ESA's Schiaparelli Mars Lander Said to Have Failed As a result of Navigation Program Failure

Europe's Schiaparelli Mars lander failed last month following a sensor failure caused it to cast out their parachute and switch off braking thrusters more than two miles (3.7 km) above the outer lining of the planet, like it had previously landed, a written report introduced on Thursday said.The error stemmed from the momentary glitch in a computer device that calculated how fast the spacecraft was rotating, the record by the European Space Company said."When merged to the navigation process, the incorrect information produced an projected height that has been bad - that's, below soil level. This in turn successively activated a early discharge of the parachute ... and a quick firing of the braking thrusters," ESA said of its April 19 attempt to land the Schiaparelli spacecraft on Mars.

A report by Washington-based think-tank Global Financial Integrity estimated that India lost $344 billion in illicit fund outflows between 2002 and 2011. PM Narendra Modi also said militants operating against India were using fake notes of Rs 500, worth about $7.50 at current exchange rates.

A very strong criticism of the scheme that came across is the possible draconian impact it can have on the rural economy. India reportedly has somewhere around 10 lakh bank branches all over India. However, there are 6.8 lakh villages alone and most of these villages are without a bank. Rural economy mostly thrives on currency transactions. Most of the population does not even have the slightest idea of banking. This is likely to come across as a huge shocker for such sections. Jan Dhan scheme, UPI/digital payment stack, and payment banks are still in the nascent stage. It will be a long time before rural India moves to completely cashless transactions. In the short term, people in rural India who have a significant amount of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes, but no official form of identification, will have a tough time in exchanging their notes.

Telecom regulator TRAI has wanted views on a product for deployment of community Wi-Fi locations, including reselling of support by area homeowners, that can be scaled up for wider coverage and economical broadband services.

The Telecom Regulatory Power of India claimed their consultation report on design for nation-wide interoperable and scalable community Wi-Fi sites is "to examine the tasks of different stakeholders in the Public Wi-Fi network price sequence and construct an environment for selling scalable and sustainable unions for big degree nation broad deployment."The regulator claimed that it's also exploring monetisation and sustainable organization models for public Wi-Fi communities through the consultation process.The regulator has recognized lack of range in the backend to connect Wi-Fi hotspots, stagnated growth of home connections, authorization of Wi-Fi individual, cost mechanism, infrastructure issues like accessibility to energy among problems hindering expansion of public Wi-Fi.

Reliance Jio's Lyf phones have been selling in India for quite some months now, however, the company still needs to tap the rural and tier-III markets for its data services and mobile business.

The report said that Jio may try to reach out to the consumers who are first-time data users in rural areas. "Jio wants to tap all the segments in the country and sees huge potential in the rural areas, which it now aims to tap with VoLTE feature phones," said the report.There will be two feature phones, if the report is to be believed, priced at around Rs 1,000 and Rs 1,500. Reliance may launch these phones in the first quarter of 2017. Although these are feature phones, meaning there will be no touchscreen, they will be able to run 4G data and will be capable of accessing internet.The cheapest 4G-enabled smartphone at present is sold at around Rs 3000, and a huge slice of the market is still based on feature phones. With the launch of such feature phones, Reliance Jio will be able to offer the affordability of a feature phone with 4G VoLTE technology along with free voice calls.

Reliance Jio's Lyf phones have been selling in India for quite some months now, however, the company still needs to tap the rural and tier-III markets for its data services and mobile business.

The report said that Jio may try to reach out to the consumers who are first-time data users in rural areas. "Jio wants to tap all the segments in the country and sees huge potential in the rural areas, which it now aims to tap with VoLTE feature phones," said the report.There will be two feature phones, if the report is to be believed, priced at around Rs 1,000 and Rs 1,500. Reliance may launch these phones in the first quarter of 2017. Although these are feature phones, meaning there will be no touchscreen, they will be able to run 4G data and will be capable of accessing internet.The cheapest 4G-enabled smartphone at present is sold at around Rs 3000, and a huge slice of the market is still based on feature phones. With the launch of such feature phones, Reliance Jio will be able to offer the affordability of a feature phone with 4G VoLTE technology along with free voice calls.

Scientists observe how quantum superpositions build up in a helium atom within femtoseconds.

In the double slit experiment, a particle travels on two different paths at the same time. Something similar can be observed when a helium atom is ionized with a laser beam. The ionization of helium can happen via two different processes, and this leads to characteristic interference effects. A team of scientists has now managed to observe the buildup up of these effects--even though this effect takes place on a time scale of femtoseconds. It is definitely the most famous experiment in quantum physics: in the double slit experiment, a particle is fired onto a plate with two parallel slits, so there are two different paths on which the particle can reach the detector on the other side. Due to its quantum properties, the particle does not have to choose between these two possibilities, it can pass through both slits at the same time. Something quite similar can be observed when a helium atom is ionized with a laser beam.

Professor Nello Cristianini, in the Department of Engineering Mathematics, said

New research has shown that through the use of big data to analyse massive data multiple modern and historical news, social media

Popular Browser Add-On WoT Pulled After Being Caught Selling Browsing Histories

A popular browser add-on has been pulled after investigation showed it was selling users' browsing history to third parties, data that was not sufficiently anonymised. Web of Trust Services is a website reputation and review service that uses crowdsourcing to assign trust and reliability ratings.

Microsoft Issues Windows 10 Patch for Security Flaw That Google Revealed

Microsoft has issued a patch for the critical Windows 10 system vulnerability brought to light by Google last week, it said in its security bulletin announcement on Tuesday.

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Samsung Galaxy S8 Tipped to Sport an OLED Display With 90 Percent Screen-to-Body Ratio

In a bid to douse the fire that the Galaxy Note 7 caused, Samsung is looking to balm the situation by making its upcoming Galaxy S8 count. The 'S' series flagship largely expected to be unveiled in February will have some significant upgrades to lift the mood of its loyalists.