British Petroleum (BP) announced on Friday that it is expecting to put an end on the largest oil spill in U.S. history with a final shot of cement.

According to an e-mailed statement from London-based BP, the final show of cement can be injected on the well because the relief well that intercepted the outer casing located at the bottom of Macondo well did not show any complications.

The April 20 explosion that killed 11 rig workers and spilled 4 million barrels of oil into the ocean wiped out almost $70 billion from the market value of BP. It also caused the deep-water drilling in the Gulf to stop for a while and cost the job of Tony Hayward, chief executive officer of BP. According to BP, the injection of cement into the space between steel casing of the well and the outer walls will permanently seal the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico.

According to Nansen Saleri, chief executive officer of Quantum Reservoir Impact LLC, a firm in Houston that advises the companies on how to improve the production of gas and oil, BP is going to put the final punctuation in the worst oil spill in the U.S. He said that the well is already dead but because of its history, it is better to place extra insurance policy to prevent future complications.

BP already spent $8 billion for the oil spill alone. The well that is located about 40 miles from the coast of Louisiana leaked almost 4 million barrels of crude oil in the Gulf. After BP sealed the well on July 15, crude oil or gas stopped leaking from the Macondo well.

Bad Weather prevented BP in permanently sealing the well. BP said that it will take a few weeks before they can drill a relief well that can reach the level where Macondo well is located.

Intel introduced Monday a new microprocessor with a super turbo boost feature that can accelerate performance beyond the red line.

The new chip, named Sandy Bridge, comes with an improved turbo boost feature called Turbo 2.0. The improved turbo boost is expected to surpass the old Intel CPUs’ turbo boost that stops at the thermal limits of the chip. Sandy Bridge goes farther beyond that, although for just a short time.

In a press conference, Intel demonstrated some of Sandy Bridge’s key attributes. The chip will contain four cores and process up to eight threads simultaneously. However, the company still has not announced any of the core metrics of the architecture, such as the clock speed. The company said that a two-core/four thread chip is also possible.

Opher Khan, senior principal engineer for Intel said that Turbo 2.0 works by operating a core way beyond better on what the Core i5, also known as Lynnfield, could offer. However, the new chip could push the core beyond its thermal design power threshold (TDP). TDP is traditionally known as the maximum power that a chip can operate safely.

Sandy Bridges offer a better turbo boost, however, the severe over-clocking performed between 10 and 20 seconds at a time only. Khan said that Intel knows what cooling the chip will do. He also said that Sandy Bridge could also monitor its temperature. Sandy Bridge can lower its clock speed when the temperature goes beyond its manageable temperature levels.

Khan said that Intel combined optimizations to bring the Turbo Boost to a higher level of frequency. That means Sandy Bridge could be over-clocked several levels higher than the clock frequency limits of Lynnfield. However, he did not say either how high the new chip could be clocked, or its relative percentage.

Google introduced Wednesday an instant search feature that would surely save users’ time.

Marissa Mayer, vice president of Google’s user experience, said at a press release that a new searching process on the world’s largest search engine would start searching as you type, not after you type.

The new search feature would try to figure out what the user is searching as the user type the letters of his query on the search box. Search results would be based on your past search history.

For example, the user have browsed Google searching for “weather” before, and now, back on the search box and typed the letter “w”. Google would speculate that the user is searching for the word “weather’” again; the search engine would try to display results that have something to do with weather.

Mayer said on the press release held at the San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art that the average Google query would take about 15 seconds to type the word and would take about 300 milliseconds to process. The new search feature of Google is designed to reduce that time.

She said that they think that this new feature would help users save two to five seconds per query, or 11 hours for every passing second.

Greg Sterling, an analyst for Sterling market Intelligence, said that the new feature makes searching more interactive, and that power users would really appreciate the upgrade.

Sterling also said that Google is now developing a version of the instant search for mobile devices, especially for smartphones. He said that, that step might have the biggest impact because of the fewer keystrokes, making mobile search more widely used.

Google is also happy unveiling its new major milestone reached recently. Google users now reached one billion per week.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Evan Williams said that Twitter now has 145 million users.

The Twitter CEO said in a blog post that the Twitter users’ growth, from 105.8 million on April to 145 million users this month, is due to the company’s efforts to make Twitter accessible on mobile devices.

Twitter achieved the 27 percent increase of users with the help of a third-party application. The application called Tweetie, a now very popular iPhone application, allows the users to use Twitter on their mobile devices.

Williams stated that the company’s strategy was successful. He also said that because of that strategy, mobile users using Twitter climbed to 62 percent, and new users registering rose from 5 percent to 16 percent.

Twitter also unveiled a new application for Android, and said that it teamed-up with Research In motion to create a new application for BlackBerry. Twitter released its application for iPad on Wednesday and quickly gained favorable views.

“As we had hoped in April, these clients are bringing more people into Twitter, and, even better, they are attracting and retaining active users. Indeed, 46 percent of active users make mobile a regular part of their Twitter experience,” Williams wrote.

Twitter said that Seventy-eight percent of the users used the official Twitter.com website, 14 percent favored Twitter’s mobile website m.twitter.com, eight percent used SMS, another eight percent used Twitter for iPhone and seven percent used Twitter for Blackberry.

Numbers add up to more than 100 percent because many users more often use more than one application to access Twitter.

Twitter said the numbers add up to more than 100 percent because people often use more than one application to access the service.

Williams also published on the blog post discussing about how it users are shifting to Twitter, the top 10 applications that people used to access the micro blogging site for the past 30 days.

Some of the applications included in the top 10 are TwitPic, a program that users use to upload their photos, TweetDeck, Google Friend Connect and UberTwitter.

Rescue workers started drilling a hole to reach the trapped Chilean miners more than 2,300 feet below.

As a first step for a weeklong digging, rescuers started digging 50 feet into the rock for a “pilot hole” to guide the way for the rescue, using a 31-ton drill. In a process that could take four months, the drillers will replace the drill with larger bits to expand the hole and pull the miners trough.

There are reports that the miners moved nearly 1,000 feet deeper to camp on a drier area. The rescuers presented a new video that showed the miners to be generally positive but emotional about their separation from their families.

Since the cave-in on August 5, the miners have been trapped more than 2,300 feet down inside the San Jose gold and copper mine beneath the Chile’s Atacama Desert. The incident now equals the ordeal in China last year, where only three miners survived, trapped in a loaded mine for 25 days. It was the longest known survival in an underground disaster.

On Sunday afternoon, the miners were each allowed a brief conversation with a family member trough a newly installed telephone line that the rescuers rigged in the mine to link the miners with Camp Hope, a nearby tent village where their relatives gathered.

Omar Reygadas, 56, asked to speak to his youngest son, Luciano, and they had just a minute to talk, said the young boy. “I told him about us, that we’re well, that we’re all supporting him, praying for him,” he said. Omar said that he was doing the same and reassured his son that all the miners were all calm and healthy.

The latest video the miners sent up proved what Omar said. In the video, the miners were seen shirtless and wearing a quick-drying white surgical trousers. The miners said in the video that they are now doing better since they received food and water from the rescuers, add to that the encouragement that they receive from their families trough handwritten notes that both parties passed through a tiny gap hole.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has increased its offer to £1.2 billion ($1.8 billion) to take over the data storage company, 3Par, against the third biggest computer maker in the world, Dell.

The decision of HP to increase its offer comes just an hours after Dell settled an agreement to take control 3Par, having met the previous offer of HP worth $ 1.6 billion, scheduled on Monday. Furthermore, HP, the biggest computer maker in the world, stated that its bid was higher and it was in a advance arrangement rather than its competitor Dell to accomplish the agreement.

Critics are now anticipating to witness if Dell again competes with the bid of HP. On the other hand, HP also said that it anticipated the agreement for 3Par to be finished by the end of 2010. According to the maker of computer, Dave Donatelli, this is not only their bid higher to the offer of Dell, HP stays uniquely exclusively positioned to perform on the arrangement given the total of actions between the two firms.

Previously, Dell stated its agreement with 3Par will significantly speed up the data income growth of the data storage firm. The company declared in a statement that Dell has an established dedication and follow record in combining and developing acquired companies and promoting their industrial and pioneering cultures.

Analysts said that with gross between April and June approximately twice those of Dell, HP has bigger capitals to appeal upon. Moreover, Ashok Kumar at Rodman & Renshaw said that although Dell has the accounts to raise the bid, they were likely getting the higher limit of what they can give.

Kumar also said that in the long run, Hewlett-Packard is in good position to complete the deal. However, they also questioned whether 3Par was worth much more than the newest bid.

Rescuers found the 33 Chilean miners trapped for 17 days in a collapsed copper mine in San Jose, Chile.

The rescue team found the miners after drilling down 2.257 feet to the bottom of the San Jose mine that collapsed. The miners managed to send back a handwritten message saying “Estamos Bien En El Refugio los 33” meaning, “all 33 of us are well inside the shelter”.

“Never have so few words brought such happiness to an entire nation,” said Sebastian Piñera, the president of Chile, as he read out the note.

A second note the miners sent back indicated that they managed to build a makeshift refuge where they are staying right now. They created a canal of fresh water using a bulldozer down in the mine and managed to fix the lighting in the dark and dangerous copper mine using electricity from a truck engine.

The bad news is it would take about four months to set the miners free from the collapsed mine. “A shaft 66cm in diameter will take at least 120 days,” said Andre Sougarret, lead engineer on the rescue operation. Help from around the world in form of rescue equipments arrived to build a tunnel reaching 700 meters underground that will serve as the escape route for the miners.

The roof of the mine collapsed last August 5 trapping the 33 miners. For two weeks, rescuers continually tunneled trough the mine hoping to find the shelter that the miners made. Missing their target, rescue officials blamed the mine operators for operating without using modern safety equipments and an updated map.

Having found the refuge, rescuers now plan to send down food, water and medicine through the hole created by the rescue mission to keep the miners alive and healthy while rescue and mining experts debate the options for building an escape route.

The latest update for Google Chrome that hints on what the rumored Chrome Operating System (OS) tablet may look like is out.

With its menus and features almost optimized for Apple’s iPad, the web browser almost seems to show us how Google Chrome OS tablet will be like to use.

There are plenty of rumors about Google Chrome OS tablet hitting the stores in November. It said that the mythical tablet would have a 1280-by-720 pixel multi-touch display, a 2GB memory, and a 22GB solid state drive. As for communication, the tablet will be equipped with Wi-Fi, 3G, GPS, Bluetooth, and webcam.

The new internet browser by Google also supports location sharing. Using the geolocation feature of HTML5, the new browser can detect or tell where you are. For example, WeatherNear.Me, a geolocation service uses your position information (from your either IP address or from your GPS location) to inform you about the weather in your current location.

Using the new Chrome 6 Beta can synchronize themes, bookmarks, and data information.

Chrome 6 Beta is integrated with a sync feature called autofill. A user’s Chrome equipped devices can share preferences, extensions, browsing data, and form data.  A user logged in to Google using the same account in each location, can autofill forms with the same information. Chrome can store, remember, and sync any set of information that a user would normally put into a web like names, email, home address, business address, phone numbers, and other personal details. A user can still select what set of the data the autofill feature will choose.

The latest Chrome 6 also has increased performance for JavaScript. According to the test results, Google Chrome 6 has approximately 15% edge over Chrome 5 in V8 JavaScript and SunSpider benchmarks.

Study showed that moderate consumption of dark chocolates can protect a person from any heart ailments.

People especially women enjoys the sweet taste of chocolates. Consumption of this product can indulge one’s life. Eating chocolate in a moderate way can be very beneficial for a person’s life in the future. It can prevent an individual for further development of any form of heart diseases according to researcher’s study.

Researchers conducted study with a group of 32,000 Swedish women who are on their middle-age and older. They have found out that having a minimal serving of one to three servings of European chocolate in a month can decrease the risk of any heart failure of 26 percent for almost a decade period.

Dr. Murray A. Mittleman, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston together with colleagues discovered that women who enjoyed eating European chocolate once or even twice a week in a regular basis had a lower risk of heart problem, which reduced the risk up to 32 percent compared to women who did not consumed the sweets.

However, they still advice and warned each individual that too much indulging and eating of chocolates can be very dangerous to one’s health. People who consumed three up to six servings of chocolate in a week had a potential possibility of 1.09 in the adjusted rate ratio of heart failure than to those who had no consumption of the candy.

In an overall view, it was excellent news to all chocolate lovers, who cannot avoid themselves through consumption of chocolates, giving the protective effects of eating chocolates against the deadly risk of heart diseases. People who consumed chocolates can now eat without any guilt feelings to experience, simply by making a moderate consumption of these indulging treats.

Blue sky in Moscow is now visible around the area, the first morning since the occurrence of wildfires last week; people are now seeing a new hope and life even though there are still dozens of blazes of fire that continue across the country.

This week was the worst wildfire scenario ever happened in Russia for the past 130 years. The blazes and fires surrounded the whole city; there was smog around the area.

It was the worst catastrophe hit in Moscow; people had their difficulty to breathe freely in the smoky surrounding. Death toll in the city doubled its number since the temperature acquired its record-breaking height; go together with the wildfires that stroke the whole country in hopeless situation.

According to the health experts, the inhalation of the polluted air can be very harmful to a person; it is dangerous like of smoking numbers of packs of cigarettes in a day.

Health experts were giving warnings with regard to their residents and people on how to deal with the alarming heat and smog, which covers the whole city. They also advised their constituents to wear masks when they are going outdoors. To prevent serious effect of the polluted air they recommended the people to stay inside of their home for safety.

People who does not have air-conditioning in their homes, where sent into the nearby anti-smog centers for their safety. Loads of centers were available around the city that hold numbers people in their custody, to ease the alarming effect of the heat wave for the past days.

Russian people, who experienced the deadly and serious wildfires, thought that the dooms day was already near.

Moscow authorities began to use their modern equipment to ease and clean the air around  the city.