MIT Researchers Use Wi-Fi To See People Through Walls

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><img alt="MIT-WiFi-See-through-walls" height="304" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/MIT-WiFi-See-through-walls.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's:  </b>MIT researchers have developed an RF capture device that could identify human silhouettes through the wall by using WiFI signals. The device is machine trained to recognize humans while profiling the major body parts.</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;">Imagination sees no ends. WiFi signals which were looked upon as a mere medium of data services or at max as a battery charger hitherto has been put up to another function by the scientists. The MIT researchers have devised a technology that use wireless signals to profile and identify silhouettes of the people beyond the walls.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The research team of the institute’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab had been using wireless signals for quite some time. Now they have come up with the RF-Capture technique that is trained to recognize different people based on their WiFi imagery.</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 technology is intricate, but the idea is fairly simple though. The WiFi signal coming through the wall will be reflected by a human body and then captured by the device. The captured signals are then processed and the noise removed through a 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;">As the data is received, it is fed to the algorithms that have been trained through machine learning techniques to detect the bodily features and release a coarse human model with major body parts as head chest arms and feet along with classification of different silhouettes on basis of height and other subtleties.</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;">MIT, in spite of being the most insecure university campus in America, is one of the main centers of innovation and developments of the world. Like with this one, the researchers are aiming to provide help to the elderly. Through this device, people can monitor their grandparents in the other room and even call 911 in case of emergency.</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 technology is still in developing stage and researchers are trying to minimize the privacy concerns that could arise with this device.</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 the demo of RF capture by MIT:</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7LTr02cJkiA" 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;">Source: MIT</span></div> </div>

MIT Researchers Use Wi-Fi To See People Through Walls

Shivam Patsariya 0 11:33 AM

SP's:  MIT researchers have developed an RF capture device that could identify human silhouettes through the wall by using WiFI signals. The device is machine trained to recognize humans while profiling the major body parts. Imagination sees no ends… Read more »

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Microsoft Officially Launches its Arrow Android Launcher

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="microsoft-android-arrow-launcher (2)" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/28172138/microsoft-android-arrow-launcher-2.jpg" /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>SP's : </b>Microsoft has officially launched its Arrow Launcher for the Android community.  The launcher is all about quickness and added more customization features compared to the beta release. Check for yourself.</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 of the reasons for the popularity of the Android smartphones is the easy customization. You can choose from the variety of launchers that suits you best. But, no one expected a Microsoft Android launcher inside their Play Store.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Microsoft has officially launched Arrow Launcher into the market that is already flooded with a number of Android Launchers. So, what’s new in Microsoft Android Launcher?</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 Arrow Launcher presets three pages that will have People Page(contacts) as a first page, second one is the home page of the launcher which is an Apps Page comprising of recent and frequently used app section and the third and the last page is the Notes and Reminders Page.</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="arrow_launcher_android" height="480" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/arrow_launcher_android.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;">So, overall the Arrow Launcher will provide you quickness at work and has added a lot of customization features as compared to the beta release.</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;">• Apps: Your apps are automatically arranged based on your usage</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">• People: Easily find and contact the people who matter the most to you </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">• Reminders: Never forget to pick up milk or call your spouse with integrated reminders </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">• Recent: Quickly get back to your recent photos, file downloads, app installs, and even dropped calls</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 Microsoft android launcher includes a dock to pull your most frequent used apps from the bottom. And you would also like the daily Bing wallpaper if you happen to be a fan of those.</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 Arrow Launcher is Microsoft’s first Android Launcher. It definitely created some news, but the private beta version doesn’t seem to impress much. The Arrow launcher is good but hopefully, the next version of Microsoft android launcher will have something more exciting.</span></div> </div>

Microsoft Officially Launches its Arrow Android Launcher

Shivam Patsariya 0 11:05 AM

SP's : Microsoft has officially launched its Arrow Launcher for the Android community.  The launcher is all about quickness and added more customization features compared to the beta release. Check for yourself. One of the reasons for the popularity… Read more »

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Yamaha Builds A Robot That Drives Motorcycles and Challenges World Champion Rossi

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="MOTOBOT-YAMAHA" height="383" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/MOTOBOT-YAMAHA.jpg" width="640" /></span></i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's: </b>Yamaha pulled a big one in the Tokyo Motor Show as it showcased its superbike riding Robot rather than any showing any ceremonious unconventional motorbike. Named Motobot, this humanoid is improving every day to give the champion racers a run for their money. </span></i></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;">While others were busy showing what their automobile has got, Yamaha displayed a marvel of engineering and AI at the Tokyo Motor Show. It wasn’t just any superbike or a green fuel motorcycle, but a humanoid that could effectively control and zoom on Yamaha’s 1000cc R1M.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As humans were already pissed off of the fact that machines would take their jobs becoming a doctor, lawyer and architect, Motobot and the flavour of the season, self-driving cars, have taken the drivers’ seat 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;">Motobot is the product of an intense R&D effort in robotics technology and Yamaha’s aim to create a robot that could cruise any unmodified bike. And if you are a rider yourself, you would understand that this task is no easy.</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;">Yamaha released a video showing Motobot riding its superbike with ease and in its childish voice even called out the MotoGP world champion, Valentino Rossi as he said, “I am improving my skills every day. I was created to surpass you.” But, unlike other superstars, Motobot is quite humble and realises that he needs to learn from the master to catch up to him.</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 superbike riding robot has caught every speed lover’s attention for the ultimate battle between the man and the machine on a superbike. However, the makers are still working to improve Motobot skills until it touches 200 kph on a racetrack.</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;">Yamaha wants to use its state-of-the-art technology to ‘pioneer new lines of business’ which has left many wondering what could it be! Could we be witnessing a humanoid MotoGP now?</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;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Watch the superbike riding robot Motobot ride in style:</span> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4asCK8yamb0" width="560"></iframe></div> </div> </div>

Yamaha Builds A Robot That Drives Motorcycles and Challenges World Champion Rossi

Shivam Patsariya 0 11:03 AM

SP's: Yamaha pulled a big one in the Tokyo Motor Show as it showcased its superbike riding Robot rather than any showing any ceremonious unconventional motorbike. Named Motobot, this humanoid is improving every day to give the champion racers a run … Read more »

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How Innocent Copy-Paste Leaks Your Previous Embarrassing Google Searches

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><img alt="google-copy-paste" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/google-copy-paste.jpg" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Our innocent habit of copy-paste is reflected when we send the URLs of search pages as some reference to our friends. But, it comes with the risks of exposing your previous searches, if done carelessly. Read the post to know the risk involved and how to avoid it. </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;">Using the Google search to solve the doubts is something we do every day and many times we send a link to a page of search results to our friends. But, before today, I never cared to look at the URL I’m sending as it’s an instantaneous action of simple copying-pasting.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To my surprise, it’s possible that this could’ve revealed my previous searches to the receiver – and it’s something that’s horrifying.</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;">Jeremy Rubin, the co-founder of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative, outlines a big blunder Google is committing and violating our privacy. On Medium, he explains how his friend sent him a link to a page of search results, and before he arrived at the intended page, he briefly saw another page of search results.</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;">So, what’s actually happening 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;">Okay, let’s ask me you to do some simple steps to reproduce the issue we are discussing 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;"> </div> <ol> <li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Open Google Chrome or Firefox browser.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">In the address bar, search “some random search 1”.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Now from the search page, search “fossbytes”.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">With the intention of sending this search page to a friend, or us, copy the URL at the top.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Before pasting it somewhere, look at the copied URL closely, it has both the searches “some random search 1” and “SPRTech” in the URL query string.</span></li> </ol> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: center;"> https://www.google.com/search? q=some+random+search+1#q=SPRTech</div> </span><br /> <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;">Till now, you would have understood the risk we are trying to address. If you don’t read the entire search string before forwarding to your friends or family, you might embarrass yourself in front of them.</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;">Jeremy also brought into the light a possible and generic phishing attack with an email asking for some specific results from a country “XYZ”.</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 such situations, it’s very harmless and easy to blame the user, calling her responsible as she copied and pasted the URL carelessly. However, she didn’t expect that simple copy-paste and a simple URL would be unsafe to share. Jeremy continues, “…nor does it meet their real-world behavior of blindly copy-pasting URLs, especially for something like search results.”</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;">He has disclosed this issue to Google and they have chosen to NOT fix it.</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;">We expect Google to stop this automatic inclusion of prior search results as it’s a violation of a user’s privacy expectations.</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;">Please double check the URLs before sending them to other people and tell the same to your friends and family.</span></div> </div>

How Innocent Copy-Paste Leaks Your Previous Embarrassing Google Searches

Shivam Patsariya 0 10:56 AM

SP's: Our innocent habit of copy-paste is reflected when we send the URLs of search pages as some reference to our friends. But, it comes with the risks of exposing your previous searches, if done carelessly. Read the post to know the risk involved … Read more »

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Motorola Launches DROID Turbo 2 And It Just Won’t Break

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><img alt="motorola-unbreakable-phone-1" height="386" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/motorola-unbreakable-phone-1.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Motorola is bringing an all-weather durable phone DROID Turbo 2 and claims it as the perfect phone for the imperfect people. With five layers of display protection, it can handle more than any other smartphone in its league.</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;">It doesn’t matter how advanced or smart your smartphone is if it gets shattered each time it falls! The flaw isn’t fixated to Apple iPhones, which if you remember would bend inside your pockets, but to almost all the phones (except vintage Nokia) that would easily break.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Motorola has, however, come up with its own hulk version of a smartphone that just won’t break. Motorola DROID Turbo 2 is the phone which won’t bother you with the unnecessary care-taking measures while using. The DROID Turbo 2 runs on the USP of a shatterproof display along with several upgrades and is a strong contender for the people’s choice.</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 Turbo2 display has a five-layered structure that absorb shocks keeping your smartphone’s screen intact, claims Motorola. Also, the display is little elastic rather than being rigid to incorporate up to a certain amount force.</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 Motorola DROID Turnbo 2 has a 5.4-inch Quad HD (2560 x 1440) display which comes with a four-year warranty against shattering and cracking.</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;">After Motorola showcased its phone’s sturdiness against iPhone in an advertisement, the skeptics at CNN performed some of their own tests to check the claims of the perfect phone for the imperfect people.</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 the official “shatterproof display” ad for DROID Turbo 2 by Motorola.</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JPPuWW0zi98" 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;">Also, watch the experiment by CNN.</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-V2r_9Um2Tw" width="560"></iframe> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div>

Motorola Launches DROID Turbo 2 And It Just Won’t Break

Shivam Patsariya 0 1:21 PM

SP's: Motorola is bringing an all-weather durable phone DROID Turbo 2 and claims it as the perfect phone for the imperfect people. With five layers of display protection, it can handle more than any other smartphone in its league. It doesn’t matter … Read more »

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Facebook Goes Super-slow on 2G Tuesday to Understand Slow Speeds

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><img alt="facebook-slow-tuesday" height="434" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/facebook-slow-tuesday.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Facebook has launched 2G Tuesday initiative where it will simulate 2G Internet speeds for its employees to empathize with the users of developing countries. This move will help the engineers to optimise their products for such communities with super slow Internet speeds.</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;">Know the devil before you work with him. Understanding the gist of the saying, Facebook, which is up against a task of building applications for a community of over a billion people with super slow Internet speed has announced a 2G Tuesday initiative to help its employees learn what it feels to be working in such conditions.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Targeting the emerging markets such as India, Facebook is creating an environment for its employees to empathize with the users and build products that would benefit the users of developing countries. After all, the Internet.org, Facebook’s pet project of connecting the world would fail miserably if there is no Internet or rather say no speed.</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;">Facebook recently witnessed over a billion daily users, of which most of them were online with 2G connections, unlike USA and Europe where a web page sometimes takes over 2 minutes to load.</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, knowing the problems of such users, the engineers at Facebook are working on optimizing the News Feed for slower networks.</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;">Tomi Alison, Engineering director at Facebook reminisces his first experience with Business Insider as he said, “I felt like, Whoa! It definitely tested my patience — it felt like parts of the product were just broken.”</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;">To better understand the situation, many top technicians often visit places like India and Kenya and regularly use the 2G simulated phones. This helps improve the quality of their product and cajoles the customers 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;">Facebook has also developed an open-source app for slow network testing that will let its app know the user’s connection speed and then display the new feed accordingly, like the preference of status updates over videos.</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;">2G Tuesday can be a nightmare for the Facebook employees but the result will definitely be a boon for the users in developing countries.</span></div> </div>

Facebook Goes Super-slow on 2G Tuesday to Understand Slow Speeds

Shivam Patsariya 0 1:17 PM

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Germany Suspects, Will Investigate Google and Facebook Over Data Transfers

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><img alt="germany-investigate-Facebook-google-over-illegal-data-transfer" height="359" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/germany-investigate-Facebook-google-over-illegal-data-transfer.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>he European Union has many a times been apprehensive of the US-based tech companies, especially on the matters of privacy and data security. Now, Germany has raised concerns over the illegal data transfers from the EU to the US by the global companies like Facebook and Google.</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 rift between the European and American companies is not hidden. Be it the automobile sector, industry or the tech conglomeration. In a recent development, Germany has just expressed its concerns over the intercontinental data transfers and announced investigations over the US based tech companies such as Google and Facebook.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The illegal data transfer accusation spiralled after an Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems filed a case against Facebook in Ireland on the charge of his privacy infringement due to NSA’s mass surveillance programs.</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 Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in its decision has given authority to the local data protection bodies to check if the data transfer flow under the 15-year-old Safe Harbour framework flouted any of the European Union laws, thus, authorized to investigate Google and Facebook. The concern of the officials is that the data from the EU isn’t safe from the US-based intelligence servers.</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;">While the case has been registered against the US-based tech companies in EU and probe been started, a US district court has dismissed a lawsuit against NSA’s mass surveillance programs because nobody is unable to prove such.</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 EU and USA, along with many other countries, have recently signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal that is considered to be the worst possible thing for the Internet with regards to proprietary rights, but the trust deficit between the two powers over the privacy violation is ever widening.</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;">EU announced on Monday about its principle-based agreement with the USA over a new trans-Atlantic data-transfer agreement. EU’s Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova said, “There is agreement on these matters in principle, but we are still discussing how to ensure that these commitments are binding enough to fully meet the requirements of the court”.</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 treaty will try to ensure a transparent data transfer process and while keeping the privacy of the citizens intact.</span></div> </div>

Germany Suspects, Will Investigate Google and Facebook Over Data Transfers

Shivam Patsariya 0 1:14 PM

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Google Introduces ASUS OnHub “Intelligent” WiFi Router

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><img alt="Google-Asus-OnHub-Wi-Fi-Router" height="463" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Google-Asus-OnHub-Wi-Fi-Router.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Google has teamed with up Asus this time to bring you an intelligent and powerful WiFi router. This is second in line from Google’s Wi-Fi router family after the TP-LINK and promises you of the performance never experienced before.</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;">Teaming up with the company that claimed to build the world’s fastest WiFi router, Asus, Google has introduced a new line of WiFi routers that will make the blank spots in your home disappear. Second member in the family of OnHub (previous one was TP-LINK) promises you the services unprecedented.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">OnHub comes with new innovations like wave control which lets you boost the WiFi speed for a particular device with just a wave of your hand over the router. The cylindrical shaped OnHub easily blends with the aesthetics of your house 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;">Google has also announced that the performance oriented software updates for Asus OnHub will come next week which will let the router select different combinations of the antennas to give the best signal to your devices, depending on their location in the house.</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;">If all your lifehacks of boosting the WiFi signal failed, and the regular technical methods for improving WiFi performance didn’t work either, then Google’s OnHub could be a the answer.</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 $219.99 the Asus OnHub will be available for pre-orders from select stores. Watch and learn more about the Asus OnHub on the OnHub platform.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="540" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0Yk-X4pOW6w" width="720"></iframe> <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;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Via: GoogleBlog</span></div> </div>

Google Introduces ASUS OnHub “Intelligent” WiFi Router

Shivam Patsariya 0 1:08 PM

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Meet Pepper, World’s First Emotional Robot that Understands You

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><img alt="pepper-emotional-robot" height="415" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/pepper-emotional-robot.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>SoftBank has come up with the world’s first humanoid robot with ’emotions’- Pepper. This 4 feet tall, 61 pound robot is equipped with cameras, lasers and infrared sensors to recognize your mood and acts accordingly. It tries to make you happy. Also, it can be used for all household activities like serving as a nurse, babysitting, gardening, or even making sandwiches.</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;">In today’s world when fellow humans may not understand your emotions, a robot might as well help you out!</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yes, you heard it right. The telecom giant SoftBank has come up with the world’s first humanoid robot with emotions. This four feet tall, 61 pounds of adorable humanoid robot recognizes tones of voice and facial expressions in order to interact with humans. And the best part? Well, Pepper tries to make you happy!</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="pepper" height="426" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/pepper.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;">Pepper features cameras, lasers and infrared sensors on its head so it can detect human faces. Also, it is equipped with artificial intelligence to interpret and even react to anger, happiness, nervousness, sorrow in humans around by recognizing their voice tones, facial expressions, and language.</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;">Pepper is designed for all household activities like serving as a nurse, babysitting, gardening or even making sandwiches! Besides, it is highly curious and tries to talk to you, learn about you and adapt accordingly. Also, it can speak 17 languages and is backed by 12 hours of battery.</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;">Check out this interview with Pepper:</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="500" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kCFYw8mIqcc" width="700"></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;">A $1,650 consumer version was announced back in June. SoftBank has announced partnership with Foxconn and Alibaba. SoftBank is highly optimistic of Pepper being the first step in spreading robotics worldwide.</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;">Imagine a world in which every household would be equipped with such cute robots to understand your emotions, especially in old age homes, where Pepper can not only make them happy, but also aid in household work.</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 do you think about Pepper? Would you like to own one? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div> </div>

Meet Pepper, World’s First Emotional Robot that Understands You

Shivam Patsariya 0 1:05 PM

SP's: SoftBank has come up with the world’s first humanoid robot with ’emotions’- Pepper. This 4 feet tall, 61 pound robot is equipped with cameras, lasers and infrared sensors to recognize your mood and acts accordingly. It tries to make you happy.… Read more »

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