Group sets May 31 as 'Quit Facebook Day'

Over privacy concerns many people are considering to quit facebook and follow its alternative twitter. Many Celebs like Cory Doctorow, an author and co-editor of the popular blog BoingBoing, tweeted that he had signed off from Facebook for good.

Frustrated by Facebook's recent privacy changes, a group is urging users to delete their Facebook accounts en masse on May 31.

The campaign comes amid complaints that the social-networking juggernaut is diminishing users' privacy with its "open graph" model that adds Facebook connections on other sites across the internet. A handful of glitches during the rollout of the changes have, in fact, put some personal info at risk, if only briefly.

Group sets May 31 as 'Quit Facebook Day'

Megan Fox out of ‘Transformers 3’

A rep for Paramount confirmed to CNN that Megan Fox won’t be back to reprise her "Transformers" role of Mikaela Banes for a third time.

So did she want a third movie? “Sure,” Fox told EW. “I mean, I can't [expletive] on this movie because it did give me a career and open all these doors for me."

But, she went on, "I don't want to blow smoke up people's . People are well aware that this is not a movie about acting. And once you realize that, it becomes almost fun because you can be in the moment and go, 'All right, I know that when he calls Action! I'm either going to be running or screaming, or both.'”

Huh. Well then – any ideas for who should be cast in her place?

Megan Fox out of ‘Transformers 3’

Hotmail is reloaded.Takes on rivals.

The new Hotmail like you to provide a new experience. In the blog post, Microsoft program manager Dick Craddock said the company studied e-mail usage for a year while considering the changes.

"People made it clear to us that the No. 1 thing they wanted their e-mail service to address -- whether it was Hotmail or any other e-mail service was to help them manage the clutter in their inbox; not just the spam, but all the mail they get that's clogging their inboxes," he wrote.

A key feature to the new Hotmail, which will be rolled out over the next few weeks, will be a "sweep" feature that allows users to clean out their inbox in one fell swoop.

Hotmail is reloaded.Takes on rivals.

Google rolls out new developer tools.

Google kicked off its annual developers' conference on Wednesday by introducing tools to help people build web-based applications, while making a strong push for HTML5, the next generation of the code on which the web is built.

"The future of the web is HTML5," Sundar Pichai, a Google vice president of project management, told the audience at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, California.

Google rolls out new developer tools.

Pakistan blocks Facebook over 'Draw Mohammed Day'

Pakistan is blocking access to Facebook in response to an online group calling on people to draw the Prophet Mohammed, officials said Wednesday.

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority issued the order a day before "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day," scheduled by a Facebook group with the same name, because of "the objectionable material" on the social networking site, said Khoram Ali Mehran of the telecommunication authority.

Pakistan blocks Facebook over 'Draw Mohammed Day'

Beetroot boosts stamina, scientists find

Beetroot juice boosts stamina by making muscles more fuel-efficient, scientists have found.

Last year the same researchers reported that the red vegetable juice can increase physical endurance.

The study focused on men aged 19 to 38 cycling on exercise bikes. Drinking half a litre of beetroot juice a day for a week enabled them to cycle 16 per cent longer before getting tired out.

Beetroot boosts stamina, scientists find

10 things you didn’t know about Twitter

 Courtesy of telegraph.co.uk

1. Twitter has its own DJ booth

Located in the centre of the office’s "breakout" space, it’s the place where celebrities come and "guest mix". The latest starlet was no other than Conan O’Brien, a US TV host and comedian, who then joined the host of other DJs and signed a cartoon version on himself on the Twitter wall of fame.

2. Tea time with Twitter

DJing usually goes on during the company’s weekly "tea time" session on Friday afternoons. It may sound very English and proper– but tea has long been replaced with beer to the soundtrack of someone jamming.


3. Twitter’s office was once home to Bebo

Michael Birch, the British-born entrepreneur who co-founded Bebo with his wife Xochi, was once based in Twitter's offices. Birch, who is now working on a host of new web start-ups in a building just down the road, proudly informed me that the Twitter DJ booth was indeed his creation. However, in his new office space, he’s opting for a more relaxing option this time round: a massage room.

10 things you didn’t know about Twitter

More than half of Facebook users 'could quit the site over privacy worries'

Report claims that around 60 per cent of Facebook users are considering deleting their profile.

Concerns about privacy are running so high that 60 per cent of the 1,588 Facebook users questioned by Sophos, a computer security organisation, said they were considering deleting their accounts on the social networking site.

A further 16 per cent said they had already stopped using Facebook because they felt they had inadequate control over their data, while a quarter said that they would not be quitting the social networking site, which has almost 500 million users worldwide.

More than half of Facebook users 'could quit the site over privacy worries'

2012 London Olympics mascots revealed.

The one-eyed figures, called Wenlock and Mandeville, were unveiled at an east London school on Wednesday with organisers hoping they will inspire a generation of children and persuade their parents to contribute the £15 million the mascots are slated to raise in merchandising revenue.

The mascots will soon be ubiquitous, with merchandise going on sale in July to mark two years to the London 2012 opening ceremony.

2012 London Olympics mascots revealed.

Cow may help to run small computing center at a bank.

Google's and Microsoft's data centers can be now powered by Cows manure. This might be strange to hear but it might be possible,  says Hewlett-Packard engineers.

With the right skills, a dairy farmer could rent out land and power to technology companies and recoup an investment in the waste-to-fuel systems within two years, Hewlett-Packard engineers say in a research paper to be made public on Wednesday.

Cow may help to run small computing center at a bank.

MIT-designed plane to use 70 % less fuel.

A 'green airplane' designed by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-led research team is likely to use 70 per cent less fuel than existing ones while slashing noise and emission of nitrogen oxides.

The design was one of two that the team, led by faculty from the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro), presented to the Nasa last month as part of a $2.1 million research contract.

MIT was the only university to lead one of the six US teams that won contracts from Nasa in October 2008. Ed Greitzer, professor of aeronautics and astronautics was the principal investigator of the project.

MIT-designed plane to use 70 % less fuel.

The piratebay is back to bussiness.

The piratebay is back into the business . After shutting down by Hollywood companies which won the court battle (refer our previous post) the might piratebay was taken out of the cyberspace.But now less than 48 hours its back to business with a smiling cat photo. Here is what they posted into their official blog.

PLZ LEARN: TPB CANT BE SHUT DOWN

LOL!
AS U MITE HAS READ OR NOTICD, PEEPS ONCE AGAIN R TRYIN 2 SHUT US DOWN. DIS WILL NOT SUCCED, LOL. OURS RLY NICE WEBHOST WUZ THREATEND WIF RLY HUGE FINE, SO WE DECIDD 2 MOOV TEH SIET SO DAT THEY DIDNT GOT INTO TROUBLE, LOL. TEH DECISHUN 2 MOOV WUZ TAKEN BY US, TEH PIRATE BAY, LOL.
TEH PIRATE BAY IZ AN UNSINKABLE SHIP. IT WILL SAIL TEH INTERWEBS 4 AS LONG AS WE WANTS IT 2. REMEMBR DAT, K THX.
TPB, ONLY IN IT 4 TEH LULZ SINCE 2003

The piratebay is back to bussiness.

Happiness begins at 50: scientists

London: For many, the age of 50 may be the beginning of the end, but a group of scientists claim the good life begins only when people reach their fifties.

Despite increased risk of death and disease, it seemed that people in their fifties worry less, ignore the negatives and accentuate the positives, according to scientists at Stony Brook University, New York.

The researchers said that when people reach the landmark age, their stress, anger and worry fade gradually and feelings of happiness start to surge, the Telegraph reported.

Happiness begins at 50: scientists

Now its Mr. Amitabh Bachchan join the twitter.

I wonder what made celebs joining twitter. Is it the simple way a celeb can interact with their fans or just like all are joining so do i???

Now its turn of Mr. Amitabh Bachchan joining the world's most popular microblogging service. At 18/05/2010 his followers are 18,305 wow in cyberspace the news spread so fast but why doesn't my blog :P

Here are his First tweets with id @srbachchan

"Yipee. . I am on Twitter. . And you can follow me on . . @srbachchan . .love as always."


@juniorbachchan hey baby !! I made it on twitter !!! Yeeaaaaaahhhh !! ... sorry.. just got carried away .. safe onward flight and love

Now its Mr. Amitabh Bachchan join the twitter.

David Blaine eyes 'life-size bottle in ocean' stunt

Sydney (ANI): Illusionist/endurance artist David Blaine has revealed that he is contemplating being set adrift in the middle of the ocean inside a life-size bottle as his next stunt.

"What am I working on next? It started because I had a dream one night that I was in a life-size bottle in the middle of the ocean," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted him as saying.

"That's where it started, and now I'm trying to work out how to make that into a physical reality - into a real physical feat," he added.

David Blaine eyes 'life-size bottle in ocean' stunt

Hyderabad Scientist invents a pocket size fridge.

An engineer with a diploma in Fine Arts, Subrata Dutta works for CMC, Research and Development in Hyderabad and is an example of how arts (imagination) and science (technology) can come together with staggering results.

A mini-fridge which makes ice exactly in a minute, can be the most handy thing you’ve got when out on the road. Running on a rechargeable battery, the fridge was originally made with the idea of carrying medicines during long journies but can be used for a varied purposes.

Hyderabad Scientist invents a pocket size fridge.

Chinese scientist demonstrate 2 Mbps Internet connect with LED

LED data transmission used to be all the rage -- we fondly remember beaming Palm Pilot contacts via IrDA. Then we got omni-directional Bluetooth and building-penetrating WiFi, and put all that caveman stuff behind us. But now, scientists the world over are looking to bring back line-of-sight networking, and the latest demonstation has Chinese researchers streaming video to a laptop with naught but ceiling-mounted blue LEDs.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences claims to have realized a 2Mbit per second internet connection that transmits data simply by modulating the flicker of the little diodes, and imperceptibly enough to have them serve as room lighting as well.

Like Boston University before them, the Chinese scholars see short-range LED networks controlling smart appliances. It's not quite the gigabit speed you'd get from laser diodes.

Chinese scientist demonstrate 2 Mbps Internet connect with LED

Mobile phones do not raise risk of brain tumours, say scientists

Biggest study ever into link between handset use and cancer finds no evidence they are connected, reports Steve Connor.

The largest and most detailed study yet into the health risks posed by mobile phones has failed to find a link between cellphones and brain cancer, although scientists said that they still cannot give categorical assurances that there are no risks attached to using the devices over long periods of time.

More than 10,000 people from 13 countries took part in the study, which compared mobile phone use among people with brain tumours with healthy "controls". It was the biggest such study by far, yet the researchers found no increase in the risk of getting either of two types of brain tumour – and even detected a slightly lower cancer risk among mobile phone users.

Mobile phones do not raise risk of brain tumours, say scientists

The mighty Piratebay is down.

The most popular file sharing site has been taken down after several Hollywood film studios won an injunction against its bandwidth provider CB3ROB via a court in Hamburg.

A Pirate Bay source told TorrentFreak that it is already working on a backup solution to bring the site online; the servers themselves haven't been touched (or moved) rom their well-guarded - and highly secret - location; they simply need to be routed through another provider.

The mighty Piratebay is down.

Toddlers who lie 'will do better', says study.

Toddlers who tell lies early on are more likely to do well later, researchers claim.

The complex brain processes involved in formulating a lie are an indicator of a child's early intelligence, they add.

A Canadian study of 1,200 children aged two to 17 suggests those who are able to lie have reached an important developmental stage.

Only a fifth of two-year-olds tested in the study were able to lie.

Toddlers who lie 'will do better', says study.