We are waving goodbye to 2018. It was an eventful year. Here are some of the most memorable events.

Facebook
Through the year Facebook was (still is) in hot water for its data sharing policy. Mark Zackerberg was grilled by American Congress members in an open hearing on April 2018.

Apple
It was a good year for Microsoft and bad for Apple. At one point Apple’s stock was dropped to 6.6%.

Microsoft
Microsoft made several changes in their product, while Apple’s iPad Pro received a mixed emotion from consumers.

Google
Google decided to shut down the Google+ in 2019 after a huge security flaw that exposed their user data.

Security and AI
Talking about security,  Ransomware was still a powerful menace throughout the year.
Ransomware was one of the biggest disaster of 2018. But AI kept made significant improvement.

Tesla
SpaceX launches a huge Falcon rocket to outer space with a Tesla Roadster electric car as a payload In Feb 6, 2018.

Finance
Bitcoin had a bad year. Price keeps falling throughout the year. Analysts are hoping for a recovery in 2019.

Notable Deaths

Paul Allen
Co-founder of Microsoft dies on October 15 in Seattle of complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was 65.

Stephen Hawking
March 14, 2018 Professor Stephen Hawking died peacefully at his home in Cambridge at the age of 76.

Nancy Grace Roman
Also known as ‘mother’ of Hubble Space Telescope. She was also NASA’s first woman executive. Nancy died December 25, 2018.

Larry Robert
He led the team that created ARPAnet and was also the program manager. He made plan on computer to computer network should work. Larry Robert died 26 December 2018.

Elon Musk Unveils Prototype Highspeed Transport Tunnel

Elon Musk has unveiled the prototype underground tunnel in Los Angeles. The goal is to create a network to ease chronic traffic congestion. The prototype tunnel is only a mile (1.6km) long now. The cars can travel at speeds up to 150mph (240km/h) inside the tunnel.

So how the Highspeed Transport Tunnel will work?

Elon Musk said “The profound breakthrough is very simple: it’s the ability to turn a normal car into a passively stable vehicle by adding the deployable tracking wheels, stabilising wheels, so that it can travel at high speed through a small tunnel,

The way the loop will work is you will have main arteries that are travelling at 150mph and when you want to go to an exit, you will have an off ramp.So you can travel the vast majority of your journey without stopping at 150mph and only slow down when you get to your exit, and then automatically transfer from one tunnel to another. It’s like a 3D highway system underground basically”.

 

New Lenovo Phone has Snapdragon 855, 12GB RAM & 512GB storage

Lenovo’s Z5 Pro GT will be the most powerful Android phone on the market once the phone is released in January 2019.
The phone will cost around $640 US. Here are the specs for Z5 Pro GT –

• 12GB RAM,
• 512GB storage, with no SD card slot. Too bad.
• 24mp camera (dual).
• Screen size6.39 inches
• Plus, all the other amenities that a smart phone should have.

Lenovo also had a similar phone Lenovo Z5 Pro, which was released in November. But Lenovo’s Z5 Pro GT out-shined the previous one. Too bad, this phone does not support 5G.

Very High Levels Chemicals Found in Great Barrier Reef Turtles

The Great Barrier Reef the 2,300km-long ecosystem, is the largest living thing on Earth. Located off the coast of Queensland in northeastern Australia, this ecosystem is even visible from outer space. It’s home to countless species of marine life. For years scientist have conducting numerous research in this place.

List of Chemicals
In a recent five-year long study scientist have found alarming levels of certain chemicals in turtles. Study found high level of cobalt, antimony and manganese in turtle’s blood and food. In some areas cobalt levels are even higher than other. Cobalt is essential for human and other life forms, but high levels of cobalt can be toxic. Turtle’s health are in poor state now.

The research was launched after a mass stranding of green turtles in 2012.