The Project Loon team, Part of Google’s X research lab, said it was able to use machine learning to predict weather systems and they are a “Year closer” to rolling out a network with huge balloons to provide high-speed connectivity to rural areas. They have greater control over where its balloons go so that it concentrate…
A Honda SUV car. lost control in China’s eastern town of Jiangsu and skidded off the road and landed on a roof of a house. The driver said he took evasive action to avoid a collision but accidently stepped on the accelerator instead of brakes while changing direction. Police had to use a ladder to…
Over 200, 000 people attended the Australian International Airshow, at Avalon on March 4th and 5th 2017, and added $25m into the local economy according to organiser spokesman Tom Bennett. Lockheed Martin showcased their joint Strike Fighter Technology with two $332m F-35As flying from their American base. Over twenty drone retailers and manufacturers will explain…
Miracle in New York 57th Street. Alcides Moreno and his younger Edgar set out to clean the windows of the 47-floor luxury Solow Tower building at Manhattan’s Upper East side 57th Street. on 7th December 2007 morning. They took the lift to the top and walked out on to the roof. Moments later, as…
PSA owners of Peugeot and Citroen cars has struck a deal of €2.2bn (£1.9bn) to buy General Motors’ European unit including Vauxhall. Loss-making GM Europe has UK factories at Ellesmere Port and Luton which employs 4, 500 people. With GM’s Opel and Vauxhall operations, PSA Group jumps to become the second largest carmaker in…
A unit of Bitcoin the digital currency has exceeded the value of an ounce of gold for the first time. Bitcoin closed at $1,268 on Thursday while an ounce of gold stood at $1,233. The current high is due to the surging demand in China, where authorities warn it is used to channel money out…
Nintendo’s newest console, Switch, launched today March 3rd 2017, pitched as a home console you can take on the go, its battery life has become a big talking point, as Nintendo confirmed the battery will last upto 6 hours. Nintendo is pitching for $106bn games market of which $42bn is mobile game market. Gamers…
“In Memoriam” Montage PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accounting firm responsible for the tabulation of the Oscar ballots and the envelopes announcing the winners, release a statement after the shocking mistake resulted in La La Land wrongly being announced as best picture. “We sincerely apologise to “Moonlight, “La La Land”, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway and Oscar viewers for…
Eco-Tourists to the Muthanga and Tholpetti Wayanad Wildlife sanctuary has been banned until March 31, 2017, due to a wildfire in nearby forest regions according to forest authorities. For the first time, the state forest department has launched a specially designed animal ambulance, for transporting elephants. Wildfires are raging in the nearby forests wreaking havoc…
NASA finds new solar system called Trappist-1 and three earth-sized planets orbiting a nearby star 39light years away from Earth, that may support alien life. Astronomers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have detected seven earth-sized planets. Thomas Zurbuchen, an Associate administrator of Nasa’s Science Mission Directorate, told a press conference in Washington “this…