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Infrared Camera Catches Endangered Sea Turtles In Florida

July 27, 2014 By Deborah Campbell Leave a Comment

A live stream cam has caught something that not many people have been able to witness; the birth of some loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings on a Florida Keys beach. About one hundred of the turtles were born.

The baby turtles – which measure at approximately three inches long – emerged from a mound on the Florida Keys beach and then proceeded to head towards the ocean, all while caught on camera.  After they had entered the ocean, they disappeared from the camera’s view.

The camera – which films in high definition – was set up on the beach in order to capture some footage of the new hatchlings. The camera also films by utilizing infrared lenses so that any lights that would be needed otherwise would not affect the new hatchlings. Any artificial light that would be needed otherwise would have adversely affected the hatchlings, and would possibly have interrupted the process of them emerging from the mound and entering the sea.

The camera feed also helps in raising awareness for the efforts currently underway in Florida Keys to help raise awareness about the need to protect sea turtles. Loggerheads – the type of turtles that emerged from the mound on the beach – are among five different types of sea turtle that are currently considered either endangered or threatened, and that nest on Keys beaches and other Florida shorelines.

The webcam is currently funded by the Florida Keys tourism council, and was approved by both the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission.

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Three new dry Exoplanets are discovered through NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope

July 26, 2014 By Kenneth Scott Leave a Comment

Astronomers through NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope were anticipating for any signs of water vapors in three planets but in vain.

These three planets are recognized as HD 189733b, HD 209458b, and WASP-12b, have an extremely high temperature because of which scientists were hopeful to discover few water vapors in their atmosphere. Scientists have recorded temperature of these planets which is almost 1,500 and 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit. These planets have only one-tenth amount of water as compare to the quantity expected by the researchers. Therefore, they are really shocked by this discovery.
According to, Nikku Madhusudhan of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, England, this result of experiments compel researchers to revise their models of the configuration of planets, particularly of hot Jupiter. These experiments provide an insight into how space telescope are supposed to be designed for the planets which are drier than the expectation of scientists.He also gave reasons behind the selection of these three planets. He said that they chose them since they are comparatively bright stars which offer enough radiation to take inside an infrared-light spectrum in it. This observation of transiting planet is out of question from ground since Earth has a large amount of water in it which disturbs their examination.

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Empowering Chromecast a Year of Streaming Deals, Digital Revolution in Action

July 26, 2014 By Michael Turner Leave a Comment

Chromecast now turns one year old but its amazing effects still creates a fab fad and craze among its competitors and even its major users all over the world. What makes this great streaming stick so fantastic and highly sought after by various companies, competitors and other tech experts or even business professionals? What makes it so unique above other streaming gadgets ever released in the global market?

Chromecast has been so popular that in just a year from its release, its usage to cast media to TVs has been over 400 million times. Its ever growing popularity is now creating a revolutionary change in the way people conceptualize televisions and even the media itself.

Google’s Chromecast is a tiny device that lets you perfectly stream files and videos from Netflix, YouTube or any other online media services directly to your TV. The fact that this product revolutions the global concept of TV and the digital media processes, makes this gadget even more unique and highly in demand.

Here are some of the best features that one can get from the fabulous deals and streaming services that Chromecast has to offer you.

So Cool Yet Affordable

Price is a great driving force that determine a product’s marketability and capability. Once you get the grips of what Chromecast has in store for your digital needs and experience its seemingly endless advantages, you can surely say that this product has all the value-added services yet very affordable in relation to the features it shows and serve you. Compared to its two major counterparts, Apple and Roku related gadgets, Chromecast price of $35 is indeed very cost effective for the great deals and fantastic features that you can avail.

400 Million Casting Sessions in Just a Year from its Release

The popularity of Google Chromecast makes it even more indulging for users from other parts of the globe to take the plunge and join the craze. This is a record-breaking update that Chromecast and even Google should be really proud of.

Competitors Imitative Behavior and Trendy Business Outlook

The best thing to determine of the product is very much appealing or not is to take a look at how its competitors react to the competition. The competition here is so tight that Roku and Apple are constantly looking for ways to create a highly creative and innovative product that will beat Google Chromecast fever forever.

There are so many other factors that make people love the unbeatable Chromecast that truly lasts.

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Vancouver Aquarium Debates Whether Or Not To Keep Dolphins, Whales

July 26, 2014 By Kenneth Scott Leave a Comment

The Vancouver Aquarium park board is holding an unusual meeting today – a meeting which may take place over a number of days. The topic; whether or not they should be allowed keep dolphins and whales in captivity under the Vancouver Aquarium’s care.

Over one hundred and thirty people have registered to speak on the issue – some for keeping the whales and dolphins in captivity and some against it. The fact that there are so many people registered to speak – they’ll have three minutes each – is why the meeting may take place over a couple of days.

Aurora

Over the past while, the park board has been reviewing whether or not they should keep the animals, and, if they do keep the animals, if they should change regulations and practices relating to the care of them. The practice of keeping the animals at the Aquarium has drawn protests a number of times from people who are against keeping them, and demand an end to the practice.

Supporters for keeping the animals in the Aquarium have said that keeping them is an integral part of learning about both dolphins and whales, and that the majority of the ones kept in captivity were rescued, and some of them were injured before being taken in and healed.

The Aquarium is also of note for being the first sanctuary in the world that stopped capturing dolphins and whales – something which it did in 1996.

Many of the protestors have taken offense to the fact that many of the animals do tricks in front of the public for food, and a number of them have attended protests with signs that read “Captivity Kills”. They have also suggested that the dolphins and whales wish they were somewhere else, but supporters for the Aquarium have said that there is no such evidence to support that claim.

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AT&T launches Amazon Fire Phone in market for $200

July 26, 2014 By Deborah Campbell Leave a Comment

The ‘Fire’ phone – Amazon’s newest unveiling and first foray into the smart phone market – has seen its launch, and, currently, AT&T have the exclusive rights to sell the phone. The unveiling took place on July 25, where AT&T announced two deals which can be taken advantage of alongside the purchase of the new smart phone.

As AT&T have said, you can purchase the phone – which is available both online and in stores – as part of a two year contract for $200, or $27.09 a month for the next two years with their Next instalment plan. This plan has the phone locked as a 32GB handset. Alternatively, you can purchase the 64GB handset for $299 or $31.25 a month with AT&T Next.

Amazon Fire Phone

Before its release, it was known as the 3D Phone because word on the street was that Amazon was implementing some sort of innovative 3D technology into the handset, although, as the new phone shows, this never materialized. The phone has also integrated five front cameras, four of which are used for the Dynamic Perspective.

Amazon has also noted that the phone has a 4.7-inch HD LCD display with 1,280-by-720 resolution at 315 pixels per inch as well as runnig a 2.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, Adreno 330 GPU, and 2GB of RAM. The company has also noted that the phone has a 13-megapixel rear-facing camera, and records in 1080p at 30 fps from the front- and rear-facing shooters. Although the phone comes with all this integrated fairly well, it does not include a microSD card slot.

Amazon has also said that:

“Firefly lets you instantly discover helpful information on over 100 million movies, songs, and products. Simply press and hold the Firefly Button on the side of Fire Phone to quickly capture and launch Web addresses, send emails, or make phone calls without typing addresses or phone numbers.”

The phone received a three and a half stars out of five from PCMag, based on the features mentioned above, as well as how well these features were integrated.

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McLaren To Unveil New Car On August 16

July 26, 2014 By Deborah Campbell Leave a Comment

McLaren, the British Formula One racing team, is set to unveil its concept model for its newest car, the P1 GTR concept design. The new design will be shown off for the first time at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in California August 16.

The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is considered to be one of the most competitive events in the auto industry, and this year, there will be approximately 200 of the rarest cars will be on show at the once a year event.

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Since first opening its doors, McLaren has prized itself on its objective of creating the world’s best track-focused drivers’ car, and this new design is set to be no different.

McLaren only plans to build 375 of the P1 GTR models, and to ensure that the cars go to what seems to be the best possible person – or more likely, those most loyal to McLaren – as well as to ensure exclusivity, only owners of McLaren P1 models will be able to purchase the GTR version when McLaren starts production in 2015.

The car is billed as being “track focused”, and as such does not need to meet road car regulations. McLaren have said that, to ensure the car is as good as possible, they have focused on “aggressive aerodynamics and styling, a widened track and slick tires” when designing the car. They car is also purported to have a mid-mounted engine, and, according to reports, McLaren are intending to have the engine give a power output of 1,000 PS.

The debut of the car will take place at the McLaren Brand Centre at the 18th Fairway at the Pebble Beach Lodge, on August 16 for exclusive viewers, and a public viewing will be taking place on the following day.

McLaren are intending to sell the car for $3,360,384.

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Three New ‘Hot Jupiters’ Drier Than Expected

July 26, 2014 By Deborah Campbell Leave a Comment

Current theories of water levels on what are called Jupiter-Class planets may have taken a big hit with some recent discoveries. These theories suggest that a certain amount of water is needed in order for a planet to form.

The results of some recent examinations on these so called Jupiter-Class planets – i.e, planets that are somewhat similar to Jupiter – has shown that the heat of these planets is unexpectedly dry, a lot drier than experts have previously predicted.

The size and heat levels of these planets make it fairly easy for astronomers to examine the water levels – as well as other data – on these Jupiter-Class planets, which means that astronomers are currently working on several examinations of these planets, similar to one that examined the planets’ water levels.

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Due to the fact that these planets are suffering from a dry heat, water levels are much less than planet formation theories have predicted. If the abundances are substantially less than theories predict, as a growing body of evidence suggests for some of these planetary systems, fully characterizing the atmospheres of these planets would warrant a newer, and better, telescopes that are much more sophisticated than the ones we currently have, as well as telescopes that are currently in development.

The examinations of the three Jupiter-Class planets showed water concentrations well below solar abundances – something which previous theories have relied on. The measurements were only 1 percent of solar abundance for one of the planets examined, while another planet had .7 percent of solar abundance. However, these measure weren’t extremely precise, which means that the reality may be closer to what the theories have previously predicted.

Nikku Madhusudhan, who led the team that made these observations, has said that him and his team “are working on several scenarios of planet formation that can make hot Jupiters close to their stars that explains the low abundance that we see.”

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Microsoft setup development boards for Windows Phone, RT.

July 26, 2014 By Kenneth Scott Leave a Comment

Microsoft is planning to form development boards for Windows Phone or Windows RT. The company has not declared whether it will launch these products or not.  The  x86  boards are already available in the markets for these products

In a webcast Microsoft informed that these new boards will provide programs for writing applications for Windows Phone and Windows RT.

Peter Wieland, a chief developer of Microsoft said that presently they have nothing significant to announce except one thing that for these boards they have to struggle really hard.

Microsoft has launched Windows based development boards based on Intel x86 in the previous two months.  This x86 board is a hardware hacker which can be utilized to test and develop products such as smart appliances, robot, sensors and tablets.

The boards assist Microsoft to step into the group of makers who comes up with novel ideas regarding the devices. “Internet of Things” is one of those arenas in which data accumulation instruments gather and transfer information for warning and analysis. These “Iot” will probably increase in future, therefore Microsoft desires to put Windows on them with the help of developer boards.

Microsoft x86 boards are not applicable on Windows Phone and Rt since it function on ARM processors. The company proposed two boards today that are named as Galileo and Sharks Cove. Galileo runs on a low-power Intel Quark processor, which is designed for smart devices, robot and Internet connected appliances. Whereas, Shark Cove possesses an Intel Bay Trail processor that is primarily for tablets and PC driver developments.

The company offers two boards today: Galileo, which runs on a low-power Intel Quark processor, is for smart devices, robots and Internet-connected appliances; and Sharks Cove, which has an Intel Bay Trail processor, is mainly for tablets and PC driver development.

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Google Mapping Liberty and Ellis Islands

July 26, 2014 By Deborah Campbell Leave a Comment

Google is currently planning to map Ellis Island, as well as Liberty Island, in a move which sees Google mapping areas which previously did not have detailed mapping. According to reports, Google plans to get a full 360-degree rotational view of Ellis and Liberty Islands as well as a 3D map of the area.

Using a device called the Trekker, they will be compiling the data and getting the proper images for use on Google Maps. Google uses a variety of other tools in relation to collecting data for Google Maps, some of which collect and gather information from places typically only navigable by foot.

Google-Map-Logo

As Google have said several times before, the Trekker is a device can be strapped to a backpack and used while navigating a territory. The Trekker then stores the data it gathers for use later on in compiling Google maps, as well as Google images.

According to recent reports, as well as Google itself, it will take a number months before the mapping data will be live on Google Maps, as Google still need to map the areas, as well as analyse and compile all the necessary data to provide the images and maps.

Currently, most of New York’s land data has been available on Google Maps and Street View, and has been since about 2007. Most of this data has been in great detail, much like everywhere else that Google has maps for, both Ellis Island and Liberty Island and two areas where Google has so far not been able to map and release for the public’s use.

Liberty island has never been mapped before, because it is run by the National Park Service which had a vast amount of legal hoops for Google to jump through before they could start compiling data.

The mapping of the two islands began on Wednesday, July 23.

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Three new dry Exoplanets are discovered through NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope

July 26, 2014 By Kenneth Scott Leave a Comment

Astronomers through NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope were anticipating for any signs of water vapors in three planets but in vain.

These three planets are recognized as HD 189733b, HD 209458b, and WASP-12b, have an extremely high temperature because of which scientists were hopeful to discover few water vapors in their atmosphere. Scientists have recorded temperature of these planets which is almost 1,500 and 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit. These planets have only one-tenth amount of water as compare to the quantity expected by the researchers. Therefore, they are really shocked by this discovery.
According to, Nikku Madhusudhan of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, England, this result of experiments compel researchers to revise their models of the configuration of planets, particularly of hot Jupiter. These experiments provide an insight into how space telescope are supposed to be designed for the planets which are drier than the expectation of scientists.
He also gave reasons behind the selection of these three planets. He said that they chose them since they are comparatively bright stars which offer enough radiation to take inside an infrared-light spectrum in it. This observation of transiting planet is out of question from ground since Earth has a large amount of water in it which disturbs their examination.

Filed Under: Tech & Science

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