California: Google has honored Alan Turing, considered to be father of computer science and artificial intelligence by presenting a Google Doodle to mark his 100th birthday. The Doodle is a machine conceptualized by him which simulates the logic of algorithm. It requires users to break a set of six codes and each successful code break adds color to a letter of the greyed out Google logo.

Originally called Alan Mathison Turing, he was born on June 23, 1912. He was an English mathematician, logician,cryptanalyst and computer scientist. Turing was conceived at Chhatrapur, Orissa, in British...

London: Disappointed with your browsing experience on iPad? Cheer up, as something is designed keeping all you iPad users in mind! Ace browser Mozilla has unveiled its new Firefox version titled as 'Junior' designed particularly for Apple iPad.

Company aims to enhance the browsing experience as the foundation says makes browsing more fun, more ergonomic and re-thinks browser user experience...

Beijing: China sent its first woman astronaut with Shenzhou-9 spacecraft here on Saturday.

Shenzhou-9, atop an upgraded carrier rocket -- Long March-2F, blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwestern China at 6.37 p.m.

According to reports, hours ahead of the scheduled launch, a see-off ceremony was held at the centre and attended by Wu Bangguo, the country's top...

New Delhi: Nokia today launches its bombastic 41 mega pixel PureView 808 in India, which is all set to give a tough competition not only to Samsung Galaxy SIII and HTC One X but also to cameras like Nikon and Sony.

Nokia India Director and Head of Smart Devices Vipul Mehrotra said, "Nokia has always been known for its imaging legacy. The 808 PureView stands for innovation and with partners...

London: LinkedIn is finally ready to probe on the matter which claims that 6.5 million of its passwords were stolen and published on a Russian computer hacking forum. The company says that it is looking into the matter and working with FBI to find out the conspirators involved in this security breach. They have made a few interactive statements on their official blogspot which may bring some...

If you are having an iPhone 4 and you have updated it to the latest apple iOS without keeping the previous base-band intact. You might find yourself to be banging your head against the wall as there is no practical unlock method in the market. Neither you can unlock it with the Gevey SIM nor you can unlock it by jail breaking. There are number of site which are offering the iPhone unlock but none...

Chennai: The passage of planet Venus across the face of Sun is once in a life time celestial event and many viewed it here with much zeal and zest on Wednesday.

"Over 5,000 people might have come and gone after seeing the celestial event here since morning. We made arrangements for the people to view the event through different telescopes," S Soundarajaperumal, joint director, Birla...

New Delhi: Delhi sky gazers are all set to witness a rare celestial event on Wednesday with Venus - the second planet from the Sun and the Earth's neighbor - crossing the Sun's face in what will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Venus will take about six hours to complete its transit, appearing as a small black dot on the sun's surface, in an event that will not happen again until 2117.

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