Soon, you would be able to drop yourself right in the middle of a video game! In a move to take 3D motion capture beyond the next level, here comes a system that quickly creates a photographic-quality render of any person and then seamlessly inserts it into video game environments as a fully-moveable digital character. […]
Iran does not need to produce 60 percent enriched uranium, the country’s nuclear chief Ali-Akbar Salehi said here Saturday. The remarks of Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI), Ali-Akbar Salehi, came in response to the rapporteur of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, who said in December that his […]
Virgin Galactic’s space tourism vehicle, SpaceShipTwo, recorded a new high Friday on its third rocket-powered supersonic test flight. The passenger-carrying reusable space vehicle departed from Mojave Air and Space Port in California at 7.22 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on its WhiteKnightTwo mothership, which took it to the planned altitude of 14,020 metres (14 km). At […]
India’s trade deficit widened to $10.14 billion in December from $9.22 billion recorded in the previous month due to slower growth in exports and increased imports of gold, government data showed Friday. Exports increased by 3.49 percent to $26.34 billion in December 2013 as compared to $25.45 billion recorded in the corresponding month of the […]
A commercial spacecraft operated by US space company Orbital Sciences Corp. blasted off Thursday, flying its first cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA TV showed. The unmanned Cygnus spacecraft was launched atop the Antares rocket, also built by Orbital Sciences, at 1:07 p.m. EDT (1707 GMT) from the US space agency’s […]
Brian Hay Detective Superintendent Brian Hay has been a member of the Queensland Police Service for 30 years. Since 2004, Hay had extensively worked in the area of fraud and corporate crime and at present has principal responsibility for the management and direction of the Fraud & Corporate Crime Group. Brian has a broad investigative background with forays […]
The Indian space agency Thursday successfully completed the orbit-raising activity of its communication satellite G-SAT14 for a third time since it was put in orbit Jan 5. According to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the third orbit-raising activity of GSAT-14 was completed, firing the satellite’s onboard motors. ISRO on its Facebook page said that as […]
DNA tests will be conducted on four unidentified bodies of the nine passengers who died in Wednesday’s Dehradun Express fire in Thane, near the Maharashtra-Gujarat border, an official said here Thursday. “Their bodies have been burnt beyond recognition and hence it has been decided to conduct DNA tests,” a Western Railway spokesperson told IANS. The […]
Super earths or massive terrestrial planets dotting our galaxy the Milky Way, may have more earth-like climate then scientists have ever thought. Regardless of mass, these ‘super earths’ store most of their water in the mantle and would have both oceans and exposed continents – enabling a stable climate such as earth’s, claimed researchers. “Our […]
In a ground-breaking discovery, researchers have crossed one of the largest barriers to produce cost-effective biofuels. Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a simple and effective technique for removing lignin – nature’s way of protecting plant cell walls – from the plant material used to make biofuels. This discovery may bring down the […]