Google has tested cars that drive themselves. These cars, according to Google, have already done thousands of miles all on their own. Engineers at Google pride themselves at having tested a self-driving car on California streets, the company announced.
These cars use radar sensors, a laser range finder, and video cameras that are mounted on the roof in order to ‘see’ other road traffic, said software engineer Sebastian Thrun. At all times, the cars are manned by a trained driver, who is always ready to take control, together with a software …

If you are not a finance shark, here’s the dope, currency wars mean big economies in a slugfest to scupper the value of their own currency. With the recession assuming Great Depression proportions, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the stage could be set for a full-blown currency war.
Currency wars are fuelled by the need to export profitably, for which the buyer should have a strong currency and the seller a weaker currency, hence the flurry in country after country to pull down the value of its currency.
For …

A woman surveyed a memorabilia of Michael Jackson, fetching $1m along the way. The memorabilia was held at Hollywood Legends auction. This sale has been hailed as the largest memorabilia auction in the whole of Asia.
Michael Jackson’s memorabilia fetched the money in Macau, China. A basketball that had been autographed by the late king of pop and a former basketball superstar Michael Jordan fetched $245,000. This sale was also realized at Hollywood Legends Sale. This the highest sale that has been recorded in recent times not only in China, but …

Joe McElderry, who was the winner of The X Factor last year, followed superstar Usher on the stage with a performance that held its own on the 2010 results show. The 19 year old teen heartthrob who won over fans last year, did not disappoint with a performance of the single titled Ambitions from Wide Awake, his worldwide debut album which is slated for an October 25 release.
The ITV show had Joe showing off his falsetto, but fans were cribbing on Twitter that he was not live during the …

In the latest human rights violation in iron-fisted China, authorities have detained Nobel Peace Price winner Liu Xiaobo’s wife Liu Xia ,after she visited him in jail to tell him he was a Nobel laureate. On hearing of the award, a tearful Xiaobo had reportedly dedicated it to the Tiananmen martyrs.
Chinese feathers are ruffled after jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo was accorded the honor by the Swedish academy. The police are preventing Liu Xia from talking to newsmen , and she is under house arrest in her Beijing apartment, …

The evacuation of the 33 miners trapped in a Chilean underground mine are likely to start being rescued on Wednesday, according to the mining minister. Laurence Golborne said that, they plan to start the process of rescue around this Wednesday and it should last for not more than two days.
The minister was speaking following the successful drilling through the underground chamber, where all the miners have been sheltering since they were trapped. Work has already begun in efforts to stabilize the top part of the rescue shaft using a …

Linda Norgrove, the British aid worker held captive by terrorists in eastern Afghanistan, died in a suicide bomb blast just as rescue was agonizingly close. NATO said that even as US commandos entered the compound to rescue her, she suffered fatal wounds from a suicide bomb detonated by the terrorists. For Norgrove ’s family, it turned from hope to heart-wrenching tragedy.
It was all over within moments of the arrival of the US Special Forces, who were close to freeing 36-year-old Norgrove in the wee hours of the …

Over the last three years, many things have changed about the Bret Favre people used to know all too well. He used to be the most recent name on the list of gunslingers sold. There are several things that the NFL community has had to respect, more than merely a guy who pulls himself up from the muck and throws a 60-yard in the name of a winning score. A certain mentality to this observation transcends the game.
Favre has already shown enough of it during his career at the Green …

Here is one man from academia the activists will love. Hal Lewis, Professor Emeritus of the American Physical Society (APS) resigned in disgust over the ‘Global Warming Scam’. Lewis gave up his cushy job and stepped forth to reveal how the billions of dollars being pumped into the system had corrupted scientists.
Top physicist Hal Lewis said that the climate change scam is the biggest ” pseudoscientific fraud” he has seen in his illustrious career. The global warming brouhaha was to pull the wool over the people’s eyes, a rogue trend …

After delivering the biggest win ever in South Carolina, coach Steve Spurrier can now afford a smile. After smiling, he said that ‘this game was meant to be’. This seemed surely like it, judging by the way Gamecocks played.
Steve Garcia managed to throw three touchdown passes. Marcus Lattimore scored thrice. This is the first time that the Gamecocks were beating a team that had been ranked No. 1. Spurrier’s career got a major boost as a result of this dramatically positive turn of event.
South Carolina has been rather solid under …