Stargazers will witness the smallest and faintest full moon of this year as the celestial body reaches the farthest position from the earth on Wednesday.
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Posted by Jenni (#2) 218 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)Complete ban on encrypted communications not desirable: DoT
Posted by Jenni (#2) 219 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
In some relief to BlackBerry, the Telecom Ministry is understood to have said that a complete ban on encrypted communications is not desirable as long as solutions exist to have the data intercepted in a readable format.
SRM University's satellite to take to the skies
Posted by Jenni (#2) 219 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
As the PSLV-C18 carrying Megha-Tropiques, an Indo-French venture to study the atmosphere in the tropical regions, blasts off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota on October 12, students will be holding their breath at the ground station at SRM University in the city outskirts.
The tough job of bridging technology and medicine
Posted by Jenni (#2) 220 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
The researchers at the Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology, University of California Davis, stuck a single ball lens into the camera of an iPhone and rendered it into a microscope.
A new Indian OS on cloud
Posted by Jenni (#2) 220 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
A system crash one year ago forced Deepak John, a second-year engineering student, to devise a portable operating system on cloud, which can solve many problems of travelling professionals, who seek access to secure computers.
India launches world’s cheapest tablet PC
Posted by Jenni (#2) 222 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
The world’s cheapest tablet PC, priced at around Rs. 1,200, will now be available to students in the country as part of the government’s programme to expand education through information technology.
ISRO gears up for launch of Megha-Tropiques
Posted by Jenni (#2) 222 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
Final preparations are on for the October 12 launch of Indo-French ‘Megha-Tropiques’ satellite that would study tropical climate, from spaceport of Sriharikota, about 90 km from here.
New dinosaur tracks found in U.S. state
Posted by Jenni (#2) 223 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
Researchers at the University of Arkansas are studying a new field of fossilized dinosaur tracks, including one set that appears to be from a large three-toed predator, the university said on Wednesday.