Technology Sector

TrapCall being seen as a technology that may invite troubles for abuse victims

TrapCall being seen as a technology that may invite troubles for abuse victims The domestic abuse advocates are getting really angry about the latest technology, which eliminates anonymous callers by exposing their phone numbers and sometimes even their addresses, as they are of the viewpoint that the product may put victims at risk.

The basic aim of TrapCall, which was launched Tuesday, was to unblock and reveal callers' identities and numbers even after individuals have tried to block the information.

Sweet potato grows roots in outer space

sweet potatoWashington, Feb 18 : Scientists undertook a study on a 5-day space mission on the shuttle Columbia, which showed sweet potato can regenerate its roots in microgravity.

The study was undertaken by Desmond G. Mortley and colleagues from the Center for Food and Environmental Systems for Human Exploration of Space, G. W. Carver Agricultural Experiment Station, and the Kennedy Space Center.

Seeds of several crops have been grown in microgravity, but this was the first test for plants grown from cuttings.

Cuttings grow roots faster than do seeds, and sweetpotato cuttings regenerate very easily.

NASA mission to seek water ice on Moon

water ice on MoonWashington, Feb 18 : NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), which will seek water ice on Moon, is enroute from Northrop Grumman's facility in Redondo Beach, California, to the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for a spring launch.

The satellite's primary mission is to search for water ice on the moon in a permanently shadowed crater near one of the lunar poles.

LCROSS is a low-cost, accelerated-development, companion mission to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO.

Infosys sets up a science foundation in Bangalore

Infosys IntradayBangalore, Feb 17 : IT major Infosys Technologies on Tuesday announced that it has set up a fund `Infosys Science Foundation', for awarding outstanding achievements in various fields.

This foundation would be funded by a corpus of 210.5 million rupees, contributed by the firm''s board members and an annual grant from Infosys Technologies Limited.

The trust would honour an annual award of five million rupees to the countrymen for their exceptional contribution in the arena of physical and mathematical sciences, engineering, life science and social sciences and economics.

Soon, a super console that plays every game ever invented

London, February 17: Techies have come up with a super console that can read original formats of every computer game ever unveiled.

Experts at the University of Portsmouth, along with assistance from across Europe and America, have invented KEEP that can save a huge amount of digital information including both classics and new games.

The 2-million-pound console has been expected to contain, in 2010, the equivalent of 18 million times the information in all the books ever written, all with a single click, reports the Daily Star.

Dr Janet Delve said: "People don't think twice about saving files digitally, from snapshots taken on camera phone to national or regional archives.

US, Russia satellite collision not to delay Chinese space programme

Chinese space programmeNew Delhi, Feb 13 : The wreckage of US and Russian satellites that collided over Siberia poses a threat to Chinese satellites in orbit, but the latter's space plan will proceed as scheduled.

A privately owned US communications spacecraft collided with a defunct Russian military satellite about 800 km above northern Siberia at 4:55 pm GMT on Tuesday, the China Daily reported.

The 560-kg US satellite, of Iridium Holdings LLC, was launched in 1997 and the Russian Cosmos-2251, weighing almost a ton, was sent in space in 1993.

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