Sunday, February 6, 2011

“Robert Kubica got injured in rally accident” plus 3 more

“Robert Kubica got injured in rally accident” plus 3 more

Robert Kubica got injured in rally accident

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 03:24 AM PST


Renault F1 driver Robert Kubica has been injured in an accident after crashing during a rally race in Italy, according to reports.

The Renault F1 driver was driving a Skoda Fabia in the Super2000 category of the Rally Ronde di Andora when his car overturned violently off the track.

Kubica's co-driver Jakub Gerber posted “I'm OK” on his Facebook page after the accident but Kubica was taken to hospital by helicopter with what they called ‘several fractures'.

At the Canadian Grand Prix in 2007, Kubica had a serious crash approaching the hairpin on lap 27, in which his car made contact with Jarno Trulli’s Toyota, and hit a hump in the grass which lifted the car’s nose into the air and left him unable to brake or steer. The car then rolled as it came back across the track, striking the wall on the outside of the hairpin and coming to rest on its side.

Some reports in Poland suggest he has fractured his wrist in a couple of places which will affect his participation in testing at Jerez which is due to start on Thursday.

Race organizers are going to hold a press conference revealing more details soon.

Spot skin cancer with new iPhone app

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 12:14 AM PST


With the help of a new product available on the market known as Handyscope , you can convert your iPhone into a skin cancer detection gadget.

This new tool can be plugs into the Apple smartphone and can be converted into dermatascope(which doctors use when looking for melanoma) with the help of the app.

With the help of polarising light it sense whether a mole is cancerous and then takes a photo and can be send to a doctor for inspection.

These images can also be examined by the world-renowned specialists who can weigh in with their view.

However it costs 995 pounds, it’s unlikely to be used by the average mobile user. But this gadget is welcomed by the cancer experts.

“This is a powerful piece of kit for assessing whether a mole is cancerous,” the Daily Mail quoted Dr David Pye, a cancer researcher based at Salford University, as saying. “Sending images around the world for expert diagnosis could be incredibly helpful and this is the first time I’ve ever seen anything like this before,” he added.

The Handyscope, made by German-based firm FotoFinder, can be purchased online and the app can be bought from the Apple iTunes store.

Mubarak resigns as ruling party chief

Posted: 05 Feb 2011 01:47 PM PST


Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday stepped down as chairman of the country’s ruling party along with the rest of his National Democratic Party’s (NDP) top leaders as the mass uprising against his three-decade-old rule entered the 12th day.

But this would not affect his position as president because there are two different positions,” party official said. Still resignation is being consideres politically important because this party was exploiting the state for the interests of the party, and that has caused a lot of criticism,” said analyst Diaa Rashwan, adding that it had fuelled anger over corruption.

Major issues which protestors raise were the issues of corruption, poverty and political repression which was leading to country degradation.

Hossam Badrawi has been appointed the new secretary-general of the party. He replaces Safwat El-Sherif, a Mubarak loyalist, in that post. Badrawi will also replace Gamal Mubarak, Mubarak’s son, as head of the party’s political bureau.

‘It is quite significant, it means the pressures on the regime are gaining some response … but not enough,’ Omar Ashour, a political analyst said.

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Internet IP addresses will run out in the next few hours

Posted: 05 Feb 2011 09:34 AM PST


Growth of Internet-enabled phones like the iPhone and web use in Asia has seen a rapid depletion of IP addresses, which are going to run out in the next few hours.’

All devices, which get connects to the Internet, are assigned a unique “number”. Which is popularly known IP Addresses but with excess numbers of web enabled phones now online they are running out.

IP addresses act as “phone numbers” to ensure that surfers reach desired websites and e-mails destination.

The system had been set up in the 1980s, with a maximum of 4.1 billion with a view that addresses will never run out.

But it does not mean the Internet will come to a halt once the addresses have finished, as a new system called Internet Protocol version 6, or IPv6 is ready to replace version 4.

“It will just be ‘business as usual’ if everyone gets their job done,” John Curran, Chief Executive of the American Registry for Internet Numbers, one of five regional groups said to Daily Mail.

The “end game”, the distribution of the last five blocks, was triggered by the distribution of two of the last seven blocks on February 1.

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Posted by Suresh at 4:07 AM

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