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Jun 21st
Takashi Murakami Celebrating Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice with Google Doodles. Summer solstice is the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. 21st June Tuesday is the longest day in the northern hemisphere but for people in southern hemisphere it is the shortest day referring Winter solstice.
The Earths axial tilt that causes the Sun to change position in the sky as the Earth orbits the Sun throughout the year.
The Sun reaches its More >
Jun 20th
Britain’s No 5 Player Katie O’Brien is the first to step out the Wimbledon. Japanese player Kimiko Date-Krumm defeated Katie with 6-0, 7-5.
Currently Rafael Nadal vs Michael Russell round 1 game is going on center Court, Alison Riske and Vera Zvonsreva playing round 1 in Court 1 and Gael Monfilis and Matthias Bachinger are playing in court 2 which is recently renovated.
Jun 20th
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Board of Directors has approved a plan to dramatically increase the number of Internet generic top-level domains (gTLDs) at its public meeting in Singapore. The vote took place on the first day of the ICANN Singapore meeting.
The vote now allows the process under which hundreds of new domain name extensions can be applied for. The new system enabling just about anything to trail the crux of the domain. In other words, .com may soon be replaced by More >
Jun 20th
Miss USA 2011: Alyssa Campanella, 21-year-old Miss California girl become the new Miss USA and will represent America in this year’s Miss Universe 2011 pageant. Campanella beats her friend Miss Tennessee Ashley Durham to be crowned as Miss America on Sunday night at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.
Miss Campanella replaced Miss USA 2010 Rima Fakih. The last are the Campanella and her “best friend” Miss Tennessee Ashley Elizabeth Durham. Miss Alabama Madeline Grace Mitchell came in second runner-up and Miss Texas Ana Christina Rodriguez was third runner-up.
She answered a question about legalizing marijuana by offering a careful response.
She said she didn’t think More >
Jun 20th
Netflix accessing problems have been solved and the netflix.com site is now up and working. Netflix’s movies.netflix.com is reportedly up and running for many, though subscribers say that they cannot access Netflix via their iPad or Apple TV.
Netflix is an online movie streaming site which provide services in US and Canada with paid subscription. Netflix has 23.3 million members in the United States and Canada.
Jun 17th
Fractal Design is Swedish Technology Company and a brand new manufacturer of PC cases and accessories. Recently it launched a Fractal Design product in VR-Zone, the Core 3000 case. Fractal Design previously manufactured a PC case naming Define R3 with minimalist stylings, great cable management and impressive noise dampening capabilities.
Define R3 case is a high quality case with no sharp corners and black scratch resistant coating. The new Core 3000 is filled with may new attractive features.
Jun 17th
Scientists have detected a massive black hole consuming and ripping apart a star within the constellation of Draco. Astronomers found a powerful beam of energy that had crossed 3.8billion light years and thought it as a typical ‘gamma ray burst’ from a collapsing star.
That high-energy jet of light beam was produced by a star about the size of the sun being swallowed up by a black hole a million times more massive. The event – known as Sw 1644+57 – appeared to come from the centre of a galaxy nearly four billion light years away.
This amazing discovery was reported online by the journal Science.
Warwick University’s Dr Andrew Levan said More >
Jun 17th
JK Rowling, the famous author of the most famous Harry Potter book series is up to some secretive and mysterious project ahead. We don’t have guess of it right now other than a site name and it is called “pottermore.com”. The information for now is that the coming mystery project is not another book from Rowling according to her spokesperson.
“It’s all top secret at the moment but it’s an exciting new project which is not directly related to the film” says Rebecca salt Rowling’s Spokesperson
The site, pottermore.com, features a holding page with two owls which links to a YouTube page featuring a countdown to a 23 June announcement.
“The owls are gathering More >
Jun 17th
U.S. Open Golf 2011 is major golf tournament of the season. ESPN and NBC is sharing the coverage of the event. The online streaming will be available on ESPN Live online.
The 2011 United States Open Championship, the 111th U.S. Open, began on June 16 and will end on June 19.
Defending champion Graeme McDowell shrugs off opening obstacles at Congressional.
Here are scores for the first day of US Open golf tournament 2011.
Jun 15th
Today’s Lunar Eclipse is the longest complete lunar eclipse with in past 11 years. According to some astronomers the moon will get blood red during the early morning hours. The longest lunar eclipse occurred last time was in July 2000 and after 11 years today is the day we can watch another longest complete lunar eclipse which will last for around 100 minutes.
The Sky Watchers Association of North Bengal (SWAN) in India will be doing a live web cast of the event which starts at 20:12:36 UT, which is 15:12:36 EST. So people in US can watch the eclipse in the mid-afternoon.
According to a astronomy center in Victoria, Australia More >