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AMD India developes powerful fusion chip Ontario.[Update]

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AMD India Managing Director and Corporate Vice-President Dasaradha R Gude 'GD' displaying the AMD Ontario Photo: G. Krishnaswamy

Indian division of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) designed and developed a new fusion chip named 'Ontario', which is combo of both central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) and it is said to be 3x more powerful and economical compared to its competitors.

Developed at AMD Hyderabad, India, Ontario took shape after two year of hard work and research by a team of 90 members.

India's first police case registered via facebook.

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Kanpur Police was the first police station in India to register an FIR through Facebook. It's is not surprising as we had heard many incidents past, involving popular social networking sites like twitter and facebook delivering court judgement and as well as used in divorce related cases.

A Facebook user Tabish Ahmad, reported about his lost bag which contained important documents to the Kohna Station via facebook profile page. Police acted fast and started investigation as the user droped his address and phone no. during filing the report.

Marriage prevents antisocial behavior in Men: STUDY

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In a new study led by a Michigan State University, researcher found that married men tend to behave less antisocially.

For their study, They took sample of genetically identical twins and their lifestyle. The researchers examined the data of 289 pairs of male twins. The twins were assessed four times, at ages 17, 20, 24 and 29.

Ants inspires researchers to solve future algorithms .

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Towers of Hanoi maths puzzle into a maze

Ants capability to find the shortest route find the exit of maze with in an hour and to find the second shortest route when the first path was obstructed inspires the researcher for future computation.

Published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, University of Sydney researchers have shown that the tiny ant is capable of solving complex mathematical problems. Researchers says, this will help computer engineers to develop efficient programming for the software to solve logistical problems and maximise efficiency in many human industries.

Electromagnetic Canon successfully test fired by US Navy, travels 5x speed of sound.

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US Navy successfully test fires it's futuristic canon. On Dec 10, US Navy announced successful test firing of an electromagnetic cannon capable of firing a projectile 200 kms at five times the speed of sound.

This was tested at the Navy's Dahlgren Surface Warfare Center in Virginia.

This futuristic weapon uses powerful physical shock of electric current to propel a non-explosive slug along rails before launching it at very high velocities (2x+ speed of sound).

Vatican bank comes under money laundering shadow .

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Institute for Religious Works is a bank which is dedicated to priest where he enjoys several privileges.

During the investigation of money laundering case which led to seizure of Euro 23 million ($30 million) in Vatican assets in september, the vatican bank came under harsh scrutiny by Italian policia.

Spain comes to road in support of Wikileaks, next Amsterdam and Latin America?

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According to spanish language website free wikileaks, more than 100 demonstrated outside the British Embassy in Spain's capital Madrid on 11 Dec to protest the detention of Julian Assange, Wikileak founder, and the closure of its Swiss bank account.

Protester wore mask of hero of the popular Hollywood movie "V for Vendetta"

It also said that protests were due to be held in Barcelona, Valencia and Seville and three other Spanish cities.

Indian Govt launches a website for Online submission for Indian Citizenship

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With new online system, which India has introduced for faster, easier processing of the applications for grant of Indian citizenship.

Home ministry says, I will show its transparency by this system. With this new system, helps in creating a centralised database of citizenship applications .

Major Tech co. in bid to grab candian mobi gaint Nortel.

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According to Reuters unnamed sources, many mobile related companies gonna show their interest in Nortel Mobile buyout.

Filed bankruptcy protection back in June 2009, has approx 4,000 patents worth over $1 billion. We may seen apple and google going aggressive on this bid. Blackberry's RIM, Motorola and other may also show their interest in Nortel's wide range of portfolio.

New polymers which has ability to rebuild itself when exposed to light found.

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Polymer of new type, new form of "shape memory polymers" was found. Whats new is that it have the ability to regenerate to its previous form once damaged. This all happens because of embedded fiber optics.

Worked by engineer Henry Sodano's team at Arizona State University, here it is how its works.

Organic content used by Japanese researchers for making of nano materials.

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New breakthrough in making on nanostructure materials by Japanese researchers.

Pyrroles, which are essential components of our red hemoglobin in our blood and as well as the green chlorophyll in plants.

Researchers led by Hiromitsu Maeda at Risumeikan University used pyrrole molecular motif in the construction of new nanostructured materials.

Bacterial strain to develop increase in ethanol biofuel developed by US Bio engineers.

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With an increase in responsibility to switch to eco fuel, Bioengineers from US developed a modified version of a strain of bacteria which has capability to increase its ethanol production.

Published in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, their research reveals how adaptation and metabolic engineering can be combined for strain improvement.

What make you to spend more time on Gaming?

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Researcher are finding a way a create a good improved life by studying some aspects of gaming.

Jane McGonigal, a game designer and researcher at the Institute for the Future is in a team of researchers who are studying and understanding more about gaming mentality. According to NYTimes articles, an average 21-year-old American has spent 10,000 hours playing computer games.

'Secret ingredient' in religion which gives life satisfaction found.

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Researchers comes up with a study showing relationship between life satisfactions and religion.

It is believed that life satisfaction can be attained only by accepting and appreciation of the almighty god. But the researchers differs, they say that it's the social aspects not the theology or spiritualism which leads to one's life satisfaction, says Chaeyoon Lim, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who led the study.

Using lasers, scientist measures the viscosity(stickiness) of a gas(sixth state of matter)

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Scientist have found out a new way to measure the viscosity i.e., stickiness in general term with the help of ultra-cold Fermi gas of lithium-6 atoms in this case, embedded to laser light.

This experiment can be considered as a big breakthrough in science because, the measurements verify that it can be used as scale model of exotic matter like super-high temperature superconductors, the nuclear matter of neutron stars, and even the state of matter created microseconds after the Big Bang.

Countries may not attend Nobel Prize cermony at Oslo due to China pressure

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Due to Chinese pressure, at least 19 countries have declined to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

Defying Chinese, 44 countries are going to attend, according to a revised guest list from the organisers and officials.

What did people searched on Google in the year 2010

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As the year 2010 is near to its end, Google comes up with Zeitgeist 2010: How the world searched

Openleaks, rival to Wikileaks by Ex-Wikileaks members.

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Have you ever heard of Openleaks?? No ? Soon you will be listing to it. In order to protest against Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, a group of Ex-WikiLeaks collaborators are launching a new campaigning site next week, a Swedish newspaper said on Thursday.

The aim of the Openleaks founders is to build strong, transparent platform to support whistleblowers, both in terms of technology and politics and encouraging others to take similar projects, reports daily Dagens Nyheter.

More than 50% of indian paid bribe in past 12 months : STUDY

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According to a study revealed on account of International corruption day says,one in four people worldwide paid a bribe during the past year.

And so called developing India is in top five, thanks to Common Wealth Games scam.

54 per cent Indians say they hari patti(money) to authorities to get things done quickly and with out fuss.

Who is Julian Assange ? Know him......

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The talk of the internet right now is Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder. All started noting him after the release of some million classified, unclassified US diplomatic chats to the world letting out the inside talk of US diplomatic officials.

Now, most of us would like to know more about Julian Assange including me, so with some net search here is what i got to know about Assange.

Julian Assange, (Australian journalist,publisher,hacker and Internet activist) was born in Townsville, Australia, in July 3rd 1971, spent his youth life in Magnetic Island.