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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
NEWS April 12, 2016 Huawei Watch With Android Wear Launched at Rs. 22,999
Huawei has launched its Android Wear-based smartwatch in India, the Huawei Watch. First unveiled at MWC 2015, the smartwatch started hitting shelves in launch markets in September last year. The Huawei Watch has been priced at Rs. 22,999, and will be available via Flipkart from Monday. Offline retail via premium stores is also being explored, […]
NEWS April 12, 2016 Apple Watch 2 Tipped to Launch at WWDC; New iPhone 7 Details Emerge
An analyst has claimed that Apple may refresh the Apple Watch in June at its annual developer conference – WWDC. In addition, new details about the next iPhone have emerged, claiming a better battery than previous generations as well as a thinner body. Analyst Brian White has issued his research notes (via MacRumors) with predictions […]
COMPUTERS April 12, 2016 Lenovo IdeaPad 100S Windows 10 Laptop Launched at Rs. 14,999
Lenovo has launched its budget-friendly IdeaPad 100S laptop in India, with an end user price (EUP) of Rs. 14,999. The laptop, which is exclusively available via Snapdeal, runs Windows 10 – the highlight of the laptop at this price. To recall, the IdeaPad 100S was launched by Lenovo at IFA 2015 in September, alongside other […]
COMPUTERS April 12, 2016 PC Sales Slump for Sixth Consecutive Quarter: Gartner, IDC
Sales of personal computers slid for the sixth consecutive quarter at the start of 2016, falling to levels not seen since 2007, a market tracker said Monday. A survey by research firm Gartner shows a 9.6 percent drop in PC sales in the first quarter compared with a year earlier, to 64.7 million units. Figures […]
