Facebook Becoming a Source of Jealousy for Lovers

When was the next time you saw your lover's profile on facebook after a fight? Just to see the status of relationship? Oh! don't get me wrong. Some social psychologists at the University of Guelph in Ontario would like you to know that they can prove that your heartbreak is largely Facebook's fault, or rather that the fault lies in the fact that Facebook exists. After a little research, the wise brains penned a study entitled "More Information than You Ever Wanted: Does Facebook Bring Out the Green-Eyed Monster of Jealousy?"

A DNA Computer Can Solve Problems

DNA has been used to do simple number crunching before, but a system developed by Israeli scientists can effectively answer yes or no questions. Strands of DNA are designed to give off a green light corresponding to "yes".

The team, led by Tom Ran and Ehud Shapiro of the Weizmann Institute in Israel, has been developing DNA-based computation systems for a number of years, including "computers" that can diagnose and treat cancers autonomously.

Imagine the Power of DNA

According to an article on HowStuffWorks, one pound of DNA has the capacity to store more information than all the electronic computers ever built;­ and the computing power of a teardrop-sized DNA computer will be more powerful than the world's most powerful supercomputer (RoadRunner).

A 1 cubic centimeter (0.06 cubic inches) DNA computer would be able to hold 10 Terabytes of data, and perform 10 trillion calculations at a time. By adding more DNA, more calculations could be performed.

Unlike conventional computers, DNA computers perform calculations parallel to other calculations. Conventional computers operate linearly, taking on tasks one at a time. It is parallel computing that allows DNA to solve complex mathematical problems in hours, whereas it might take electric computers hundreds of years to complete them.

Now You Can be the Terminator or Cyborg!!!

While eye worn or behind the eye Augmented Reality is still in it's infancy, mobile operator have already strated to harness the geographical data on the internet to be combined with a mobile phone's video camera view.


With this technology, you just point it at some loction and the LCD of you phone will automatically fetching information from the web and put it on the screen just like Terminator's eyes used to do!

So the next time your on the road and want to see if there are rooms available in the hotel across the street or what's on the menu in the restaurant on your left, just point your camera on the hotel and get it all without leaving your car.

At the moment only a UK firm Acrossair is providing this service as an App for iPhone.

Microsoft Lays Off 3,000 (and counting) Employees!!!

Source: NetworkWorld.com

Microsoft Corp. laid off 3,000 workers last week in the second wave of a major reduction announced in January. And in a memo to employees, CEO Steve Ballmer said more cuts are possible.

"As we move forward, we will continue to closely monitor the impact of the economic downturn on the company and if necessary, take further actions on our cost structure, including additional job eliminations," Ballmer wrote.

In January, Microsoft had disclosed plans to eliminate 5,000 positions, more than 5% of the 96,000 full-time workers it employed at the time. About 1,400 people were laid off then.

In an April 23 10-Q filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Microsoft said it set aside $237 million for severance payments to 3,400 laid-off employees, "all of whom are expected to leave the Company by June 30, 2010."

The filing also said that the company plans to hire 2,000 to 3,000 people over the next 18 months.

Windows 7 Release Candidate Leaked (Before May 5th)

Folks,

Windows 7 RC (Build 7100) has been leaked on various P2P Networks. While you might find it difficult to resist the temptation to get your hands on this long awaited and most appreciated version of Windows from Microsoft, it is however advisable that you wait until May the 5th 2009 to get the genuine (but free) one. Did I say genuine? Well, critics are not yet sure if the version available on P2P Networks is really genuine or not.

Oh boy! I dunno whether I'm gonna wait or not... Hey where's that ***rrent icon man??? :P