Successful People Have Better Brains, Shows Study

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <i style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="brain map" height="282" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/pulse-sequences-fig3.jpg" width="640" />Scientists have figured out that there is a relation between brain’s neural connections and our behavior traits. It means that we can assume that more successful people have better brains.</span></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Next time, you don’t need to feel like a criminal when your parents compare your results with Sharmaji’s son in the neighborhood. In fact, you can confidently say that he has a different brain. All credit goes to a study done by some scientific minds at the Oxford University.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Scientists have figured out that brains of those people who live positive lifestyle are better connected than those who live a negative lifestyle and with negative behavior traits. They did some brain scans and realized that positive traits like better education, high salary, strong memory, mental peace led to the fact that their brains were more connected than those people who negative traits like drinking, smoking, anger, sleep disorders.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The study was conducted by Center for Functional MRi of the Brain, Oxford University, under the guidance of Professor Stephen Smith. While talking to Steve Conner from The Independent, Smith explained the very basic methodology they implemented in their study:</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>“We’ve tried to see how we can relate what we see in the brain to the behavior skills we can measure in different people. In doing this, we hope to able to understand what goes on ‘under the bonnet’ of the brain.”</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The research team used the data from the Human Connectome Project, here on HCP, which is a collection of brain imaging data of around 1200 people published in 2010. The goal of HCP is to find out how closely the different regions of the brain connected when it is on stand-by mode.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The data for 461 of those 1200 people, aged between 22 to 35, has been released by HCP. Smith’s team analyzed their brain connections and compared the results with 280 behavioral and demographic measures like age, social status, financial status, drug addiction, etc.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>At a press release, Smith said:</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>“The quality of the imaging data is really unprecedented. Not only is the number of subjects we get to study large, but the spatial and temporal resolution of the fMRI data is way ahead of previous large datasets.”</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Smith and his team elaborated how they were able to map the brain of individual subjects and come up with personalized ‘Connectomes’. These Connectomes depict the neural connections between 200 different areas of the brain. These Connectomes are used to measure how closely these regions are connected and how efficient is the communication between them, keeping in mind, the amount nerve signalling going on in those regions.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>“You can think of it as a population-average map of 200 regions across the brain that are functionally distinct from each other. Then, we looked at how much all of those regions communicated with each other, in every participant.”</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>-Stephen Smith</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>Proceeding further, </b>Smith’s team did some serious maths calculations, way more than geeks can imagine, on the individual data of 280 behavioral and demographic traits. It is basically a Canonical Correlation Analysis(Google it), which involves identifying relationships between two large sets of complex variables.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>They concluded, the people who were more positively oriented in their lives, had almost same characteristics and their different brain regions has a more close relationship than the ones who were negatively oriented in their lives.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>“It may be that with hundreds of different brain circuits, the tests that are used to measure cognitive ability actually make use of different sets of overlapping circuits. We hope that by looking at brain imaging data we’ll be able to relate connections in the brain to the specific measures, and work out what these kinds of test actually require the brain to do.”</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>-Stephen Smith</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>In a general opinion,</b> it isn’t wise to comment on the correlation between the brain’s neural network and human physical & behaviour traits at this point of time, as considerable research is yet to be done in this field. However, such studies will benefit and support the outcomes of any future studies involving human brain. But till then, at least we can give some sympathy to our lazy lives.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Watch</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> this video and improve your understanding about Human Connectomes:</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="video-container" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 356.391px; position: relative; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="405" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TxlV50P6NEI?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 356.391px; left: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: center; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.594px;" width="720"></iframe></div> </div> </div>

Successful People Have Better Brains, Shows Study

Shivam Patsariya 0 12:00 PM

Scientists have figured out that there is a relation between brain’s neural connections and our behavior traits. It means that we can assume that more successful people have better brains. Next time, you don’t need to feel like a criminal when your … Read more »

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What Is the Difference: Viruses, Worms, Ransomware, Trojans, Bots, Malware, Spyware etc?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"> <img alt="antivirus-protection (FILEminimizer)" height="368" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/antivirus-protection-FILEminimizer.jpg" style="text-align: left;" width="640" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>If you are among the ones who consider malware, worms, viruses to be the same thing then you’re on the wrong track. Read further, and improve your knowledge about these terms.</i></span></div> <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>If you’re a regular or even an occasional computer user, then you might’ve heard the terms like Viruses, Worms, Trojans, Bots, Malware, Spyware, etc. But honestly speaking, we consider all these to be a Virus, no matter, whatever be their type. But have you ever tried to acknowledge, what is the difference between these terms, although they are meant to harm your device, steal your data or spy on you, have you ever thought why they are named so differently. Basically, terms like Viruses, Trojans are all types of malicious software or simply ‘Malware’.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Now, the first and foremost question arises, where did these terms came from?</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Clearly, they are not some out of the world aliens, in fact the real truth is that they were not even created with an intention to harm someone.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The history of malware attacks goes back to 1949, when John von Neumann, first developed the theoretical base for self-duplicating automation programs, but the technical implementation was not feasible at that time. The term ‘Computer Virus’ was first used by Professor Leonard M. Adleman in 1981, while in conversation with Fred Cohen.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The first computer virus named ‘Brain’ was coded by two brothers Basit Farooq Alvi and Amjad Farooq Alvi, who were from Lahore, Pakistan. Brain was meant to infect storage media based on MS-DOS FAT file systems. It was originally designed to infect the IBM PC, it replaced the boot sector of its floppy disk with the virus. The virus program changed the disk label to ©Brain and the defected boot sectors displayed this message:</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Welcome to the Dungeon (c) 1986 Basit & Amjads (pvt) Ltd VIRUS_SHOE RECORD V9.0 Dedicated to the dynamic memories of millions of viruses who are no longer with us today – Thanks GOODNESS!! BEWARE OF THE er..VIRUS : this program is catching program follows after these messages….$#@%$@!!</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>However, as you may presume, there was no evil intention behind this. Alvi brothers said in their interview with TIME magazine, they created the virus only to protect their medical software from piracy, aimed at copyright infringement acts.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Coming back to Malware, these are malicious software designed to harm a computer which may or may not be connected to a network. Malware only get in to action when there is a computer involved in the game otherwise the term Malware is of no use.</i></span></div> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>Malware are of the following types:</b></i></span></h3> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Worms: These programs have the ability to replicate themselves. Their sole objective is to increase their population and transfer themselves to another computers via the internet or through storage media, all the work is done like a top secret mission hiding their movement from the user. They don’t cause any harm to the computer, their replicating nature consumes hard drive space, thus slow down the machine. Some of the notable worms are, SQL Blaster which slowed the internet for a small period of time, Code Red took down almost 359,000 websites.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Viruses: They also have the ability to replicate themselves, but they do damage files on the computer they attack. Their main weakness lies in the fact, they can get into action only if they have the support of a host program, otherwise they’re just like a defeated warrior. They stick themselves to songs, videos, and executable files and travel all over the internet. W32.Sfc!mod, ABAP.Rivpas.A, Accept.3773 are some of the examples of Virus programs.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>The Virus Gang:</b></i></span></h3> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>File Viruses</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Macro Viruses</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Master Boot Record Viruses</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Boot sector Viruses</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Multi-Partite Viruses</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Polymorphic Viruses</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Stealth Viruses</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>Feel free to Google anyone of them if you like.</b></i></span></h3> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Trojans: Basically, Trojans are no Viruses, and are not meant to damage or delete files on your system. Their sole task is to provide to a backdoor gateway for malicious programs or malevolent users to enter your system and steal your valuable data without your knowledge and permission. JS.Debeski.Trojan is an example of Trojan.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>They are named after the ‘Trojan Horse’ tale, in which Greeks entered the city of Troy with the help of a wooden horse which was meant to be a gift, but turned out to be a sweet poison, as depicted in the movie Troy.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>The Trojan Gang:</b></i></span></h3> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Remote Access Trojans</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Data Sending Trojans</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Destructive Trojans</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Proxy Trojans</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>FTP Trojans</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Security Software Disabler Trojans</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Denial-Of-Service Attack Trojans</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>Feel free to Google anyone of them if you like.</b></i></span></h3> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Adware: Adware are used to display advertisements in the programs. They generally come attached with software programs that are free to use as they are the only source of revenue for the developers of those software programs. Adware can’t be completely called as Malware as they have no intention to harm your machine, they only track what advertisements you’re more interested in, so as to display the relevant advertisements on your screens.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>Spyware: </b>These programs also come attached with other freeware software, track your browsing and other personal details and send it to a remote user. They can also facilitate installation of unwanted software from the internet. Unlike Adware, they work as a standalone program and do their operations silently.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>Spam: </b>You get very irritated when you receive unwanted emails from unknown senders, these are called Spams or junk mails. And the process of flooding the internet with the same message is called Spamming, is done for the purpose of commercial advertising. These junk mails may sometimes contain Viruses or Trojans that enter your system as soon as you open the mail.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>Bots:</b> Bots or Robots are automated processes that are designed to interact over the internet without the need of human interaction. They can be used for good and bad intentions. An evil minded person can create a malicious Bot that is capable of infecting the host on its own. After transmitting itself to the host device, a Bot creates a connection with central servers which act as the command centers for the infected hosts attached to that network, called Botnet.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Their skills include stealing passwords, logging keystrokes, analyzing network traffic, relay spam, launch DoS (Denial of Service) attacks and open back doors on infected hosts. These Bots can be seen as the advanced form of Worms, their infection rate and tactic is more effective than those of Worms. These malicious Bots are created after a lot of hard work done by their malignant creators.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>Ransomware: </b>These type of malware alter the normal operation of your machine, thus barring you to use it properly. Thereafter, these programs display warning messages asking for money to get your device back to normal working condition.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After reading all this, you might be thinking why people create Malware. Here are some reasons which may compel a coder to write malware codes:</i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Take control of a person’s computer for personal or professional reasons.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>To get financial benefits.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>To steel confidential data.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>To prove their point regarding a security breach can be done on a system.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>To take down an individual computer or a complete network.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>and many more….</i></span></div> <h4 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">How can you protect your Computer :</i></h4> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Keep your system up to date.</i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Use genuine software.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Install an antivirus software and update it regularly.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Set-up a firewall, may it be custom as provided by antivirus software. Windows has an in-built firewall option in case you don’t want to use a custom firewall.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Never open unknown emails that generally reside in your Spam folder.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Never open unknown links, use online website safety checker tools if you’re not sure to open a website. :) </i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>By taking these simple measures, you can effectively keep your machine free from Malware and other potential threats.</i></span></div> </div>

What Is the Difference: Viruses, Worms, Ransomware, Trojans, Bots, Malware, Spyware etc?

Shivam Patsariya 0 11:53 AM

If you are among the ones who consider malware, worms, viruses to be the same thing then you’re on the wrong track. Read further, and improve your knowledge about these terms. If you’re a regular or even an occasional computer user, then you might’v… Read more »

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Steve Jobs Advised Zuckerberg To Visit Indian Temple

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"> <img alt="s_jobs_m_zuckerberg_a_l" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/s_jobs_m_zuckerberg_a_l.jpg" />Mark Zuckerberg revealed that he went to visit India when he got lost on the road to his Facebook mission on the advice of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.</div> <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In a highly anticipated townhall session last weekend that included the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that he took a trip to India when he was in his lowest morale.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Among the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Mark-Zuckerberg-says-that-visiting-an-Indian-temple-at-the-urging-of-Steve-Jobs-helped-him-stick-to-Facebooks-mission/articleshow/49130605.cms">highlights of over 50 minute Q&A session</a> at the Facebook headquarters at the Menlo Park, California, Zuckerberg confessed that he visited a temple in India following the advice of Steve Jobs. Zuckerberg said,</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Early on in our history when things weren’t really going well – we had hit a tough patch and a lot of people wanted to buy Facebook – I went and I met with Steve Jobs and he said that to reconnect with what I believed was the mission of the company, I should go visit this temple in India that he had gone to early in the evolution of Apple, when he was thinking about what he wanted his vision of the future to be."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> And the result, Facebook is one of the biggest brands today and has declined billion-dollar offers to reach the top.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> India being one of the favorite places for the spiritual wanderers, Mark was urged by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to visit Kainchi Dham Ashram in Nainital, in the Indian state of Uttrakhand. The temple is an ashram of Baba Neem Karoli who was looked upon as an incarnation of Lord Hanuman.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Zuckerberg reminisces that it was in India he saw people being connected to each other and learned the importance of what he was doing at the moment- developing Facebook to connect the world.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> As it is well known that the current target of Facebook is to connect everyone and its ambitious but highly criticized Internet.org (some say it intends to monopolize the Internet) is a step towards achieving that goal.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Now, it seems a bit skeptical that Zuckerberg chose to tell this particular story while he was with the Indian PM as the incident meant so much to him. So either Facebook’s Internet.org will really do people some good, or this could this be another shrewd strategy from America’s one of the richest men.</div> </div>

Steve Jobs Advised Zuckerberg To Visit Indian Temple

Shivam Patsariya 0 11:46 AM

Mark Zuckerberg revealed that he went to visit India when he got lost on the road to his Facebook mission on the advice of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In a highly anticipated townhall session last weekend that included the Indian Prime Minister Nar… Read more »

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First Step to Effective Security – How to Know if You’ve Been Hacked

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"> <img alt="encrypt1-safe-security" height="385" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/encrypt1-safe-security.jpg" width="640" />Was your data compromised in the latest data breaches? How to know if you’ve been hacked? Here are the answers.</div> <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The online world is becoming scarier each day and the possibility of getting hacked gets increased each time you sign into your online accounts. It’s possible that you haven’t been hacked yet, but you must ensure to follow secure practices to remain safe in the future.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> News of new data breaches and password thefts are as common as any other development around you. These attacks occur via various means- either through a malicious email, or a flaw in your computer’s operating system. Even the White House and Pentagon aren’t immune to hackers.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> There have been about 5,593 data breaches since the year 2005 and this number is rising exponentially. These breaches have exposed about 800.3 million individual records alone in the United States.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Also read: 888 Data Breaches So Far In 2015 and 246 Million Records Lost</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> These data breaches are a big risk that ask you to be prepared and follow secure practices.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Identity Theft Resource Center defines data breach as an “incident in which an individual name plus a Social Security number, driver’s license number, medical record or financial record (credit/debit cards included) is potentially put at risk because of exposure.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> So, what do I lose in a data breach?</h3> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Usually, it’s just your basic information like name and email addresses. By collecting this basic information and connecting the dots, an expert hacker can gain tons of other sensitive information to hurt you in various ways.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> As written in the Forrester report, Planning for Failure, “even enterprises with the most mature security organizations and advanced security controls can’t prevent every single breach — especially if your opponent has the time and financial backing to target you.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The situation is getting worse with time and keeping your data safe from the reach of the prying eyes must be your top priority.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> But, how to know if you’ve been hacked?</h3> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> With the increase in hacking attacks, a number of sites have opened up that give you alerts when data breaches take place. One of the best places to get these announcements is the mailing hosted at the <a href="http://www.idtheftcenter.org/id-theft/data-breaches.html">Identity Theft Resource Center</a>. It sends regular emails with the weekly data breach information in your inbox.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Haveibeenpwned.com is another website that allows you to check if hackers have compromised your personal information. The website also tells you the reason and incident when your email address was breached.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="how-to-tell-hacked" height="172" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/how-to-tell-hacked.jpg" width="640" /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Another website called Was Company Hacked? performs a Twitter-based search to tell you if there’s any activity on Twitterverse about attacks on the company.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> PwnedList and Shouldichangemypassword.com offer a similar service that notify users with email if an email address in compromised.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> You are also advised to keep your antivirus updated and scan your system using a good antimalware scan. Your irregular financial statement could be another hint that your data is compromised.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Stay informed, stay safe.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In the follow-up article, I’ll be describing what should be done if your data is hacked. Stay tuned.</div> </div>

First Step to Effective Security – How to Know if You’ve Been Hacked

Shivam Patsariya 0 11:42 AM

Was your data compromised in the latest data breaches? How to know if you’ve been hacked? Here are the answers. The online world is becoming scarier each day and the possibility of getting hacked gets increased each time you sign into your online ac… Read more »

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Steve Wozniak: “Steve Jobs and I Were Robbed at Gunpoint Outside a Pizza Place”

<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="Steve-Jobs-and-Apple-co-founder-Steve-Wozniak-pizza" height="366" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Steve-Jobs-and-Apple-co-founder-Steve-Wozniak-pizza.jpg" width="640" /><i>Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was joined by Jimmy Fallon and Seth Rogen for a game of “True Confessions.” There, Wozniak claimed, “Steve Jobs and I were once robbed at gun point outside a pizza parlor.”</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Joining the comedians Jimmy Fallon and Seth Rogen, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak played a fun game of True Confessions where each of them had to read some statement. Then, the contestant was interrogated by the other to determine if it’s real.</span></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, were Apple’s co-founders robbed at gunpoint outside a pizza parlor? Steve Wozniak told the whole story to Seth Rogen and Jimmy Fallon at Friday’s episode of The Tonight Show.</span></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It should be noted that Seth Rogen is playing the character of Steve Wozniak in the upcoming movie Steve Jobs.</span></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fallon and Rogen found it hard to believe that Steve Jobs ordered pepperoni. “Steve ate pepperoni?” Jimmy Fallon asked, considering the fact that the Apple CEO’s followed a strict vegan eating habits.</span></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wozniak chuckled by saying, “In those days, this is Steve Zero. Before Apple.”</span></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Earlier in an interview with Dan Lyons in 2011, Wozniak told a longer version of this gun robbery. Read it below:</span></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“This was in a pizza parlor in Sunnyvale. Two guys looked like they might be interested [in buying a blue box]. We took them back to a pay phone and made a call to Chicago for them. They were enamoured and wanted the blue box, but they had no money. We got out to the car and they show up with a gun and stick it in Steve’s face. We gave them the blue box. But they didn’t know how to use it. They gave us a phone number to call so we could tell them how to use it. I came up with this idea of telling them a method that would get them caught by the police, or one that would get them billed. We didn’t do it. But, boy, it would have been funny.”</span></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Watch the complete video below:</span></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="video-container" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 356.391px; position: relative; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="405" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mG2627ZyLlQ?start=382&feature=oembed&wmode=opaque" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 356.391px; left: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.594px;" width="720"></iframe></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Did you like this story? Tell us in the comments below.</span></i></div> </div>

Steve Wozniak: “Steve Jobs and I Were Robbed at Gunpoint Outside a Pizza Place”

Shivam Patsariya 0 11:39 AM

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was joined by Jimmy Fallon and Seth Rogen for a game of “True Confessions.” There, Wozniak claimed, “Steve Jobs and I were once robbed at gun point outside a pizza parlor.” Joining the comedians Jimmy Fallon and Seth R… Read more »

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Apple Makes Fun of Microsoft’s Windows Logo, Designs A New One

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"> <img alt="microsoft-logo-apple-1" height="421" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/microsoft-logo-apple-1.jpg" style="text-align: left;" width="640" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Apple has taken the liberty to make its own version of Windows logo and replaced the official Microsoft Windows logo with its own rendition on its website.</span></div> <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Apparently, Apple isn’t fond of the work of Windows designer team and it has decided to create its own version of Microsoft’s Windows logo.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you visit the <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203521">Apple’s support pages</a>, you might notice something weird about the Windows OS logo. Apple’s rendition of Windows logo looks like a window- literally.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The logo is placed alongside the official logos of iOS 8, iCloud, and OS X Yosemite.</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="microsoft-logo-apple-" height="381" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/microsoft-logo-apple-.jpg" style="text-align: left;" width="640" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the past, both companies have been making fun of each other via their product commercials. However, this feels odd as other recent developments indicated that things are getting better between these rivals.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last year Redmond released the Office apps to iPads and a couple of weeks ago Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella used an iPhone onstage to demonstrate Microsoft apps.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Earlier, Apple invited a Microsoft executive onstage to show off Office apps on the new iPad Pro.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, this strange Windows logo could be still found on <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203521">Apple’s website</a>. Do take a look.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What do you think about Apple using a window instead of the Windows logo? Do tell us in the comments below.</span></div> </div>

Apple Makes Fun of Microsoft’s Windows Logo, Designs A New One

Shivam Patsariya 0 11:34 AM

Apple has taken the liberty to make its own version of Windows logo and replaced the official Microsoft Windows logo with its own rendition on its website. Apparently, Apple isn’t fond of the work of Windows designer team and it has decided to creat… Read more »

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Wood Kubb Is A Computer Made of Wood That Runs On Linux And Windows

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="wood-kubb-" height="395" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Wood-Kubb-pc.jpg" width="640" /></span></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="wood-kubb-" height="426" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/wood-kubb-.jpg" width="640" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.8px;"><i>Wood Kubb is a computer made of wood and it fits perfectly in your newly designed dream home. It just fits in your home and powers your work and entertainment. Read more to know everything.</i></span></span></div> <br /> <br /> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you are bored by the designs of present day PCs, I won’t be surprised. To turn the things around, Wood Kubb is here to give your eyes a visual treat.</span></i></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, I’m talking about a computer made of wood and it fits perfectly in your newly designed dream home. It just looks like a furniture item, sitting on your table and powering your work and entertainment.</span></i></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wood Kubbs websites says,” The computer is an everyday object and we are used to see a huge annoying PC tower under the desk. It is often ugly, noisy, unaesthetic and means a loss of space.”</span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="wood-kubb-" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/wood-kubb.jpg" /></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The maker of Wood Kubb created this piece of beauty by embedding an Intel Core i3/i5 processor, coupled with RAM of 8 to 16GB (Kingston DDR3 at 1600 MHz). It covers a very small area as it just measures 4.7-inches all around.</span></i></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Due to the size and cooling constraints, you won’t be getting a dedicated graphics memory and you’ll have to settle with Intel HD 4400/Intel 5000 graphics.</span></i></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Users are given a 128 GB of SSD storage (1TB SSHD option), and a choice between Windows 10 and Linux Mint. The Windows 10 version costs more, of course.</span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="wood-kubb-" height="395" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Wood-Kubb-pc.jpg" width="640" /></span></div> <div> <i style="line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Kickstarter page of Wood Kubb reads, “We want to change your daily life and boost your mood. The goal was to find a solution for each of these issues. From design to creation, everything is made in France. The quality is our priority and we warranty your Wood Kubb for 3 years.”</span></i></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Currently, Wood Kubb is offering a 3-year backer program and your computer will be fixed or replaced in the next 3 years, no matter where you are.</span></i></span></div> </div>

Wood Kubb Is A Computer Made of Wood That Runs On Linux And Windows

Shivam Patsariya 0 11:20 AM

Wood Kubb is a computer made of wood and it fits perfectly in your newly designed dream home. It just fits in your home and powers your work and entertainment. Read more to know everything. If you are bored by the designs of present day PCs, I won’t… Read more »

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What is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and Why You Should Use it?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="325" loading="lazy" src="http://itak.iaitam.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/open-source-software-1.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;" width="640" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">FOSS (Free And Open Software) is the modern day result of the free software movement that draws its philosophies from the 1970's hacker culture of the love of programming and excellence. It hasn’t changed much since then. Read the article to know more about FOSS.</span></em></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;"><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-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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;">A </em><span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i>part from being an important part of the SPRTech, FOSS is globally understood as a computer software that is both free as well as open source. We started SPRTech with an aim to promote the use of open source technologies and open source software, but seeing the lack of interest in common people, we decided to cover other topics too. However, FOSS remains the driving wheel of SPRTech.</i></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you are new to this term then this will give you a better understanding. Consider a software that you built, and out of generosity maybe, you made it available for everyone to use it for free. Also, people now could modify what you have originally created to suit their own needs. So now, it is both free and open software, in short FOSS.</span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The concept seems amazing, right? You build something, I create something and then let us share with the world, maybe someone will give it back to us with an improvised version. But that doesn’t happen. What do you think made Bill Gates so rich?</span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As the computers were beginning to mark their presence in the world, so did the demand for better software. Earlier, the hardware provider would be in charge of the software products, but later the business around software industry developed and brought in the new players. And with the competitive business around, came the proprietary or closed software.</span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Open Source vs Proprietary </span></i></span><span style="line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Software's</i></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There are two types of software used today. One that we are discussing about, the Open source software and the other is Proprietary software. Simply stated, the software that you can’t tweak and whose source code cannot be modified by anyone but the creator and his team is known as Proprietary software or closed software.</span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Linux and FreeCAD are some of the open source software whereas the popular OS like Windows and MathWorks MATLAB are proprietary software.</span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Also read: The History of Linux: How Linux Became Everyone’s Favorite</span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Are Open Source Software Free as well?</span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No. Open source is what we just told you it is, and it is not necessary that an open source software be free. You could sell your software, but since you have to release the source code as well, so most of the times developers charge money from the users for the software services and support rather than the software, which seems a better way.</span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The good thing about FOSS or general open source software is that some of the open source licenses make sure that whenever anyone makes modifications in the source code, then he must not charge any fee for sharing it again with others. And the cycle thus continues.</span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Why Open Source?</span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">First, knowing the software on what you are working boosts your confidence as it gives you the control over the system. If something goes wrong or you want any specific feature to be added, you can easily customize the open source software.</span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Second, you can learn by watching the source code of the software and in future create an even better one.</span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Third, with so many brains working on a software, the bugs are fixed quicker and faster come the upgrades.</span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There is one slight problem that open source software users might encounter is that when someone modifies the software and you upgrade it, the new source code can clash with your tweaks.</span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Who Benefits from the Open Source Software?</span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now a software that is open source might not seem to be of much importance to most of the people, but the fact is that FOSS benefits both programmers and regular users alike. No doubt that for the developers it is a play area where they can change the original source code of the software to create something better, the non-programmers should thank the open source system as it is the basis of much of the Internet.</span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Open Source, in general, was an idea started by the free software movement with the goals of giving the user freedom to run, study, change and distribute the software without any hassles. The GNU Project by Richard Stallman in 1985 was regarded as a high moment for the free software movement as a fundamental philosophical source.</span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Did you find this article helpful? Tell us in the comments below.</span></i></span></div> </div>

What is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and Why You Should Use it?

Shivam Patsariya 0 11:18 AM

FOSS (Free And Open Software) is the modern day result of the free software movement that draws its philosophies from the 1970's hacker culture of the love of programming and excellence. It hasn’t changed much since then. Read the article to know mo… Read more »

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Brain Hack: How Scientists Connected One Brain To The Other Over Internet

<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="brain-hack-connect-two" height="366" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/brain-hack-connect-two.jpg" width="640" /><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Research on a direct brain-to-brain connection was conducted by the University Of Washington. This was done to enable pairs of participants play a question-and-answer game by transmitting signals from one brain to the other over the Internet</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: 28.8px; 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-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: 28.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">H</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.8px;">aven’t all of us been fascinated by the idea of mind reading? Isn’t it just wonderful when you don’t utter a word and yet can communicate perfectly? And when the Internet serves as the connector, things get all the more fascinating.</span></span></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;">Yes, we are talking about the recent research conducted by the University Of Washington where a direct brain-to-brain connection was used. This was done to enable pairs of participants play a question-and-answer game by transmitting signals from one human brain to the other over the Internet.</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; vertical-align: baseline;"> </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;">Here, take a look at the diagram:</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><img alt="brain to brain interface" class="lazy aligncenter wp-image-21525" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/brain-to-brain-interface.png" data-lazy-type="image" height="493" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/brain-to-brain-interface.png" style="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="775" /></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;">Here’s how they made it big:</span></div> <ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A cap laced with electrodes is placed on the head of Player 1.</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The signals are read by an EEG (electroencephalogram) system.</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This player faces a screen with a “yes” and a “no” side flashing light(with different rates of pulses)</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Miles away, Player 2 is aided with a special magnet at the back of his head, connected to the EEG system over the Internet.</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Player 2 then selects a question from a computer screen. The question is sent to Player 1’s screen. Player 1 looks intently at either the “yes” flashing light or “no.”</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This EEG sends a signal to the magnet. If the answer looked at by Player 1 was “yes,” the magnet then fires a pulse into the head of Player 2 that causes a “phosphene” or a flash of light in the brain.</span></li> </ul> <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;">Wonderful, isn’t it?</span></div> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_21526" style="background: rgb(241, 241, 241); border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 0px auto 14px; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 0px 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 861px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><img alt="brain to brain interface" class="lazy wp-image-21526" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/brain-to-brain-interface1.png" data-lazy-type="image" height="482" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/brain-to-brain-interface1.png" style="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;" width="851" /></span></div> <div class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; 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;"> <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;">Caitlin Hudac, who is a post-doctoral student at the University Of Washington, wears a cap that uses transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMG) to deliver brain signals from the other participant.</span></em></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;">Participants were able to guess the correct object in 72 percent of the real games. Incorrect guesses could be influenced by several factors. For instance, being uncertainty about whether a phosphene had appeared.</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;">Andrea Stocco, an assistant professor of psychology and a researcher at UW’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences says:</span></div> <blockquote style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #777777; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 50px; position: relative; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75em; 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;">This is the most complex brain-to-brain experiment, I think, that’s been done to date in humans</em>“</span></div> </blockquote> <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;">The team is also working on transmitting brain states — for example, sending signals from an alert person to a sleepy one, or from a focused student to one who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD.</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;">Sources: <span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #3366ff; 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.seattlepi.com/local/article/University-s-brain-to-brain-or-mind-reading-6537900.php#photo-8712499" rel="nofollow" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #3366ff; 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">SeattlePi</a></span></span></div> </div>

Brain Hack: How Scientists Connected One Brain To The Other Over Internet

Shivam Patsariya 0 11:10 AM

Research on a direct brain-to-brain connection was conducted by the University Of Washington. This was done to enable pairs of participants play a question-and-answer game by transmitting signals from one brain to the other over the Internet Haven’t… Read more »

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