Someone has discovered a problem on Microsoft’s MSN.com website and the question is being asked, “is a prelude or even the result of an attack on Microsoft’s website?”

A recent study by a team of researchers suggests that, birds like the small red-breasted robin in your garden has a kind of an “X-ray” vision. The team of researchers from the University of Oldenburg, wrote about their findings in the scientific journal “Nature”. According to them, the migratory pattern of many migratory birds and other birds were linked to the fact that they were able to sense the earth’s magnetic field.

On Friday morning, users while visiting Twitter encountered a message from “Iranian cyber army”, a group of some Iranian hackers. A similar thing was observed with Iran’s green movement website. It seems that these sites have experienced an attack of hackers. They call themselves “Iranian cyber army”. It was like a worldwide protest against green movement because it did not really appeared like a typical cyber crime which generally has some financial intentions. That really happened on Twitter was that the web page of twitter was redirected to a web …

The makers of the $100 laptop and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) have unveiled a new slimline tablet PC, the XO -3. The new tablet PC which is proposed to be released sometime in 2012, will be retailing for a price less than $100 and will be aimed at connecting children around the world. The company had earlier scrapped all plans of developing the XO 2 which was a foldable notebook kind of device.

Here’s some interesting news for football fans. The regulation authority of the world’s most famous sport has decided to film the World cup 2010 to be held at South Africa is 3D. FIFA has announced that it will shoot around 25 of the matches with 3D cameras. Thought they haven’t said any plans about telecasting the matches in 3D, the governing committee has said that they have shelved the idea for now and will decide on it in the upcoming months.

In an effort to make develop batteries that are thinner and flexible, researchers have developed a cell that consists of all but a single copy paper with carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes were used to collect and store the electric charge. This new technology, researchers believe will be an efficient way to cut out on the manufacturing costs of batteries and also on the flexibility of such batteries. The technique involved paper being painted with carbon nanotubes as paper served as the best surface for the carbon nanotubes.
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Internet giant has come up with yet another new feature in its search engine. By adding the new real-time search feature now in its search engine, users will be able search data in real-time. This was the first time that a search engine has attempted to include real-time search and delivering the most relevant information was that any search engine would aim for. The new service which was ready for the Internet will be rolled out worldwide in a couple of days.

Bloggers and people worldwide have another issue for debate this week and it’s the new privacy settings that Facebook introduced this week. On the 9th of December, users of the social networking site were prompted to update their privacy settings. Critics are of the opinion that this new settings in privacy would make the Facebook profile more visible on search engines and this clearly has been the issue of debate.

Every technologist is trying to invent environment friendly gadget. So that the use of conventional sources of energy can be diverted to newer sources like solar and wind energy. In this way a new concept of sticker phone has been put forwarded by Liu Hsiang-Ling.

Researchers have come up with the prototype of a machine what they claim could be a new bacteria killer, one that can wipe your feet and hands clean of any bacteria. The device that works on plasma, which is considered to be the fourth state of matter is said to create a number of chemical reactions and in the process release a number of chemicals which can kill a number of viruses, bacteria and fungi.
Researchers say that the technology and the power of the plasma have already been put to …