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2016-11-01 13:25

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Uber planning to roll outflying car transport service:
                                                        
Self driving car to old news, Uber already has its eyes to skies. As per news Vtol's are cheaper also better for environment. As for timing,Company hopes to have vehicles ready in next five years.
                                                              
Google Glass to Teach You Morse Code:                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Morse code is a method of transmitting text information in which letters are represented by combinations of long and short light or sound signals.
Participants wearing Google Glass learned it without paying attention to the signals -- they played games while feeling the taps and hearing the corresponding letters.
After those few hours, they were 94 per cent accurate keying a sentence that included every letter of the alphabet and 98 per cent accurate writing codes for every letter, the researchers said.
Lead researcher Thad Starner, Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology said:
"It shows that PHL (passive haptic learning) lowers the barrier to learn text-entry methods -- something we need for smartwatches and any text-entry that doesn't require you to look at your device or keyboard,"
ISRO aiming for world record:
                                                                   
Indian Space agency ISRO is aiming for a world record by putting into orbit 83 satellites on a single rocket in early 2017. ISRO will use its polar satellite launch vehicle XL rocket variant for record launch.
Chain-Smoking Robot

                                                                    

scientists from Harvard University think they have found an ideal stand-in for their research. They combined a robot built to smoke cigarettes with a human lung-on-a-chip to yield the combination of a realistic environment and a controlled subject that they’ve been looking for.Most animals used for research breathe only through their noses, it’s difficult to expose cell cultures to realistic smoke.After this robot smoker almost chance to get perfect result.

Sources:http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/
http://www.gizmodo.in
http://www.news18.com/