Cape Canaveral: An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured images of an 88-pound (40 kg) rock slamming into the lunar surface, creating a bright flash of light, NASA scientists said on Friday.
The explosion on March 17, 2013 was the biggest seen since NASA began watching the moon for meteoroid impacts about eight years ago. So far, more than 300 strikes have been recorded.
"It exploded in a flash nearly 10 times as bright as anything we've ever seen before," Bill Cooke, with NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, said in a statement.
A NASA satellite orbiting the moon is now on a hunt for the newly formed crater, which scientists estimate could be as wide as 66 feet (20 meters)....
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06:53 AM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: We have been hearing for a long time that Microsoft is working on a 7-inch Surface tablet and now a new report from Digitimes has to say that the company may unveil the next-gen Surface tablets in June at its Build Developer Conference. The second-generation Surface devices reportedly will feature 7- to 9-inch displays to meet the rising demand for smaller tablet devices, claims the report. The report...
04:43 PM, May 02, 2013
New York: Microsoft is seeing slow sales of a version of Windows designed for thin and light tablets, even as the tablet market as a whole is growing, a research firm reported Wednesday. Researchers at IDC said manufacturers shipped 2,00,000 tablets running Windows RT, the special version of Windows for iPad-style tablets, in the January to March period. That's down from about 900,000 shipped in the fourth quarter. Microsoft Corp....
11:23 AM, May 02, 2013
Balasore: Indian Air Force on Wednesday conducted the test fire of its short range surface-to-air missile "OSA-AK" from Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, 15 km from here. "It was a routine trial carried out by the IAF to train its personnel," said a defence official. On Wednesday, three rounds of trials were conducted targeting a tow body supported by pilot less target aircraft (PTA) 'Lakshya'. OSA AK is a...
08:10 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Bangalore: Microsoft is developing a new lineup of Surface tablets, including a 7-inch version expected to go into mass production later this year, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the company's plans. Microsoft executives felt they needed to keep pace with the growing popularity of smaller tablets like Google's 7-inch Nexus and the 7.9-inch iPad Mini introduced by Apple last October, one person told the paper. Microsoft...
12:29 PM, Apr 11, 2013
US tech writers have given Microsoft Corp's new Surface tablet-laptop hybrid largely negative reviews, casting a shadow over the software group's hopes to take a bite out of sales of Apple Inc's iPad and MacBook Air. ...
02:38 PM, Feb 06, 2013
With the view to mark the 112th birthday of Frank Zamboni, Google has posted an interactive doodle on its homepage. The playable doodle allows you clean and smooth the surface of an ice rink. ...
05:50 PM, Jan 15, 2013
According to a new report from The Verge, the tablet will come with a battery-equipped cover. The company is said to release a special cover for the tablet that enwraps it like a book. ...
12:43 PM, Dec 25, 2012
Microsoft will introduce its Surface tablet to third-party retailers this week. ...
04:19 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Sharpening its missile prowess, India on Wednesday successfully test-fired its indigenously developed nuclear capable Agni-I ballistic missile with a strike range of 700 km from a test range off Odisha coast. ...
10:37 AM, Dec 12, 2012
Since the launch of Windows 8 on October 26, Windows laptop sales are down 24 per cent, while desktop sales are down 9 per cent. ...
01:22 PM, Nov 30, 2012
The $899 version of the Microsoft Surface with Windows 8 Pro will come with 64 GB of memory, while $999 gets you 128 GB of memory. ...
08:09 AM, Nov 30, 2012
The initial buzz around Surface - Microsoft's answer to Apple's iPad - is not the stuff tech legends are made of. ...
02:08 PM, Nov 27, 2012
California: Microsoft Corp's chief executive said his company would look at more opportunities to build its own devices, after the launch of its Surface tablet last month, potentially bringing the software giant into competition with its hardware partners and opening the door to a Microsoft-branded phone. "Do I anticipate that partners of ours will build the lion's share of all Windows devices over the next five years? The answer is,...
02:59 PM, Nov 15, 2012
Washington: Google has started shipping a larger version of its Nexus tablet computer, one that comes closer to competing with Apple's full-size iPad and other tablets. Here's a look at how the Nexus 10 compares with other tablets with similar screens. Google's Nexus 10 - Price: $399 for 16 gigabytes of storage, $499 for 32 GB - Screen size: 10.1 inches diagonally - Screen resolution: 2560 by 1600 pixels, at...
03:11 AM, Nov 15, 2012
Los Angeles: A California lawyer is suing Microsoft, claiming the Surface tablet he bought doesn't have all the storage space the company advertised. Andrew Sokolowski says he bought a Surface with 32 gigabytes of storage last week. But he quickly ran out of space after loading it with music and Microsoft Word documents. He discovered that half of the 32GB storage space was being used by the operating system and...
02:32 AM, Nov 15, 2012
Seattle: The executive most widely tipped to be the next chief executive of Microsoft Corp has left the world's largest software company, barely two weeks after launching the flagship Windows 8 and Microsoft's first ever own-brand computer. The departure of 23-year company veteran Steven Sinofsky, head of Microsoft's Windows unit, was unexpected and neither Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer nor Sinofsky gave an explanation, although a senior executive at the company,...
11:28 AM, Nov 13, 2012
Paris: Microsoft's new Surface tablet - its challenger to Apple's iPad - had a "modest" start to sales because of limited availability, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told French daily Le Parisien. The world's largest software company put the Surface tablet centre stage at its Windows 8 launch event last month in its fightback against Apple and Google in the exploding mobile computing market. "We've had a modest start because...
11:25 AM, Nov 13, 2012
New Delhi: One of the major features of Microsoft's Surface tablet, apart from the new operating system, is its key accessory, the Touch Cover, which features an integrated keyboard. However, early adopters of the tablet who have this accessory are facing some issues with the Touch Cover where it splits at the seams, exposing some of its internal wiring in the process. A report by The Guardian states that early...
12:46 PM, Nov 10, 2012
