3 Americans share Nobel physics prize

NEW 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.

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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. The first one to be introduced was the multi-touch in Surface. Further, the Windows and Surface development teams have worked in close collaboration to develop multi-touch in Windows. Last year they provided demos of a few applications that were created to run on Windows 7. With so much on offer, you must be interested to explore Windows Touch to be introduced in the Touch Pack for Windows 7. Here is everything that you will be interested in.
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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. 15, 1973? How far is the moon right now? If I eat an apple and an orange, how much protein would I get?

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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. After an extensive research on Fedora 11 which is due on 26th May, 2009, we have finally come out with top features of Leonidas. Let's discuss.

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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. The latest supersonic combustion ramjets, called scramjets, burn air for fuel, and could one day carry people to space or around the world in a matter of hours.

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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.

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I am re-hashing my physics fundamentals with Dr. Feynman's lectures. Did I mention how I love reading his books? I have great admiration for Dr. Richard Feynman, next only to Dr. Albert Einstein & Dr. Jagadish Chandra Bose.

I am seriously looking to delve into quantum electrodynamics. It is really an intriguing subject.

One of the lesson I took away from my reading is to have more fun, be less serious about what you are doing and positively accept the fact that you are really doing it for the fun of it. We often get so wrapped up in our work that we forget that it is all for nothing, in the end it is - from "dust to dust". Or as it is more aptly said the world is probably an exercise ground for our mind and consciousness.

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.

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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. In short BASIC for Robotics.

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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. In some places, the rain fell in scarlet sheets. Its extraterrestrial origin is now being accepted in international circles.

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