Now Use Facebook Messenger, Without a Facebook Account

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a data-rel="lightbox-0" href="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/25120340/messenger-without-facebook.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; color: #9a65b2; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="messenger-without-facebook" class="lazy aligncenter size-full wp-image-11673 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/25120340/messenger-without-facebook.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="444" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/25120340/messenger-without-facebook.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="804" /></a>Remember the time when Facebook forced you to download its standalone Messenger app and you cursed the world’s biggest social network big time? Well, now Messenger has graduated and is ready to take <span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the next step</span>.</div> <div class="su-row" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"> <div class="su-column su-column-size-1-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 134.392364501953px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div> <div class="su-column su-column-size-4-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 31.9965286254883px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.59375px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span class="su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-default" style="background: linear-gradient(rgb(69, 72, 77) 0%, rgb(0, 0, 0) 100%); border-radius: 50%; border: 0px; color: white; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.5em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 2em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px 0.5em 0.2em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-shadow: rgb(0, 0, 0) -1px -1px 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline; width: 2em;">T</span>oday Facebook decided that it is now giving its users the option to use sign up for the Messenger without needing a Facebook account. This news comes in the wake of the fact that Facebook has been trying hard to push Messenger forward as a platform.<div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> In a<span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/06/sign-up-for-messenger-without-a-facebook-account/" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">blog post</a></span>, Facebook said: “With Messenger, we’ve been focused on creating the best messaging experience possible by giving people a fun and easy way to connect and express themselves with friends and contacts. We are starting to roll out a new way for you to sign up for Messenger – without a Facebook account.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Now you can sign up for the Facebook Messenger chat app just with your first name, last name, and your phone number. This functionality is being launched in the US, Canada, Peru and Venezuela before the rest of the world.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> It should be noted that this isn’t some new experiment by Facebook- the world’s most popular social network had tried the same thing on Android in India and few other regions back in 2012, but it got scrapped up due to some reasons.</div> <h2 style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 34px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.7px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> How Messenger without Facebook account works?</h2> <h2 style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 34px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.7px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <a data-rel="lightbox-1" href="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/25120633/messenger-without-facebook-.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; color: #9a65b2; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="messenger-without-facebook-" class="lazy aligncenter wp-image-11674 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/25120633/messenger-without-facebook-.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="493" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/25120633/messenger-without-facebook-.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="673" /></a></h2> <ul style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now the Messenger will feature a new “Not on Facebook?” button during the sign-up flow.</li> </ul> <ul style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;">Use this button to fill up your details like your phone number, first name, last name and a picture.</li> </ul> <ul style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you are having a Facebook account, then you need not enter these details as it will automatically fetch your details.</li> </ul> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> This functionality of Messenger will enable it to attract those users who have alienated themselves from Facebook and still want to have an app as universal as Messenger. Also, Facebook has its own underlying interests behind this step. The Messenger has a vast user-base of 700 million users and it is slowing taking steps towards the monetization of Messenger slowly and gradually.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Did you like this step of Facebook? Tell us in the comments below.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

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Microsoft plans ‘Redstone’ updates for Windows 10 in 2016

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 16px;">Windows 10 Successor Carries Codename 'Redstone' And Will Splash Land In 2016</span></span></h2> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Windows 10 isn't even out the door yet, so what better time than now to talk about its successor? Believe it or not, there's a fair bit of information on it floating around already, with its codename being particularly interesting: Redstone.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Following in the footsteps of 'Blue' and 'Threshold', Redstone is an obvious tie-in to Microsoft's purchase of <i>Minecraft</i>, which it snagged from Mojang last year. Redstone is an integral material in the game, used to create simple items like a map or compass as well as logic gates for building electronic devices, like a calculator or working doors.</span><br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="Windows Redstone" height="340" loading="lazy" src="http://hothardware.com/ContentImages/NewsItem/33238/content/Windows_Redstone.jpg" width="640" /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That similarity is likely the only correlation <i>Minecraft</i> has with the upcoming Windows, and it's probably a good thing: a blocky Windows OS might not be too attractive.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's the really important news: we could see Windows Redstone in 2016. Yes, <i>next year</i>. This isn't hugely surprising since Microsoft has made it known in the past that it's wanted to accelerate the roll out of its Windows successors, but it does highlight one of the reasons why I think Microsoft is so happy to make Windows 10 free for the first year: A new Windows version will be out as soon as that deal expires.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At this point, it's hard to predict what Windows Redstone will look like, but given how fast Microsoft has acted during the preview of Windows 10, it seems likely that what the company even knows of Redstone today could differ greatly from what it becomes next year.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="Windows 10 Transparent Start Menu" height="581" loading="lazy" src="http://hothardware.com/ContentImages/NewsItem/33238/content/Windows_10_Transparent_Start_Menu.jpg" width="640" /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On account of Microsoft's insistence on "tiles" in lieu of a regular Start menu, I can't see that going anywhere. If anything, it might be tweaked further to look better, but it seems Microsoft is intent on making its desktop OSes have mobile-specific enhancements.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Regardless of what Redstone looks like, what's important for <i>now</i> is to just get Windows 10 out the door. That's expected to happen this coming summer, and based on what I've experienced during the preview, it's already on the right track to releasing as a very stable, robust OS.</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While Microsoft used the <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/28/3693368/windows-blue-update-low-cost" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #fa4b2a; text-decoration: none;">Windows Blue</a> codename for Windows 8.1  </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7;">and </span><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/2/5165992/microsoft-planning-threshold-updates-windows-windows-phone-xbox" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #fa4b2a; text-decoration: none;">Threshold</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7;"> for Windows 10, the software giant is planning to use Redstone for its 2016 plans. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7;">The Verge</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7;"> that the company is planning two updates to the core of Windows in 2016, one in the summer and one in fall. These updates will largely be designed for new hardware and devices that run Windows, and will be targeted at the Xbox, Surface Hub, phones, HoloLens, Microsoft Band, Office, and other products that rely on the core of Windows. Redstone is the codename for the updates and a reference to Minecraft, the game Microsoft acquired last year. The Redstone name was first revealed by </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7;">Neowin</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7;">.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <q class="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #fa4b2a; display: block; float: right; font-family: ff-din-web-condensed, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1; margin: 2.5rem 0px 2.2rem 2.5rem; max-width: 40%; quotes: none; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WINDOWS AS A SERVICE BEGINS, BUT REDSTONE FOR CORE UPDATES</span></q></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Microsoft is currently planning to push regular monthly updates to Windows 10 in the meantime, and the company has already revealed its "Windows as a service" plans that accompany this. Windows 10 will ship this summer, but Microsoft will continue to update it and components that aren’t core to the operating system on a regular basis. As part of those plans, elements like Project Spartan, <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/31/8319169/project-spartan-new-browser-microsoft-hands-on" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #fa4b2a; text-decoration: none;">Microsoft’s new browser for Windows 10</a>, will be updated through the Windows Store to ensure features can make their way to users at a more rapid pace. Microsoft moved a lot of the core features of Windows Phone to this model last year, and it’s something the company is increasingly doing across Windows as a whole.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Windows Redstone updates won’t be seen as a Windows 11 or Windows 12, but more of a Windows 10.1, with new features added to the core for all difference device types to take advantage of. Microsoft is currently planning to detail more of its HoloLens and Windows 10 development plans at Build later this month, and it’s possible the company may discuss Windows as a service and Redstone. We understand the Redstone name was first used around two months ago inside Microsoft, so it may still be a little early for the company to share its plans.</span></div> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iZEO9BlRMds" width="560"></iframe> </div> </div>

Microsoft plans ‘Redstone’ updates for Windows 10 in 2016

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Bill Gates Announces ‘Remote Controlled’ Implantable Birth Control Chip Lasting 16 Years

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a data-rel="lightbox-0" href="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/birth-control-chip-contraceptive-bill-gates.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; color: #9a65b2; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="birth-control-chip-contraceptive-bill-gates" class="lazy aligncenter wp-image-11573 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/birth-control-chip-contraceptive-bill-gates.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="493" loading="lazy" src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/birth-control-chip-contraceptive-bill-gates.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="820" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bill Gates</span>, of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a remote controlled implantable birth control chip that could last up to 16 years. Robert Langer, a professor from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (<span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MIT</span>) is helping the foundation in this endeavor.</div> <div class="su-row" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"> <div class="su-column su-column-size-1-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 134.390625px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div> <div class="su-column su-column-size-4-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.59375px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span class="su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-default" style="background: linear-gradient(rgb(69, 72, 77) 0%, rgb(0, 0, 0) 100%); border-radius: 50%; border: 0px; color: white; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.5em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 2em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px 0.5em 0.2em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-shadow: rgb(0, 0, 0) -1px -1px 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline; width: 2em;">L</span>anger connected the Gate’s Foundation with MicroCHIPS, a Massachusetts firm licensed to use a controlled-release microchip technology. The partnership between Langer and Gates has been busy with developing the technology. The chips will be ready for sale in market in the early 2018, with safety tests starting by the end of this year.<div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The partnership between Langer and Gates has been busy with developing the technology. The chips will be ready for sale in market in the early 2018, with safety tests starting by the end of this year.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> MIT Technology Review<span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/528121/a-contraceptive-implant-with-remote-control/" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"> stated</a></span> the implant would have to be encrypted to guard wireless data flow and keep it protected. The chip’s size is 20mm x 20mm x 7mm and reservoirs of the hormone are stored on a 1.5cm-wide microchip within the device.<a data-rel="lightbox-1" href="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/birth-control-chip-contraceptive-bill-gates-.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; color: #9a65b2; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="birth-control-chip-contraceptive-bill-gates-" class="lazy aligncenter size-full wp-image-11574 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/birth-control-chip-contraceptive-bill-gates-.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="393" loading="lazy" src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/birth-control-chip-contraceptive-bill-gates-.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="300" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The birth control microchip would hold nearly two decades worth of a hormone commonly used in contraceptives and dispense 30 micrograms a day, according to a report from the MIT Technology Review. The implant’s daily dose works by a small electric charge that melts an ultra-thin seal around the hormone. The birth control microchip can be implanted in the buttocks, upper arm or abdomen.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “The idea of using a thin membrane like an electric fuse was the most challenging and the most creative problem we had to solve,” MicroCHIPS president Robert Farra says.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The idea struck Bill Gates a few years back when he realized the difficulties the women in the Asian-African countries have to undergo to plan pregnancies. Gates said that his aim was to make every pregnancy planned and highly desirable. Once developed these chips will prove to be highly effective in controlling unplanned pregnancies and can decrease the high mother mortality rate in the Asian-African countries.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Source: fossbyte</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Can this remote control implantable birth control become popular? Tell us in comments.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

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Docker, Google, CoreOS, Microsoft, IBM, Linux and More Working On Common Container Standard

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a data-rel="lightbox-0" href="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/open-container-project-docker-coreos-linux-.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; color: #9a65b2; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="open-container-project-docker-coreos-linux-" class="lazy aligncenter size-full wp-image-11563 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/open-container-project-docker-coreos-linux-.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="530" loading="lazy" src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/open-container-project-docker-coreos-linux-.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="870" /></a><a data-rel="lightbox-1" href="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/open-container-project-docker-coreos-linux.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; color: #9a65b2; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></a>In the recent past, there has been a fast growth of software industry’s interest and usage in the containers and <span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Docker has strengthened its position</span> as the de facto container standard. But, from some time, an imminent collision between Dockers and other container solutions was on course.</div> <div class="su-row" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"> <div class="su-column su-column-size-1-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 134.390625px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div> <div class="su-column su-column-size-4-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.59375px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span class="su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-default" style="background: linear-gradient(rgb(69, 72, 77) 0%, rgb(0, 0, 0) 100%); border-radius: 50%; border: 0px; color: white; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.5em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 2em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px 0.5em 0.2em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-shadow: rgb(0, 0, 0) -1px -1px 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline; width: 2em;">N</span>ow, Docker, Google, CoreOS, Microsoft and Amazon are working on a new standard for the software container in collaboration with the Linux Foundation. The other members coming along in this endeavor are Cisco, EMC, Fujitsu, Goldman Sachs, IBM, HP, Intel, Joyent, Pivotal, Red Hat, VMware, Apcera and Mesosphere. So, it looks like everyone who is responsible to build and who can build an ever-growing container ecosystem, have come together to serve a common purpose.<div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Back in December 2014, CoreOS launched its own container technology and the App Container Image (the appc) to define a standard for containers. With this new common container standard, the software community is expecting to define a standard that will work across all container technologies based on Docker, CoreOS and others.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Now with the common container standard, the developers will have the power to package and run their applications in real time with a neutral standard.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="open-container-project-docker-coreos-linux" class="lazy aligncenter wp-image-11564 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/open-container-project-docker-coreos-linux.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="199" loading="lazy" src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/open-container-project-docker-coreos-linux.jpg" style="border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="825" /></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The project called the Open Container Project (OCP) was launched on Monday under the hood of the Linux Foundation. The Docker CEO said: “The idea of trying to set up an industry standard with Docker Inc. contributing really started about three weeks ago, and it started picking up steam in the last week.” </div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> In the project, Docker is donating its container format and runtime to create an open community and users will have the choice the best technology suited for their job.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “We’re getting the contributions from Docker with the format and runtime that underpin container usage, and then we’re also getting the shared standard and vendor neutrality aspects that we’ve designed with app container,” Alex Polvi, CoreOS CEO said.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The official<span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.opencontainers.org/pressrelease/" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"> web release </a></span>describes the guiding principles around OCP standards as follows:</div> <ul style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Not be bound to higher level constructs such as a particular client or orchestration stack</li> <li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Not be tightly associated with any particular commercial vendor or project and</li> <li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Be portable across a wide variety of operating systems, hardware, CPU architectures, public clouds, etc.</li> </ul> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The specifications of the open container will be available at this link in the upcoming weeks<span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> https://github.com/opencontainers/specs.</span><br />Docker’s container format and runtime is available at <span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://github.com/opencontainers/runc" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;">https://github.com/opencontainers/runc</a>.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Source: fossbyte</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Did this news about the common container standard cheer you up? Tell us in comments below.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Docker, Google, CoreOS, Microsoft, IBM, Linux and More Working On Common Container Standard

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In challenge to Twitter, Instagram goes real-time

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div id="LeftData" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; min-width: 155px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/thumb/msid-47797453,width-300,resizemode-4/Instagram.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="In challenge to Twitter, Instagram goes real-time" border="0" height="426" loading="lazy" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" pg="" src="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/thumb/msid-47797453,width-300,resizemode-4/Instagram.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="In challenge to Twitter, Instagram goes real-time" vspace="0" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Instagram began letting users easily tune into hot topics of the moment as it stepped squarely into Twitter's domain</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">SAN FRANCISCO: Instagram began letting users easily tune into hot topics of the moment as the Facebook-owned image sharing service stepped squarely into Twitter's domain.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Updated versions of Instagram applications released in the United States for mobile devices powered by Apple or Android software boasted Explore pages complete with trending topics and places.</span></div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"> </span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">"The new Explore now surfaces trends as they emerge in real-time, connecting you to events and conversations both near you and around the globe," the Instagram team said in a blog post.</span></div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"> </span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">"We'll work to bring it to the rest of the world after we fine-tune the experience and set it up to work well in other countries."</span></div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"> </span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">More than 70 million photos and videos are posted daily at Instagram, making it likely there will be imagery related to attention-grabbing events, according to the service.</span><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img loading="lazy" src="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/photo/47797486.cms" /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Twitter rose to prominence on its service that lets people share pictures, video snippets, and comments about happenings or hot topics in real-time.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Instagram said that Explore pages will feature curated collections from "interesting accounts" such as those of musicians or extreme athletes or focused on potentially compelling places.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Search has undergone a "dramatic" upgrade in the latest version of the application, according to Instagram.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">The challenge to Twitter came as the one-to-many messaging service based in San Francisco searched for a new chief executive capable of spurring both growth and revenue.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Twitter said it would only consider chief executive candidates who can commit full-time to the company, signaling that co-founder and interim head Jack Dorsey likely will not be picked.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Dorsey, in addition to stepping in for outgoing Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, leads Square, a growing mobile payments company.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">"The search is proceeding with a sense of urgency but the committee will take the time necessary to find the right CEO to lead the next phase of Twitter's growth," Twitter said in a released statement.</span></div> </div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"> </span><br /> <div id="sshow" style="background: transparent; 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Facebook's new tool spots ‘hidden’ faces in photos

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="flL_pos" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <div id="LeftData" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; float: left; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; min-width: 155px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div id="sshow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="cnt new_class3" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12px; margin: 3px 0px 0px 4px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 310px;"> <div class="padL3" id="bellyad" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3px;"> <div class="mainimg1" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"> <div class="flL_pos" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: left; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <img alt="FB’s new tool spots ‘hidden’ faces in photos" border="0" loading="lazy" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" pg="" src="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/thumb/msid-47793772,width-300,resizemode-4/Facebook.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="FB’s new tool spots ‘hidden’ faces in photos" vspace="0" width="300" /></div> <div class="zoomimg1 wd300 clearfix" pg="asStoryPic" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 4px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; right: 4px; width: 300px;"> <div class="photo11" style="background: rgb(234, 234, 234); border: 0px; color: #757575; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An experimental algorithm developed by Facebook’s artificial intelligence lab can recognize people in photographs even when their faces are hidden.</span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="new_class2" id="ftredcmt" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> <div class="clearFix" id="inc_dec" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-size: 12px; height: 721px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <div class="Normal showpage1" id="artext1" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="Normal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">LONDON: An experimental algorithm developed by Facebook's artificial intelligence lab can recognize people in photographs even when their faces are hidden.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The algorithm will recognize a person through their unique characteristics such as hairdo, clothing, body shape and pose.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yann LeCun, head of artificial intelligence at Facebook, wanted to see if modern face-recognition algorithms could be adapted to recognise people in situations where someone's face is not clear, something humans can already do quite well.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The research team pulled almost 40,000 public photos from Flickr — some of people with their full face clearly visible, and others where they were turned away — and ran them through a sophisticated neural network.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The final algorithm was able to recognize individual people's identities with 83% accuracy, 'New Scientist' reported.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">LeCun said such a tool would be useful for people who are privacy-conscious as it could alert them whenever a photo of themselves, however obscured, pops up on the internet. However, the ability to identify someone even when they are not looking at the camera raises some serious privacy implications.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <div class="share-embed-options" id="share-preview" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div id="video-preview" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T1CWZ3mSF_w" style="background: transparent; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="560"></iframe></span></div> </div> <div class="share-embed-options" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source: TOI</span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

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Google launches free streaming service

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div id="LeftData" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; min-width: 155px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div id="sshow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="cnt new_class3" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12px; margin: 3px 0px 0px 4px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 310px;"> <div class="padL3" id="bellyad" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3px;"> <div class="mainimg1" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"> <div class="flL_pos" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; float: left; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <img alt="Google launches free streaming service" border="0" loading="lazy" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" pg="" src="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/thumb/msid-47795521,width-300,resizemode-4/Google.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="Google launches free streaming service" vspace="0" width="300" /></div> <div class="zoomimg1 wd300 clearfix" pg="asStoryPic" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 4px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; right: 4px; width: 300px;"> <div class="photo11" style="background: rgb(234, 234, 234); border: 0px; color: #757575; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Google account offers access to various services, including Gmail, maps, Google+, YouTube and Picasa, among others.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your account is intricately linked to your Android phone, including details of apps you may have purchased from the Play Store. Once you delete the account, information related to paid apps is removed and you would have to buy them again.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To remove an account,//accounts. google.com and scroll down to the account management section. From here, you can delete either your Google+ profile or your entire account. You could also remove specific products. If you or someone else accidentally deletes the account, you can restore everything within a few days.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="new_class2" id="ftredcmt" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> <div class="clearFix" id="inc_dec" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: 1505px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <div class="Normal showpage1" id="artext1" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="Normal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SAN FRANCISCO: Google has launched a free version of its music streaming service on June 23, as it sought to upstage the debut of Apple Inc's rival service next week.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Google Play Music has offered a $9.99 per month subscription service for two years but this launch is the first free version of the streaming service. It is available online and will be available on Android and iOS by the end of the week, Elias Roman, Google product manager, said.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Apple said earlier this month it would launch a music streaming service on June 30 for $9.99 per month along with a $14.99 per month family plan, with a free three-month trial.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As with other streaming services, such as Spotify and Rhapsody, Google Play Music curates playlists. Users can tailor playlists based on genre, artist or even activity, such as hosting a pool party or "having fun at work."</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"We believe this is a play that will expose a lot of people to the service," Roman said in an interview.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2AYUi89HaOI" width="560"></iframe> </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unlike Google's subscription music service, the free service will carry ads, be unavailable offline and exclude certain songs.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Roman said millions of people look at Google Play Music each month but are not ready to pay for a subscription. By offering a free version of the service, he said, the search engine hopes more people will be compelled to pay for an upgraded version.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ted Cohen, managing partner of TAG Strategic, a digital entertainment consultancy, said the timing of Google's launch was strategic.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"It's a smart time to do it with all the attention around Apple," Cohen said. "If they did it absent the Apple service, it wouldn't be the same story."</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Google declined to say how many subscribers it has but said they more than doubled in 2014 from the previous year. But rivals Pandora, Spotify and Beats Music had far more mobile downloads than Google Play Music in 2014, according to data from analytics firm App Annie.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source: TOI</span></div> </div> </div> </div>

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WiFi Nanoparticles Talk To The Brain From Inside

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a data-rel="lightbox-0" href="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/magnetoelectric-nanoparticles-inside-brain.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; color: #9a65b2; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="magnetoelectric- nanoparticles inside brain" class="lazy aligncenter wp-image-11411 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/magnetoelectric-nanoparticles-inside-brain.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="541" loading="lazy" src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/magnetoelectric-nanoparticles-inside-brain.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="797" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Most of us know that our brain functions in a complex manner. The neurons in the brain communicate using electrical signals, and our brain has around 100 billion neurons and each communicates with millions of others. The information thus is traveled and transferred at the atomic level. We can view and maneuver the signals through implants and wiring inside the brain, but only to some extent.</div> <div class="su-row" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"> <div class="su-column su-column-size-1-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 134.390625px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div> <div class="su-column su-column-size-4-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.59375px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span class="su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-default" style="background: linear-gradient(rgb(69, 72, 77) 0%, rgb(0, 0, 0) 100%); border-radius: 50%; border: 0px; color: white; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.5em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 2em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px 0.5em 0.2em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-shadow: rgb(0, 0, 0) -1px -1px 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline; width: 2em;">A</span>team of medical researchers at Florida International University in Miami has found another way of mapping the brain signals more accurately than ever. They injected 20 billion nanoparticles into the brains of mice, with the idea of establishing a kind of direct wireless connection to neurons.<div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> These are the ‘Magnetoelectric Nanoparticles’ ( MENs) that sneak up towards the neural networks inside the brain. The nanoparticles possess special properties. They produce electric fields in the vicinity of the individual neurons, when triggered by the magnetic field externally. The MENs’ generated electric field communicates directly with the brain’s electric field.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Sakhrat Khizroev, the lead researcher told New Scientist:</div> <blockquote style="border: 0px; color: #777777; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 50px; position: relative; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> When MENs are exposed to even an extremely low frequency magnetic field, they generate their own local electric field at the same frequency. In turn, the electric field can directly couple to the electric circuitry of the neural network.</div> </blockquote> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> This technique of getting inside and actually seeing the processes happening inside the brain would open new levels of brain-computer networking interface. The nanoparticles could be further used to deliver drugs to specific parts of the brain.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The researchers’ team showed that various antiviruses could be released inside the body through this technology. They have showed that the particles can carry anti HIV  drugs and cancer drug paclitaxel.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Khizroev suggests that doing the process in reverse would create a new way to control the machines and interact with computers. The nanoparticles would create magnetic fields in response to the brain’s own electrical signal. The computer would get our brain signals as the input parameters and then can directly simulate the targeted regions of the brain in return.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> This technology however not yet tested on humans, has created quite a stir among the people in the medicine field. Unveiling the ways of the working of human brain would lead to unlocking many mysteries.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

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BBC Experiment: Switch Channels With Your Mind

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a data-rel="lightbox-0" href="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/BBC-mind-control-headset.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; color: #9a65b2; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="BBC-mind-control headset" class="lazy aligncenter wp-image-11377 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/BBC-mind-control-headset.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="474" loading="lazy" src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/BBC-mind-control-headset.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="768" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Feeling lazy and the TV remote is more than a hand’s distance! Feels like coming out of <span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">science fiction</span>, this new technology seems to be the next best thing for the couch potatoes and television watchers in general.</div> <div class="su-row" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"> <div class="su-column su-column-size-1-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 134.390625px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div> <div class="su-column su-column-size-4-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.59375px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span class="su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-default" style="background: linear-gradient(rgb(69, 72, 77) 0%, rgb(0, 0, 0) 100%); border-radius: 50%; border: 0px; color: white; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.5em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 2em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px 0.5em 0.2em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-shadow: rgb(0, 0, 0) -1px -1px 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline; width: 2em;">T</span>he broadcasting giant BBC is working with the London-based tech company This Place and has tested its new ‘Mind Control TV’ prototype. The prototype is a brainwave reading headset and works with BBC’s  <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">i</em><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> player</em> service. Cyrus Saihan, head of business development for the BBC’s Digital division revealed on BBC news:<blockquote style="border: 0px; color: #777777; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 50px; position: relative; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> It’s an internal prototype designed to give our program makers, technologists and other users an idea of how this technology might be used in future.</div> </blockquote> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> In the experiment, 10 BBC staff members wore the headset and tried launching the <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">i </em><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">player</em> and then switch channels with their mind power. Some with the focused minds were able to do it easily as compared to others but everyone did it eventually.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The device works by measuring the electrical activity inside the brain, when the user focuses its attention on a specific channel. The thought interface which is developed by This Place, cycles through each program or channel until the user selects an item based on calibrated brainwaves. The selected program will play automatically until the user focuses to go back to the discovery interface.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Basically, this technology would work when your mind is free of chaos. Russell Plunkett, the innovations director at This Place, said:</div> <blockquote style="border: 0px; color: #777777; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 50px; position: relative; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.75em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> To do this, I am going to meditate by closing my eyes and focusing on deep breaths.</div> </blockquote> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Saihan said that the technology is still in its development phase and upgrading this tech would open new dimensions and create entirely different ways of human communication with the machines. Also this technology could be integrated with various electronic and mechanical systems to create better and <span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">futuristic gadgets</span><span style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Getting the work done just by focusing the thoughts would greatly help people with motor neuron diseases and physical disabilities.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The cost has not been revealed yet, but whenever be this technology available it would definitely get its takers in the market, won’t matter what the price is.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Going by the speed at which the technology is being enhanced, the future, it looks like is definitely going to be a science fiction!!</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> But for now forget fighting over the remote now with your big brother; just focus! <img alt="😀" class="emoji" draggable="false" loading="lazy" src="http://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/72x72/1f600.png" style="background: none !important; border-radius: 2px; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1em !important; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Via: <span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://m.phys.org/news/2015-06-bbc-explores-mind-tv-choice.html" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Phys.org</a></span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

BBC Experiment: Switch Channels With Your Mind

Feeling lazy and the TV remote is more than a hand’s distance! Feels like coming out of  science fiction , this new technology seems to ...

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