar Mag Launches Sugarscape
Popular UK teen magazine Sugar has launched its own social bookmarking tool for teenage girls called Sugarscape. Registration is fairly simple which is followed by a download of the sugarscape toolbar.Members('Scapers') can then customize their own page('Scape'), add stuff they find on the web, 'sugar' things up with comments, 'shove' things they dislike or 'share' things with their fellow 'Scapers'. This apart, you can send a virtual hug as well as import existing 'Bebo', 'MySpace' and 'YouTube' profiles into Sugarscape.
Source reuters
DoCoMo Teams Up With Google
DoCoMo, a Japanese mobile service provider will hook in search and email features from Google into its "i-mode" Internet services this spring. As demand for intricate internet functions are on the rise and with its subscriber base declining(a rule brought in last year enabled users to switch carriers without changing their numbers) DoCoMo decided to go ahead with the alliance.
Source Physorg
RRAM - Future Memory
Smaller, Faster, Cheaper. Most techno products we see today are built with these three factors in mind. And RAM(Random Access Memory) is not to be left out. As our next generation of gadgets, chips and other techno products rely on ultra fast transfer speeds electronic designers are cramming more more components onto each chip. So what happens is the width of the smallest feature keeps decreasing from 130nm in 2000 to 45nm now. And possibly 22nm by 2010.....which means we are running out of room. European researchers say that a new technology known as resistive RAM (RRAM) that could soon be replacing flash RAM in USB drives and other portable gadgets. RRAM relies on the ability to alter the electrical resistance of certain materials by applying an external voltage or current. RRAM is non-volatile, and its simple structure is ideal for future generations of CMOS chips.
Source sciencedaily
Monday, December 24, 2007
Girls More Active Online?
Girls got more horsepower than Boys? Looks so, altleast in the online world! In a report by Pew Internet and American Life, teenage girls are more likely than boys to do stuff online.....such as creating a blog or joining a social networking site like Myspace, Flickr, Facebook...etc. The study was conducted through telephone interviews among 935 Americans aged 12 to 17. Another interesting point was that the teens who blogged more were those with single parents or in the lower in come group whereas teens who lived with married parents were less likely to blog. Anyway... Boys!, time to get off your playstations and onto the Net. The battle has just begun.
Source New York Times
Bible Etched Onto Pin Head
(Haifa's Technion University official Ohad Zohar displays a chip in Haifa on Sunday containing the entire Jewish Bible.)
Scientists from Israel have inscribed the entire Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible onto the head of a pin!.....Thats like asking me to score a hundred in my math exam(Practically Impossible). But yeah they did it. 300,000 words of the bible etched on to the head of a pin within an hour. . The nanotechnology experts in Haifa say the text measures less than 0.01 square inch. Now thats got me pinned!
Source Msnbc
Jesus On GPS!
Ah a GPS device! Just what i wanted for Christmas!. But its not me who is getting it .........Jesus is. Yes, a baby Jesus statue in Florida is going to be rigged with a GPS device after the previous statue went missing.....(even though it was bolted down). Well...Well, Thats not all, even the Mary and Joseph statues will be fitted with GPS devices.
Source Cnn
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Queen Elizabeth II speech on YouTube, HD
Google To Launch Flight Tracker
Google is bringing out a new flight tracking search feature which allows travellers to know whether their flight is on time or delayed as well as estimated departure and arrival times. Using it is pretty obvious; just key in your flight number and airline name.... and yeah thats it. The service is available on Flightstats.com.
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Popular Apple Blog To Shutdown
Game Over. That's the story behind Thinksecret, a well know website that publishes unofficial news and inside scoops about Apple's upcoming products. After a long battle with Apple, 22 year old Nicholas Ciareli, the website owner has said that he is willing to ditch the site which he has been running since the age of 13. Apple had sued him in 2005 for leaking undisclosed information on it's future products. Thinksecret which receives 2.5 million page views a month rocketed right upto 5 million page views a month after the lawsuit. However Apple it seems has paid Nicholas an undisclosed amount.("Guess that's why he was willing to shut it down")
Source InformationWeek
Lost Your Glove?...........Find It Online!
Lost your Glove?.......Not to worry, you can now find it online. Yes, thats right on the Internet. Jennifer Gooch, a student of Carnergie Mellon University came up with this rather strange idea to help people trace their missing gloves. It's only been a month since the launch of her site www.onecoldhand.com and she has already reunited four missing gloves with their beloved owners.Many businesses and other offices in Pittsburgh now have drop boxes where lost gloves can be placed. Gooch takes pictures of these gloves and displays them on her Web site with information about where they was found. Gooch's website landed 55,000 hits within 10 days of its launch as news spread around of her Glove-Matching venture. The site currently has about 75 pairs of unclaimed gloves
Source Yahoo News
GPS For Non GPS Phones
Northport Systems has launched a software that allows you to use your mobile phone as a GPS device even though it isn't GPS enabled. The software is web 2.0 based and enables users to see their actual position on maps, find nearby locations, use various GPS widgets for outdoor recreation such as hiking, mountain biking, and fishing or even if you need directions to your own home. The phones do not need to support Bluetooth nor do they need a client software as it works entirely through an Internet connection. The software named Fugawi Touratel is compatible with models from LG Electronics, Motorola, Samsung and Sanyo, from carriers that include Alltel, Boost Mobile, and Sprint. Subscription is pretty reasonable as well at just $3 a month.
Source: InformationWeek
Asteroid Could Hit Red Planet
An Asteroid with energy equivalent to a 15 megaton nuclear bomb is on its way......Well not towards Earth but towards our Red skinned neighbour, Mars. Scientists claim that the asteroid known as 2007 WD5(And No, WD does not stand for World Destruction) which was discovered in late November has a chance of banging into Mars on January 30th. The asteroid is similar in size to the Tunguska object which smacked right into central Siberia in 1908, annihilating over 60 million trees. If the astroid hits Mars it would probably land near the planet's equator, carving a hole the size of the acclaimed Meteor Crater in Arizona
Source Msnbc
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