Airbag To Protect Your Smartphone From Cracking

London,: US technology giant Amazon has devised a new motion sensor technology for an airbag that can protect your gadgets including smartphones, cameras and tablets from cracking when dropped. The system uses motion sensors, already built into most smart phones, to detect when a phone has been dropped  and the mini airbag is then deployed before it hits the floor. A traditional airbag in cars is deployed upon impact, cushioning the passengers’...

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Great Ten Tips For Keep Your Mobile Phone Working

Want to keep your phone working as well as it can and should? We'll bet at least one of these tips from our experts will shock you. 1. Weak signals kill your battery. Phones use more power when they're trying to access a weak network signal. In fact, just leaving your phone on in area with little or no signal can completely use up your battery in a handful of hours even if you never touch your phone. And avoid stashing the phone in a packed...

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Florida man pleads guilty in New York in $1M dinosaur fossils dispute

NEW YORK –  A Florida man has pleaded guilty in New York to smuggling dinosaur fossils into the United States, admitting that he lied to U.S. customs authorities. Eric Prokopi entered his plea Thursday in federal court in Manhattan. The plea deal requires the 38-year-old fossils dealer to give up claims to a 70 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton the government seized earlier this year. He also must give up claims to...

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Mars Express christens new space antenna with red planet images

NASA’s Curiosity rover may be getting us close-up to Mars, but the European Space Agency’s Mars Express probe has a far more macro perspective as it beams back the first shots to be received at the new Malargüe space tracking station. Powered up earlier this month, the ultra-sensitive radio antenna funneled back shots from the Mars Express’ Visual Monitoring Camera showing the red planet from over 6,000 miles away. Mars Express was launched back...

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Full Moon is the 13th and Last of 2012

Today, Dec. 28, 2012, marks a somewhat infrequent and cool event: the 13th full Moon of the year. Technically, the Moon was most full at 10:21 UTC (04:21 Eastern US time this morning), but will appear full to the eye all day and night. It rises at sunset no matter where you are, and stays up pretty much all night. So what’s the big deal? Well, to be honest, it’s more of a mathematical curiosity than anything else. First, if you want to know...

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Saber Tooth Starvation is a Fabrication

When scientists at Vanderbilt University took a closer look at saber tooth tigers' fossils, they expected the predator's teeth to be filed down and worn, an indicator of the hypothetical food shortage that killed off the class. Instead, they discovered no such evidence, discounting the current theory accounting for the saber tooth's death -----via Vanderbilt University News.------ Larisa DeSantis explains, "The popular theory for the...

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Video Games Of 2012 Top TEN List

New installments of popular franchises such as "Halo" and "Call of Duty," expectations ran high for video games in 2012. While the year's most anticipated title, "BioShock Infinite," got pushed to 2013, there were still plenty of games that pushed new boundaries with innovative story lines, fantastic graphics and creative storytelling. Two new consoles, the handheld PlayStation Vita and the Nintendo Wii U, introduced new gameplay options...

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New Google office in Toronto Gallery

The music room is seen at the new Google office in Toronto, Reuters/Mark Blinch Google employee Andrea Janus demonstrates the use of the mini-putt green on the balcony at the new Google office in Toronto,  Reuters/Mark Blinch The billiards room is seen at the new Google office in Toronto,  Reuters/Mark Blinch People walk by a YouTube sign at the new Google office in Toronto,  Reuters/Mark Blinch A Google employee...

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Cancellation of about 200 US Flights on Thursday

WASHINGTON: A powerful winter storm forced the cancellation of about 200 US flights on Thursday, snarling holiday travel as heavy snow and high winds pummeled the northeastern United States. The National Weather Service forecast 12 to 18 inches (30.5 to 46 cm) of snow for northern New England as the storm moved northeast out of the lower Great Lakes, where it dumped more than a foot (30.5 cm) of snow in parts of Michigan. The storm front was...

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journal Neurology Eye Scan can reveal extent of Multiple Sclerosis

A simple eye test may offer a fast and easy way to monitor patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), medical experts say in the journal Neurology. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a scan that measures the thickness of the lining at the back of the eye - the retina. It takes a few minutes per eye and can be performed in a doctor's surgery. In a trial involving 164 people with MS, those with thinning of their retina had earlier and more active...

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Mercedes-Benz revised styling

 Mercedes-Benz has revealed its significantly updated E-class. The mid-life makeover includes revised styling, updated engines, a higher level of standard equipment, new safety features and hi-tech options. The changes are described as the most complete in Mercedes’ history. The heavily revised E-class is set to get its first public outing at the Detroit motor show in January. The main thrust of Mercedes’ efforts to increase the appeal...

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Wi-Fi in offer - London cabs to free in 2013

London taxis are already the best in the world, and soon they'll also be the most connected. From March 2013, passengers in the city's iconic Hackney Carriages will have access to a free high-speed Wi-Fi service called CabWifi, as reported by The Next Web. The plan, launched by Eyetease Limited, will be one of the first to offer in-cab Wi-Fi. "London is the first of several major cities we are launching CabWiFi," said Richard Corbett,...

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Trying to make sites more dependable with users' personal information

There's a lack of trust between Internet users and the websites that collect their private data. These sites aren't going to stop gathering personal information anytime soon, but one company hopes to make the exchange less strange when people sign on to a site using a social media profile. Logging in to third party sites or commenting systems with Twitter, Facebook, Google+ ,Yahoo, and other social profiles is common - 53% of people have...

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Ray Kurzweil would join Google starting Monday as director of engineering

Ray Kurzweil, the famed discoverer and futurist, said today that he would join Google, starting Monday, to work on "some of the hardest problems in computer science." Kurzweil's title will be director of engineering. In a long statement on his Web site, he said he would focus on machine learning and language processing: "I've been interested in technology, and machine learning in particular, for a long time: when I was 14, I designed software that...

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Unlocking Saturn's moon, Secrets & Gallery : Eclipsing a Moon

Eclipsing a Moon Saturn's moon Enceladus is partially eclipsed by the planet in this Cassini spacecraft view which also features the moon Titan in the distance. Cassini flew by Enceladus, shown in the center of the view, at a distance of about 16,000 miles (26,000 kilometers). The terminator between the day and night sides of Enceladus (313 miles, or 504 kilometers across) can be seen on the far left of the moon, while the shadow of the eclipsing...

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Astronomers Catch Jet from Binge-Eating Black Hole

Back in January, a new X-ray source flared and rapidly brightened in the Andromeda galaxy (M31), located 2.5 million light-years away. Classified as an ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX), the object is only the second ever seen in M31 and became the target of an intense observing campaign by orbiting X-ray telescopes -- including NASA's Swift -- and radio observatories on the ground. These efforts resulted in the first detection of radio-emitting...

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Flights of Flames for Fire Safety in Space

In today’s A Lab Aloft guest blogger, Sandra Olson, Ph.D., reveals some of the mysteries of how flames burn in microgravity, as well as how flame studies on the ground and aboard the International Space Station help with fire suppression and safety in space. Whether dropping through a hole in the ground as part of a drop test or zipping through space aboard the International Space Station, flames behave in fascinating ways in microgravity!...

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