wolfram alpha search engine (source-http://ambigram24.blogspot.com/)

 " Wolfram(http://www.wolframalpha.com)" is a computational search engine which gives statistical information on a query.My friend abhijeet had suggested this website.He was very impressed with the search engine, so i thought to give it a try.

I searched 'VNIT' in the engine,i was not impressed at the beginning for the simple fact that ,it portrays the information in detailed and precise form but i felt what's so great about that.

Then i browsed the website i saw that its not just a simple search engine which puts data in precise and detailed format.

Wolfram|Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers—
not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods.

It analyses data and gives conclusions.It has revolutionized the way of computing.Though it is not presently threat to google,but it might give a good competition in future.

For years Google has been there for us, serving to there level best. From

use of web browser as explorer

 Do you know that you can access your computer using a web browser?if you dont ,i will tell you how...

firstly open any browser, then in its URL box in which you normally write your website address ,write which ever you want to access,then access...
I have accessed my c drive .I typed C:\\...then enter .You will see what is in your drive..

This is using normal explorer.

tutorial link/downloads

i have just uploaded a tutorial on basic electronic components...http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7JYU24UC check it out..please post if you have any queries...

Energy-saving magnetic PCs, soon

Energy-saving magnetic PCs, soon - Times Of India: (source-TOI)

Coming soon- Magnetic computers which may use far less energy, say scientists.

A team at the University of California, which is developing such computers, claims that the future machines will rely on magnetic microprocessors which consume the least amount of energy allowed by the laws of physics.

Today's silicon-based microprocessor chips rely on electric currents, or moving electrons, that generate a lot of waste heat.

But microprocessors employing nanometer-sized bar magnets - like tiny refrigerator magnets - for memory, logic and switching operations theoretically would require no moving electrons, say the scientists.

Such chips would dissipate only 18 millielectron volts of energy per operation at room temperature, the minimum allowed by the second law of thermodynamics and called the Landauer limit. That's one million times less energy per operation than consumed by today's computers.

Brian Lambson , who led the team, said: "Today, computers run on electricity, by moving electrons around a circuit, you can process information. A magnetic computer, on the other hand, doesn't involve any moving electrons.

"You store and process information using magnets, and if you make these magnets really small, you can basically pack them very close together so that they interact with one another. This is how we are able to do computations, have memory and conduct all the functions of a computer."

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TR35: Gert Lanckriet, 34 - Technology Review

TR35: Gert Lanckriet, 34 - Technology Review:

Is Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" a happy song? Is "Bohemian Rhapsody" sad? Gert Lanckriet wants computers to be able to tell. Then people could search for tunes that match a particular mood or instrumental style, and an online store could make better recommendations.

Lanckriet, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, started by having his computers analyze a collection of 500 popular songs that human judges had categorized in six ways—by genre and tempo, for example. When fed a new piece of music not in the database, the computer uses that training to infer how a human would characterize it. Lanckriet continues to train the system through a Facebook game called Herd It, launched in 2009. Players listen to snippets of music and win points if they agree with the majority of their fellow users; the results are fed into Lanckriet's software.

After the software gets some more fine-tuning, Lanckriet plans to let it crawl the Web like a search engine, automatically classifying the huge amount of music available online. He's also exploring how to use the sensors in smart phones to cue up exactly the sort of music someone is in the mood for. If the phone's accelerometer detects that the user is exercising, it could choose something energetic, while sitting in a quiet room at night might lead it to choose something mellower.

Chinese Scientists Plan to Pull an Asteroid into Orbit Around Earth

Chinese Scientists Plan to Pull an Asteroid into Orbit Around

Earth

Last week Chinese scientists wanted to divert an asteroid away from Earth. This week, they want to pull one into orbit around the Earth. What’s possible objections could anyone have to this idea?

The notion stems from a phenomenon the researchers from Tsinghua University in Beijing noticed from time to time with Jupiter. Every now and then our solar systems biggest planet pulls in an object from space, which orbits the planet for a time before jetting off into interplanetary space again.

We could do something similar with a number of near earth objects (NEOs) that will pass near Earth in the coming years and decades. None of these objects will pass close enough to be naturally captured by Earth’s gravity, but a few will come so close that a small nudge in the right direction would put them in orbit--likely a temporary orbit--around Earth.

The idea isn’t simply to flirt with cataclysmic danger, but to bring a small object (they suggest a 10-meter object called 2008EA9 that will pass nearby in 2049) into a loop around the Earth so we can study it closely for a few years. If we can get the art of capturing asteroids orbitally down to a science, we could use it to temporarily make asteroids into Earth-bound satellites (orbiting at about twice the distance of the moon), mine them for minerals, and then send them on their ways.

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