Much to their users’ dismay, Twitter has started displaying Favorited tweets on some users’ timelines. As part of a Facebook style experiment Twitter has started treating some users’ Favorited tweets as retweets. The new tweak is probably part of a plan, to get users more engaged in content on the social network. If that is it, it doesn’t seem to be working well since most people don’t seem to be happy about it.
A user complained, “WHY is my timeline cluttered with other people’s favorites and who they follow? Annoying and useless now!”
Another added, “Is on @Twitter a ‘favorite’ and ‘retweet’ [n]ow just the same? Why am I having my followers favorite someone else’s tweet in my timeline?”

Twitter has not yet responded to the criticism from its disappointed users, it has however, pointed to a blog post in which it justifies its experiments like this one. “A common thread across recent releases has been experimentation. We’ve tested various features with small groups of our 200 million users before determining what we’ll release. These tests are essential to delivering the best possible user experience.” The firm also added, “We also experiment with features that may never be released to everyone who uses Twitter.” The last part seems to suggest that the feature may never actually be released on a wider rollout.

Recently noticed your internet explorer running painfully slow? Its probably the “consecutive modal dialog boxes” glitch. Its a result of downloading the new Micrsoft update. Essentially, what it does is; cause your system to slow down, become unresponsive and in some cases this gets so serious that the user has to reboot the system. Its not like Microsoft isn’t aware of the problem affecting Internet Explorer 7 to 11 users.

 

The affected browsers downloaded either “MS14-051 or MS14-037”and when web applications use several modal boxes, it causes the program to slow down and eventually become unresponsive. Users whose computers are set to automatically download updates are particularly vulnerable to this. The company has released a hotfix to repair the mistake, and are advising users to download the program to not face the problem. The fix is specific to each version.

Presently, the topic of  Quantum computing methodology is rather popular among the people who belong to the tech world.

The idea of quantum computing came up in 1982 and after that explained in detail. The researchers intention was to create a quantum mechanics which will be more beneficial for the computer than the binary system.

Later on, people believed that the concept of quantum computer was mainly based on hypotheses. Currently, some new progress in this arena has captured everyone’s attention. The discovery of algorithm to factor large numbers is one of those developments which is performed by Peter Shor. This algorithm would break the codes more speedily as compared to the ordinary binary system.

The researchers of the University of Chicago have figured out a new method to record the quantum mechanical behavior of electrons enclosed in the flaws of diamonds. The experts repeatedly explode a diamond which is comprised of nitrogen atoms.  They executed this task through a laser beam. That ray of laser permitted the scientists to organize and analyze the quantum state of that region.

This experiment helped a lot and offered a test bed system for the invention of semiconductor quantum bits and nano scale sensor.

As stated by the scientist if this experiment is accomplished, then researchers will be capable to upgrade computing to a next level in which it would not be only restricted to the binary system. No doubt that this quantum computing system will take an exceedingly long time.

A small research satellite was introduced on Monday by a group of astronauts, stationing a mission to observe earth.

Russian Oleg Artemiev tosses the tiny 4-inch box off using his gloved right hand while the International Space Station navigated 260m miles above the cloud-specked planet. There was a bit slide when this nanosatellite passed the neighborhood of the orbiting complex, as per the plan.

Nanosatellite was on a continuous supervision through cameras and seemed smaller as it drifted a long distance. This satellite is named Chasqui ( were nimble and highly trained runners that conveyed messages, royal delicacies such as fish and other objects throughout the Inca Empire). Alexander Skvortsov, Artemiev’s Russian spacewalking partner tried to keep focus on the satellite with the aid of the helmet camera fitted. The satellite was constantly floating away.

The satellite hardly weighs 2 pounds and supports camera that will take shots of Earth and implements to track pressure and temperature. It is a new chapter of technology to be learnt stated by National University of Engineering in Lima.

 

Set in the air less than half an hour into the spacewalk, the satellite kept flying freely. Artemis and Skvortsov were ready to implement fresh science experiments outside the Russian portion of the space station and recover the historic ones. Russian Mission Control warned to be vigilant as the astronauts were ready to migrate to their next work site. The two conducted a spacewalk in June, a few months after moving into the space station. Four other men live there: another Russian, two Americans and one German.U.S. spacewalks, meanwhile, remain on hold.

NASA hoped to restart spacewalks in this present month after a prolonged examination but postponed the task until fall to get fresh spacesuit batteries on board. The SpaceX Company will deliver the batteries on a Dragon supply ship next month. Engineers are concerned about the fuses of the on-board batteries.

When it comes to Game, the world goes crazy. Nintendo, the world’s largest video game company in terms of revenue claimed that it is never going to make games for iOs

But now the scenario is different, Nintendo is trying to bring this Pokemon: Trading card game online to Apple’s tablet. Nintendo, as is known emphasized its game production work on hardware. Nintendo released its app called Pokedex on Ios before and had a huge profit of Pokemon game on mobile.

The first inception of the Pokemon: Trading card game was in Japan in 1996 with video games and television show. The card game is highly popular among youth like video games. Nintendo has already launched online version of Trading Card game for Windows and Mac PCs.

 

Nintendo will create vast line of audiences by launching it for iPads, including people who are already playing it on PCs. It might be big path breaking decision of Nintendo providing comfort to fans to play the game digitally. IPads are owned by majority of people today and one of the famous and popular devices for playing games.

Nintendo can even fetch lot of revenue if it introduces in-game purchases (there are chances it will). Nintendo obviously in on the same race as publisher Blizzard who has incurred lot of success with it free-to-play puzzler: Hearthstone.

Nintendo reported a loss of $229 million last year, and there are chances that it won’t fetch any profit this year as well if some forthcoming Wii U games fail to perform.

With its loss during last year, Nintendo wants the publisher to take it onto the extremely profitable Smartphone market. The craziness for games incurred $16 billion last year. Japan tops it again with this niche.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said “creation of Smartphone does not necessarily means the end of game consoles, it is not easy to swipe it off totally and of course Mario should not be put on Smartphone.”

It would be a surprise to know that Plants have their own language and deliver messages in their own specific way. Ecologist Richard Karban is pursuing this interesting study and trying to crack this peculiar language in northern Sierra Nevada.

The confirmation of plant communication has been in the limelight since few decades but it has gone through many ups and down in its discovery, being designated as falsified news to resurfacing as something to be important to be known to the world.

Observations done on poplars, sugar maples and willow trees in 1983 came with some amazing conclusions. These can notify each other about the dangers of insect attacks. Healthy trees surrounded by hungry dangerous bugs begin sending out chemicals to defend and to get rid of these bugs, these plant could sense the dangers to their near ones are experiencing and promptly reacting to it.

 

Though there has been lot of revelations regarding the same context but many times got slashed down as worthless and meaningless projection.

Another example of a secret language of plant is when bug eats plants; they release volatile organic compounds in the air in their response. There could a productive utility of this implication: now the farmers can alter these talking or sensitive plants so that they can protect themselves from any kind of herbivore signaling danger.

Another study published on Thursday in Science Recorder about the species of strangle-weed plant is that they are capable of sharing genetic details in the form of RNA with plants which they attack. It could be an advantage in protecting a crop if the signals of this messenger RNA could be cracked.

It was strange though finding a parasite plant to sending genetic information to the host plants as it expected to extract nutrient from the host plant. This amazing revelation has opened many doors for scientist and for farmers; methods and techniques could be adapted so as to protect the crops and plants.

The engineers controlled the space station’s 58 foot robotic arm as it pulled the Cygnus aircraft away from a berthing port on the outpost’s Harmony module at 5:14 am. The spaceship was then maneuvered to the release point about 30 feet below the complex. At the end of it’s one month stay at the International Space Station, a commercial Cygnus supply ship owned by Orbital Sciences Corp left the complex on Friday. The spaceship is scheduled for re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere over the un-inhabited South Pacific. The cargo ship is designed to burn and disintegrate during re-entry as it disposes of unneeded items and trash inside.

 

The mission known as Orb-2 launched July 13 aboard on Antares rocket from Wallips Island, Va. The spaceship completed a rendezvous with the space station on July 16, loaded with nearly 3,300 pounds of equipment, experiments and food when it was captured by the robot arm of the space station. The mission is part of a $1.9 billion deal between NASA and Orbital for at least eight cargo deliveries through 2016. The re-entry is scheduled in such a way that the astronauts in the ISS can view it, because it will be an exercise for the fall of Europe’s ATV early next year and eventually the International Space Station once it completes its mission. A controlled re-entry of such a large vehicle has never been attempted before. The ISS is about the size of a football field and weighs nearly one million pounds.

Researchers say they have come up with a new way to control the behavior of an electron at the quantum mechanical level, this could have tremendous implications for quantum computing and information processing. In a research headed by the University of Chicago, scientists used ultra fast pulses of laser light to control the quantum state of electrons contained in nano-scale defects in a diamond, and observed changes in the electron over a period of time.

The researchers focused on a quantum mechanical property of electrons called spin. Similarly to how computers hold data either in binary 1s or 0s. In the charge state of an electron, a quantum based computer, spin states of electrons would represent a quantum bit (qubit). The online journal Science Express reported that at the center of the research is a quantum spin system (explained above), known as a nitrogen vacancy center. This is an atomic scale defect found naturally in the structure of diamonds.

 

“These defects have garnered great interest over the past decade, providing a test-bed system for developing semiconductor quantum bits as well as nanos-cale sensors,” says research head David Awschalom, a molecular engineering professor at Chicago. “Here, we were able to harness light to completely control the quantum state of this defect at extremely high speeds.”

The researchers were able to light up an NV with two pulses of light from a laser. The quantum state of the bound electron in the defect is characteristically excited by the first pulse and somehow stopped by the second. Apparently the time scale between the two pulses is crucial since the electron interacts with its surroundings in a characteristic way which is determined by that time-scale. The researchers explained that testing the NV with a wide number of different pulse timescales could reveal information about the dynamics of the NV center in ways like never before.

The findings could lead to various uses in quantum computing, moving beyond the mere observation of quantum states to controlling materials at the atomic level.