Microsoft Ventures Into Robotics With Microsoft Robotics StudioJune 21st, 2006 Microsoft Robotics Studio aims to create common technological underpinnings for relatively fragmented robotics industry. It is intended for use with a wide range of robots, from those in factories to the growing number of consumer oriented robots.
Blood Red Rain in Kerala of Extraterrestrial OriginMarch 10th, 2006 Blood-red colored rain fell over Kerala on July 25, 2001. It continued for two months, raining crimson, turning clothes pink, burning leaves on trees.
Free Open Source 3D (Game) Engine - Apocalyx: A ReviewJuly 29th, 2006 Apocalyx 3D engine includes features like rendering of sky boxes, cloud layers, lens flares, flat terrains and height fields even with reflections, infinite terrains, wavy surfaces, sprites, billboards, meshes with diffuse, gloss, environment and bump mapping, particles emitters, planar shadows , the loading of 3DS and OBJ meshes, the animation of MD2, MD3 and Cal3D models, the loading of BSP levels with collision detection and lightmaps, the support for OpenGL vertex and fragment programs and the support of the GLSL language for vertex and fragment shaders, the playback of MIDI and MP3 soundtracks, the spatialization of 3D sound, the capture of sound samples, the management of compressed data and a particle-based physics engine suitable for the simulation of flags, cloths and articulated, soft or rigid bodies. The engine also includes and provides easy access to libraries such as the ODE physics engine, the ColDet Collision Detector, the Cal3D Animation Library, the LUA scripting language to describe and control the scenes without any recompilation, the Tiny C compiler for fast compilation of C time-critical code and the C Scripting Language, the AngelScript Language and the SMALL language for fine control of bots' AI.
3 men win Nobel Prize in physics for work in fiber optics, digital photographyOctober 6th, 2009 3 Americans share Nobel physics prizeNEW YORK — The next time you snap a digital photo and post it to Facebook, you can probably thank the three men who won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday. They helped develop fiber-optic cable and invented the "eye" in digital cameras — technology that has given rise to film-free photography and high-speed Internet service, revolutionized communications and science, and utterly transformed the way we live, work and amuse ourselves.
Blacklight Power: Unlimited Alternative Power Source or Snake Oil?November 7th, 2005 It seems too good to be true. A new source of near-limitless power that costs virtually nothing, uses tiny amounts of water as its fuel and produces next to no waste and goes against quantum mechanics theory.
Infosys to award five top Indian scientists Rs.5 mn eachFebruary 16th, 2009 BANGALORE - Infosys Technologies Tuesday said it has instituted a Rs.5-million (Rs.50 lakh) award each for five top Indian scientists in recognition of their outstanding research contributions and achievements. The five awards will be given annually under the aegis of Infosys Science Foundation, a non-profit trust set up with a corpus of Rs.210.5 million (Rs.21.5 crore), the software major said in a statement here.
Latest Supersonic Scramjets are now guidable, controllable (and hackable?) by softwareApril 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Engineers at the Ohio State University, US, have designed control system software that can effectively guide a hypersonic experimental "scramjet", which is faster than the speed of sound. Government agencies have been developing faster-than-sound vehicles for decades.
Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' TheoryAugust 21st, 2005 Now we have Intelligent Falling Theory which refutes gravity in favor of a God pushing them down. No wonder he looks so muscular.
Microsoft Windows 7 Touchpack Application GuideMay 29th, 2009 Few of you are aware of the Windows Touch, the multi-touch capabilities in-built into the DNA of Windows 7. The Windows 7 developers team have long been trying to develop a natural user interface for several products.
WolframAlpha review: Too specific and too technical - will it make us dumber?May 13th, 2009 When a free Web service called WolframAlpha launches in the coming days, the general public will get to try a "computational knowledge engine" that has had technology insiders buzzing because of its oracle-like ability to spit out answers and make calculations. Which has a bigger gross domestic product, Spain or Canada? What was New York City's population in 1900? When did the sun rise in Los Angeles on Nov.
Top 10 Features of Fedora 11 LeonidasMay 12th, 2009 After reviewing the whole line-up of operating systems, namely Fedora 10, Windows 7, Ubuntu 8.10 and Open suse 11.1 last year, we started doing our bits of researches with Windows 8 and Ubuntu 9.10 overview recently. This time around its Fedora 11 Leonidas.