London, May 13 (ANI): A survey on the most popular online brands in the UK has revealed that Facebook tops that chart, accounting for 13 per cent of all UK internet time last month.

Brussels, May 13 (DPA) The European Commission Wednesday levied a record 1.06-billion-euro ($1.45-billion) fine on US computer chipmaker Intel for bribing retailers and manufacturers to shut its main rival out of European markets.

The commission found that between 2002 and 2007, Intel “used illegal anti-competitive practices to exclude essentially its only competitor, and thus reduce consumer choice, in the worldwide market for x86 chips,” said Commissioner Neelie Kroes.

Washington, May 13 (ANI): Scientists have proposed a new approach to warn of an impending pandemic by detecting subtle signals in human behaviour.

New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) BigAdda, the social networking website belonging to the Anil Ambani group, Fropper, a dating site and Indyarocks, an entertainment-based social network, are among the top 25 Indian Internet start-ups ranked for the first time by leading technology magazine Dataquest.

The rankings prepared with the help of Indianweb2.com that tracks Indian start-ups in the technology space, is an interesting mix of social networking sites, tool makers, rating sites, and creators of close-knit online communities and mobile applications.

Kolkata, May 13 (IANS) Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) patriarch Jyoti Basu fell at his residence Wednesday morning, his personal aide said.

“Basu fell while going to the washroom early this morning. He received a minor injury in his left leg. He’s now been administered medicine by the doctors,” Basu’s personal assistant Joykrishna Ghosh told IANS.

Washington, May 13 (ANI): Astronauts aboard NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis have uncovered a long stretch of nicks on their space shuttle, which are the result of launch debris.

They were inspecting their ship for signs of launch damage when they came across the nicks.

Mission Control informed the crew that it’s a 21-inch stretch of nicks over four to five thermal tiles on the right side of Atlantis. The damage is where the right wing joins the fuselage.

Mission Control says it could be related to debris that came off the fuel tank almost two minutes after liftoff.

NASA said that the damage does not appear to be serious, but more analysis is needed.

Atlantis blasted off on May 11 on a risky repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Endeavour is on standby in case a rescue is needed.

This final trip to Hubble is especially dangerous because of all the space junk in the telescope’s 350-mile-high orbit.

Atlantis seems to have come through its launch fairly well, at least. But the analysis is continuing.

On this fifth and final repair mission, Atlantis’ crew will replace Hubble’s batteries and gyroscopes, install two new cameras and take a crack at fixing two broken science instruments, something never before attempted.

Washington, May 13 (ANI): Freida Pinto and Evangeline Lilly are the latest beauties to join the list of celebrities to endorse products by cosmetic giant L’Oreal.

Berlin, May 13 (ANI): Together with ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) Space Telescope Herschel, Planck is all set to go into orbit on May 14, to begin its studies of the cosmic microwave radiation and of the clues it gives about the Big Bang, the earliest phases of the cosmic history, and the structure and composition of the Universe. According to the standard model of cosmology, our Universe began 13.7 billions years ago in a Big Bang, the origin of Space and Time.
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is the relic heat from this Big Bang, released 380,000 years after beginning and still traveling freely through space today.
At that early time, weak fluctuations of matter density were present, which are seen as variations of temperature in the CMB.
By observing these fluctuations, cosmologists can infer how the large-scale structure of today’s Universe - galaxies, galaxy clusters and filaments - were formed.