Apple issued invitations on Thursday, for an event next Tuesday on its Cupertino, Calif., campus that will publicize laptops. "The spotlight turns to notebooks," the invitation sent to reporters read. 

The company is expected to come up with the new versions of its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook computers.

Washington, Oct 11 : Scientists in the US have turned oil from plants like soybeans and coconuts into jet fuel that is equivalent to kerosene derived from oil.

According to a report in the Scientific American, working with the U. S. Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), scientists at the Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota turned these plant oils into fuel that had a similar density, energy content and even freezing point.

Berlin, Oct 11 : New high-resolution observations with the VLT (Very Large Telescope) Interferometer of the European Southern Observatory in Chile reveal gas infall and outflow processes in the direct environment of six young stars.

An international team of astronomers, led by Stefan Kraus from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany and Eric Tatulli from the Observatoire de Grenoble in France used the AMBER instrument to measure the geometry of atomic and molecular gas in the inner disk regions.

Surprisingly, they found that the gas emission can trace very distinct physical mechanisms.

These processes include infall of material onto the star as well as gas which is ejected from the system, likely in a disk wind.

London, Oct 11: Electronic giant Sony has launched the world’s thinnest television, which has a screen as slim as a CD case.

The ultra thin TV, called the Sony Bravia ZX1, will hit the market in the coming January.

The extraordinary creation was unveiled at the NEC''s Grand Designs show.

"It really has a beautiful look to it. It''s hard to believe that something so slim can produce such crystal clear picture,” The Telegraph quoted Craig Bolton, from West Bromwich, West Midlands, who visited the show, as saying.

Washington - The Windows Explorer file manager is one of the most frequently used applications in Windows. That's no surprise, really, since files, after all, are what computers are all about. And you need a file manager to see, copy, delete, and move them. You'd think, then, that this most basic of tools could be easily customised to work the way people want. And you'd be right - up to a point. The trouble is that Windows Explorer has more than its share of quirks - even bugs. Getting around them is what this week's answers are all about.

San Francisco - YouTube began hosting its first full-length TV episodes Friday, accompanied with ads that were unusually intrusive for the Google-owned online video site.

The selection of reruns from CBS was less than impressive - five episodes each of Beverly Hills 90210, MacGyver, Star Trek: The Original Series, plus 14 episodes of The Young and The Restless.

But the move is seen as a first attempt by YouTube to become a major platform for showing advertising-supported TV shows over the internet.