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British Deputy High Commissioner, Mumbai, Kumar Iyer has announced that the British Government will be helping selected cities of India in developing them to smart cities. Moreover, he further reveals the names of the cities. The Deputy High Commissioner “It would be our endeavour to develop these cities as smart cities for improved traffic, better education, and infrastructure after preparing a master plan in near future,” The British Government will be supporting 2 cities from Maharashtra and one from madhya pradesh. According to a source the selected cities are Pune and Amravati from Maharashtra and Indore in Madhya Pradesh. The British Deputy High Commissioner, Mumbai, Kumar Iyer further shared the plan and the projects that how this cities should be developed into smart cities. According to him as these cities has different characteristic and therefore it will focus on projects specifically. He further said that the High Commission will also be looking for venturing into the educa...

We’re delighted to announce the availability of Google Play services 8.3. There’s a lot of new information to share with you about what’s available to you in this release. A big part of this release is focused on user identity. We’ve revamped the Sign In with Google APIs to make implementation simpler and provide users a streamlined experience. First off, the new Google Sign-In no longer requires the device accounts permissions, a big win when you start to develop for Marshmallow. The API also supports the latest Google branding. When using Google Play services 8.3, you’ll find a SignInButton that looks like this with the default scopes: Previously, users would have to touch a sign in button, and then follow several steps (i.e. selecting account, giving permission to access profile information, and possibly needing to create a Google+ account). With Google Play services 8.3, only one tap is needed for basic profile access. You can check out the documentation for the new API here. And t...

While Mars doesn't have much in the way of Earth-like weather, it does evidently share one kind of weird meteorology: acid fog. Planetary scientist Shoshanna Cole has pieced together a compelling story about how acidic vapors may have eaten at the rocks in a 100-acre area on Husband Hill in the Columbia Hills of Gusev Crater on Mars. She used a variety of data gathered by multiple instruments on the 2003 Mars Exploration Rover Spirit to tease out information from exposures of the ancient bedrock. She will be presenting her work on Monday, Nov. 2, in Baltimore, Maryland, at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. The work focused on the 'Watchtower Class' outcrops on Cumberland Ridge and the Husband Hill summit, said Cole, who is an assistant professor at Ithaca College and began studying the area for her Ph.D. thesis at Cornell University. "The special thing about Watchtower Class is that it's very widespread and we see it in different locations. A...

The  carbon cycle  is central to life on Earth. It describes how carbon flows between living organisms, and the ocean, atmosphere and rock of our planet, and is driven by the energy from our sun. But a  carbon cycle  also exists for our galaxy, and astronomers are opening new windows into space that let us watch this galactic  carbon ecosystem  in action. However, the light from carbon in space can be very hard to see because most of it is blocked by the Earth's atmosphere. But now a new telescope built in one of the most remote regions of our planet is letting us see cosmic carbon in a new light. Game of millimetres All elements in the universe emit light with a characteristic fingerprint in the form of  emission lines . So just by teasing apart the spectrum of the light received from space, astronomers can determine what elements are out there. Interstellar carbon comes in several forms. It is sometimes missing an electron, making it  ionised . ...

Tiny spacecraft have their ambitions of space exploration too. The small-sized satellites called CubeSats, made of box-shaped four-inch units, are successfully operating in the low Earth orbit, conducting a variety of scientific research. Now, space agencies like NASA and ESA a planning to send these nanosatellites way farther than ever before – to deep space destinations, like asteroids and Mars. We could see CubeSats flying by the Red Planet in less than a year from now as NASA aims to send its InSight lander to Mars and two Mars Cube One (MarCO) nanosatellites will piggyback on the mission. InSight is planned to land on the Martian surface on Sept. 28, 2016 and MarCO, as a technology demonstrator, will transmit information about the spacecraft's landing to NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), orbiting the planet. Then, MRO will relay the data to Earth. If this demonstration is successful, it will enable NASA to quickly acquire information when its spacecraft lands on Ma...

The highest-resolution radar images of asteroid 2015 TB145's safe flyby of Earth have been processed and yield new information about its surface features. To obtain these highest-resolution radar images of the asteroid, scientists used the 230-foot (70-meter) DSS-14 antenna at Goldstone, California, to transmit high-power microwaves toward the asteroid. The signal bounced off the asteroid, and its radar echoes were received by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's (NRAO) 100-meter (330-foot) Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. The radar images achieve a spatial resolution as fine as 13 feet (4 meters) per pixel. The radar images were taken as the asteroid flew past Earth on October 31 at 1 p.m. EDT at about 1.3 lunar distances (300,000 miles, or 480,000 kilometers) from Earth. Asteroid 2015 TB145 is spherical in shape and approximately 2,000 feet (600 meters) in diameter. "The radar images of asteroid 2015 TB145 show portions of the surface not seen previously and ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant gathering of galaxies in a very remote part of the universe, thanks to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The galaxy cluster, located 8.5 billion light-years away, is the most massive structure yet found at such great distances. Galaxy clusters are gravitationally bound groups of thousands of galaxies, which themselves each contain hundreds of billions of stars. The clusters grow bigger and bigger over time as they acquire new members. How did these clusters evolve over time? What did they look like billions of years ago? To answer these questions, astronomers look back in time to our youthful universe. Because light takes time to reach us, we can see very distant objects as they were in the past. For example, we are seeing the newfound galaxy cluster—called Massive Overdense Object (MOO) J1142+1527—as it existed 8.5 billion years ago, long before Earth formed. As light from remote galaxies makes its wa...