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Global electronics giant, Samsung, has reaffirmed its position as the market leader in innovative technological devices, with the introduction of the Galaxy Camera onto the Ghanaian marketplace. Tagged connected camera begins and largely hailed as the rebirth of the traditional camera, the...
The nearest single Sun-like star to the Earth hosts five planets - one of which is in the "habitable zone" where liquid water can exist, astronomers say. Tau Ceti's planetary quintet - reported in that will appear in Astronomy and Astrophysics - was found in existing planet-hunting...
Tweet London, Dec 19 (ANI): Social networking giant Facebook has been asked by a German data protection body to end its policy of making members use their real names. Data protection agency in Schleswig-Holstein said that the policy violates German laws that give people the right to use pseudonyms...
A sun-like star in our solar system's backyard may host five planets, including one perhaps capable of supporting life as we know it, a new study reports. Astronomers have detected five possible alien planets circling the star Tau Ceti, which is less than 12 light-years from Earth — a mere stone's...
SACRAMENTO — Under pressure from state lawmakers and environmentalists, Gov. Jerry Brown's administration released draft regulations for hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," the controversial drilling process driving the nation's oil and gas boom. The proposed rules, released Tuesday, would...
Some of the biggest black holes in the universe may actually be even bigger than previously thought, a study that uses data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has suggested. Astronomers have long known about the class of the largest black holes, which they call “supermassive”...
