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Google Earth detects tsunami ‘trigger’ spot in Caribbean

Google Earth helps spot Lost WorldLondon, March 20 : A scientist has used Google Earth to detect a spot in the Caribbean that can trigger a tsunami in the future.

According to a report in New Scientist, the spot was found by Richard Teeuw from the Geohazard Research Centre at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and his colleagues.

“We were doing fieldwork on the volcanic island of Dominica in the Lesser Antilles and initially just used Google Earth to identify good study areas,” he said.

Samsung Launches Widescreen Portable Multimedia Player ‘P3’ In India

Samsung Launches Widescreen Portable Multimedia Player ‘P3’ In IndiaSamsung has come up with its widescreen portable multimedia player, P3 for its Indian customers.

P3
has also won the Design and Engineering Award at the International
Consumer Electronics Show 2009 (ICES 2009), Las Vegas, USA.

In
line with its idea "Palm Theater", the device comes equipped with the
EmoTure interface with haptic feedback, and plays MP3 and video files
on a 3-inch WQVGA TFT-LCD touch screen.

P3 also has a Music Hot
Touch Key, which is placed just below the touch screen, which lets

Now, a device to read e-mails out for you while driving

Now, a device to read e-mails out for you while drivingLondon, Mar 20 : Imagine opening your inbox and a female voice alerting you to a new email and even reading it out for you. Well, it has now become a reality, thanks to a new device called iLane.

Designed for a car, iLane features a synthesised female voice, which alerts users when a new email has been received and reads out the message.

The gadget, by Intelligent Mechatronic Systems, even responds to the voice to draft a reply, reports the Telegraph.

Life not worth living without internet, Hong Kong youngsters say

Life not worth living without internet, Hong Kong youngsters say Hong Kong - Life would be meaningless and not worth living without the internet, nearly one in seven Hong Kong youngsters said in a survey released Friday.

Just under 14 per cent of 1,800 respondents aged 12 to 25 insisted they could not live without the internet while 80 per cent described it as essential.

One-quarter of respondents in the high-rise, high-tech city of 7 million, where 77 per cent of households have broadband access, said they used the internet for more than four hours a day.

Security researcher hacks Mac in just under 10 seconds!

Security researcher hacks Mac in just under 10 seconds!It was Charlie Miller's day again! The security researcher known for hacking a Mac in just 2 minutes at CanSecWest's PWN2OWN contest last year - Charlie Miller improved his record by hacking a Mac in just under 10 seconds, at this year's CanSecWest security conference, on Wednesday.

Charlie Miller won $10,000 hacking a MacBook Air last year, but he won a $5,000 cash prize, along with the MacBook he hacked this year. Miller is presently principal security analyst at Independent Security Evaluators.

‘123456’ is world''s worst password used on the Internet

Melbourne, Mar 19 : `123456' is the most common password used by people on the Internet.

Obscenities, names of fast cars and even ncc1701 - the ship number for Star Trek''s Starship Enterprise, have made it to the list of top 500 worst passwords of all time.

Compiled by Whatsmypass. com, the list features passwords most commonly used by Internet users.

And topping the list of the most common password is 123456, followed by "password" in second place.

Other popular password choices were first names, repeated letters and numbers, pop-culture references.

Even batman, bond007 and cocacola made it to the list, reports the Courier Mail.

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