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Linux Founder Linus Torvalds: “2016 Will Be The Year of ARM Laptops”

Shivam Patsariya 0 Linux, Security 11:03 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>The opinions of Linus Torvalds are weighed quite heavily when it comes to the matters of Linux. Earlier this week, at LinuxCon Europe, the Linux founder expressed his views on the matters of security and the future of ARM powered laptops.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">According to Linus Torvalds, ARM laptops are the devices of future. “I’m happy to see that ARM is making progress.” He added, “One of these days, I will actually have a machine with ARM. They said it would be this year, but maybe it’ll be next year. 2016 will be the year of the ARM laptop.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the conference, he answered multiple questions from the Dirk Hondel, Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist at Intel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Linus Torvalds didn’t mention if he was talking strictly about Linux-based ARM laptops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">His expectations could be supported by the fact that ARM processor-powered Chromebooks are rising at a very fast pace. Along with that, there are many Linux distributions that have their ARM versions,  including Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Fedora etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Talking about the Linux kernel security, Linus said that it’s very hard to please security experts. “Security people will always be unhappy,” he said. However, he added that he believes the kernel developers are doing their best to check the 25 million lines of kernel code for bugs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Talking about the progress Linux has made in the previous years, he says that Linux did everything he expected in its first sixth months. He thanked the community by saying that what came after those six months, was the result of other people solving new problems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Linux is all these crazy people doing crazy things I never imagined. It’s going to be interesting to see what others will do with it in the next 25 years,” Linus Torvalds adds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Read everything that <a href="http://www.linux.com/news/software/linux-kernel/858406-linuxcon-2015-report-dirk-hohndel-chats-with-linus-torvalds" target="_blank">Linus Torvalds said.</a></span></div>
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Linux Founder Linus Torvalds: “2016 Will Be The Year of ARM Laptops”

SP's: The opinions of Linus Torvalds are weighed quite heavily when it comes to the matters of Linux. Earlier this week, at LinuxCo...

“Psychic Robot”, The Last Piece In The Uprising

Shivam Patsariya 0 Science 11:00 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ok, so till now we all thought that the advanced robots which are self awared and with improved cognition would lead the mutiny, but we just found out who will be the real boss! The Charles Xavier of the robo army, a psychic robot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, the concept could make quite a sci-fi episode, but bio engineers in the US are developing a ‘psychic robot’ for real. The engineers have created a robot that based on our past activity could predict our future pursuits. The algorithm would foretell by looking into our actions even if they are interrupted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, this might not the technical definition of a being psychic, the ability to read minds, but it definitely falls in the category of a prognosticator, predictions based on the current events. This sounds really good if the person is a weather reporter, but for a robot to be able to do that; it is bound to make people uncomfortable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To test the state of the art technology, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago took a scenario where a person reaching to grab something on his desk would get obstructed. We all could make out of the motion but can a robot do that? Well, reportedly yes, as published in the <a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0137289" target="_blank">study</a>. <i>The software was able to analyze the movement and figured the subject’s intent!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But, everything is not scary about the technology. This algorithm of predicting intent could be a life savour when you are on the roads. As Justin Horowitz, a research assistant explains, “If we hit a patch of ice and the car starts swerving, we want the car to know where we meant to go. It needs to correct the car’s course not to where I am now pointed, but where I meant to go.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This could be applied to healthcare as well. For a stroke patient, for example, the technology could help the person when his own body corrupts its actions due to spasms or tremors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, the scientists and engineers actually work for the benefit of the humanity (well, most of the time), but the development should be monitored as the last thing humans would want is the slaves becoming the masters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, it would take some more time by to make something that could read human minds, but with the unprecedented pace of developments in Artificial Intelligence, it should not be very far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And as for regular people like us, the ‘psychic robot’ could be the best tech for guys- helping you to predict your girlfriend’s intentions, duh!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What would you do if you had a psychic robot? Tell us in comments below.</span></div>
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“Psychic Robot”, The Last Piece In The Uprising

SP's: Engineers have gone one step ahead in advancing the Artificial Intelligence. The new algorithm, a ‘psychic robot’ would help...

10 Inventions That Make Nikola Tesla One Of The Greatest Scientists Of All Time

Shivam Patsariya 0 MobilesAndTablets, Science 4:09 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Nikola</b> Tesla, who is one of the greatest scientists of all time obtained more than 100 patents in his lifetime. Despite his 700 inventions, Tesla was not wealthy. He worked in his room for many years, at the Hotel New Yorker, where he died.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alternating current wasn’t invested by Tesla. However, his outstanding contribution in making its usage simple shall always make it one of his greatest inventions. Tesla, who worked for Edison at that time pointed out the flaws and inefficiency of Edison’s direct current electrical powerhouses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">DC current flows continuously in a direction, where as alternating current be stepped up to very high voltage levels as it changes its direction 50-60 times per second, thus minimizing power loss across great distances. Even after the much bitterness between Edison and Tesla regarding the AC vs DC war, ultimately, Nikola Tesla developed polyphase alternating current system of generators, motors and transformers and held 40 basic U.S. Patents on the system. This was bought by George Westinghouse, which marked the nationwide and thereafter, worldwide usage of electricity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the early 20th century, which was primarily the era of piston engine in automobiles, Tesla invented his own engine in turbine style, which was bladeless  and used made use of smooth discs that spun in a chamber. The fuel efficiency of his engine was 60% (which was a great achievement at that time as the current fuel efficiency level we are at is 42%).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Tesla Coil is another of his greatest inventions. It is a high-frequency air-core transformer which takes the output from a 120vAC to several kilovolt transformer & driver circuit and steps it up to an extremely high voltage (above 1,000,000 volts) and are discharged in the form of electrical arcs. Tesla coils create extremely powerful electrical fields, which define their uniqueness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tesla patented a radio controlled robot-boat which was used to control radio waves  in the Electrical Exhibition in 1898. Tesla’s robot-boat was constructed with an antenna, transmitted the radio waves which were again received by coherer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This transmitted the radio waves into mechanical movements of the propellers on the boat. Thus, the boat directions could be manually operated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tesla built the largest and most powerful Tesla Coil, called The Magnifying Transmitter. This had three coils and was 52 feet in diameter. What made it the biggest lightning at that time was the fact that it generated electricity of the order of millions of volts and shot lightning bolts (approximately 130 feet long).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tesla created the first neon signs at the World’s Fair by taking glass tubes and bending them into famous scientists’ names, in effect creating the first neon signs. Also, he converted black light into visible light using a phosphorescent substance (which was created by him).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tesla obtained images of a human body which he called shadowgraph. Also, Tesla experimented with reflected x-rays and described features of transmitted and reflected rays.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Besides, explaining changes in x-ray characteristics as being caused by variations in x-ray tubes and electrical generators, Tesla also realized the biological hazards of working with unipolar x-ray tubes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse built the first hydro-electric power plant in  Niagara Falls 1895, thereby ensuring the beginning of electrification of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nikola Tesla invented the induction motor with rotating magnetic field that made unit drives for machines feasible. What’s more is that he made AC power transmission an economic necessity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Despite being a genius, Tesla was not wealthy, some of his inventions never got recognised. What are your views on it? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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10 Inventions That Make Nikola Tesla One Of The Greatest Scientists Of All Time

SP's: Nikola Tesla, who is regarded as of the greatest scientists of all times, has gifted the world in every possible way in terms o...

How Virtual Reality Works? – The Ultimate Guide

Shivam Patsariya 0 Science, tech 4:04 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Haven’t all of us been fascinated by virtual reality? Isn’t it amazing how we can walk into any planet, or fight back aliens, or bring our enemies down with heavy guns in our own hands?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Almost feels like reality, doesn’t it? But then, how does it work? The working of virtual reality involves the collaboration of head tracking, motion monitoring and eye-tracking. Headphone gives the wearer the sense as to from where the sound is coming from. Motion tracking helps in ensuring the VR experience and eye-tracking makes the images blurred or focussed as per the virtual distance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here’s the ultimate guide to the working of virtual reality.</span></div>
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How Virtual Reality Works? – The Ultimate Guide

SP's: Virtual reality is one of the next big things that will rule the entertainment and gaming world. All major companies are bettin...

This Computer Cluster Cracks Every Windows Password in 5.5-hours or Less

Shivam Patsariya 0 Hack 3:53 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Is </b>your password safe enough? If you are feeling confident enough, take a minute and read this story. A password-cracking expert has revealed a new computer cluster that can crack any Windows passwords in less than six hours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This beast cycles about 350 billion guesses per second and it could use a new virtualization software that gets juice from 25 GPUs (AMD Radeon graphics card). The 64 bit Linux-based GPU cluster runs the Virtual OpenCL cluster platform that allows these graphics cards to work as if they are on a single computer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/25-gpu-cluster-cracks-every-standard-windows-password-in-6-hours/" target="_blank">Ars Technica</a> writes that this cluster touches the 350 billion-guess-per-second speed while cracking password hashes generated by the NTLM cryptographic algorithm, that Microsoft uses in Windows operating systems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This means, the cluster can try n mammoth 958 password combinations in just 5.5 hours. This amazing set of tries is enough to brute force every possible 8-character password that can contain digits, upper and lower case letters, and symbols.</span></div>
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This Computer Cluster Cracks Every Windows Password in 5.5-hours or Less

SP's: A password-cracking expert has created a new computer cluster that cycles about 350 billion guesses per second and it can crack...

What is VPN (Virtual Private Network)? How it Works?

Shivam Patsariya 0 Security 3:50 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Virtual </b>Private Network or simply VPN is a personal network created over the internet, so that the devices connected over it can have an uninterrupted communication, regardless of any physical or digital barriers in the mid-way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The working of VPN is not a tough deal to understand, though it is. But, before that, you need to get an idea about the protocols or set of rules in laymen terms, used by VPN in providing a secure personal network. Let’s tell you more about it:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">SSL (Secured Socket Layer): It uses a 3-way handshake method for assuring proper authentication between the client and server machines. The authentication process is based on cryptography where certificates behaving as cryptographic keys already stored in the client and server, are used for initiating the connection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>IPSec (IP Security): </b>This protocol can work on transport mode or tunnelling mode, so that it can do its job of securing the VPN connection. The difference between the two is, transport mode only encrypts the Payload in the data i.e. only the message present in the data, whereas tunnelling mode encrypts the whole data to be transmitted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>PPTP (Point-To-Point Transfer Protocol): </b>It connects a user located at some remote location to a private server in a VPN network, and also uses the tunnelling mode for its operations. Its low maintenance and simple working makes it the most widely adopted VPN protocol, further credit goes to the inbuilt support provided by Microsoft Windows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>L2TP (Layer Two Tunnelling Protocol): </b>It facilitates the tunnelling of data between two geographical sites over the VPN network, often used in combination with the IPSec protocol which further aids to the security layer of the communication.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, you have a rough idea about the various protocols used in a VPN. We shall proceed further and see how it works. When you are connected to a public network such as internet, you can assume that all your data is flowing through a big tunnel along with the data of other users.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, anyone who wants to spy on you, can easily sniff your data packets from the network. When VPN comes into the scene, it actually provides you a personal tunnel inside that big tunnel. And all your data is transformed into garbage values, so no one can recognize it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Authentication: In this phase, data packets are first encapsulated, basically wrapped inside another packet and some headers and other stuff are attached, all done to conceal the identity of the data packets. Now, your device initiates the connection by sending a Hello request to the VPN server, which replies with an acknowledgement and asks for the user credentials to clarify the authenticity of the user.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Tunnelling: </b>After the authentication phase is finished, what we say, an imaginary tunnel is created which provides a direct point to point connection through the internet. We can send whatever data we want to via that tunnel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Encryption: </b>After we’ve successfully created the tunnel, we can send whatever information we want to, but that information is still not safe if we are connected to a free VPN service, which is also used by other people. So, we encrypt the data packets before sending them over the tunnel, thus barring any other user to peep into our packets, as he will only see some unrecognizable rubbish data flowing through the tunnel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Say, you want to access a website, your device will send the access request to the VPN server which will then forward the request to the website in its name and receive the data from it. This data will then be transferred back to your device. And the website will think, the VPN server is the user and will find no trace of your device as the actual user.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Remote User Access:</b> A VPN connection is used to provide direct access of a corporate network to a user who is not in the geographical coverage of the corporate network. Logically, the remote user is connected just like a normal user who is using the network within the corporate premises.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Site to Site</b>: VPN is also used to provide a homogenous network environment to a corporate firm having its office locations in different parts of the world. Thus, creating an uninterrupted sharing of resources bypassing the geographical hurdles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Other uses include, accessing those services on the internet which are not available in a particular country or region, accessing censored content or if a user simply wants to remain anonymous on the internet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The biggest advantage of using a VPN is the cost effectiveness it facilitates in providing a single private network in comparison to using separate leased lines which can burn the pockets of corporate firms. All credited goes to the internet, for acting as the medium for uninterrupted VPN connections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Apart from all the good things VPN does for us, it has its weak sides too. Not having a streamlined procedure for ensuring Quality of Service (QoS) over the internet, is the biggest incapacity VPN technology has in its possession. Furthermore, the level of security and authenticity outside the private network is beyond the purview of VPN technology. The incompatibility between different vendors only adds to its bunch of drawbacks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">HideMyAss, PureVPN, VyprVPN, all these are well known the QoS and security they provide in their VPN connections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cyber Ghost, Surf Easy, Tunnel Bear are some free VPN services you can use if you don’t want to shell out your pocket. But you’ll have to satisfy yourself with less features, download limits, or advertisements. Also, these free services can’t beat the paid services, note that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can also setup a VPN connection on your smartphones running on Android OS. This allows you to access your company’s private network right on your Android Devices. VPN also facilitates the network administrator to control your device, add or delete data and track your usage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">VPN has so far equipped us with an extraordinary level of security and anonymity we can accomplish while sharing our confidential data over the internet. Corporate giants have always admired the ease and uniformity they can engineer in their network while using VPN. Though, it has its limitations, but so far it has outperformed our expectations and should be praised for the cost effectiveness it provides in its operations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Writing is a good habit, if you use your creative mind and write some good stuff, it would make you sound more intelligent among your friends. So, don’t wait, just use your keyboard and type your imagination in the comments section below.</span></div>
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What is VPN (Virtual Private Network)? How it Works?

SP's: VPN is a technology used to setup a private network over the internet to share the resources of a corporate intranet with remot...

the 1st Private Moon Mission Plans 2017 Launch, Thanks to Google Lunar XPRIZE

Shivam Patsariya 0 News 3:46 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">SpaceIL, a non-profit, funded by some private investors, is planning to launch the world’s first moon mission. But you might be thinking that NASA already did it in 1969. Yes, but this mission is first of its kind, as it is completely owned and operated by private players.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All they are doing is to get the first prize at Google Lunar XPRIZE. Now what’s that? It is a competition organised by XPRIZE and Google is responsible for the financial backbone of the competition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Israel-based SpaceIL are one from several other teams at the XPRIZE competition, and their task is to successfully land a robotic rover on the moon. The rover should be capable enough to walk around 500 m on the moon and send HD footage and imagery of its surroundings. All the hard work is done to get the whopping $30 million cash prize at Google Lunar XPRIZE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">SpaceIL has tied up with Spaceflight Industries, CA, a privately owned company, will assure safe journey of their rover from earth to moon, using their SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher. And they are first among all the teams to get a launch partner for their robot rover.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">XPRIZE has officially confirmed the partnership between SpaceIL and Spaceflight Industries, the Vice Chairman, Bob Weiss said in his official statement:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"We are proud to officially confirm receipt and verification of SpaceIL’s launch contract, positioning them as the first and only Google Lunar XPRIZE team to demonstrate this important achievement, thus far. The magnitude of this achievement cannot be overstated, representing an unprecedented and monumental commitment for a privately-funded organisation, and kicks off an exciting phase of the competition in which the other 15 teams now have until the end of 2016 to produce their own verified launch contracts."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The XPRIZE competition has been on the run since 2007, and SpaceIL expects to successfully land their rover on the moon by 2017. Only US, USSR and China have been successful in landing a fully automatic rover on the moon, and if SpaceIL succeeds in their work, they’ll be the first private organization to do so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Also Read: This World View Balloon Could Take You to The Edge of Space</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Read Further: US and Indian Students ‘Hacking Space’ to Sustain Life on Earth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now here is a situation, you have been given a chance to visit the moon, write the very first thought that pops up in your mind in the comments section below.</span></div>
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the 1st Private Moon Mission Plans 2017 Launch, Thanks to Google Lunar XPRIZE

SP's: SpaceIL, a Google Lunar XPRIZE contestant has planned to launch the world’s first privately owned Moon Mission by 2017. Spa...

do you Want to Make Authentic Diamonds Inside A Microwave? yeah It’s Possible

Shivam Patsariya 0 Creative, Science 3:39 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Diamonds are girl’s best friends, but if you have happened to watch Blood Diamond or know the ethical issues surrounding the conflict diamonds, you would be a little depressed while gifting those to your fiance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, for all the good people out there, science has again come to the rescue. Now, the diamonds that took millions of years to form inside the Earth, while being subjected to huge pressure and temperature could be made inside the laboratories in just a few weeks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Before we begin, it is important for you to know that this procedure will not create any cheap rip-offs of the original diamond such as cubic zirconia, commonly known as ‘imitation diamonds’ in the industry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These new authentic diamonds are created by putting a small carbon lump inside a microwave filled with carbonized gases such as methane. The temperature is then increased until the carbon seed begins to glow like a superheated plasma ball. The high temperature allows the atoms inside the carbon seed to rearrange themselves into a crystalline formation and finally change into the world’s hardest element ‘diamond’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This process takes roughly about 10 weeks, and even the best of the gemologist could not make out the mined diamonds from the diamonds created inside a microwave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, the demand for these synthetic gems is just 1% of the total but, reports suggest that more and more people are preferring those over the blood diamonds. Also, the synthetic diamonds come at a lower price, since all you have to do is heat up the carbon and create the required conditions!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As reported by <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-27/want-to-make-a-diamond-in-just-10-weeks-use-a-microwave" target="_blank">Bloomberg</a>, only about 45% of North American consumers from 18 to 35 prefer natural and untreated diamonds. So that looks like a thumbs up for the microwave diamonds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, what diamonds do you prefer, Microwave or Conflict? Tell us in comments below.</span></div>
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Learn it Faster: The Complete Linux Kernel in a Single Map

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Today, we are sharing an interactive Linux Kernel map that will teach you the basics and understand the various subsystems. Take a look.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The internet runs on Linux, everybody knows this fact. The Linux Kernel is one of the most complex and popular open source projects. If you wish to learn the basics, there is tons of material available online. Still, the core of the Linux kernel is a subject difficult to understand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s said that a picture is worth a thousand words. In the past, we have shared two articles in the learn in faster series : Python in one image and JavaScript in one image. Along the similar lines, today we’re here with the complete Linux Kernel map.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In Linux Kernel, there are multiple layers, modules, functionalities, calls and functions – and to make everything clear, MakeLinux has a cool interactive map of the complete kernel. Here, we are sharing this interactive map of Linux Kernel that has all the components and each item on the map is an hyperlink to the source code and documentation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This Linux kernel map helps you to understand complex interconnections between subsystems of the kernel while you navigate through its source code. Let’s suppose you are trying to hack down a bug and getting irritated trying to figure out what invokes what – so here the kernel map comes to your rescue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://stacksocial.com/sales/the-linux-learner-bundle?aid=a-777o79wh" target="_blank">Get Linux Learner Bundle here.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is also very helpful if you just want to understand the subsystems. On the map, there are more than 400 prominent functions and functions are divided into major subsystems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The relationships are shown by the lines and by clicking on any function, you’ll reach to its Linux source code and documentation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Browse the entire interactive map here on <a href="http://www.makelinux.net/kernel_map/" target="_blank">MakeLinux</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For quick reference, take a look at the picture below (click on it to enlarge).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Did you find this Linux Kernel Map helpful? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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Learn it Faster: The Complete Linux Kernel in a Single Map

SP's: Today, we are sharing an interactive Linux Kernel map that will teach you the basics and understand the various subsystems. T...