Monthly Archives: April 2016
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ALL DEALS 
April 15, 2016 Xerox to Split Into Two, Icahn to Get Board Seats in One
Xerox Corp said it would split into two companies, one holding its legacy hardware operations and the other its business process outsourcing unit, in which activist investor Carl Icahn will get three board seats. Icahn, who first revealed a stake in Xerox in November, had said he would seek representation on the company’s board as […]
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NEWS 
April 15, 2016 AMD Plans to Enter India in a Big Way: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Chipmaker AMD plans to enter Indian electronics sector in a big way and has already tied up with HSMC for chip manufacturing in the country, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Tuesday. AMD CEO and President Lisa Su met Prasad and conveyed that the company is committed to transform India into electronics manufacturing hub. […]
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COMPUTERS 
April 13, 2016 C-DAC Plans Rs. 350-Crore Investment in Indian Language Computing
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) plans to invest Rs. 350 crores to develop technologies for computing in Indian languages. C-DAC Director General Rajat Moona said the thrust this year will be on bringing internet to the common man and implementation of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). While one can already register domain […]
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NEWS 
April 13, 2016 Series of Supernovae Showered Earth With Radioactive Debris: Study
An international team of scientists has found evidence of a series of massive supernovae, or explosions after a star runs out of fuels and leads to creation of many radioactive heavy elements, near our solar system which showered the earth with radioactive debris millions of years ago. Debris that includes radioactive iron-60 in sediment and […]
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NEWS 
April 13, 2016 SpaceX Launches Futuristic Pop-Up Room, Lands Rocket at Sea
SpaceX resumed station deliveries for Nasa on Friday, and in a double triumph, successfully landed its booster rocket on an ocean platform for the first time. The unmanned Falcon rocket soared into a clear afternoon sky, carrying a full load of supplies for the International Space Station as well as a futuristic pop-up room. After […]
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NEWS 
April 13, 2016 Nasa’s Planet-Hunting Kepler Probe Goes Into Emergency Mode
In a bad news for astronomers searching for extraterrestrial life in deep space, Nasa’s planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler has gone into an emergency mode 75 million miles from the Earth. The last regular contact with Kepler probe was on April 4. As Nasa engineers tried to manoeuvre the spacecraft to the centre of the Milky Way […]
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NEWS 
April 13, 2016 Scientists Discover Hot Super-Earths Being Stripped by Host Stars
Using data from Nasa’s Kepler space telescope, astrophysicists from the University of Birmingham have discovered extra-solar planets whose atmospheres have been stripped away by their host stars. According to them, planets with gaseous atmospheres that lie very close to their host stars are bombarded by a torrent of high-energy radiation. Due to their proximity to […]
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NEWS 
April 13, 2016 Isro Says Chandrayaan II Will Be Indigenous, Take Minor Help From US
Opting to go solo in its ambitious Chandrayaan II project, India has decided not to take Russia on board and keep the mission completely indigenous with “minor” help from the US. Isro chairman A S Kiran Kumar said Chandrayaan II, having an indigenously built Lander and Rover, will be launched by December 2017 or first […]
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NEWS 
April 13, 2016 Jupiter-Sized Planet Found in Triple-Star System
Scientists have discovered a rare triple-star system with a gas giant planet similar in size to Jupiter. Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in US found that a binary system once thought to be a single star was actually a pair of stars orbiting one another, and are a part of the triple-star system. […]
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ALL DEALS 
April 13, 2016 Hyundai, Kia to Develop AI-Based Intelligent Car
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor and its affiliate Kia Motors on Tuesday announced a plan to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-based, Internet-connected car to create a new future lifestyle with a “driving, high-performing computer”. The driving computer means a car will become a high-performing computer itself as the car, to be developed by Hyundai and […]
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NEWS 
April 13, 2016 SpaceX to Launch First Cargo Since 2015 Accident
Nine months after a SpaceX rocket exploded on the way to the International Space Station, the California-based company is counting down to the launch Friday of another flight to resupply astronauts in orbit. The unmanned Dragon capsule is poised to blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 4:43pm (8:43pm GMT or 2:13am IST, Saturday) atop […]
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HOME & GARDEN 
April 13, 2016 Isro to Start Monitoring Water Bodies in Tribal Areas
In a first, Isro’s National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) will monitor and map the water bodies in tribal belts in the country to help tackle irrigation crisis faced by tribal farmers, a union minister said on Thursday. The initiative has been taken up jointly by the tribal affairs ministry and of the NRSC of the […]
