Scientific breakthrough will lead to more accurate weather forecasts

April 7th, 2009 Artificial intelligence and automation are helping researchers make sense out of data thrown up by ongoing endeavours in every discipline of science. These systems and devices are not only collecting, collating and analysing scientific data but are also intelligently and independently drawing up new hypotheses and approaches to research.

March 10th, 2006 Microsoft unveils Windows Live portal and search interface which is like good 'ol excite.com on AJAX diet and some more. The key features are: Search results allows controlling the level of details using a scrollbar Results can be scrolled using a scrollbar and fetched live with AJAX.

April 1st, 2005 Most of the opposition to stem cells stem from the assumption that human embroys are required for stem cell production. However recent research indicates other viable sources (like placenta) of stem cells.

August 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - High-performance computing systems, visualization resources, and software tools provided by the National Science Foundation TeraGrid helped make the Hayden Planetarium's new space show the most scientifically accurate and advanced planetarium show ever produced. The Hayden Planetarium is a public planetarium located on Central Park West, New York City, next to and organizationally part of the American Museum of Natural History.

November 4th, 2005 IBM claims a major breakthrough in the quest developing photon based computers instead of todays electron based silicon chips. In its Silicon Wave Guide chip it claims to have managed to slow down light to 1/300 of its normal speed of 186, 000 miles per second.

April 29th, 2006 Flock created quite a buzz sometime back as a potential Firefox killer. It was that illegitimate child of Firefox which wanted to kill the progenitor.

September 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Cost of space exploration doesn't always have to be out of this world, ask American students Oliver Yeh and Justin Lee who have taken images of the earth's surface using a camera bought on eBay, a weather balloon, a mobile phone, handwarmers and a drink cooler at a total cost of 90 pounds. It was 20-year-old Yeh's idea to send a camera bought on eBay to the edge of earth's atmosphere using a weather balloon, a mobile phone, handwarmers and a drink cooler.

March 16th, 2009 Google Earth helped lead-tile thief on runaway robbery spree! LONDON - A thief stole 100,000 pounds worth of lead from the roofs of buildings - using Google Earth. By using the popular Internet tool, which shows aerial photographs of towns across the world, Tom Berge was able to identify museums, churches and schools across south London with lead roof tiles.

March 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - vCustomer Corporation, a leader in delivering comprehensive customer care and technical support solutions, today announced that it had been recognized as one of the top 100 global service providers for 2009 according to Global Services magazine and neoIT, an outsourcing advisory firm. This list represents companies who have the maturity and capability to lead the next wave of services globalization.

October 7th, 2009 Obama awards national science, technology medalsWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama linked scientific discovery to helping the struggling economy Wednesday as he honored those who invented batteries for implanted defibrillators, mapped the human genetic code and made global positioning systems possible. Awarding the National Medal of Science and the Medal of Technology and Innovation, Obama said the United States must continue to invest in "the next generation of discoveries and the next generation of discoverers." Repeating his pledge to put thousands more students in college classrooms, he committed to spending 3 percent of the gross domestic product to educate future scientists and researchers.

July 28th, 2005 How accurate is Google Image Search? More specifically how accurate its its capability to associate appropriate meta data with an image? Lets find out with a show-and-tell. I tried the ego example.

April 23rd, 2009 Wells Fargo, Thermo Fisher, Hershey big movers NEW YORK — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE Wells Fargo & Co., up $1.91 at $20.09 Shares gained for a second day on the bank's growing market share and mortgage loan income, which boosted quarterly profit. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., down $2.80 at $32.39 The scientific instrument maker cuts its outlook for 2009 below Street expectations, saying business conditions haven't improved yet.

August 4th, 2009 John Quincy Adams tweeting thanks to Mass. societyBOSTON — It seems John Quincy Adams was way ahead of his time.

May 19th, 2006 Sun Microsystems (SUNW) is hosting Grid CoolApps Developer Challenge - a contest to develop applications for Sun Grid Compute Utility and the 'coolest' applications win! There are two ways to compete - the best application that runs on Sun Grid Compute Utility, and the best application built with the Compute Server Plugin for NetBeans. In addition to US residents this contest is open to international participants too, those who cannot access the Sun Grid Compute Utility today.

September 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - University of Michigan physicists have created the first atomic-scale maps of quantum dots, a major step toward the goal of producing "designer dots" that can be tailored for specific applications like a quantum computer. Quantum dots-often called artificial atoms or nanoparticles-are tiny semiconductor crystals with wide-ranging potential applications in computing, photovoltaic cells, light-emitting devices and other technologies.