Apple's Safari browser for Windows comes out of Beta..

Last year, Apple had raised a few eyebrows when it launched a beta version of its Safari internet browser for the Windows platform. The browser was considered to be one of the best in the world but had previously been available only on the Mac OS platform.

What Safari brought to the table was a very cool interface and well, a very decent dose of speed. There were some murmurs about its stability, but then it was supposed to be a beta.

Well, the beta tag came off a few days ago as Apple launched its first ‘proper’ version of Safari, version 3.1. Read on here

First living thing was not sponge..

Earth's first animal was the ocean-drifting comb jelly, not the simple sponge, according to a new find that has shocked scientists who didn't imagine the earliest critter could be so complex.

The mystery of the first animal denizen of the planet can only be inferred from fossils and by studying related animals today.

Now Locate Stolen Notebooks, thanks to Micro Technologies

Mumbai based Micro Technologies Ltd has made announcement about the launching of India’s first laptop tracking system, which will locate stolen laptop computers.

The newly launched software known as “Micro LNTS” (Lost Notebook Tracking System) can be installed on notebook hard drives where it subsequently works in stealth mode.

In case of theft, it permits systems to be tracked as soon as they are connected to the World Wide Wed (WWW). The users can log into their Web-based personal tracking and monitoring page via www.microlnts.net in order to trace from where the laptop has been accessed. Read on here

Nokia announces an iPhone contender..the Tube

Nokia is gearing up to follow the leader and position its new phone Nokia Tube 5800. With the same look, size and shape of the iPhone, the Nokia Tube packs along a 3.1 MP camera, quad-band (850/900/1800/1900Mhz) GSM/EDGE radio with 3G UMTS/HSDPA and TV-Out port for a wide-screen view. The touchscreen phone supports Bluetooth, WiFi connectivity teamed up with GPS and 3.2 inch touchscreen display with 16 Million colors. Read on here

LHC to unlock secrets of big bang

Scientists are all set to unlock the secrets of exactly how the universe began by using one of the world's largest and most expensive science machines -- the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

They will utilize it to recreate the conditions that existed just a fraction of a second after the big bang, that is the birth of universe, by smashing pieces of atoms together at high speed.

The 4.4 billion pounds new particle accelerator, which is buried 300 ft beneath the alpine foothills along the Swiss French border, is 17 miles long and up to 12 stories high. It can generate temperatures of a trillion degrees centigrade. Read in here and here..

The 'Grid', 10,000 times faster than the net is on its way

The birthplace of the Web, Cern, which is based near Geneva, is now busy working on "the grid" that boasts speeds nearly 10,000 times faster than a typical Broadband connection, and that may soon render the Web obsolete.

The grid computing project was started around seven years ago by researchers at Cern. They claim "the grid" is so fast it is capable of sending the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds. Read on here

Robot fight

No Match.

One real good Ad. Great job Ariston

Like a sock out of water...

Robo Erectus !!

A robot that stands up by itself when tipped over. Quite a vid..

So how much is 2 +2 ? too tough for you, try 1 + 1

The Illusion of reality

A longish 52 minute video, but it may change your vision of reality...Double thumbs up !!

Your Linux is ready, Novell !!

Novell!!

Nuclear explosion simulated

and another one done underground..... brrrr..

So you thought you could outrun a nuke explosion. Man these videos are scary. The nukes make the entire earth shake and move in these videos.

Home made rocket, from paper !!!!

Now that is reductionism at it's peak. Simple and economical rocket for you.

Ego regression. How small are we??

Exponential zooming out of our world.

The infamous double slit experiment - redux

Ever wondered whether a photon is a wave or a particle, or both. Here is the double slit experiment that showed us what to think of light.

Are you Nomophobic ?

Does the idea of leaving home without your mobile scare you? Do you feel challenged about being disconnected? Are you the i-generation born with a mobile in your left pocket? As per a study conducted by YouGov in UK, Britishers were likely to be stressful without their mobile phones. Read on here

AT&T first to bring Microsoft Surface to stores this 17th April

AT&T all set to become the first company in the world to bring Microsoft Surface to a retail store next to you, giving customers the ability to explore their mobile worlds using touch and device recognition technology. Microsoft Surface is the first commercially available surface computer from Microsoft. Beginning April 17, customers can experience Microsoft Surface in select AT&T retail locations, including stores in New York City, Atlanta, San Antonio and San Francisco. Based on the success and learning from these initial pilot deployments, plans for further expansion across AT&T’s 2,200 U.S. retail stores will be determined. Read the MSFT press release here and the AT&T press article here

Move old mails to Gmail, for good

Have switched on to Gmail, or Google Mail (in some countries) and still go back to your old account to check your older e- mail accounts? Well, here is a guide to move your old mails to Gmail and let go of the older account, if you want to that is. Read on here...

Google docs goes offline

Yeah, I'm just waiting for this announcement to become real.

Google and Virgin's April Fool's day joke

From the Google blog here

For thousands of years,

the human race has spread out across the Earth, scaling mountains and plying the oceans, planting crops and building highways, raising skyscrapers and atmospheric CO2 levels, and observing, with tremendous and unflagging enthusiasm, the Biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply across our world's every last nook, cranny and subdivision.

An invitation.

Earth has issues, and it's time humanity got started on a Plan B. So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.

The question is, do you want to join us?

Ever yearned to journey to the stars? You can learn how to become a Virgle Pioneer, test your Pioneering potential, or join the Mission Control community that will help develop the 100 Year Plan we've outlined here.

Pachyderm Self-Portrait

So have you ever seen a pachyderm paint a self portrait. Well, here is your chance. Incredible, really.

Quarks and Quantum Physics for Dunces

Heard of Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top and Bottom? Well they are the 6 types of Quarks that make up Protons and Neutrons. Ever wanted to know more about Quantum Mechanics and didn't know whom to ask? Well, here is one good place to start. This website, hosted by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory explains it pretty good. Find out for yourselves here

Tintin Trilogy by Spielberg in the offing

Tintin, the famous reporter created by Herge' may be the latest muse of Spielberg who is contemplating making a trilogy on him. A south Londoner lad of 17 called Thomas Sanders may become a house hold name soon. He is slated to play Tintin in the series. Read on here

Death of the News Paper, writing on the wall

The internet is killing the traditional news paper business, and fast.

Trends in newspaper circulation and advertising is declining, - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising––have created a palpable sense of doom. Independent, publicly traded American newspapers have lost forty-two per cent of their market value in the past three years, according to the media entrepreneur Alan Mutter. Few corporations have been punished on Wall Street the way those who dare to invest in the newspaper business have. The McClatchy Company, which was the only company to bid on the Knight Ridder chain when, in 2005, it was put on the auction block, has surrendered more than eighty per cent of its stock value since making the $6.5-billion purchase. Lee Enterprises’ stock is down by three-quarters since it bought out the Pulitzer chain, the same year. Read more here on NewYorker.com