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THE NEW MOTO E AT JUST RS-6999(117$)

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Motorola has barged into the sub-Rs 10,000 segment with the new Moto E smartphone. Just like its two recently launched smartphones Moto G and X, the economical model Moto E will be exclusively available via online retailer Flipkart in the Indian market. The new smartphone is priced at Rs 6,999(117$) and it will be up for sale starting May 14.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Moto E has a 4.3-inch display with 960x540p resolution, making it the only smartphone offering a high quality display at this price point. The dual sim phone runs on the latest Android 4.4 (KitKat) OS, and Motorola has promised that it will upgrade the smartphone to the next major version of Android. The smartphone packs a 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon 200 processor, with 1GB RAM and 4GB internal storage. Unlike Moto X and G, this phone supports microSD cards for storage expansion.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The budget offering of Motorola sports a 5MP camera on the back, but does not have rear LED flash and front camera. It can access the internet over 2G, 3G and Wi-Fi networks, while data can be transferred via microUSB 2.0 and Bluetooth 4.0. The smartphone has a decent 1,980mAh battery and Motorola claims it can last a whole day once fully charged. Motorola has used a nano-coating that will make the smartphone resistant to splashes, so that it does not get damaged in rain.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Moto E will come in black and white colours and Motorola is offering swappable back covers and grip shells.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Motorola is eyeing the large number of mobile phone users who are switching from feature phones to budget smartphones with Moto E. At this rate and with these specifications, Moto E is likely to be a hot seller and take the market by a storm. This game changer handset can be expected to give several domestic players a run for their money in this bracket.</span></b></span><br />
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THE NEW MOTO E AT JUST RS-6999(117$)

Motorola has barged into the sub-Rs 10,000 segment with the new Moto E smartphone. Just like its two recently launched smartphones Moto G and X, the economical model Moto E will be exclusively availa…

13 May 2014

Engineered bacterium is first living organism to use artificial DNA "letters"

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>US researchers have engineered a bacterium whose genetic material includes DNA or bases not found in nature (Image: <a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=134698571&src=id" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1e8dd7; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Shutterstock</a>)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in California have produced a living bacterium that has a strand of artificial DNA made with chemical “letters” not found in nature or any other organism.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the famous double helix discovered by Watson and Crick in the 1950s and commonly known as the carrier of the “genetic code” of life. It’s found in all living things on Earth, from the smallest cells to the largest redwood trees, and in each and every one of these organisms the basic DNA structure is exactly the same.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Though the models of DNA that are on display in museums seem impossibly complex, it is actually a very simple molecule. It’s twisty double backbone of phosphates and sugars carries branches that link the two spirals together like steps in a ladder. These steps consist of a surprisingly simple pairing of four nucleic acid bases: guanine (G), adenine (A), thymine (T), and cytosine (C). These bases pair up to one another like lock and key with guanine pairing with cytosine and adenine pairing with thymine.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>This simple, predictable pairing allows life to happen. It provides a way to encode the genetic instructions needed to build and maintain cells. Under the influence of various enzymes, the DNA molecules unfasten and come apart like zippers, which provide the pattern for creating new strands of DNA.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>This sort of base pairing is universal in all known life. If it has DNA, then it uses G-C and A-T pairs. The question is, is this pairing universal because of all life on Earth having a common ancestor, is it because of some fundamental law of chemistry, or both?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The result of years of research going back to the late 1990s, the TSRI team’s project aimed to find molecules that would pair like those in DNA and would form stably on the helix backbone of the DNA molecule. They would also need to unzip like the known bases and transcribe onto the RNA molecules to create new DNA strands. In addition, they had to be able to survive the DNA repair mechanisms in the cell that might see the new bases as faulty strands and remove them.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>In 2008, the team was able to create semi-artificial strands of DNA that would replicate in a test tube in the presence of the right enzymes and would transcribe onto RNA, but, according to the team, the big leap was to get the strands to work in a living cell. They did this by creating a plasmid, which is a circular strand of DNA, that was a mixture of natural and artificial DNA elements made of molecules known as d5SICS and dNaM, and then inserting it into escherichia coli bacteria.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Obviously, the result isn't artificial life, but it is, by any definition, a novelty. The bacteria carried in their nuclei DNA with bases not found in any other living organism. The pairs are able to duplicate so long as the chemical materials are available, and the duplication occurs with reasonable speed and accuracy, the repair mechanism didn't interfere, and the growth of the cells was not impaired.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>However, the new bacteria are also no Frankenstein’s micro-monsters waiting to break out of the lab on an unsuspecting world. Since 5SICS and dNaM are not found in nature, the scientists have to supply them for the DNA strands to form and they need what are called triphosphate transporter molecules produced by a species of microalgae to move the molecules into the cells. What all that adds up to is that the artificial DNA won’t work outside of the laboratory.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>"When we stopped the flow of the unnatural triphosphate building blocks into the cells, the replacement of d5SICS–dNaM with natural base pairs was very nicely correlated with the cell replication itself – there didn’t seem to be other factors excising the unnatural base pairs from the DNA,” says team member Denis A. Malyshev. "An important thing to note is that these two breakthroughs also provide control over the system. Our new bases can only get into the cell if we turn on the ‘base transporter’ protein. Without this transporter or when new bases are not provided, the cell will revert back to A, T, G, C, and the d5SICS and dNaM will disappear from the genome."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>According to team leader Floyd E. Romesberg, the next goal will be see if the new bases can be used to create proteins. “In principle, we could encode new proteins made from new, unnatural amino acids — which would give us greater power than ever to tailor protein therapeutics and diagnostics and laboratory reagents to have desired functions. Other applications, such as nanomaterials, are also possible.”</b></span></div>
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Engineered bacterium is first living organism to use artificial DNA "letters"

US researchers have engineered a bacterium whose genetic material includes DNA or bases not found in nature (Image: Shutterstock) Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in California hav…

12 May 2014

Robotic Bees May Secure Our Future

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>How often do you stop and think about bees? When you get stung by one? When you’re trying to dodge one as it flies through the air? When you’re eating honey? Whether you think about them a lot or not, the fact remains that bees are incredibly important to our survival. If all of the bees one day disappeared, we wouldn’t make it. While that day may seem like an impossibility, there is a very real shortage of bees all around the world. Scientists aren’t too sure why the number of bees seem to be dwindling, but they’re already trying to do all they can to help the problem for the future.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>If a day comes when real bees won’t be around any longer to pollinate things, <a href="http://sploid.gizmodo.com/these-are-the-robotic-bees-of-the-future-1570332550/+caseychan" style="color: #0092dd;" target="_blank">robotic bees may take their place and come to our rescue</a>. While I admit this sounds like a crazy notion, it turns out that some scientists from Harvard have already come up with an alpha version of a bee which can perform artificial pollination among other activities. (Hopefully those “other activities” don’t include stinging people).</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Wow. I never imagined we’d have to figure out a way to create robotic bees of all things.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Could you imagine a world where more insects were robotic than living? While I’m definitely no scientist, I have a hard time imagining that a robotic bee can pollinate just as well as a real-life bee. But, since everything else is getting the technological treatment, why shouldn’t insects as well?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>What do you think of this story? Do you think we’ll ever see the day when robotic bees take over the job from living bees?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b> Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.</b></span></div>
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Robotic Bees May Secure Our Future

How often do you stop and think about bees? When you get stung by one? When you’re trying to dodge one as it flies through the air? When you’re eating honey? Whether you think about them a lot or not…

12 May 2014

Run, robot, run – here comes the OutRunner

Run, robot, run – here comes the OutRunner

The OutRunner robot – are six legs better than four wheels? Image Gallery (3 images) So, you already own little remote-control cars, planes, boats and submarines ... what else could there be? Well, h…

12 May 2014

Donut-shaped CENTR video camera takes 360 degrees worth of footage

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Video professionals with the US Army, Red Bull and National Geographic are already using the technology, and you'll soon have your chance. The consumer-ready CENTR Camera aims to make it easy to capture 360-degree HD footage, recording your world in full.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Built by former Apple engineers, the CENTR has four HD image sensors mounted around a palm-sized chassis. Instead of filming straight-on, like the average video camera, it's constantly filming 360 degrees of footage. CENTR's 20-variable image calibration stitches images from the four sensors into a single video automatically, so they're available to view right away without any complicated post-filming editing.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>"When shooting video, we pull either 720p or 1080p RAW video data from each camera," CENTR explains on Kickstarter. "When each camera is shooting at 1080p resolution, we are processing 4K of panoramic video data in each frame. The effective resolution after image stitching is 1080 x ~7500 pixels. The final panoramic width for each video actually varies slightly based on the calibration parameters automatically set by CENTR."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The footage can be viewed in real time using the CENTR interactive player on a Wi-Fi-connected desktop computer, tablet or smartphone. It looks like a normal video at first, but unlike your typical YouTube fare, you can scroll to spin it around. In a video made from the cockpit of a plane, for instance, you start off looking forward from the pilot's POV and can then scroll to look over the wing and keep going to view the pilot himself.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>In addition to video, the CENTR can be used to capture time-lapse panoramic stills photos. Each image sensor is 5 MP, allowing for 20-MP time-lapse photography. The camera also includes a single-sensor mode for times when you just want to shoot traditionally without the 360-degree effect.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The CENTR's tape-roll design is meant to allow the filmer to grip the camera through the center without blocking any of the individual sensors. It's also built to work with tripod and GoPro mounts, delivering a versatile filming platform for capturing everyday action.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Inside its housing, the CENTR Camera includes a digital bubble level that helps in leveling filming. It saves footage on 8 GB of internal flash storage and includes microSD expansion. The battery runs for two hours and is designed to be quickly swapped out. Audio is recorded via three built-in microphones. The camera weighs just 9 oz (250 g).</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>After developing the CENTR for the past three years, the design team has turned to Kickstarter to help it get over the hump to production. It's offering an early bird pledge price of US$299 (est. retail: $399) in an attempt to raise $900,000. If all goes to plan, production is set to begin in February 2015.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>When it does, it'll be competing against products like the <a href="http://www.gizmag.com/360fly-interactive-panoramic-video/31085/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1e8dd7; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">360Fly</a> and<a href="http://www.gizmag.com/geonaute-action-camera-360-degree-ces/25747/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1e8dd7; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Geonaute</a>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The campaign pitch video can be seen below.</b></span></div>
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