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World’s Largest Wind Farm

Monjilur Badhan, Newshoursbd: A new project for production of electricity from wind in USA will produce 845 megawatts of power.
Second week of December 2009 GE (an American company famous for different research and invention for 130 years) announced that it has a $1.4 billion contract to supply wind turbines for what it says will be [...]

The Future of Human Spaceflight

Monjilur Badhan, Newshoursbd:

The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most complex and expensive engineering projects ever undertaken. When it is completed in 2011, it will have cost nearly $100 billion. And then, just five years later, the space station will be destroyed when NASA deliberately takes it out of orbit and plunges it [...]

Google tests new phone to profit from mobile Web

Monjilur Badhan, Newshoursbd — Google Inc. is determined to gain more influence over how the Web is used on mobile phones, even if the next step in the quest tramples some of the relationships forged during its two-year expansion into the wireless industry.
The focus on Google’s mobile ambitions is sharpening now that the Internet search [...]

Batteries Made from Regular Paper

Monzilur Badhan, Special correspondence, Newshoursbd.
A dip in nanotube ink turns ordinary office paper into a high-energy electrode.
Ordinary paper can be turned into a battery electrode simply by dipping it into carbon-nanotube inks. The resulting electrodes, which are strong, flexible, and highly conductive, might be used to make cheap energy storage devices to power portable electronics. [...]

NASA, Microsoft take Web surfers to Mars

NASA and Microsoft launched an interactive website on Tuesday that allows Web surfers to become Mars explorers.
The website is located at beamartian.jpl. nasa.gov.
The “Be a Martian” website invites members of the public to help scientists perform such research tasks as improving maps of the red planet, the US space agency and US software giant said.
“We’re [...]

Digital security certificates now in Bangladesh

Bangladesh has entered into the digital era. Different government and non-government organisations are now eying to electronic money transaction and data transfer in a safer way. But the internet chaos ensues when websites are not encrypted with secure socket layer (SSL) technology — the digital security.
There are so many instances of being tapped in phone [...]

Wildfire spread of Malware on the internet

The spread of malicious programmes through the internet has skyrocketed in the last two years as their number exceeded 32 million in 2009 from just two million in 2007. This spread will increase further as it is financially motivated as cyber crime remains extremely profitable and out of reach of the law, according to the [...]