Malaysia Airlines flight #MH370 joins list of mysterious aviation disappearances – an annotated infographic

With the mystery as to what happened to flight MH370 no nearer to being solved, the ill-fated plane joins an historical list of famous mysterious aviation disappearances, going back to 1937 and the year legendary pilot Amelia Earhart vanished. E&T‘s coverage of the hunt for flight MH370 continues, including our most recent stories on how the acoustic signals intercepted in early April probably did not originate from the black boxes of the missing plane; how raw satellite data used by telecommunications firm Inmarsat to determine the likely location of Flight MH370 wreckage has been made publicly available for independent experts … Continue reading Malaysia Airlines flight #MH370 joins list of mysterious aviation disappearances – an annotated infographic

Hot news! E&T news weekly #4 – we choose our favourite stories from the week

Friday May 30 2014 Real-time Skype call interpreter developed by Microsoft Microsoft says its ground-breaking application for Skype will enable people from all over the world to talk to each other without language barriers. Is Microsoft actually aiming at discouraging people from learning languages? Won’t that make humans rather dependent on technology and simply ignorant? I will certainly be interested to test this app once it becomes available – just to see whether its translations will actually make any proper sense. Tereza Pultarova, online news reporter   The Internet of Pigs Sensor-assisted livestock management has the potential to enable farmers … Continue reading Hot news! E&T news weekly #4 – we choose our favourite stories from the week