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Latest Wikileaks cable comes up with new info on ex-KGB man's radiation poisoning.

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By Alan Cowell, New York Times

Shortly after the radiation poisoning in London of a former K.G.B. officer, Alexander V. Litvinenko, a senior Russian official asserted that Moscow had been tailing his killers before he died but had been waved off by Britain's security services, according to a cable in the trove of secret American documents released by WikiLeaks.

The Russian assertion, denied by British officials, seemed to revive a theory that the British intelligence services played a murky role in the killing -- a notion voiced at the time by some in Moscow to deflect allegations of the Kremlin's involvement in the murder.

Websites soon to be free from suffixes ?

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Tech company from Dutch is said to be in a project to get rid the Internet of limited number of suffixes such as .com and offer single names which can be any thing like fantasy names and what ever.

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which operates the root servers of the Internet guiding all Web traffic, has been working for years on a similar plan as it determines which suffixes, known as top-level domains (TLDs), are recognized by those root servers.

Fifth Generation Fighter air-crafts to be jointly developed by India and Russia.

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Russian President is on 2 day official visit to India. In his tour, India and Russia on Dec-21 decided to jointly design and manufacture a most advanced Fifth generation stealth fighter by signing a preliminary design contract which is said to be worth $30 billion.

The preliminary design contract for the fifth generation fighter aircraft (FGFA) "envisages joint design and development" of the jet, an official statement said.

Do you know about the Britain's Psychic monkey predicting Ashes series and so far correctly foretold the results.

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After the great psychic octopus Paul, FIFA 2010 World Cup fame, there has been no stopping in belief of animals predicting passionate games.... Paul may be no more now but it left it's legacy by predicting the FIFA 2010 World Cup, crowing Spain as champions.......... Now its time for some monkey business....serious business :P.A mystic monkey from North Tyneside, England has correctly predicted the results of the Ashes series so far.

According to The Sun, Jack the cotton-top tamarin has stunned keepers with his fortune-telling skills and could become a massive star if his streak continues.

Predicting at Tynemouth's Blue Reef Aquarium, the mystic monkey has so far correctly foretold the results of the first two Ashes test matches.

Report prepared by Secret Swedish police on Assange got leaked out

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(PTI) The 68-page confidential report prepared by Swedish police got leaked which tells the police version on the alleged sexual misconduct by the Julian assange.

The Swedish report traces events over a four-day period in August this year when 39-year-old Assange had what he has described as consensual sexual relationships with two Swedish women.

Major sites like Google, Yahoo!!!, twitter,Linked In..... resets passwords after Gawker accounts got exposed.

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For our easiness, we have habit of using same user name and password for multiple sites which may include some of the important and critical sites.

After 1.4 million accounts of Gawker's got exposed and is out for public, several unrelated companies had to freeze their accounts and force users to reset passwords.

Evolution of Nokia from Nokia Mobira Senator to Nokia N8

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Nokia got into telephony business with Salora in 1979, established Mobira Oy. Withe the launch of Nordic Mobile Telephone, World's first international Mobile operator, in 1981, Nokia launched its first car phone, Mobira Senator, in 1982.

Beware of 3D TVs, it can disorient you brain: Scientists

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Scientists warns that the 3D content, particularly 3D TVs can disorient the brain, causing eye strain, headaches, nausea and sickness.

The person who is mostly like to be affected by this is the one closer to the screen.

Studies show that in up to 20 percent of the viewers it could even induce physical sickness, the Daily Mail reported, quoting the New Scientist.

Wikileaks Cable: US Diplomats suggested Indian movies stars might help in stabilizing the war-torn Afghanistan

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In one the cable leaks, US diplomats suggested that the popular stars from Hindi-language film industry(Bollywood) could be sent to Afghanistan to help stabilise the country, was published on Friday.

The confidential US document from March 2007, said that high-profile Bollywood actors could play a key role in India's 'soft power' assistance in Afghanistan.

GPS unit embedded in you cap may come handy when you are at new location.

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Now you may not need any GPS device to know where you are, instead just all you need is a cap. Yeah cap or hat what ever....since, this is not an ordinary cap because the cap has an integrated GPS unit with voice-activated processor.

Check out the Citi bank New York’s Union Square branch for Sneek peak of future bank.

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The future bank from Citi group is now live at New York’s Union Square. Why i said future is because it is different from the rest.

There you will be seeing six interactive sales walls with touchscreen capabilities, instead of paper brochure. Instead of using deposit envelopes, there you can use enhanced-image ATMs to deposit checks . And customers can use a 24/7 video chat in the ATM lobby for any help.

People tends to become more emotional at the age 60:Study

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We see that it's harder for the older people to hide their feelings which some times comes out in form of tears.This was observed by psychologists, when viewing heartbreaking or disgusting scenes in movies and reality shows.

According to research from UC Berkeley, Old people are better than their younger counterparts at seeing the positive side of a stressful situation and empathizing with the less fortunate.

US geophysicist measures the magnetic strength of the earth for the first time.

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Geophysicist from University of California, Berkeley, has made the first-ever measurement of the magnetic strength of the inside Earth's core, 1,800 miles underground.

They found out the the magnetic field strength is 25 Gauss(50x stronger than the magnetic field at the surface that makes compass needles align north-south).

Gadget(machine) governed by quantum mechanics law is designed by the US physicists for the first time.

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Generally the machines we are using now works by the law related to classical mechanics but the scientists from the University of California at Santa Barbara had designed a gadget which can only be described by quantum mechanics, rules that governs the behavior of tiny things like molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles.

Physicists Andrew Cleland and John Martinis and their colleagues designed a machine, a tiny metal paddle of semiconductor, visible to the naked eye behaves according to quantum mechanics laws.

103 year old Lillian Lowe from UK is the facebook's oldest user.

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This 103 year old granny from Britain named Lillian Lowe regularly logs on to the popular networking site 'facebook' on her iPad.

She uses facebook to keep in contact with her seven grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren and has 32 members in her friend list, Sun daily reports.

Wikileaks saga portraited on sanitary pad's ad in pakistan.

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This is what i call making the most of the available opportunity. Ad agency from pakistan is trying to make of the most of the wiki"Leaks".

Advertisers in the feminine hygiene business, ridiculing the US Govt incapability of preventing the leak of US diplomatic cable data, tells women that while the US State Department might leak, they don't have to.

Mom's (Maa) voice plays vital role in triggering the development of brain in newborns

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Image showing an infant's brain activity upon hearing his mother’s voice, and then a stranger’s voice.

This latest research by researchers from the University of Montreal and the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Centre shows that the mother-child bond is the ultimate one.

Researcher had learned that, mother's voice activates the parts of the brain responsible for language learning.

Being Positive helps brain in expanding your creativity: Study

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According to the researcher carried out by graduates of University of Western Ontario, a happy and positive mood helps in improving the creativity of that person.

This study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, was carried out by Ruby Nadler, Rahel Rabi and John Paul Minda, students of University of Western Ontario.

Organometallic fuel cell, a win-win for environment, produces both current and useful chemicals.

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Scientist from Swiss and Italy had come up with a new eco friendly cell which is said to be capable of manufacturing waste free chemicals from renewable raw materials and carbon di-oxide free electricity.

It is in the form of rectangle shape, made of transparent plastic, size more than a general fist. The inventor says This fuel cell won’t solve the world’s energy problems, but he think that it can be used to make fine chemicals from renewable raw materials with no waste products.

This all could happened because of the metal rhodium, embedded in the anode material absorbs liberated charges and transfers them to the cathode, which releases them again, generating an electric current.

Los Angeles is too bright to get fresh air during nights.

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According to the research carried out by US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Colorado’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), the reason for non availabilty of fresh air in Los Angeles during night may be its high-fly, flash lifestyle of the building.