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(from -Voice Of Russia) Lighting the fire during a cold winter evening a resident of Vladivostok found a rail-shaped metal detail which was pressed in one of the pieces of coal that the man used to heat his home. Mesmerized by his discovery, the responsible citizen decided to seek help from the scientists of Primorye region. After the metal object was studied by the leading experts the man was shocked to learn about the assumed age of his discovery. The metal detail was supposedly 300 million years old and yet the scientists suggest that it was not created by nature but was rather manufactured by someone. The question of who might have made an aluminum gear in the dawn of time remains unanswered. Nowadays, finding a strange artifact in coal is a relatively frequent occurrence. The first discovery of this sort was made in 1851 when the workers in one of the Massachusetts mines extracted a zinc silver-incrusted vase from a block of unmined coal which dated all the way back t...

If you’ve ever studied genetics in school or college, you’ll know that the structure of DNA is a double helix. You likely know that DNA carries all of our genetic code. While traditionally we think of only double helix DNA, scientists from Cambridge University in England have made an interesting discovery. According to the researchers, a quadruple helix is also present in some cells and is believed to relate to cancer in some ways. According to the researchers, controlling these quadruple helix structures could provide new ways to fight cancer. The scientists believe the quadruple helix may form when the cell has a certain genotype or operates in a certain dysfunctional state. Scientists have been able to produce quadruple helix material in test tubes for years. The material produced is called the G-quadruplex. The G refers to guanine, which is one of the base pairs that hold DNA together. The new research performed at the University is believed to be the first to firmly pin...

adopted from Slashgear via Mercury News- read a different aspect at Infowars Yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning regarding Java, advising users to disable it in their web browsers. Following this was a Critical Patch Update Pre-Release Announcement from Oracle, which suggests that users temporarily disable it because of security issues. Says the advisement, Java leaves the computer open to attack.The warning was posted by the Department of Homeland Security’s Emergency Readiness Team, which issued Vulnerability Note VU#625617 to address the issue. Says the advisory, “Due to the number and severity of this and prior Java vulnerabilities, it is recommended that Java be disabled temporarily in web browsers as described in the “Solution” section of the US-CERT Alert and in the Oracle Technical Note ‘Setting the Security Level of the Java Client.’” Using the vulnerability in Java, individuals with malicious intent can exploit the weakness to infect the mach...

CES 2013 - in a nutshell  (Ashan Fernando -Mashdroid magazine ) Okay folks, it's the end of another Consumer Electronics Show. We were a bit disappointed this time because we didn't see any worthy device or gadget from serious contenders except Sony. Instead ,the stage was occupied by emerging players like Huwawei, ZTE and Alcatel and less known names like Archos and Vizio. Well quite the most important device was Xperia Z, (along with Xperia ZL) of Sony. It packed a 1080p display of 441 PPI with a Snapdragon S4 pro chip clocked at 1.5 GHz inside, delivering the Android 4.1 for the run, and was built waterproof! Good job Sony. It was NVidia that made the other huge impact with  their latest Tegra 4 SoC, which packs a 72core GPU paired with four Cortex A15 cores, and of course Project Shield, an Android gaming console that packs this chip set under the hood. Huwawei, on the other hand had some nice devices up their sleeve to show, of which, Ascend D2 with the now st...

3D printing went a long way last year , it enabled precision models to be created just by clicking a few buttons , everything from AR-15's to complex 3d models of bodyparts were created , here are 8 examples of mind blowing creations made using 3D printers

Anusha Pelpita, Director General, Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka with Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya, Chairman, Dialog Broadband Networks (DBN) and Group CEO Dialog Axiata PLC soon after the launch of Fixed 4G-LTE services by DBN. Navin Pieris, Head of Fixed Telecommunications and Broadband Services of Dialog Axiata Group is also in the picture.  from the- Sunday Observer it was back in 2011 when Dialog first started launching a 4G test program which offered 50-100mbps data speed across a 4G LTE network ,during the very same time period Mobitel tested out their 96 mbps pilot program  , fast forward to 2012 and we see a huge increase in smartphone and tablet adoption in Sri Lanka ,as the usage increased , Networks soon had to shift to higher data speeds and packages , a fine example is Etisalat who recently launched South Asia's first dual carrier network only a month before the new Iphone 5 was launched  which made Etisalat one of the first networks t...