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Astronomers capture first ever image of a black hole
In major breakthrough, researchers have unveiled the first-ever direct visual evidence of black hole and its shadow.The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) -- a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes that are linked together -- was designed to capture images of a black hole."We are giving humanity its first view of a black hole, a one-way door out of our universe. This is a landmark in astronomy, an unprecedented scientific feat accomplished by a team of more than 200 researchers," said EHT project director Sheperd S. Doeleman.Black holes are extraordinary cosmic objects with enormous masses but extremely compact sizes. The presence of these objects affects their environment in extreme ways, warping spacetime and super-heating any surrounding material so that it glows. The theory of general relativity predicts that the heated material will illuminate the extremely warped spacetime, making a dark shadow visible."If immersed in a bright region, like a disc of glowing gas, ..
First ever blackhole images extraordinary feat: Indian scientists
Indian scientists have hailed the compilation of the first ever real images of a blackhole as an "extraordinary feat" that sheds more light on the mysterious, warped region of the space-time fabric and how galaxies like our Milky Way evolve over time. Blackhole, an object with such strong gravity that not even light can escape it, has fuelled human imagination and inspired numerous sci-fi movies and literature for generations. In coordinated press conferences on Wednesday across the globe, researchers at The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) -- a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration -- unveiled the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive blackhole and its shadow. The image reveals the black hole at the centre of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. This black hole resides 55 million light-years from Earth and has a mass 6.5 billion times that of the Sun. "We have taken the first picture of a
Maharashtra: 30.19 per cent voting by 1 p.m.
A robust average of 30.19 per cent voting was recorded at half-way mark till 1 p.m. in Maharashtra's seven Lok Sabha constituencies on Thursday, an official said.
Maha LS polls: 30.19 pc voter turnout till 1 pm
Maharashtra registered 30.19 per cent voting till 1 am in seven constituencies where polling was underway in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections. According to a district election official, the Naxal-hit Gadchiroli-Chimur Lok Sabha seat witnessed 41.87 per cent voting in six hours since the commencement of polling at 7 am, while 32.02 per cent electorate cast their votes in Bhandara-Gondiya. Besides, Chandrapur recorded 30.5 per cent polling till 1 am, followed by Wardha - 30.22 per cent, Nagpur - 27.47 per cent, Yavatmal-Washim - 26.09 per cent and and Ramtek (SC)- 23.19 per cent. All these constituencies are located in the state's Vidarbha region.
Modi most popular world leader on Facebook: Report
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with over 43.5 million likes on his personal Page and 13.7 million likes on his official Page on Facebook, is the most popular world leader on the social network as more world leaders are now paying to promote their posts, a new report said on Thursday.
Google Assistant can now read your work calendar
Google Assistant is finally coming to G Suite, starting with the Calendar app in beta within Googles enterprise platform.
Shah Rukh Khan praises Airpods on Instagram
Known for his fondness for technology and gadgets, Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan took to Instagram to praise Apple for its wireless Airpods earphones.
Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari to host Facebook live session to garner support for his party
In a unique initiative, Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari will host a facebook live session on his party's official page to woo social media users to support and join his party. Tiwari will be live on Delhi BJP's Facebook page from 3.30 PM to interact with social media users, many of whom will join the party to strengthen its campaign for the Lok Sabha polls, said Delhi BJP's social media co-incharge Neelkant Bakshi. The social media team has also planned regular appearances of Tiwari on different online platforms to woo voters, specially youngsters, he said.
New tech to make everyday items part of Internet of Things
Frying pans, pill bottles, coffee cups and countless other household objects could soon be turned into a network of Internet of Things that make homes smarter, say scientists. Researchers from University of Michigan in the US developed a system called called IDAct, which bridges the gap between the estimated 14.2 billion "smart" electronic devices that are currently part of the Internet of Things and the hundreds of billions of everyday objects left out of the picture. "Imagine a world where your pill bottle keeps track of your medication intake and a water glass monitors your hydration level," said Alanson Sample, associate professor at University of Michigan. "Even your yoga mat is aware of your exercises and could adjust lighting, temperature and background music accordingly," Sample said. The technology could also have applications in elder care, where it could be used to unobtrusively monitor medications and daily activities, helping seniors stay independent longer without the ...
Maharashtra: 13.70 per cent voting by 11 a.m.
A healthy 13.70 per cent average voting was recorded till 11 a.m. in Maharashtra's seven Lok Sabha constituencies on Wednesday, an official said.
Maha LS polls: 13.7 pc voter turnout till 11 am
An average 13.7 per cent voter turnout was recorded till 11 am in seven constituencies of Maharashtra where polling was underway in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections. According to a district election official, the Nagpur Lok Sabha seat witnessed 17.56 per cent voting in the first four hours, while it was 18.01 per cent in the Naxal-hit Gadchiroli-Chimur constituency. Besides, Wardha recorded 15.76 per cent polling till 11 am, followed by Bhandara-Gondiya - 12.2 per cent, Yavatmal-Washim - 12.06 per cent, Chandrapur- 10.86 per cent and Ramtek (SC)- 9.82 per cent. All these constituencies are located in the state's Vidarbha region.
Lok Sabha 2019: 13.3 per cent voting recorded in UP's eight constituencies till 9 am
Eight constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, which are voting in the first phase of Lok Sabha polls, recorded 13.31 per cent voter turn out till 9 in the morning on Thursday.The voter turnout in Ghaziabad stands at 12 per cent till 9 am while in Bijnor, Muzaffarnagar and Saharanpur it was 8 per cent each. 11 per cent turnout has been reported from Baghpat and 10 per cent in Meerut.Meanwhile, neighbouring Uttarakhand recorded at a little over 13 per cent till 9 in the morning.Voting in Assam is yet to pick up as the overall voter turnout in the state stands at 10.2 per cent till 9 am.In Sikkim, the voter turnout was 34 per cent in the morning, while Mizoram registered the voter turnout as high as 17 per cent.Similarly, people in Nagaland too showed enthusiasm. In the first two hours of voting, the region which has only one Lok Sabha constituency recorded 21 per cent of voting till 9 am.A total 91 of the 543 Lok Sabha constituencies are voting in the first phase of polling. As many as 1.70 ...
Qubole Announces Expanded Partnership With Google Cloud to Deliver Comprehensive Options for Processing Big Data on GCP
/ -- New integration provides enterprise analytics service with a unified user experience for Apache Spark and Hadoop on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Qubole, the data activation company, today announced its expanded partnership and product integration with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). With Qubole's cloud-native data platform running on GCP, customers have the option to deploy a new enterprise analytics service with a first-class user experience through a unified workbench that includes notebooks, dashboards, a native interface for all commands, and built-in tools for easy, secure collaboration. Combining the performance, reliability, and scalability of Google Cloud Platform with Qubole's self-service data platform, with integrated tools for data science and data engineering, this new offering enables easier, more collaborative processing of big data workloads with Apache Spark and Hadoop on Google Cloud. "Data is the new oil of this economy and more companies every day are turning to .
Facebook to punish Groups for spreading fake news
In yet another bid to tame fake news, Facebook will crack down on Groups that repeatedly share misinformation by reducing that Group's overall News Feed distribution.
US social media users sticking with services: survey
US adults appear to be sticking with Facebook, Twitter and other online platforms despite controversies over privacy and misinformation, according to a study released by the Pew Research Center. A month-long survey taken early this year found that the portion of US adults who said they use various social media services was essentially unchanged from a year earlier, Pew said in a news release on Wednesday. The results come in spite of "a long stretch of controversies over privacy, fake news and censorship on social media," Pew researchers Monica Anderson and Andrew Perrin said. The percentages of people who said they used Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn or Twitter were "largely the same," with Instagram showing an uptick in its portion of users, according to the survey. Facebook remained the most widely used social media website, with approximately seven out of every 10 adults saying they used the service. "Facebook users as a whole are just as active on the site today as they were a ...
Science fact: Astronomers reveal first image of a black hole
Humanity has got its first glimpse of the cosmic place of no return: a black hole. And it's as hot, as violent and as beautiful as science fiction imagined. In a breakthrough that thrilled the world of astrophysics and stirred talk of a Nobel Prize, scientists on Wednesday released the first image ever made of a black hole, revealing a fiery doughnut-shaped object in a galaxy 53 million light-years from Earth. "Science fiction has become science fact," University of Waterloo theoretical physicist Avery Broderick, one of the leaders of the research team of about 200 scientists from 20 countries, declared as the colorised orange-and-black picture was unveiled. The image, assembled from data gathered by eight radio telescopes around the world, shows light and gas swirling around the lip of a supermassive black hole, a monster of the universe whose existence was theorised by Einstein more than a century ago but confirmed only indirectly over the decades. Supermassive black holes are ...
The real deal: astronomers deliver first photo of black hole
Astronomers have unveiled the first photo of a black hole, one of the star-devouring monsters scattered throughout the Universe and obscured by impenetrable shields of gravity. The image of a dark core encircled by a flame-orange halo of white-hot plasma looks like any number of artists' renderings over the last 30 years. But this time, it's the real deal. "The history of science will be divided into the time before the image, and the time after the image," said Michael Kramer, director at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation called the feat a "huge breakthrough for humanity." The supermassive black hole immortalised by a far-flung network of radio telescopes is 50 million lightyears away at the centre of a galaxy known as M87. "It's a distance that we could have barely imagined," Frederic Gueth, an astronomer at France's National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and co-author of studies detailing .
Beware! Your hotel confirmation e-mails are vulnerable to misuse
Hotels across the globe send you e-mails upon booking confirmation. However, your next stay with them is not safe from the prying eyes of third-parties.Security company Symantec found flaws in the websites of hundreds of hotel, which were leaking sensitive information including names, phone numbers, passport numbers, and addresses in confirmation e-mails, Cnet reports.Hotels are the most vulnerable to hack attacks as they have a trove of information through guest check-ins. The researchers found two-thirds of over 1,500 hotel websites in 54 countries with issues in their websites.One of the issues stems from the URL, which is sent to the guests in emails. These URLs also contain the booking number.The vulnerable websites have advertisers and third-party analytics tools embedded on the pages who also get the URL.All that a potential attacker needs to do is enter the reservation number and gather all the personal information tied to it.The researchers recommend hotels to stop ...
Facebook ordered to pay 30,000 euros in France over 'abusive' usage terms
A French court has ordered Facebook to pay 30,000 euros (USD 34,000) over "abusive" terms-of-use agreements that people had to accept in order to access their social media accounts, the consumer group which filed the lawsuit said Wednesday. The ruling came as France's consumer protection agency said it and the European Commission had secured Facebook's agreement to "significantly modify its terms of use" by the end of June. They will include "clear language" spelling out that Facebook makes money by allowing targeted advertising based on the contents of a user's profile, the DGCCRF agency said. The UFC-Que Choisir consumer group filed its case in 2014, saying 430 clauses in Facebook's user agreement were abusive, including keeping and selling data indefinitely, even after an account is closed, and changing the terms of use without informing people. A Facebook spokesman said the case involved terms of use that have since been modified. "Guaranteeing the transparency of our tools and ...
Facebook to crack down on groups spreading misinformation
Facebook on Wednesday ramped up its battle against misinformation, taking aim at groups spreading lies and adding "trust" indicators to news feeds. Moves outlined by Facebook vice president of integrity Guy Rosen were described as part of a strategy launched three years ago to "remove, reduce and inform" when it comes for troublesome content posted at the leading social network's family of services. "This involves removing content that violates our policies, reducing the spread of problematic content that does not violate our policies and informing people with additional information so they can choose what to click, read or share," Rosen said. An array of updates included cracking down on misbehaving groups and those who run them, as well as making it harder to impersonate others. The leading social network indicated it will be tougher on inappropriate content in groups, which may not be seen by the public but which can circulate hoaxes and promote abusive or violent actions. When ...