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Digital India Profile Pic Tool Confusion Was an Engineer’s Mistake, Facebook Says

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="google-mobile-app-indian-governemnt-pm-modi-digital-india" height="340" src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/google-mobile-app-indian-governemnt-pm-modi-digital-india.jpg" width="640" /><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After facing widespread criticism over the tri-color profile picture tool and its relation to<span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">internet.org</span>, Facebook has said that it was a Facebook engineer’s mistake.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">F</em><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">acebook’s recent</span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;"> tri-color profile picture tool</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;"> to show support to the Digital India initiative is </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">facing criticism</span> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">as it was claimed that the company plans to use them to show support for the controversial</span><span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;"> initiative.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, in an expected move, Facebook has denied the charge and called it a Facebook engineer’s mistake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For those who don’t know, yesterday it was revealed that the<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">source code of the Facebook page</span></span> showed that these pictures were named <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">internetOrgprofilepicture </em>and it was said that it could be used in the future by Facebook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Denying the claims, Facebook has said: <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“There is absolutely no connection between updating your profile picture for digital India and <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span>.”</em></span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“An engineer mistakenly used the words “<span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span> profile picture” as a shorthand name he chose for part of the code. But this product in no way connects to or registers support for <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span>. We are changing the code today to eliminate any confusion.”</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The mistake has been corrected by Facebook and the picture is now named <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">digitalIndiaProfilePicture.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, Facebook’s explaination sound fishy as every software engineer is given a description before doing a project. The fact that the string <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">internetOrgprofilepicture </em>comes to his/her mind on the Digital India project couldn’t be just coincidental.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, the truth remains to be uncovered but it would be harmless to assume that Facebook is definitely gaining something in return of this support to Digital India campaign.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It doesn’t prove anything but it says one thing loud and clear: <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mark Zuckerberg will try to prove <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">internet.org</span> as one of many ways in which Digital India can be achieved.</em></span></div>
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Digital India Profile Pic Tool Confusion Was an Engineer’s Mistake, Facebook Says

After facing widespread criticism over the tri-color profile picture tool and its relation to internet.org , Facebook has said that it was...

For the 3rd Time in Less than 2 Weeks, Facebook Went Down

Unknown 0 FbTrick 3:44 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Multiple users from all over the globe received “something went wrong” message and some users got a blank page with service unavailable message at the top left corner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Facebook is generally very reliable, but three downtimes in a month are very unusual. The first outage earlier this month lasted for five minutes for most users and the second one took 10 minutes. It should be noted that today’s outage appears is the longest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Facebook has confirmed the problem via its <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">developer site</span></span>, “A Facebook-wide issue is causing the Facebook Graph API to be temporarily unavailable. We’re working with our core infrastructure teams to identify the issue and will update you when we have more information.”</span></div>
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For the 3rd Time in Less than 2 Weeks, Facebook Went Down

Things aren’t going well at Facebook HQ. For the third time in less than two week, Facebook went down. T oday, at about 12:00 p.m....

Here’s Why You Should NOT Change Your Profile Pic to Digital India Tricolor

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<em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you check the source code of Digital India profile picture, you’ll realize that your new picture is being called as “internetOrgProfilePicture__prideAvatar” by Facebook. Read more to know why it sounds fishy.</span></em></div>
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<em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">t the Facebook HQ, Indian Prime Minister</span><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> Narendra Modi and CEO took part in a public Q&A</span><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; transition-duration: 0.2s;"> </span><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">and vowed their support to the Digital India initiative. Both of them changed their Facebook profile pictures to </span><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Digital India filter</em><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;"> and people are following the same course.</span></span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By converting your Facebook profile pictures into the hue of Indian flag, you are unknowingly casting your vote to support <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span>. <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span>  defies the<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;"> </span>basic idea of net neutrality</span> (read free and open internet).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While Digital India program aims to transform the Indian economy and empower it digitally, <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span> is a different story. At fossBytes, we support the Digital India initiative, but Mark Zuckerberg’s <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span> policies are way too shady. The social network has faced much flak over the issue and we don’t support it either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Digital India profile picture tool, with the URL <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">http://fb.com/supportdigitalindia</span>,</span> is there to support your support the “Digital India” campaign, but there’s something more to this story. Behind this, there’s a hidden story that hints that Facebook CEO is promoting his<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">controversial internet.org initiative</span></span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you check the source code of the Digital India profile picture page, you’ll realize that your new picture is being called as “internetOrgProfilePicture__prideAvatar” by Facebook. Just open <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">this link</span>, </span>press ctrl+U to open the source code and search for the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Zuckerberg’s <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span> is under the vigilant eyes for its anti-net neutrality nature. The mention of <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">internet.org</span> sounds fishy in the HTML source code as it counts as your approval to <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span> and its anti-net neutrality nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Digital India is a great initiative, but this hidden agenda of Facebook is nothing less than evil. It’s possible that Facebook is using this stat as a measure to gain some information about your net neutrality stance and use this data in future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It doesn’t prove anything but it says one thing loud and clear: <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mark Zuckerberg will try to prove <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">internet.org</span> as one of many ways in which Digital India can be achieved.</em></span></div>
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Light-based Memory Chip is the First Ever to Store Data Permanently

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Scientists, for quite some time now, have been advocating the use of “light” based computing and memory chips that could revolutionize the electronics world as we know it. Now a team of researchers led by a nanoengineering expert at the University of Oxford, Harish Bhaskaran, has claimed to have created the first optical memory chip that would permanently store data.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Earlier, the optical memory chip designs had failed due to its volatile nature. But the researchers’ team had bypassed the problem using an already available and widely used storage devices-CDs and DVDs. A thin layer of GST, an alloy of germanium, antimony, and tellurium is used on these devices to save data.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">GST has a unique property of changing its atomic structure from the ordered crystalline to amorphous state when hit by laser pulses. Now light is reflected differently by both these atomic structures which is later on detected by low-intensity light as it tracks the difference on the GST surface, and that’s how the data is read back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The researchers’ team build a chip using waveguide technology that channels the optical pulses on a silicon nitride device. After that, they tested the chip by coating it with a nanolayer of GST and shot high-intensity laser pulses at it. As the GST molecules changed their atomic structure from crystalline to amorphous, the low-intensity laser pulses reverted the process back i.e. from amorphous to ordered crystalline, making it a potential memory and rewritable device.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But what accounts as an achievement is that the scientists were able to store multiple bits (information) simultaneously as they sent multiple wavelengths of light through the waveguide. This means they could read and write multiple bits simultaneously, a property that is limited in the conventional storage devices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As the team varied the wavelengths and intensity of the laser, they were able to store up to 8 bits of data at a single spot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The experiment shows that the optical memory chips could make our computers 100 times faster with a more advanced photonic memory and better waveguide technology. And the pace at which the research is continuing, that future does not seem too far away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What do you think of the new optical memory research? Tell us in comments below.</span></div>
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Light-based Memory Chip is the First Ever to Store Data Permanently

A team of researchers has claimed to have created the first optical memory chip that would permanently store data and would fasten the pro...

How Much Does the Entire Internet Weigh?

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How Much Does the Entire Internet Weigh?

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Stealth Dark Matter Could Be The Key to Universe’s Missing Mass

Shivam Patsariya 0 Science 3:24 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">D</em><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">ark Matter has always aroused curiosity unlike anything, not only amongst the astrophysicists but also the kids and science fiction fans. It is quite impressive that even after constituting over 80% of the Universe’s mass, we fall short of knowledge when it comes to the subject. Scientists had previously found the way to study Dark Matter by watching it </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">collide with other celestial stuff</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the recent developments, researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">LLNL</span></span>) have hypothesized the composition of the dark matter. The scientists believe that dark matter might be a congregation of electrically charged particles which are bound by strong unknown forces. Since, it has successfully evaded us till now, scientists are calling their new theory as the<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stealth Dark Matter</em> model.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dark Matter has outwitted humans for so long because it shows almost no reaction with the visible matter and neither it does emit, radiate or absorb light. However, its repulsiveness to itself has come to the knowledge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The team of particle physicists known as the Lattice Strong Dynamics Collaboration is looking forward to validate their stealth dark matter model at CERN using Large Hadron Collider.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">According to the theory, the dark matter produced huge amount of electrically charged unstable nuclear particles (analogous to quarks in the neutron) and these ‘now long decayed’ particles had interacted with almost everything in the early universe. The scientists acknowledge this interaction to the high temperatures at that time and since then, the dark matter had bonded under a strong unknown force as the universe cooled down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Vranas, one of the scientists from the team remarks, “<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">These interactions in the early universe are important because ordinary and dark matter abundances today are strikingly similar in size, suggesting this occurred because of a balancing act performed between the two before the universe cooled.”</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The stealth dark matter model is fascinating because the dark matter is passive to electromagnetic radiations and to come up with a theory that speculates electrically charged particles as inherent to dark matter, is really absorbing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The scientists are <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">counting on the LHC</span> </span>to verify or maybe rule out their hypothesis as only the world’s largest particle accelerator could create conditions similar to that of the early universe and shed light on the dark matter complexity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It should be noted that LHC has already been credited to several discoveries and affirmations of theorized particles such as <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">Weyl Fermions</span></span>, Higgs Boson, and <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">Pentaquarks</span>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Only if the dark matter mystery could be resolved.</span></div>
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Stealth Dark Matter Could Be The Key to Universe’s Missing Mass

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Satya Nadella: Microsoft Connecting 500,000 Indian Villages With Low-Cost Broadband

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Satya Nadella: Microsoft Connecting 500,000 Indian Villages With Low-Cost Broadband

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Microsoft Challenges Google Cardboard With its New VR Kit

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Highlights From Modi-Zuckerberg Facebook Townhall Q&A

Shivam Patsariya 0 Business, FbTrick 3:16 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Seated comfortably during the townhall with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Mr Modi had a barrage of questions ranging from unemployment and women’s issues to social media and Internet expansion in India. Mark Zuckerberg himself asked the Indian PM of his mother’s role in his life. However, only a few could be answered due to limited time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Social media is now playing a pivotal role in helping the governments get real-time updates and knowabout the unpopular policies via netizens’ dissent. Mr Modi said, “Social media has the potential to show the government if it is taking a wrong path and then go for a course correction, it is a strength of a democracy.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He also praised social media for spreading information as he said, “<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I did not have the fortune of much education, but social media helped me gain knowledge. It broadened my horizons.”</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It should be noted that Modi owes his huge popularity and subsequent rise to power to his clever adoption of social media.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Make In India is reckoned to turn India into a global technological centre. As soon as the project was announced by the PM, it created equal support as well as skepticism among the Indian masses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The secret to Make In India, he said is,<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “The low-cost manufacturing, skill, man power, raw materials — these are what we have. I don’t think this is something that someone can ignore. In fact, it is a paradise for investors.”</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since its advent, between September 2014 and Aug 2015, India has received US$17 billion worth of proposals to “Make In India”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Modi made his views pretty clear with a strong statement, <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“All societies believe in god, but mostly they are male, only in India we have women goddesses- Durga, Kali, Amba.”</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As for the country’s development he said, women must walk shoulder to shoulder with men. He also advocated the government’s policies on women’s reservation in the police and signifying their role in the armed forces, tech and medical institutes and as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Prime Minister had his eyes drenched as he spoke of his mother when asked about her role his life by Mark Zuckerberg. He talked of his life when he was poor and how his mother made sacrifices for the family. He said that it is due to her blessings today that he is the most powerful man in the largest democracy of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Overall, the townhall meeting went well and the PR team would be quite happy with their efforts, but the meeting lacked substance as the Q&A session avoided most of the contentious topics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">His government’s approach on Net Neutrality and the often radical ban practice of the government that seems inappropriate to them and many more like these were swept under the carpet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nonetheless, Mr Modi in Silicon Valley made an impact, and the country is hoping that something good comes out of this visit.</span></div>
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This Amazing Retro Mini Apple Computer Is Based on Raspberry Pi

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="raspberry-pi-apple-3d (FILEminimizer)raspberry-pi-apple-3d (FILEminimizer)" height="306" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/raspberry-pi-apple-3d-FILEminimizer.jpg" width="640" /><em style="background-color: white; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Charles Mangin has created an amazing retro mini Apple computer that runs on Raspberry Pi and Raspbian OS. You can buy it online or 3D print its parts by downloading its files.</em></span></div>
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<em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">Here’s a miniature Apple computer that look adorable and runs on our </span><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">favorite DIY companion Raspberry Pi</span><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;"> and its Debian-based OS Raspbian. Charles Mangin is the person who created this as it’s his hobby to create miniature retro computers.</span></span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This Apple Computer is way cheaper that the other Apple computers. You can either buy it online or build it yourself by downloading the specifications.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The mini Apple computer printed by him, features a USB plug-in and a working 2.5″ LCD display. This also comes with combo A/C plug on the back along with a micro-SD card.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The files can be downloaded from Thingiverse from the Apple IIc Raspberry Pi case – Model A+ and the Apple Monitor IIc – 2.5” LCD. Mangin himself prints, assembles, paints and sells these parts at<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/RetroConnector" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"> Etsy</a></span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mangin also hints that he’ll be eventually making working miniature mouse and keyboard as well.</span></div>
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What Makes Tesla Model X One of the Most Anticipated Car Releases of the Past Decade

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tesla Motors will launch the first of its Model X crossover SUVs on September 29th,  2015,  in Fremont, California.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Tesla’s Model X, which is arguably one of the more anticipated car releases of the past decade, will finally be launched on September 29th,  2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">While the Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, in an interview with a Danish newspaper Borsen, spoke of the extremely tough competition in the market and how big car companies try to “squash ” small companies like Tesla, he’s equally optimistic about the possibility of  full autonomy technology in just 3 years to come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">While some may consider Model X as the vertically stretched version of the $100,000 Model S, there are two major differences. They are</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">2. Introduction of  a forward-facing third row of seats in Model X.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">With this, we can expect that Tesla shall join the race with big shot car companies rather than being just a Silicon Valley start-up.  The estimated cost of Model X would be around  $75,000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Stay tuned for more upcoming updates on Testa Model X !</span></div>
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Happy Birthday Google : Some Fun Facts About the Company You Didn’t Know

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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today is the 17th birthday of Google. It was the day when it was launched by founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. To mark the occasion, we have come up with some lesser know fun facts about the company.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Google’s founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page still prefer to keep home page simple and it shouldn’t exceed 28 words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Google backs bringing dogs to work and a “company dog” called Yoshka. Yoshka escorts Urs Holzle, senior VP operations and Google Fellow to the <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Google#Googleplex" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Googleplex</a></span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Founders said that no Googler should ever be more than 100 feet from a micro-kitchen with snacks and food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Google rents goats from a company called California Grazing for mowing its lawn and other weeds at Google HQ. The operation of 200 goats good for the environment, and according to Google, it is “A lot cuter to watch than lawn mowers.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Google homepage can also be viewed in the language of Klingon (from Star Trek), in case the aliens attack the world and need Google to navigate through the situation at <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-klingon" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-klingon</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At Google HQ there is a T-Rex skeleton – nicknamed “Stan” after a “real” dinosaur. There is also a to the scale replica of the SpaceShipOne, Android-themed models, pink flamingos, a large LEGO man, Google-coloured phone boxes and grown-up size ball pits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Google’s first ever Tweet in February 2009 was: “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010.” In binary it means: “I’m feeling lucky.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I am feeling Lucky” button is rarely used by users but a survey shows that users like to have this button on homepage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The first Google doodle was a Burning Man symbol. Founders went to the Burning Man festival in 1998 and added the doodle to let users know they were away from the office that weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Google is written backwards as elgooG, you know you could search backwards too at <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://elgoog.im/" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">http://elgoog.im</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last, but not the least, <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Google is always so confused about its own birthday</span>. Funny isn’t it <img alt="😀" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="http://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/72x72/1f600.png" style="background: none !important; border-radius: 2px; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1em !important; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></span></div>
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Happy Birthday Google : Some Fun Facts About the Company You Didn’t Know

Today is the 17th birthday of Google. It was the day when it was launched by founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. To mark the occasion...