Surprise: For the First Time, USA Asked and China Arrested Hackers

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><img alt="china-arrests-hackers" height="391" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/china-arrests-hackers.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>SP's: The Chinese government has taken an unprecedented step to comply with a U.S. request and arrest some hackers suspected of hacking attempts at American organizations, according to reports.</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;">If you take a look at the international scenario of increasing cyber-attacks and cooperation between the nations, you’ll observe two very similar trends. USA and China are home to one of the biggest internet using population and they are also the two poles on the map of cyber-attacks.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the past, we have read reports regarding Chinese hackers reading the emails of Barack Obama and US signing sanctions against the foreign hackers. But, in a surprising development, for the first time, China has arrested some hackers on US orders</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;">According to the reports of the Washington Post, these arrests were made before the USA and China announced the cyber espionage agreement during President Xi Jinping’s USA visit.</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 reports suggest that the Chinese government did arrest some suspects but didn’t publicize the actions. On the other hand, it’s said that currently Obama administration is watching closely if the suspects are publicly tried.</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’s worth noticing that China could have made these arrests as a gesture and they actually might not be related to any USA-related hacking incidents.</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;">Source: Washington Post</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>

Surprise: For the First Time, USA Asked and China Arrested Hackers

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Google Rewards the Guy Who Bought Google.com, He Donates It All to Charity

<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="sanmay-ved-google-reward-bought-12-dollar" height="398" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sanmay-ved-google-reward-bought-12-dollar.jpg" width="640" /><b>SP's: </b>Sanmay Ved, the guy who bought Google.com for a minute, has been rewarded by Google. Surprisingly, Ved has decided to donate the reward money to charity.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </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;">You must have read the story of Sanmay Ved who ended up buying Google.com. However, just within a minute, the Mountain View company was able to spot it and cancel the transaction.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After Google acknowledged the mistake, the company rewarded Ved. But, when the company came to know it that Ved wishes to donate it to charity, it decided to double his reward.</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 don’t care about the money, ” Ved says. “It was never about the money. I also want to set an example that it’s people who want to find bugs that it’s not always about the money.”</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;">Ved hasn’t revealed the exact amount he’s receiving from Google, but he hints that it’s more than $10,000. Apparently, Ved is choosing to donate his reward to The Art of Living foundation.</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 Google is known for rewarding the white hat hackers with bug bounty ranging from $100 to $20,000.</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 week, in a stroke of luck, Ved ended up noticing that Google.com was available for purchase on Sept. 29. He proceeded to buy the domain for $12 and he gained access to the webmaster controls before Google canceled the transaction.</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>

Google Rewards the Guy Who Bought Google.com, He Donates It All to Charity

SP's:  Sanmay Ved, the guy who bought Google.com for a minute, has been rewarded by Google. Surprisingly, Ved has decided to donate th...

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First Large Scale Test of 5G Wireless Delivers Amazing 3.6Gbps Speed

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="5g-wireless-network" height="375" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/5g-wireless-network.jpg" width="640" /><i><b>SP's: </b>Huawei and NTT DOCOMO have delivered a promising performance of 3.6Gbps speed. This is the first large-scale field testing of 5G wireless networks.</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;">Do you miss your slow data connection before you switched over to 4G LTE? I bet you don’t miss it at all. Well, thing are going to change once again with 5G wireless networks.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The current 4G LTE networks provide an average 20Mbps download speeds and if you are lucky, you get a little bit more. But, how fast do you expect the next-generation 5G network to be?</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;">Few months ago, the International Telecommunication Union standardized that the 5G data speeds should reach up to 20Gbps speeds. Now, Huawei and NTT DOCOMO, in its “large-scale field trial” of 5G wireless networks, have registered a mindblowing 1.34Gbps speed that peaked at 3.6Gbps.</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;">These early results of a large trial are pretty promising as they are nearly four times the Google Fiber’s speed and twice the Comcast’s fiber 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;">This test was carried out in Chengdu, China. This large-scale multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) test involved the use of 24 devices simultaneously on 5G network.</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;">“Results like these show we are making rapid progress and are on the right path,” said Dr. Wen Tong, Huawei Fellow and CTO of Huawei Wireless Networks, in a statement. “I am confident that what we have learned here will be reflected in even more innovative technological advances as we continue working on 5G research.”</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;">“This joint field trial represents a significant advance toward fulfilling Huawei’s commitment to developing 5G technology standards before 2018,” Wen Tong added.</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;">Source: Huawei</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>

First Large Scale Test of 5G Wireless Delivers Amazing 3.6Gbps Speed

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Internet-killing TPP Agreement Leaks, And It Confirms Our Worst Fears

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="tpp-stop-protest" height="340" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/tpp-stop-protest.jpg" width="640" /><b>SP's: </b><i>The final version of the TTP’s Intellectual Property Rights chapter, its most important part, has been released by WikiLeaks. Read more to know why it just confirmed our worst fears.</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;">The secret and internet-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has leaked and WikiLeaks has published the final text of the TTP’s Intellectual Property Rights chapter. And it’s all we feared.</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;">This final version confirms our worst fears that were related to a loss in the freedom of expression and cause a widespread effect on the internet services, medicines, our liberties, patents and publishers.</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;">In our previous article, we have told why TPP is a danger to the internet. The idea behind the TPP is free trade – amongst the 12 member countries. The agreement has faced severe criticism in the past due to its harsh intellectual property laws.</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;">This could result in the heavy penalties for the filesharing websites. According to the agreement, across all the 12 member nations, ISPs would be bound to act and “remove or disable access” as soon as they “become aware” of some court decision regarding copyright infringement. Let’s suppose, a court in member nation #1 says that a file infringes a copyright, the ISPs in the other 11 member nations too would be required to remove the content. Here it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t violate the local copyrights.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </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;">Other major fear that has been just confirmed, is related to the health and medicine sector. TPP can cause an overall impact on the cost of medicines and their availability. By extending the intellectual property rights of branded medicines, the development of the cheaper versions of drugs would be delayed- and thus becoming a problem for the poorer people.</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 12 nations that are the part of TPP are: Vietnam, Peru, Mexico, Malaysia, Japan, Canada, Australia, USA, Singapore, New Zealand, Chile and Brunei. And between them, they represent over 40 percent of the world economy.</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 text of the TPP’s intellectual property chapter confirms advocates’ warnings that this deal poses a grave threat to global freedom of expression and basic access to things like medicine and information,” said Evan Greer, campaign director for the digital rights group Fight for the Future. “The contents of the TPP’s IP chapter were bought and paid for by Hollywood and the pharmaceutical industry before the negotiations even began.”</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 despite a final agreement, the final text is still kept hidden behind the doors, till the Canadian election on October 19.</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 are your views regarding the internet-killing TPP agreement? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div> </div>

Internet-killing TPP Agreement Leaks, And It Confirms Our Worst Fears

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How a Student Overcame His Blindness to Study Coding

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="michael-griffin-coding-blindness-" height="359" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/michael-griffin-coding-blindness-.jpg" width="640" /><i><b>SP's: </b>This is an inspiring story of Michael Griffin from Florida, who fought his blindness and overcame it to do something amazing. </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;">After failing his vision test, Michael Griffin knew that his eyes were no longer fine and he needed to face the reality, instead of ignoring it.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Michael was 24-years old and before 14 years, his doctors had told him that he juvenile macular degeneration. It’s a condition that worsens to result in partial or complete blindness in future. This embarrassed him a lot and he chose not to tell his friends or family.</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 was embarrassed to say I couldn’t see. Looking back I wish I would have said something. I probably would have started college a lot earlier if I had the help I needed,” says Griffin, 37.</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;">13 years after the license denial, he’s working to get an associate degree in computer programming at the State College of Florida. He hopes to attend a 4-year university program and make applications to help the ones like him.</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;">His teacher Elizabeth Dowdy says that Griffin needs to zoom in his screen so close that he’s able to see just one word.</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’m thinking as a teacher he can’t even see the whole word, how will he read sentences?” Dowdy said. “But he did it; he even developed his own software to keep up.”</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 time, Griffin has learned C++, Python and Visual Basic. Now he’s teaching himself C-Sharp, a programming language for phone and computer applications.</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 this year, he won a $2,500 scholarship from the American Council of the Blind and $500 from the council’s Sarasota chapter.</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;">Did you find this story inspiring? Tell your views in the comments below.</span></div> </div>

How a Student Overcame His Blindness to Study Coding

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How Microsoft’s Smart Battery Systems Adapts To Your Usage

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="laptop charger" height="357" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/laptop-charger.png" width="640" /><b>SP's: </b>Microsoft has come up with battery system that adapts to the usage of its user. It combines a couple of batteries to ensure the advantages of low weight, less volume etc. This innovative solution of moving the battery charging controller from hardware to the operating system, implementing machine learning, helps batteries optimize power deliveries.</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;">Haven’t we all faced all those embarrassing situations where we are in the middle of delivering a presentation or about to finish an important work, and the laptop runs out of battery and we have to desperately search for a power adapter?</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Laptop batteries have not been at par with the advances in the OS and other computing components. The huge variety of laptops come with the same kind of batteries which charge the device in the exact same manner.</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;">So, where are we lagging behind?</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, battery charging of a laptop is controlled by hardware. However, the hardware is not the only parameter contributing to the determination of usage of the battery. For instance: hardware, unlike software, cannot determine how to behave for different tasks- call for different battery usage. For example, viewing web pages may demand lesser battery usage than performing complex data analysis.</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;">So, what’s the solution?</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;">Microsoft has come up with an innovative solution of moving the battery charging controller from hardware to the operating system, implementing machine learning.</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’s more is that Microsoft is also using different types of batteries to optimize power delivery in the research prototypes to ensure the combined advantages of low cost, less volume, light-weightedness etc. This innovative laptop battery system perfectly suits and adapts to the user’s way of working on the computer and thus ensures that they have the necessary power exactly when they need it.</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;">We perhaps can be optimistic about the application of same in smartphones and cars as well.</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;">Would you like to have the smartphones, which adapts itself according to your usage? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div> </div>

How Microsoft’s Smart Battery Systems Adapts To Your Usage

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Elon Musk Disses Apple: “Apple Hires The Engineers We Fire”

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="elon-musk-apple-we-fire-people-apple-hire" height="400" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/elon-musk-apple-we-fire-people-apple-hire.jpg" width="640" /><b>SP's:</b> Elon Musk, in his interview to German newspaper, dissed Apple Inc. for poaching its employees to get its first ever car project in line.</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 has been reported saying bizarre statements in past few days such as nuking Mars to make it habitable or this latest one in which he says that “Apple is the graveyard for Tesla engineers.”</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;">In an Interview with the German newspaper Handelsblatt, Elon Musk dissed Apple for its ingression in the automobile industry. Musk seemed upset not just because Tesla has another competitor for its electric cars, but also of the fact that Apple has been hiring all of the former Tesla employees.</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 technology pioneer took a jab at Apple which was labelled as the world’s most valuable tech brand as he asked,</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;">"Did you ever take a look at the Apple Watch? (laughs) No, seriously: It’s good that Apple is moving and investing in this direction. But cars are very complex compared to phones or smartwatches. You can’t just go to a supplier like Foxconn and say: Build me a car. But for Apple, the car is the next logical thing to finally offer a significant innovation. A new pencil or a bigger iPad alone were not relevant enough."</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;">While he was in Germany to talk about the future of transportation with the government representatives and to meet German Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel, he gave the reporter a piece of his mind as to what is wrong with the people of the world.</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;">He has previously asserted his views on the looming global threats because of the blatant exploitation of the fossils and requested the humanity to stop running its dumbest experiment ever.</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;">He said:</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;">"They have hired people we’ve fired. We always jokingly call Apple the “Tesla Graveyard.” If you don’t make it at Tesla, you go work at Apple. I’m not kidding."</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, he hits the perfect note on this subject, let’s wait and see what Apple has in stores for Musk.</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;">Source: Handelsblatt</span></div> </div>

Elon Musk Disses Apple: “Apple Hires The Engineers We Fire”

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Microsoft Surface Book Vs. Apple MacBook Pro – Which is the Ultimate Laptop?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/surface-book-macbook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="microsoft-surface-book-vs-macbook" height="376" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/microsoft-surface-book-vs-macbook.jpg" width="640" />SP's: </b>After witnessing one of the best keynotes of 2015 from Microsoft, we are here with the ultimate showdown of laptops: Microsoft Surface Book Vs. Apple MacBook Pro. </span></i></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;">This was a big week for Microsoft, perhaps the biggest ever for the company in terms of the hardware launches. The company showed off its next generation Windows 10 devices that tried to give a serious competition to Apple’s recently-launched new lineup of premium hardware.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In its Windows 10 device launch event, Microsoft launched its first ever laptop Surface Book that is a direct competitor of Apple’s MacBook 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;">Microsoft called the Surface Book an ultimate laptop that delivers twice the performance of the MacBook Pro. Microsoft’s first laptop has gained universal praise for its design, performance and seamless transition from a PC to a tablet.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </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 Surface Book weighs insanely low and gives a tough competition to the 13-inch MacBook Pro’s Retina display by embedding more pixels in its PixelSense screen.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/surface-book-macbook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="surface-book-macbook" border="0" height="361" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/surface-book-macbook.jpg" width="640" /></a></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 new Surface Book is powered by the latest Intel Skylake‘s sixth-generation Core i5 and i7 processors. These new processors are the main reason why Microsoft is able to boast of 50% better performance. To get the better Intel Core i7, you’ll have to spend few hundred dollars extra.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="intel-skylake-surfacebook" height="428" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/intel-skylake-surfacebook.jpg" width="640" /></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;">Talking about the GPU, Surface Book comes packed with NVIDIA GeForce GPU to bring more graphical performance. But, if you choose to go with this model, you’ll have to spend $1,899, minimum.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Nvidia-GPU-surfacebook" height="348" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Nvidia-GPU-surfacebook.jpg" width="640" /></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;">If we intend to go for an honest comparison, we’ll have to look at the base model of the Surface Book that will cost you $1,499 for a 128GB storage and 8GB RAM. The MacBook Pro again comes with 128GB storage and 8GB RAM for $1,299. Both these laptops claim the 12-hour battery life. So, which one to buy? </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="microsoft-surface-pro-4-1" height="397" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/microsoft-surface-pro-4-1.png" width="640" /></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, by spending extra $200, you get some great additional functionalities. The Surface Book is the future of laptops and it embodies the perfect hybrid design with hassle-free laptop-to-tablet transition. You also get a Surface Pen and a touchscreen with it to have some more fun. With new Skylake processors in the Surface Book, the claims that Surface Book is two times faster seems pretty believable.</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;">Take a look at the specifications and make your decision:</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;">Specs<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Surface Book<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>13-inch MacBook Pro</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Starting price<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>$1,499<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>$1,299</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Price<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>                $1,499<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>$1,299</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Display<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>13.5-inch 3,000×2,000-pixel resolution<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>13.3-inch 2,560×1,600-pixel resolution</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pixel density<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>267<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>227</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dimensions (imperial)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>8.67 x 12.3 x 0.30 inches<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>12.35 x 8.62 x 0.71 inches</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dimensions (metric)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>220.2 x 312.3 x 7.7mm<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>314 x 219 x 18mm</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Weight<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1.6 lbs. (726g)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3.48 lbs. (1580g)</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thickness with keyboard<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>0.9 inches (22.8mm)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>0.71 inches (18mm)</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Weight with keyboard<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3.48 lbs. (1579g)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3.48 lbs. (1580g)</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Operating system<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Windows 10 Pro<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>OS X El Capitan</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Processors<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Up to 6th-gen 2-core Intel Core i7<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Up to 5th-gen 3.1GHz 2-core Intel Core i7</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Graphics<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Intel HD 520 or Nvidia GeForce<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Intel Iris 6100</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Storage<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>128GB / 256GB / 512GB / 1TB<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>128GB / 256GB / 512GB</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">RAM<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>8GB / 16GB<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>8GB / 16GB</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Battery<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Up to 12 hours video playback<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Up to 12 hours video playback</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Networking<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.0<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.0</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ports<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2x USB 3.0, 1x SD card reader, 1x Mini DisplayPort, 1xSurfaceConnect(charging and docking), 1x headset jack<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2x USB 3.0, 2x Thunderbolt 2, 1x HDMI, 1x SD card reader, 1x headset jack, 1x MagSafe 2 (charging)</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cameras<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5MP front, 8MP back<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>720p front webcam</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hinge<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Freely positionable to 125 degrees, tablet reversible<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Freely positionable to 135 degrees</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Touchscreen<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Yes<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>No</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Extras<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Included keyboard dock with built-in Nvidia GPU ($1899 or higher models), included stylus<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Force Touch trackpad</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Which one’s your favorite? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div> </div>

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DuckDuckGo Taunts Google: “You Don’t Need To Track Users To Make Money”

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="duck-duck-go-google" height="370" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/duck-duck-go-google.jpg" width="640" /><i><b>SP's: </b>DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg takes a dig at Google in his AMA session saying, “It is a myth you need to track people to make money in Web search”.</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;">There are less evil ways to make money and the self-proclaimed privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo abides by the ethics.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Its CEO Gabriel Weinberg, in his latest <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10346268" target="_blank">AMA </a>(ask me anything) at the Hacker News platform on October 7, reassured a concerned user saying that DuckDuckGo is not sinking and is actually profitable.</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;">Taking a dig at Google, Weiner further said,</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 is a myth you need to track people to make money in Web search. Most of the money is still made without tracking people by showing you ads based on your keyword, i.e. type in car and get a car ad. These ads are lucrative because people have buying intent. All that tracking is for the rest of the Internet without this search intent, and that’s why you’re tracked across the Internet with those same ads."</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;">DuckDuckGo search engine was launched seven years back but got a massive user base and an exponential 600% increase in traffic after ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s revelations and he warned the public to avoid Google and Facebook.</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;">Despite all the efforts from the DuckDuckGo team, the search engine is still unheard by most of the users. Weinberg has also promised to improve content search efficiency in non-English languages as well for the users around the globe who have to sacrifice their privacy for better search results.</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;">According to a recent survey by Pew Research Center, almost over 40% US adults don’t want any kind of surveillance done on them by their search engine provider.</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 there are genuine concerns among the masses for their privacy, DuckDuckGo seems to have a huge opportunity ahead and can give a real competition to Google which for more than a decade now had exerted monopoly in the industry.</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;">Which search engine do you prefer, Google or DuckDuckGo? Tell us in comments below.</span></div> </div>

DuckDuckGo Taunts Google: “You Don’t Need To Track Users To Make Money”

SP's:  DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg takes a dig at Google in his AMA session saying, “It is a myth you need to track people to make...

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