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Self-driving Cars Must be Programmed to Kill, Study Says

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines, Security 10:18 AM

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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>SP's: </b>As we advance more and more in artificial intelligence and related technologies, we must solve some complex ethical problems. A similar dilemma is faced in the case of self-driving cars and how they should act in case of unavoidable accidents. Should they kill more people on the road to save the car occupants? Or, should they protect others on the road by sacrificing the life of occupants? </i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Every big automobile company is preparing its artillery with the technology that will help them to produce autonomous vehicles. Even the companies like Google and Apple are hiring engineers and designers to make their ‘next big product’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the future, self-driving cars will soon dominate roads and as the tests suggest, the autonomous vehicles take extra security precautions. According to the reports, very few minor accidents that took place on the road during tests, were caused due to the mistake of other vehicles or people on the road. This brings us to a very interesting scenario that deals with an event of unavoidable accidents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">How should a car act in such scenario? Should it minimize the loss of life on the road at the cost of occupants’ life, or should it protect the car occupants at all costs?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">These ethical questions need to be answered when we talk about a future with self-driving cars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Also read: First Apple Car Coming in 2019, According to Report</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Our results provide but a first foray into the thorny issues raised by moral algorithms for autonomous vehicles,” says said UAVB and Oxford University scholar and bioethics expert Ameen Bargh who advised to change the course of the car to reduce the loss of life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">However, deontologists argue that “some values are simply categorically always true”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“For example, murder is always wrong, and we should never do it, even if shifting the trolley will save five lives, we shouldn’t do it because we would be actively killing one,” Bargh said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The members of UAB’s Ethics and Bioethics teams are doing a lot of work to deal with such type of questions. One way to tackle this problem is to act in such a way that it reduces the loss of life. The results of the tests are interesting and people are comfortable with the idea that self-driving cars should be programmed in such a manner that they reduce the death toll.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As we advance more and more in AI and technology, we must find answers to these ethical and philosophical questions and find the ways to arrive at a worthy solution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Source: MIT Technology Review</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What do you think? Should self-driving cars must be programmed to kill? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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Self-driving Cars Must be Programmed to Kill, Study Says

SP's: As we advance more and more in artificial intelligence and related technologies, we must solve some complex ethical problems....

Saving Apple in 1997 Was the Craziest Thing Microsoft Ever Did, Ballmer Says

Shivam Patsariya 0 Business, tech 7:35 AM

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<i>SP's:</i><i style="font-weight: normal;"> During a recent interview with Bloomberg, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer targetted Microsoft’s rivals Apple and Amazon. He said that Microsoft did a crazy thing saving Apple from bankruptcy in the past and bashed Amazon for its work environment.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Everybody knows the famous story of Bill Gates investing $150 million in its rival Apple to save it from bankruptcy. This happened right after Steve Jobs returned to the company.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In a recent interview with Bloomberg, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that was one of the craziest things Microsoft ever did. Steve Ballmer chose to talk on numerous topics in the interview- ranging from Microsoft giving Apple a run for their money- to Amazon being a not-so-nice place to work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When asked about Apple’s current position, Ballmer said, “Microsoft will give them a good run for their money” and that “nobody else has really tried to compete with them anymore really seriously in hardware.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">He didn’t stop there. Targeting Amazon CEO Jeff Benzos’ past comments about Microsoft’s work environment, Steve Ballmer said that Amazon isn’t a place where people want to work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">He added, “anybody who ever left Microsoft [to work at Amazon], we could count on them coming back within a year or two because it’s not a great place to work.”</span></div>
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Saving Apple in 1997 Was the Craziest Thing Microsoft Ever Did, Ballmer Says

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How WiTricity will allow you to use Wireless Electricity?

Shivam Patsariya 0 Science, tech 7:33 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>WiTricity, a Watertown-based company, committed to the idea of wireless electricity, has emerged with a new technology that uses coupled resonators to power electronic devices wirelessly. Professor Morin Soljačić and his team from MIT are the minds behind this mind blowing technology.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Many of the new technologies are focusing on how to eliminate wires from our lives and technologies like WiGig Alliance are trying to make the data transmission quicker and more reliable without the need of any wires.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And another one is WiTricity, dedicated to wirelessly charge our devices or in fact WiTricity wants you to forget about charging your devices, as they’ll be charging all the time without you to put them on some electric plate, like the WiFi network.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">MIT Professor Marin Soljačić, pronounced as Soul-ye-cheech, is the man behind the base concept of WiTricity. It all started one late night, when Morin in his pajamas, went to his kitchen only to find his landline beeping constantly, oh! I’m sorry, it was his mobile, as he forgot to charge it that day. And then a thought popped up in his mind,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There is electricity wired all through this house, all through my office—everywhere. This phone should take care of its own charging!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">He then used his scientific mind and concluded to use the phenomena of coupled resonators in order to transfer the electricity from the existing electricity network, directly to the devices, all wirelessly, without harming the things in between. Most of you might’ve Googled about coupled resonators, but for my lazy readers, the phenomena of coupled resonators is rooted on the fact, when two objects have the same resonating frequency, they tend to exchange energy without the interference of any other out of frequency object.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And for my lazy readers, I’m too lazy to write about resonating frequency, so you should move your hands towards the keyboard and Google resonating frequency.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The next day Morin woke up, but he was damn serious and fully committed to transform his landline, back to a mobile phone. He gathered two other curious minds, MIT guys Karalis and Joannopoulos, who also wanted to get back their mobile phones. Morin wanted to achieve the theoretical implementation of how to couple two magnetic resonators to achieve the wireless transfer of electricity. They were able to publish their results in the Annals of Physics journal twice, in 2006 and 2008.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Morin with his team, were now able to successfully present the working model of what they believed to would revolutionize the way people use electricity. They demonstrated their project with two five-turn copper coils having a diameter of 60 cm, placed about 2 metres away. The coils were to act as coupled resonators clocked at 9.9 MHz frequency and had the same orientation axis. One of the coils was connected to a power source and the other to a 60W light bulb. They blocked line of sight by a wooden block and still were able to successfully light the bulb at around 90% efficiency at a distance of 0.9 metres. And that’s how they were able to demonstrate wireless electricity in motion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Imparting the success from his proposed experimental results, Morin was confident enough to transform his experiment into a commercial success. And so the company WiTricity originated with an intent to eliminate the want of all the power adapters and batteries, and to pursue the true existence of wireless electricity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The development of this technology has received global recognition and appraisal. CEO Eric Giler presented this wireless electricity-based technology which propelled the formation of WiTricity, at the TED Global Conference, Oxford, in July 2009. He demonstrated the transfer of wireless electricity to a television and three different mobile phones channeled by a WiTricity powering unit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">WiTricity with a vision of “Wireless Everywhere”, is busy designing products for various domains like consumer electronics, automobiles, medical devices, and much more. Their current product line: Prodigy, WiCAD, WiT 5000C3, WiT 5000, WiT 3000. Prodigy is a demo kit, allows you to get a ball-park estimation of the WiTricity technology and to experiment wireless electricity transmission.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">WiTricity has so far adhered to what Morin thought that night when he was in his pajamas and woke up due to the beeping of his landline, oh! I missed it again, his mobile. In addition to all the good things, WiTricity has been working to harness the true wireless electricity. Questions are raised regarding the health effects due to their new technology, but the Watertown-based company has its part to say:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"WiTricity products are being designed to comply with applicable safety standards and regulations."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">However, no studies have been conducted to trace the effects on human and animals due to the constant presence of wireless electricity radiations in their surroundings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">WiTricity’s technology might manifest a cardinal panacea to the thirst of power hungry devices around us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">How wireless electricity will change your life, write in the comments section below.</span></div>
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How WiTricity will allow you to use Wireless Electricity?

SP's: WiTricity, a Watertown-based company, committed to the idea of wireless electricity, has emerged with a new technology that u...

Future of Electronics: Light Travels “Infinitely Fast” in New On-chip Material

Shivam Patsariya 0 Science, tech 7:28 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's: </b>Researchers at SEAS have developed a metamaterial with zero refractive index that will allow a phase of light to go at infinitely fast speeds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Prepare yourselves to put silicon-based electronics in the archives as the world will soon embrace the light. No, it is not telepathic connections we are talking about, but comparably fast photons that are set to replace the electrons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Scientists had realized years before that soon we would have to stop extrapolation of the Moore’s Law and look out for the better prospectives. And yes they did. Researchers have come up with two brilliant solutions to the slowing electrons: quantum computations and light based computations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A team of researchers at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has managed to manipulate light at the nanoscale and integrate it into the extant devices. The researchers have designed an on-chip  metamaterial with zero refractive index such that a phase of the light will now travel at an infinitely fast speed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now, don’t get tensed. No rule of physics has been broken yet! The researchers have merely worked on increasing the phase velocity of light, i.e. the speed by which the crests of light travel in a medium. The change in the phase velocity is the reason of slowing down of light in other material (and the cause of the phenomenon of refraction).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Light doesn’t typically like to be squeezed or manipulated, but this metamaterial permits you to manipulate light from one chip to another, to squeeze, bend, twist and reduce the diameter of a beam from the macroscale to the nanoscale. It’s a remarkable new way to manipulate light."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Scientists have now made a material with zero refractive index which allows light to maintain a constant phase with all crests and troughs stretched at infinitely long wavelengths. In such a scenario, it is possible to manipulate light like stretching and twisting at the zero expense of the energy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The material is made up of silicon pillar arrays which are embedded in a polymer matrix and cladded in a gold film. The metamaterial makes the interface with photonic chips possible as it can couple with the silicon waveguides.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The integration will also give a huge boost to quantum optics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The research has been described in the journal <a href="http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphoton.2015.198.html">Nature Photonics</a> and is considered as a significant step towards a new era of telecommunication.</span></div>
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Future of Electronics: Light Travels “Infinitely Fast” in New On-chip Material

SP's: Researchers at SEAS have developed a metamaterial with zero refractive index that will allow a phase of light to go at infini...

Facebook Exposing Trillions of Posts to Public Search, Change Your Settings Right Now

Shivam Patsariya 0 Security, WebNdSocial 7:25 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>To make its search more functional, Facebook has indexed about 2 trillion public posts. Now, you can search the pictures, news and posts of your interest by entering some phrases in the search box. However, if you want to opt out, you need to change some settings right now.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Facebook is about to change in a big way and it’s going to affect Google – and you, of course. Now Facebook is making all the public posts on the social network available to universal search.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Facebook is making it a lot easier to search the conversations and stories unfolding in real time, just like Twitter or Google search. Just the way Google indexes websites and web pages, Facebook has indexed about two trillion posts put on by the Facebook users to make them easily searchable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This move by Facebook will make the search function of Facebook broader and help you to search things that interest you more easily on the world’s biggest social network. Now you can search the public pictures of the Halloween in just a click and easily look for the discussions of your friends about The Martian by typing few phrases in the search box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">But, if you are uncomfortable with sharing your life and don’t want to make a contribution to the public debate, there are just 2 simple steps to follow:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In your News Feed page, just click on the top right corner of the screen. Below the big purple dinosaur, click on the question “Who can see my stuff?” The option that you need to tick is “Friends” and avoid “Public” to restrict the visibility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To change the past posts, you need to find the “Limit Past Posts” option in “See More Settings” and do changes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Did you like this change in Facebook search? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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Ultimate Battle of Hybrids: Apple iPad Pro vs Microsoft Surface Pro 4 vs Google Pixel C

Shivam Patsariya 0 Mobiles, MobilesAndTablets, tech 12:09 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>All big companies are battling each other to become winners in the race of the ultimate hybrid tablet. Taking inspiration from Microsoft Surface tablet, Apple and Google have revealed their new products. Let’s take a look at this ultimate battle: Apple iPad Pro vs Microsoft Surface Pro 4 vs Google Pixel C.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Every big company seems to be betting on the huge tablet/laptop convertible for the future of personal computing. Whether we look at the newest offering from Apple, Microsoft or Google, what we see is a big tablet, by big I mean bigger than the 10-inch standard ‘large’ tablet size, with a keyboard accessory that can be bought separately. Now it’s a tablet, now it’s not! The magic trick is getting a bit old now but only now have the devices reached the kind of polish that can make consumers ditch their real laptop notebooks and buy a hybrid one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Before we begin, one thing I don’t understand here is that if you are pitching a device as a laptop/tablet hybrid then at least ship the keyboard in the package; instead we get an ‘optional’ keyboard accessory at a price of around 150 bucks. So very uncool!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With that out of the way let us compare the ‘surfaces’ from the biggest tech companies and find out which one is the best buy.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">8 MP iSight camera at the back</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">1.2 MP FaceTime/Selfie camera</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Touch ID fingerprint technology</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">~ 710 gm</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">$169 Keyboard accessory</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">9-hour battery life</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">$129 for keyboard accessory ($149 for the one with fingerprint reader)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">$899 Core M3, 128 GB SSD, 4GB RAM</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">$999 Core i5, 128 GB SSD, 4 GB RAM</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">$149 for keyboard accessory</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">$499 for 32 GB</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Comparison: Apple iPad Pro vs Microsoft Surface Pro 4 vs Google Pixel C</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The devices we have here for comparison are vastly different from each other, probably the only thing common between them is the touchscreen is big and high resolution and all are wannabe laptops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Google’s Pixel C has me least convinced to replace my laptop with it. Android is not yet ready to provide the level of functionality a user desires from a laptop. The keyboard technology that Google has built for it is commendable, but most users would like to use a 10″ tablet as a tablet rather than a laptop. Even with Marshmallow the operating system is not for the laptop format. Also, the hardware is nearly not as powerful as one would like to have on a laptop to get some decent productivity. It is cheaper than the rest but considering that it is more of a tablet and less of a laptop, shelling out $750 for a tablet is not advisable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">iPad Pro and Surface Pro 4 are worthy competitors. Even though it is Apple’s first attempt in the convertible market, they learned from the mistakes of their enemies and have built a great device. On the other hand, Surface Pro 4 has seen iterative development over the years and is now at the peak of its growth. Windows phone is no match for iOS but to compete with full Windows 10, Apple knew it had to pull many bunnies out of its hat. Hence, iOS 9. The newest iOS has adapted (read copied windows features) to the needs of the laptop environment by providing multiple apps on screen and app in app functionality. Also, the performance of the new A9X chip is ‘desktop class’ according to Apple which they proved by editing four streams of 4k videos simultaneously on the new iPad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Surface Pro 4 is the laptop/tablet hybrid Microsoft had dreamed when it launched the first surface. The keyboard is fantastic, the pen is much better, the OS is a pleasure to use on a touch screen, everything is smooth and slick. It is pretty much the perfect windows device for on the go needs. Be sure to buy the i5 version at least to get decent performance. This will set you back for $1150 because of course you will have to buy the keyboard separately. In comparison, iPad Pro 128 GB model with keyboard and pencil will cost the same. On another note, Microsoft was onstage at the iPad Pro unveiling to say how good the tablet is for using its Office Suite. So if you mostly use Microsoft Office you can’t go wrong either way. Also, I am not comparing the main snappers because if the camera on a > 12″ tablet affects your buying decision then I cannot help you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, in the end it all boils down to a clash between Windows desktop vs iOS and I am giving this one to Windows. If any device replaces my laptop it should be able to do everything I did on my laptop exactly the same. This is the most important thing when looking for a replacement, you want the other thing to work the same that your original device did. If I get additional touch screen goodness with it then it is a plus. On the other hand if I get a whole bunch of touch screen goodness and then have to compromise on my laptop productivity; Sorry I am not interested. I will just buy a tablet instead. iOS could be the ‘most advanced’ mobile operating system but on a notebook I would like a desktop operating system. Had there been OS X when you needed a laptop and iOS in touchscreen mode, Apple would have taken the crown. Perhaps, sometime in the future.</span></div>
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Ultimate Battle of Hybrids: Apple iPad Pro vs Microsoft Surface Pro 4 vs Google Pixel C

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Bad News for Windows 10, Chrome-like Edge Extensions Not Coming This Year

Shivam Patsariya 0 AppsnSoftSecure, tech, Windows 10:59 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With Windows 10, Microsoft launched its next-gen browser Microsoft Edge to challenge the likes of Chrome and Firefox. In the early reviews, Microsoft Edge showed lots of promise but it lacked an important aspect: Microsoft Edge Extensions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It was rumored that Microsoft will be releasing the Microsoft Edge Extensions in the Windows 10 Threshold 2 update. But according to the latest media reports, Microsoft needs more time to develop extension support in Microsoft Edge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"We’re committed to providing customers with a personalized web experience, which is why bringing extensions to Microsoft Edge continues to be a high priority. We’re actively working to develop a secure extension model to make the safest and most reliable browser for our customers, and look forward to sharing more in a future Windows 10 update in 2016."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The upcoming Microsoft Edge Extensions support will bring Google Chrome extensions to the Microsoft’s new browser. The developers who build extensions using common Web technologies like JavaScrip and HTML, will be able to work with Microsoft Edge with little or no code changes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This news of the delay in Microsoft Edge is disappointing as the adoption rate of Microsoft has been disappointing in the recent times. Instead of being a neat-looking and fast web browser, people have been hesitating to make it their default web browser. This reluctance could be solely attributed to the lack of extensions.</span></div>
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Bad News for Windows 10, Chrome-like Edge Extensions Not Coming This Year

SP's: Microsoft has been unable to bring momentum to the Edge browser adoption rate and this could be largely attributed to the lac...

Now Get A Floating Solar System In Your Office With Magic Leap

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines, tech 10:56 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's: </b>Augmented Reality startup Magic Leap gave a teaser of its developing technology at WSJD live event with a floating solar system in an office.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Google-backed Augmented Reality startup Magic Leap had promised the world a kickass future of AR few months back, and it has indeed lived up to its promise. The company teased the tech enthusiasts with a short video that showed a floating solar system and a floating drone in an office.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The sight looks pretty amazing and real as you can not identify for a few seconds that if the drone is real or augmented real! The teaser was shown at the WSJD live event in California.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Since the advent of Augmented and Virtual Reality concepts, many major brands like Facebook with its Oculus Rift and Microsoft with its HoloLens and startups have showed a keen interest in the development of this technology. Read How Virtual Reality works for a better understanding of the idea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It is not just that high-end gaming junkies or the scholars that are awaiting the arrival of the technology, Disney has even created an app for the young children that converts their drawings into 3D augmented reality characters.  </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Watch below the teaser by Magic Leap. I can’t wait to get myself a floating solar system in my office (I really hope to get more choices on what I want to have floating in my office though).</span></div>

Now Get A Floating Solar System In Your Office With Magic Leap

SP's: Augmented Reality startup Magic Leap gave a teaser of its developing technology at WSJD live event with a floating solar syst...

Are You Under the Attack of CCTV Botnet?

Shivam Patsariya 0 News, Security, tech 10:51 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Internet of Things are constantly being targeted by attackers to get the better off of the companies or individuals. CCTV surveillance cameras are generally preferred for the purpose. Make sure you do not come under the attack of CCTV botnet.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Botnet is a network of infected computers (fast replaced by IoTs now) that are under control of the outside attackers. Now, having understood the concept, it won’t be difficult for anyone to imagine that anything that runs codes and is connected to the Internet is hackable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There are a number of instances reported every day where either a big company or individuals are targeted by the black hats. But, for quite some time now, IoT or Internet of Things have become the attackers’ fetish, and in that too it is the loosely protected surveillance cameras that catch the hackers’ eye the most.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">An artist was arrested a few months back for hacking into the surveillance system of a dreary town and made an album for himself in a year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now Incapsula security researchers have reported that their client was under a severe botnet attack by repeated HTTP GET flood attacks, peaking at around 20,000 RPS (request per second). As they went through the attacking IPs, they found that some of those unsecured cameras in the botnet were installed in their own backyards and the mall in front of their office!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The traffic originated from about 900 hacked CCTV cameras from around the world which had weak login SSH, Telnet passwords and those whose security was held ransom due to the default passwords. One thing that needs a special mention here is Shodan, a hacker search engine that stags all the IoTs in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now, as Incapsula reported that most of the compromised CCTV cameras ran on BusyBox, a version of Linux built specifically for IoT devices. And these cameras were attacked with .btce malware which is designed for the BusyBox systems. Some of the devices were even launched with HTTP Get flood DDoS attacks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In 2014, there were about 245 million surveillance cameras operational worldwide. And that’s just a <a href="https://www.incapsula.com/blog/cctv-ddos-botnet-back-yard.html">reported </a>number, the actual figures could be way higher than this. In fact, there are cities like Beijing that are under the Skynet of surveillance cameras which can become easy targets for hackers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, if you too have any camera installed at your home or office or use connected electronic systems, then do not forget to ensure their security first so that you do not come under the attack of CCTV botnet.</span></div>
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