Boeing's Hydrogen-Powered Spy Plane Can Fly for 4 Days

(Popular Mechanics) The future of spycraft looks pretty heavy, if this new Boeing plane is any indication. Adding to today's parade of pretty new planes, Boeing unveiled a hydrogen-powered unmanned aircraft system Monday that will stay aloft at 65,000 feet for four days.

The Phantom Eye is not exactly sleek, but it's one of the greenest aircraft out there -- its only byproduct is water.

The aircraft heralds a potential new market in data and communications collection, Boeing says. Later this summer, it will be shipped from Boeing's Phantom Works facility in St. Louis to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center for ground and taxi testing. The debut flight will likely take place next year and should last four to eight hours, a mere preview of the aircraft's apparent capabilities.

In terms of power, Phantom Eye is a lightweight -- it has two 2.3 liter, four-cylinder engines that provide 150 hp each, not much more than your average car. This makes sense, because Ford provided the engines, according to a Boeing news release.

The plane has a 150-foot wingspan and can carry up to a 450-pound payload, Boeing says. It will cruise at 150 knots, or 170 miles per hour.

The prototype of a high-tech British roboplane capable of attacking targets as far away as Afghanistan was unveiled by defense contractor BAE Systems in the U.K. Monday.

It's the latest effort by Boeing to build aircraft powered by hydrogen. The firm claimed firsties on a hydrogen fuel cell aircraft back in 2008 when a different Phantom Works division flew a manned aircraft powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

Phantom Eye evolved from Boeing's Condor aircraft, also powered by a piston engine, which made history by reaching a top altitude of 67, 028 feet. Its likely descendants include the Phantom Ray drone, which looks like a slim B-2.

Boeing's Hydrogen-Powered Spy Plane Can Fly for 4 Days

'Jezebel', in the spot light.

By Jennifer Mascia, NYT News Service,

New York: When Jon Stewart announced on the June 29 episode of The Daily Show that "Jezebel thinks I'm a sexist," some viewers may have been wondering: who exactly is Jezebel?

At least a million and a half people can answer that question; that's how many visited the site, a women's interest blog, last month. Mr Stewart's comment was a response to Jezebel's recent report on claims by women who say they faced a sexist environment when they were Daily Show writers and correspondents. The post garnered more than 211,000 page views, over 1,000 comments and a sharp retort from 32 female employees currently with The Daily Show.

Jezebel began in 2007 as a post-feminist companion to Gawker.com, the New York media insider blog, and in some ways has eclipsed its sibling, capturing an impassioned female audience and recently surpassing Gawker in monthly page views.

'Jezebel', in the spot light.

Shocking Truth Behind the so called Developing India.

Acute poverty prevails in eight Indian states, including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, together accounting for more poor people than in the 26 poorest African nations combined, a new ‘multidimensional’ measure of global poverty has said.

The new measure, called the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), was developed and applied by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative(OPHI) with Undp support. It will be featured in the forthcoming 20th anniversary edition of the Undp Human Development Report.

An analysis by the MPI creators reveals that there are more ‘MPI poor’ people in eight Indian states (421 million in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal) than in the 26 poorest African countries combined (410 million).

Shocking Truth Behind the so called Developing India.

Walnuts 'can prevent dementia'.

Want to stave off dementia? All you need to do is to eat walnuts everyday, according to a new study, led by an Indian-origin researcher.

Dr Abha Chauhan and his colleagues at New York State Institute have carried out the study and found eating walnuts on a regular basis can keep one's mental skills up.

According to the researchers, vitamin E and flavonoids in walnuts actually help in destroying harmful free radical chemicals that cause dementia. "Walnuts may have a beneficial effect in reducing the risk, delaying the onset or slowing progression of Alzheimer's disease," the 'Daily Express' quoted Dr Chauhan as saying.

Walnuts 'can prevent dementia'.

Ad system that can detect online shoppers

A new tool examines the cursor behaviour of search-engine users to decide if they are shopping or merely surfing.

Eugene Agichtein and Qi Guo at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, has said that websites like Google commonly display sponsored results above the actual ones, which can be annoying for someone who's not shopping.

They created a web browser add-on that tracks the cursor, and found that the data could help to distinguish between a "browsing" and "shopping" search session over 96 per cent of the time.

"As the session progresses, our system would be able to make increasingly accurate predictions of intent," New Scientist quoted Agichtein as saying.

Ad system that can detect online shoppers

Bella Swan and Edward Cullen to have baby in the next Twilight Installment.

The fourth and the fifth installment of Twilight series is set to go on floors later this year.

The Summit Entertainment announced three weeks ago its decision to split the final film in two, with the first set to open November 18, 2011. Summit still hasn't disclosed the release date of the final film.

Bill Condon is directing Breaking Dawn, the final tome in author Stephenie Meyer's four-book vampire series, which centres on the mortal Bella and the vampire Edward being married and Bella giving birth to a half-vampire-half-human daughter, Renesmee, reports variety.com.

- IANS

Bella Swan and Edward Cullen to have baby in the next Twilight Installment.

Hindu Drinking water from Mosque is a crime?

Several Hindus were attacked and forced out of their homes in Pakistan's southern Sindh province after a boy of the community drank water from a cooler outside a mosque.

About 60 Hindu men, women and children were recently forced to abandon their homes at Memon Goth in Karachi, the capital of Sindh, after influential tribesmen of the area objected to the boy drinking water.

"All hell broke loose when my son, Dinesh drank water from a cooler outside a mosque. Upon seeing him do that, the people of the area started beating him up," a Hindu man named Meerumal told The News daily.

"Later, around 150 tribesmen attacked us, injuring seven of our people who were taken to the Jinnah Hospital," he said.

Hindu Drinking water from Mosque is a crime?

Oracle Octopus Paul to Retire.

At last octopus paul who predicted the FIFA WC 2010, is set to get away from the media and the world eye.

The Sea Life Oberhausen aquarium's spokeswoman Tanja Munzig told AP Television News on Monday that the intuitive invertebrate will "go into retirement and do what he likes to do best: play with his handlers and delight children who come visit to him."

Oberhausen is located in Germany, where Octopus Paul was born.

Oracle Octopus Paul to Retire.

Computer algorithms to help develop flu vaccines

Researchers are using computer programs to develop a fast and efficient method of generating vaccines for new strains of flu viruses.

Dimitris Papamichail, and a team of researchers from Stony Brook University have created algorithms that will design viruses that serve as live vaccines, which are then synthesised to specification.

The new method is called Synthetic Attenuated Virus Engineering (SAVE).
"Our approach is not only useful for influenza; it is also applicable to a wide range of viruses," said Papamichail.

Computer algorithms to help develop flu vaccines

Being Slim doesn't always means Being Healthy.

You may be slim and still have dangerously high levels of fat within you, according to the British Medical Research Council.

Using MRI body scanners doctors demonstrated that even super-slim people could have high levels of internal fat collecting around the heart, liver, kidneys and pancreas. These people, dubbed "skinny-fats", could be seriously putting their health at risk.

"The fat we can see on overweight people is subcutaneous fat," The Daily Telegraph quoted Dr Ron McCoy, Melbourne-based spokesperson for the Royal College of Australian GPs, as saying. However, what could be more dangerous is visceral fat or the fat we can't see but which surrounds vital organs.

Being Slim doesn't always means Being Healthy.

Can you Belive it ? Indian Foreign Ministry is on twitter.

Following the steps of West side type of effort like US to interact with the public directly, Indian foreign ministry has has created a Twitter account and got several followers already.

You can follow them at @indiandiplomacy

In probably the first effort by a government ministry to experiment with the new age internet tools, the Twitter account was created on Thursday, which initially had only two posts.

A Facebook account is also being planned as is the launch of a new web portal by the public diplomacy division of the external affairs ministry, an official told IANS.

Can you Belive it ? Indian Foreign Ministry is on twitter.

Car cheaper then Nano designed by India's Ajmer Students is just worth $1555.

Inspired by the World's Cheapest Car, Engineering students from Ajmer had been working overtime i.r., eight hours a day to create a dream car for the middle class families. It runs on diesel and costs just 70 thousand rupees.

"When Tata launched its Nano car, we started thinking about all the areas where costs can be cut. Our basic idea was to locate all factors through which costs can be reduced and our car can be within the reach of the middle class," said Chaturbhuj Sharma, Engineering student, Bhagwant University.

Another student Samir Singh says, "We had to change a lot of designs and specifications to increase the fuel economy of the car. And through the efforts of our dedicated team, this car will run 35 kilometers per litre."

Car cheaper then Nano designed by India's Ajmer Students is just worth $1555.

Only 8 Indian Cos among 500 World's Biggest Companies.

Only Eight Indian companies feature in the list of the world's 500 largest companies compiled by American business magazine Fortune.

The compiled list by the magazine is topped by US retailer Wal-Mart Stores(1st), followed by oil giant Royal Dutch Shell(2nd) and another oil major, Exxon Mobil(3rd),British Petroleum (BP)(4th)  followed by Toyota Motor (5th), Japan Post Holdings (6th), Sinopec (7th), State Grid (8th), AXA (9th) and China National Petroleum (10th.)

Besides IOC and RIL, the other Indian companies in the list are steel-maker Tata Steel, auto company Tata Motors, oil entities Bharat Petroleum(BP), Hindustan Petroleum(HP) and Oil & Natural Gas (ONGC) and public sector bank SBI (State Bank of India).

Only 8 Indian Cos among 500 World's Biggest Companies.

Nelson Mandela under pressure from FIFA to attend FIFA WC 2010

Nelson Mandela's grandson Mandla Mandela says the former South African president has been put under "extreme pressure" by Fifa Governing Body to attend Sunday's World Cup final.

Nelson Mandela will be 92 years old by next week.

Nelson Mandela cancelled plans to attend the opening ceremony after his great-granddaughter died in a car crash the night before the tournament.

Fifa head Sepp Blatter has said it will be "wonderful" if Mr Mandela attends.

Speaking to the BBC, Mandla Mandela said: "We've come under extreme pressure from Fifa (the governing body of world football) requiring and wishing that my grandfather be at the final.

Nelson Mandela under pressure from FIFA to attend FIFA WC 2010

Clash of Oracles, Octopus Paul v/s Parrot Mani Parakeet.

Both of the Animal Oracle had delivered the results. Octopus Paul form Germany had selected Spain to be FIFA WC 2010 champions, where as Muniyappan's Mani Parakeet which is professional fortune teller in the streets of Singapore had picked Holland to the World Champions 2010.

People are seeking Mani's help to win bets on the World Cup matches, according to a report by the Channel News Asia.

Muniyapan, Mani's owner of Indian origin, said he was now getting 10 customers in an hour compared to 10 on a regular day due to growing popularity of his parrot.

Clash of Oracles, Octopus Paul v/s Parrot Mani Parakeet.

Going 3D is the new talk in Adobe.

The company has revealed it will include 3D support in a future version of the browser plug-in.
The news of the update first leaked out in October’s Adobe Max conference, which includes a presentation entitled “Flash Player 3D Future.”

Adobe product manager Thibault Imbert was first to hint to the presentation in a blog post, but declined to give further details, save for the fact that Adobe will release a “3D API” in a “future version”:

Going 3D is the new talk in Adobe.

Gen Y Will Not Grow Out of Social Networking [STUDY]

In a survey conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, majority of technology experts and stakeholders believe that social networking and online sharing is just for today’s youth frenzy.

More than 2/3 of those surveyed indicated that the Millennial generation  otherwise known as Generation Y  will continue to use social networking tools as they mature into adult life stages and have families of their own.

The research is part of Pew’s fourth “Future of the Internet” study which includes responses from selected experts and Internet  users who were asked to think about “the future of the Internet-connected world between now and 2020.”

Gen Y Will Not Grow Out of Social Networking [STUDY]

India records highest rise in gas production worldwide.

India recorded the highest rise in natural gas output worldwide in 2009 after Reliance Industries' eastern offshore KG-D6 field came into production, global energy giant BP Plc said.

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-run RIL began gas production from the Krishna Godavari basin in April, 2009, and its 60 million standard cubic metres per day output led to a 75 per cent jump in natural gas availability in the country to 140 mmscmd.

"Last year, India had the highest increase in production of natural gas worldwide. And I just checked, it also had the highest corresponding increase in consumption in natural gas worldwide," BP Plc Group Chief Economist Christof Ruhl said.

India records highest rise in gas production worldwide.

Facebook tie up with Malaysia's MOL for payment credits

With growing in members, Facebook is partnering with a Malaysian company to sell credits at retail outlets across Asia for the first time, aiming to make it easier for millions of people to purchase virtual goods and play games on the social networking site while boosting revenue for developers.

Electronic payments company MOL, part of the business empire of tycoon Vincent Tan will offer the online currency from Aug. 1 at more than 500,000 outlets including 7-Eleven stores, Internet cafes and online banks in five Southeast Asian countries, India, Australia and New Zealand, company spokesman Nor Badron said Friday.

The move is targeting people who don't have a credit card, particularly younger Facebook users, and those who don't want to take the risk of making electronic payments online.

Facebook tie up with Malaysia's MOL for payment credits

Oberoi Ranthambhore is one of the world's best hotel : Travel & Leisure Magazine

The Oberoi Group's Vanyavilas Hotel at Ranthambhore has been ranked the best in the world, by the Travel and Leisure magazine.

The hospitality major also reinforced its position at the top with four of its properties making it to the top 15 list released by the magazine on Friday.

Commenting on the recognition the Oberoi Group chairman PRS Oberoi said, "I am delighted that The Oberoi Vanyavilas has been ranked the best in the world and our four group (hotels) have been ranked amongst the 15 best in the world."

Oberoi Ranthambhore is one of the world's best hotel : Travel & Leisure Magazine