Einstein's Law of Physics May Change

This is the cornerstone of physics since Albert Einstein dreamed up his theory of relativity.

Einstein's Law of Relativity is one of the few scientific equations most people know -- and it's a pillar of modern physics and fundamental to the way that the universe works.

The equation states that nothing is faster than the speed of light, but one of the world's foremost laboratories says they've found subatomic particles called neutrinos that travel even faster. If their findings are proven true, it may alter our understanding of the universe.

In Einstein's famous equation, E=mc2, the constant "c" is the speed of light, which is the same everywhere in the universe: c = 186 thousand miles per second, and there is nothing faster. The constant been accepted for more than a century.

Scientists were baffled by the research findings.

As the international team which conducted the experiments puzzled over what is potentially one of the biggest upsets in history, less rigorous minds turned their attention to the possibility of time travel and visiting distant planets.

Even Professor Alvaro De Rujula, a theoretical physicist at CERN, was not immune to the excitement.

He acknowledged that if the readings proved correct, and were not the result of some human error, it created unlimited possibilities.

The average person, said Professor De Rujula, "could, in principle, travel to the past and kill their mother before they were born".

Yesterday, the scientists whose findings have force a rethink on the make-up of the universe, officially informed colleagues and asked them for help in uncovering any flaws. Link

Amazon's Start Up Challenge goes Global

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an amazon.com company, is aiming to become a billion-dollar-a-year business. It is a startup revolution . As Amazon CTO Werner Vogels said, with AWS all you need is an idea, a credit card and a dream. Amazon holds an annual contest, the AWS Start-Up Challenge, to realise this philosophy.

The AWS Start-up Challenge launched in 2007 is back, sweeping across the planet. Fifteen regional prizes (five each from the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe/Middle East/Africa) and one global grand prize to be awarded to start-ups with the most innovative businesses built in the AWS cloud. The global grand prize winner will be awarded with $50,000 in cash and $50,000 in AWS credits

Amazon is focused not just on the silicon valley but it wants to reach the global hotbeds to find 'the next big thing.'

Indian High Court Judge Impeached for Corruption

Fighting corruption in India has been a monumental task.

BBC correspondent Soutik Bishwas explores the question. "Is India serious about fighting corruption? Going by some striking data put together by the country's respected, independent watchdog PRS Legislative Research, it doesn't appear so.

India's government officials charged with corruption can be prosecuted only after an approval by the federal or state government. However, by simply sitting on requests from prosecuting agencies, governments can easily slow down prosecutions or make sure that the offenders are never prosecuted."

The revolution in communication – with the 24×7 news channels and instant information sharing on the Internet has liberated content from the control of media houses and governments. The power of civil movements led by activists like Anna Hazare whose hunger strike is turning out to be a hunger fest. In the world's largest democracy, action against political and bureaucratic corruption is painfully slow.

India's upper house of parliament- the Rajya Sabha impeached a High Court justice on corruption charges on Thursday, against a backdrop of mass anti-graft protests across the country.

As reported in India Times, In a first, the Rajya Sabha on Thursday impeached Calcutta high court judge Justice Soumitra Sen on charges of corruption. Justice Sen could go down in history as the first judge to be removed if Lok Sabha gives its consent next week to the motion for his impeachment.

This is first time a sitting judge was found guilty by parliament's upper house of 'misappropriating' large sums of public funds in an abuse of his position as a justice of the Kolkata High Court.

Video Ads hit Print Media

The American magazine 'Entertainment Weekly' has brought the first video advert in the print media. Much like the singing greeting cards, when you turn the page the advert gets loaded and played on a small screen. The internet has been delivering video-embedded-in-text technology for some time. Now Pesi Cola and CBS are taking it to a new level in the print media.

Bill Gates predicts

Microsoft founder and Chairman Bill Gates has offered his take on the future of PCs. He says that people will see a sea change in the way they interact with computers in the coming five years.


Three years ago he spoke about the idea of the digital lifestyle. That our music, photos, TV, and communications would all be very different. And over these last three years it is really coming into the mainstream.


In a just released interview with BBC he is quoted as saying "this whole idea of what I call natural user interface is really redefining the experience."

"We're adding the ability to touch and directly manipulate, we're adding vision so the computer can see what you're doing, we're adding the pen, we're adding speech," he added.

Gates unveiled the Microsoft Surface computer, a large table like machine with a multi-touch interface, during the interview.