2. Nokia begins work on graphene, world's
strongest material:
Forget diamonds, graphene is now the world's hardest
material. And all sorts of developers most likely want to get
their hands on it.
Besides being the hardest substance in the world
1. 300 times stronger than steel
2. It is also the thinnest object ever obtained by man measuring
just one atom thick
3. It is the lightest.
4. It is made of a 2D crystal and looks a bit like scotch tape, only
infinitely thinner.
5. Graphene is also transparent, bendable, and a far better
conductor than copper.
3. Pavilion 14 Chromebook shows HP's 'multi-OS
approach‘:
Looking beyond Windows, Hewlett-Packard has
embraced the browser-based Chrome OS
* though it's only pitching the $330 Pavilion 14 as a
way to tap into Google online services.
4. Twitter: Hackers target 250,000
users:
A quarter of a million Twitter users have had their
accounts compromised in the latest of a string of high-
profile internet security breaches.
Twitter's information security director Bob Lord said
about 250,000 users' passwords had been stolen, as well as
usernames, emails and other data.
Affected users have had passwords invalidated and have
been sent emails informing them.
Mr Lord said the attack "was not the work of amateurs".
He said it appeared similar to recent attacks on the New
York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
5. Genetically Modified Cells Could Prevent Death From
HIV/AIDS:
Using genetic modification to treat HIV could create
cells that are resistant to the two major types of the
virus, preventing it from evolving into AIDS, according
to a new study.
Researchers at the Stanford University School of
Medicine and the University of Texas at Austin used a
method known as targeted trait stacking to paste a series
of HIV-resistant genes into T cells — immune cells
targeted by the AIDS virus — blocking infection as
HIV tries to enter the cell by altering the two major
entry ways into the cells, CCR5 and CXCR4.
6. Vibrating pen picks up mistakes as you write:
A vibrating pen lets
fledgling writers know
when they're making
mistakes.
The writing tool from
Lernstift is capable of
picking errors in
spelling or letter
formation in real-time,
delivering a warning
vibration to the writer's
hand.
