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Out Of Control NASA Satellite Could Fall Anywhere on Earth Within Weeks

A NASA Satalilte has been reported out of control. The Satelilte will hit Earth within weeks and the place it will fall is not yet certain. The satellite which is a size of a school bus weighs up to 6...

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6 Nigerians Arrested For SMS, E-Mail Fraud

India has arrested six Nigerians on suspicion of defrauding hundreds of people through text messaging and spam e-mail scams by duping their victims into believing they had become millionaires in a...

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Radar May Have Caused the Russian Spacecraft Crash

A US radar stationed on the Marshall Islands may have accidentally disabled Russia’s Mars probe, which crashed into the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, The radar may have jammed electronic communications with...

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Anonymous To Bring Down Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, United Nations

A few days after Anonymous successfully led the largest coordinated attack in their history with over 5,000 people taking down over 10 federal and industry Web sites, the group has come out to issue...

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You can Now post on Your Facebook Wall Even After Death

A new application  gives people the chance to compose their last Facebook update – to be posted after their death,according to Orange Quirky news. The free app, dubbed  If I Die, lets people write...

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World’s Oldest Animal Fossil Discovered In Namibia

Microscopic, sponge-like African fossils have been discovered in Namibia, scientists believe they could be the earliest known animals and possibly our earliest evolutionary ancestors. The creature,...

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Anonymous Develops its Own OS

Anonymous has launched its own operating system, Anonymous-OS, which fits out wannabe hackers with a suite of tools that they could use to get started on a path of crime. The operating system is based...

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New Software to Detect Lies Invented

A group of scientists from the University of Buffalo recently highlighted in their statements that they have developed new software with the help of which the computer can catch the lie immediately....

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IBM’s Telescope to Generate More Data than Internet

By Jane Nambi IBM is on the drawing board with a telescope that will generate more data than the whole World Wide Web. The telescope that is expected to be finished in 2024 will be used to help to...

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Kyambogo University Student Invents Plane, Seeks Government Help to Finish...

By Mirembe Martina Simon Kyangwa, 27, a student at Kyambogo University has invented a plane. It cost him a sum of sh1 million. Simon, a student of Engineering at Kyambogo University has invented a...

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Scientists Crank Large Hadron Collider Up to Record Levels

Scientists at Europe’s CERN research center on Thursday dialed up the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to a record eight trillion electron volts, or eight TeV, by smashing together millions of protons in...

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Cosmic Rays Remain a Mystery to Scientists

The mystery of the origin of the strongest cosmic rays has deepened as new clues into key suspects, the most powerful explosions in the universe, suggest they are likely not potential culprits,...

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President Museveni Launches New Bujagali Dam

By Mirembe Martina We are about to see the retreating backs of power cuts after President Museveni launched the Bujagali project which is funded by several organizations around the world. The project,...

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Ugandan Students Develope Feotus Monitoring Software

By John Kibirige Three students at Makerere University School of Computing and Informatics Technology (CIT) were touched by suffering pregnant mothers at Uganda’s referral hospital Mulago.This inspired...

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Would-be-freshers From St. Mary’s Kisubi Invent Bomb Detecting Robot

By Mirembe Martina Three students who have just concluded their S.6 examinations and are about to join university come August have invented a robot which can detect and neutralize bombs. The three...

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Nokia to Cut 10,000 Jobs Globally

Nokia plans to cut another 10,000 jobs globally to cut its costs .Nokia Corp. will will close some research and development projects in Ulm, Germany, and Burnaby, Canada. Nokia will also close the...

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Facial Recognition Software Dangerous

Facial recognition technology has been around for three decades. But the mobile and social revolutions are rapidly driving the field forward, as digital photos proliferate, cloud computing powers...

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Makerere University Makes Another Car

By Our Reporter Makerere university is in the process of building another car that will be using both electricity and Solar energy.The car is different from Kiira EV which uses only electricity. The...

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Samsung to Unveil New Galaxy Note on August 29

Samsung Electronics  will unveil its popular Galaxy Note smartphone on  August 29. “We plan to unveil the next Galaxy Note at the Samsung Mobile Unpacked event in Berlin on August 29,” a Samsung...

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Google to Fire 4, 000 Motorola Mobile Employees

By Sandra Birungi Google is firing 4, 000 employees from Motorola Mobility just a few weeks after acquiring the company. Of of the 4, 000 to be fired, two-thirds will be from outside the United States...

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