Lamborghini's first gasoline-electric hybrid : Asterion LPI 910-4

Lamborghini is a company which rarely rolls out concept cars and here's one of it.

Lamborghini Asterion LPI 910-4:

• Asterion in Greek mythology means a Man-bull.
• LP stands for longitudinal posterior, which tells that its a mid-engined supercar like the other contemporary Racing Bulls.
• 910 is the metric horsepower it packs. 
• And 4 tells you it's all-wheel drive.

It is Lamborghini's first gasoline-electric hybrid. In fact, a plug-in hybrid, which can travel 31 miles on electricity alone. The power-train combines the 5.2-liter V10 and seven-speed DSG from the Huracán equivalent to 610 metric horsepower and a trio of electric motors equivalent to another 300 metric horsepower for a total output up to 910. It rolls from 0-62 MPH (0 to 100 km/h) in 3 seconds and to a top speed of 200 MPH (320 km/h) per hour and up to 78 MPH (125 km/h) in electric mode.

Which makes it the most powerful Lamborghini, putting it in league with the McLaren P1 and LaFerrari. 



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What? Pluto! back as a Planet again?

Pluto, has a surface of methane ice (a celestial snowball) which is 3.6 billion miles away from the sun, might be back into the solar system July 2015.

Pluto was first discovered and classified as planet in 1930, Pluto was relegated to "dwarf-planet" status by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2006. They booted it out because there appeared to be a bunch of other big rocks just like Pluto in the Kuiper belt. One of which is Eris.



A Debate between some scientists is ongoing for re-classification of Pluto as a Planet.

Harvard science historian Owen Gingerich, who chairs the IAU planet definition committee, argued at a forum last month that "a planet is a culturally defined word that changes over time," and that Pluto is a planet.

Another expert, Gareth Williams, associate director of the IAU's Minor Planet Center, said that Pluto is not a planet, citing the official definition, which states that a planet is a celestial body that:
• Is in orbit around the sun.
• Is round or nearly round.
• Has "cleared the neighborhood" around its orbit, meaning it is not surrounded by objects of similar size and characteristics.

Williams said Pluto failed on that third qualification, since it had several other "dwarf planets" near it and also overlaps Neptune's orbit at times.

So would Pluto be considered as a Planet again?
Answer to the question would be clear only after the next IAU General Assembly is in Honolulu in August 2015.



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Flipkart's Apology to the Customers for The Big Billion Day sale issues.

Flipkart (The Online Megastore), a day after its Big Billion Day had sent a letter to its customers apologising for the faults in the site as they couldn't keep up with the heavy traffic.

The Big Billion Day sale got Flipkart more than a billion hits in a single day, but it turned to be a  nightmare for the website.

Discontented consumers expressed their displeasure on the social networks about hiked up prices,  order cancellations and the number of attempts to be made by them for purchasing a single product, along with Flipkart's servers throwing up random errors.

Here's Apology letter sent to customers by Flipkart:-


"Dear Customer,

Yesterday was a big day for us. And we really wanted it to be a great day for you.But at the end of the day, we know that your experience was less than pleasant. We did not live up to the promises we made and for that we are really and truly sorry.

It took enormous effort from everyone at Flipkart, many months of preparation and pushing our capabilities and systems to the limit to be able to create this day. We were looking at fulfilling the dreams of millions of Indian consumers through deals and offers we had painstakingly put together for months.

And though we saw unprecedented interest in our products and traffic like never before, we also realized that we were not adequately prepared for the sheer scale of the event. We didn't source enough products and deals in advance to cater to your requirements. To add to this, the load on our server led to intermittent outages, further impacting your shopping experience on our site.

An unprecedented 1.5 million people shopped at Flipkart yesterday. While we stand humbled by the sheer faith that such a large number of customers have shown in us, we are unhappy that we were unable to live up to the expectations of millions more who wanted to buy from us yesterday.

And this is not acceptable to us.

Delighting you, and every single one of our customers, is absolutely the top most priority for Flipkart and we have worked very hard over the last seven years to earn your trust. Yesterday, we failed that trust. We have learnt some valuable lessons from this and have started working doubly hard to address all the issues that cropped up during this sale.

Price Changes As we were preparing various deals and promotional pricing in the lead up to the sale, the pricing of several products got ​changed to their non-discounted rates for a few hours​. We realise that this breaks the trust our customers have put in us. We are truly sorry for this and will ensure that this never happens again.

Out-of-stock Issues We ran out of the stock for many products within a few minutes (and in some cases, seconds) of the sale going live. For example, most of our special deals were sold out as soon as they went live. We had ensured availability, anywhere from hundreds to a few lakh units for various products, but it was nowhere near the actual demand. We promise to plan much better for future promotions and ensure that we minimise the out-of-stock issues.

Cancellations We had large number of people buying specific products simultaneously. This led to some instances of an order getting over-booked for a product that was sold out just a few seconds ago. We are working round-the-clock to ensure availability of additional units for these products and will do our level best to ensure that we minimise any cancellations.

Website Issues ​We realise that the shopping experience for many of you was frustrating due to errors and unavailability of the website at times. We had deployed nearly 5000 servers and had prepared for 20 times the traffic growth - but the volume of traffic at different times of the day was much higher than this. We are continuing to significantly scale up all our back end systems so that we do a much, much better job next time.

Everything that we have achieved at Flipkart is purely on the basis of our customer's trust and faith. This is why we come to work each day and continue to remain extremely passionate about building the best possible customer experience for Indian consumers. We failed to live up to this promise yesterday and would like to apologise once again to every single customer for our failure.

Thank you. 
Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal (Founders) "



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iPhone 6 to be in Indian Markets from 17th October (Pre-booking started).

iPhone 6 & iPhone 6 Plus, latest models of the Apple, will hit the Indian markets on October 17th, 2014 with a price ranging from Rs.53,500 to Rs.80,500, according to some company's distributors.

Apple is introducing its pre-booking concept for the first time in India, which allows an interested person to go to any of Apple's distributors, choose a model and book it from 7th October.

Price List:-
iPhone 6, 16 GB - Rs.53,500, going up to Rs.62,500 for a 64 GB and Rs.71,500 for a 128 GB.
iPhone 6 Plus, 16 GB - Rs.62,500, going up to Rs.71,500 for 64 GB and Rs.80,500 for a 128 GB.

"Pre-booking of both models will start from October 7, 2014 at 12:01 a.m. onwards at the major retail outlets of the partners," said Ingram Micro, one of Apple's largest distributors in India.



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Discovery of "Brain's GPS in" grabs Nobel Price.

The Nobel Committee at Stockholm awarded Nobel prize for physiology or medicine to three scientists (Edvard Moser, John O'Keefe and May-Britt Moser) who discovered the "Brain's GPS system".

Have you ever thought how brain comes to know about our position?


Answer to that Grabbed Nobel price to UK-based researcher Prof John O'Keefe as well as May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser.

John O'Keefe, director of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at University College London discovered "Place Cell" which gets activated when something is around.

And May-Britt Moser, who is director of the Centre for Neural Computation in Trondheim, and Edvard Moser, director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience in Trondheim discovered the “grid cells" which acts more like a nautical chart helping the brain to judge distance and navigate thereof.

"The discovery have solved a problem that has occupied philosophers and scientists form centuries," the Nobel Assembly said and added "Their findings may help explain why Alzheimer's disease patients cannot recognise their surroundings."



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PM Narendra Modi launched "Swachh Bharat Abhiyan" (Clean India Mission) on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

On 2nd October, 2014 (Mahatma Gandhi's 145th birth anniversary) Our PM Mr. Modi at Rajpath, Delhi’s ceremonial central avenue  said “Bapu gave us the message ‘Quit India. Clean India’, but his ‘Clean India’ dream is still unfulfilled,” and further added “When I saw that logo, I felt as if Gandhiji is looking at us through those spectacles to see if we have made India clean yet.” He asked his countrymen to give Gandhi the gift of a clean India for his 150th birth anniversary.
‘I am confident that Clean India will give us as much joy as Quit India,” he said.



Mr. Modi Launched the mission by cleaning a small area at Valmiki Basti, a housing society in central Delhi for sanitation workers, in which Mahatma Gandhi had once stayed.

Mr. Modi asked citizens to take photos of garbage, upload them on social media, upload videos of them cleaning the spot, and finally upload a picture of the clean spot.



He gave a boost to the mission by inviting nine people – Goa Governor Mridula Sinha, Shashi Tharoor, Sachin Tendulkar, Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra and Kamal Haasan,  Anil Ambani, Baba Ramdev, and the crew of the TV serial Tarak Mehta ka Ulta Chashma to join him in his cleanliness mission, and applying strategy of the movie "Jai ho" of continuing the chain further by nominating another nine, and so on.



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