Author: Yaabot Staff
Ask anyone in their mid 30s to 50s what they thought of the future while growing up – space colonies, orbital vacations and a Mars base will likely figure on most lists. These were the expectations a generation growing up in the 60s and 70s had. What happened? Half a century after the Moon landing (which we managed to achieve starting from scratch in a little more than decade) – the furthest any human has gone is barely 400 kilometres off our planet’s surface. Where did humanity lose its way? War Works We’re a flawed species. For a large part…
We live in an age when absolutely everything is dependent on gadgets and technology. All our memories, our contacts, our communication, our entertainment, everything is saved as digital data somewhere or the other. As our gadgets are extremely reliable when it comes to our data, it is easy for us to get carried away and become a little careless. A little bit of random garbage cleaning while being careless can sometimes though, erase an extremely important file away. A human fault, that is. Well, natural tendency of a human is to panic and think of how to bring the lost…
Tesla Motors, easily the world’s most successful electric car manufacturer, recently dropped hints on entering the Indian markets with an affordable sedan. Earlier this year, CFO Deepak Ahuja was quoted as saying “India is a huge potential market where we need to be. I think sometime in 2015 seems to make sense to enter India, but it’s difficult to make an official announcement.” Tesla has found success in the multiple markets it’s ventured into. It’s loved by the Americans, and it continues to sell well in Europe and China. But India is a different ballgame altogether, and it’ll be interesting to see…
Android Parental Controls is one hot topic of discussion among parents and teachers both. They are talking about the subject over the internet, on TV shows in parent-teacher meetings and almost everywhere but why? What are the factors that have shaken the parenting community and other mentors of our social sphere to talk about it? Here are the reasons explained! The extended popularity of Android Smartphone: The popularity of Android smartphones is increasing every passing day among teens and preteens. The major reason is the affordability of smart features that makes these phones the prior choice of every other individual.…
Mankind has been unrelenting in its efforts to search for extra-terrestrial life. Somehow, asking ‘Are we alone?’ generates a unique emotion every time you bring it up. Innumerable spacecrafts have been deployed to look for life (more than 150 at last count) and research the surface and atmospheric conditions of worlds yet unexplored. The ones that have piqued our interest the most include Europa, Ganymede, Saturn’s Titan, and of course Mars. Mars get its fair share of attention, and a mission to Europa is in the works already. But Saturn’s Titan could be in for a Pandora-like treatment as in Avatar,…
Swedish animator and digital artist Erik Wernquist has put out a gorgeous short film called “Wanderers”. Voiced by Carl Sagan, Wanderers is Wernquist’s vision of humanity’s future in space. Although of course, none of the footage in the film is real, all the visuals are based on actual, real places in our solar System. Wanderers showcases Mars, the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and more exotic locations that look absolutely stunning. Here’s hoping we make it to all these places. Someday.
Marvel has been spending a lot of time (and money) on its Avengers franchise. The first movie was undoubtedly successful in almost all ways – great hype before the release, and great cash collections post release as well. No surprise then, that they decided to expand (with movies for individual superheroes), and a full blown sequel as well. Age of Ultron released to the same kind of hype earlier this year. Many months later, it is now out on DVD & Blu-Ray, courtesy Sony DADC. We checked it out. Plot Age of Ultron follows the events of The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark…
The term 3D printing might seem something from a sci-fi novel or something from the future to most people but to be completely honest, this industry has been in existence for a very long time now. In fact, the earliest records of 3D printing or additive manufacturing, as it was called earlier, date back to hundreds of years ago. But the recorded history shows significant upgrades in this sector starting from the 1980s. Straight out of an encyclopedia, 3D printing is defined as follows: 3D printing also known as additive manufacturing is any of various processes used to make a three-dimensional object. While this might…
Catering to the needs of those who wish to enjoy more power in Disk Managing than the amount Microsoft wishes to provide, EaseUS Partition Master is one such tool that helps people do what they like to their disk (literally). This utility offers all the standard and advanced features you’d want to have in a disk partitioning tool, it supports Windows 7, and it comes in five versions to fit all levels and budgets. The Free Edition is one of the versions of the software specifically designed for an average user running a 32-bit version of Windows and wanting to…
There seems to be another disruptor in the continually expanding online market. In fact, we’re witnessing the birth of a whole new category – social classifieds. Dubbed Fxchng, this service aims to revolutionize the static, spammy classified ads we’ve been seeing for decades. Thus far, engaging in classifieds has usually been an avoidable affair. There’s hardly any way to judge the reliability of an offer, and we usually never have any sort of background check we could perform. Fxchng addresses these very issues. By bringing in your social circle in to the picture, there’s the all important added layer of…
Mouse Pads are underrated. Most people don’t care (at all, perhaps) about the Mouse Pad they’re on. I’ve never paid attention to one myself. That’s primarily owing to my dependence on a laptop over the past half decade. But there’s a significant market for PCs that continues to exist, and there’s also a market for folks who like a mouse with their portable machines. Why not invest in a quality mousepad then? Well, because not many have discovered the pleasure of a premium unit. Kingston wants to change this perception, though. The company’s made its intentions clear on entering the…
American Sniper is quite obviously an American war movie. For the uninitiated, American Sniper covers the life of an American soldier, a film based on the autobiography of Chris Kyle, a sharp shooter, a sniper who came to be known as “the Legend” working for United States Navy SEAL. Directed by Clint Eastwood, American Sniper is based on true facts, and is an accurate portrayal of the life of American soldiers stationed at Iraq were affected after the 9/11 incident in America and how the war affected him personally. Now most American war movies have their fair share of pro-American propaganda and excessive patriotism. Which…