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The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a region of the northwestern Atlantic Ocean in which a number of aircraft and surface vessels have disappeared. Some people have claimed that these disappearances fall beyond the boundaries of human error or acts of nature. Some of these disappearances have been attributed to the paranormal, a suspension of the laws of physics, or activity by extraterrestrial beings by popular culture. Though a substantial documentation exists showing numerous incidents to have been inaccurately reported or embellished by later authors, and numerous official agencies have gone on record as stating the number and nature of disappearances to be similar to any other area of ocean, many have remained unexplained despite considerable investigation. The Triangle Area The boundaries of the Triangle vary with the author; some stating its shape is akin to a trapezoid covering the Straits of Florida, the Bahamas, and the entire Caribbean i...

Reading my notes yesterday about Software development plus Human Computer Interaction and I saw where it was stated that the user of any product right must be protected by the developer. If what I read from my note is true then WhatsApp has a flaw.   Wait i will explain myself.  Firstly, an administrator of any group can add me to their group with or without my approval. If Facebook and other social network can do it to seek my approval before joining a group then i think WhatsApp needs one also. Secondly; my flat mate and i were in the same group from our school, someone send in a bad message and he was not happy about it. He left the group and every member of the group got a notification that he left. This is my decision, it shouldn’t be broadcasted. Joining and leaving a group should be personal and not public. Why should all other members knows i left, for them to cast me or what?. This is outrageous and needs attention of the developers.  Furtherm...

The US shuttle Discovery has rolled out for what should be its final mission. The orbiter completed its slow journey to the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A overnight, Monday into Tuesday. Every step of the 5.4km (3.4-mile) crawl was bathed in bright xenon light. Discovery's flight to the space station is scheduled to begin on 24 February. With its crew of six astronauts, the ship will deliver a storeroom to be attached to the 350km-high platform, along with further supplies and spares. Stacked with its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters, Discovery took seven hours to complete the roll from Kennedy's vast Vehicle Assembly Building to complex 39A. Many Kennedy employees, along with their families, came to witness the event. Nasa last tried to launch the vehicle in November but technical hitches, including cracks on its giant external fuel tank, kept the ship on the ground. The agency said engineers had now fixed those defects and carried out further work to st...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Facebook is temporarily disabling a feature that gave app developers access to some of the most sensitive personal data it possesses: Members' addresses and phone numbers. The company had slipped the feature in quietly, announcing it at the end of last week in a post on its developer blog. But late Monday, Facebook said it is suspending the feature until it can fine-tune how it works. * 572 * * * Email * Print "Over the weekend, we got some useful feedback that we could make people more clearly aware of when they are granting access to this data," Facebook wrote on its developer blog. "We agree, and we are making changes to help ensure you only share this information when you intend to do so." Those changes will roll out "in the next few weeks," Facebook said. In the meantime, it has suspended the phone number and address gathering option. In its blog post last week describing the new feature, Facebook said me...

The Indian state of Gujurat is planning to host Asia's first commercial-scale tidal power station. The company Atlantis Resources is to install a 50MW tidal farm in the Gulf of Kutch on India's west coast, with construction starting early in 2012. The facility could be expanded to deliver more than 200MW. The biggest operating tidal station in the world, La Rance in France, generates 240MW, while South Korea is planning several large facilities. To claim the title of "Asia's first", the Indian project will have to outrun developments at Sihwa Lake, a South Korean tidal barrage under construction on the country's west coast. Atlantis's recent feasibility study in Gujurat concluded that the state had good potential for tidal exploitation. "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," said Atlantis CEO Tim Cornelius. "One of them ...

A telescope in the back of a modified 747 jet has snapped images of the Orion Nebula at a colour of light no other observatory in the world can see. They are the first results from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (Sofia), designed to capture colours blocked by Earth's atmosphere. The images show the star-forming region in unprecedented clarity. Further study could yield insight into stars that are just lighting up, one of astronomy's "holy grails". The results were presented at the American Astronomical Society's annual meeting in Seattle, US. Sofia is a successor to the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO), which was retired in 1995. The long-delayed Sofia project is now picking up where the KAO left off - allowing astronomers to see light at colours deep in the infrared. Space telescopes can see out in this part of the spectrum as well, but Sofia allows far more flexibility. Beyond the dust "The real unique thing is that you have a platfor...

Twenty-eleven will be the "year of launchers", says European Space Agency director-general Jean-Jacques Dordain. Europe expects to have three different rockets operating from its French Guiana spaceport in the coming months. The workhorse Ariane 5 will be joined by the Russian Soyuz vehicle and a new small launcher called Vega. At his annual Paris press conference to preview the year ahead, Mr Dordain said this represented a major change in the way Esa conducted its space activities. And he told the BBC everyone might be surprised at how complex an undertaking this would be. "For 30 years we have exploited one launcher, the best launcher in the world, Ariane - but it was one launcher," he explained. "From this year, we will exploit three launchers in parallel - Ariane, Soyuz and Vega. It will introduce some constraints because the traffic will be much heavier from [the spaceport], and I'm not so sure we've yet totally understood the constraints which ar...