HCL bags UIDAI “Aaadhar” Infrastructure Management Project

HCL Infosystems Ltd., India’s Premier hardware, services and ICT Systems Integration and Distribution Company has signed a contract with The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on August 7, 2012. As per the contract HCL Infosystems Ltd. has been awarded the Managed Service Provider (MSP) to implement and manage the Central ID Repository (CIDR) for UIDAI. The contract is for a period of seven years.

The entire end-to-end technology infrastructure of the UIDAI will be managed by HCL Infosystems as the designated Managed Services Provider (MSP). As the MSP, HCL Infosystems will be responsible for procurement and installation of the IT infrastructure, implementation of information security management systems and operations support and maintenance. The scope of work also includes technical helpdesk, support services and database administration.

Largest 3D map of Universe Unveiled

Astronomers have unveiled the largest ever 3D map of the sky, encompassing massive galaxies and distant black holes, based on Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III). The new map pinpoints the locations and distances of over a million galaxies. It covers a total volume equivalent to that of a cube four billion light-years on one side.

"We want to map the largest volume of the universe yet, and use that map to understand how the expansion of the universe is accelerating," said Daniel Eisenstein from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, the director of SDSS-III. The map is the centrepiece of Data Release 9 (DR9), which publicly releases the data from the first two years of a six-year survey project.

Yamuna Expressway Six-Lane Highway Is India’s Longest Highway

The Yamuna Expressway is a 6-lane (extendable to 8 lanes), 165 km long, controlled-access highway that connects Greater Noida with Agra was opened yesterday. Implemented by Jaypee Group, this project’s construction was completed in May 2012, which is two years ahead of its expected completion date and yesterday Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav formally inaugurated it.

Google Street View Pictures that You Must see

The Nine Eyes of the Google Street view give these amazing shots!

2 Years, and a guy creates an amazing life size Wall-E!

Mike Senna, a California robot fan and hobbyist has spent nearly two years in building this amazing life-size Wall-E robot!

BioDigital Human Explores Human Body Like Google Earth Explores Earth

We all are used to Google Earth’s interactive 3D experience to explore our planet Earth. In the same way, now BioDigital Human lets us navigate the internals of a human body in full-color and in 3D. To the common man, understanding how our body functions is critical to understand a new diagnosis or treatment method. The textual medical reference can’t be very helpful. So, BioDigital has developed the BioDigital Human on top of NVIDIA’s GPUs to let the user explore intricate details of human anatomy, so that users can see the body’s systems work in real time – be it pumping of the heart or expanding and contracting of lungs.

Power Restored after Huge Indian Power Cut

BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan: "More than half of India's population ground to a halt"

India's power supply has been fully restored after a two-day blackout across much of the country, an official has said.

"Wat up wit u": Yep, Texting Is Killing Students' Grammar Skills

"Wat up wit u mom I luv u" says the most recent text from my 11-year-old son. His shorthand, of course, translates to, "What’s up with you, mom? I love you." Like many of us when we text, he isn't taking the time to type out the whole sentence. Every day he and his tween peers zip a dozen similar shorthand text messages back and forth to each other. According to a new study in the journal New Media and Society, the use of these ubiquitous texting shortcuts is negatively altering their ability to identify and use correct grammar.

Google Science Fair: Winners tackle breast cancer, hearing loss and water quality

Finalists and winners of the 2012 Google Science Fair. Foreground: Vint Cerf and Shree Bose (2011 winner)

An expectant crowd gathered last night inside an airplane hangar at a flight school in Palo Alto, California to hear the winners of the second annual Google Science Fair. The grand prize went to Brittany Wenger, 17, of Sarasota, Florida, who wrote a computer program to help doctors diagnose breast cancer less invasively.  Jonah Kohn, 14, of San Diego, Calif. won his age category for creating a device that converts sound into tactile vibration to improve the music-listening experience for the hearing impaired; and a trio from Spain won the 15 to 16 age category for documenting the hazardous and non-hazardous organisms found in water from different parts of their country.

Blind Mice Can Now See - Thanks To A Chemical Injected In Their Eyes!

Research has romanced eyesight restoration for long now, and if the latest news is to be believed, this love story did have a happy ending outcome. A multinational crop of scientists (from UC Berkeley, University of Munich and the University of Washington) have made some advancements which offers the easiest and the cheapest way to restore the light sensitivity of our eyes. A chemical- AAQ (acrylamide-azobenzene-quaternary ammonium) was injected into the eyes of blind mice and the results show that their vision has indeed been restored, though partially. Little quantity of AAQ can cause this effect for a few hours at a stretch, and is quite uncomplicated and less extreme than substitutive methods like stem cell therapy or synthetic implants.

Honda’s Latest CVT For Mid-Size Cars Unveiled

New CVT for Midsize Vehicles Enhances Driving Performance and Fuel Economy to be Featured First on All-New Step WGN and Step WGN Spada

Microbot Walks & Jumps on Water

Chinese microbot walks on water, skims the surface of insect-inspired design.

Bugs are creepy. You don't need to be an entomophobe to empathize with that sentiment. But bugs are also inspiring -- to researchers in China, that is. Taking a cue from nature, a team of engineers from the country's School of Chemical Engineering and Technology have devised a microbot weighing just 0.02 lbs (11 grams) that can repeatedly jump across the surface of water without tanking.

New Method Detects Lung Infection in Ancient Mummy

A novel proteomics method revealed that a 500-year-old frozen Incan mummy suffered from a bacterial lung infection at the time of its death, showing evidence of an active pathogenic in an ancient sample for the first time. The full report is published July 25 in the open access journal PLoS ONE.

Detecting diseases in ancient remains is often fraught with difficulty, especially because of contamination. Techniques based on microbe DNA can easily be confused by environmental contamination, and they can only confirm that the pathogen was present, not that the person was infected, but the researchers behind the study, led by Angelique Corthals of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, found a way around this problem. They used proteomics, focusing on protein rather than DNA remains, to profile immune system response from degraded samples taken from 500 year-old mummies.

Google Glass to feature auto-photo mode

Google co-founder Sergey Brin revealed one of the features of Google Glass — the upcoming headset/eyewear device the search giant is developing — in an email to followers today.

Copying a post he had shared to followers of Project Glass on Google+, Brin said he was trying out a new feature of the product that automatically takes a photo every 10 seconds. Brin said he had the mode engaged while he was driving in Montana, with the device sending all the pics to his Google+ account via instant upload.

Linux Mint 13 KDE released

The final release of Linux Mint 13 KDE is now available for download. Based on the KDE desktop version of Ubuntu 12.04, this is the current stable release and includes version 4.8.4 of the KDE Software Compilation.

Google Interactive Spaces Makes Physical Rooms Come Alive

The coming together of the real and the virtual in everyday life is where the technology is headed at. One of the latest Open Source project from Google is the Interactive Spaces. 

Today’s Google Doodle, Amelia Earhart’s 115th birthday

 Google is celebrating Amelia Earhart’s 115th birthday with this Google doodle.

Highest Ever Resolution Photos of the SUN Captured

NASA has captured the highest ever resolution photos of the star that gives the fuel to run our planet, the Sun. The high-resolution photos of the sun’s corona have been captured by the telescope aboard the NASA rocket that was launched on July 11. This has been indicated in a NASA report titled, “NASA Telescope Captures Sharpest Images of Sun’s Corona.”
 

 Credit: NASA

Incredible Demand of Google Nexus 7 16GB Tablets

Google Nexus 7 Tablet is selling like Hot Cakes and due to its increased demand Google halts new orders for Google Nexus 7. Google Nexus 7 which was launched only a weeks earlier is in great demand now.

Sources close to Google say the search giant seriously underestimated the demand for the 16GB version of its 7in Nexus 7 tablet, which has sold out from stockists and other sources while demand for the smaller 8GB version remains comparatively low.

Biometric Shoe Insoles - Footprints to Identify Individuals

Meet the new Biometric Shoe. A new way to identify a person. We all know that everyone has unique fingerprints likewise everyone does have an unique foot prints. Yes, this Biometric Shoe will scan your unique footprint by the pressure you apply on your feet and your Style of Walking and it compares the measurements to the list in the database and will Display the details of the person! This is a revolutionary technology and so does security.

A new lab is working to perfect special shoe insoles that can help monitor access to high-security areas, like nuclear power plants or special military bases.The concept is based on research that shows each person has unique feet, and ways of walking. Sensors in the bio-soles check the pressure of feet, monitor gait, and use a microcomputer to compare the patterns to a master file for that person. If the patterns match the bio-soles go to sleep. If they don't, a wireless alarm message can go out.