A suspected terrorist is believed to be holed up inside a house in Thakurganj area in Locknow, and exchange of fire is currently going on between the terrorist and the UP ATS team. There is heavy presence of police personnel in the area and people are being advised to stay indoors. According to reports, the […]
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PSNI Officer Shot in Dissident Ambush in Northern Belfast Says He Thought He was Going to Die
A Belfast PSNI officer who was shot in dissident ambush on January 22, but survived the murder bid, has revealed that at that time he thought that he was going to die. The officer has spoken for the first time since the incident that happened at a petrol station forecourt on the Crumlin Road in […]
Margie Hanley and Michael Hanley Seeking Divorce Claim for Holiday Home in Irish Village
Margie Hanley and Michael Hanley, an estranged Irish couple, are fighting a legal battle in the Family Division of the High Court in London, over a holiday house in rural Ireland. Margie Hanley, 56, and her husband Michael, 60, have staked claim on a property they jointly own in the village of Cornamona, County Galway. […]
Unbelievable! This Two-year-old Australian Kid Catches Snakes without Fear
At an age of two, when most toddlers prefer playing with wrangling toys, a two-year-old kid named Jenson Harrison from Queensland, Australia, probably doesn’t prefer leading a normal life and is always keen to play with snakes and other dangerous reptiles. 7 News Brisbane has posted a video in Facebook, in which Harrison’s father—a snake […]
University of Exeter Researchers Develop an Innovative Technology to Produce Efficient 3-D Microchip More Easily
A team of researchers from the University of Exeter in the UK has developed an innovative, cutting-edge technology that can be used to produce a 3-D microchip for faster, future computing. According to researchers, the new technique would be cheaper than the existing techniques and could revolutionize the next generation of computers by offering more […]
NASA Offers a Bunch of Its Free Software for Space Enthusiasts
NASA has released a bunch of its software for public to download for free. This 2017-2018 software catalogue is being offered as part of NASA’s Technology Transfer Program, and comes without any royalty or copyright fees. Many of the software being provided in 2017-2018 catalogue are the ones still used by NASA to explore space […]
NASA’s Hubble Captures an Image of UGC 12591 Galaxy Located 400 Million Light-years Away from Earth
NASA’s Hubble space telescope has captured a new picture of a massive galaxy UGC 12591 located 400 million light-years away from Earth. According to NASA, this hybrid galaxy has characteristics of both lenticular and a spiral galaxies. The galaxy is located in the westernmost part of the Pisces–Perseus Supercluster— one of the largest known structures […]
A Meteor Exploding near Texas Panhandle Caught on Patrol Car Dash Camera
On Sunday, a meteor crashed through the atmosphere south of the Texas Panhandle, and was caught on patrol car dash camera. A large number of people from four states in the HPPR listening area—Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Kansas—called the American Meteor Society (AMS) to inform about the strange explosion that happened in the sky. […]
Elon Musk Writes Back to a Fifth Grade Student and Promises to Hold a Competition to Find the Best Homemade Commercial for Tesla
The founder and chief executive of Tesla Elon Musk has written back to a fifth grade student—Bria, daughter of Twitter user Steven—and promised her to hold a competition to find the best homemade commercial for Tesla. Musk is an active Twitter user and regularly informs public about the upcoming products and plans of the company. […]
Instagram Rolls Out Immersive, Full-screen Ads in Its Stories Feature
Instagram has said that it is rolling out immersive, full-screen ads in its “Stories” feature for all businesses globally. “Ads in stories let your business use targeting and reach capabilities that make your ads personally relevant to the people you want to reach. That, paired with measurement tools giving you the confident to know it […]
Researchers Reveal the Missing Link in Planetary Formation Process through Computer Simulation
An international team of astronomers from the UK, Australia, and France—in association with London’s Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)—has conducted a computer simulation study to find a missing link in planetary formation process. Planets form from massive clouds of dust and gas around new stars. There is no confusion among scientists regarding how tiny grains […]
NASA is Planning to Launch Solar Plus Probe Mission in 2018 to Study Sun’s Atmosphere
NASA has revealed its plans to send a robotic spacecraft that would orbit sun and gather vital information about solar activities that could impact human life on Earth. The mission is expected to be launched next year and according to NASA, the spacecraft will stay nearly four million miles from solar surface. To date, no […]
MWC 2017: Huawei Unveils Huawei Watch 2 and Watch 2 Classic
Huawei has unveiled its Watch 2 and the Huawei Watch 2 Classic smartwatches. Both devices will go on sale in more than 20 countries beginning from March. The price of Huawei Watch 2 starts at EUR 329. The company had launched its first smartwatch in 2015, but since then, no new smartwatch was launched by […]
Huawei Unveils Huawei P10, the World’s First Smartphone with 4.5G Technology
Chinese smartphone maker Huawei has unveiled P10, dubbed to be the world’s first smartphone with 4.5G technology. The device, priced at 649 euro, is claimed to offer double download speed and 60 per cent reduction in call drops even on weak signals. “Huawei P10 is world’s first 4.5G LTE smartphone. It gives two times fast […]
Metallic Hydrogen Sample Created at Harvard Lab Last Month has Gone Missing
A sample of metallic hydrogen that was created by researchers at Harvard last month has gone missing inside the lab. Scientists said they have no idea whether the sample is present somewhere inside the lab or if it degraded in the past few days. Last month, scientists from Harvard University announced that they have got […]
Scientists Discover 400-million-year-old Giant Worm Species Websteroprion armstrongi that had Snapping Jaws
An international team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Bristol, Lund University in Sweden and the Royal Ontario Museum, has discovered a new species of extinct, marine worms—called Websteroprion armstrongi—that lived about 400 million years ago and had snapping jaws. According to scientists, this species grew to an estimated 3 feet in length, […]
MWC 2017: Nokia Announces Nokia 3310 (2017), Nokia 3, Nokia 5 and Nokia 6
In a bid to make a global comeback in the smartphone industry, Nokia has announced a series of new smartphones at MWC 2017 taking place in the city of Barcelona. The new phones announced include the most talked about Nokia 3310 (2017) feature phone, Nokia 3, Nokia 5, and Nokia 6, and Nokia 6 Arte […]
Oscars 2017: Telecast and Live Streaming in the UK, Australia, Canada, Germany and India
It is the time for 89th Academy Awards or Oscars to be announced. And that means, it is time to see Hollywood rolling out the red carpet to take over TV with astonishing outfits in pursuit of those golden statutes. This year, Jimmy Kimmel will host the event that will take place at the Dolby […]
Microsoft Announces Availability of vswhere
Microsoft has announced that vswhere is now available. The vswhere is designed to be a redistributable, single-file executable that can be used in build or deployment scripts to find where Visual Studio – or other products in the Visual Studio family – is located. For example, users knowing the relative path to MSBuild can find […]
Vivo Y55s with 13 MP Camera Launched at Rs 12,490 in India
Chinese smartphone maker Vivo has launched its 4G-enabled Vivo Y55s smartphone in India for Rs 12,490. The phone will go on sale in the country from Sunday, February 26, 2017. The camera-centric smartphone features 5.2-inch HD display (720×1280 pixels) and a 2.5D curved edge screen. The phone is powered by quad-core Snapdragon 425 processor (clocked […]
British Researchers Show that Bumblebees can Learn New Skills by Watching Others
A new study carried out by researchers from Queen Mary University of London has demonstrated that bumblebees are much better at problem solving and capable of more complex learning than previously thought. The study also showed that bees can learn maneuvering a ball just by watching others carry out the task. According to researchers, earlier […]
Great Barrier Reef Coral Bleaching and High Sea Temperature Could Become a Customary Event by 2050
A new study carried out by researchers from the University of Melbourne suggests that the temperatures that caused distressing coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef last year will likely become a norm by 2050 unless steps are taken to cut greenhouse gas emissions quickly. Bleaching due to high sea surface temperatures is a catastrophic […]
Japanese Takagoyama Nature Zoo Culls 57 Snow Monkeys Carrying Invasive Alien Genes
Fifty-seven snow monkeys in Takagoyama Nature Zoo in the city of Futtsu, Chiba, northern Japan have been culled after zoo authorities found them to be carrying genes of an “invasive alien species.” The monkeys were killed by injecting them with a lethal injection. According to zoo authorities, one third of the snow monkeys at the […]
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Orders Investigation on Former Engineer’s Sexual Harassment Claims at Uber
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has ordered an “urgent investigation” into claims made by a former employee about sexual harassment and institutional indifference within the company. In a blog post, Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer who resigned from Uber in December, revealed that she was subjected to sexual harassment through a ‘string of messages’ […]
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