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Two big giants Volvo and Siemens collaboratively announced their upcoming project about Electric cars. They closely working on vehicles equipped with electric drive motors especially Siemen’s C30 DRIVE. They planning to test the vehicles later this year and will expect first 200 vehicles will be delivered in late 2012 for evaluation under “real-life conditions”.

So far we have seen robots entering hazardous nuclear plants and dangerous buildings and repairing things that cannot be repaired by humans. Now engineers at Sandia Labs have created a new rescue bot that’s explicitly designed to enter and investigate collapsed mines. The Gemini-Scout robot is just two feet tall and less than four feet in length and packs a set of gas sensors, a thermal camera and a two-way radio, allowing it to detect dangerous underground materials and relay critical information to above-ground rescue workers. The bot can also navigate across rocky terrain, tight quarters, or flooded tunnels, and is sturdy enough to carry food and other supplies to trapped miners. Operators, meanwhile, can manipulate the Gemini-Scout using only an Xbox 360 controller, which was incorporated into the system on the strength of its intuitive design and UI. Sandia’s engineers demoed their bot last week in DC and are hoping to begin licensing it to rescue agencies by the end of next year.

The Cyberbike for Nintendo Wii crosses the finish line and available now in North America this time around, relying on, surprise magnetic resistance to offer a costly workout for those under 286 pounds. The oversized device is available now for $199.99 (both bike and game combo), puts it a bit too far above the cost of actual console ($150) for us to consider giving it a shot. We have already committed to biking downtown for our eventual Wii U pickup. For more details read the press release

The robot named Showa Hanako 2, this humanoid was originally developed last year as a tool for dentists looking to practice new procedures. Now the engineers at Japans Showa University have updated their dental denizen, adding a motorized head and replacing her PVC skin with a more realistic silicon coating. She also features speech recognition capabilities and executes natural movements, it includes blinking, sneezing, coughing, and more unsavory circumstances, even chocking. Dont forget to see her in action at the video

DBAs faced data fragmentation issues frequently. Data fragmentation affects the database performance. In production database, we need to follow any one of the below method to solve the fragmentation issue.

An app priced $6 for an iPhone, Aston Martin Experience displays the speed and Gs you film your drive behind the wheels. The British automakers latest app includes top roads-most of them Europe. The AutoBlog paired the app with a loner Rapide, driving up Californias Aston approved Pacific Coast Highway. The reviewers may have spent more time focusing on the car than the app. Aston claims that the Experience can be had with any other car, but if you are looking to get the experience spend some $6 and click on the source link

Hackers seemed to have vowed to disrupt the Brazilian governments security machinery and have attacked the government institute of geographic and statistics, making third attack in three days. Hacked IBGE, the hackers also depicted the Brazilian national flag with an eye in it. The hack is carried out by a group called Fail Shell. They added that the hack is a form of protest from a nationalist group, who wish to make Brazil a better country. The official sites from Brazil suffered attacks from LulzSec and some anonymous. According to the Brazilian government the attacks only affects only home portal, and the database is still available for the users.

Social Networking giant Facebook has made an announcement that it would be rolling out its latest service, Facebook Credits. The service is set to be launched in 13 countries includes Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, UK, US, Venezuela. It starts from July 1st 2011, it intends to be used as an alternative payment option on social networking giant, and it will be supported by Live Gamer. The Credits would allow users to buy virtual currency and virtual goods that are available in Facebook apps.

The XC2V FLYPMode is one imposing looking vehicle, also called as Experimental Crowd-derived Combat Support Vehicle. DAPRA has billed this mean machine as the first crowd-sourced, military relevant vehicle design. After being selected as a winning entry to DAPRAs design competition, Local Motors tricked it out in just 14 weeks. We wont see this thing driving dirty in the desert anytime soon. Dont forget to look at the video

The team of researchers from University of Minnesota has found a way to harness energy from our hot castoffs. The group has apparently created a brand spanking new alloy that spontaneously creates energy when its temperature raised by a small amount. Future uses a material Ni45Co5Mn40Sn10 include charging a hybrid car battery with the help of waste heat from its exhaust. The material is a phase changer; it can go from non-magnetic to magnetic in moments, when the temperature rises. They also try to get the waste heat from computers. Dont forget to check out the video

According to Billboard, HPs discussions with major record labels about a cloud-based service of some sort are now heating up, that is not meant as actual launch is imminent. One major label executive says Billboard that the service could be something like Qriocity for a variety of media, which can be delivered on any HP device, We dont know how serious they are, which is not exactly encouraging thing to hear. Some of them told HP could launch such a service, while some other sources say that HP is still trying to narrow down what their service look like.

In this article we will learn about different RAC Background Processes in Oracle.The Five RAC background processes that will be covered in this article areLock Monitor Processes ( LMON), Lock Monitor Services (LMS), Lock Monitor Daemon Process ( LMD), LCKn ( Lock Process), DIAG (Diagnostic Daemon)