Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Sony Ultrabook. How its build? Incredible Engineering



Here is a video by signal, How sony ultrabook is build in 5 mins. Really awesome.

Google lists what's new, in Jelly Bean II

Google listed out a summary of what's new in Android 4.2, Jelly Bean

This includes few new items Accessibility, Android Bean(NFC, Bluetooth,etc.,), Audio Accessories, Camera, Clock, Face Unlock, Internationalization, Lock Screen, People, Widgets, Google Now, Currents.
Android 4.2, Jelly Bean improves on the speed and simplicity of Android 4.1 and includes all new features – Photo Sphere and a completely redesigned camera app, new Gesture Typing keyboard, Google Now with all new cards, and much more.
  • Everything in Jelly Bean feels fast, fluid, and smooth. Moving between home screens and switching between apps is effortless, like turning the pages of a book.
  • Jelly Bean improves performance throughout the system, including faster orientation changes, quicker switching between recent apps, and smoother and more consistent rendering across the system through vsync and triple buffering.
  • Jelly Bean has more reactive and uniform touch responses, and makes your Android device even more responsive by boosting your device’s CPU instantly when you touch the screen, and turns it down when you don’t need it to improve battery life.
  It include few new items like People, Google Now, Currents, etc., to stay update with current trends and google.

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Friday, February 15, 2013

Watch Asteroid Buzz Earth - 2012 DA14

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This Friday asteroid 2012 DA14 will go down in the record books as the closest approach of an object of its size since astronomers began keeping records a few decades ago.
Zipping past our planet closer than most orbiting communication and weather satellites, this office building sized chunk of rock should be visible to some lucky skywatchers in the Eastern Hemisphere.
When the asteroid is at its closest at 19:24 UTC (2:24 p.m. EST/11:24 a.m. PST) it will be flying over the eastern Indian Ocean, off Sumatra (approx. latitude: -6 deg . South / longitude: 97.5 deg.  East), according to NASA.
Unfortunately for folks in the Western Hemisphere this means it will be daylight and so predictions are that the best chances of catching a view will be from places like Africa and Asia after local nightfall on the 15th.
According to Universe Today, the best views will be from western Indonesia and Australia  when the asteroid will be crossing the overhead sky in the hours before dawn, while folks in Australia and eastern Asia may see it gliding across the heavens much like a fast-moving satellite in the low eastern sky the morning of the 16th.
Although it technically should be bright enough to be easily seen with binoculars (magnitude 7.4), a small telescope is really your best hope. Looking a lot like a faint satellite, what will make hunting down DA14 so tricky, is the fact that it's moving crazy fast across local skies- covering the moon disk's width in less than a minute.
Check out this detailed sky chart to hunt down the speedy space rock.
For those of us in the wrong hemisphere, time zone or don't have the right equipment – then check out great live-streaming web-casts of the encounter online.
NASA will have coverage using a telescope at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. ET on Friday. 
There will also be a video feed by Slooh Space Camera  from their telescopes on the Canary islands, off the west coast of Africa and in Arizona starting at 9 pm EST.
Courtesy: NGC