Stay Informed, Stay Away from Facebook Dislike Button Scams

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="facebook_dislike_button-" height="392" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/facebook_dislike_button-.jpg" width="640" /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;">It’s reported that scammers are taking advantage of Facebook Dislike button anticipation and they’re using the Facebook users. These scams trick the users into believing that clicking on some links would provide them an early access to the dislike button.</span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;"><br /></span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">s a result of great anticipation surrounding the Facebook Dislike button (read empathy button), scammers are quick to find ways to fool the users. While Facebook users are anxiously waiting for the new feature, new scams are spreading, claiming to bring the Facebook dislike button earlier.</span></span></em></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For fossBytes readers who aren’t aware, <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;">Facebook CEO announced</span> that his company is working on some new feature like a “Dislike” button. Later, it was revealed that it would an <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;">Empathy Button</span> that would be consisting of some popular smileys.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><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.hackread.com/facebook-dislike-button-scam/" 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">Hackread</a></span> has reported that scammers are taking the advantage of this anticipation and they’re fooling Facebook users. These scams trick the users into believing that clicking on some links would provide them an early access to the dislike button.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="facebook-dislike-button-scam" class="lazy aligncenter size-full wp-image-20449" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/facebook-dislike-button-scam.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="400" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/facebook-dislike-button-scam.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="500" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since this dislike button is soon going to be out for testing, scammers are seeing this as an exploitable opportunity to bring in the users to malicious websites. Each time scammers are able to bring users to these annoying websites, scammers get paid.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="facebook-dislike-button-scam" class="lazy aligncenter size-full wp-image-20448" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/facebook-dislike-button-scam-2.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="541" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/facebook-dislike-button-scam-2.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="540" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Besides these, the Facebook dislike button scams are able to install malware, spyware, or adware on PCs.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the end of some surveys, you are asked to enter your usernames and passwords. As a result, your profile is spammed with via private messages, or some shady links on your timeline.</span></div> <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;"></em></span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Stay informed. Stay safe.</span></div> </div>

Stay Informed, Stay Away from Facebook Dislike Button Scams

It’s reported that scammers are taking advantage of Facebook Dislike button anticipation and they’re using the Facebook users. These s...

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India’s New Encryption Policy is Ridiculous, Deleting Your Chats Could Soon Become Illegal

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="india-encryption-policy (FILEminimizer)" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/india-encryption-policy-FILEminimizer.jpg" /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;">The government of India doesn’t understand the concept of online privacy and the importance of encryption. A new government body of “experts” has proposed a new Encryption Policy ruling out the need of online encryption.</span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;"><br /></span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;"><br /></span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;"><br /></span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;"><br /></span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">T</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">he Indian government has made a fool of itself by creating an environment of anxiety with its newly proposed unmindful national encryption policy.</span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Department of Electronic and Information Technology (Deity) has made a body of <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“experts” </em>that has proposed a new Draft Encryption Policy that<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> rules out</em>the need of online encryption.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This so-called expert panel has proposed that a company, or a user, will have to store the plain text of the corresponding encrypted information for future 90 days. This makes your data unencrypted and vulnerable for good 90 days.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The policy states:</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“….user shall reproduce the same Plain text and encrypted text pairs using the software/hardware used to produce the encrypted text from the given plain text. </em><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All information shall be stored by the concerned B/C (business/citizen) entity for 90 days from the date of transaction and made available to Law Enforcement Agencies as and when demanded in line with the provisions of the laws of the country.”</em></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This new encryption policy defeats the fundamental principle and the need of encryption. According to this, you are required to store your encrypted data, information, passwords etc. for the next 90 days.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><img alt="indian-encryption-policy-new" class="lazy aligncenter size-full wp-image-20428" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/indian-encryption-policy-new.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="515" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/indian-encryption-policy-new.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="716" /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Most of you don’t even know which parts of your online activity is encrypted, leave aside the act of saving and storing it. Another big-fat misguided statement in the policy is:</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <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;">“…encryption algorithms and key sizes will be prescribed by the Government.”</span></em></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With this, the government wants the thousands of services to follow the norms and encryption technologies prescribed by the government and risk the security of the user data.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This also means you may need to keep a copy of all the chats done using encrypted messaging service such as Google Hangouts, WhatsApp, or Apple’s iMessage, for 90 days. This could happen if the proposed National Encryption Policy is implemented without any change.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The government of India is already facing flak over its buggy<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;"> net neutrality policies</span>, and it has once again made a fool of itself with is new national encryption policy – that <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">rejects</em> the need of encryption.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can read/download the complete policy draft <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://deity.gov.in/sites/upload_files/dit/files/draft%20Encryption%20Policyv1.pdf" 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">here</a></span> and send your recommendations to <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">akrishnan@<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;">deity.gov.in</span> </em>by Oct. 16.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Share your views regarding the India’s new encryption policy in the comments below.</span></div> </div>

India’s New Encryption Policy is Ridiculous, Deleting Your Chats Could Soon Become Illegal

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Scientists Code the First Complete Tree of Life with 2.3 Million Species

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="code-tree-of-life" height="382" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/code-tree-of-life.jpg" width="640" /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;">For the first time, scientists have programmed a comprehensive tree of life that combines us all together. This tree shows a complex relationship of all the living beings that trace back to the beginning of life on Earth more than 3.5 billion years ago.</span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;"><br /></span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;"><br /></span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">O</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">ur beautiful Earth is home to numerous life forms of varying shapes and sizes. There are humans, bacteria, fungi, animals, flowers, fish: blooming on its surface – and under water. This is for the first time, scientists have </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://today.duke.edu/2015/09/treeoflife" 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">programmed a comprehensive tree of life </a></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">that combines us all together.</span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This tree shows a complex relationship of all the living beings that trace back to the beginning of life on Earth more than 3.5 billion years ago.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Over the past years, researchers have made thousands of such smaller trees with branches of life, but this is for the first time all those branches are combined to build a giant tree. Published on Friday in the <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, </em>this resultant tree of life includes 2.3 million named species on Earth.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><img alt="open-tree-of-life" class="lazy aligncenter size-full wp-image-20421" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/open-tree-of-life.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="800" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/open-tree-of-life.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="1200" /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Principal investigator Karen Cranston of Duke University in a statement: “This is the first real attempt to connect the dots and put it all together. Think of it as Version 1.0.” “Although a massive undertaking in its own right, this draft tree of life represents only a first step,” the researchers wrote.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To compile this huge data, researchers accounted for the different taxonomy names, spellings and misspellings coming across various research papers. This tree will grow with time and newly discovered species of animals, plants etc. will be added each year.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“There’s a pretty big gap between the sum of what scientists know about how living things are related, and what’s actually available digitally,” Cranston said.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This tree of life is public to all and isn’t hidden inside some academic research paper or journal. You can get your hands on the tree as well as the <span style="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; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/opentree/argus/opentree3.0@1" rel="nofollow" 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;" target="_blank">source code of the tree of life.</a></span></span></div> </div>

Scientists Code the First Complete Tree of Life with 2.3 Million Species

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World’s Smallest Wireless Earbuds That Can be Charged Through Phone

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="pugz earbuds" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/c681f8f57d2de8a99e3e4ceb5a680a31_original1.jpg" /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;">Techies and Designers with a background in the mobile industry (Sony, Nokia and Motorola) at PUGZ, a recently launched company in New York, are prototyping world’s smallest earphone that can be charged directly through your phone.</span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;"><br /></span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;"><br /></span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">H</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">ave you ever struggled with your earphone wires get tangled? I bet, you struggle every day with your earphone wires and think why it happens. </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is an awesome earphone under-making, which is coming to solve your life long problem with earphones. It is called PUGZ, a small wireless earbud that can be charged through your phone and its minimal size and shape allows perfect fit and music experience.</span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="pugz earbuds" class="lazy aligncenter size-full wp-image-20351" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ea51cffe92d6705aaee746008fd26551_original.gif" data-lazy-type="image" height="383" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ea51cffe92d6705aaee746008fd26551_original.gif" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="680" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Building a wireless earphone of reasonable size were the bottleneck for a long time with given battery size. Now the progress has reached that point. The first PUGZ earphone is now waiting to go off to production. A full charge takes 40 minutes and provides 4.5 hours of music – and it uses only three percent of battery capacity on an iPhone 6 or equivalent Android phone during charging. Also, you can charge the earphones while using them.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">PUGZ, the company behind it, is running a <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.kickstarter.com/projects/pugz/pugz-worlds-smallest-wireless-earbuds-you-charge-w?ref=category_popular" 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">Kickstarter</a> </span>campaign and has already reached the goal.  The campaign is still open for 2 more weeks and you can pre-order your earphone on <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;">Kickstarter</span>. Expected time for the delivery of production ready boxes will begin in early November.</span></div> <div class="video-container" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 356.388885498047px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="405" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iEoy_0qVGMU?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 356.388885498047px; left: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: justify; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.59375px;" width="720"></iframe></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Did you like the concept of life-saving earbuds. Tell us in the comments below.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Get <span style="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; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://stacksocial.com/300250/voxoa-water-proof-bluetooth-earbuds?aid=a-777o79wh" 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">VOXOA Water-Resistant Bluetooth Earbuds</a></span> here.</span></div> </div>

World’s Smallest Wireless Earbuds That Can be Charged Through Phone

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Get Ready, Chef Google Bringing “Sweet New Treats” on September 29

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="google-event9-29" height="439" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/google-event9-29.jpg" width="640" /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;">Google has sent invites for a launch event of Android Marshmallow, Chromecast 2.0 and new Nexus devices. These new products are planned to be unveiled on September 29, 2015, at Google’s press event in San Francisco, California.</span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;"><br /></span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;"><br /></span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;">e all love marshmallows and would do anything, just to have a small bite of those cute little flavoured mallows. This time, the treat is from the menu of our beloved Master Chef Google, who is planning to surprise us with the new version of Android named after our favourite mallows. It is called</span><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Android Marshmallow</span><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">, which is the 6th major addition to Google’s dessert menu.</span></span></em></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The new version of Android is planned to be unveiled on September 29, 2015, at Google’s press event in San Francisco, California.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The major changes included in the new Android version are improved fingerprint sensor support, better App Permissions Interface, improved sleep time by a new feature called Doze, and many others.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Master Chef Google is also preparing to launch an upgraded crockery set to taste the new Marshmallow dessert.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There is an upgraded 2015 version for Nexus 5, named Nexus 5X. It will be manufactured by LG and is rumoured to have a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 SoC, 2GB of RAM, 5.2” 1080p display, 12.3MP main camera, and a fingerprint sensor. An upgraded 2015 version of Nexus 6, named Nexus 6P is also in works. It will be manufactured by Huawei and is rumoured to have a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 chipset, 3GB of RAM, and 5.7” QHD display.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Along with this dessert delight, Chromecast will receive its 2.0 upgrade with improved features like multi-room support, faster Wi-Fi connectivity, enhanced audio feedback, etc. A new feature called “fast play”, will ease up the process of connecting devices to Chromecast 2.0.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Master Chef Google is well known for the amazing surprises given every year. Let us wait for what Google has in its goodie bag for 2015. The event will be hosted by Google’s new boss Sundar Pichai. It will be interesting to see what Google has to offer under his command.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Google has also arranged a live streaming of the event on Youtube. Follow the URL below on September 29th to experience our Chef’s delights:</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <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="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">https://www.youtube.com/google</span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Have something to add? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div> <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;"></em></span><br /> <div class="video-container" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 356.388885498047px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="405" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Pct9Hl7l4E4?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 356.388885498047px; left: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: justify; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.59375px;" width="720"></iframe></div> </div>

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Surprise! Google Isn’t Becoming a Car Maker, But It’s Up to Something Bigger

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="google-car" height="398" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/google-car.jpg" width="640" /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;">At Frankfurt’s IAA motor show, Google’s managing director for central and Eastern Europe said that Google has no interest in becoming a carmaker. Instead, the internet company is looking to collaborate with the other car makers.</span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;"><br /></span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">G</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">oogle has been </span><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;">spending millions on its adorable autonomous cars</span> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">and the recent developments indicate that Google could become a big force in the automobile industry. Every day countless number of articles are published speculating the prospects of Google’s self-driving car in the already crowded car market.</span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, at Frankfurt’s IAA motor show, Google’s managing director for central and Eastern Europe said that Google has no interest in becoming a carmaker.</span></div> <div class="code-block code-block-9" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 8px auto; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div 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;"> <br /></div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He said,”That is not something we could do alone. Google also does not intend to become a car manufacturer.” According to Philipp Justus, Google has no intentions in joining the other companies of the car industry to build its own lineup of cars.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Instead, the car company is looking to collaborate with the other car makers.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Earlier, Google car rumors got some concrete ground when the internet company hired John Krafcik as the first ever CEO for its autonomous car project. Google said that experience of John Krafcik in the auto industry will bring valuable inputs to the company.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“This technology can save thousands of lives, give millions of people greater mobility, and free us from a lot of the things we find frustrating about driving today. I can’t wait to get started,” said Krafcik.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So what does it mean?</em> <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why is Google testing its self-driving cars and spending million?</em></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From the past experience, we know that Google is amazing when it comes to inventing new software and new technologies, but making hardware hasn’t been its strong point. It seems that Google will follow the Android route where it’ll be <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">selling </em>its software to the car makers.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Instead of a competitor, it looks as if Google wants to become car manufacturers’ potential friend. Something bigger?</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Have something to add? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div> <div class="video-container" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 356.388885498047px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="405" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CqSDWoAhvLU?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 356.388885498047px; left: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: justify; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.59375px;" width="720"></iframe></div> </div>

Surprise! Google Isn’t Becoming a Car Maker, But It’s Up to Something Bigger

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Getting Started With Docker – Intro to Containers World (Part -1)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="docker" height="315" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/docker1.png" width="640" /><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Linux containers (LXC) are very popular these days among developers and companies (perhaps due to Docker, which leverages LXC on the back-end). LXC, as a lightweight, serves as an alternative to full machine virtualization such as those provided by “traditional” hypervisors like VirtualBox, VMWare, KVM, Xen, or ESXi.</em></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;"><br /></span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">T</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">oday, we are starting a complete </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">tutorial series</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;"> on Docker and this is the first post describing about the core concepts behind Docker. As you go along, you will learn more about Docker implementation and how to use it.</span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You might be knowing that existing virtualization technologies like <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">VirtualBox, VMWare, KVM, Xen, or ESXi etc., </em>use full machine virtualization that offers greater isolation at the cost of greater overhead, as each virtual machine runs its own full kernel and operating system instance.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Containers, on the other hand, generally offer less isolation but lower overhead through sharing certain portions of the host kernel and operating system instance.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><img alt="docker" class="lazy wp-image-20321 size-large" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Capture-1024x501.png" data-lazy-type="image" height="352" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Capture-1024x501.png" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" title="docker" width="720" /></span></div> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_20321" style="background: rgb(241, 241, 241); border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px auto 14px; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 0px 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 730px;"> <div class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">virtual machine vs container</span></div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Linux containers does not provide a virtual machine, but rather provides a virtual environment that has its own CPU, memory, block I/O, network, etc. space. This is provided by <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://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cgroups" 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" title="Cgroups">cgroups</a></span> features in Linux kernel on LXC host. It is similar to a <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://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Change_root" 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">chroot</a><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></span> but offers much more isolation.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><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://fossbytes.com/tag/docker/" 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">Docker</a></span>, on other hand, is a high level abstraction over containers which manages the life cycle of containers. Before 0.90 release, Docker was using LXC. But, with 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://blog.docker.io/2014/03/docker-0-9-introducing-execution-drivers-and-libcontainer/" 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">release of version 0.9</a></span>, Docker has dropped LXC as the default execution environment, replacing it with their own <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://github.com/opencontainers/runc/tree/master/libcontainer" 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">libcontainer</a>.</span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Libcontainer provides a native Go implementation for creating containers with namespaces, cgroups, capabilities, and filesystem access controls. It allows Docker to manage the lifecycle of the container performing additional operations after the container is created.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Docker allows you to package an application with all of its dependencies into a standardized unit for software development. And if that unit runs on your local, you can guarantee that it will run exactly the same way, anywhere from QA, to staging, to production environments. You will get to know more about how to create such standardized units and how to deliver it from local to production environment, later in this series.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I hope now you are familiar with core concepts of Containers and in the next article, we will be discussing more about Docker and its terminologies.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let’s make it an interactive series. Tell us your views, doubts or questions in the comments below.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Edits:</span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">cgroups</span> (aka control groups) is a Linux kernel feature to limit, police and account the resource usage of certain processes (actually process groups). There are multiple efforts to provide process aggregations in the Linux kernel, mainly for resource-tracking purposes. Such efforts include cpusets, CKRM/ResGroups, UserBeanCounters, and virtual server namespaces. These all require the basic notion of a grouping/partitioning of processes, with newly forked processes ending up in the same group (cgroup) as their parent process. More About cgroup – <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://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Resource_Management_Guide/ch01.html" 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">Introduction to Control Groups (Cgroups)</a></span>.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="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: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">namespace </span>– On a server, where you want to run multiple services, it is essential to security and stability that the services are as isolated from each other. Imagine a server running multiple services, one of which gets compromised by an intruder. In such a case, the intruder may be able to exploit that service and work his way to the other services, and may even be able compromise the entire server. Namespace isolation can provide a secure environment to eliminate this risk. More about namespace – <span style="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; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/531114/" 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">Namespaces Overview</a></span>.</span></div> </div>

Getting Started With Docker – Intro to Containers World (Part -1)

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“My First Line of Code”: Linux Creator Linus Torvalds

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="linus-torvalds" height="390" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/linus-torvalds.jpg" width="640" /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;">Linus Torvalds is the creator of Linux and he still decides what will happen in the world of Linux. Read more and watch an amazing video in which Linux talks to Bloomberg about his first line of code.</span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;"><br /></span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">L</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">inus Torvalds is the king of all geeks. You instantly know that he thinks in codes as he says, “</span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Talk is cheap. Show me the code.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">” Today, </span><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;">Linux is used everywhere</span> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">from your web search to NASA’s space missions. Linus didn’t invent the idea of FOSS, but Linux helped to unleash its full power.</span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Talking about his love for coding, Linus says that the thing he enjoys about programming, is the fact we can tell the computer exactly what to do- and nothing more. Based on the same ideology, he <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;">rejects the idea of robots taking over</span> the world.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The first computer Linus used was his grandfather’s Commodore VIC-<wbr></wbr>20, when he was 11-12 years old and this computer used BASIC.</span></div> <br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Linus says that according to his sister Sara, the first code he showed her was a two-line “GOTO” program in BASIC. He tried to show-off his new programming skills on the Commodore by making it repeat “Sara is the best.”</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Watch the video below.</span></div> <div class="video-container" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 356.388885498047px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="405" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S5S9LIT-hdc?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 356.388885498047px; left: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: justify; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.59375px;" width="720"></iframe></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What was your first line of code? What languages do you know? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Get <span style="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; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="ng-scope ng-binding" href="https://stacksocial.com/sales/learn-to-code-2015-course-bundle" 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;" target="_blank">The Complete 2015 Learn to Code Bundle</a><span style="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; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> here.</span></span></span></div> </div>

“My First Line of Code”: Linux Creator Linus Torvalds

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Student Breaks NASA’s Fuel Efficiency Record, Makes a “Special” Ion Space Drive

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="ion-space-drive" height="384" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ion-space-drive.jpg" width="640" /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Paddy Neumann, a PhD student at the University of Sydney, has broken NASA’s current record for fuel efficiency. He’ll be presenting the research at the 15th Australian Space Research Conference late this month.</span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">ASA’s High Power Electric Propulsion, or HiPEP system, holds the current record for fuel efficiency. It allows 9,600 (+/- 200) seconds of specific impulse. But, this record is reportedly broken by an Australian student who has made a new kind of ion space drive.</span></span></em></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ion space drives are the systems that throw particles backward, providing great forward thrust to a spacecraft. According to Australian newspaper <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://honisoit.com/2015/09/university-of-sydney-student-smashes-nasa-record-for-fuel-efficiency-mars-and-back-on-a-tank-of-fuel/" rel="nofollow" style="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">Honi Soit</a></span>, Paddy Neumann , a PhD student at the University of Sydney, has touched the mark of 14,690 (+/-2,000), breaking NASA’s record.</span></div> <div class="code-block code-block-9" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 8px auto; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Neumann has applied for a patent and his results will be presented on 30 September at the 15th Australian Space Research Conference. The claim made by him is pretty amazing, but we’ll have to wait for his research paper that will provide support to his claims.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This new kind of ion space drive uses a new type of fuel. NASA’s HiPEP system uses Xenon gas, whose ions were emitted at high speed and it pushed the aircraft forward. The thrust received was directly proportional to the amount of propellant the aircraft carries.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On the other hand, Neumann’s ion space drive uses a variety of metals. These metals produce ions when they are struck by an electric arc. According to the reports, he has achieved his record-breaking result with Magnesium.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“As it runs on metals commonly found in space junk, it could potentially be fuelled by recycling exhausted satellites, repurposing them into fresh fuel,” the newspaper writes.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Neumann has developed this ion drive with Professors David McKenzie and Marcela Bilek. This team is will present the research at the 15th Australian Space Research Conference late this month.</span></div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></em></span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Did this news about the new fuel efficiency record of new Ion Space Drive excite you? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div> </div>

Student Breaks NASA’s Fuel Efficiency Record, Makes a “Special” Ion Space Drive

Paddy Neumann, a PhD student at the University of Sydney, has broken NASA’s current record for fuel efficiency. He’ll be presenting th...

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