Two cups of coffee 'can prevent heart attacks'

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London: Here's some good news for coffee buffs — drinking two cups of the beverage a day — can protect some heart attack victims from complications that may lead to coronary failure, a new study has claimed.

Researchers have carried out the study and found that heart attack patients who drank three or more cups of coffee a day were 90 per cent less likely to develop the condition, known as left ventricular systolic dysfunction or LVSD.

The study's recommendation goes against evidence of people suffering palpitations and irregular heart rhythms after drinking strong coffee, the 'Daily Express' reported.

For their study, the researchers monitored 374 male and female heart attack patients. Those with normal blood pressure were found to be protected against developing LVSD by drinking coffee.

Two cups of coffee 'can prevent heart attacks'

Dil ki ‘Malik’a-DC Exclusive [sania-shoaib after marriage interview]

Article appeared on deccanchronicle. Exclusive DC

Normally, we don’t allow anything to come between us,” jokes Shoaib Malik as you slip in the recorder in the little space available on the sofa shared by his wife Sania Mirza.

On a serious note, that line pretty much sums up the chemistry between the newly-weds who are having a ball of a time.Being a sporting couple obviously has its own advantages and Sania has a long list of them. “Lot of things can be left unsaid; they don’t need to be explained. You understand each other’s lifestyles, mood swings (sportspersons go through a gamut of emotions during matches). A lot of things are similar — we understand the importance of training, rest, practice and having a good time… He’s been around when I’ve lost matches and I’ve been around on the phone when he has lost games. You know sometimes, it’s ok to shut up — you don’t want to talk about shopping when someone’s lost a match. It’s a bit difficult for non-sportspersons to understand that. There are so many small things which I think are much easier in life,” she reveals.

Dil ki ‘Malik’a-DC Exclusive [sania-shoaib after marriage interview]

Nokia sues Apple over iPad, iPhone patents

Now its my turn says Nokia. You might had heard apple suing htc, google over its patent now its the finnish firm chance to sue to apple makers.

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Helsinki: Nokia, the world's top handset maker, broadened its patent fight with Apple Inc on Friday to include the iPad, deepening the bitter legal disputes between the two smartphone rivals.

The firms turned to the courts in the last year as Nokia battles Apple, which only entered the cellphone business in 2007, but has taken a sizeable share of the fat-margined, fast-growing smartphone market.

The Finnish firm, on the other hand, has shed market share in smartphones along with margins and stunned investors last month by delaying its new software upgrade for phones, seen as key in its struggle with Apple.

Nokia sues Apple over iPad, iPhone patents

Is Google facing the heat ??

Hyped Talk exculsive.

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So what do you think, is google facing the heat from the other Internet giants? ? Though it is in the top position having market share(search) of 65 % and Microsoft's Bing increasing popularity and eating away the share of Google and Yahoo share.

Is Google facing the heat ??

iPad global launch date confirmed by Apple

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Apple has announced that its iPad tablet computer will go on sale in nine countries outside the US on 28 May.

The new markets are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK.

The cheapest model will retail at £429 in the UK. The same version in the US costs $499 (£337).

Part of the difference in price is due to British VAT and US sales tax. The same model before tax costs £37 ($55) more in the UK.

The consumer gadget was launched in the US domestic market on 3 April, but Apple had to delay deliveries to international consumers.

iPad global launch date confirmed by Apple

Nintendo looks to restore magic with 3D console

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Nintendo on Friday brushed off suggestions its magic may be fading despite declining sales of its Wii console, as it prepares to unveil a handheld 3D device it hopes will drive a new gaming revolution.

President Satoru Iwata remained tightlipped about the much-awaited gadget, tentatively know as the "3DS", only saying it will offer a whole new gaming experience to players.

He also shrugged off suggestions that Nintendo has passed the peak of its growth after the company announced its first decline in annual profit for the first time in six years Thursday on slowing sales of its Wii and DS devices.

Nintendo looks to restore magic with 3D console

First Indian women in UK House

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London : Britain finally got its first female MPs of Indian origin as 37-year-old Ms Priti Patel won in Witham for the Conservative Party and Ms Valerie Vaz won the Walsall South seat for the Labour party on Friday.

Along with two Indian-origin female MPs, two new Indian-origin male Tory candidates were elected to Parliament. Dr Ashok Kumar, Labour MP in last Parliament, passed away in March and an Indian-origin MP Parmjit Dhanda lost the poll. The three main political parties had fielded a record 89 Asian candidates, compared to 68 in 2005.

First Indian women in UK House

Why did Sachin Tendulkar join Twitter? Interview

Screenshot taken on 07/05/10

Here is an exclusive of Mid-Day.com

Do u know with his first tweet sachin had more than 5,000 followers and said to be breaking twitter records.

Q. Why did you start tweeting?

Sachin: Actually, it was Atul Kasbekar (photographer) and other guys who kept asking me whether I am on Twitter. When I said I am not, they informed me about a fake Sachin who is giving his opinion every now and then on various matches. I felt it was unfair - people getting wrong ideas, wrong messages, which were not from me.

Why did Sachin Tendulkar join Twitter? Interview

'Historic' day as first non-latin web addresses go live

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1. Egypt's Ministry of Communications is amongst the first live web addresses.
2. The first country codes:

• Egypt: مصر
• Saudi Arabia: السعودية
• United Arab Emirates: امارات

Source: Icann

Arab nations are leading a "historic" charge to make the world wide web live up to its name.

Net regulator Icann has switched on a system that allows full web addresses that contain no Latin characters.

Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first countries to have so-called "country codes" written in Arabic scripts.

The move is the first step to allow web addresses in many scripts including Chinese, Thai and Tamil.

More than 20 countries have requested approval for international domains from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann).

It said the new domains were "available for use now" although it admitted there was still some work to do before they worked correctly for everyone. However, it said these were "mostly formalities".

'Historic' day as first non-latin web addresses go live

Short sleep ups risk of premature death

London, (IANS) People who sleep for less than six hours each night were 12 percent more likely to die prematurely than those who get the recommended six to eight hours.

The study by the University of Warwick and Federico II University Medical School, Italy, provides evidence of the direct link between short duration of sleep and an increased chance of dying prematurely.

The research also notes that consistent overlong sleeping (over nine hours a night) can be a cause for concern. While, unlike short sleeping, overlong sleeping does not in itself increase the risk of death, it can be a significant marker of underlying serious and potentially fatal illnesses.

Short sleep ups risk of premature death

Thats what i call luck : O

Check out how lucky you are .

This video was brought to my notice by one of my friend Rakesh.

Thats what i call luck : O

Luxury Mercedes-Benz EC145 Helicopter

Its Time for the luxury and the futuristic flying with Mercedes-Benz, ya you heard right flying with Mercedes-Benz. Upto now you are familiar the Mercedes-Benz>>Luxury cars but now it time for the luxury flight.

Luxury Mercedes-Benz EC145 Helicopter

The European Suborbital Shuttle

Following the trail of SpaceShipTwo, Dassault has been working on a new suborbital civilian spacecraft. Not to be confused with the Future High-Altitude High-Speed Transport 20XX, the new aircraft could be a 11-ton vehicle derived from their VEHRA satellite launcher.

The European Suborbital Shuttle

Microsoft announces Spindex social media aggregator

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Microsoft plans to help people deal with social media overload.

Microsoft has announced that it is building a tool to aggregate all of a user’s social media activity into a single place. Spindex, which works in a similar way to products such as Friendfeed, aims to show users all their social network activity and avoid the hassle of logging on to various websites. It says it will help you you “Make sense of your social overload.

The General Manager of Microsoft’s Fuse Labs, Lili Cheng, wrote on the company’s blog that “Spindex, which we’re making available in early technical preview form, aggregates your social streams (Facebook, Twitter, Bing, etc.), making it simple for you to find what’s new, see personalized trending topics, and generally make the most of the time you spend being social on the Web.”

Microsoft announces Spindex social media aggregator

Facebook dismisses rumours of charging plans

Heya facebookers who are joining the groups like "facebook will charge untill we get 1,000,000 members" or "300,000 Members are needed to stop facebook from charging money". Those Types of group have there own use. It helps the creator to get more members so later he can use for its own purposes.Facebook is now a multi billion dollar company, it makes million/day just by displaying ads and from other sources. If its start charging money then people will forget was facebook was :)

Facebook dismisses rumours of charging plans

Google tweaks logo and changes search results page

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Google didn’t invent search, but the company has made it our prism for the internet. We don’t go to specific pages because instead we look for information. That means that any tweaking with the magic Google formula is always going to be significant, and the company has now begun the roll-out of some of the most significant changes in several years.

There is, however, nothing much to frighten the horses: the company has tidied up its logo slightly, but the homepage that will confront millions of users will barely look any different. When it comes to results pages, however, there will be real changes. Rather than a crisp list of pages related to a user’s query ranged against the left-hand side of the screen, now a new bar has appeared. At first glance it appears to simply offer some simple options to limit which search results are visible – so if you search for “string theory”, it will offer “images”, “news”, “video” and more. But search, say, for shoes, and you’ll find that “shopping” appears as an option, as does the opportunity to limit results by colour.

Google tweaks logo and changes search results page

Magnets can help ease depression

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Magnets may cure depression in people who have not responded earlier to drugs, a new study has said.

A research team from Medical University of South Carolina, US, has revealed that people who had magnets attached to their heads to activate certain parts of the brain were more likely to report relief from depression than those treated with a similar device without a magnet.

The study involved 190 people, of which just under half were randomly assigned to receive the transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy. These people had to wear a helmet like device that applied a magnetic current to the front section of their brain for around 37 minutes a day for three weeks.

Magnets can help ease depression

A car with an inbuilt scooter

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Traffic snarls in cities need not cause much worry as a new car with an inbuilt electric scooter that flips and folds into the boot will allow commuters to zip through the congested streets.

Carmaker Volkswagen is working on a bike that neatly compacts into the boot of a car and can be recharged on the move, The Age reported.

The "Bik.e" may look like a traditional push bike, but there are no pedals - thus it's actually more like a folding electric scooter.

Honda in Japan has already sold a version of its City hatch in the 1980s with a bike in the boot. The concept will be a blessing for commuters who are increasingly frustrated with thick traffic and hefty parking charges.

A car with an inbuilt scooter

Facebook takes down chat after security flaw is exposed

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Facebook has taken its chat system offline while it repairs a security hole that allowed users to see other people’s private chats.

The security flaw, discovered by TechCrunch, relates to a feature on Facebook that allows users to preview their own privacy settings. Describing the problem, TechCrunch’s Steve O’Hear wrote: "There is a major security flaw in the social networking site that, with just a few mouse clicks, enables any user to view the live chats of their ‘friends’. Using what sounds like a simple trick, a user can also access their friends’ latest pending friend-requests and which friends they share in common. That’s a lot of potentially sensitive information."

He said that TechCrunch had informed Facebook of the problem. Facebook now displays a message that says “chat is down for maintenance at this time”.

Facebook takes down chat after security flaw is exposed

New method to save eyesight loss

London, (ANI): A scientist duo has found a way to boost the nutritional value of corn-a feat that could reduce the number of children in developing countries who lose their eyesight, become ill or die each year because of vitamin A deficiencies.

Corn contains carotenoids, some of which the body can convert to vitamin A.

Beta-carotene is the best vitamin A precursor, but only a very small percentage of corn varieties have naturally high beta-carotene levels.

In Africa and other developing regions, corn is a major staple and hundreds of thousands of children become blind, develop weakened immune systems and die because of diets based largely on corn that lacks sufficient beta-carotene.

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists Marilyn Warburton and Edward Buckler identified genetic sequences linked to higher beta-carotene levels in corn and demonstrating an inexpensive and fast way to identify corn plants that will produce even higher levels.

The study is considered a breakthrough in nutritional plant breeding, reports Nature.

In the study, the researchers surveyed the genetic sequences of corn from around the world through association mapping, a method made possible by recent breakthroughs that accelerate the genetic profiling of crops.

New method to save eyesight loss