Washington, Dec 17 : Google is reportedly testing web-connected thermostats to help users monitor their home energy use and make required adjustments.   The search giant had attempted at similar tech few years ago with PowerMeter, a web dashboard that tracked an entire home's energy use , which was stalled mid way citing difficulties scaling it up, the Verge reports.   According to the report, it might be a better time for Google to launch such a service in the era of Internet of things as there is a wave of increasingly connect

Social-networking site Twitter is reportedly working on a new feature called "edit" that would allow users to make changes to their tweets even after they have been published, The Desk reported.

Citing anonymous sources, The Desk reported that the new feature would allow users to edit their already published tweets. However, sources "close to the project" also said that the new feature would offer a limited time period to make small changes in the published tweets.

It means users will be able to add a couple of words or fix a typo in their already published tweets. There would be a limit of one editing session per tweet.

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As if mysterious barges and a secret research-and-development lab weren't enough, Google has now acquired Boston Dynamics, a company whose unassuming name belies its revolutionary purpose: making rugged, next-generation robots for the U.S. military.

These robots include BigDog, which can lift and throw heavy objects, WildCat, a noisy, galloping quadruped and Cheetah, the fastest land robot in the world, which can run more than 28 miles per hour. Boston Dynamics is also developing humanoid robots designed to work in hazardous environments.
  mage credit: Boston Dynamics On YouTube, videos of the robots running, climbing hills, chucking cinderblocks and perfo

(This undated photo provided by Google shows a Google data center in Hamina, Finland. The Washington Post is reporting Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, that the National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world. The Post cites documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with officials. (AP Photo/Google))   The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, a newspaper reported, citing documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. A secret accounting dated Jan.

   China's first moon rover mission is poised for a weekend landing on the lunar surface, an event that — if successful — will mark the country's first robotic landing on another celestial body.

China's Chang'e 3 lunar lander is currently orbiting the moon with its solar panels and landing legs deployed. If all goes well, the lander — which is carrying China's first robotic rover — for a planned soft-landing on Saturday, Dec. 14, Beijing Time at Sinus Iridum, also known the Bay of Rainbows.

Once on the moon, the lander will unleash the instrument-laden Yutu rover, a six-wheeled robot built to trundle across

     The newest humanoid robot from NASA just might be mistaken for a superhero.

The space agency's new Valkyrie — a 6 foot 2 inch tall (1.9 meters) robot with a glowing NASA logo on its chest — bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel's superhero Iron Man, but this space age automaton was built for work, not comic book heroics. A team of engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Tex., designed and built Valkyrie in just nine months, according to press reports.

 The robot was developed for the DARPA Robotics Challenge taking place at the end of the month and is designed to help humans during disasters.

   Hey, robots can play catch. Robot Justin, a humanoid two-arm system, developed by the German air and space agency, Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt, can perform given tasks autonomously such as catching balls or serving coffee. See more robot pictures.© Michael Dalder/Reuters/Corbis   Being a human is far easier than building a human. Take something as simple as playing catch with a friend in the front yard. When you break down this activity into the discrete biological functions required to accomplish it, it's not simple at all. You need sensors, transmitters and effectors. You need to calculate how hard to throw based on the distance between

  With remote-sensing satellites, scientists have found the coldest places on Earth, just off a ridge in the East Antarctic Plateau. The coldest of the cold temperatures dropped to minus 135.8 F. Where is the coldest temperature ever measured on Earth? "It's in Antarctica of course," Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., said here today (Dec. 9) at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

That temperature? A mind- — and body-numbing — minus 136 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 93.2 Celsius), measured in pockets scattered near a high ice ridge between Dome Argus and Dome Fuji, two summi

                                        Chennai: The first Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre of India's maiden mission to Mars was today carried out successfully by ISRO scientists on the spacecraft, which is presently travelling some 2.9 million kms away from Earth.

"The first Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre (TCM) of Spacecraft was carried out successfully at 06:30 hrs (IST) by firing the 22 Newton Thrusters for a duration of 40.5 seconds. The spacecraft is travelling at a distance of about 29 lakh (2.9 million) km away from Earth,

NASA engineers are developing climbing legs for the International Space Station’s robotic crewmember Robonaut 2 (R2), marking another milestone in space humanoid robotics. The legless R2, currently attached to a support post, is undergoing experimental trials with astronauts aboard the orbiting laboratory. Since its arrival at the station in February 2011, R2 has performed a series of tasks to demonstrate its functionality in microgravity. These new legs, funded by NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations and Space Technology mission directorates, will provide R2 the mobility it needs to help with regular and repetitive tasks inside and outside the space station. The goal is t

  Scientists have found evidence of an ancient freshwater lake on Mars well suited to support microbial life, the researchers said Monday. The lake, located inside Gale Crater where the rover landed in August 2012, likely covered an area 31 miles (50 km) long and 3 miles (5 km) wide, thoughits size varied over time.

Analysis of sedimentary deposits gathered by Nasa's Mars rover Curiosity shows the lake existed for at least tens of thousands of years, and possibly longer, geologist John Grotzinger, with the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, told reporters at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco.

"We've come

This is an artist's conception of a young planet in a distant orbit around its host star. The star still harbors a debris disk, remnant material from star and planet formation, interior to the planet's orbit (similar to the HD106906 system). (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)   An international team of astronomers, led by a University of Arizona graduate student, has discovered the most distantly orbiting planet found to date around a single, sun-like star. It is the first exoplanet -- a planet outside of our solar system -- discovered at the UA.

Weighing in at 11 times Jupiter's mass and orbiting its star at 650 times the average Earth-Sun distance, planet HD 106

WASHINGTON: Yahoo has reportedly acquired an online platform for live concerts, Evntlive, for an undisclosed amount.    Evntlive was founded in late 2011 and launched in beta in April 2012 after raising $2.3 million in funding from notable investors including Vint Cerf.    According to Mashable, post the deal, Evntlive will be shutting down its services and join the Yahoo team for their projects.    Evntlive said that since their beta service launch, they have live streamed hundreds of performances from amazing artists and festivals to fans all over the world adding that although, now their service will not be available, they are excited to join Yaho

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Morgan Freeman picture painted by a famous artist Kyle Lambert is stunned that no one is looking . This painting is one of the world's few miraculous finger painting . In the preparation of this painting took more than 200 hours . Is certain is that the painting is created with the help of one finger, iPad Air .       Similarly, Kyle Lambert's Finger painting is painted by Rihanna's such a great pi

NEW DELHI: India's leading GSM service provider Bharti Airtel is set to launch voice call facility on its 4G LTE network in Bengaluru. The company has been offering 4G data services in Pune, Kolkata, Chandigarh, Mohali, Panchkula and Bengaluru.   Bharti Airtel through its Twitter account announced that Bengaluru customer will be able to use Airtel 4G services on LTE enabled smartphones in 3 weeks.   "ET Telecom did not get any response over the development from the company".   The telco has adopted Circuit Switched Fall Back (CSFB) technology for providing voice calling facility over its 4G LTE networks in the country. With CSFB technology deployed wi

WASHINGTON: The National Security Agency tracks the locations of nearly 5 billion cellphones every day overseas, including those belonging to Americans abroad, the Washington Post reported.   The NSA inadvertently gathers the location records of "tens of millions of Americans who travel abroad" annually, along with the billions of other records it collects by tapping into worldwide mobile network cables, the newspaper said in a report on its website.   Such data means the NSA can track the movements of almost any cellphone around the world, and map the relationships of the cellphone user. The Post said a powerful analytic computer programme called CO-TRAVELER crun

NEW DELHI: Consulting and IT services giant Accenture today announced two new services -- digital and strategy -- and key appointments to enhance its position in growth markets like Asia Pacific, Africa and Latin America.    Gianfranco Casati has been appointed to the newly created position of group chief executive - growth markets, Accenture said in a statement.    In this new role, Casati will oversee Accenture's business in Asia Pacific, Africa and Latin America and work closely with heads of the company's five operating groups.    A member of Accenture's Global Management Committee, Casati was earlier serving as the group chief execut

NEW DELHI: The home page of world's most popular video sharing website YouTube went down for a while today. The web page showed that the site was facing the 500 internal server error. This error means that the website is facing issues at server level, but a more specific reason for the problem has not been ascertained yet.    Upon clicking YouTube, the visitor got this message: "500 Internal Server Error. Sorry, something went wrong. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation." Analytics websites like DownRightNow, which track whether a particular site is facing problems in real-time, also showed that YouTube was facing a se

Blue Origin test fires a powerful new hydrogen- and oxygen-fueled American rocket engine at the company's West Texas facility. Blue Origin's Orbital Launch Vehicle will use the BE-3 engine to propel the company's Space Vehicle into orbit. Image Credit: Blue Origin   NASA commercial crew partner Blue Origin of Kent, Wash., announced it has tested a new, hydrogen- and oxygen-fueled engine designed to lift the company's crewed Space Vehicle on future missions out of Earth's atmosphere. Blue Origin is one of the American companies developing next generation rockets and spacecraft capable of carrying humans to low-Earth orbit.   Blue Origi

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