01 March 2015 :: 91% people said India’s first satellite is named after Aryabhatta, 6% said Bhaskara I, whereas 2% Bhaskara II & 1% voted for Albert Einstein. The Question of the Weekly Poll was India’s first satellite is named after? The Nominees were : Aryabhatta, Bhaskara II, Bhaskara I & Albert Einstein Aryabhata (satellite) […]
28 February 2015 :: National Science Day is celebrated in India on 28 February each year to mark the discovery of the Raman effect by Indian physicist Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman on 28 February 1928. For his discovery, Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930. In Raman Science Centre,there are lot of […]
27 February 2015 :: Facebook adds new tools for suicide prevention. The update will roll out to US users over the next couple months. Facebook has added new tools to assist users who express suicidal thoughts. If someone posts something that indicates self harm or suicidal thoughts and it is reported to Facebook, they will […]
20 February 2015 :: Adobe Photoshop Turns 25 Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for Windows and OS X. In 1987, Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at the University of Michigan, began writing a program on his Macintosh Plus to display grayscale images on a monochrome display. This […]
05 February 2015 :: The largest online-shopping website in China has tested using drones to deliver goods. The trial took place in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, the three largest cities in mainland China. Alibaba is using its drones to deliver orders for a specific type of ginger tea, helping limit the maximum weight of the […]
Vacuum toilets are flush toilets that use suction for the removal of faeces and urine resulting in a minimal requirement of water (0.5 to 1.5 litres). Vacuum toilets provide the same level of comfort as traditional flush toilets and they help saving costs due to the minimised amount of flush water. Due to the fact […]
31 January 2015 :: India on Saturday successfully test-fired its indigenously developed, intercontinental surface-to-surface nuclear capable ballistic missile ‘Agni-5’, which has a strike range of over 5000 kms and can carry a nuclear warhead of over one tonne, from Wheeler’s Island off Odisha coast. Agni-V Agni-V is an intercontinental ballistic missile developed by the Defence […]
14 January 2015 :: Project Ara is the codename for an initiative by Google that aims to develop an open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones. The platform will include a structural frame (endoskeleton that holds smartphone modules of the owner’s choice), such as a display, camera or an extra battery. It would allow […]
14 January 2015 :: ISRO’s [Indian Space Research Organisation ] Mars Mission team has won the prestigious 2015 Space Pioneer Award in the science and engineering category in recognition of achieving the rare feat in its very first attempt. The prestigious award given by the National Space Society would be presented to the ISRO’s Mars […]
Teleprompter :: A teleprompter, or autocue, is a display device that prompts the person speaking with an electronic visual text of a speech or script. Using a teleprompter is similar to using cue cards. The screen is in front of, and usually below, the lens of a professional video camera, and the words on the […]