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WhatsApp Group Admin and 3 Members Arrested For Posting Objectionable Content

Shivam Patsariya 0 News, Offers 11:21 AM

WhatsApp Group Admin and 3 Members Arrested For Posting Objectionable Content

SP's: A WhatsApp group admin has been arrested along with 3 other members of the group for sharing some objectionable content. ...

Google Just Bought abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com

Shivam Patsariya 0 Business, News, Offers 11:20 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hurt by the fact that Google wasn’t able to snatch Alphabet.com from BMW, co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin decided to grab the entire English language alphabet in the form of a web URL.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The desire to grab the perfect domain name inspired the tech company to buy abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After the announcement that Google is launching its new parent company Alphabet with URL abc.xyz, the .xyz domain names became a hot commodity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This new 26-letter URL was recently spotted online and it shows that it’s registered under Google. The URL was created long back in 1999 and was privately owned before Google decided to buy it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I performed a quick check to grab the full alphabet in other extensions and they were already registered (sad face).</span></div>
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<img alt="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com-alphabet-google" height="348" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com-alphabet-google.png" width="640" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“We realized we missed a few letters in abc.xyz, so we’re just being thorough,” a Google spokesperson told Business Insider in an emailed statement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you check abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com, it leads to an inactive website. I hope that in near future, Google will love to host some Easter egg on the website or redirect it to the abc.xyz.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What is your dream URL? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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Google Just Bought abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com

SP's: Yes, Google has bought the entire alphabet and it’s the proud owner of abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com. Hurt by the fact tha...

How Much Money Top Tech Companies Make Per Employee

Shivam Patsariya 0 Business, News, Offers 11:18 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Apple, Google, and Microsoft are among the many prestigious brands that people would love to work for. And why not, comprising of an amazing work culture, the current employees are being handsomely paid and taken good care of by the companies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Take Apple, for example, which is today’s most valuable brand followed by Google and Microsoft and had been at the top since 2013 with just about 100,000 employees. Google has a workforce of little over 50,000. And we all know how much these companies have achieved with such a few number of people working for them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These companies are worth hundreds of billions of dollars, but how much money do they make from each employee? Let’s see some stats provided by the team of Expert Market for the top tech companies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The company that has clearly created a class divide between the electronics consumers, sits proudly at the top earning <b>$1,865,306 through each employee.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Its total revenue in <b>2014 was $182,800,000,000 </b>and employs about 98,000 professionals. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After acquiring hundreds of companies from several genres (including advanced robotics and AI), Google transcended to Alphabet. And with all its subsidiaries, Alphabet (Google) earned a <b>total revenue of $66,000,000,000.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Google makes $1,154,896 per employee and has about 57,148 employees.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Japanese multinational corporation has its wings spread in several service sectors including e-commerce, finance and technology services among many. The company makes $918,449 per employee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Softbank had a total revenue earning <b>of $64,600,000,000 with about 70,336 people working for it.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The brainchild of Bill Gates (some might disagree), Microsoft has the widest reach among the masses, thanks to its proprietary Windows OS for desktops which has kept him as the richest man in America for the past 22 consecutive years. Microsoft earns $732,224 per employee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The total revenue for <b>Microsft is $86,830,000,000 with a workforce of 118,584 employees.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The e-commerce giant recently came under fire for its inhumane workplace conditions. Nevertheless, the company earns a total revenue of $88,990,000,000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Amazon has 154,100 employees working or it and makes<b> $577,482 per employee.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the oldest tech companies to feature in the list, Sony was founded in 1946; 69 years ago. Today, it earns a total revenue of $75,260,000,000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sony employs <b>131,700 people and makes $571,450 per employee.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the world’s largest and most valued chip makers, Intel recently released Skylake, its best processors yet. <b>The company earned a total revenue of $55,870,000,000.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>It has about 106,700 professionals and makes $523,618 per employee.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another tech company from the ages of yore, the South Korean tech giant was founded in 1938 as a trading company; 77 years ago. Today, it has established itself as the largest tech conglomerate. <b>Samsung earned a whopping $188,480,000,000 from revenues.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The company has<b> 489,000 employees and makes $385,440 per employee.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Popularly referred to as just HP, the company was founded in a two-car garage about 76 years ago and became the world’s leading PC manufacturer from 2007 to Q2 2013. <b>HP had a total revenue of $111,450,000,000.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>About 302,000 professionals work for the company which makes $369,040 per employee.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Japanese multinational conglomerate has diversified business segments ranging from Information and Telecommunications Systems to manufacturing and installation of defense systems. <b>Hitachi was founded in 1910 and it earns a revenue of $93,180,000,000 today.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Hitachi has 326,240 employees and makes $285,618 per employee.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Which is your favorite company? Tell us in the company below.</span></div>
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How Much Money Top Tech Companies Make Per Employee

SP's: Top tech giant like Google and Microsoft are worth billions and credit their working teams for the achievement. But, how much do...

Free and Secure Qubes OS Protects You By Assuming that It’s Already Hacked

Shivam Patsariya 0 Hack, News, Offers, Security 11:15 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="r2-full-desktop-3-vms-qubes-os (FILEminimizer)" height="360" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/r2-full-desktop-3-vms-qubes-os-FILEminimizer.jpg" width="640" /><b>SP's: </b>Qubes OS is a free and open-source software (FOSS) that takes the security standards to a new level. It makes use of Xen Hypervisor and works on the Principle of least privileges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While building an operating system, stability and functionality is one of the top preferences of the team. Another big aspect of an OS deals with the level of security it provides. The threat of cyber attacks and hacking is on the rise – so security of an operating system is becoming more and more important.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the past, we have seen that by exploiting a simple flaw in the OS, hackers are able to control your entire life. They can access your online accounts, bank details and other personal identifiable information (PII). Last week only, I wrote an article on how your PII is being sold on the Dark Web for just $1 and how to detect if you’ve been hacked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In this article, I’m going to tell you about a new hybrid and open source operating system called Qubes OS. Qubes is free and open-source software (FOSS). So, everyone is free to use, change, and copy the OS in any way as its source code is available.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This operating system is security-oriented and runs on the mechanism called ‘Security by Isolation’ or Software Compartmentalization. This means that everything inside the Qubes OS runs inside the virtual machines to follow the Principle of least privileges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Qubes OS assumes that there could be no perfectly safe environment that is bug-free as during the multiple interactions made by the OS, there are a very high chances of some code being malicious. In simpler languages, it works by assuming that your computer is already under the attack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Qubes OS is a hybrid distribution made of Linux and Xen. Let me tell you more about Xen as it might be a new term for many of you. Xen is a Bare-Metal or Native Hypervisor that is based on a microkernel, offering services that allow it to run multiple operating systems on a single hardware simultaneously.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Talking about new terms, a Hypervisor is a computer software, hardware or a firmware that allows multiple operating systems to make uses of a single hardware and each OS uses the host’s CPU, RAM and other resources. Xen, which is a Bare Meta or Native Hypervisor, promises Software Compartmentalization and better security.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To hack Qubes OS based on the Xen Hypervisor, the attacker should first destroy the Hypervisor, which is very tough, to gain control over the system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Qubes OS supports all the operating systems like Linux distros, Microsoft Windows, and Whonix. So, the virtualization is performed by Xen, and user environments can be based on Linux, Whonix, and Windows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The OS only establishes Tor-based layer communications to embed more security into the system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After the 5 months of the initial release of Qubes 3.0-rc-1, the final Qubes OS 3.0 is now available. As I mentioned earlier, it’s an open-source software (FOSS)- and you can <a href="https://www.qubes-os.org/">download it here and get more information about it.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Did you like this information about Qubes OS? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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Free and Secure Qubes OS Protects You By Assuming that It’s Already Hacked

SP's: Qubes OS is a free and open-source software (FOSS) that takes the security standards to a new level. It makes use of Xen Hyperv...

Google Expert Detects Zero-Day Exploit in Avast Antivirus

Shivam Patsariya 0 News, Offers, Security 11:12 AM

Google Expert Detects Zero-Day Exploit in Avast Antivirus

SP's: Avast was detected with a serious zero-day exploit by a Google security expert. The antivirus software was vulnerable to malicio...

Walk On These Thirsty Roads That Drink Gallons of Water

Shivam Patsariya 0 News, Offers 11:10 AM

Walk On These Thirsty Roads That Drink Gallons of Water

SP's: Tarmac in the UK has come up with a fast draining concrete pavement solution- Top Mix Permeable which rapidly directs stormwater...

What is Daylight Savings Time? Why Do Our Clocks Go Back in Time?

Shivam Patsariya 0 Business, News, Offers 11:08 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you ever try to watch a YouTube video about Daylight Savings Time (DST), there are great chances that you’ll replay the video in order to get it correctly. This addition, subtraction of time is enough to blow away any your mind, because after watching that video, it is guaranteed you’ll start doubting your IQ level.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">First of all, what’s the point of doing all these messy calculations, just to save an extra hour in the summer. And the famous GoT line, “Winter is Coming”, should be, “Summer is Coming”, as it depicts the determination manifested by people in making better use of their summer time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">DST has been there since the ancient times, when people used sunlight as a reference for their day, and the length of the hour varied in different months of the year, calculated by Roman Water Clocks. The proverb, “Early to Bed and Early to Rise, Makes a Man Healthy, Wealthy And Wise”, greatly coincides with the early French practices of waking up people at sunrise by Church Bells and firing cannon shots, thus reducing the use of candles in the evening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">George Hudson, a New Zealand based Entomologist, all because he wanted more time to savour his hobby of collecting bugs, proposed the modern version of DST. So, bugs were the main reason, we have an extra hour of sunlight in the summers. At the Wellington Philosophical Society in 1895, he presented his idea for a Two-Hour Daylight Saving shift in his research paper. Since then, many people have contributed towards the advancement of the DST concept.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Germans were the first ones to adopt Daylight Savings Time, they used DST at the time of WWI on April 30, 1916, as they wanted to save their money wasted on coal expenses. And following the ‘Go with the flow’ philosophy, Britain and other European nations also adopted Daylight Savings Time. The United States, wanted to see the effectiveness of DST and adopted it in 1916.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The process of implementing DST varies with region all over the world. But, in a nutshell, what we do is, we force the clock one hour ahead at the starting of DST and set it back one hour behind at the end of it. So, we have an extra hour of sunlight during summers as Daylight Savings Time forced us to wake up early and sacrifice our comfortable beds. Hopefully, we all won’t use this time for collecting bugs like Hudson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The countries situated in the equatorial region are generally free from this complex time management. Also, the time for observing DST varies in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Different parts of the world observe DST according to their convenience. Let’s us focus on some famous countries and see how DST works there:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>India:</b> The B. Tech. guys should thank god, that their nation falls in the tropical region and they don’t have to go through all this mess, as they can’t even remember the correct date. It would be a torture on them if an extra burden of DST is loaded, and they are told to wake “ONE HOUR” early in the morning. The only signs of Daylight Savings Time observed in India goes back to WWI, when she was under the control of British Empire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>United Sates: </b>The American guys are quite comfortable with the concept of DST. In USA, the clock takes an hour of forward jump at the last fraction of 1:59 standard time to 3:00 DST on second Sunday of March, so the day has only 23 hours. Similarly, at the end of DST, the clock takes an hour of backward jump at the last fraction of 1:59 DST to 1:00 standard time, leaving a 25 hours day. The state of Arizona does not observe DST, but Navajo Reservation, which contributes a large chunk of Arizona, observes DST.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Europe: </b>The nations comprising the European Union, observe Daylight Savings Time from the last Sunday in March at 1:00 am UTC till the last Sunday in October at 1:00 am UTC.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">DST has been praised and promoted by urban people, as it equips them with more hours to do their work more efficiently. Also, waking up early makes the day a little bit longer giving people some free time in the evening for physical activities, which improves their physical and mental health, thus reducing stress issues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Daylight Savings Time plays an important part for urban workers, tourism operators, outdoor adventurers and businesses as it gives them more daylight, which is an essential part of their work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">DST has been a topic of criticism among farmers, as they argue that their cattle don’t know how to use a clock, as they are concerned about milking the cows who follow sunlight as their biological clock. Also, the consistent argument that DST contributes in saving energy becomes obsolete as changing clock twice a year actually cancels out any savings, if made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some people find DST to be a more helpful way of waking up early in the morning than the conventional methods like alarm clocks, as it adjusts their biological clock to wake up at that time in the morning. Some people only follow DST to get in coordination with other people who follow DST.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The advent of DST has led to reduction in road accidents and crime rates, but the practicality of this conclusion is only derived from the results from few studies carried out by some organisations, which may have succeeded in their objectives but only in the region where it was conducted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Clock shifts due to Daylight Savings Time have also contributed towards varying health effects on the society. These clock shifts alter the biological sleep cycle of the individual leading to health concerns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">DST improves exposure to sunlight, increasing the vitamin D in the human body. People wake up early in the morning, so are less prone to depression, but some people do not agree with that. An increase of around 10% in heart attacks is observed due to clock shifts, as it disturbs the normal sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now, you’ve read the article and have a good knowledge about Daylight Savings Time. There is a fabulous device in front of you, just use your magical keys and show off your tricks in the comments section below.</span></div>
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Artificial Intelligence Is Just As Smart As Your Kid, IQ Tests Reveal

Shivam Patsariya 0 News, Offers 10:59 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ok everybody, so the results are out and those fearing the grandiose display of intellectual supremacy by the contender can ease out now. A team from the University of Illinois and AI research group in Hungary did a Verbal IQ (VIQ) study on the AI system of MIT and came out with some relieving results. The AI system that they used was an open-source project run by MIT called ConceptNet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Artificial Intelligence which right now is seeing some crazy developments like this AI based program that became chess grandmaster in 72 hours, has raised many eyebrows (some heartbeats as well), but this study reveals that AI has much to learn when it comes to “understanding things“.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In response to ‘Why do we shake hands?”, ConceptNet said, “Epileptic Fit”. The answer seems crazy, but the machine saw it as “shake” and “hands” and “shake hands” and from its related search came to a technical conclusion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There were several similar sort of questions targeting the cognitive understanding of the alleged master of the humans in future, but the results were all the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, what did YOU understand? The machine, AI make decisions based on the information supplied to them and functions on algorithms. So, until and unless they are brainwashed against humans, the possibility of any uprising is next to zero. And again, just relax, and let the technology grow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can read the paper at <a href="http://arxiv.org/">Arxiv.org</a>.</span></div>
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Artificial Intelligence Is Just As Smart As Your Kid, IQ Tests Reveal

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Here’s How Microsoft Mocked Apple At Windows 10 Device Launch Event

Shivam Patsariya 0 News, Offers 10:57 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From the stage of Windows 10 device launch event, Microsoft became a full-fledged product company and released some of its best hardware ever. The company released its first ever laptop called Surface Book and showed a mind-blowing demo of HoloLens and Project X-Ray.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Apart from the above-mentioned surprises, Microsoft also launched its Surface 4 Pro hybrid PC and the new Surface Pen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Calling out the Apple Pencil, Microsoft’s Panos Panay said, “It’s kind of funny, there’s a Pencil out there without an eraser.” The audience chuckled as Microsoft took an opportunity to make a joke.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Along the similar lines, Microsoft’s head of Windows and devices Terry Myerson tweeted the following just before the new event.</span></div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/maryjofoley">@maryjofoley</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/alex">@alex</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/thurrott">@thurrott</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/tomwarren">@tomwarren</a> hope you enjoy the show today…pay attention – some new things might pop up <a href="http://t.co/yHbgfLNyfN">pic.twitter.com/yHbgfLNyfN</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you don’t remember, in Apple 2012, Apple CEO Tim Cook commented on the newly released Surface hybrid-PC, “You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not gonna be pleasing to the user.” Seems like Terry Myerson had his sweet revenge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With the launch of devices that are a great competition to the Apple’s line-up, it looks like Microsoft had a pretty great day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Did you like the new products from the house of Microsoft? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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Here’s How Microsoft Mocked Apple At Windows 10 Device Launch Event

SP's: At its Windows 10 device launch event, Microsoft launched a whole new line-up of devices that made a great impact on the aud...