Facebook owner and youngest Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg bought home in Palo Alto

Mark Zuckerberg is, at age 26, on the young side for a first-time home buyer these days. But the Facebook cofounder and chief executive isn’t exactly stretching financially to make his first purchase. Valued at $13.5 billion, and with a persona made famous by the Oscar-winning film The Social Network, Zuckerberg recently plunked down a relatively paltry $7 million for his first home.

The restored historic Palo Alto, Calif. Abode encompasses 5,617 square feet on a 17,100 square-foot plot. It includes five bedrooms, five and a half baths, a banquet-size dining room, a music alcove and glassed-in porch. The backyard has a saltwater pool, a spa, an outdoor gazebo with a wood-burning fireplace and a carport. The lot, located on Edgewood Drive in the Crescent Park neighborhood, is shielded from nosy neighbors and gawkers by a wall and citrus trees. Crescent Park itself is a high-end neighborhood where median single-family homes went for an average of $1.9 million in February, according to the Zillow Home Value Index.

The young billionaire’s new pad hails from an earlier structure erected by William A. Newell, a physician and politician who helped establish and govern the area in the late 19th century. It was razed and rebuilt by another physician in 1903. Since then, it changed hands roughly seven times, going through several remodelings, before being acquired by the social media entrepreneur.

The property was listed through Sherry Bucolo of Alain Pinel Realtors. Both Bucolo and Facebook declined to comment on the sale, but public records indicate the deal closed in mid-March. As with most real estate transactions involving rich and famous homebuyers, the sale was conducted through a third party LLC.

The young billionaire has long been a fan of renting and of relatively modest digs. His last two places were rentals in the College Terrace neighborhood of Palo Alto, both of which were close to Facebook’s offices and significantly smaller than the new home.

Zuckerberg, who ranks 52nd on Forbes’ list of the World’s Billionaires, paid $1 million more than the previously listed asking price of $5.85 million. The $7 million paid is about what the home is valued in the expensive 94301 zip code, according to Zillow.com.

That might seem like a hefty price tag to many middle Americans, but it’s pee wee league among billionaires. Yuri Milner, a venture capital billionaire and Facebook investor, shelled out $100 million for an 11 acre, 25,000 square foot estate in the area earlier this year. In April, news broke that Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s wealthiest billionaire, had snatched up a London penthouse for $221 million, the most ever paid for an apartment anywhere.

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Remain happy forever!!! Gene for the Happiness have been identified

If you wants to remain happy forver in your life now it seems it is possible. According to the TG daily,Scientists have for the first time discovered a 'happiness gene', which works by regulating the transport of serotonin in the brain.

It forms the first direct link between a specific genetic condition and a person’s happiness, as measured by their satisfaction with life.

Behavioural economist Jan-Emmanuel De Neve of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) examined genetic data from more than 2,500 participants in the US National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, examining which functional variant of the 5-HTT gene they possessed.

This gene helps control serotonin transporters in neuron cell walls, and has a variation, or allele, which can be either long or short. The long version is more efficient, resulting in more serotonin transporters in the cell membrane.

The team asked subjects how satisfied they were with theirlife as a whole. There were five possible answers: very satisfied, satisfied, dissatisfied, very dissatisfied or none of the above.

The results showed that nearly 70 percent of those with the efficient (long-long) version of the gene were either very satisfied or satisfied with their life – compared to just 19 per cent for those with the less efficient short-short form.

Conversely, 26 per cent of those with the short-short allele were dissatisfied, compared with only 20 per cent of those with the long-long variant.

Even possessing one long allele increased the likelihood of being very satisfied with life by 8.5 per cent, the team found.

"It has long been suspected that this gene plays a role in mental health but this is the first study to show that it is instrumental in shaping our individual happiness levels," says De Neve.

“The results of our study suggest a strong link between happiness and this functional variation in the 5-HTT gene."

He points out that other genes - as well as one's life experiences - also influence a person's happiness levels. But, he says, "This finding helps to explain why we each have a unique baseline level of happiness and why some people tend to be naturally happier than others."

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Facebook & Google in talks to buy Skype!! Lets see who will won the bid!!!

In a rat race to the finish, both Facebook and Google are reportedly thinking about purchasing Skype after the company delayed its initial public offering.

According to Reuters, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has already kicked off an internal discussion about buying Skype, or possibly forming a potential joint venture. Similarly, Google is apparently engaged in talks about a joint venture with Skype.

Skype is currently valued at $3 billion to $4 billion with its IPO expected to raise about $1 billion.

Recently, the value of the service has been somewhat undercut by rival offerings from both Google and Apple who both offer video conferencing services. 

Discussions with both Facebook and Google are still in early stages, and it’s unclear which option Skype favors.

The IPO is slated to take place in the second half of 2011, but the company is staying open to the possibility of working with other companies apart from Google and Facebook.

Both Skype and Google declined to comment, while Facebook was not immediately available for comment.

"When a company is not going public and it has been on file for a long time, one way or another something is going to happen," an unnamed source told Reuters. 

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Days On Earth Have Shortened Because of Japan Earthquake

The massive earthquake that rocked Japan on 11th March has not only devastated human life and economy, but has also shortened the length of a day on the Earth. It has also shifted the mass of the planet and shortened the day of the Earth by a fraction.

A scientific analysis has shown that the intense temblor generated from the earthquake has increased the spin of the Earth. As a result, the length of the 24 hours day has become shortened by 1.8 microseconds. This has been observed by Richard Gross, a noted geophysicist working at NASA.

A microsecond is considered to be the millionth of a second. Since the distribution of the mass of the Earth has changed, the Earth is expected to rotate a bit faster and this will obviously shorten the length of the day by 1.8 microseconds. The earthquake in Japan has made the mass of the Earth get shifted towards the Equator.

Initial data collected by NASA suggested that the Japan earthquake has moved the island by 8 feet. The Japan earthquake 2011 has also shifted the figure axis of the earth by 6.5 inches, which is approximately 17 centimeters. Figure axis is very important as the mass of the Earth is balanced around it.

However, this is not for the first time that a major tremble has changed the length of the day. Massive earthquakes held in the past have also changed the length of the day by microseconds. The massive earthquake held in China last year has also shortened the length of the day by 1.26 microseconds.

Japan earthquake 2011 is the largest ever earthquake recorded in Japan and it has also been recorded as the fifth largest earthquake to strike on this earth since the year 1900. The earthquake has already expected to have killed 10,000 people and has destroyed the country’s power supply and the economy as well.

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Apple's iOS 5.0 reportedly coming out this Fall

According to TG Daily Even though the rumor mill still suggests that Apple will release the iPhone 5 in the summer, and initially unveil version 5.0 of the iOS software this spring, there's now speculation that the new operating system won't be available for the devices until the third quarter.

That would mean the iPhone 5 will initially ship with an earlier version of iOS than version 5.0, although it'll be easily upgrades to the latest software when it becomes available.

Tech Crunch, which cited two unnamed, but "solid," sources, reports that Apple will reveal the latest iteration of its mobile OS in June at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference.

Historically, when Apple unveils a new version of iOS, the actual release isn't far away. But it looks like that won't be the case here.

It's still unclear whether iOS 5.0 will be available for all iPhone and iPad products, or if some of the earlier models will be shunted out of the latest software. Suggested updates to the operating system revolve mainly around cloud-based computing and storage solutions, as well as a stronger emphasis on location-based features.

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Scientists of MIT develops low-cost artificial leaf which can produce electricity!!!

 According to TG Daily MIT scientists have created what they say is the world's first practical 'artificial leaf', a solar cell the size of a playing card that mimics photosynthesis.

"A practical artificial leaf has been one of the Holy Grails of science for decades. We believe we have done it," says team leader Daniel Nocera.

"The artificial leaf shows particular promise as an inexpensive source of electricity for homes of the poor in developing countries. Our goal is to make each home its own power station."

Placed in a single gallon of water in bright sunlight, the device could produce enough electricity to supply a house in a developing country with electricity for a day, Nocera said.

It wrks by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, which are stored in a fuel celland used to produce electricity.

Artificial leaves have been around for a while - indeed, the first was created more than ten years ago. But existing versions tend to be expensive and have a short lifespan.

Nocera's new leaf is made of inexpensive materials that are widely available, works under simple conditions and is highly stable, he says. In laboratory studies, a prototype operated continuously for more than 45 hours without a drop in performance.

It's based on several newly-discovered catalysts, made of nickel and cobalt, that can efficiently split water into hydrogen and oxygen, under normal conditions. Right now, Nocera says his leaf is about 10 times more efficient at carrying out photosynthesis than a natural leaf - but says he's optimistic that he can boost efficiency much further.

"Nature is powered by photosynthesis, and I think that the future world will be powered by photosynthesis as well, in the form of this artificial leaf," he says.

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Moon to come closet to earth on March 19 after 18 years!!!!

Rare celestial event will happen on 19 March. At that time, the full moon will appear and the distance to the nearest position to earth. This phenomenon can only happen once every 18 years.

On March 19, 2011, the moon will be at the closest distance to Earth at the same time almost simultaneously with the peak of the full moon.

Based on astronomical data, on the same day at 19:10 GMT distance of 356,577 kilometers of the moon with the earth. An hour earlier, the peak full moon occurred on March 19 at 18:11 GMT.

In astrological terms, that position is known as a super moon or  super extreme moon  that is believed by some as a sign of disaster for the living beings on earth.

What to look out for is the impact of the strengthening of the tidal effect on Earth, especially in sea water when the top of the full moon closest to the distance of the moon. When bad weather at sea and coastal areas reinforced with maximum tidal effects when perigee and full moon, he said, be wary of potential hazards in coastal areas that might cause flooding tide (rob) a larger than normal. Similarly, when a buildup of energy in earthquake prone areas and the mountain erupted, the strengthening effect of the tides the moon may have the potential to trigger release of energy.

Closest moon taken from my cellphone

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Can Sound be used to controll the protesting mass??

We people are very much known to the term LASER an acronym of "Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation."

Pink Laser

The traditional Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation (LASER) uses packets of electromagnetic vibrations called ‘photons’. The result is a continuous photon beam, created via stimulating electrons with an external power source; the release of energy (occurring as the electrons collide) is made in a highly reflective optical cavity. The coherent and controllable shining beam of laser light is due to the photons’ homogenous frequency and rate of oscillation. But Very few of us have heard about the term SASER that operates on principles remarkably similar to those of a laser.

Saser is the acronym for Sound Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

The Saser mimics the laser technology, but instead of light waves it employs sound waves, and instead of photons it sends phonons. In addition, instead of sending waves through an optical cavity, the sonic Saser travels through a tiny structure called a ‘superlattice’. This structure is made out of 50 super-thin sheets of two alternating semiconductor materials, Gallium Arsenide and Aluminum Arsenide. In order to achieve the exact effect, each layer must be as thin as air – just a few atoms thick. When the phonons are inside the superlattice, they bounce, multiply and eventually escape in the form of an ultra-high frequency photon beam.

Previous researches have tried to develop sound-emitting devices, but this is the first time a device emits sound waves in the terahertz frequency range. As for the beam itself, it consists of coherent acoustic waves, produced at nanometer wavelengths. The scientific and technological applications vary; one example of the Saser’s potential is the sonogram, a device that can scan for defects in nanometer scale objects like micro-electric circuits.
The main function of a saser or phonon laser is to produce a highly coherent beam of ultrasound sasers are of much current fundamental and technological interest.

In the 50 years since Theodore Maiman demonstrated the first working laser, physicists have labored to build devices capable of controlling sound waves in the same way that optical lasers manipulate light. This year, two teams of researchers announced the development of successful sound-based lasers, or “sasers.”

Optical lasers use quantum effects to produce an intense beam of light of a single frequency, or color. The big challenge in translating that capability to sound has been finding an analogous way to amplify just one sonic frequency. Physicist Tony Kent and his colleagues at the University of Nottingham in England managed to create such an amplifier from a thin, layered lattice made of two semiconductors, gallium arsenide and aluminum arsenide. The resulting saser can build up an intense, pure sound wave at a specific frequency in the terahertz range (far, far above the limit of human hearing) for a few billionths of a second.

Researchers’ next goal is to lengthen the duration of the sonic amplification. Caltech physicist Kerry Vahala and his group are making progress in that direction with a different type of acoustic laser. Their technique relies on firing an optical laser at tiny glass membranes to amplify sound. Unlike the Nottingham saser, Caltech’s device can run continuously, but it operates at a slower speed of 50 megahertz. Vahala is working to boost that frequency into higher ranges, which will probably be more useful for acoustic imaging.

Other potential applications for sasers include detecting defects in microscopic structures and improving signal processing in semiconductor chips, the scientists say. Vahala has no doubt that once the technology matures, it will quickly find all kinds of other uses as well. After all, optical lasers now perform eye surgery, scan groceries, and play movies off DVDs. “But when the laser first came out,” Vahala says, “no one had the foggiest idea what to do with it.”

 Using sound beams to control crowds isn't new, but never before have systems been able to create sounds reaching terahertz frequencies, earning them the name "saser."

Signaling the dawn of the true saser era, physicists from the UK and Ukraine have broken this apparently elusive terahertz sound barrier. Unlike lasers that shoot photons in a tight beam of light, sasers are able to emit dispersed vibrations in high frequences of sound waves, creating nausea and confusion when used on humans.

The latest and most powerful saser has proven to be able to produce phonons—some quantum-level measurement of vibration that could (one day) be used to cure cancer or shoot enemies, among other things—in distant objects. These early tests of the saser reveal its potential of one day (we think) being able to make someone explode, from the inside out, using just a handful of terahertz—similar to what would happen to your brain at a Hannah Montana concert.

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Charge your mobile with out electricity!!!

Have you ever been in trouble when the battery of your mobile is  out of charge and you can’t charge it due to lack of electricity. There is a way to charge it with out electricity. I haven’t tried it ever though I found it from different sources that it is possible to charge the battery of your mobile with out electricity and sources says it works.

 Now, you do not require any mobile charger nor electricity  to charge your mobiles. Only there is need to use green leaf of peepal tree and after some time your mobile will get charged.. Here is the way to charge your mobile phone. Here are the steps and I wish all to try this and let me know whether it works or not. Here are the steps.

 1- Open your mobile cover

2- Take out your battery

3- Take two to three fresh leaves of peepal/pipal/ ashwattha tree

4- Touch the stub of these leaves on your mobile battery terminal for a minute

5- Clean the mobile battery terminal with the soft cloth

6- Put your battery again in your mobile and switch it on

7- Now you can see the result

8- If required repeat the process with fresh leaves

Though it is unbelievable  but according to the botanists, it is just  due to changing of mutual energy into electrical energy power can be saved in battery. Similarly, it is also possible.

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