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Indian Scientist said: “New NASA Findings Tell That ‘True’ Black Holes DO NOT Exist”

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Last month NASA recorded an extremely rare activity when a huge burst of X-ray was seen coming “out” of a supermassive black hole. Abhas Mitra, an Indian scientist from Mumbai University, has said that these NASA observations support his theory that “true (Einstein’s) black holes” don’t exist.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The conventional astrophysics tells us that black holes are ultra-compact objects that have a gravitational field so powerful that even light can not escape from its “event horizon.” But, last month the world was shocked when NASA caught a huge burst of X-ray coming “out” of a supermassive black hole.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Abhas Mitra, an Indian scientist from Mumbai University, has said that these NASA observations support his theory that “true (Einstein’s) black holes” don’t exist and they are actually Sun-like superhot balls of magnetized plasma.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Also read: Need A Way Out Of Black Hole? Ask Stephen Hawking</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Instead of true black holes predicted by Einstein’s theory, we proposed that massive stars end up as balls of fire — called quasi-black holes or Magnetospheric Eternally Collapsing Objects (MECOs),” he says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">He says that the latest NASA findings can be naturally explained by the MECO paradigm. Talking about the X-ray emissions, he says, “gas streams pulled inward by gravity get extremely hot by friction and may radiate X-rays. While a true black hole cannot possess any intrinsic magnetic field, there can be magnetic field associated with the disk or gas surrounding a MECO.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In his interview with Natureasia, Mitra says that this should inspire that astrophysicists to take a closer look at our existing beliefs about black holes.</span></div>
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Indian Scientist said: “New NASA Findings Tell That ‘True’ Black Holes DO NOT Exist”

SP's: Last month NASA recorded an extremely rare activity when a huge burst of X-ray was seen coming “out” of a supermassive blac...

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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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 ...

AI vs AI: This Crazy Conversation Between AI Bots Will Freak You Out

Shivam Patsariya 0 Science, WebNdSocial 12:51 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Humans regularly engage in intense discussions but what would happen if we pitch two cleverbots against each other in a battle of wits! Watch the AI vs AI crazy conversation and enjoy the robo madness.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yeah, yeah, we all heard of the psychic robots leading the mutiny and the genius AI based robot that teaches itself Chess and becomes a grandmaster in 72 hours. So, we assume they are smart and some day might enslave us (Linus Torvalds doesn’t think that though).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But what if we pitch one chatbot against another in a battle. No, we are not talking about the gory melee combat of American Megabot vs Japanese Kurama. That fight is yet to take place, next year hopefully.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Right now we are talking about the battle of wits! Displaying the same intellect and similar reasoning (or arguing) ability, who will win? Well, this would be a tough pick unless you are gender biased.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Two cleverbots indulged in a discussion would be like… Ok, I give up! Well, you just can’t think of a metaphor for this madness of a conversation. Watch the AI vs AI crazy conversation and tell us if can think of any! 😛</span></div>
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AI vs AI: This Crazy Conversation Between AI Bots Will Freak You Out

SP's: Humans regularly engage in intense discussions but what would happen if we pitch two cleverbots against each other in a batt...

This Open-source Program Recognize Your Faces in Real Time

Shivam Patsariya 0 ProgrammingBooks, Science, Security, Software 2:47 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>penFace, the open source face recognition technology developed by the researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University, has been rolled out. The OpenFace holds ground against the much-advanced proprietary face-recognition technologies by private endeavours.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Open-source technology is usually at par with the proprietary technology but in certain cases such as the face-recognition, the open-source lags far behind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The intelligentsia of the open-source community has now stepped up and created an open source face recognition system. The researchers at Carnegie Mellon University feel that the accuracies of the open-source face recognition system lag behind the advancements garnered by the tech giants with their exclusive state-of-the-art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Open source, as the name gives away, is the technology that derives its ideas from the 1970’s hacker culture defining the craze for programming and its subsequent availability to all. This philosophy was later subsumed by FOSS (Free and Open Source). The lack of resources for the projects that include hardware technology sometimes hinder the excellence in the open source community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">OpenFace is based on Google’s FaceNet face recognition system and can recognise the faces within few seconds with 10 reference photos. The datasets that the developers have used to train this program to recognize faces falls to a fraction as compared to the huge datasets of private endeavours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">However, the developers are quite happy with the results as the accuracy they achieved is remarkably high and exceeds in performance in comparison to the previous open source face recognition technology attempts on the standard LFW benchmark.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Watch OpenFace in action, recognizing the faces in real-time:</span></div>
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This Open-source Program Recognize Your Faces in Real Time

SP's: penFace, the open source face recognition technology developed by the researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University, has been...

Apple Announces New Programs for Reduction Of Carbon Footprint In China

Shivam Patsariya 0 Freebies, Science, Tricks 2:37 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Apple has announced two clean energy programs in China for reducing carbon footprint. They aim at expanding more energy efficient projects across the country like solar projects and installing more than 2 gigawatts of new clean energy in the next couple of years.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Apple has announced two new ‘clean energy’ programs in China, which aims at reduction of the carbon footprint. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, what is a carbon footprint? Well, the carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide that is released into our surroundings and atmosphere directly or indirectly as a result of activities of an individual or a community as a whole. Like for example, you can reduce your carbon footprint by walking or riding bicycles instead of a car, whenever possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The first program aims at the following:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Do you think Apple should initiate such, energy efficient programs in other countries as well? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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Apple Announces New Programs for Reduction Of Carbon Footprint In China

SP's: Apple has announced two clean energy programs in China for reducing carbon footprint. They aim at expanding more energy effic...

It’s Time to Get Yourself a 3D Selfie With CloneMe

Shivam Patsariya 0 News, Science, tech 10:32 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ever imagined a miniaturized figurine of yourself, that you could play with? Now this is possible. The omnipresent selfies have now moved to the next level of three dimensions, thanks to a Bangalore-based startup <a href="https://www.cloneme.in/">CloneMe </a>which uses 3D printing to create miniaturized replicas of humans as well as objects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now let’s see how the process works- first the customer gets his or her body scanned by standing on a turntable and facing a scanner. Just as a camera is to 2D photograph, a scanner is to a 3D-printed figurine.</span></div>
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How WiTricity will allow you to use Wireless Electricity?

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>WiTricity, a Watertown-based company, committed to the idea of wireless electricity, has emerged with a new technology that uses coupled resonators to power electronic devices wirelessly. Professor Morin Soljačić and his team from MIT are the minds behind this mind blowing technology.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Many of the new technologies are focusing on how to eliminate wires from our lives and technologies like WiGig Alliance are trying to make the data transmission quicker and more reliable without the need of any wires.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And another one is WiTricity, dedicated to wirelessly charge our devices or in fact WiTricity wants you to forget about charging your devices, as they’ll be charging all the time without you to put them on some electric plate, like the WiFi network.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There is electricity wired all through this house, all through my office—everywhere. This phone should take care of its own charging!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">He then used his scientific mind and concluded to use the phenomena of coupled resonators in order to transfer the electricity from the existing electricity network, directly to the devices, all wirelessly, without harming the things in between. Most of you might’ve Googled about coupled resonators, but for my lazy readers, the phenomena of coupled resonators is rooted on the fact, when two objects have the same resonating frequency, they tend to exchange energy without the interference of any other out of frequency object.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And for my lazy readers, I’m too lazy to write about resonating frequency, so you should move your hands towards the keyboard and Google resonating frequency.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The next day Morin woke up, but he was damn serious and fully committed to transform his landline, back to a mobile phone. He gathered two other curious minds, MIT guys Karalis and Joannopoulos, who also wanted to get back their mobile phones. Morin wanted to achieve the theoretical implementation of how to couple two magnetic resonators to achieve the wireless transfer of electricity. They were able to publish their results in the Annals of Physics journal twice, in 2006 and 2008.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Morin with his team, were now able to successfully present the working model of what they believed to would revolutionize the way people use electricity. They demonstrated their project with two five-turn copper coils having a diameter of 60 cm, placed about 2 metres away. The coils were to act as coupled resonators clocked at 9.9 MHz frequency and had the same orientation axis. One of the coils was connected to a power source and the other to a 60W light bulb. They blocked line of sight by a wooden block and still were able to successfully light the bulb at around 90% efficiency at a distance of 0.9 metres. And that’s how they were able to demonstrate wireless electricity in motion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Imparting the success from his proposed experimental results, Morin was confident enough to transform his experiment into a commercial success. And so the company WiTricity originated with an intent to eliminate the want of all the power adapters and batteries, and to pursue the true existence of wireless electricity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The development of this technology has received global recognition and appraisal. CEO Eric Giler presented this wireless electricity-based technology which propelled the formation of WiTricity, at the TED Global Conference, Oxford, in July 2009. He demonstrated the transfer of wireless electricity to a television and three different mobile phones channeled by a WiTricity powering unit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">WiTricity with a vision of “Wireless Everywhere”, is busy designing products for various domains like consumer electronics, automobiles, medical devices, and much more. Their current product line: Prodigy, WiCAD, WiT 5000C3, WiT 5000, WiT 3000. Prodigy is a demo kit, allows you to get a ball-park estimation of the WiTricity technology and to experiment wireless electricity transmission.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"WiTricity products are being designed to comply with applicable safety standards and regulations."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">However, no studies have been conducted to trace the effects on human and animals due to the constant presence of wireless electricity radiations in their surroundings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">WiTricity’s technology might manifest a cardinal panacea to the thirst of power hungry devices around us.</span></div>
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How WiTricity will allow you to use Wireless Electricity?

SP's: WiTricity, a Watertown-based company, committed to the idea of wireless electricity, has emerged with a new technology that u...

Future of Electronics: Light Travels “Infinitely Fast” in New On-chip Material

Shivam Patsariya 0 Science, tech 7:28 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's: </b>Researchers at SEAS have developed a metamaterial with zero refractive index that will allow a phase of light to go at infinitely fast speeds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Prepare yourselves to put silicon-based electronics in the archives as the world will soon embrace the light. No, it is not telepathic connections we are talking about, but comparably fast photons that are set to replace the electrons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Scientists had realized years before that soon we would have to stop extrapolation of the Moore’s Law and look out for the better prospectives. And yes they did. Researchers have come up with two brilliant solutions to the slowing electrons: quantum computations and light based computations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A team of researchers at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has managed to manipulate light at the nanoscale and integrate it into the extant devices. The researchers have designed an on-chip  metamaterial with zero refractive index such that a phase of the light will now travel at an infinitely fast speed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now, don’t get tensed. No rule of physics has been broken yet! The researchers have merely worked on increasing the phase velocity of light, i.e. the speed by which the crests of light travel in a medium. The change in the phase velocity is the reason of slowing down of light in other material (and the cause of the phenomenon of refraction).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The researchers have merely worked on increasing the phase velocity of light, i.e. the speed by which the crests of light travel in a medium. The change in the phase velocity is the reason of slowing down of light in other material (and the cause of the phenomenon of refraction).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Light doesn’t typically like to be squeezed or manipulated, but this metamaterial permits you to manipulate light from one chip to another, to squeeze, bend, twist and reduce the diameter of a beam from the macroscale to the nanoscale. It’s a remarkable new way to manipulate light."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Scientists have now made a material with zero refractive index which allows light to maintain a constant phase with all crests and troughs stretched at infinitely long wavelengths. In such a scenario, it is possible to manipulate light like stretching and twisting at the zero expense of the energy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The research has been described in the journal <a href="http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphoton.2015.198.html">Nature Photonics</a> and is considered as a significant step towards a new era of telecommunication.</span></div>
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Future of Machine Learning: Business Implications and Big Data

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>The proliferation of new applications for machine learning hints at its vast potential. Companies, governments, and researchers innovate new ways to mine big data for useful insights constantly. All it takes is some creativity and computing resources to turn data into intelligence. Read more to get an insight about the future business implications of machine learning.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The business world is so susceptible to fads and buzzwords that it has become a joke. That is why the rise of big data hasn’t been getting as much attention as it deserves. It is also unfortunate that big data is a tech concept, and recent developments in the tech sector have prompted some business journalists to ask if the economy is producing a tech bubble similar to the end of the 1990s. The truth is that big data is not just a fad or a bubble — it is a major and transformative force for the world economy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Having good access to information and being able to spread information quickly has been a hallmark of great revolutions in technology, from Gutenberg’s first printing press to the rise of the telegraph during the American Civil War, Bell’s work with the telephone, and, of course, the Internet. Both communications and data collection are fundamental not only for business decisions but also for medicine, governance, and many other fields. Big data is a quantitative evolution of the way people can accumulate information, but the sheer scale of large datasets yields an unprecedented level of detail for many applications. The difficulty of creating and manipulating a large dataset is dropping by the month, with simple <a href="http://atscale.com/bi-on-hadoop/">Hadoop </a>reporting taking the place of cumbersome SAS jobs and other outdated tools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Consider auto insurance. Right now, auto insurance carriers use complex statistical models that use demographic information about their customers to predict which of them are most likely to get into an accident and make a claim. They need to pay actuaries large amounts of money to build and test these models, and then they base their pricing on the models’ results. Recently, however, some insurers have decided to start using actual driving habits to price their products. They ask customers to install a device that plugs into their car and records speed, how fast the driver brakes, how tight they turn, and other metrics. Then they use that data to predict accidents over time as well as use this information to generate a more personalized <a href="http://www.netquote.com/auto-insurance">auto insurance quotes comparison</a>. This is a striking and creative use of data to solve a business problem: pricing, but in the near future it could go even further. Fine enough data would let the device predict when a driver was intoxicated, tired, or distracted based on their driving actions. This kind of data could save lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Data collection about <a href="http://www.nursetogether.com/why-personalized-medicine-isnt-far-away">patient health records</a> could be subjected to machine learning analysis, helping doctors predict disease and illness with better certainty than they can now. On the dark side of big data, governments can train machine learning programs on datasets containing the personal information of their citizens, making it easier to monitor their daily lives. It is a fine balance between using machine learning and big data to improve people’s lives and violating privacy on a massive scale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Right now, it comes down to case by case judgments. The legal system is not well equipped to handle questions pertaining to the details of statistics and technology, but that will need to change. Big data is not as flashy as some previous technological revolutions because it takes place in the silent realm of software, and machine learning is a much more obtuse concept than the telephone or the printed book. However, its potential to transform society is just as large, and big data stands poised to alter the way we think about privacy, prediction, business, and relationships.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The proliferation of new applications for machine learning hints at this potential. Companies, governments, and researchers innovate new ways to mine big data for useful insights constantly. All it takes is some creativity and computing resources to turn data into intelligence. Machine learning threatens to alter entire fields, like medicine and law, and to forever change the way we think about information. Soon, gleaning insight from data won’t be the exclusive realm of humans, but of algorithms. The task that remains in the hands of people is to decide what to do with that insight.</span></div>
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Identical Earths Are Yet To Come Into Existence: NASA

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's: </b>Scientists have come with a new theory as of why humans are unable to find identical Earths. Reason: We are too early into the party.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The world went into nostalgia when NASA announced and confirmed the existence of the Earth 2.0, an identical big brother version of our very own home planet that was twice the size and exhibited almost similar life-supporting conditions. Now, everyone (almost) is convinced that there are plenty of other sister Earths as well, we just have to pursue diligently.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">However, the reason that we have not bumped into more of identical Earths might have another explanation than our technological limitations. According to a theoretical study, the moment our solar system was born 4.6 billion years ago, only 8% of the total habitable planets had been in existence in the Universe up until then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Today, our Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and is sits comfortably among that special 8% inhabitable category. Now, here is the interesting part of the theory. What about the rest 92%?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, those are the planets that are yet to be born. There are billions of identical Earths (a lot more, actually) which are awaiting their existence. That means the Universe is not busy just cooking up more Suns, but there is more than enough matter left that could help brood more of Earth’s copies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This idea of our early evolution came as the scientists went through the chronicles of the Universe and saw the “family album” of the galaxy observations and star formations across time. All this was made possible due to the powerful Hubble telescope along with other masterpieces of science.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, this simply means we are a bit early in the party! We could become an all powerful and intelligent species till those planets start sprouting life (and you thought homo sapiens was a backward species). Just like it is shown in movies, only with the positions reversed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Our main motivation was understanding the Earth’s place in the context of the rest of the universe. Compared to all the planets that will ever form in the universe, the Earth is actually quite early.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now if you add other 100 billion galaxies of this Universe, the probability of humans bumping into our juniors is overwhelming. Now that’s nostalgic.</span></div>
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Identical Earths Are Yet To Come Into Existence: NASA

SP's: Scientists have come with a new theory as of why humans are unable to find identical Earths. Reason: We are too early into th...

Live Your Time Travel Dream With Ford’s “Back to the Future” Flux Capacitor

Shivam Patsariya 0 Automobile, Business, cars, Science, Security 11:23 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>As a part of the “Back to the Future” day celebrations, Ford has offered you a chance to add the iconic flux capacitor to your cars. Doc’s flux capacitor is what made the time travel possible in the movies and Ford’s 1.21 gigaWatts device is going to cost you $1.2 million.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The year 2015 marks 30th year of the release of the much beloved retro-tech movie trilogy “Back to the Future”. The movie has been receiving tons of love since then and inspiring many gadgets including Hoverboard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Preparing for the Back to the Future fiesta between Oct. 21 and 26, automobile company Ford has decided to put a flux capacitor right in your car. For those who don’t know, these are the same days in which Doc and Marty McFly time-travelled in the movies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Doc’s flux capacitor is what made the time travel possible and Ford’s device is going to cost you $1.2 million. In the movies, flux capacitor converted the classic Delorean into a flying time machine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Just like the movies, the flux capacitor is powered by 1.21 gigaWatts of energy. No surprises here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When you’ll visit the page for either the 2016 Ford <a href="http://www.ford.com/cars/fiesta/" target="_blank">Fiesta </a>or 2016 Ford <a href="http://www.ford.com/cars/focus/" target="_blank">Focus </a>between between Oct. 21 and 26 for “Back to the Future Day,” you’ll be able to spec the cars with this flux capacitor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the promotional video on YouTube, Ford warns that the use of the flux capacitor is “for recreational use only”.</span></div>
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Live Your Time Travel Dream With Ford’s “Back to the Future” Flux Capacitor

SP's: As a part of the “Back to the Future” day celebrations, Ford has offered you a chance to add the iconic flux capacitor to ...

Internet Inventor Vint Cerf and Experts Suggest 5-Points to Improve WiFi Router Security

Shivam Patsariya 0 Internet, Science, Security, Software, tech, Tricks, wifi 11:02 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>The FCC is on the receiving end over its proposed rules to alter WiFi routers to make them secure as the experts are telling a different story. In an open letter,  Vint Cerf – the co-inventor of the Internet – along with 260 other experts, has outlined some changes in the proposal.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When you read about a new vulnerability found in a WiFi router every alternate day, it’s obvious to think that something is seriously wrong with your most used gadget in your home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Along with 260 other leading internet experts, Vint Cerf – the co-inventor of the Internet – has drafted a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In the letter, they have rejected the new FCC proposals as it could lead to buggy and insecure software.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The new FCC regulations are written to make sure that any radio-emitting device only broadcasts the frequencies that they are supposed to. As a result, the people who like to play with their routers and load third-party firmware – or other security-minded people will be in trouble.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the <a href="http://huchra.bufferbloat.net/~d/fcc_saner_software_practices.pdf" target="_blank">open letter</a> filed with the FCC, Vin Cerf and 260 other experts have proposed the alternative frameworks for how routers should be regulated. The new proposals are focused on security and openness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Take a look here at the main 5 points of the proposals:</span></div>
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Internet Inventor Vint Cerf and Experts Suggest 5-Points to Improve WiFi Router Security

SP's: The FCC is on the receiving end over its proposed rules to alter WiFi routers to make them secure as the experts are telling ...

This Nearly “Impossible to Trace” Spyware is Used by 32 Governments to Spy on You

Shivam Patsariya 0 Hack, News, ProgrammingBooks, Science, Security, Software, tech, Tricks 10:55 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>In 2015, the infamous spyware FinFisher is spread in 32 countries to perform advanced citizen surveillance. Citizen Lab, a security watchdog, has uncovered the nearly untraceable IP addresses and servers of the spyware. Read more and find out how it works and if it’s used by your government.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The preying eyes of your government are more active than ever and it’s using more advanced tools for surveillance purposes. Recently in the data breach at the Hacking Team, it was revealed that multiple governments contacted them to obtain spyware tools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">One such famous product in the spyware market is FinFisher, also known as FinSpy. This surveillance software came into the limelight in 2014, when a hacking attack at its marketing company Gamma International exposed it to the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">One year after the hack, this sophisticated computer software suite, sold exclusively to governments and law enforcement agencies, is alive and serving more customers than ever. This suite is used to target computers or phones, and monitor all activities including calls, emails and messages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Citizen Lab, a security watchdog, has published a new report unmasking the true locations of the master servers to identify the governments using FinFisher. The firm scanned the internet for FinFisher servers and separated masters from proxies and located 32 governments and 10 entities that are directly related to FinFisher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The lab has been able to identify these servers that are claimed to be practically impossible to trace by the spyware makers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Governments using FinFisher include those of Mongolia, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Oman, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Mexico, Spain, Venezuela and other. Many suspected governments using FinFisher spyware have past records of human rights violations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They collected a total of 135 IP addresses belonging to FinFisher boxes, but not all of them were pointing back to one specific country. “So there’s definitely more customers,” one of the researchers Marczak told <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/researchers-find-impossible-to-trace-spyware-in-32-countries+" target="_blank">Motherboard</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“In presenting our scan results, we do not wish to disrupt or interfere with legitimately sanctioned investigations or other activities. Instead, we hope to ensure that citizens have the opportunity to hold their governments transparent and accountable,” writes Citizen Lab in its report.</span></div>
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This Nearly “Impossible to Trace” Spyware is Used by 32 Governments to Spy on You

SP's: In 2015, the infamous spyware FinFisher is spread in 32 countries to perform advanced citizen surveillance. Citizen Lab, a se...

Best Flying Cars of The Future, Pick Your Ride

Shivam Patsariya 0 Business, Creative, News, Science, Tricks 3:47 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Most of us, in fact, all of us have dreamt about owning a flying car at one point of time (not everyone can buy a private jet or chopper, right?) and fly high. Up above the world, soaring in the sky, far from the blaring horns and infuriating traffic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, more futuristic than ‘of the future’ ( as some are in the prototype stages), the flying car is everyone’s fantasy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, if you have the money and are willing to shell it on these contraptions, then go ahead my friend, not everyone is as lucky as you. But, which one of the flying machines should you go for- The Beauty or The Beast? Take a look at these badass flying cars and pick your future ride.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Is this a scooter or a chopper? PAL-V One will confuse you by its design, but once you are in the air, well, who cares! The Personal Air and Land Vehicle takes just about 10 minutes to convert from a road bike to an air carrier and can take you to 4,000 feet height.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The PAL-V One has a max speed of 112 mph. It can run 750 miles from its gasoline engine and fly for about 315 miles. For the environmentalists, PAL-V One also comes in biodiesel as well. And you would only need a Sports Pilot license to fly this machine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Hoverbikes are a new craze. Even the US military wants hoverbikes for its soldiers. Coming in the markets in 2017, this air vehicle would be a trophy for the Star-War frenzy. Aero-X is more of a private arena flying craft that has a lift of about 12 feet and tops at 45 mph.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, if you just wanna have fun and not considering serious locomotion, then Aero-X could be a good option. It costs around $85,000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The classiest of them all, Aeromobil 3.0 is the flying car to look for in the future. The car that looks like a hybrid between the Jetfire and Bumblebee, AeroMobil 3.0 would be in your garage by 2017, as promised by AeroMobil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It also comes with an autopilot, in case you wish to sleep mid-air. It can travel up to 310 miles with a maximum speed of 100 mph. Its price has not yet been announced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">GF7 is like a jet running on the road or a Veyron in the air. This beast of a sports-jet hybrid flying car speeds up to 550 mph in the air on jet engine and converts to a humble zero emission EV when running on streets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Aptly named as Transition by its Massachusetts-based manufacturers Terrafugia, this flying car will definitely bring about a transition in human life. Looking like a plane, its prototype stole the show in Wisconsin airshow two years back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Hyundai unveiled its flying car concept two years ago but has not announced its consumer availability yet. The car looks like an a scaled up college project with rotors all around the driving seat.</span></div>
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How Many Ordinary Laser Pointers Will Kill A Human Being?

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>How many ordinary laser pointers will kill a human being? Well, we are not planning to do such evil thing, but here is the answer if you would like to know.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Do you remember the evil Death Star killer machine from the movie Star Wars? Its laser beam was so powerful that it would destroy an entire planet in seconds. Well, lasers are dangerous- we are given this advice right from the early age. They shouldn’t be shone in the eyes as it could harm our vision.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But, what if someone decides to make a smaller version of Death Star and creates a deadly weapon? How many ordinary laser pointers will be needed to make this weapon?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, before we start looking for the answers, let’s recall our high school knowledge about lasers. The word laser stands for “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.” It’s a single and focused beam of light that spits large amounts of energy on a single point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The cheap laser pointer available in the marker cost less than $2 and come with a power rating of 5-milliwatt. But, it surely is not powerful enough to kill anyone. To do this, you’ll need to combine many laser pointers and use their energy in one direction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">James Kakalios, a physics professor at the University of Minnesota and the author of The Physics of Superheroes says that making a death ray from lasers is very tough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To kill a person, the easiest way would be to target the eye and ultimately melt the brain (excuse me if it’s too graphic).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, to kill a person by focusing a mighty laser into someone’s eyes, how big and powerful laser pointer do you need?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Rebecca Thompson of the America Physical Society, who holds a Ph.D. in physics, has done some calculations and came to a conclusion. So, here’s her answer:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For a laser to kill someone it essentially needs to be hot enough to boil or burn the tissue. It would take about a 1kW laser to boil through someone’s eye to their brain in a reasonable amount of time, meaning they probably couldn’t get away. Each cat toy level laser pointer is roughly 5mW. It would take 200,000 laser pointers all focusing through a lens to an exact point to create a laser powerful enough to kill. Each laser pointer (assuming the ones from laser pens since the pen tip is smaller than the cat toy laser) is 5mm across. So if you had 200,000 of them they would be in a grid about 7’ x7’. To get them to focus on a single spot, though, they would need to be in a semi-circle with a radius of about 5.5’. So if you wanted to create a death ray with laser pointers, you could buy 200,000 laser pointers, mount them on a piece of a sphere with radius 5.5’, aim them all through a lens and ask your victim to sit very, very still.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, don’t try this at home or school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Have something to add? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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Meet ‘Flyte ‘ – The Floating Light Bulb That Lasts 22 Years

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>SP's: </b>Simon Morris has invented a light bulb that combines magnetic levitation with the power transmission- ‘Flyte’. It consists of an LED bulb with a wireless power receiver and an electromagnet in its bottom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Remember how back in our childhood, we used to be fascinated by anything that could fly or levitate in the air? Almost seemed like magic, didn’t it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Perhaps, it is for this reason, that a scientist Simon Morris, has finally turned his childhood dream into a reality after years of research. His new invention – Flyte levitating light bulb – combines magnetic levitation with power transmission.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Inside the wooden base, is a wireless power transmitter and another electromagnet. The bulb has a lifetime of 22 years based on six hours use a day- or 11 years at 12 hours per day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It consists of an LED bulb with a wireless power receiver and an electromagnet in its bottom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Placing the bulb on the base and releasing it slowly will see it rise and settle into position.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Also, you can charge your phone by placing it over the base.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The bulb has a lifetime of 22 years based on six hours use a day or 11 years at 12 hours per day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Morris always felt the necessity to bring the much needed change to the concept of bulbs , which hasn’t been altered over the past 135 years. ‘Flyte’ is currently being funded in Kickstarter for early pledges of $239. Although Morris has truly revolutionized the concept of bulbs, but when it comes to affordability, Flyte still lacks behind. One could buy approximately 50 Phillip’s low cost bulbs for that money</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When it comes to light globes, this sure isn’t cheap. Although the high cost can question the practical application and popularity of ‘Flyte’ but then aren’t all of us still charmed by the magic of levitating ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What do you think about the practicality of Flyte? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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