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Indian IT sector seems to be back to its blooming days of hiring, as Infosys, the top Indian Information and Technology Company, has projected that this year alone, up to 180,000 employees will probably get hired by the 5 major IT companies of the country.

In a statement, Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan said, “growth is back and most companies are hiring in large numbers again. The top five companies are estimated to hire 160,000-180,000 new employees in the next 12 months”.

He said that the growth is back and companies are expanding their headcount. Further, he stated that, “the IT industry has grown quickly over the last 15 years. For example, it had about 150,000 employees in 1993 and around 500,000 in 1999. Today, it employs around two million people”.

Such mass hiring activities were last observed by Indian IT companies in 2007, after which they had to put brake on mass hiring and even trim down their existing staff in order to manage the trade and industry slowdown.

Gopalakrishnan was present at an event where he further added, “In 2008, the industry saw growth coming down to single digit. Most companies stopped hiring and expanding.” In 2007, more than 400,000 opportunities were formed by all the companies. However, in 2008 & 2009 it fell down to 250,000 and 150,000 people respectively, and in 2010 it was merely above 100,000.

The vibrant state of Gujarat is now planning to host Asia’s first commercial-scale tidal power project after completing a deal with a United Kingdom based marine energy company, officials revealed.

According to the State Energy Minister, Mr. Saurabh Patel, two or three areas had been identified in the Gulf of Kutch. He also said that in these areas, turbines from Atlantis Resources Corporation, a London based company, could be easily set up.

Patel also added that the environmental and commercial factors will also be taken into consideration, along with the extremely sensitive protective claims in the area where the sea is separated between India and Pakistan. He also stated that “we have to take into consideration that the local fishermen are not affected, that there is no harm to the environment and that traffic at the ports in the Gulf region is not affected.”

Atlantis’ recent study report on Gujarat stated that this Indian state has good potential for tidal development. Atlantis CEO Tim Cornelius said, “about two and a half years ago we ran a global study of tidal power resources and came up with some hotspots where resource seemed pretty well matched to load.”

This UK based company further added that the project would “require hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in tidal turbines.” Moreover, the study done by this firm on the waters around Gujarat also stated that the sea tides in that region are strong enough to produce 300MW of power.

The Chinese scientists have established a new technology for salvaging the used nuclear fuel rods and transforming them into fuel which can be easily reused for running nuclear power stations, the state-run television station announced Monday.

Though this newly-discovered technology is a bit expensive and complex, it can reportedly bring out uranium and plutonium from the used nuclear fuel rods. It is being assumed to help China in relocating its present dependence on coal to nuclear plants for producing electrical energy. As per the Chinese state television report, this newly developed technology has been perfected after nearly 24 years of study by the Chinese scientists. It is believed to give China an adequate amount of fuel to easily run its nuclear stations for many years to come.

On Monday, the state-run CCTV also claimed that the new reprocessing technology would inflate the electricity producing volume of its current stockpile of uranium from an earlier assessed 70 years to 3,000 years.

Though China currently possesses some 13 nuclear power stations, it is still reliant on coal for fulfilling its huge electricity necessities. Moreover, presently China carrying out the procedure of constructing various new nuclear power stations as a part of efforts to spread its energy sources and decrease greenhouse releases.

There is a good news for book readers;  Google has launched its 24×7 online e-book store, challenging Apple and Amazon by presenting a potential support to self-governing booksellers. As Apple is continuously trying to filch the promising e-book market away from Amazon’s Kindle by its product Apple iPad, world famous search engine king Google has jumped into the middle of the combat involving the monster of online retail and the emperor of the widgets. Moreover, rather complicating the e-book format combat, Google has put its power behind the EPUB and PDF formats, which are also being used by many other online e-book stores.

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Apart from this, Google has also released a version of e-book software for Apple’s iPad as well as for other hi-tech mobile phones and tablets, which are using Google’s Android operating system. The Google e-book store lets its user to read books from any PC via a web browser, by which it has left the door open for Amazon’s Kindle owners to read books via Google e-book store by using the Kindle’s inbuilt browser.

As a result, Amazon has also announced that it will also go after Google’s lead and allow other websites to sell its e-books. This will eventually leave Apple with the most limiting platform, as its users can only purchase e-books via Apple’s iBookstore, which can be read only on its widgets.

It is generally accepted by all scientists that the universe started with the Big Bang, almost 13.7 billion years ago. But this theory, put forward by Albert Einstein, could now be disputed by cosmological evidence gathered by two scientists. Professor Roger Penrose (of Oxford University) and Professor Vahe Gurzadyan (from Yerevan State University, Armenia) have found evidence that events occurred before the Big Bang, thereby making the universe older than earlier thought.

For the laymen, outer space has after-effects of the Big Bang, called Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation. The two scientists used NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotophy Probe to find concentric circles, which suggest that universe did not begin as theorized by scientists, but instead is a cycle of aeons. Aeons are the biggest units of geological time and the discovery of these two men of science shows that there are 12 concentric circles in the universe.

Some of the abovementioned circles have as many as five rings, which are proofs of five massive events that occurred in their history, predating the creation of the universe on the premises of Einstein’s theory. According to Prof. Penrose, the circles are the imprints of awfully violent gravitational radiation waves that are generated upon the collisions of supermassive black holes. The report published online by the scientists says that these collisions happened in a previous aeon, and that the black holes would ‘eventually consume all matter in the universe’.

Here’s a case of education systems gone wrong with schools turning into Big Brother and keeping a tab on the pupils, even at home! The Lower Merion school district of suburban Philadelphia is now paying US $ 610,000 to two students who sued it for infringing their privacy. This act was done by the authorities by manipulating the cameras of 2,300 MacBooks provided to the students by the district school board itself. One of the students, Blake Robbins, received US$175,000 while the other, Jalil Hasan, got US$ 10,000. Weird enough is the fact that US$ 425,000 goes to the lawyer of the students, Mark Haltzman, who hired them.

Numerous images of the students are said to taken through the cameras without their knowledge as part of a unique, and seemingly disgusting, LANrev Theft Track program. The images are said to have been taken at school, home, in bed and even while they were partially dressed. The education authority had snapped around 400 images of the former, while 469 pictures and 543 screenshots of the latter were taken. In total, 56,000 images of the students in various situations were taken by the authorities of the Lower Merion school district.

The practice was part of a program wherein the laptops lost by students could be recovered using the cameras, but Blake Robbins did not report his school issued MacBook missing. It was a technicality, since he was reported to have broken two laptops earlier and was said to have not paid the requisite US$ 55 fee for the same. So, when he took his laptop home, it was considered stolen and the student-surveillance activity was discovered by him.

In fact, the when his principal deemed that he was taking drugs (an image of him eating candy was taken), Robbins got to known about the privacy infringement practice being carried out by the school. There is simply no excuse that can render this act of the Lower Merion school district acceptable, and still the federal authorities have refused to press charges. This is the perfect example of a situation where the usage of technology has left a negative impact on the lives of the common people.

Squarehead Technology, the Norwegian firm, has manufactured a new product that is expected to change the way we hear sports. That’s right, hear! Using this product, specific sounds can be heard, even those recorded in full capacity stadiums. The AudioScope is a product that has been developed keeping in mind the SONAR technology. The device includes up to 300 omni-directional microphones that are placed symmetrically around a camera.

The uniqueness of this gadget is that it allows the user to zero in upon a particular voice, using the microphones and a computer to suppress other sounds. Its operations work around the impact of the sound on each individual microphone and then extracting only that sound, with a result that is crystal clear. The usage of the software and hardware will be detailed to the operators, after which he will be able to follow the origin of the sound, even if the origin is a player itself.

Now, all the snicks in cricket as well as player’s chats in noisy football, basketball & other sports can be recorded and heard without any problems. But the usage of this fantastic gadget does not end with sports; with the development of technology, it can be used in a variety of places, including seminars, lectures, speeches, debates and classrooms. This product is anticipated with crossed fingers by sports broadcasters all over the world who aim to give the viewers a great time.

Chris Paget (a hacker) and computer security researcher created a device that can spy on and even record some cell phone calls. This interceptor, costing only $1,500, cleverly portrayed the weaknesses of the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) last week in Las Vegas, at the world’s largest annual hacker convention.

With this device Paget could spy on dozens of calls made by other hackers present in the room. Paget’s main objective was to prove that how numerous criminals, terrorists and other anti-social elements can use this same technology to intercept confidential calls that can harm the security of various nations. He also wanted to show the world a few options that consumers can use to protect themselves from these attacks. This remarkable gadget works by creating a cell phone base station that tricks cell phones into routing their outbound calls through his device, allowing it to encrypt the whole conversation.

This device can also be very useful for security agents, private investigating firms and crime cells as well who can catch criminals faster and maybe also prevent future attacks and acts of terrorism. This cheaply priced device mimics more expensive devices (called IMSI catchers) that are already being used by intelligent and law enforcement agencies.
Paget’s device captures only 2G GSM calls, making AT&T and T mobile calls that use only GSM, susceptible to interception.

The founder and CEO of Motor Development International (MDI SA) Guy Negre, based in Luxembourg, has invented a compressed air technology for cars. This former aeronautics and formula one engineer has invented this small mini four wheeler ‘Airpod’, that uses compressed air to move pistons in a 5.45 hp internal combustion engine. It has a range of 60 miles on a single tank of air and uses a small motor to compress outside air to keep the tank full.

With the demand for user friendly, inexpensive vehicles that have zero emission and is therefore very environmental friendly, this little wonder is grabbing  a lot of attention. The compressor can operate on gasoline, diesel, ethanol, bio diesel and even vegetable oil.

Though in the first glance the Airpod looks something out of a science fiction movie, it can prove to be very promising as far as savings in fuel consumption is concerned, and of course can help save our earth from global warming. MDI has already licensed its latest technology to Indian car makers Tata Motors.

The Airpod measures 81.5 inches in length, 63 inches wide and 68.5 inches tall and is very much for real.

The legendary French trunk manufacturer, over 7 years in the making, has released an epic book on its journey from the birth of the brand in 1792 to the till date. This book featuring prestigious collections from the 1920s and celebrating the journey from horse-drawn carriages to the great transatlantic ocean liners.

Historical French publishing house Devambez had published the epic book to the highest quality and standard. This is the awesome embodiment of the brand’s dedication to luxury and exclusivity with a limited printing of 233 editions and it is available for sell through appointment only.  Within a made-to-order trunk, each edition is presented and each client is invited for making a customized copy of this collectible book with a choice to select the color of the case’s canvas. Copies are numbered from 1 to 233 that validate the authenticity of both the book and the Goyard trunk which encases it.

So, you can say that this exquisitely crafted and composed archive is one of Goyard’s most wonderful achievements in itself.