December 12: The year’s buzziest movie is apparently more important than you realized — at least on Facebook. The social network on Wednesday unveiled its “Year in Review” feature, which lists the most popular topics this year. The United States presidential election topped the rankings both in America and globally, while “Star Wars: The Force […]
December 11: Twitter said Thursday it was expanding its advertising to allow marketers to reach people who use the messaging platform without logging in. The move potentially opens up new revenue streams to Twitter, which has struggled to expand its user base. Twitter has some 320 million active users, but claims its “total audience” is […]
December 5: Habitat destruction along routes taken by the world’s migratory birds poses an increasing peril to these long-distance fliers, with a vast majority crossing terrain that nations are inadequately protecting, according to scientists. The researchers said on Thursday they tracked the migratory routes, stopover locations, breeding grounds and wintering locations of 1,451 migratory species […]
December 5: Swedish scientists have built a camera that makes methane gas visible. The tool could help researchers study greenhouses gases and answer tricky questions about climate change. It’s also good for visualizing cow farts. Magnus Gålfalk of Linköping University explains that the camera works using infrared spectroscopy. Called “hyperspectral imaging,” the method simultaneously captures […]
December 4: Global smartphone sales growth will cool to single digits for the first time ever amid a slowdown in China, a new market forecast said Thursday. The research firm IDC said it expects worldwide smartphone shipments to grow 9.8 percent in 2015 to a total of 1.43 billion units. The forecast was updated to […]
December 4: Most people think of black holes as giant vacuum cleaners sucking in everything that gets too close. But the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are more like cosmic engines, converting energy from infalling matter into intense radiation that can outshine the combined light from all surrounding stars. If the black […]
Narayan Prasad Ghimire / Kathmandu: The government recently renamed the Ministry of Information and Communications as the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology. It is indeed a welcome act that technology has been linked to information and communication. However, the government has not made it clear why the ministry was renamed and how it would […]
November 27: Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) have developed a smart chip which can tell you how healthy is your battery and if it is safe for use. If the battery in your smartphone or electric vehicle is faulty and is at risk of catching fire, this smart chip will warn you. Current […]
November 28: Federal transportation officials are rethinking their position on self-driving cars with an eye toward getting the emerging technology into the public’s hands. Just two years ago, the U.S. Department of Transportation struck a cautious tone. Its official policy statement, published in May 2013, says cars should be limited to testing and not “authorized […]
November 27: VY Canis Majoris is a stellar goliath, a red hypergiant, one of the largest known stars in the Milky Way. It is 30–40 times the mass of the Sun and 300,000 times more luminous. In its current state, the star would encompass the orbit of Jupiter, having expanded tremendously as it enters the […]
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