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Friday, 25 January 2013
Windows 8 .. Curtains Down !!!!!
Windows 8 with its unique Elegance.
A floor that understands where you are and what you are ...!! Touch-Sensitive Floor
It's an extremely exciting research result. The floor seems to mirror, but his reflection in it you will not see. Instead, the computer generates your twin, which moves along with you. A prototype floor that senses your every step and displays interactive video could one day bring strange sights and new possibilities into your home. The prototype consists of a glass plate with thickness 6.4 cm, and an infrared camera and a video projector with high resolution, installed below the floor in the room to monitor the movement of people and transfer the video directly on the glass.
For instance, to play a version of indoor soccer, the floor generates a CGI football that can be kicked about by the people in the room. Or if someone sits on the floor, the system recognises who they are by their precise weight and flips a TV on to their favourite channel. Similarly, an elderly person's activity levels could be monitored.
Monday, 30 July 2012
No PETROL , NO FUEL , NO CNG !! Now Vehicles will operate on WATER !!!
So Here It is , WATER KIT !!!! Pakistani Engineer Agha Waqar invented a WATER KIT which can be applied insted of CNG kit or Petrol in a car !!!! Its first ever invention in the world!!! And the matter is taken to the Cabinet... I.A soon it will be commercialized!!!
The water used in it is Distilled water.
No alteration in Engine or design is made.
1 liter of distilled water gives 40 km drive [ upto 1600 cc hp].
1 liter of Distilled water can operate an Electric generator of 1KV for 2 hours.
Those who Understand Urdu Language can refer to this links for further details ....
http://www.paktvnetwork.com/vid/tube.php?v=_ogUbIf5sA0&feature=youtu.be
Thursday, 19 July 2012
Windows 8 Releasing October 26
It's official: After
months of speculation, Microsoft has set an official release date for Windows
8, its first update to the Windows operating system in almost three years.
After teasing that Windows 8 would be available toward the end of October, Windows
President Steven Sinofsky officially announced that the next-generation of
Windows will be released on October 26. That's when you'll be able to download
it to your PC or purchase a new computer with Windows 8, according to a post on the
official Windows Team Blog.
Microsoft had previously announced that
an upgrade from Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 will cost $40 for a
digital-only download.
For Microsoft,
October 26th is set to be a big day: Windows 8 is one of the most ambitious
overhauls of Windows in years, perhaps ever. It features two separate
interfaces: the traditional desktop version, with a start bar and icons, as
well as a radical new touch-friendly "Metro" interface with the
large, fluid live tiles of the Windows Phone operating system. Many key apps,
including Internet Explorer, have been redesigned to run in Metro, while
others, such as the recently unveiled Microsoft Office suite, will function as
desktop apps.
It is unclear how the general public will react to
this radical design change; early reviews have been mixed, which is not a good sign for
a Windows user base that has been typically resistant to change. (It took until
October 2011 for Windows 7, released in 2009, to surpass Windows XP, released
in 2001, as the most used Windows OS). With Windows 8, Microsoft is certainly hoping to avoid another
Vista-like revolt.
In the days before Halloween 2012, Microsoft will
begin to learn whether it has a fan favorite or a dud in its new operating
system. Too, the Microsoft Surface tablet should
also be out around October 26th, as Microsoft execs had promised that its first
foray into hardware would be out concurrently with the new operating system;
we'll also start seeing how well that tablet can sell, up against Apple's
market-leading iPad (and perhaps a new iPad Mini).
October 26th, in
other words, is one of the biggest days in Microsoft history. Mark your
calendars.
Sunday, 15 July 2012
Facebook scans chats and posts for criminal activity
Facebook has added sleuthing to its array of data-mining
capabilities, scanning your posts and chats for criminal activity. If the
social-networking giant detects suspicious behavior, it flags the content and
determines if further steps, such as informing the police, are required.
The new tidbit about the company's
monitoring system comes from a Reuters interview with
Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan. Here's the lead-in to the Reuters
story:
A
man in his early 30s was chatting about sex with a 13-year-old South Florida
girl and planned to meet her after middle-school classes the next day.
Facebook's extensive but little-discussed technology for scanning postings and
chats for criminal activity automatically flagged the conversation for
employees, who read it and quickly called police. Officers took control of the
teenager's computer and arrested the man the next day.
Facebook's software focuses on conversations between members who
have a loose relationship on the social network. For example, if two users
aren't friends, only recently became friends, have no mutual friends, interact
with each other very little, have a significant age difference, and/or are
located far from each other, the tool pays particular attention.
The scanning program looks for certain phrases found in previously
obtained chat records from criminals, including sexual predators (because of
the Reuters story, we know of at least one alleged child predator who is being
brought before the courts as a direct result of Facebook's chat scanning). The
relationship analysis and phrase material have to add up before a Facebook
employee actually looks at communications and makes the final decision of
whether to ping the authorities.
"We've never wanted to set up
an environment where we have employees looking at private communications, so
it's really important that we use technology that has a very low false-positive
rate," Sullivan told Reuters. While details of the tool are still scarce,
it's a well-known fact that Facebook cooperates with the police, since, like
any company, it has to abide by the law. In fact, just a few months ago,
Facebook complied with a police subpoena by sending over62 pages of photos, Wall
posts, messages, contacts, and past activity on the site for a murder suspect.
For more information about
Facebook's stance on working with the police, I checked out these two pages: Law Enforcement and
Third-Party Matters, as well as Information for Law
Enforcement Authorities. It's worth noting that neither of these
documents discusses the aforementioned tool (a quick search for the words
"monitor" and "scan" bring up nothing).
Facebook likely wants to avoid discussing the existence of the
monitoring technology in order to avoid further privacy concerns. Many users
don't like the idea of having their conversations reviewed, even if it's done
by software and rarely by Facebook employees.
Apple warns retailers to stop selling certain Samsung devices
How serious is Apple about getting a court-mandated sales ban
against Samsung's Galaxy Tab and Nexus smartphone in place? Serious enough to
start sending messages about it to carriers and other retailers, even before
one of the injunctions was temporarily put on hold.
In a new filing in the case between the two technology
giants in California, which was picked up by FOSS Patents, Samsung notes that Apple took the liberty of
sending do-not-sell letters to carriers and retailers that carry Samsung's
products.
Those letters include a copy of the court-ordered
injunction, as well as a postscript suggesting that retailers are "acting
in concert" with Samsung by selling its products and thus must obey the
court order. In its filing, Samsung says Apple crossed the line with letters,
going so far as to call them "menacing."
According to FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller, Apple sent
out the notice for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 on June 28, with those for Samsung's Galaxy Nexus on June 3. In the Nexus' case, that
was three days before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit put a temporary hold on that injunction.
CNET has contacted Apple for more information on these
letters, and will update this post if we hear back.
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