90% of smartphone users are suffering from this syndrome

In this very busy world everyone of us now have a smartphone. And most of us are now suffering from a syndrome. Mostly 9 out of 10 peoples are suffering from a disease called "phantom vibration syndrome"-- where they think that their phone is ringing in their pocket.

Dr. Rober Rosenberger , philosopher and assistant professor at Georgia Institute of technology, said that the phenomenon was observed by "learned bodily habits."
Research, published in Computers in Human Behaviour journal, says that a person by leaving a phone in their pocket it becomes the "part of the body" in the same wearing a glass as it we always forget they are there.
"people then perceive other sensations such as movement of clothing of muscle spasms as vibrations from your mobile, but it's just a hallucination," said the professor.

THESE 10 COMPANIES TRIED TO BUY FACEBOK

Facebook the biggest social networking site in the world with more than 1.5 billion active monthly users every month, became very popular at the very beginning days.

In the very beginnig of the Facebook foundation many people with money and having strong companies over the world had tried to give offer to the Facebook co-founder and the CEO of the company Mark Zuckerberg to sell Facebook to them. It was the believe of the CEO to make Facebook a very strong company and he turned down all the offers and cash.

Here are the list of the 10 companies who tried to buy Facebook when it was set up.
1. In June 2004, an unknown financier from New York offered $10 billion but "20 years old Mark Zuckerberg didn't even thought for a second" said David Kirkpatrick in The Facebook Effect.

2. According to some documents Business Insider Friendster was also one of the early bidder for Facebook.

3. In summer 2004 a couple of Google executives came over to see if there might be a to work with the Facebook or even buy it.

4. In March 2005, Viacom Washington's post company offered Facebook $75 million, to buy the company. Mark could have earned $35 million on the spot but the offer was rejected.

5. In 2005 MySpace also tried to buy the Facebook, the MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe visited Mark and his team but the Facebook team only mate Chris because they thought he was an interesting guy and they were curious about MySpace.

6. MySpace's new parent company News Corp also wanted to buy Facebook but he was worried he might not keep up its grow.

7. And then the Viacom came back again in 2005, Focus group told the MTV viewers are spending more and more time on Facebook, CEO Tom Freston again offered a beautiful deal but mark wasn't interested and it was a no thank you meeting.

8. Then it was NBC in 2005, who tried but Mark wasn't interested.

9. And desperate Viacom came back again in 2006 again. In early 2006, Viacom came with an interesting deal of $1.5 billion deal, $800 billion in cash. The Facebook was almost sold, according to The Facebook Effect, but Facebook wanted a bigger payment and the Viacom's CFO was nervous for paying so much for a company with such small revenues. The deal fell apart. Viacom never came back again.

10. In the summer 2006,it was Yaho decided to offer Facebook $1 billion. Facebook's investors and many of its executives wanted to sell. But Facebook was about to launch the News Feed, and if it went well, Mark Zuckerberg calculated the figure that company would be worth way more than a $1 billion.

Facebook borrows the idea of Hash tags from Twitter

Recently, Facebook added a new feature of Hash Tags. For people using twitter, this is the same thing that Twitter has been doing all since the very beginning.


On Twitter, you can follow conversations using hash tags because there is nothing like posts and comments, no system of organised threads like Facebook. Which makes me come to my point, does Facebook even need Hash tags ??

Its actually very annoying, people will now use Hash Tags for spamming and other purposes. On Twitter, Hash Tags were necessary so as to surface conversations and such is the nature of the micro blogging medium that you can follow random topics. Facebook on the other hand is way too much closed in its approach. You have limited people who you can interact with and whose status updates you can see.

I believe, more than anything, Facebook has earned itself the title of Copycat rather than innovator. It earlier copied the blackberry messenger style double ticks in its chat so as to notify whether the recipient has tread the message or not. Not to mention all the talk surrounding the very idea behind Facebook having been taken from someone else.

Brace yourself for all the mad spamming, all thanks to uncle Zuckerburg.

computer that operates on water droplet

Hello everyone!
Here i am again with some tech news for you.
The US researchers have achieved a tremendous achievement in the field of technology, they have built a fully functioning computer that runs clockwork-but instead of electrons, it operates by the movement of tiny magnetised water droplets. The ultimate goal is to use the computer to control and manipulate the matter as the same the normal computers manipulate the information.
Although this new water-based computer could do theoritically everything a normal computer can but its process is much slower than the normal computers. But the team is working very hard  and planning things into their mind for their invention.
"We already have digitalis computers to process information. our goal is to build a completely new class of computers that can precisely control and manipulate physical matter," Manu Prakash, lead researcher and bioengineer at Stanford University, said in a press release. "Imagine if when you run a ste of computation that not only process the information but the physicall matter is also manipulated by the machine. We have just made this possible at the mesoscale [ 10 microns to 1 millimetre].
In this work we finnally demostrated a synchronous, universal droplet logic and control," he added
Prakash came up with idea about 10 hears ago. It was easy to work on how to control the water droplets make them move around the maze of an iron bars but finding a way to synchronise these movements proved to be a tough challenge.
In regular computers it is clock that perfectly times every single movement within the system, but Prakash's computer after a very very long struggle find something to do the same with water it was the idea of rotating magnetic field.

FIRE AT ZERO GRAVITY

Hey buddies! today i am going to give you all a very very strange fact of the fire.

first, let me ask you all a question that anyone knows how the fire burns at zero gravity or what is the behaviour of fire at zero gravity?

Well, if you know the answer then it is good and if you don't know the answer it is also very good. See the post here for the complete information.

Thanks.

We all know about how fire behaves in outer space: It doesn't. All those action movies were wrong. Fire needs oxygen and oxygen isn't abundant outside of Earth's atmosphere. Fires can happen inside a contained, oxygenated environment in space, but they don't behave the way they do on Earth. The Earth's gravity imposes a lot of conditions on fire that wouldn't happen in microgravity or zero g. Here's why astronauts can't burn a candle at both ends.

Image: NASA - LRC

Gravity it is a mixed bag. Sure, it helps maintain muscle tone, and bone density, and allows us to eat soup in a bowl without any mess. Unfortunately, it also tries to kill us by tripping us up and pulling heavy objects down onto us. It turns out that, not content with blunt force trauma, gravity is also trying to kill us with fire. When a fire starts, it heats up the air around it. This causes that particular section of air to become less dense. That low-density section of air heads upwards because gravity is pulling down on everything and colder, denser sections of air muscle it out of the way to get closest to the earth. This is lucky for the fire, because the only reason the air got hot was because the fire was consuming the oxygen. When the low-density air got pushed up and out of the way by the oxygen-rich air, the fire got a new delivery of fresh oxygen to burn.

Not so in zero gravity. The air that's is heated by the fire does expand, but with no gravity pulling denser air down into its space, it just . . . stays there. Meanwhile the fire continues consuming oxygen and putting out carbon dioxide until it smothers itself. Space travel is so complicated, with so many problems having such drastic consequences, fire is one of the few ways that astronauts really catch a break. Unless there is some kind of air circulation system blowing over the fire, giving it fresh oxygen, a fire in a space craft would put itself out. Which is not to say that fire isn't discouraged. Here an astronaut in the International Space Station nervously chuckles that he can't give a demonstration of how a lit match will put itself out up there. There are rules about that kind of thing.

Some fires, for example candle flames, also change color in space. Part of a burning candle is very endothermic - heat consuming. When a candle wick burns, it is being taken apart molecule by molecule. This separation takes up heat. However, when the molecules, in this case long strings of carbon, get pushed upwards, they're burned like charcoal and glow bright yellow. In zero gravity, the carbon strings don't get burned, and the flame is blue, cooler, and much much dimmer. As awesome as it might seem, fire in zero gravity is a very low-drama affair.

Via Nasa, Scientific American, Newton AAS, and About.com.

There are 6.8 billion people on the planet and 4 billion of them use a mobile phone. Only 3.5 billion of them use a toothbrush.