Nokia’s rumoured budget Android smartphone, thought to be codenamed Normandy, has been in the news for months now, with leaked images hitting the Internet on a regular basis, along with speculated availability and specifications. Now @evleaks has claimed that Nokia’s only Android phone might be launched as the Nokia X. The popular phone tipster’s reads, […]
As the world wishes NASA’s Opportunity rover a happy 10th anniversary, here comes a starling announcement that the Mars rover has found concrete evidence about presence of fresh water on the red planet. Ten years ago, Jan 24, 2004, the Opportunity rover landed on a flat plain on Mars and rolled into an impact crater […]
Cultivation of various plant species, also food plants, is possible on the soil of Mars, according to ecologist Wieger Wamelink of the Dutch research institute Alterra of Wageningen University. To investigate whether it is possible to grow plants in the soil of Mars and on the moon, researchers undertook an experiment with 14 plant species […]
Three new exoplanets have been discovered orbiting stars in the Messier 67 star cluster and one of them circles a star that is nearly identical to the Sun, according to European Southern Observatory, or ESO, officials. The find, which was made using the ESO’s new HARPS telescope instrument at the La Silla Observatory in Chile […]
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 […]