Firefox 29 is Released -Comes with New UI

Mozilla releases the 29th version of Firefox web browser, which comes with newer user interface - a major update since long time. It also has a new menu system that is far away from tradition menus, it includes easy cues for users to easily select the features they want.

Firefox is a modern full featured web browser and direct competitor for Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer. With Firefox 29, Mozilla has greatly enhanced the user experience and security.

Firefox also has a way to sync your browser customizations, bookmarks, passwords, history, add-ons and preferences. Which makes it handy to use the browser across devices.

Download Firefox 29.0

Check the release notes here

Is It An Astronaut Floating Free?

You can see an astronaut floating free in the Earth orbit, but it was not astronaut, it was just a space suite without astronaut.In 2006 a space suite floated away from the International Space Station, well it was intentionally put it in the orbit by the station crew.

ISS astronaut Mike Finke spacewalks in a Russian Orlan spacesuit in 2004

It was named Suitsat-1 and stuffed with old cloths and also armed with small radio transmitter and three batteries. It also had internal sensors to measure temperature and battery power. The readings were transmitted to ground observation center.

This SuiteSat - a space suite turned into satellite was a Russian Orlan space suite. They were used by Russian Space Program for spacewalks. SuiteSat was a Russian idea, they wanted to turn old spacesuits into useful satellites.

The suite circled the Earth 2 times before its radio signal become weak, but it continued to circle Earth every 90 minutes and burned up in the Earth's atmosphere after few weeks.

Source: NASA Apod

Brown Dwarf Star is Found 7.2 Light-years Away from Our Sun

Astronomers from Penn State University had found a new brown dwarf star very close to our Sun using NASA's WISE and Spitzer Space Telescope, just 7.2 light years away. Important thing is this star is as cold as our North pole.

This image shows the relative distance of new-found brown dwarf relative to other neighbor stars

This new found brown dwarf star is named as WISE J085510.83-071442.5 and its temperature is between -48 to -13 degree Celsius. This temperature is a new record because the previously found brown dwarf stars were about room temperature or about 20 degree Celsius.

Brown dwarf stars are like "failed" stars, they are of the size between 15 times the mass of Jupiter and 75 times the mass of Jupiter, because of the mass range the object wouldn't have enough mass to start the fusion, that powers normal stars, therefor couldn't burn nuclear fuel or radiate light.

Brown dwarf star

WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) was able to capture this brown dwarf star because it surveyed entire sky twice and also it surveyed them in infrared. These brown dwarf stars wont give off light, so we wont see them through normal light telescope, but their thermal glow can be captured using infrared.

This WISE J085510.83-071442.5 is 3 to 10 times the mass of Jupiter, with such low mass it could be a gas giant planet, but scientists believe that this should be a brown dwarf, because brown dwarf are common in space.

Source: Phys.org

iOS 7.1.1 Released with Smaller Improvements and Bug Fixes

Last month Apple released iOS 7.1 major update for its iOS 7 branch, now 7.1.1 brings some improvements in Touch ID (fingerprint scanning feature) in iPhone 5S, and also fixed some bugs in keyboard responsiveness.

Apple also fixes some security bugs, notably in SSL, where attacker with privileged could capture the data in the session protected by SSL. Also fixed some issues in WebKit and HTTP cookie handling.

Already, rumors about iOS 8 is already here with some screen-shots (probably fake). Apple is expected to release the developer preview version of iOS 8 in their upcoming Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in June 2nd.

Fatal Flaw in Some Samsung Galaxy S5 Smart phone Cameras

Samsung confirmed there is a camera failure in limited number of Galaxy S5 devices after people started to post on forums about the camera failure particularly on the Verizon Wireless model.

Samsung spokesperson said that owners with fault camera can call 1-888-987-4357 to arrange a replacement under Samsung's warranty. Verizon also tweeted about the issue and asked the customers with fault units to contact Verizon customer support resolve the issue.

Galaxy S5's 16 megapixel camera is one of its prime feature and this "camera fault" makes it pretty useless for its camera value.

Source: The Verge

F.lux Can Save Your Eyes from Computer Screen

It is a very small software yet very important for anyone who spends time with computer. Computer screens are bring and vibrant - they are designed that way and mostly looks good on day time, but in the night it is a different story.

In the night time, we uses artificial light source to light up our rooms and then the computer screen is not designed to look good on those conditions, usually our screen gives off bright bluish light and for a long period of viewing your screen under incandescent or halogen or CFL will make your eyes strain.

F.lux is a simple software to deal with this simple yet important issue, f.lux can automatically adjust the brightness and color of your computer screen according to the time of the day.

It will make the screen looks more warm at night and normal cool colored like sunlight in the day time. It also has settings to changes the color according your light source.

According to f.lux, blue light glow that comes from computer screen affects the sleep pattern, they have intensive coverage about that research on their website, you can check that here.

This is a simple, yet worthy software to have it on your computer.

Download f.lux https://justgetflux.com/.

OnePlus One - Flagship Android Phone with Cheap Price

The long wait has come to an end. One Plus' ONE is real with impressive hardware specs. The phone comes with CyanogenMod 11S - modified version of CyanogenMod that is based on Android 4.4.

The One has super speed Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 Quad-core CPU at 2.5GHz and 3GB of RAM. Adding to this super spec, 5.5 inch 1080p full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) screen protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3.

One is also packed with Sony's Exmor IMX 214 13 Megapixel camera with dual LED flash and f/2.0 ape on the back, which can also record 4K resolution videos and slow motion 720p videos at 120fps, and 5 Megapixel front facing camera.

For all day use, the phone has 3100 mAh LiPo battery, which OnePlus claims, "Designed to last" because of the energy efficient Snapdragon 801 chip and energy efficient display technology called Display RAM.

16GB version comes with silk white and costs just $299 while 64GB one costs $349 and comes in standalone black.

Check their website here.