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HAIZE – A Compass Based Navigation System for Your Bicycle

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines, Science, tech 11:53 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This time it is HAIZE by Onomo, another kickstarter project pledged to change the world by what we can call, transforming the way how we use our bicycles. HAIZE is a navigation system based on a compass and an app along with it, allows you to explore the city at your will and helps you reach your destination in spite of wherever you’ve been roaming around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With visual resemblance similar to some out of the world gadget, HAIZE comfortably adapts the shape and size of your bicycle handle, thanks to the rubber band strap it features. After connecting successfully with the companion app on your Android or iOS, HAIZE is fully determined with its job and helps you zig-zag through the city streets or wherever you like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">HAIZE is fabricated with anodized aluminium providing it a sleek and sturdy build accompanied by a set of 23 LEDs appointed to safely transport you and your bike to any destination you like. In the technical bundle, it has a magnetometer sensor to track direction along with an accelerometer and a gyroscope sensor which helps HAIZE know its position.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It also power-packs a 300mAh battery which lasts for around 2 weeks of normal usage. HAIZE also features a Bluetooth 4.0 radio, so it can befriend your smartphone and synchronize your trip data.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In this mode, you only have to feed your destination in the companion app and HIAZE is fully prepared to keep an eye on you, no matter wherever you’re, in some busy street or somewhere exploring the nature’s beauty or even if you are outside a lion’s cave with goose bumps all over body. The LEDs always point in the direction of your destination, so you are not stranded in some unknown street while you are on your voyage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This mode is meant to assist you with turn by turn navigation as soon as you type your destination in the app. In this mode, HAIZE doesn’t let you do what you want, but keeps you on the right track every time, so you can speed towards your destination without any disturbance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Additionally, the app keeps the track of your past trips and other technical details which shouldn’t bother about. You only have to just type the location and put the phone in your pocket, HAIZE will take on the task thereon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">How can we re-invent the compass to give us a better navigation experience?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And after six prototypes and a lot of hard work, the creators do have an idea about how to proceed with their quest. As of now, they just want to say:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We are almost ready to get HAIZE out on the road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The creators have managed to collect £20,071 out of the £50,000 pledged amount, and they’ve plans to deliver HAIZE by June 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Also Read: Yamaha Builds A Robot That Drives Motorcycles and Challenges World Champion Rossi</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Write your thoughts about HAIZE in the comments section below, and do write them, because its not possible you haven’t thought about getting a hands-on of this cool gadget even once while reading this article.</span></div>
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HAIZE – A Compass Based Navigation System for Your Bicycle

SP's: HAIZE is a compass based navigation system designed for bicycle riders, allows them to freely roam around the city or the wild ...

Google Is Killing The Chrome OS

Shivam Patsariya 0 Business, GadgetsNdMachines, News, Software 11:46 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's: </b>Google has decided to kill its Chrome OS that is used to power the Chromebooks. All the good parts of the OS will now be bundled into Android to form a better and more efficient OS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Google is killing the Chrome OS being used in the Chromebooks and other personal computers, taking all its good parts, and putting it into the Android mobile, according to the Wall Street Journal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As the report suggests, from the year 2017, Google will have Android as the only operating system for mobile devices, as well as the computers. Citing its sources, WSJ writes that the early version of the newer and advanced Android OS will be previewed early next year, probably at Google I/O.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For those who don’t know, Chrome OS is the operating system used by Google to power the Chromebook line of laptops. These are the low-storage machines that are dependent on the cloud for most functions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But, Why is Google killing the Chrome OS anyway?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Google’s new version of Android will also run PCs, giving users access to Google’s Play store, which offers more than one million apps,” WSJ reports.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Google wants to get its software and moneymaking services such as Search and YouTube on as many devices as possible. It also hopes to curry favor with independent developers, whose apps will work on more devices with fewer modifications.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It won’t be wrong to assume that the idea of a hybrid operating system and a hybrid-PC is inspiring the Google CEO Sundar Pichai to move towards a more mobile-focused future. Google has also revealed a convertible laptop last month called the Pixel C and it seems like just the start.</span></div>
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Google Is Killing The Chrome OS

SP's: Google has decided to kill its Chrome OS that is used to power the Chromebooks. All the good parts of the OS will now be bund...

World’s Smallest General Purpose Computer SOLU Wants to Change the Computing

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines, tech 11:41 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Kristoffer Lawson of Finland has come up with the world’s smallest general-purpose computer- Solu. It is backed by Advanced cloud-linked OS, an intuitive user interface and a unique subscription model. Also, it is portable and has been carved on wooden design giving it a magnificent look.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Kristoffer Lawson, who is the co-founder of Holvi, from Finland, has come up with the world’s smallest general-purpose computer – Solu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yes, you read it right! This revolutionary OS, backed up by an intuitive user interface and a unique subscription model, gives you the power and freedom to get things done. Anytime. Anywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Portability: Solu is a pocket-sized computer and hence is portable. Another additional feature is that it can be connected to a screen and keyboard for a full desktop experience. Also, it is aided with zoomable interface, incredible accuracy and amazing contrast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now you can say goodbye to all your premiums and in-app purchases as Solu offers unlimited access to apps for a small monthly fee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Unique Design: A part of the device is made from real wood which adds to its uniqueness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Screen – 1440 x 1440, 450ppi, with an edge-to-edge touch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Processor – 2.3GHz NVIDIA 4-Plus-1™ quad-core ARM® Cortex™-A15 CPU™</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Connectivity – Dual-band 2×2 MIMO WiFi (802.11a/b/g/n), Bluetooth 4.0, and USB Type C</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Dimensions – 102mm (4.02in) x 102mm (4.02in) x 13mm (0.512in)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Are you excited to grab one for yourself? Let us know in the comments below.</span></div>
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World’s Smallest General Purpose Computer SOLU Wants to Change the Computing

SP's: Kristoffer Lawson of Finland has come up with the world’s smallest general-purpose computer- Solu. It is backed by Advanced c...

MIT Researchers Use Wi-Fi To See People Through Walls

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines, tech 11:33 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's:  </b>MIT researchers have developed an RF capture device that could identify human silhouettes through the wall by using WiFI signals. The device is machine trained to recognize humans while profiling the major body parts.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Imagination sees no ends. WiFi signals which were looked upon as a mere medium of data services or at max as a battery charger hitherto has been put up to another function by the scientists. The MIT researchers have devised a technology that use wireless signals to profile and identify silhouettes of the people beyond the walls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The research team of the institute’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab had been using wireless signals for quite some time. Now they have come up with the RF-Capture technique that is trained to recognize different people based on their WiFi imagery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The technology is intricate, but the idea is fairly simple though. The WiFi signal coming through the wall will be reflected by a human body and then captured by the device. The captured signals are then processed and the noise removed through a software.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As the data is received, it is fed to the algorithms that have been trained through machine learning techniques to detect the bodily features and release a coarse human model with major body parts as head chest arms and feet along with classification of different silhouettes on basis of height and other subtleties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">MIT, in spite of being the most insecure university campus in America, is one of the main centers of innovation and developments of the world. Like with this one, the researchers are aiming to provide help to the elderly. Through this device, people can monitor their grandparents in the other room and even call 911 in case of emergency.</span></div>
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MIT Researchers Use Wi-Fi To See People Through Walls

SP's: MIT researchers have developed an RF capture device that could identify human silhouettes through the wall by using WiFI sig...

Yamaha Builds A Robot That Drives Motorcycles and Challenges World Champion Rossi

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines, tech 11:03 AM

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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's: </b>Yamaha pulled a big one in the Tokyo Motor Show as it showcased its superbike riding Robot rather than any showing any ceremonious unconventional motorbike. Named Motobot, this humanoid is improving every day to give the champion racers a run for their money. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While others were busy showing what their automobile has got, Yamaha displayed a marvel of engineering and AI at the Tokyo Motor Show. It wasn’t just any superbike or a green fuel motorcycle, but a humanoid that could effectively control and zoom on Yamaha’s 1000cc R1M.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As humans were already pissed off of the fact that machines would take their jobs becoming a doctor, lawyer and architect, Motobot and the flavour of the season, self-driving cars, have taken the drivers’ seat as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Motobot is the product of an intense R&D effort in robotics technology and Yamaha’s aim to create a robot that could cruise any unmodified bike. And if you are a rider yourself, you would understand that this task is no easy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yamaha released a video showing Motobot riding its superbike with ease and in its childish voice even called out the MotoGP world champion, Valentino Rossi as he said, “I am improving my skills every day. I was created to surpass you.” But, unlike other superstars, Motobot is quite humble and realises that he needs to learn from the master to catch up to him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The superbike riding robot has caught every speed lover’s attention for the ultimate battle between the man and the machine on a superbike. However, the makers are still working to improve Motobot skills until it touches 200 kph on a racetrack.</span></div>
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Yamaha Builds A Robot That Drives Motorcycles and Challenges World Champion Rossi

SP's: Yamaha pulled a big one in the Tokyo Motor Show as it showcased its superbike riding Robot rather than any showing any ceremo...

Motorola Launches DROID Turbo 2 And It Just Won’t Break

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines, Mobiles, tech, WebNdSocial 1:21 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Motorola is bringing an all-weather durable phone DROID Turbo 2 and claims it as the perfect phone for the imperfect people. With five layers of display protection, it can handle more than any other smartphone in its league.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It doesn’t matter how advanced or smart your smartphone is if it gets shattered each time it falls! The flaw isn’t fixated to Apple iPhones, which if you remember would bend inside your pockets, but to almost all the phones (except vintage Nokia) that would easily break.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Motorola has, however, come up with its own hulk version of a smartphone that just won’t break. Motorola DROID Turbo 2 is the phone which won’t bother you with the unnecessary care-taking measures while using. The DROID Turbo 2 runs on the USP of a shatterproof display along with several upgrades and is a strong contender for the people’s choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Turbo2 display has a five-layered structure that absorb shocks keeping your smartphone’s screen intact, claims Motorola. Also, the display is little elastic rather than being rigid to incorporate up to a certain amount force.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Watch the official “shatterproof display” ad for DROID Turbo 2 by Motorola.</span></div>
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Motorola Launches DROID Turbo 2 And It Just Won’t Break

SP's: Motorola is bringing an all-weather durable phone DROID Turbo 2 and claims it as the perfect phone for the imperfect people....

Google Introduces ASUS OnHub “Intelligent” WiFi Router

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines, tech 1:08 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Google has teamed with up Asus this time to bring you an intelligent and powerful WiFi router. This is second in line from Google’s Wi-Fi router family after the TP-LINK and promises you of the performance never experienced before.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Teaming up with the company that claimed to build the world’s fastest WiFi router, Asus, Google has introduced a new line of WiFi routers that will make the blank spots in your home disappear. Second member in the family of OnHub (previous one was TP-LINK) promises you the services unprecedented.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">OnHub comes with new innovations like wave control which lets you boost the WiFi speed for a particular device with just a wave of your hand over the router. The cylindrical shaped OnHub easily blends with the aesthetics of your house as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If all your lifehacks of boosting the WiFi signal failed, and the regular technical methods for improving WiFi performance didn’t work either, then Google’s OnHub could be a the answer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For $219.99 the Asus OnHub will be available for pre-orders from select stores. Watch and learn more about the Asus OnHub on the OnHub platform.</span></div>
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Google Introduces ASUS OnHub “Intelligent” WiFi Router

SP's: Google has teamed with up Asus this time to bring you an intelligent and powerful WiFi router. This is second in line from Go...

Meet Pepper, World’s First Emotional Robot that Understands You

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines 1:05 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>SoftBank has come up with the world’s first humanoid robot with ’emotions’- Pepper. This 4 feet tall, 61 pound robot is equipped with cameras, lasers and infrared sensors to recognize your mood and acts accordingly. It tries to make you happy. Also, it can be used for all household activities like serving as a nurse, babysitting, gardening, or even making sandwiches.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In today’s world when fellow humans may not understand your emotions, a robot might as well help you out!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yes, you heard it right. The telecom giant SoftBank has come up with the world’s first humanoid robot with emotions. This four feet tall, 61 pounds of adorable humanoid robot recognizes tones of voice and facial expressions in order to interact with humans. And the best part? Well, Pepper tries to make you happy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pepper features cameras, lasers and infrared sensors on its head so it can detect human faces. Also, it is equipped with artificial intelligence to interpret and even react to anger, happiness, nervousness, sorrow in humans around by recognizing their voice tones, facial expressions, and language.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Pepper is designed for all household activities like serving as a nurse, babysitting, gardening or even making sandwiches! Besides, it is highly curious and tries to talk to you, learn about you and adapt accordingly. Also, it can speak 17 languages and is backed by 12 hours of battery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Check out this interview with Pepper:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Imagine a world in which every household would be equipped with such cute robots to understand your emotions, especially in old age homes, where Pepper can not only make them happy, but also aid in household work.</span></div>
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Meet Pepper, World’s First Emotional Robot that Understands You

SP's: SoftBank has come up with the world’s first humanoid robot with ’emotions’- Pepper. This 4 feet tall, 61 pound robot is equipp...

Make Your Own Robots With World’s First Modular Robot “CellRobot”

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines, tech 10:46 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>KEYi Technology had invented the world’s first modular robot which is offering 100 robots in a device. It can be configured and re-configured for performing various tasks. It is app-enabled and mainly consists of a heart, cell and x-cell.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Remember how all of us got charmed by the microbots in the movie Big Hero 6? And how much we wanted to own them?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, guess what? It just got REAL!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">KEYi Technology has come up with the world’s first smart modular robot which is offering 100 robots in one device called the CellRobot. It can be assembled in various forms, programmed and configured and then reprogrammed and reconfigured for performing various tasks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So what is it made up of?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The heart is the powerhouse of all the modules. Also, it ensures the CellRobot’s connection to smartphones or tablets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">X-CELL ensures the evolution of CellRobots helping them to be innovative. X-CELLS are made up of:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A 360 degrees panoramic camera that can be connected in any position</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">CellRobots are backed up by some of the most amazing features that make it truly unique. Here, take a look at these:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>APP. ENABLED: </b>This consists of mainly two modes: GUIDE mode and CUSTOM mode. The Guide Mode consists of predefined instruction set while the CUSTOM mode, as the name suggests lets one customize the cellrobots,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>HACKING:</b> Cellrobot platform can be used by hackers and creators from all over the world to create more X-CELLS</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>DIVERSITY: </b> Besides the option of choosing pre existing shapes from the Shape Library inside the APP, it also comes with a variety of colors in the joints of the cells</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>SIMPLICITY: </b>Being App enabled, it is simple to understand and easy to use</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Although there are a couple of disadvantages in CellRobots for now like it’s neither cheap nor fast. Also, it cannot fly. However, this innovative creature is a  learning robot and have huge scope in future.</span></div>
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Make Your Own Robots With World’s First Modular Robot “CellRobot”

SP's: KEYi Technology had invented the world’s first modular robot which is offering 100 robots in a device. It can be configured a...

Are You Ready To Turn Your Phone Into a Drone with PhoneDrone?

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines, tech 10:40 AM

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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's : </b>xCraft, the drone manufacturer company that creates high-end affordable drone, has landed a deal with the Sharks at the Shark Tank with $1.5 million for 25%. It means that their idea of PhoneDrone, a smartphone that turns into a drone will be a reality soon.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, you have a smartphone. Well, can it fly? What, why do you look surprised? Phones can fly today, really, and the credit goes to xCraft.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What you just read above was merely an idea limited to xCraft till now, but thanks to the Shark Tank deal, it would soon turn into a reality.</span></div>
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Here’s How Your Fitbit Could be Hacked in Just 10 Seconds

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">IoT devices and your new-age wearables are the gizmos that could be referred to as a hacker’s dream target. Attacking these devices gives them direct control over your body and daily life, and harm you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Along the similar lines, a security researcher has revealed a 10 second Fitbit hack that can allow a hacker to hack your fitness tracker in the blink of an eye. It should be noted that Fitbit fitness tracker is the most popular wearable out there and it sold 11 million devices just in 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">During a privacy-focused event Hack.Lu 2015 in Luxembourg, security researcher <a href="https://www.framadrive.org/index.php/s/7Xal6WfggnFxSFY">Axelle Apvrille demonstrated the 10 second Fitbit hack</a>. He said that these wearables are wide open on their Bluetooth ports and the attack is quick to perform.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">He was able to manipulate the data stored on a tracker and used Fitbit to spread malicious code (in the form of Fitbit data) to a computer. Apvrille was able to infect the Fitbit Flex tracker in 10 seconds from just 15 feet away. If some hacker tries to exploit the vulnerability, he/she can target the computers in gadget’s Bluetooth range.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When a Fitbit connects to a device by data syncing, some malicious software could be used to slip a Trojan on a computer, or used to open a backdoor. “An attacker sends an infected packet to a fitness tracker nearby at Bluetooth distance then the rest of the attack occurs by itself, without any special need for the attacker being near,” Apvrille says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For now, this 10 second Fitbit hack is just a proof-of-concept that shows it’s not hard to inject code into wearables.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">However, Fitbit has denied such allegations and pointed out that it’s devices can not be used to serve malware. “We believe that security issues reported today are false, and that Fitbit devices can’t be used to infect users with malware. We will continue to monitor this issue,” Fitbit said in a statement about this 10 second Fitbit hack.</span></div>
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Here’s How Your Fitbit Could be Hacked in Just 10 Seconds

SP's: With the ever advancing fast-paced technology, we are now more open to the more intimate devices like wearables. They are con...

HTC: “It’s Apple That Copied Our Design, We Didn’t”

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines, tech 12:29 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Recently we wrote about HTC One A9 that looks a lot like the iPhone 6. The struggling Taiwanese smartphone maker hinted in the past that the company is looking to drift in a new design direction. But, nobody expected the design pioneer HTC to completely rip-off Apple iPhone 6.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In a surprising move, HTC North Asia President Jack Tong has accused Apple of stealing its ideas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As reported by WantChinaTimes.com, HTC executive said, “We’re not copying.” Talking about HTC One M7, he said, “We made a uni-body metal-clad phone in 2013. It’s Apple that copies us in terms of the antenna design on the back.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Arguing about the design breakthrough in radio signals for metal-clad phones, he said,”The A9 is made thinner and more lightweight than our previous metal-clad phones. This is a change and evolution, and we’re not copying.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“The A9 is made thinner and more lightweight than our previous metal-clad phones,” Tong said. “This is a change and evolution, and we’re not copying.”</span></div>
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HTC: “It’s Apple That Copied Our Design, We Didn’t”

SP's: Taking inspiration from another’s designs is an old tale in the smartphone industry. The latest controversy is revolving aro...

Self-driving Cars Must be Programmed to Kill, Study Says

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines, Security 10:18 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Every big automobile company is preparing its artillery with the technology that will help them to produce autonomous vehicles. Even the companies like Google and Apple are hiring engineers and designers to make their ‘next big product’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the future, self-driving cars will soon dominate roads and as the tests suggest, the autonomous vehicles take extra security precautions. According to the reports, very few minor accidents that took place on the road during tests, were caused due to the mistake of other vehicles or people on the road. This brings us to a very interesting scenario that deals with an event of unavoidable accidents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">How should a car act in such scenario? Should it minimize the loss of life on the road at the cost of occupants’ life, or should it protect the car occupants at all costs?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">These ethical questions need to be answered when we talk about a future with self-driving cars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Our results provide but a first foray into the thorny issues raised by moral algorithms for autonomous vehicles,” says said UAVB and Oxford University scholar and bioethics expert Ameen Bargh who advised to change the course of the car to reduce the loss of life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">However, deontologists argue that “some values are simply categorically always true”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“For example, murder is always wrong, and we should never do it, even if shifting the trolley will save five lives, we shouldn’t do it because we would be actively killing one,” Bargh said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The members of UAB’s Ethics and Bioethics teams are doing a lot of work to deal with such type of questions. One way to tackle this problem is to act in such a way that it reduces the loss of life. The results of the tests are interesting and people are comfortable with the idea that self-driving cars should be programmed in such a manner that they reduce the death toll.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As we advance more and more in AI and technology, we must find answers to these ethical and philosophical questions and find the ways to arrive at a worthy solution.</span></div>
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SP's: As we advance more and more in artificial intelligence and related technologies, we must solve some complex ethical problems....

Now Get A Floating Solar System In Your Office With Magic Leap

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's: </b>Augmented Reality startup Magic Leap gave a teaser of its developing technology at WSJD live event with a floating solar system in an office.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Google-backed Augmented Reality startup Magic Leap had promised the world a kickass future of AR few months back, and it has indeed lived up to its promise. The company teased the tech enthusiasts with a short video that showed a floating solar system and a floating drone in an office.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The sight looks pretty amazing and real as you can not identify for a few seconds that if the drone is real or augmented real! The teaser was shown at the WSJD live event in California.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Since the advent of Augmented and Virtual Reality concepts, many major brands like Facebook with its Oculus Rift and Microsoft with its HoloLens and startups have showed a keen interest in the development of this technology. Read How Virtual Reality works for a better understanding of the idea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It is not just that high-end gaming junkies or the scholars that are awaiting the arrival of the technology, Disney has even created an app for the young children that converts their drawings into 3D augmented reality characters.  </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Watch below the teaser by Magic Leap. I can’t wait to get myself a floating solar system in my office (I really hope to get more choices on what I want to have floating in my office though).</span></div>

Now Get A Floating Solar System In Your Office With Magic Leap

SP's: Augmented Reality startup Magic Leap gave a teaser of its developing technology at WSJD live event with a floating solar syst...

Meet Hendo 2.0: World’s First Real Hoverboard’s Advanced Version

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Arx Pax has finally released its new version of the world’s first real hoverboard in the form of Hendo 2.0. And, this happened on the Back to the Future day – and it wasn’t any coincident.</span></div>
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Meet Hendo 2.0: World’s First Real Hoverboard’s Advanced Version

SP's: A year ago, Hendo was introduced and it claimed it to be the world’s first real hoverboard. The early demo videos showed that...

Intel Launches Its First-Ever Complete NUC Windows 10 Mini PC

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b> Intel has launched the best version of its mini PC series. The Grass Canyon NUC comes with Windows 10 and 2GB RAM and costs $255. Know everything about it here.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Intel is moving beyond making the super powerful Skylake processors for others, instead the world’s largest semiconductor chipmaker is launching its first ever complete mini PC, the Grass Canyon NUC for the low-end users.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The new NUC mini PC has preinstalled Windows 10 which is the biggest refurbish in the Intel NUC mini-series. The earlier models in the NUC lineup came sans OS and RAM which made many buyers hop on to other options. However, with everything in place now and the price as low as $255, Intel Grass Canyon NUC Windows 10 mini PC is a complete package.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Intel’s latest offering comes with a quad-core Intel Pentium N3700 Braswell processor, 2GB DDR3l RAM and 32 GB eMMC onboard storage and equipped with a drive bay for additional HD/SSD has been provided as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">These features are customizable too. The RAM can be extended to up to 8GB in the Grass Canyon NUC and the user has the freedom to choose any of Windows 8, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Fedora, OpenSUSE and Android as the operating system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The tiny PC with a mighty package delivers the same performance and visuals as the full sized tower. Additional features such as 8-channel audio, built-in WiFi, and Bluetooth along with HDMI and wireless display capabilities makes NUC5PGYH an excellent home theater PC.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Intel Grass Canyon NUC mini PC is available on Amazon and ready to ship. The tiny powerhouse is not the cheapest, but it is a better option for the users who were considering the previous models of the Intel NUC mini-series which cost around $180.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Visit Intel’s <a href="http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/overview.html">website</a> for more information.</span></div>
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Intel Launches Its First-Ever Complete NUC Windows 10 Mini PC

SP's: Intel has launched the best version of its mini PC series. The Grass Canyon NUC comes with Windows 10 and 2GB RAM and costs ...

Microsoft Debuts Its First Release of Homemade SSH for Windows

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines, Geek, tech 1:01 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Working to fulfill its promise, Microsoft has released the first build of the Windows Powershell version of SSH tool. The code has been made publicly available on GitHub where developers can modify and improve it.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Long back in June, Microsoft revealed its intentions to bring SSH for Windows and contributing to the OpenSSH community. Working towards making it a reality, Redmond has released the first iteration of the Windows Powershell version of secure-shell (SSH) tool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">By integrating the OpenSSH support into the Windows PowerShell tool, Microsoft will allow system admins to securely log into the Windows boxes and control them using command line scripts just like Linux, BSD and other Unix-type systems. Linus Torvalds, are you listening?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">On its <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2015/10/19/openssh-for-windows-update.aspx">blog</a>, Microsoft has released an early work on a Windows port of OpenSSH 7.1. This is built as a joint effort with remote-access developer NoMachine. You can access the public code here on <a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH">GitHub</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“The NoMachine port was based on OpenSSH 5.9, so we’ve spent the time since our initial announcement working with NoMachine to bring this port in sync with OpenSSH 7.1,” Microsoft writes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Redmond aims to make this open to contributions into the portable version of OpenSSH. The OpenSSH 7.1 is the first step (total five steps) that will lead up to the production release of OpenSSH in Windows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It’s expected that within the first half of next year, Microsoft will deliver the complete production build.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What do you think about the SSH for Windows? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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Microsoft Debuts Its First Release of Homemade SSH for Windows

SP's: Working to fulfill its promise, Microsoft has released the first build of the Windows Powershell version of SSH tool. The cod...

Russia Creates A ‘Skynet’ to Lead Its Robo Army

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's: </b>Russians have created a ‘Skynet’ type AI that would soon control all the robotics in the country: civilian, military and even UAVs. The scientists have named it ‘Unicum’ which is the Latin for ‘the only one’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">At a time when science and technology stalwarts like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk are calling for the AI warfare ban, Russian scientists are busy developing the big daddy of the Artificial Intelligence. Well, the country doesn’t have an army of robots but it sure does have a lot of machines and robots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The researchers at the United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation (OPK), a research corporate that builds high-tech communication tools ans systems, automated control systems and advanced electronics and robotic systems for the Armed Forces of Russian Federation, has created a universal software that would give the robots (civilian and military) adequate brains to perform the complex tasks without human directions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The scientists have named it ‘Unicum’ which is the Latin for ‘the only one’. As the team has tested, the Unicum powered 10 robots, the software was able to communicate and distribute the ‘roles’ among the robots. It even chose the commander of the group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Unicum is made to make the battlefield as human-free as possible. In the experiment, the Artificial Intelligence was able to choose targets and request target elimination confirmation from its human masters (thankfully, it does ask for permission).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">AI has been undergoing phenomenal developments with each passing day. Just recently the researchers created a psychic robot, and now we have a software that could control all the other machines. What else is left!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Deputy Director of OPK, Sergey Skokov said that the technology is almost ready and will soon be installed in real life robotic systems, including UAVs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, when we thought Artificial Intelligence has been maxed out for today’s levels at Tesla’s better than the human self-driving car, and the AI that becomes chess grandmaster in 72 hours,  Russians took it to whole another level.</span></div>
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Russia Creates A ‘Skynet’ to Lead Its Robo Army

SP's: Russians have created a ‘Skynet’ type AI that would soon control all the robotics in the country: civilian, military and even...

This Secret Code in Your Printer is Helping Governments to Spy On You

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines, Security, tech 12:39 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>According to a latest EFF research, it’s possible that you own printer is leaking the important information about you to the government. By printing some secret yellow codes on each document, Xerox, Brother, Dell, HP, and Canon printers are “helping” the Secret Service.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A research team at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has cracked the secret code in printers that some color printers secretly hide in every document.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the past, U.S. Secret Service has admitted that the hidden printer code was a part of a deal with laser printer manufacturers. These secret codes in printers help the government to identify the counterfeited documents. The new revelations have uncovered the private information that was encoded in each document printed on these printers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“We’ve found that the dots from at least one line of printers encode the date and time your document was printed, as well as the serial number of the printer,” said EFF Staff Technologist Seth David Schoen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Image of a dot grid produced by a Xerox DocuColor 12, magnified 10x and photographed by a Digital Blue QX5 computer microscope under white light. While yellow dots are visible, they are very hard to see (EFF)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The coded dots were found on the documents printed using machines by Xerox, Brother, Dell, HP, and Canon. These secret dots measure less than a millimeter in diameter and are yellow in color.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The secret codes in printers are repeated on every printed page and can only be seen under blue light, using a magnifying glass or a microscope.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The researchers at EFF have been able to decode the Xerox DocuColor printer codes and they believe that the other printer makers include the same kind of coding mechanisms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Such moves by the governments are harmful to the underground democracy movements as there is no legislation to stop the governments from sniffing the information. However, the Secret Service maintains its stance that the information found in secret codes in printers, is only used for criminal investigations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the past, Xerox has admitted that these secret codes in printers are provided to the government but stated that only the Secret Service had the ability to read them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Outlining the danger involved, the EFF Senior Staff Attorney Lee Tien says, “Even worse, it shows how the government and private industry make backroom deals to weaken our privacy by compromising everyday equipment like printers. The logical next question is: what other deals have been or are being made to ensure that our technology rats on us?”</span></div>
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This Secret Code in Your Printer is Helping Governments to Spy On You

SP's: According to a latest EFF research, it’s possible that you own printer is leaking the important information about you to the ...

New Asus ROG G752 Laptop Claims to Play Every Game

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New Asus ROG G752 Laptop Claims to Play Every Game

SP's: Asus has included another power performer in its ROG series. The Asus ROG G752 has Intel’s latest generation Skylake processo...

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