Finally, Twitter Names Co-founder Jack Dorsey as a Permanent CEO

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5r_HM3Jxvm3v6KUJP09SLcJ0Vc3sDSzvu52ZsVncGuydl1tWQivKq5AJXosFpoy81EjGkozfGPKlgNIWTJy5OWBg-dTulpNIX8ujkNyWHZmwbwBJ_XJ0xmN2Yq25dHjXSw3hbl6zvhwA/s1600/Jack-Dorsey-Twitter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" loading="lazy" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5r_HM3Jxvm3v6KUJP09SLcJ0Vc3sDSzvu52ZsVncGuydl1tWQivKq5AJXosFpoy81EjGkozfGPKlgNIWTJy5OWBg-dTulpNIX8ujkNyWHZmwbwBJ_XJ0xmN2Yq25dHjXSw3hbl6zvhwA/s640-rw/Jack-Dorsey-Twitter.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's:</b> Finally, Twitter has named Jack Dorsey as its new permanent CEO. Read what he has to say about his new job.</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;">Twitter has finally announced that Jack Dorsey will be company’s full-time <b>CEO</b>. One of Twitter co-founders, Jack, will be now dropping the interim <b>CEO</b> title and will also remain the CEO of Square.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jack Dorsey returned to the company as an interim head after Dick Costolo left the office.</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;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To announce the news, Jack tweeted a number of updates. Take a look:</span></div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"> <div dir="ltr" lang="en"> 🐥⚡️ Hello! We have some news to share!</div> — Jack (@jack) <a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/651003190628872192">October 5, 2015</a></blockquote> <br /> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"> <div dir="ltr" lang="en"> We are naming <a href="https://twitter.com/adambain">@adambain</a> COO of Twitter, we're working to change the composition of our Board, and I will serve as CEO of Twitter and Square!</div> — Jack (@jack) <a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/651003315212300289">October 5, 2015</a></blockquote> <br /> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <br /> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"> <div dir="ltr" lang="en"> My focus is to build teams that move fast, and learn faster. In the past 3 months we have increased our speed and urgency at both companies.</div> — Jack (@jack) <a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/651003529444765696">October 5, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Have something to add? Tell us in the comments below. </span></div> </div>

Finally, Twitter Names Co-founder Jack Dorsey as a Permanent CEO

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New Intel Skylake CPUs Now Making Your PCs More Secure Than Ever

<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;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia8zYsrgtfIUCl_4IPdPnEiBtvI7re8-6ZGfEearZAtMNDqFYksprJXcO4UO3_vQRk1E6f6yllWcZ0fGyjCiuBPpyAll0SbJoeYY88eG2PDaMwhMZ6UMeQLVDuIYB3QpYINIr8bCwGhB4/s1600/intel-skylake-most-secure-pc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="344" loading="lazy" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia8zYsrgtfIUCl_4IPdPnEiBtvI7re8-6ZGfEearZAtMNDqFYksprJXcO4UO3_vQRk1E6f6yllWcZ0fGyjCiuBPpyAll0SbJoeYY88eG2PDaMwhMZ6UMeQLVDuIYB3QpYINIr8bCwGhB4/s640-rw/intel-skylake-most-secure-pc.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>SP's:</b> Intel has incorporated the new <b>SGX</b> security technology in its <b>Skylake CPUs</b>, further strengthening the platform.</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>          Intel’s Sixth generation super performers <b>Skylake CPUs </b>have already been declared as the best processors in business – thanks to its blistering clock speed, better security and providing prolonged battery life.</i></span><br /> <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, Intel has revealed its plans to further improvise upon its next batch of <b>Skylake CPUs</b> with enhanced Intel Software Guard Extensions technology. The new <b>SGX</b> technology is a new instruction of <b>x86 </b>extensions set that allow developers to protect the data from unauthorized access using “inverse sandbox” mechanism. The <b>SGX</b> tech will also help in maintaining control of the platform and ousting the malicious codes.</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><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>          The new <b>Skylake CPUs </b>will be enabled by <b>SGX </b>and for the previous batch of <b>Core i7, Core i5 and Xeon</b>, Intel has given them new MM numbers having minor manufacturing configuration change in order to allow customers enable the new <b>SGX</b> in these chips.</i></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"> <img alt="Intel_Skylake_CPU_HEADER" height="359" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/02224318/1-New-Designs_intel-skylake-FILEminimizer.jpg" width="640" /></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">        The enhanced CPUs will have the ability to enable the applications to define secure data locations that don’t break down even when the attacker has physical access to the platform and has the potential to conduct direct attacks on memory.</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>          Intel’s new chips have undergone rigorous tests to get <b>SGX-ready</b>. For the previous batch chips, minimal modifications have been done as it seems they won’t need an updated BIOS to get SGX enabled.</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, the question that everyone’s been asking is why Intel is implementing the <b>SGX</b> technology so late!! Intel will release its- even better <b>SGX</b> enabled <b>Skylake processors</b> on 26 October.</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>Willing to add something? Tell us in the comments below.</i></span></div> </div>

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Facebook Will Provide Free Internet From Space, Starting from Africa in 2016

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8gltzHFLX7BFj6mXSN_9jBUjPg7da9zOcANtGRiXJyLv93MV6ApeE7dcCvQdPVuqXDDLtZrskM0HiWwHn-zPEm56Rey5UMlwdMIoV6Dek0FGlVAjvEyrtf3rHWNx_YdOLIy_4JdzvYs4/s1600/internet-from-space-facebook-11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="368" loading="lazy" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8gltzHFLX7BFj6mXSN_9jBUjPg7da9zOcANtGRiXJyLv93MV6ApeE7dcCvQdPVuqXDDLtZrskM0HiWwHn-zPEm56Rey5UMlwdMIoV6Dek0FGlVAjvEyrtf3rHWNx_YdOLIy_4JdzvYs4/s640-rw/internet-from-space-facebook-11.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's: </b>In another step to boost its Internet.org initiative, Facebook has joined hands with Eutelsat to deliver the free internet from space using satellites. This free satellite internet service will be rolling out from late 2016 in Africa.</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;">         Facebook has been trying hard to provide free and “controversial” internet to the people using its Internet.org initiative. In the past, the company has explored the option to beam free internet from space with the help of its giant drones.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The company even plans to provide the internet using its own satellites in the future, but Mark Zuckerberg is ready to team up with others to fasten this process. According to a new agreement, Facebook has teamed up with Eutelsat to provide free internet in Africa using the existing satellites.</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;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">           The company is planning to bring this ambitious plan to life in late 2016. Eutelsat, Facebook’s new-found partner will be delivering the free internet from space with a satellite to offline parts of sub-Saharan Africa from next year.</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;">              From late 2016, Eutelsat and Facebook will use the satellite AMOS-6 to beam direct internet to the smartphones in West, East and Southern Africa. This satellite is being made by Israeli company Spacecom and is expected to be launched by the end of this year.</span></div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"> <div dir="ltr" lang="en"> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/satellite?src=hash">#satellite</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/broadband?src=hash">#broadband</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Africa?src=hash">#Africa</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Internet?src=hash">#Internet</a> > Eutelsat is now friend with <a href="https://twitter.com/facebook">@Facebook</a> <a href="http://t.co/7h4kKTJwIO">http://t.co/7h4kKTJwIO</a></div> — Eutelsat (@Eutelsat_SA) <a href="https://twitter.com/Eutelsat_SA/status/650911345475518464">October 5, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <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;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">              “Facebook’s mission is to connect the world and we believe that satellites will play an important role in addressing the significant barriers that exist in connecting the people of Africa. We are looking forward to partnering with Eutelsat on this project,” said Chris Daniels, VP of Internet.org.</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;">             With its controversial Internet.org initiative, Facebook wants to bring more and more people online and serve them its own version of the internet.</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;">             Commenting on the agreement, Michel de Rosen, Eutelsat Chairman and CEO, said: “We are excited by this opportunity to accelerate the deployment of our broadband strategy and to partner with Facebook on a new initiative to provide Internet access services in Africa.</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;">            It should be noted that Facebook has rebranded its free Internet.org service as “Free Basics by Facebook” to make it more identifiable as a free service.</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;">Have something to add? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div> </div>

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Your Stolen/Hacked Identity is Sold Just For $1 in The Dark Web

<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 height="425" loading="lazy" src="http://www.guardian.co.tt/sites/default/files/field/image/2013-03-14%20Technology%20Matters%20-%20Responding%20to%20a%20Hacker%20Attack%20Bevil%20Wooding.jpg" style="text-align: left;" width="640" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's:</b> Increasing data breaches have made the personal identifiable information (PII) market very hot. A latest report outlines the different aspects of data breaches. Read more here.</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>          Just yesterday I wrote a piece describing the ways to know if your identity was hacked/stolen in some recent data breach. Many of you are unaware of the risks these data thefts pose and what cyber criminals aim to do with your data.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>In this article, I’m going to highlight the facts that stolen data is of great important in the underground of the internet. But, how much does it costs to get someone’s stolen data in the Dark Web. Well, not more than $1.</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><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>         The data breach at the Hacking Team would be still reminiscent in your memories that revealed many dark secrets about this complex network. The recent hack at Ashley Madison gives us more hints how desperate cybercriminals are to compromise millions of user accounts and personal information.</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>         In the latest report of Trend Micro, named Understanding Data Breaches, the firm outlines some important details about the data breaches. The report explains how data breach takes place and what happens to this stolen intellectual property.</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 firm’s research shows that only 25 percent of data leaks are caused due to some malware or hacking attack- instead, the insiders are a common reason behind these data losses. Other reasons include the use of physical skimming devices and loss/theft of storage devices.</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 report contains other information regarding the most affected sectors and the damages done to an organization. However, one interesting aspect deals with the Dark Web and the worth of your personal identifiable information (PII).</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>              For those who wish to learn more about the underground internet, you can learn it from these useful links: The Dark-Deep Web and Everything about Tor.</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 PII sales are made in the Dark Web on a per-line basis of approximately $1. When I’m mentioning per-line basis, this means that each line of data contains a name, a date of birth, an address, a social security number and other personal information. So, if someone knowledgeable buys this data, he/she can cause serious damage. The report says that with the recent increase in the data breaches, the supply has increased and thus the prices have decreased.</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 price of other information like credit card details ($25), bank account details ($200-$500) and PayPal($300) accounts goes much higher. The compromised Amazon, Facebook, Netflix and other accounts are also up for sale and you can even grab an account belonging to the US mobile operate for as low as $14.</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>         Talking about other personal information, scanned documents like passports, driver’s licences and bills could be purchased from $10 to $35.</i></span></div> </div>

Your Stolen/Hacked Identity is Sold Just For $1 in The Dark Web

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Elon Musk described the ‘Mars Nuking Plan’

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijlSFYTvqkNaU_aG1Cbd_v5p2aAnsOanhzPQ0WM_y64FCniAU59Z4XXYRFil1dQGk_mGtTWGmknISKIXfNuGfnxKoY3ia501z6xQzFB0CU0QSmikjlyRwcaBwTig347TEli-6v_7sjn4U/s1600/elon-musk-plans-nuke-mars-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="364" loading="lazy" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijlSFYTvqkNaU_aG1Cbd_v5p2aAnsOanhzPQ0WM_y64FCniAU59Z4XXYRFil1dQGk_mGtTWGmknISKIXfNuGfnxKoY3ia501z6xQzFB0CU0QSmikjlyRwcaBwTig347TEli-6v_7sjn4U/s640-rw/elon-musk-plans-nuke-mars-.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's: </b>Elon Musk’s plan to nuke Mars to make it habitable could have substance. After his crazy idea made headlines look what he has in for its explanation.</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;">           Elon Musk is an intelligent man, but his idea of nuking Mars to make it habitable made him look more like a crazy scientist than a technology pioneer who founded organizations like Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and PayPal.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Musk gave his plan to speed up the warming process of the red planet to make it liveable on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert which could not be digested by most of the viewers including Colbert himself who compared him to the supervillain Lex Luthor.</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;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">            Now, Musk tries to clear the air as he explains what he meant by nuking Mars. He said that he didn’t want to blow up the Martian surface but create tiny pulse suns over the planet’s North and South pole. As we all know our Sun itself is a product of nuclear fusion which helps Earth to stay warm, while the greenhouse gases add to the process.</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;">        As per Musk’s plan, “Launch a series of fusion bombs above the planet, not on the planet and create two tiny suns over its poles after every several seconds. Let the process continue for some time which will gasify frozen carbon dioxide, thicken the atmosphere and warm up the water and all of that would have a greenhouse effect.”</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 crux of Musk’s intent is to fasten up the warming of our neighbour and make it liveable as soon as possible. After all, he realizes our Earth is pushing its limits to sustain life while others are making merry.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Via: <a href="http://fossbytes.com/elon-musks-crazy-idea-lets-drop-nuclear-bombs-on-mars-to-make-it-habitable/">Mashable</a></span></div> </div>

Elon Musk described the ‘Mars Nuking Plan’

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Disney Colouring App Turns Your Drawings Into 3D Augmented Reality Characters

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAg0vEfQfy7Dt2qpgWn8axtXJ3j2uOn4BjXxEnuFNngWTYb57teHhoRmpDDzrltovY_XO1ZZTO8jJwokjOwipDXzMPfQx-9fUwG6FJMAABnYC07McREI-cv5z_bbQkmjwWEUZLHxrFY54/s1600/Disney-Research-Project-Colouring-Book-App.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="316" loading="lazy" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAg0vEfQfy7Dt2qpgWn8axtXJ3j2uOn4BjXxEnuFNngWTYb57teHhoRmpDDzrltovY_XO1ZZTO8jJwokjOwipDXzMPfQx-9fUwG6FJMAABnYC07McREI-cv5z_bbQkmjwWEUZLHxrFY54/s640-rw/Disney-Research-Project-Colouring-Book-App.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Disney has developed a colouring book app that would turn the coloured 2D character into a 3D augmented reality object on screen.</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>                Who says technology can’t be fun! And when the favourite cartoon character of your child or little sibling comes out from his sketch book, you seem to realise how much the technology has actually advanced. Augmented Reality has a kickass future and Disney has now given a glimpse of the coming days.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Disney’s tech team has created an interactive Android and iOS colouring book app that would turn the coloured character into a live 3D animated character much like the child’s imagination, but of course, into an augmented reality object on screen. It is a new Disney Research project that aims to bring back the lost excitement in children towards the colouring books.</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><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>              Now, converting a 2D picture into a 3D reality is tricky as most of the drawings have only a portion of the character (front or side view). Disney’s colouring book app overcomes the challenge by copying the pixels from the drawing and making a guess for the remaining part keeping its texture same as the original. The texture of the 3D model is automatically synthesised in real-time based on the drawing.</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>            Disney conducted a web-based user based study with 314 participants for their colouring book app validation and was really happy with the responses. In the final assessment, a majority of the participants told that this creativity motivates them to draw, improve their sense of connection with the character and would definitely use the app at home.</i></span></div> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SWzurBQ81CM" width="560"></iframe> <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><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>           The smart work by the Disney team will help the children to bridge their gap between conventional creative methods with a sweet taste of technology.</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>What do you think of Disney’s colouring book app? Tell us in comments below.</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>via: <a href="http://www.disneyresearch.com/publication/live-texturing-of-augmented-reality-characters/">Disney</a></i></span></div> </div>

Disney Colouring App Turns Your Drawings Into 3D Augmented Reality Characters

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How To Schedule A Shutdown For Windows OS?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf0wCIkpbvJNaHZqQFazL2XkXZuGOB-FR-ZMKVxvBU_xzUns0uVVKKPUmbRM5BTs_bD0lnBRbQrJI31g5T2dyi7vW-puasq3sukjygqeWoYFhApuWRTlOzi-M7DT3KR-3BPqYj7XCHoWI/s1600/Capture-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" loading="lazy" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf0wCIkpbvJNaHZqQFazL2XkXZuGOB-FR-ZMKVxvBU_xzUns0uVVKKPUmbRM5BTs_bD0lnBRbQrJI31g5T2dyi7vW-puasq3sukjygqeWoYFhApuWRTlOzi-M7DT3KR-3BPqYj7XCHoWI/s640-rw/Capture-4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>This article describes the steps to schedule a Shutdown command for Windows OS. Take a look.</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 very first task we learnt was to Turn ON and Shutdown Windows when we were kids, and sometimes we felt the need to shut down Windows after a specified time in case of an emergency or due to some other reason, but couldn’t find a way to do so.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>In this article we’ve described a step-by-step process to schedule a shutdown command for Windows OS. This method has been tested on Windows 10 & Windows 7, hopefully it’ll work on other versions too.</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><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>It is recommended to read all the steps carefully before implementing them.</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>Here are steps:</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>1. Go to your <b>Desktop.</b></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>2. Right click -> <b>New -> Shortcut</b>. A new window will open, asking the location for the shortcut.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <img alt="schedule shutdown" height="466" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Shutdown-1.jpg" width="640" /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>3. Now, you need to recall your primary math concepts.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>4. We have,</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>         1 minute = 60 seconds</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>         1 hour = 60 minutes*60 = 3600 seconds</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>5. After you’ve successfully recalled the conversion of minutes to seconds. Type, <b>shutdown –s –t 60</b> in the text field below ‘Type the location of this item’.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <img alt="schedule shutdown" height="449" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Shutdown-2.jpg" width="640" /></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>6. The number <b>60 </b>written in the above command stands for seconds, so type the number of seconds after which you want to schedule a shutdown. For example, we tested it to <b>shut down after 1 minute (60)</b>, and it worked successfully.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>7. Click<b> Next, </b>when you’re done typing the command.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>8. In the next step, name the file <b>Shutdown.exe.</b> You can name it whatever you like, but don’t forget to add<b> ‘.exe’</b> at the end of the file name.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <img alt="schedule shutdown" height="470" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Shutdown-3.jpg" style="text-align: left;" width="640" /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">9. Click <b>Finish </b>and you’re done.</i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>10. Now, just double-click the<b> Shutdown.exe </b>file created on your desktop whenever you need to schedule a shutdown after a minute gap.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>This is a one-time process and you don’t need to repeat it again. Just double-click <b>‘Shutdown.exe’ </b>and leave the rest to your Windows PC.</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;"> <br /></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>If you feel the need to change the time limit, just delete the existing<b> ‘Shutdown.exe’ </b>and create a new one with a different time limit, following the above steps. You can keep the existing file also, just choose another name for the next file you create.</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>And it is solely your responsibility if anything goes wrong with your PC. No offence please.</i></span></div> </div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_93Oq8T2G66G9Z2s2qt5lSSFHZ6igFHlaci8rEzInMI9GmlekjNwXDpjV-QQBoh3uqZQaSgTOFk__Sj3giEzzxa3yBbbLli2Nk9wJBhR5T9SuqZX1rfE2h799ijeo6AV6-GB0A18_Wjc/s1600/linus-torvalds-linux-kernel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span></a><i style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="372" loading="lazy" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_93Oq8T2G66G9Z2s2qt5lSSFHZ6igFHlaci8rEzInMI9GmlekjNwXDpjV-QQBoh3uqZQaSgTOFk__Sj3giEzzxa3yBbbLli2Nk9wJBhR5T9SuqZX1rfE2h799ijeo6AV6-GB0A18_Wjc/s640-rw/linus-torvalds-linux-kernel.jpg" width="640" /></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><b>SP's: </b>Today’s the 24th first anniversary of 1st Linux kernel release. October 5th is the day when Linus Torvalds released the 1st Linux kernel.</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><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span id="goog_826858077"></span><span id="goog_826858078"></span><br /></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>If you remember, back in August, we celebrated the birthday of Linux. August 25th is the day when Linus Torvalds first told the world that he was working on a project named Linux. However, the Linux community celebrates October 5th as another anniversary of Linux.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>So, is Linux confused about its birthday just like Google? Well, October 5th is the day when Linus released the first kernel.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Today, Linux is running the world and more companies are adopting it to run their systems.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>On the occasion of Linux kernel birthday, The Linux Foundation shared some interesting facts about the same. Let’s take a look at them:</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Version 0.01 of the Linux kernel had 10,239 lines of code.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Version 4.1, released in July 2015, has more than 19 million lines of code.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The current Linux kernel is the result of one of the largest collaborative projects ever attempted.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Nearly 12,000 developers from more than 1,200 companies have contributed to the Linux kernel since tracking began 10 years ago.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The rate of Linux development is unmatched. The average number of changes accepted into the kernel per hour is 7.71, which translates to 185 changes every day and nearly 1,300 per week.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>As of last month, 115,013,302 total lines of source code were present in The Linux Foundation’s Collaborative Projects.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>It would take a team of 1,356 developers over 30 years to recreate the code base in these projects.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The total economic value of this work is estimated at more than $5 billion.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>These facts are taken from The Linux Foundation‘s anniversary post.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Are you using a Linux machine right now? Tell us in the comments below.</i></span></div> </div>

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Android 6.0 Marshmallow Coming Today, These Devices Will Get the Update First

<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;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><img alt="Android-Marshmallow-rollout-date" height="382" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Android-Marshmallow-rollout-date.jpg" width="640" />Google has announced that it will begin the Android 6.0 rollout on October 5. The update will be coming to many older Nexus devices, read more to know the list.</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>Google, at its San Fransisco event, released two new Nexus devices. The flagship Nexus 6P is made by Huawei and the smaller model Nexus 5X is made by LG. As usual, these brand new Nexus devices will be running the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The new operating system was announced officially at the Google event. The company also mentioned that the older devices will be soon getting the update next week.</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>Google made clear that Android 6.0 Marshmallow will begin the Android 6.0 rollout from October 5.</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 new Android OS update will be available for the Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Nexus 7 (2013), Nexus 9 and Nexus Player. However, devices like the Nexus 4, Nexus 7 (2012) and Nexus 10 will continue running the Android Lollipop.</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>New Android 6.0 Marshmallow will feature improved security measures with the revised app permission system that allows users to have a better control. The other important features include the new Now on Tap feature that makes Google more intelligent and provides better contextual results just inside the app.</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>Google hasn’t revealed the details of the dates when its partner careers and manufacturers will be releasing the update.</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>While a very insignificant number of devices are running Android Lollipop, the fate of Android 6.0 Marshmallow update hangs in the balance.</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>Which Android version are you running? Tell us in the comments below.</i></span></div> </div>

Android 6.0 Marshmallow Coming Today, These Devices Will Get the Update First

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