Live Your Time Travel Dream With Ford’s “Back to the Future” Flux Capacitor

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><img height="359" loading="lazy" src="http://media.giphy.com/media/hAogM2NqtbBF6/giphy.gif" width="640" /></i></span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>As a part of the “Back to the Future” day celebrations, Ford has offered you a chance to add the iconic flux capacitor to your cars. Doc’s flux capacitor is what made the time travel possible in the movies and Ford’s 1.21 gigaWatts device is going to cost you $1.2 million.</i></span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The year 2015 marks 30th year of the release of the much beloved retro-tech movie trilogy “Back to the Future”. The movie has been receiving tons of love since then and inspiring many gadgets including Hoverboard.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Back to the Future movie was based on the concept of time travel that was made possible with Doc’s flux capacitor.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Preparing for the Back to the Future fiesta between Oct. 21 and 26, automobile company Ford has decided to put a flux capacitor right in your car. For those who don’t know, these are the same days in which Doc and Marty McFly time-travelled in the movies.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Doc’s flux capacitor is what made the time travel possible and Ford’s device is going to cost you $1.2 million. In the movies, flux capacitor converted the classic Delorean into a flying time machine.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Just like the movies, the flux capacitor is powered by 1.21 gigaWatts of energy. No surprises here.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When you’ll visit the page for either the 2016 Ford <a href="http://www.ford.com/cars/fiesta/" target="_blank">Fiesta </a>or 2016 Ford <a href="http://www.ford.com/cars/focus/" target="_blank">Focus </a>between between Oct. 21 and 26 for “Back to the Future Day,” you’ll be able to spec the cars with this flux capacitor.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the promotional video on YouTube, Ford warns that the use of the flux capacitor is “for recreational use only”.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Take a look at the video below and be prepared for the Back to the Future day celebrations:</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CsHBKcwyK3I" width="560"></iframe> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Have something to add? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div> </div>

Live Your Time Travel Dream With Ford’s “Back to the Future” Flux Capacitor

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Ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is Now Twitter’s 3rd Biggest Individual Shareholder

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><img alt="twitter-ceo-steve-ballmer-bill-gates" height="369" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/twitter-ceo-steve-ballmer-bill-gates.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>In a tweet on Friday, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that now he owns 4% Twitter shares. This unexpected announcement means that now he’s  one of the biggest shareholder’s of the micro-blogging website.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now Twitter’s 4% shares are owned by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. This surprise revelation has shocked many people and as a result, he’s now Twitter’s one of the biggest shareholders.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">He, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, tweeted on Friday: “Glad I bought 4% past few months.” He praised the newly appointed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for making the company “leaner, more focused.”</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Bloomberg confirmed the news and reported that after the announcement, Twitter shares rose 4.9 percent to $31.15, their highest level since July 30. It should be noted that Twitter has failed to attract the public market as investors have always been skeptical about the future growth of Twitter as compared to Facebook.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Twitter co-founder Ev Williams has a 6.8 percent and Dorsey has 3 percent stock holdings. Last week, Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal disclosed that he had more than a 5 percent shares in Twitter.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">According to Forbes, Steve Ballmer is worth $23 billion, with $800 million value of Twitter stocks. It’s being said that Ballmer could be interested in a seat on Twitter’s board.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Have something to add? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div> </div>

Ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is Now Twitter’s 3rd Biggest Individual Shareholder

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This Software Puts Your Facial Expressions on Someone Else’s Face – In Real-time

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><img alt="live-facial-expression-copy-1" height="389" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/live-facial-expression-copy-1.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>The developers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and the Stanford University have published an online video and a research paper named “Facial reenactment”. This technology uses a software that is used to put all your gestures in real time, onto someone else’s face.</i></span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ever irritated your best friends by mimicking their facial expressions and experienced an immense amount of pleasure? Along the similar lines, the genius minds from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and the Stanford University have developed a software that puts your expressions on someone else’s face.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The research paper named “Facial reenactment” describes a software that is used to put all your gestures in real time onto someone else’s face. In the video ahead, it’s researchers show what’s called “Real-time Expression Transfer for Facial Reenactment”.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With this technology, you can plaster someone else’s facial features on your face. “To achieve this, we accurately capture the facial performances of the source and target subjects in real-time using a commodity RGB-D sensor,” the paper states. live-facial-expression-copy-1</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the video, you can see the actor on the right side pulling some exaggerated facial expressions like frowning, raised eyebrows and crazy smiles. These gestures are then mapped in real time onto the face of the person sitting.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For the transfer of expressions, researchers calculate the difference between the target and source’s expressions and the software modifies the target’s expressions. This is done by tracking the geometry, reflectance and texture of both faces.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The software layers the elements on target’s face and then enhances it using various artificially animated CGI renders.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Watch this amazing video animation below and share your views in the comments below:</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eXVspNUeiWw" width="420"></iframe> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Source: Stanford</span></div> </div>

This Software Puts Your Facial Expressions on Someone Else’s Face – In Real-time

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Microsoft’s Accidentally Lists Lumia 520 Phone for $8 Million Price

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><img alt="lumia 520- 8 million" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nadella-phone.jpg" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>As a result of an incorrect listing online, Lumia 520 phone was being sold at a price of $8 million on Walmart. Now the mistake has been corrected and it’s selling at a regular price. Read more to know how this happened.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Microsoft’s Lumia 520 is company’s most successful Windows Phone in the market and it is best-seller in multiple countries across the world. This 4-inch mid-range phone from the company costs around $120-$140 on various online websites.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But, mistakes happen and blunders are unavoidable. After forcing the Windows 7 users to download Windows 10 (and apologizing), Microsoft accidentally listed the Lumia 520 smartphone for $7,989,112.50 i.e. almost $8 million.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This price is ten thousand the price of a brand new iPhone 6S. With features of a modest 5-megapixel camera, 512MB RAM and a 1,430mAh battery, this $8 million deal doesn’t sound much enthusiastic.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="lumia 520- 8 million" height="360" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/lumia-520-8-million.jpg" width="640" /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Around the launch of Lumia 520, Ferrari launched the LaFerrari, a great piece of mechanical muscle with a price $1 million. Compared to this beauty, once again Microsoft fails to impress with its $8 million Lumia 520 phone.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, this price listing was obviously a mistake and it has been corrected. If you visit the Walmart website, it tells that Lumia 520 costs between $79.89 and $112.50. This listing was incorrectly formatted, that resulted in $7,989,112.50 price.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Source: BI</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Have something to add? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div> </div>

Microsoft’s Accidentally Lists Lumia 520 Phone for $8 Million Price

SP's:  As a result of an incorrect listing online, Lumia 520 phone was being sold at a price of $8 million on Walmart. Now the mista...

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A World Without Linux – A World Without Internet (Episode 1)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgswRVoN4zQn6OdSbCG8on5r3R05Ap71fsUYEMuFmT90a740fLGQLeZTHntz5v7JAQBi3OOFYtRCoBlNslmB8S6sZbxi68Syov2ZQCFF1n9SYJmDBCoxNBk6YAZPFsAtw9qrkPPVs59ms0/s1600/maxresdefault.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="360" loading="lazy" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgswRVoN4zQn6OdSbCG8on5r3R05Ap71fsUYEMuFmT90a740fLGQLeZTHntz5v7JAQBi3OOFYtRCoBlNslmB8S6sZbxi68Syov2ZQCFF1n9SYJmDBCoxNBk6YAZPFsAtw9qrkPPVs59ms0/s640-rw/maxresdefault.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Linux is the largest collaborative project in the computing history. It’s literally everywhere. And to showcase this, The Linux Foundation has brought a video series named A World Without Linux. Watch the first episode here.</i></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You are using the internet right now on your smartphone or computer. Is this possible without Linux? There is a plain and simple answer to this question. NO. This is the message that The Linux Foundation wants to convey with its first episode of A World Without Linux video series.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This series was launched a week ago on the occasion of the 24th anniversary of the first Linux kernel release. This six-part video series will feature two characters and their feline called String.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4bOuhDVI6BnBA4odsmaF7rB6B_Aq_Nt8RCi6Yucv00KWJ4ZClyqiQPvxz5T7YjjdRhj2fIgvCLVMByB-u3lZRW-co12QpZ2T3wPFP1A7CFvAYZvqo7RuXF7WDosBjzEYG1ErSDVpAIis/s1600/linux-animated-series.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="330" loading="lazy" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4bOuhDVI6BnBA4odsmaF7rB6B_Aq_Nt8RCi6Yucv00KWJ4ZClyqiQPvxz5T7YjjdRhj2fIgvCLVMByB-u3lZRW-co12QpZ2T3wPFP1A7CFvAYZvqo7RuXF7WDosBjzEYG1ErSDVpAIis/s640-rw/linux-animated-series.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the video series, with the help of multiple events, they will show how ridiculous a world without Linux would be.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the very first episode, Sam and Anne are trying to find an answer to a question that you can search right away on your phone. But, in a world without Linux, a different story unfolds.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To know the answer, watch A World Without Linux: Episode 1 below:</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JzsLkbwi1LA" width="560"></iframe> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For those who don’t know, Linux powers more than 96% of the top 1 million web servers. To showcase the same, Animator Amelia Lorenz has worked very hard to bring this unimaginable world without Linux in the form of this video series.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Go ahead and share this article with your friends to show your Linux love. In the comments below, tell your interpretation of a world without Linux.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div>

A World Without Linux – A World Without Internet (Episode 1)

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Internet Inventor Vint Cerf and Experts Suggest 5-Points to Improve WiFi Router Security

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><img alt="father-of-internet" height="382" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/father-of-internet.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>The FCC is on the receiving end over its proposed rules to alter WiFi routers to make them secure as the experts are telling a different story. In an open letter,  Vint Cerf – the co-inventor of the Internet – along with 260 other experts, has outlined some changes in the proposal.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When you read about a new vulnerability found in a WiFi router every alternate day, it’s obvious to think that something is seriously wrong with your most used gadget in your home.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Along with 260 other leading internet experts, Vint Cerf – the co-inventor of the Internet – has drafted a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In the letter, they have rejected the new FCC proposals as it could lead to buggy and insecure software.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The new FCC regulations are written to make sure that any radio-emitting device only broadcasts the frequencies that they are supposed to. As a result, the people who like to play with their routers and load third-party firmware – or other security-minded people will be in trouble.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the <a href="http://huchra.bufferbloat.net/~d/fcc_saner_software_practices.pdf" target="_blank">open letter</a> filed with the FCC, Vin Cerf and 260 other experts have proposed the alternative frameworks for how routers should be regulated. The new proposals are focused on security and openness.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Take a look here at the main 5 points of the proposals:</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="FCC-regultions-internet-open-letter" height="640" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/FCC-regultions-internet-open-letter.jpg" width="499" /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">These suggestions are expected to impart inspectability, innovation opportunity, better optimization of spectrum and fulfillment of legal obligations.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Keeping your WiFi router safe is a very important practice that we often ignore. The current state of our WiFi routers is worrisome and we need to follow better security practices for a safer internet experience.</span></div> </div>

Internet Inventor Vint Cerf and Experts Suggest 5-Points to Improve WiFi Router Security

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Tesla on Autopilot, Challenges Google Self-Driving Car Concept

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><img alt="tesla model s tesla d electric car tesla announcement supercar" height="328" loading="lazy" src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/tesla-model-s-tesla-d-electric-car-tesla-announcement-supercar-FILEminimizer.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Tesla has released the Autopilot version 7.0 for its electric vehicles. It boasts of features that are years ahead from its rivals. The updated car would also scan for the parking space for you and alert in case of an impending collision in real time</i></span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Elon Musk has gone full throttle to make the Tesla Models as the complete car of the future. After getting famous for pioneering the EVs globally to reduce carbon emissions and procrastinate the climate change, Tesla is achieving other engineering feats as well.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Tesla Motors has just released its latest software update that will allow the Model S owners to lay back and enjoy while the car gets automatically driven. The <a href="http://www.teslamotors.com/presskit/autopilot" target="_blank">Autopilot version 7.0</a> boasts of a unique camera combinations, radar, ultrasonic sensors and data which enable the Model S to automatically steer and change lanes. The updated car would also scan for the parking space for you and alert in case of an impending collision in real time.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Tesla software system is different from its rivals as it forms a network with other cars. So, if anything happens to say Model S1 car, the Model S2 and all the other cars with the Autopilot software would learn from the incident and watch out for the similar incident then on. The data is uploaded to the central server, analyzed and sent back to other cars.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">These self-learning features distinct Tesla Autopilot version 7.0 from other major autopilot car manufacturers like Audi, BMW and Google.</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="tesla_autopilot" height="353" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/tesla_autopilot.jpg" width="640" /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The new update also has high precision GPS navigation and the details are several times finer than the current standards. This eventually leads to better driving and a pleasant trip for the Tesla costumers.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For the owners who had already purchased the Autopilot update option at the time of buying the Model S, the software is free while it will cost $2,500 to the buyers who didn’t purchase their car with this option.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now, after autopilot what’s left for Tesla is to build a flying car.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Have something to add? Tell us your views in the comments below.</span></div> </div>

Tesla on Autopilot, Challenges Google Self-Driving Car Concept

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OnePlus Joins Make In India Campaign, Partners With Foxconn

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><img alt="one plus make in india" height="360" loading="lazy" src="http://www.igyaan.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/oneplus-logo-1.png" width="640" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>OnePlus has announced, they will be assembling their devices locally in partnership with Foxconn. Foxconn has partnered with OnePlus to facilitate the assembling of new devices at their proposed Rising Star manufacturing facility in Andhra Pradesh.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Prime Minister Modi inaugurated the Make In India campaign on September 25, 2014, and since then, it has been a cardinal move towards India Inc’s dream to be a manufacturing hub. Many MNCs around the world have consolidated the roots of Make In India campaign.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">OnePlus, with a goal to expand its business in, what is called the largest potential market for electronics sector, has planned to start the production of its devices in India, under the guidance of Make In India campaign, which will facilitate quick and successful production for OnePlus devices.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Foxconn has partnered with OnePlus to facilitate the assembling of new devices at their proposed Rising Star manufacturing facility in Sri City: Integrated Business City, Andhra Pradesh. The partnership was announced by CEO Pete Lau in Bengaluru.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">OnePlus’s decision to assemble devices locally is in accordance to the fact, elevating custom duty on fully assembled devices will reduce their production costs, will demonstrate a decision of Best of Both Worlds. Devices will become cheaper benefiting both the customer and the company. Moreover, the company has not been able to meet the stock demands which motivated them to assemble the devices locally.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The 30,000 sq. ft. facility will have the production cap limit of 500,000 units per month and a full-time workforce of around 1000 workers will be responsible for keeping the stock ample.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">OnePlus’s journey in India has been quite amazing so far. They’ve sold around 250,000 units of their very first debutante One Plus One. CEO Pete Lou was quite happy with One Plus Two’s performance in the flash sale. 15,000 units of the device were bought by the customers in just 12 minutes.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">OnePlus has plans to initiate the production process somewhere around December this year. Furthermore, we already know that Asus, Xiaomi and Gionee have already partnered with Foxconn for the production of their devices locally in the Rising Star facility. It will be quite riveting to acknowledge the true conqueror in this Game Of Thrones.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What are your views on the Make In India Campaign, will it benefit the country. Write your thoughts in the comments section below.</span></div> </div>

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This Nearly “Impossible to Trace” Spyware is Used by 32 Governments to Spy on You

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><img alt="finfisher-5" height="350" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/finfisher-5.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>In 2015, the infamous spyware FinFisher is spread in 32 countries to perform advanced citizen surveillance. Citizen Lab, a security watchdog, has uncovered the nearly untraceable IP addresses and servers of the spyware. Read more and find out how it works and if it’s used by your government.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The preying eyes of your government are more active than ever and it’s using more advanced tools for surveillance purposes. Recently in the data breach at the Hacking Team, it was revealed that multiple governments contacted them to obtain spyware tools.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">One such famous product in the spyware market is FinFisher, also known as FinSpy. This surveillance software came into the limelight in 2014, when a hacking attack at its marketing company Gamma International exposed it to the world.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">One year after the hack, this sophisticated computer software suite, sold exclusively to governments and law enforcement agencies, is alive and serving more customers than ever. This suite is used to target computers or phones, and monitor all activities including calls, emails and messages.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Citizen Lab, a security watchdog, has published a new report unmasking the true locations of the master servers to identify the governments using FinFisher. The firm scanned the internet for FinFisher servers and separated masters from proxies and located 32 governments and 10 entities that are directly related to FinFisher.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The lab has been able to identify these servers that are claimed to be practically impossible to trace by the spyware makers.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="finfisher-5" height="328" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/finfisher-1.jpg" width="640" /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Governments using FinFisher include those of Mongolia, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Oman, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Mexico, Spain, Venezuela and other. Many suspected governments using FinFisher spyware have past records of human rights violations.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Citizen Lab researchers write than each instance of FinFisher includes the address of a command and control server that the spyware reports back to.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="finfisher-5" height="341" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/finfisher-3.png" width="640" /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“These C&C servers are typically FinSpy Relays, which forward connections back and forth between a device infected with FinFisher, and a FinSpy Master.  The purpose of the FinSpy Relay is explicitly to make it “practically impossible” (their emphasis) for a researcher to discover “the location and country of the Headquarter,” Citizen Lab writes.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The researchers were able to find some connection between Hacking Team and FinFisher IP addresses. Instead of being competitors, both of them shared some common clients.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="finfisher-5" height="386" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/finfisher-2.jpg" width="640" /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They collected a total of 135 IP addresses belonging to FinFisher boxes, but not all of them were pointing back to one specific country. “So there’s definitely more customers,” one of the researchers Marczak told <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/researchers-find-impossible-to-trace-spyware-in-32-countries+" target="_blank">Motherboard</a>.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“In presenting our scan results, we do not wish to disrupt or interfere with legitimately sanctioned investigations or other activities. Instead, we hope to ensure that citizens have the opportunity to hold their governments transparent and accountable,” writes Citizen Lab in its report.</span></div> </div>

This Nearly “Impossible to Trace” Spyware is Used by 32 Governments to Spy on You

SP's:  In 2015, the infamous spyware FinFisher is spread in 32 countries to perform advanced citizen surveillance. Citizen Lab, a se...

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