Washington, Aug 9 : Milliseconds can fill a huge gap between triumph and defeat in the world of Olympic sports. Now, a fluids mechanics professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, has used experimental flow measurement techniques to help American swimmers sharpen their strokes, shave seconds from their lap times to secure a gold in Beijing.

London, August 9 : Japanese researchers have proposed an idea to use stretchy circuits made from rubber and nanotubes to create an “e-skin”, which will be flexible enough to completely cover a robot without limiting its movement.

"Without human skin-like sensitivity, robots cannot be used in everyday life. Imagine the danger if a robot did not recognise when it had accidentally bumped into a young child," New Scientist magazine quoted Takao Someya of the University of Tokyo as saying.

He has already developed a rubbery conductor, that can be stretched by 38 per cent without any drop in its conductivity. 

He says that a net of it was still working after being stretched by 134 per cent, though with a drop in conductivity.

Melbourne, Aug 9 : Olympic Games organisers have claimed that the controversial decision to block Internet sites was taken to protect Chinese children.

Asked why sites such as Free Tibet and those covering the Tiananmen Square Massacre were not accessible, Wang Wei, the vice-president of organising committee BOCOG, said: “We (BOCOG) promised free access except for a few websites that jeopardise our security and the healthy growth of our youth.”

London, Aug 9 : Cyber attacks on British Government computer systems and vital parts of the economy have become one of the greatest threats to national security, an official report has disclosed.

The Government confirmed for the first time that a series of electronic assaults on official and private sector databases have already been carried out and are continuing.

The Indian market is flooding with new technological products day by day, and to add yet one more exclusive product in its availability, Gigabyte recently launched its latest GA-EP43-S3L motherboard, which is based on the new Intel P43 chipset.

The latest Intel Core 2 multi-core processors, including 45nm CPUs, which have been over locked in this new motherboard, will enable it to a record setting 1600 MHz Front Side Bus.

Gigabyte has invented this new motherboard for providing excellent performance and stability.

A whole new version of SQL Server by Microsoft is soon to hit the market, which will be filled with new and exciting features like support for policy-based management, auditing, large-scale data warehousing, geospatial data, and advanced reporting and analysis services.