Three Super Massive Black Holes Rotating Closely

4.3 billion light years away, in a distance galaxy, 2 black holes have been identified, they are not ordinary black holes, they are supermassive black holes, that is they are millions or billions time massive than our Sun. Usually these kind of black holes lies in the center of the galaxy.

Super massive black holes are surrounded by disk of glowing hot gas, commonly with that it forms quasar. Quasars are monstrous objects in space and with its colossal power can outshine the entire galaxy.

The quasar named SDSS J1502+1115 is in constellation Bootes, 4.3 light years away is actually 2 supper massive black holes and are almost 24,000 light years apart. But when scientists looked one black hole closely with intercontinental array of radio dishes – which can produce sharper images than Hubble Space Telescope – they discovered that one of the black hole is actually a duo.

This new found pair of black holes are actually 450 light years apart and orbiting each other every 4 million years. There is only one more tightly paired black hole we ever discovered and that is 24 light years apart.

Scientists believe that tightly paired black holes can help detect “gravitational wave” predicted by general relativity, but so far no known binary black holes are tight enough to cause detectable gravitational wave.

Source: ScienceMag

Sony Kernel Sources are Available on GitHub

Sony is really great with cooperating with open community, and they have been releasing Xperia kernel modules as zip files until now. Recently it changed and they are now available on GitHub, this is great news because now it has all the changes and history logged and it is great for developers to merge any mother modules with them.

Sony already provides official way to unlock their Xperia devices’ bootloader – allowing the device to install 3^rd party roms such as famous CyanogenMod for Xperia from FreeXperia project.

It is also noted that recently Sony hired the founder of FreeXperia project, Alin Jerpelea.

Sony GitHub

Source: Sony Mobile

MIT Researchers Shows off 36 Core CPU with “network-on-chip”

Last week, at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture, MIT research group unveiled 36 core chip. What’s new about this chip is the way it communicates with its cores – it is called “network-on-chip”.

Today’s multicore CPUs are connecting and communicating with its multiple cores with single wire, called bus, when two cores are needed to communicated, they are given access to the bus. This will become an issue as the number of cores increases, because then time to wait for the access to bus will increase and it will reduced the performance of the chip.

Nexus 9 Details Leaked Ahead of Google IO Conference

The next version of Google Nexus 7 – Google Nexus 9 details have been surfaced. This 8.9 inch tables will be the successor of Nexus 7 and made by HTC – it is codenamed Volantis.

Though it is named as Nexus 9, but it may change before coming into market. It has 8.9 inch display at 2048x1440 pixels and powered by NVIDIA Logan 64-bit processor with 2GB of RAM. It also has 16GB/32GB storage configuration.

With 8MP rear camera with optical image stabilization and 3MP front facing camera.

The body is built using what they call “aluminum zero-gap construction”. It is also believed that 16GB version will be priced at $399 and $499 for 32GB

Source: Android Police

Nokia's Z Launcher for Android - Simple and Smart

Nokia has released a launcher app for Android platform, which is still in beta but this is the first Android app Nokia has made public. Microsoft bought Nokia recently and move ahead with Windows Phone / Lumia series. But Microsoft didn't buy whole Nokia. This app is from one of the original Nokia group, one of the group Microsoft hadn't bought.

Z Launcher is very customizable and simple to use. It is much different than conventional Android launcher apps. Z Launcher features clock, calendar and appointments on the top, and list of apps according to the time - Z Launcher learns the pattern on how you use your apps and shows them accordingly. It shows some sets of apps in the morning and another set of apps in the evening. It not only shows apps in the list, also contacts and meetings reminders.

Z Launcher also has finger gesture feature called "Scribble". Just draw the first letter of the app and it shows relevant list of apps and details for that letter.

Z Launcher is currently in a pre-beta release. You can head over to zlauncher.com and click on the download link to download the app to your phone directly.

Z Launcher works with app major phones and phones running Android 4.1. CyanogenMod phones or any phones which are rooted are not supported.

Amazon’s Fire Phone Will be Available on July 25th

It was rumored for long time that Amazon was making phone of its own. Now Amazon has announced it “Fire Phone” and it will be released on July 25^th, 2014. So what is in the package?

It is packed with Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU at 2.2GHz with Adreno 330 GPU. It has 13MP rear camera and 720p display. But this phone has 5 front facing camera for 3D effects.

Apple Added Low-end iMac in Their Store

Apple has updated their apple store website today with new Apple iMac product which is priced at $1099.00 – which is lower than any of the previous offering.

This entry level iMac has 1.4GHz dual core Intel Core i5 with Turbo Boost up to 2.7GHz with 8GB of memory. It also has 500GB hard drive and Intel HD 5000 Graphics.

This 21.5 inch iMac can be seen as Apple’s entry to cheaper market, though it is powered by low-end hardware, but it is pretty good comparing to the Windows machines built with the same quality.

This iMac will be shipped with Mac OS 10.9 and will be able to update to 10.10 when it becomes available.