Asteroid to skim past Earth

AN ASTEROID the size of a blue whale is shooting past Earth later today and conspiracy theorists believe “it could be the last hour”.

The Sun reports that there are allegedly two other signs that the end is nigh, including a super moon that will appear to grow in size as it reaches the closest point to the planet.

Earth is also expected to enter darkness as the moon passes in front of the sun, blocking its light and creating a solar eclipse.

Some believe these are biblical omens that could suggest doom and gloom for the future of humanity.

Anita Fuentes, an internet pastor, and her husband Ignacio, spoke on a YouTube video about ‘the end’.

In the strangely cheery video, Ms Fuentes revealed the day coincided with her birthday.

Pastors predict end of the world

She said: “We could be in the middle of singing happy birthday and see some extraordinary things happening in the sun, moon and stars.

“(The asteroid) could whiz by and blow out my candles for me.”

Their video also features an image of a red moon with the caption “We are living in the final seconds” along with a link to a website called “Open your eyes people”.

Mr Fuentes said: “The end times are here.

“It could be the last hour, the last second.

“We have to pay attention to all this that we’re seeing.”

Meanwhile, NASA reviewed its calculations and discovered it had previously estimated the wrong date that the asteroid would fly past Earth.

Initially the space station claimed the asteroid would hurtle past on March 5 but that was changed to March 8.

Paul Chodas, manager of NASA’s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies, said: “We already knew this asteroid, 2013 TX68, would safely fly past Earth in early March, but this additional data allow us to get a better handle on its orbital path.

“The data indicates that this small asteroid will probably pass much farther away from Earth than previously thought.”

“There is no concern whatsoever regarding this asteroid — unless you were interested in seeing it with a telescope,” said Mr Chodas. “Prospects for observing this asteroid, which were not very good to begin with, are now even worse because the asteroid is likely to be farther away, and therefore dimmer than previously believed.”

This article originally appeared in The Sun

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The BMW i8 might get the coolest key of all time

The BMW i8 might get the coolest key of all time

The eco-friendly BMW i8 may have one more feature that will impress potential buyers, a smart key fob that looks – and performs – like no ordinary car key. One BMW insider shared the image above with Bimmerfile, which shows what the i8 smart key could look like. According to the publication, the key will include its own high-resolution LCD screen which will reportedly be able to display various useful information such as charge levels, time on a charge and the distance the vehicle can travel before requiring recharging and/or refueling.

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Trefecta DRT e-Bike

Trefecta DRT e-Bike

A cross between a bicycle and a motorcycle, the Trefecta
DRT e-Bike can keep you from breaking a sweat on your
commute to work in the morning, wherever that may be. This
military-spec bicycle boasts a 20″ 7075 aluminum frame that
shelters all electronics, including an efficient pedelec system to
move via pedalling at low speeds and electrical power when
more speed — or torque — is needed. Throttle, suspension
settings, gear selection, and trip functions are all operated
using fly by wire controls right on the handlebar, like a
motorcycle, displaying relevant information on a backlit center
display. A large lithium-ion battery keeps the DRT rolling for
over 60 miles even when you’re running out of juice and
propels the bike to a maximum speed of roughly 43 miles per
hour. And it even folds for easy transport and storage.

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First computer that operates on water drops.

First computer that operates on water drops.
In a ground-breaking feat, world's first synchronous computer
that operates on water droplets has been developed by an
Indian-American researcher from Stanford University.

The work combines Prakash's expertise in manipulating droplet
fluid dynamics with a fundamental element of computer science
- an operating clock.
"In this work, we finally demonstrate a synchronous, universal
droplet logic and control," Prakash said.
Because of its universal nature, the droplet computer can
theoretically perform any operation that a conventional
electronic computer can crunch, although at significantly slower
rates.

The ability to precisely control droplets using fluidic
computation could have a number of applications in high-end
biology and chemistry and scalable digital manufacturing.
Computer clocks are responsible for everything - smartphones,
airplanes, internet. Developing a clock for a fluid-based
computer required some creative thinking.
Prakash realised that a rotating magnetic field that could act
as clock to synchronise all the droplets might do the trick.
The team built arrays of tiny iron bars on glass slides. They
then laid a blank glass slide on top and sandwiched a layer
of oil in between.
Then they carefully injected into the mix individual water
droplets that had been infused with tiny magnetic
nanoparticles. Next, they turned on the magnetic field.
Every rotation of the field counted as one clock cycle and
every drop marched exactly one step forward with each
cycle. A camera recorded the interactions between individual
droplets, allowing observation of computation as it occurs in
real time.

According to Prakash, the most immediate application might
involve turning the computer into a high-throughput chemistry
and biology laboratory.
Instead of running reactions in bulk test tubes, each droplet
can carry some chemicals and become its own test tube, and
the droplet computer offers unprecedented control over these
interactions.
Prakash and his colleagues, however, have a more ambitious
application in mind. Their goal is to build a completely new
class of computers that can precisely control and manipulate
physical matter.

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How To Make 3D Hologram At Home

How To Make 3D Hologram At Home

You won’t call any concept a science fiction unless its
characters are flying through space-time, or have phenomenal
powers. Your brain also plays with the idea of some futuristic
technology and importantly long distance call that include
holograms.
While other stuff would be difficult to own, but you can
definitely make 3D hologram out of two-dimensional videos now.
Holograms are the part of the new technological era and
occupy technical enthusiast’s mind. On one hand, we have the
Microsoft HoloLens, and on other we have GHOST that
literally sucks out data from your screen and converts into a
3D hologram.
But, now to make a 3D hologram, you don’t need to buy any
expensive gadget. Just a few stationary items and a clean
transparent glass or plastic sheet will do.

THINGS REQUIRED
Graph Paper: To get precise
measurements
Plastic/Glass Sheet (Transparent): Main
Apparatus
Tape
Pen
Knife/Glass Cutter
Smartphone/Tablet

STEPS
1. Once you have collected all these things, you are just
15 minutes away to make a 3D hologram at your home.
2. Cut the sheet precisely into 4 congruent trapeziums
3. join them with a transparent tape to create a simple
pyramidal frustum.
4. Your set-up is ready. Now, all you need are some
hologram specific videos that you will easily get from the
YouTube.
5. So, just place your pyramidal frustum set-up on your
smartphone screen and let the physics do the rest as
it makes 3-D hologram for you.

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The next wave of Sony Mobile smartphones is coming: Xperia Z5

The next wave of Sony Mobile smartphones is coming:
Xperia Z5: Sony Launches Line of Smartphones With 23-
Megapixel Cameras, Fingerprint Sensors
All three models of the smartphone feature a fingerprint
sensor built into the phones' redesigned power button mounted
on the side of the device. It is the world's first 4K display
phone, Sony says.

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Microsoft Launches its First-Ever Laptop Surface Book

Microsoft Launches its First-Ever Laptop
Surface Book

The new Surface Book has a 13.5-inch diagonal
touchscreen that uses PixelSense technology. It comes
with a ridiculously high pixel resolution of 3,000 x 2,000
pixels with which the images and videos will look incredibly
crisp. The machine is powered by an Intel Skylake
processor. The laptop runs with a dedicated Nvidia Ge
Force GPU which is the latest generation Intel Core
processors and a solid state drive. Also, the device is
powered by a 12-hour battery.
One of the most amazing features of Surface Book is, the
screen can be pushed all the way back 360-degrees. It can
also be detached from the keyboard dock. The Nvidia
graphics card is present within the dock. If you want to
use this Surface Book as a tablet, then you can use Intel
Skylake integrated graphics. The Surface Book is priced at
$1499 and is now available for pr-order in the US, and
Microsoft has not revealed about its launch in India.

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