Wearable Safety Bracelets for Hajjis this year

Hajj is an annual religious ritual of Muslims all over the world who come to the holy city of Makkah in Saudi Arabia to perform this holy duty. However, due to increasing number of worshipers coming to the holy land, there are chances of one going missing or lost from his group or family in the rush of millions of people. Also last year's stampede that took a heavy toll of the worshipers made it difficult for the organizers to find and account for the missing.

In order to keep a track of each and every individual, Saudi government and its Hajj directorate has come up with a novel idea of a safety electronic bracelet which will be given to each worshiper from this year to keep them  counted and located if lost.

The weather resistant bracelet would come with personal and medical information embedded into it and a GPS to keep the track of everyone.

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To Mars and back - in just tank fill of fuel

Graphical illustration of how an ion thruster works by hurling particles backwards so that a spacecraft can be propelled forwards

A Ph D student at University of Sydney Australia has come up with an idea that may revolutionise space travel - specially man's quest to travel to distant planets like Mars.

Paddy Neumann has created a new type of ion space drive that could take humans to Mars and back on a single tank of fuel and believes his ion space drive Nasa's shatters current fuel efficiency record. 

The Neumann ion drive works by bombarding the fuel source with electric arcs, which causes ions be discarded. 

The innovative part of Neumann's drive is the type of fuel that was used. While HiPEP system runs on xenon gas, Neumann's ion drive can instead run on various metals many of which can be found in space junk.

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Student designs 'City' to counter surveillance and targeted attacks by the pilotless remote-controlled drones

The USA has played havouc around the world using its drone fleet with such ferocity and with resultant collateral damage that the world is really questioning the US for killing innocent civilians more than the intended targets.

US drones have killed far more civilians, including women and children that militants, specially in Pakistan

The US drone fleet equipped with drones with surveillance capabilities is so powerful that it can track the movements of an entire medium-sized city all at once.

According to the UK's Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a minimum of 2,629 people have so far been killed by drones in Pakistan alone, with many more in other countries like Yemen and Somalia.

But while the US government is unmoved by such demands, a law student come out with a classic and novel design of city that would provide protection against the drones.

Shura City, designed as a class project by Asher Kohn, 25, is an attempt to use architecture to counter surveillance and targeted attacks by the remote-controlled aircraft.

Shura City: a class project by Asher Kohn,  to use architecture to counter surveillance and targeted attacks by the remote-controlled aircraft

The provocative design, which is like a sci-fi riff on traditional Middle-Eastern architecture, uses a range of tricks to confuse the aerial death machines and keep the city's inhabitants concealed.

Shura City, provocatively named for the groups of elders who take decisions in the Islamic communities which are the principal targets of drone strikes, is a product of Mr Kohn's fascination for 'drones' existence in a post-legal world'.

Ringed by minarets and built from concrete, which drone sensors cannot penetrate, its layout would be specifically designed to confuse from the outside - foiling the airborne watchers' ability to dish out targeted death from above.

'The goal is not defense-through-hardening, but defense-through-confusion,' writes Mr Kohn. 'By turning the entire community into a closed circuit, drones targeting individuals will not be able to select and detect the individuals they desire once they enter the city.'

Read more about it at: Mail Online
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Hobbit leaves viewers with headaches and nausea

The much awaited 'The Hobbit' has left many cinema goers with headaches and mouthful of complaints.

Peter Jackson's film is the first to be shot using high-speed 3D cameras that capture twice the normal number of frames per second but perhaps this kind of technique is too much an overdose for the viewers to absorb as many who watched the film said felt nauseous and even caused migraines.

The Sunday Times reported one 'avid Middle Earth fan', who had flown to New Zealand from Australia for the premiere, said: 'My eyes cannot take everything in, it's dizzying, now I have a migraine.

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Another fan tweeted: 'It works for the big snowy mountains, but in close-ups the pictures strobes. I left loving the movie but feeling sick.'

The Sunday Times said one fan described having motion sickness similar to being on a rollercoaster.

They said: 'You have to hold your stomach down and let your eyes pop at first to adjust. This is not for wimps.'

Read more about it at: Daily Mail
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Apple introduces pencil thin iPad Mini to counter Amazon's Kindle Fire

Apple Inc will begin to sell an almost 8-inch version of the iPad on Friday to compete with Amazon.com Inc's Kindle and other smaller tablets, but it set a higher-than-expected price tag of $329 that Wall Street fears could curb demand.

The 7.9 inch "iPad mini" marks the iPhone-maker's first foray into the smaller-tablet segment. Apple hopes to beat back incursions onto its home turf of consumer electronics hardware, while safeguarding its lead in a larger tablet space - one that even deep-pocketed rivals like Samsung Electronics have found tough to penetrate.

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Priced at $329 for a wi-fi only model, the iPad mini is a little costlier than some predicted. Others fear the gadget will lure buyers away from Apple's $499 flagship 10-inch iPad, while proving ineffective in combating the threat of Amazon's $199 Kindle Fire and Google's Nexus 7, both of which are sold at or near cost.

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Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini: Smaller Screen, Cheaper Price

Details of Samsung Galaxy S3 MINI are being known after its announcement 11 October.

Samsung Galaxy S III mini features a screen measuring 4 inches diagonally, smaller than the Galaxy S III's 4.8 inch display but the same as Apple's iPhone 5, which was Apple's first upgrade of the iPhone screen size.

Samsung said the mini will be launched in Europe later this month but kept mum on schedules for other countries.

Samsung's German mobile shop lists the mini's price at 399 euros ($516) versus 550 euros ($711) for the cheapest S III.

The mini is powered by the latest version of Android software but does not support faster fourth-generation wireless networks.

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Samsung Galaxy S3: T-Mobile’s Best Selling Smartphone for 2012

The iPhone 5′s release sparked Apple’s smartphone sales and surpassed its previous iPhone sales records, it appeared as if it totally dominated the smartphone eco-system throughout major Carriers in US but it turns out that for one of the largest Carrier in US, T-Mobile, Samsung’s Galaxy S3 currently holds the crown of being the best seller of all times.

Here’s what the company had to say via Twitter

While T-Mobile hasn't released any exact sales figures to go with the announcement but it’s safe to say that it comfortably breaches the one million devices sold mark considering it surpasses sales of other Samsung handsets.

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South Korea 'MAY' Extend Range of Ballistic Missiles: Says US

The United States has 'agreed to allow' South Korea to extend the range and payload of its ballistic missiles, the government here said on Sunday while announcing a revised bilateral missile pact that tries to balance Washington’s fear of a regional arms race with its ally’s concern over growing military threats from North Korea.

After two years of closely monitored negotiations that tested their alliance, the United States also agreed to let South Korea develop and deploy more powerful unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, that can carry more reconnaissance gear and weapons.

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Until now, South Korea has been barred from deploying ballistic missiles with a range of more than 300 kilometers, or 187 miles, and a payload of more than 500 kilograms, or 1,100 pounds — a capacity officials here believed was not enough to protect their country from North Korea’s rapidly expanding nuclear and missile capabilities. The South was also banned from deploying drones that can carry more than 500 kilograms of weapons or equipment.

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Australia launches world's fastest radio telescope to study the origins of the universe

Australia has launched world's fastest radio telescope in the remote Australian outback, which will exponentially increase astronomers' ability to survey the universe, mapping black holes and shedding new light on the origins of galaxies.

The Australia Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (Askap), with an array of 36 antennas each 40 feet across, started peering into the universe on Friday from a far-flung cattle station in Western Australia state.

The A$152 million (£96m) telescope will "listen" to radio waves from the cosmos that might give astronomers insights into the beginnings of the universe.

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Using new "radio cameras" called phased array feeds, the telescope will be able scan the sky much more rapidly than existing radio telescopes and will give the telescope a field of view about 150 times the area of the full Moon.

Read more: The Telegraph

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5 Million Apples (iPhone 5) sold

Despite Map App glitches and many other reported shortcomings of the Apple's news iPhone 5, Apple said Monday that it sold more than 5 million iPhone 5s in the three days since its launch, fewer than analysts had expected.

Apple shares fell $9.30, or 1.3%, to close at $690.79 on Monday. The shares hit an all-time high of $705.07 Friday as the phone went on sale in the U.S., Germany, France, Japan and five other countries.

The sales tally is a record for any phone, but it beats last year's iPhone 4S launch by only a small margin. Apple said then that it sold 4 million phones in the first three days.

Read more: Detroit Free Press

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Endeavour's dramatic final voyage

A few days back, in one of our news posts, we mentioned about the last chance to see the space shuttle Endeavour riding on the back of shuttle carrier 747 - and the day arrived much to the enthusiasm of tourists and onlookers yesterday.

Flying as low as 1,500 feet around some of California's most distinctive landmarks, the space shuttle Endeavour completed its final voyage Friday to cheers and many photos.

Photo: LA Times

After taking off from Edwards Air Force Base on Friday morning, Endeavour headed north, buzzing the state Capitol in Sacramento, circling the Bay Area and soaring over a Golden Gate Bridge packed with onlookers.

As the sound of the plane's engines drowned out the traffic on the bridge and tourists ran to get the best vantage point, screams of “Whooo!” could be heard as the shuttle flew over the suspension bridge.

“It was unbelievable. Did you hear all the clapping? I can't even believe we're here!” said Polly Lestikow, of Centennial, Colo., who just happened to be bicycling across the bridge Friday morning, unaware of NASA's planned show Friday.

Read more: LA Times

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Galaxy S4′s Release Rumors Squashed By Samsung

Amid rumors circulating in the media about a Galaxy S-IV by Samsung, something being portrayed as a Samsung's tit for tat move to counter Apple's iPhone 5, Samsung (via Twitter) has thrashed any such rumours originated from Korean Times and the rest of social media.

Samsung on Twitter has responded with the following message:-

Please note that some media reported speculation that the Galaxy S III subsequent models will be released in a simple rumor; is not true. Fixed I’m not doing anything, why spread these rumors?.

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Yup, Samsung tweeted in its native language and the above excerpt you’re seeing is courtesy of Google’s translation (I’m sure you get the idea though). Horrible Google Translation aside, let’s go back to the what the original rumour stated.

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Could AT&T Face Mass Exodus of iPhone Customers?

AT&T has recently announced plans to charge for FaceTime over cellular, a service which is set to arrive next week with iOS 6.

To get this new feature, AT&T customers must subscribe to one of the company’s newly created shared data plans, which are more expensive for some customers. As an added whack to customers, this means those with the previously mentioned unlimited data plans will have to switch to gain the FaceTime feature.

The reason that AT&T has decided to charge extra for FaceTime is that the company is convinced that the feature is an add-on.

Could this extra charging mean mass exodus of iPhone customers?

Read more: Mashable

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3D Printed Beak for wounded Bald Eagle

A major breakthrough comes in the medical science when a team of researchers, engineers and dentists created the world’s first prosthetic beak, which was modeled with CAD software and 3D-printed from nylon polymers.

The prosthetic beak has been created for a wounded bald eagle who after shot in the face by a poacher seven years ago lost most of her beak.

After a two-hour-long procedure, the eagle can now eat and drink by herself, though she’s not ready to be released back into the wild. The eagle remains at Birds of Prey Northwest, the conservation facility that spearheaded the recovery project.

Read more: Mashable

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iPhone 5 Launch Fallout: iPhone5's new docking connector renders thousands of Apple accessories obsolete

The iPhone 5 launch with much fanfare on Wednesday seems over as new 'facts' are emerging about the newly released Apple phone.

Controversial: Despite the excitement surrounding the new iPhone5, many users will be left frustrated as it includes a controversial new 'docking connector' which will render thousands of Apple accessories obsolete [Photo Reuters / Daily Mail ]

Many users are likely to be left frustrated as it includes a controversial new 'docking connector' which will render thousands of Apple accessories obsolete.

With the new model, Apple is ditching the docking port connector it's used for iPods, iPhones and iPads for nearly a decade in favor of a smaller, narrower one.

The newer, slimline port means that thousands of current Apple accessories will need a potentially clunky adapter to work with the 'iPhone 5' - or become unusable.

According to the website Gizmodo, the new 'Lightning to 30-pin' adapter will cost about £18 while a 0.2m cable version of the adapter will cost £24.

Read more / watch video: Daily Mail

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iPhone 5 Launched

Apple has finally and formally launched the much awaited and much talked about iPhone 5 Wednesday, 12 September 2012 today.

Comparison iPhones [Photo Mashable]

Some of the highlights are as under:

• Facebook Likes integrated into the iTunes store
• iOS6 will work on all phones and tablets back to the 3GS - iOS6 to be launched September 19
• A brand new version of iTunes -- dramatically simpler, with the cloud build in.
• 16GB iPhone5 to cost $199 - 32 GB to cost $299

Read Live Blog at Mashable for details as these are pouring in

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Tech News: Robot to replace herbicides for weed-killing

Technology has helped humanity in many areas, besides destroying and killing people with bombs and lasers.

Now to kill weeds, research is underway to do it with robots, rather than herbicides.

As reported, Scientists at Blue River Technology will commercialize a weed-killing robot after landing $3.1 million in Series A funding from Khosla Ventures. The agricultural invention uses algorithms to differentiate between good and bad plants, injecting the bad with enough fertilizer to kill it.

The wheeled bot is still in the prototype stage at this point. But Blue River sees its machine as a cost-effective and safer solution to potentially reduce U.S. herbicide use by more than 250 million pounds per year.

Read more: Mashable

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TMS announces bootable PCIe flash storage system

Typically, all-flash arrays must use disk interfaces or RAID controllers to boot up. TMS is using a firmware feature that allows most common servers to load operating systems directly from a RamSan PCIe flash storage system.

Launched in 2011, the RamSan-70 has from 450GB to 900GB of capacity and features Toshiba's newest 32-nanometer single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash chips. It represents a 15% to 20% reduction in price-per-gigabyte over TMS's former PCIe card, the RamSan 10 and 20.

Read details: Computer World

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Survey signals unprecedented demand for iPhone 5

While the race between Samsung Galaxy S-III and Apple's forth coming iPhone 5 intensifies, there is an "Advance demand" for Apple's next iPhone is at an all-time high, said a research firm today, predicting huge sales later this year for what most have dubbed the "iPhone 5."

A survey of more than 4,000 North American consumers by ChangeWave Research showed a record enthusiasm for Apple's next-generation smartphone, with nearly a third saying they were likely to buy one.

"Advance demand for the 'iPhone 5' is strikingly higher than we've seen for any previous iPhone model," said Paul Carton, ChangeWave's vice president of research, in an abbreviated report sent via email.

Read more: Computer World

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Windows 8 Final Release Date Officially Announced By Microsoft

Wahaab JB at Chip Hazard has reported that Microsoft has officially announced the release date of their next OS Windows 8 set for October 26th this year 2012.

The announcement was made by Steven Sinofsky at Microsoft’s annual sales meeting, and the confirmation was almost instantaneously shared via the Windows Team Blog. It’s yet to be confirmed that the Surface tablets will be available for sale the same day, although it’s widely expected that they and other touchy feel new PC hybrids will be.

Read more: Chip Hazard

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