Google has launched two experimental products will change the way users search for pictures and news A feature known as Similar Images uses a picture rather than text to find other matching images. Timeline presents information already available in Google News but organised and displayed chronologically. Alongside these features is a new version of Google [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Google rolls out search changes.
21-Apr-09Defense project of USA and UK hacked
21-Apr-09Chinese hackers suspected of penetrating the Joint Strike Fighter programme Hackers have broken into the US Department of Defense’s $300bn (£206bn) Joint Strike Fighter programme, which is partly funded by the UK. The Joint Strike Fighter project is a development initiative to replace ageing fighter aircraft with next-generation F-35 planes. Advertisement The F-35, with its [...]
Gives users the option to remove thumbnails from the New Tab Page. Google has released an update for Google Chrome via its Preview Channel which gives users the option to remove thumbnails from the New Tab Page . The latest Chrome version for those signed up for the Preview was released on Thursday. Along with [...]
LONDON: Music-loving mothers-to-be may soon be able to play tunes to their unborn child, courtesy a specially designed “baby iPod”. A contoured belt called a B(l)aby boasts a built-in MP3 player. Brainchild of Geof Ramsay, a series of special “speakers” transmit vibrations from the music to the fetus. “For years scientists have talked about music [...]
The discovery of a dozen species of Western Ghats tree frogs that are new to science is evidence of significant biodiversity surviving in certain parts of India. It is at the same time a cautionary tale on how mindless development can wipe out species that have not had the opportunity even to enter the scientific [...]
Chennai (IANS): The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) rocket will early Monday put into orbit the country’s first all-weather spy and educational satellites. The 229-tonne Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C12 (PSLV) will blast off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, 80 km north of here, at 6.45 a.m. The rocket’s payload or [...]