An Asian elephant named Koshik can imitate human speech, speaking words in Korean that can be readily understood by those who know the language. The elephant accomplishes this in a most unusual way: he vocalizes with his trunk in his mouth.

The elephant's vocabulary consists of exactly five words, researchers report on November 1 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. Those include "annyong" ("hello"), "anja" ("sit down"), "aniya" ("no"), "nuo" ("lie down"), and "choah" ("good"). Ultimately, Koshik's language skills may provide important insights into the biology and evolution of complex vocal learning, an ability that is critical for human speech and music, the researchers say.

Watching a 3 dimensional (3-D) film at home can be just as real and fun as going to a movie theater. Professor Yang-Hann Kim and Research Professor Jung-Woo Choi from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, have succeeded in building an audio rendering system that will considerably improve the current 3-D audio effects technology.

1. MULTI-TASKING

Women - Multiple processWomen's brains designed to concentrate multiple task at a time.Women can Watch a TV and Talk over phone and cook.Men - Single ProcessMen's brains designed to concentrate only one work at a time. Men can not watch TV and talk over the phone at the same time. they stop the TV while Talking. They can either watch TV or talk over the phone or cook.

Microsoft on Tuesday announced that recently-acquired Skype will replace its Messenger online chat service.
"Skype and Messenger are coming together," Skype said in a post at its website. "By updating to Skype, Messenger users can instant message and video call their Messenger friends."

Facebook this weekend disabled a loophole that might have allowed some accounts to be accessed without a password.

This is what the NBC's page is looking like after being hacked.Not only a single page but multiple NBC sites including its mobile landing page, the Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock Clips and the NBC Sports Rotoworld page have been hacked by "pyknic" .

It seems that the mid of 2013 will be a turning point for the world of science and technology. 
The Netherlands  has planned to make Smart Highways that can become more easily visible in the dark and communicate weather conditions to the drivers. The news seems quite unbelievable because the idea given by Netherlands is unique in itself. 

This unique idea will not only bring a change in the way of  driving but will also serve as a way to keep our environment greener and cleaner.

This basic question that 'what is light made of waves or particles?' is fascinating physicists since a long time but this mystery is no more...

Reporting in Science, physicists from the university of Bristol gave a demonstration of the wave-particle duality of photons, dubbed the 'one real mystery of quantum mechanics' by Nobel Prize laureate Richard Feynman.
There has always been an intense debate between the two theories of light i.e. wave nature and particle nature.

Have you ever thought that 'Mustard', which grows as a weed throughout the United states and most of Canada can be helpful to lean out,add muscle mass and get ripped?


According to a new research from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), eating more mustard could help fitness enthusiasts grow muscle and get lean.

Whipping winds, pelting rains, mass evacuations: Hurricane Sandy has already surpassed Hurricane Lili in 1996 and is now the second largest Atlantic storm in the last 24 years.

The super-storm has threatened 50 million people in the most populated corridor, New York.
She is huge,strong and might get more stronger.The Hurricane already did her first damage in New York. All measures are indicating that it could be worse: higher winds, path through a more populated area, worse storm surge all points to it being the worst storm in recent history.

 Shuttering down the windows and doors and bringing items from outside is only the beggining, there is a huge list of the things to do before and after a storm approaches.

In an area where hurricane can strike it is better to have a closet, where you can keep items you are going to need in case disaster strikes suddenly or you need to evacuate.


It is also important to know the difference between a watch and a warning and when they are issued for tropical storms and hurricanes.

A hurricane warning means hurricane conditions i.e. winds at higher speed above 73 mph and this is the time to stop preparation and save people and property.

A hurricane watch means hurricane conditions are possible in watch area, and are issued 48 hours before the anticipated onset of tropical-storm-force winds.

Here's a list of 2012′s top hurricane tracking apps for those on the go with tablets or smartphones:

Hurricane Tracker (iOS):

My pick of the bunch, EZ Apps' $2.99 Hurricane Tracker offers detailed storm maps, National Hurricane Center info, threat level maps, audio/video forecast updates, real-time feeds and push alerts. It also employs my favorite interface, giving you four simple categories at launch — hurricanes, tropical storms, tropical depressions and invests — to drill on, with a "quick headlines" blurb and "current systems" maps when you scroll down the page. The number of maps (including animated) and images crammed into this app — EZ Apps claims over 65 — is worth the price of admission alone.

xbox smartglass

Here comes another surprise from Microsoft, Microsoft launched its Xbox SmartGlass app for Android earlier than expected.
Gamers were eager for this Xbox 360 from months since the company announced the project this past summer.

Power saving is a hot topic for Laptop users especially when they are using Linux as primary O.S.
The problem increases when they are on the move and running on limited battery energy.There has been a long discussion on the topic "how to reduce power consumption in Linux" or "saving power in Linux".Many websites have given several solutions for the problem but a complete solution is not yet discovered.

According to LessWatts.org (the leading source of power saving tips on Linux) most of our battery is consumed by the following components of our computer:

1: Ethernet Network Controller.
2: Graphics and Display.
3: Processor.
4: Disks and File-system.
5: Wireless/WiFi.
6: Software.

Power management

Now Here i am presenting a solution which can increase the Battery Life of your Laptop by at-least 30 minutes and decrease the heating of your Laptop or Computer to a greater extent.

It is said that "nothing is impossible",keeping same thing in mind the researchers worked hard to develop a device that could help the patients to regain their lost voice.Yes, now it is possible for the people who have lost their voices to speak again.

voice prostheses

The device is designed for the people who suffer from vocal cord dysfunction.
The procedure is called Voice Prostheses.Researchers are developing method which will contribute to manufacture voice prostheses with improved effective features.it is claimed that this artificial device will be capable of producing age-appropriate voices.for example-if a little girl has lost her voice, the device would produce a voice appropriate for her age instead of producing usual voice of an adult male.

The whole world got shocked when Apple announced its 4th generation iPad today.
It was very much surprising as the company launched its 3rd generation ipad in march this year only.

apple ipad

The new iPad is just stunning.This high speed iPad comes with 9.7 inch Apple retina display , the new A6X chip inside the iPad is claimed to be the most powerful chip yet.The CPU and graphics performance are twice compared to the previous A5X chip.

Quite surprising, isn't it????

This is what the report of a survey conducted by Harvard University says.
According to a study conducted by the Harvard University, "Women who drink four to six cups of coffee a day are less likely to suffer from womb cancer, while men who drink the same amount are less likely to suffer from prostate cancer".

The Daily Mail reported "The research was carried over 1,17,000 volunteers, 67,000 women and 50,000 men over a 20 year period".
The Harvard team found that the women who consumed four or more cups coffee a day were successful in reducing their risk of endometrial cancer by 25% , as compared to those who consumed less than one cup a day.


The research on 50,000 men concluded that those who drank 6 or more cups of coffee a day, lowered their risk from prostate cancer by 18% and at the same time 60% lower risk of developing it in most deadly form.

The internet search king is continuously reported for planning to unveil a new samsung tablet,an updated OS, a new handset from LG and an improved version of Nexus7 during its event going to be organised on october,29.

It is expected that at least one new Nexus phone as well as an improved Nexus 7 tablet with more memory and 3G capabilities are going to be unveiled.
However, the product which can be most exciting is a 10-inch tablet developed  with Samsung named 'Manta',the Telegraph report says.

The Next Web sources said that apart from running the updated version of google android, the new tab will offer a 2560x1600 pixels(16:10) resolution.



 The Next Web also claimed that the Google is also going to launch LG Nexus4 mobile handset with a 1.5GHz quad-core Qualcomm APQ806 Snapdragon processor, 2 GB RAM, 4.7 inch Display,16GB storage,an 80-megapixel rear-facing camera and a 1.3 megapixel frontfacinng snapper.

The tagline of the event is "The playground is open" leading many to suspect that it will feature a large number of devices.

Doesn't it seems quite astonishing??
 There is always someone who is claiming to have found the method of gaining free energy and today also we are having a totally new concept of making petrol with air and that too at very cheap rates.
A company in London claimed to have developed a revolutionary technology that could produce petrol using air and electricity.The technology works by removing carbon dioxide from the air.
It involves taking sodium hydroxide and mixing it with carbon dioxide before electrolyzing the  sodium carbonate produced by it to form pure carbon dioxide.A dehumidifier then captures the water vapours which are further electrolyzed to form hydrogen.The carbon dioxide and hydrogen so produced are used to make methanol and after passing the methanol through a gasoline fuel reactor Petrol is produced.

The officials of the company, Air Fuel Syndication claimed to have produced five litres of petrol in less than three months.Within two years the company is planning to build a big refinery which could produce about a tonne of petrol everyday.The fuel produced can be used in any of the regular petrol tanks.

Samsung launched it's new Galaxy note -2 which is expected to just hit the mobile markets all over the world.Some people are comparing it with the new iPhone5 and it is being said that it has more specs than the iPhone 5.

Some of its specs are listed below:

Perfect viewing experience

It has a large (not only large but it seems very large) 5.5'' HD Super AMOLED display(+16:9 cinema-like viewing).
It's screen offers much better clarity.The design has included a bigger screen but simultaneously maintains the slim body to fit just right in your hand.

It happens sometimes that in the mid when you are recording a video a perfect opportuniy comes to take a photo.It happens with all of us and at such moment either we have to miss that opportunity or stop recording the video, take the photo and return back to the video.
Sometimes it seems very disgusting but now you can do both if you own an iphone 5.
The iphone 5's camera app provides you the facility to snap a photo in midst of recording a video.


An icon for camera is visible on the screen while a video is being recorded, you just have to tap on that icon and it will snap the photo without interrupting the video.
The only drawback is that, this way you will be able to click the photo of aspect ratio 16:9 which is not of the quality as everyone expects from the camera on the iphone and the photo is good enough to be shared within the friend circle or with the family members. 

IDEAL Group,IQ engines and the wireless Rehabilitation Engineering Research center joined their hands and made this mobile app which would help the visually impaired people to identify and count the dollar bills.



This app can identify three genarations of U.S dollars beginning in 1993.This is possible with the help of a smartphone camera, just hold the camera in front of the bill and the camera captures it in a large frame -without even having pressed a button. The app reads the denomination aloudnby a siri-like voice which is inbuilt in the app.

The app is only available for Android devices and compatible with android 4.0 or latest.


Just check this video on how it works:

"Built to act not only as a powerful ,compact speaker for listening music but also as a portable system for taking calls, the pill with the freedom of wireless"

If someone asks you "Have you ever heard of BEATS?" then all of you must be calling him a fool, as Beats is not a stranger to anyone nowadays.

After 6 months of hard work Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 12.10, Quantal Quetzal named after an awesome looking bird.The release of windows 8 is only 7 days far but this ubuntu has been launched in the market to beat the new windows with the slogan "Avoid The Pain of Windows8".
It is the first time when Canonical has merged together all the different desktop installation images into a single unified 800MB .ISO file, designed to be used on a USB stick or DVD. You don't have to pick from several images for i386 or x86_64 architecture with alternate images for different options rather each architecture has its own unified install image which includes all common install choices.



The new Linux Kernel 3.5 is there which brings with it a number of security improvements.It has also switched its Python 2.x to Python 3.2.3.
It is a united version of desktop and cloud which canonical claimed as "the transition to a multi-device, cloud-based world".
Reviews are still awaited as windows 8 is yet not released.


You can give Ubuntu 12.10 a try at:
                          http://www.ubuntu.com/tour/en/

or if you want to download it then go to:
                          http://www.ubuntu.com/download

You think i am kidding???This is what a hacker known as Pinkie Pie did..

 

 A hacker known as Pinkie Pie won $60,000 and a ChromeBook by exploiting a security hole in Chrome.You can also do the same if you do it through Google's Pwnium 2 competition.Google holds a competition to challenge hackers to hack the Chrome's security and to find the unknown loopholes.
The contest was held on Tuesday,16 oct,2012 in Kuala-Lumpur,Malaysia.


Quickly after the discovery of this new exploit the Google Chrome's team jumped on it which resulted in an update to the browser which patches the hole after just 10 hours.

On Thursday Google unveiled a new Samsung chromebook within a new budget.The new laptop is dubbed as "the computer for everyone".

The 11.6-inch Samsung Chromebook costs only $249 and is available for pre-order on Amazon.This super-slim chromebook measuring only 0.8inches in thickness and weighing 2.5 pounds runs on Chrome OS.

The device pack includes a Samsung made ARM Cortex-A15 processor,2GB of RAM and 16 GB of Flash storage.The laptop supports 1080p video playback with a screen resolution of 1366x768 as well as Bluetooth 3.0.It is also having 100GB of free cloud storage on Google Drive.

So if you are planning to buy a new computer in a less budget then you can give it a try

Curious to know why is there short supply of iphone5??

Specification are:

Where do most people get their iphone ruined?

If you guessed it in the Toilet then you would be wrong-says a new survey.
According to squaretrade  , most people damaged this valuable device in their Kitchen--the same place where folks tend to cut themselves and warm things with fire.With an approximation of 21% Kitchen got the first place, the second place is occupied by Living rooms with 18% and at third comes the bathroom at 16%.
An infographic for the same is given below :

Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine, Shimane prefecture, Japan

WHOEVER CONTROLS THE MEDIA, CONTROLS THE MIND.