Indian girl has higher IQ than Einstein

London: A 12-year-old Indian girl has stunned everyone after she was revealed to have an IQ higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

Neha Ramu achieved a score of 162 on a Mensa IQ test – the highest score possible, the Telegraph reported.
Despite her young age, the score puts her in the top one percent of brightest people in the UK, which means she is more intelligent than Hawking, Bill Gates and even Einstein, who are all thought to have an IQ of 160.
Ramu’s doctor parents, who lived in India before moving to Britain when their daughter was seven, had no idea their daughter was so gifted.
Although she had always performed well at school, it was only when she took an entrance exam for Tiffin Girls’, a high-achieving grammar school, and achieved a perfect score of 280/280 that they realised her capabilities.
Two years later, she took the test for Mensa, a society for people with high IQs, and achieved the maximum possible score for someone aged under 18.
“I am so proud of her. Although she’s being doing well at these kind of tests for sometime now this is just marvellous. I can’t express the feeling,” Neha’s mother Jayashree said.
The score would be sufficient to get her into any Ivy League university. (ANI)

Asteroid 2012 DA14 to pass close by Earth tonight, scientists rule out possibility of collision

A large asteroid approaching the earth at great speed. Scientists, sitting in a control room, keeping a close eye on its trajectory on large screens before them.

After a few hours and ground-based maneuvering, they finally manage to deflect the rogue body and save the planet earth from a catastrophe. This familiar sequence from sci-fi films may be enacted in control rooms of space agencies on Friday when an asteroid, designated 2012 DA14, about half the size of a football field flies past the earth. The only difference, however, is that scientists have ruled out any possibility of a collision with earth.

Nevertheless, it is a close call. THe nearest the flying object will come to the earth is 27,600 km. It is indeed close shave in astronomical terms, because some of our communication satellites fly above this mark at 36,000 km.

“The trajectory was analysed and we see no danger to our satellites”, a spokesperson of the Indian Space Research Organisation said. The closest approach as seen from Delhi will be between 1 am and 2 am on February 16, at a point where the asteroid will be seen near Virgo constellation, according to C.B Devgun of amateur astronomy group SPACE India.
Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/asteroid-2012-da14-earth-isro-collision-scientists/1/250302.html

How these tech companies got their names

        Apple: According to Steve Jobs, Apple was so named because Jobs was coming back from an apple farm, and he was on a fruitarian diet. He thought the name was “fun, spirited and not intimidating”.

 

 

 

 

Hotmail: Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service he tried all kinds of names ending in ‘mail’ and finally settled for Hotmail as it included the letters “HTML” – the markup language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing.

 

        Facebook: Name stems from the colloquial name of books given to newly enrolled students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the US with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better.

 

 

 

 

 

Twitter: Having rejected the name Twitch for their social networking service, co-founder Jack Dorsey says: “we looked in the dictionary for words around it and we came across the word ‘twitter’ and it was just perfect. The definition was ‘a short burst of inconsequential.

World’s First Bionic Man

Meet the ‘world’s first bionic man‘
Made completely from artificial parts which can be fitted in the human body, ‘the man’ can walk and talk.

Sony Xperia Z

 

Sony Xperia Z Tablet Announced

Sony recently announced its flagship Android Smartphone In January 2013. With its 1,920 x 1,200 pixels full HD display, a ultra thin and ultra light weight frame measuring only 6.9 millimeters thick and weighing in at 495 grams, the Sony Xperia Z Android tablet is the thinnest, lightest 10-inch tablet in the world. The 10.1 inch slate is riding on the android jelly bean (4.1.2) platform with the upgrade to the 4.2 jelly bean platform available. The Sony Xperia Z tablet follows closely in the design ethos of its predecessor, the Sony Xperia Z Smartphone. The design of this tablet makes it stand out from the other tablets in the market. Its impressive design makes it thinner than the Apple iPad Mini. Available in white and black, the tablet has been made to meet the demands of all Xperia lovers.

The tablet comes in very strongly on the performance front. Powered by a 1.5 Ghz quad core processor with a 2 GB ram, it promises to deliver greatly on the performance front. Furthermore it comes with an internal memory of a whooping 32 GB. It also adds a feature which to Android feature tablet fans will be a breath of fresh air, its Micro SD card slot implying its expandable memory. A feature not commonly featured in many tablets phones.
The rear facing camera on the Xperia Z tablet is a thing of beauty. Its 8.1 megapixels with a back-side illuminated sensor which helps to capture images even in times of low light is a major complement to the phone. The tablet also has a front facing camera with 2.2 megapixels for video calls. The tablet also comes with a non-removable battery of reduced size of 6000 mAH. The smaller battery in the tablet is hoped to be as power efficient given its unusually small size. Furthermore, the Xperia tablet guarantees users an unparalleled experience in the tablet comes in the WI-FI only and the WI-FI LTE variants.
The tablet further promises to come in handy for the users. With its dust proof screen, the tablet is also water proof to depths of up to one meter and for periods of up to thirty minutes. The camera further comes with the famous Sony features of geo-tagging, touch focus; face detection, image stabilization, HDR and sweep panorama.
The superior design of the Xperia Z tablet is its best angle. The ultra thin tablet is easy to hold and use offering the user a unique experience. The user experience is further enhanced by the anti-finger coating advanced screen. This means that you can use the tablet as you wish without worry of your finger prints smudging all over the screen. The superior Opti-contrast panel by Sony offers a unique thrill given how clear and crisp images are visible from any angle both indoors and outdoors as the screen reflects less light. Furthermore, the innovative sound solutions from Sony ensure that the 3D sound clarity and quality is up to scratch.

“Toddler” is 20 Years Old, and Forever Young, Due to Baffling Medical Condition

Brooke Greenberg may be 20 years old, but she remains forever trapped inside the body and mind of a toddler, due to a mystery medical condition that has baffled medical experts for years.

“From age one to four, Brooke changed. She got a little bit bigger,” explained her father, Howard, during the family’s appearance on Thursday’s “Katie” with Katie Couric. “But age four, four to five, she stopped.”

Since then, Brooke’s height and weight of 16 pounds and 20 inches have remained a constant. She wears diapers, is pushed in a stroller, gets fed through a feeding tube due to a too-small esophagus, and communicates like an infant would, estimates her mother Melanie.

“Like 6 months,” she explained on the show. “If she’s happy, she’ll giggle and laugh.”

Doctors have told Melanie and Howard, who live in Maryland, that there is no other known case like Brooke’s in the world. And at least one medical expert believes that Brooke’s condition could hold the key to the fountain of youth.

“Here’s a woman 20 years old who has literally stopped aging,” explained Dr. Eric Schadt, director of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multi-Scale Biology at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York, who also appeared on the broadcast. He said he took an interest in Brooke’s case after years of her receiving no diagnosis from other doctors, and that her case could “blow a whole field of science wide open.”

In the mean time, the parents provide care to her day in and day out, and have watched their younger daughter, 17-year-old Carly, eclipse her older sister by developing normally over the years. They admit they have often felt isolated in their struggle.

“It hasn’t been easy,” Melanie told Couric. “We don’t have anybody really to turn to, to tell us what to expect.” Doctors have no way to even determine how long Brooke may live.

Still, her parents say they take solace in the fact that she’s here now, and believe she does not need to be cured of anything.

“If somebody knocked on the door right now and said, ‘It’s a guaranteed pill. Give this to Brooke and she’ll be fixed,’ well first I would say to him, ‘She’s not broken.’ And B, I would say, ‘Thank you, but no thank you,” Howard said in a video filmed for the “Katie” show.

To research Brooke’s condition, scientists are reading every single letter of the young woman’s DNA. “That would fill, like, 3,000 of the fifth Harry Potter books that my kids like. That’s how big her genome is,” Dr. Schadt explained, adding that, so far, scientists have put her genes in fruit flies to see if it helps them lives longer. He added that the Greenberg’s take solace in the fact Brooke has also helped with research into conditions including Alzheimer’s, heart disease and cancer.

“That,” he said, “is a pretty amazing gift to be able to give to humanity.”

10 things you didn’t know your phone could do

From monitoring your heart rate to matching paint colours, you’ll be surprised how many things ‘there’s an app for’.

There are more than 30million smartphones in the UK and 60 per cent of mobiles are now smart, according to communications regulator Ofcom – but most of us barely dip into their potential functions.

From heart monitors where you place your finger on screen to apps that unlock your car, these are the ten best that you’ve probably never heard of…

1. Match paint colours

Want to paint your walls the same colour as your duvet – or replicate a colour you’ve seen somewhere else in your own home?
Well, ditch the Dulux catalogue and download the paint manufacturer’s free Let’s Colour Studio app on your iPhone instead.
All you then do is take a photo and let the app find the colour for you.

For £1, you can order a tester sample to make sure paint shade is just right.

2. Use your phone as a spirit level

Want to make sure the shelves you put up aren’t sloping?
Don’t rummage around your toolbox – grab your phone.
The free iHandy level app, available on iPhone and Android, is even better.
Just place your handset on the item you want straight and it works in the same way as a traditional spirit level, using the phone’s accelerometer.
However, it also measures the degrees precisely so you can get it bang on zero easily

3. Start your car

Fed up of going out on cold mornings and having to shiver as you drive off to work?
Well, download the Viper Smart App – on either an iPhone, Android or BlackBerry – and you won’t have to.
You’ll need to have attached a Viper SmartStart system to your car’s electronics, but the free app lets users unlock the car and turn the ignition remotely.
The app and SmartStart system also lets you track the vehicle’s movements – handy if you have teenage children borrowing your car.

4. Measure things

Don’t have a tape measure big enough to measure buildings?
No problem – get yourself the £3.99 Dot Measure Pro app for iPhone or the less- effective-but-free Smart Measure Pro app for Android – and your handset will do it for you.
All you have to do is point your camera lens at what you want to measure and, using trigonometry, it will calculate how tall and wide it is – and far away you are from it.

5. Design your dream room

Want to rearrange your furniture are worried to risk doing it in case it won’t fit?
Well, using the £1.99 Mark On Call iPhone app, you can expertly plan how you want your room to look and the technology will do the maths for you.

The app ‘measures’ furniture, then ‘fits’ it into a space – no more lifting and shifting in vain

6. Picture your dream home

Following on from Mark On Call, iPhone owners may want to visualise what the room space they have planned might look like.
To help them, the uDecore app creates an augmented reality image of how the chairs, tables and other furniture items might appear.

7. Monitor your heart

Want to know how much your heart races after an encounter with your fire-breathing boss? There’s an app for that.
Azumio’s free Instant Heart rate app – available on iPhone, Android and Windows Phone – is so good it has won awards.
All you have to do is touch your phone screen for a few seconds and it will tell you how many beats per minute your heart is clocking.
It will also let you know where this fits in compared with your and everyone else’s average.

8. Change TV channels

Fed up of losing the remote? Now you can install it on your phone instead.
ThinkFlood’s £44.99 RedEye Mini dongle lets you change channels using your iPhone.
Just plug it in, download the software and then point at any TVand click to your heart’s content
The firm promises that an Android-compatible device is coming soon.

9. Turn lights on – and change their colour

Turning on light switches from your wall too much effort?
Then do it using your phone. All you need are three Phillips Hue bulbs for an admittedly massive £179.99 and either an Android or iPhone.
Then you can turns the lights on or off and – this is its party trick – change the colour emitted from the clever LED lighting.

10. Record TV shows

Forgor to set your Sky+ box to record a show?
Don’t worry – just download the satelite broadcaster’s free Mobile Record app and record and record it remotely from wherever you are in the world.