Road accidents may soon become history – thanks to a new self-braking car technology.

The car’s crash-avoidance technology will include radar and sonar sensors that will detect people and objects behind the vehicle and automatically stop the car.

Automotive company Nissan has developed the system.

But the technology will not be available in Australia for at least a couple of years.

Volvo, in 2010, will start selling its S60 sedan, which by using cameras and radar can detect pedestrians and apply the brakes if the driver does not respond to warnings.

Carmakers Audi are also …

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Microsoft has launched its most awaited new mobile operating system at Mobile world congress which they have called as “Windows phone 7 series”. It is rebranded from “Windows mobile” to “Windows phone 7 series”. They are now planning to launch their own mobile phone instead of only selling their OS to other phone manufacturers like HTC. This might directly compete with Apple iphone. In the same way that the Windows 7 desktop OS was nearly everything people hoped it would be, Windows Phone 7 is almost everything anyone could’ve dreamed of in a phone, let alone a Microsoft phone.

Twitter, the popular social news service, was hacked early Friday morning by a group calling itself the “Iranian Cyber Army.”

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NIOS result 2009 is declared today. National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) Examination Results for secondary and higher secondary is declared on their site at …

Mysterious Blue spiral light appeared in Norway sky. Many speculations emerged pointing to various theories like russian missile, UFO, meteor…

Maybe Rupert Murdoch was serious about wanting to go without Google.

Murdoch’s News Corp. has initiated discussions with Microsoft over a plan to have the media company’s Web content essentially delisted from the world’s largest search engine, according to a report Sunday in the Financial Times that cited a person familiar with the situation. Microsoft, which owns rival search engine Bing, has also reportedly approached media giants about having their content removed from Google search results as well.

JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Houston–Astronaut Randy Bresnik carried out a spacewalk Saturday awaiting word of the birth of his second child. Responding to a wake-up call from Houston early Sunday, he delivered the news that his wife, Rebecca, had given birth, saying “good morning, Houston. Good morning, Rebecca, good morning, Wyatt, and good morning to our little girl.”
“I just wanted to take this opportunity to report some good news,” he said later in the morning. “At 11:04 last night, Abigail Mae Bresnik joined the NASA family and momma and baby are …

If it’s five o’clock in the morning and you have to spend your time with far more people than you’re used to, pushing, pulling and writhing your way to satisfaction, then perhaps a shopping mall is not the ideal location.
The tradition of Black Friday as the day when one attains negotiation nirvana seems a peculiar one. And one has to wonder whether people have learned that some of the deals really aren’t deals at all.
As CNET’s Rick Broida has already pointed out, many of the alleged deals aren’t terribly enticing, …