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Falcon 9 Successfully Takes Off For International Space Station

Falcon 9 Successfully Takes Off For International Space Station

Last Saturday (19 May, 2012), SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket had to abort its planned launch just a half-second before the rocket lifted-off due to a problem in one of its valves. After the night-long effort of the engineers Falcon 9 rocket as well as Dragon cargo capsule was cleared for launch. The rocket has successfully taken off for International Space Station (ISS) this morning.

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Google Chrome Becomes The World’s Most Used Browser

Google Chrome Becomes The World’s Most Used Browser

Google Chrome has been trailing Internet Explorer for a long time. It was expected that it will soon overtake IE and now, this has happened. According to the latest set of data from Statcounter, Google Chrome is now the most used web browser online, beating Internet Explorer to secure the top spot.

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[Tutorial] How To Access A ‘Page Not Found’ From Your Web Browser

[Tutorial] How To Access A ‘Page Not Found’ From Your Web Browser

You want to view an article or web page but the page does not appear in your web browser? It was deleted or the site hosting it is unavailable? There are different ways to find a page not found. First, search engines like Bing or Google use robots which roam the Internet and record the visited pages in what is called a cache. By accessing the cache of search engines, it is possible to find a web page or an article and view its content. The page will be as it was at the time robots crawled the page. WayBackMachine service works much the same way except that it keeps a history of a web page which is a phenomenal opportunity to go back in time and see how a webpage was several years ago. This can also be a way to find a web page or site that has disappeared. Finally, if a site is unavailable because it is overloaded, nothing like the Coral CDN free service that lets you streamline and pool requests to the server that contains the page you want to reach.

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First-Ever App Created Entirely On iPad, Cargo-bot, Launched On App Store

First-Ever App Created Entirely On iPad, Cargo-bot, Launched On App Store

Given the amount of processing power being offered by iPad tablets, it is no wonder that Two Lives Left has created an iOS app solely on iPad. In creating the app, Codea was made use of. The app that has been created is called Cargo-Bot and is a puzzle game where a robot has to move around crates.

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South Korea Using ‘Robo-guard’ For Guarding Prisons

South Korea Using ‘Robo-guard’ For Guarding Prisons

You surely have seen robots in various roles in movies as well as in real life. But, I’m sure that you have never seen robots guarding the civialians from criminals. The closet thing you might remember is of the movie RoboCop, where a cyborg roam around the city relentlessly to confront the notorious warlords of Detroit, Michigan. The only problem was, RoboCop was not a robot, although he was guarding the city from the criminals. Seems that South Korean authorities have tweaked the idea a little bit, and deployed a robot designed to guard the world from criminals. Only in this case, the criminals are caged in a high security prison. Yes, a prison in South Korea is testing a robot designed to guard the roughest prison cell blocks.

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Larry Page Says Android Is About More Than Just Tablets

Larry Page Says Android Is About More Than Just Tablets

There have been a lot of rumors that Google may launch an Android tablet of its own some time soon. Whereas that remains a possibility, Google’s CEO Larry Page is of the view that the Android platform is not just about tablets, but about the entire ecosystem that surrounds this platform. This essentially means that Google will continue focusing on key features of this ecosystem such as Google Play and Android apps.

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US Navy’s Autonomous Drone Helicopter Preparing To Identify Potential Pirate Ships

US Navy’s Autonomous Drone Helicopter Preparing To Identify Potential Pirate Ships

Last week, the US Navy opened its Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR) for testing some robots’ robotic systems. Now, with a 3D imaging system and high definition cameras, the US Navy plans to use drone helicopters to identify potential pirate ships. The name of this air drone is ‘Fire Scout.’ The nave is already using it. But due to some lackings, the need for robotic and machine-learning software systems has gone up.

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A New Aspect Of Google Glasses

A New Aspect Of Google Glasses

We have been talking alot about Google glasses on our website lately. This is because there are a whole lot of possibilities that come with such a product. Now, joy of tech has explored one such possible use of Google glasses.

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