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Computational web based app. Although it's tempting to think of Wolfram|Alpha as a place to look up facts, that's only part of the story. The thing that truly sets Wolfram|Alpha apart is that it is able to do sophisticated computations for you, both pure computations involving numbers or formulas you enter, and computations applied automatically to data called up from its repositories. Why does computation matter? Because computation is what turns generic information into specific answers. To give an amusing example, every school child has at one time or another written a report on the moon, and they probably included the wrong figure for how far the moon is from the earth. Why wrong? Because the distance from the earth to the moon is not constant: it changes by as much as a mile a minute. If you ask Wolfram|Alpha the distance to the moon, it tells you not only the conventionally quoted average distance, but also the actual distance right now, which can at times be well over ten thousand miles off the average. The actual distance is a figure that can be arrived at only by computation based on the moon's known orbital parameters. It's rocket science, if you will.

The year 2013 witnessed some significant milestones in renewable power generation and transmission, inculding the opening of some of the world's biggest wind, solar and bio-gasification plants. Power-technology.com picks the ten biggest clean energy developments from 2013. The London Array, the world's biggest offshore wind farm, at 630MW installed capacity was opened in July 2013.

Inspired by the promise of vastly increased flight durations, the Russian and American militaries experimented with nuclear powered aircraft for two decades, but the concept never progressed beyond a handful of trials. Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works claims to have the solution in its grasp, unveiling plans for a compact nuclear fusion generator that could power everything from aircraft to naval vessels within ten years.

New Year's Eve Destinations Map - map showing the top and best places for new years Eve for celebration, parties, fun, holidays. Find where to go for new years eve.

Five of the world's ten richest oil and gas billionaires are from Russia; two are based in the US, while surprisingly only one hails from the Middle East. Offshore-technology.com profiles the world's richest oil and gas tycoons based on Forbes' calculations of net worth as of the end of July 2014.

Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport in France laid the first stone for the construction of Future Terminal 1 in December 2014. The new terminal will increase the airport's capacity to 15 million passengers by 2020 when compared with the current capacity of ten million.

Caterpillar, Joy Global and OMZ produce some of the biggest draglines used in surface mining operations. Mining-technology.com profiles the ten biggest draglines in use based on bucket capacity. Caterpillar's Cat 8750 series draglines have a bucket capacity ranging from 76m3 to 116m3 (100 to 152 cubic yards).

CBR looks at ten different start-ups from around the world and what they have to offer. IoT is changing the world, and has probably changed your life already even if you haven't noticed it. Until 1831, door-bells didn't exist. You had to knock or pull a cord to announce your arrival.

Cancer affects one out of every ten individuals in India, and one out of every fifteen people die as a result of it. WHO conducted this investigation. There are nearly thirty-four thousand cases of gastric cancer in India, with a ratio of 1:2 (males: females). Stomach cancer is also commonly known as gastric cancer. It means the unhealthy growth of cells in the stomach region. The stomach is a muscular organ and a loose sack above the abdominal part. Most cancer is present in the body of the stomach. However, it is occasionally found at the gastroesophageal junction, where the food pipe (esophagus) connects to the stomach.