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By:   Arshad Sharif , Uploaded: 2nd July 2013 ISLAMABAD: In the first hundred days of his third stint as the Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif has to take an important decision of making three new four star appointments, including  those of the Army Chief, Naval Chief and Chairman Joints Chief of staff Committee. Holding the additional portfolio of defence minister, PM Nawaz Sharif will also be considering approving a major reshuffle in army top brass in the first week of October as CJCSC, General Khalid Shamim Wyne, and two Corp Commanders, Lt General Khalid Nawaz Khan and Lt General Muhammad Alam Khattak prepare to call farewell to arms. This will set in a major reshuffle in the top military brass and lead to promotions for the posts of CJCSC and atleast five Corps Commanders before the retirement of General Kayani. In a couple of detailed background meetings with journalists, General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has ruled out taking any more extensions when his six year te...

Peacocks are very pretty animals with their long colorful tails and the pretty colors on top of their heads that wiggle in the breeze. Peacocks can actually be kept as pets and they can be pretty hardy pets too. If you get some healthy peacocks they can stand temperatures that are hot or cold but you must provide them with shade in the summer and a nice building in the winter . A baby peacock and be made into a nice pet. You have to start playing with the peacock when it is young to make it a pet. Once a peacock is grown into an adult you won't be able to tame it. A adult peacock that has not been worked with is wild and not good to make into a pet. Peacocks can be purchased for about $50. You would think that they would be more expensive since they are exotic and beautiful but there are plenty of peacocks so the price is not outrageous. If you are considering getting a peacock you should check into the area you live. Some areas do not let you have peacocks. Yo...

Did government scientists really create a secret quantum internet? No, not really. But for two years, researchers at Los Alamos National Labs have been working on something they call  network-centric quantum communications  — and this could usher in the next generation of hyper-secure, scalable, and affordable quantum cryptographic techniques. We spoke to the lead researcher to find out more. Earlier this week, MIT’s  Technology Review  published an  article  claiming that a “government lab” has been secretly operating a “quantum internet” for over two years. Several other outlets ran with the story, including  Popular Science  and  Wired . But this idea, that a government-sponsored lab was secretly hacking away at the the Holy Grail of internet security, seemed too good to be true. So we contacted the lead researcher, Richard Hughes, to learn more about the project. 'Not a phrase we used’ “The MIT article doesn’t accurately char...

How to   root   HTC   Explorer? HTC Explorer is absolutely a beautiful gadget from HTC, with it’s 3.2-inch touchscreen display with 320×480  pixels  resolution. Running on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, you know how awesome the  apps  would be. The phone comes with a 3.15MP rear camera, which can capture candid photos. Yet, it lacks a front-camera for video calling. But this can record videos at 480p. This stylish phone supports all connectivity options including  Wi -Fi, Bluetooth, 3G Network and USB 2.0.  Built with a 600MHz Qualcomm processor and 512MB RAM, could be better. HTC Explorer comes with a 90MB internal storage and external memory support  upto  32GB. If you  Root HTC Explorer , you can enjoy a wide range of functions and features on your phone. You can install the custom root-only apps on your phone and customize it to the fullest. So, here’s how to  root HTC Explorer  and Install Custom Recovery on i...

by  Nancy Atkinson  on  September 25, 2012 An image generated from  Starry Night software  of how Comet ISON may look on November 22, 2013 from the UK. Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Stuart Atkinson, a space and astronomy enthusiast who blogs at  Cumbrian Sky ,  Road to Endeavour , which follows the Opportunity rover, and  The Gale Gazette  which discusses imagery from the Curiosity rover. Unless you’ve been cut off from the internet today you’ll have heard about The Comet. No, not Comet PANSTARRS, which is due to shine in the sky next March, perhaps rivalling the fondly-remembered Comet Hale Bopp from 1996, but another comet.  Comet 2012/S1, or “Comet ISON”  to give it its full name. It’s everywhere you look on Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus. Why? Because initial calculations of its orbit show it will pass ridiculously close to the Sun next November, skimming the solar surface at a height of just under t...

In what could prove to be a major breakthrough in quantum memory storage and information processing, German researchers have frozen the fastest thing in the universe: light. And they did so for a record-breaking one minute. It sounds weird and it is. The reason for wanting to hold light in its place (aside from the sheer awesomeness of it) is to ensure that it retains its quantum coherence properties (i.e. its information state), thus making it possible to build light-based quantum memory. And the longer that light can be held, the better as far as computation is concerned. Accordingly, it could allow for more  secure quantum communications  over longer distances. Needless to say, halting light is not easy — you can't just put in the freezer. Light is electromagnetic radiation that moves at 300 million meters per second. Over the course of a one minute span, it can travel about 11 million miles (18 million km), or 20 round trips to the moon. So it's a rath...