NASA GRAIL Gravity Mapping Satellites Now in Orbit

Grail(Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) satellites is the first NASA spacecraft that will map the gravity field of the Moon.

GRAIL mission satellites lifted off on 10th September 2011. The satellites entered Moons orbit recently on 31st December 2011. Grail mission is expected to improve knowledge of Moon's gravity by 100-1000 times what was previously known.

Sir Timothy Berners Lee;

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is a computer scientist in Britain and a MIT professor. Most of all, he is the inventor of the World Wide Web(that is the software part of the Internet). He is popularly known as 'Tim Berners-Lee' or 'TimBL'.

Hacker; the Definition

The term 'Hacker' refers to the person who involves in hacking. Hacking itself is defined differently by different groups of people. This has led to the state called 'the long standing hacker definition controversy'. Mainly, there are 2 conflicting definitions used by 2 different groups.

The Story of Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley refers to the southern region of San Francisco Bay Area in North California of the United States. Today, it is often considered as the world's high technology center which is home for many famous companies.

Jonathan Ive Knighted

Jonathan Ive has been honoured by Queen Elizabeth II as a Knight Commander of British Empire (KBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours List in appriciation for "service to design and enteprise".

Sir Jonathan, whose full name is Jonathan Paul Ive, is currently Apple’s Senior Vice President in Industrial Design: the mastermind behind Apple's favourite designs like iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook, PowerBook...