Scientists find car-sized turtle fossil
WASHINGTON (IANS) Imagine a giant turtle the size of an average car with a shell large enough to double as a kiddie pool. Paleontologists from North Carolina State University (NCSU) have found just such a specimen — the fossilized remains of a 60-million-year-old South American giant that lived in what is now Colombia. The turtle [...]
‘Smartphones can be a boon for visually impaired’
WASHINGTON iPhones and other smartphones can be a boon to those with low visions, but few doctors are recommending them to patients, according to a new study. Among the advantages smartphones offer to people with low vision are bigger font sizes – up to 56 points – enabling such people to text and email; [...]
Apple’s new iPhone to have larger screen
TOKYO Apple plans to use a larger screen on the next-generation iPhone and has begun to place orders for the new displays from suppliers in South Korea and Japan, people familiar with the situation said on Wednesday. Early production of the new screens has begun at three suppliers: Korea’s LG Display, Sharp Corp and Japan [...]
Zuckerberg reportedly set to celebrate with staff at HQ
PALO ALTO Mark Zuckerberg is going to forgo the Nasdaq photo op to hang with his troops at Facebook headquarters when the company goes public on Friday. That’s the latest word on Zuckerberg’s plans, coming from the Wall Street Journal. The Journal says that Zuckerberg has changed his plans and now doesn’t plan to ring [...]
Russian cosmonauts to watch Euro 2012, Olympics in space
MOSCOW Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will watch the Euro 2012 football championship and London Olympics while in space, the Interfax news agency reported on Monday. “We will cheer for the Russian national team,” said cosmonaut Gennady Padalka in pre—flight comments to reporters at the Kazakhstan’s Baikonour space centre. “Of course it [...]
Bees ‘may improve robot vision’
WASHINGTON Scientists have shown that a honeybee’s brain is sophisticated enough to learn rules and process visual problems, a finding which they claim suggests a robot could one day do the same. An international team claims that honeybees also use multiple rules to solve complex visual problems, which has important implications for our understanding of [...]
Learn lessons from PC crashes and delays to avoid next mishap
BERLIN Most computer users live in fear of a crashed computer and lost data, or are frustrated by a computer that seems to take hours to perform the simplest task. The trick is to learn from these problems and either fix the computer before the worst happens, or at least make sure it never happens [...]
‘Invisible’ planet found by 150-year-old gravity measuring technique
WASHINGTON Over 150 years ago, before Neptune was ever sighted in the night sky, French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier predicted the planet’s existence based on small deviations in the motion of Uranus. Now, a group of researchers led by Dr. David Nesvorny of Southwest Research Institute has inferred another unseen planet, this time orbiting a [...]