A stimulus package for the economy, to be announced tomorrow by the government and Reserve Bank, will not be a one-off assistance, but would be the first in a series of measures to help the sectors hit by the global slowdown.
The final report CERN has been issued on the failure of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It has further informed that the device cannot be restarted before June 2009.
It has not been much time since the LHC had commenced operating and a connection between two huge magnets burnt out. Due to this, a ton of liquid helium was released which damaged 53 of the magnets that are required to direct the proton stream around the 27km instrument.
The biomimetics researcher Rhodri Armour at the University of Bath has designed a robot dubbed as the Jollbot that is basically a spherical cage and can roll and jump in any direction.
If in case Jollbot is not able to go around an obstacle, it goes over it. In order to jump over something, the cage compresses and springs open. It is the mechanism inspired by the joints of a grasshopper’s legs.
The Copenhagen-based security company Secunia has put forward an alarming fact that basically more than 98% of Windows computers are facing at least one unpatched application, and nearly half contain 11 or more programs at risk from attack.
A study carried out by Secunia APS claims that 98.1% of the PCs on which its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) utility was installed over the last week have one or more applications that have security updates available for downloading. There were no out-of-date programmes on only 1.9% of Window systems that ran the PSI utility for the first time.
The world’s first personal supercomputer has been developed by the Scientists, which would be 25 times faster than average PC. It is obviously a technological breakthrough that could introduce enormous speed to the next generation of home computers.
The name of the supercomputer is Tesla, which has been created by US-based Company NVIDIA. The supercomputer that looks more or less like an ordinary PC has been priced between 4,000 pounds and 8,000 pounds.