A team of American researchers for the first time have demonstrated the practical ability of an optical-wing – an object that in a homogeneous light beam (in analogy with aerodynamic wing) can experience lifting force. Article by the scientists appeared in the journal Nature Photonics, and its summary has been published in Nature News. During [...]
U.S. Internet giant Google has entered the market of e-books in the U.S. Google eBooks are now available in the project Google eBookstore, which contains more than 3 million titles of books, hundreds of thousands of them will be put up for sale. Blog of the company states that the new service will allow Google users to [...]
Tumblr is considered among the top 50 websites in America. It went down several hours ago which was reportedly expected to last only about two hours. A message on the site can be seen by those who visit as stating that, “We’ll be back shortly. We’re working quickly to recover from an issue in one [...]
Reports are circulating on the internet about the new service by Google called Cloud Picker, and the information came not from the camp of the Internet giant, but from ordinary users, who unexpectedly came across this service, reports TechCrunch. While there is little information available about Cloud Picker and it is yet difficult to evaluate [...]
SuperTalent together with virtualization firm Ceedo has announced the launch of a new line of flash drives USB 3.0 Express RAM Cache. Nevertheless, it is not just a normal drive but rather it can be called a portable computer. Feature of the device is its special software provided by Ceedo. The software system, used in [...]
Hackers who successfully broke into the new mobile platform Windows Phone 7, have withdrawn free access to the program ChevronWP7, through which the users could get full access to the functions of the new operating platform for smartphones. The reason for this move was a constructive conversation with a Microsoft representative Brandon Watson, after which [...]
Smartphone Motorola Droid 2 exploded and wounded the ear of Aaron Embry, a Texan resident from Cedar Hills. The victim claims that the moment he finished talking on the phone and was getting into his car, he heard a loud bang and then saw blood on his face. Embry was taken to the hospital, where [...]
On December 3 at around 15 minutes after one a.m. PST, the X-37B space plane landed after staying aloft for 270 days. It landed in the Air Force’s Vandenberg Base in California. “We are very pleased,” declared the X-37B’s program manager, Lt Col Troy Giese, “that the program completed all the on-orbit objectives for the [...]
These are the times of pocket-sized video cameras. We just had been talking about the Zoom models with two microphones, and are now having a new interesting gadget Twin Video Camera from Ion, this time equipped with two lenses, which are located on the front and rear of the camera. Main feature of this camera [...]
Scientists have discovered last Thursday that bacteria could thrive on another element, namely Arsenic, aside from the six basic elements of life – Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Hydrogen, Sulfur, and Phosphorus. The discovery could have a large impact on the search for life outside the planet Earth. Scientists have traditionally examined other planets for life by [...]