- How to Enable Multiple User Accounts On Any Android
Android is one of the most cool OS in which you can do lots of cool things and also there are lots of feature that this OS provides to you. And one of the cool feature is the multiple users that is actually available in android 4.2 and all the above. And using this feature you can add multiple users in your android and that all will having different permissions according to them like in Windows PC. But if you are using older version or doesn’t have User creating feature in your android then you can still add that feature in your device with the guide that we are going to discuss right here. So have a look on complete guide discussed below to proceed.
- World’s Largest Solar Farm Has An Ingenious Way To Provide Clean Energy To Half-A-Million People
Leading by example, Spain has made renewable energy a top priority in order to pull away from fossil fuels, which are not only harming our planet’s well-being but also acting as a means to perpetuate war and solidify control — mainly seen in the fight for the control of oil.
Spain’s government has put their money where their mouth is, spending over $76 billion in subsidies for clean energy projects since 1998. By 2013 they were reaping the rewards of such a move, as they now see 42% of their electricity coming from renewable sources. Compare that to 14% renewable sources in the US and 17% in Canada, and their efforts become remarkable indeed. [1] Other leaders in renewable energy include Germany, Sweden, Latvia, Denmark, Finland, and Austria. [2] While in Spain only 13% came from solar, they continue to move forward in making it a bigger part of their overall strategy.
One major step they have taken towards achieving that end is the creation of their new solar farm in Andasol, which is the world’s largest! The plant is located near Granada in Spain and provides electricity to about 500,000 people. The farm has the ability to produce 150 megawatts of electricity and uses an insane amount of mirrors to make that happen, 620,000 in total!How Does It Work?
As sunlight beams down from the sun it bounces off the mirrors to heat a synthetic oil that is stored in a tube. This drives a turbine which generates electricity. Some of the energy goes into a heat reservoir that contains thousands of tonnes of molten salt, which drive the turbines after sundown or when it’s overcast. The salt method can turn the turbine for about 7.5 hours.
As with other solar farms and wind farms, there remains the question of how it will affect the environment around it. Given that there is little sign of life at the semi-desert site of Andasol, not much is being interfered with. So far workers have only seen the odd fox sneak by or a couple pigeons fly past, but no vegetation has been destroyed nor animal habitat invaded. Given how unobtrusive the farm is, it seems clear that its benefits far outweigh the aesthetic scar to the landscape which, incredibly, can be seen from space!
- Turning Image into Sound May Let Blind Vets ‘See
Researchers at California Institute of Technology studying the ability of the brain to intuitively interpret sound as form could prove beneficial to blinded veterans, enabling them to “see” basic shapes using commercially available technology.
Though the concept, and even the technology, enabling the blind to decode sound as images has been around for two decades, it has long been a given that it takes a great deal of training for someone to learn how to recognize what the sounds are showing them, according to researcher Noelle Stiles, who co-authored a paper on the development with principal investigator Professor Shinsuke Shimojo.
“It is difficult to interpret sound off of a sensory substitution a device. It takes effort. But we found that in some cases it is intuitive in a surprising way,” Stiles told DefenseTech. “In everyone, there are connections across the senses. If we tap into that cross modality, it makes it easier to interpret some stimuli with this device.”
Stiles recently published a report on the research with colleague and co-author Prof. Shinsuke Shimojo. Their research is not funded by the VA, which didn’t respond to a request for comment. Tom Zampieri of the Blind Veterans Association said he is unaware of the department putting any funds into the work.
Though the concept, and even the technology, enabling the blind to decode sound as images has been around for two decades, it has long been a given that it takes a great deal of training for someone to learn how to recognize what the sounds are showing them, according to researcher Noelle Stiles, who co-authored a paper on the development with principal investigator Professor Shinsuke Shimojo.
“It is difficult to interpret sound off of a sensory substitution a device. It takes effort. But we found that in some cases it is intuitive in a surprising way,” Stiles told DefenseTech. “In everyone, there are connections across the senses. If we tap into that cross modality, it makes it easier to interpret some stimuli with this device.”
Stiles recently published a report on the research with colleague and co-author Prof. Shinsuke Shimojo. Their research is not funded by the VA, which didn’t respond to a request for comment. Tom Zampieri of the Blind Veterans Association said he is unaware of the department putting any funds into the work.
- Urban forests and vertical gardens
Buildings with integral trees and plants are the next big thing in architecture, and no vision of the world of the future is without skyscrapers draped in vegetation and rooftops thronged with trees.
Milan's twin-tower Bosco Verticale is a real-life example of how peoples' desire to live in a dense urban environment and also be surrounded by vegetation can be achieved. Around 11,000 plants, 5,000 shrubs, and over 700 trees can be found within this revolutionary residential tower block, which architect Boeri Studio calls a "device for the environmental survival of contemporary European cities".
Bosco Verticale is not just about reintroducing trees into urban settings. Recycled water is used to water the plants and trees, while the cladding of the building itself features integrated solar panels to provide energy
- Electric vehicles
At the heart of the drive to make grids more modern, smarter and better able to cope with increasing demand is the spectre of electric vehicles. If every driver in the UK will need to plug in their car each night – and perhaps even top-up during the day, too – the national grid is going to come under much more pressure than it does today.
What's holding back the concept of electric vehicles is 'range anxiety', which comes from the core problem; battery technology badly needs some 'emerging technology', though Bosch thinks it's got the stop-gap sorted.
- This Indian 9-year-Old Is A CEO And A Cyber Expert. Awesome
At his age, boys are just stepping into the fantasy world of Hogwarts and beginning to identify with the Wimpy Kid, but Reuben Paul has his eyes on the rain — the green code rain of The Matrix. The third-grader is already an accomplished hacker, app developer, cybersecurity expert and, not surprisingly, CEO of a game development firm, Prudent Games. In hacker circles, he is also a respected speaker, who shares his wisdom from the dais while standing on a chair hidden behind the lectern.
On Thursday, the smiling nine-year-old from Austin, Texas was back in action at Ground Zero Summit 2015, a meeting of cybersecurity experts and researchers that's one of the biggest hacker conferences in the world. Last year, he had delivered his keynote on November 14, Children's Day, but this time he's here as a 'special ambassador' for teaching cyber-security to children and has a special address lined up.
8-Year-Old CEO Reuben Paul Proves that Kids Are the Future of Cybersecurity
- 9 Things The Rest Of The World Needs To Know About India
India seems to have been stereotyped by the foreign media in more ways than one. Clearing those misconceptions, Just Indian Page and The Nonsense State bring to you these 9 graphics the world needs to see
- Meet The Scientist Who Could Prove That God Does Not Exist:-
A scientist names Jeremy England has come out with a theory which potentially proves that life can exist without god and that god did not create us. Jeremy England's theory has been developed on Charles Darwin's idea of evolution. He says that the idea not only applies to things which are alive but to the creation as well. Meaning that evolution not only takes place while we are alive but at our creation as well
The scientist says that it is thermodynamics that plays the major part in our creation and not a 'creator' who is at work. The theory of thermodynamics says if you start with a random clump of atoms, and if you shine light on it for long enough, it should not be surprising that you get a plant. If these atoms are exposed to an energy source (i.e. the sun), these are bound to grow and restructure themselves which eventually leads to life.
The theory was posted on Richard Dawkins website, a famous Athiest scientist, and is titled 'God is on the ropes: The brilliant new science that has creationists and the Christian right terrified'. The blog post was written by Paul Rosenberg, and it looks as though this theory has got the scientific community quite excited
- Meet Abu Azrael, 'The Angel Of Death' Who Has Killed Almost 1500 ISIS Affiliates In True Rambo Style
Every war needs a poster boy and it seems Iraq’s war against ISIS just got its own hero delivered in the form of mercurial Abu Azrael. The name Abu Azrael roughly translates to ‘The Angel of Death’ in Arabic and correctly so, because the Iraqi soldier has so far killed almost 1500 ISIS affiliates.
The 40-year-old named Abu Azrael (real name: Ayyub Faleh al-Rubaie) is a former Taekwondo champion and the current Shia commando of Kataib al-Imam Ali, one of the most fierce enemies of ISIS fighting in Tikrit. The reason why he is so popular on social media and amongst the Iraqi community is because of the brutality with which he treats members of the terror group – beheading, chopping and burning up their bodies, in that particular order
- Khan Academy’s
Today’s blog post is an interview with Alan Pierce, a software engineer at Khan Academy on the infrastructure team. Alan, a software and data expert, spent the last 6 months completely re-thinking and re-writing Khan Academy’s internal A/B testing tool to increase speed and functionality so that the rest of the team can easily create A/B tests to optimize student learning. In this post, Alan and I talk about what he learned about A/B testing and A/B testing infrastructure. His words sounded all too familiar to our engineers’ ears.
Apptimize: What are some common A/B testing mistakes you’ve seen?
- Jio Chat launches services in eight countries:-
The app is now available across Canada, US, UK, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Singapore, Australia and China, apart from India.“This will help in boosting our international presence and will also let our customers based in India to connect with their folks abroad,” a company spokesperson said.
The free-to-download chat application was launched in India in April this year. The app, which supports voice and video calls, is being positioned in direct competition against WhatsApp and WeChat and is available for download on Android and iOS platforms.
- ASUS :-
Taiwanese tech major ASUS on Friday launched ZenFone 2 Laser (ZE601KL), a smartphone with six-inch display, priced at Rs.17,999.
The phone comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 64-bit Octa Core processor, a 3GB RAM and 32 on board memory, a company statement said.
The phone, with an expandable memory of 128GB, sports a 13 megapixel rear camera and 5 megapixel front-facing camera.
The smartphone, housing a 3000 mAh removable battery, comes in three colours - red, silver and gold - and can be purchased through Flipkart, Snapdeal and Amazon.
- Taj Mahal Now Has Wi-Fi And It's Free For The First 30 Minutes
Taj Mahal, the seventh wonder of the world, is now a Wi-Fi zone. The stunning monument became a free Wi-Fi zone on Tuesday after Union Minister for Communications Ravi Shankar Prasad launched the service.
Taj Mahal Now Has Wi-Fi And It’s Free For The First 30 Minutes
The internet connection will be free for the first 30 minutes and from there on, Rs. 30 will be charged per hour. This move might further fuel the incredible yearly influx of over 6 million tourists who to see the Taj Mahal. Fathepur Sikri complex is the next premise to follow suit. The Agra Cantt railway station is already a Wi-Fi zone
- Infosys invests $4 million in Israeli startup CloudEndure
NEW DELHI: Country's second largest software services firm Infosys said it has picked up minority stake in CloudEndure, an Israeli startup that provides cloud migration and cloud-based disaster recovery software, for $4 million (about Rs 26.7 crore).
The all-cash transaction will be completed by December 11, 2015, Infosys said in a filling to the BSE.
"The company (CloudEndure) offers a highly differentiated solution addressing a $15 billion software and services market that is of significant strategic importance to Infosys," it added.
With the investment, Infosys has picked up a minority, not exceeding 20% of the outstanding share capital of the company, it said.
Set up in 2013, the privately-held CloudEndure has a presence in Israel and the US.
The Bangalore-based firm is actively scouting for companies working on innovative technologies. Earlier this year, Infosys had announced a $500-million Innovation Fund, earmarked for investments in the growth of disruptive new technologies.
- Sony cuts US prices for PlayStation 4 ahead of holiday season
TOKYO: Sony Corp said it was cutting the price of its PlayStation 4 videogame console to around $350 from $400 to boost sales ahead of the year-end holiday season.
Thursday's announcement follows similar price cuts of the console in Asia, including its home market Japan, and adds pressure on rival Microsoft Corp, whose Xbox One system has lagged the PlayStation 4 in global sales.
Videogames, along with sensors, have helped lead a turnaround at Sony which is still struggling with weak smartphone and TV sales.
In July, Sony raised its full-year operating income forecast for its game and network services division to 60 billion yen ($501.3 million) from a previous 40 billion yen, due to solid PlayStation demand. ($1 = 119.6900 yen)
The AMD FirePro W4300 has a core clock speed of 930MHz that is corresponded by 6GBps GDDR5 of and 4GB GDDR5 GPU memory. The card has a unique power monitoring and management technologie that puts the maximum power consumption at 50W in a low-profile form factor.
- AMD launches FirePro W4300 low profile graphics card for CAD
NEW DELHI: AMD has unveiled the AMD FirePro W4300 for the best Computer-Aided Design (CAD) performance that fits both small form factor (SFF) and tower workstations. The AMD FirePro W4300 card integrates a GPU and 4GB of GDDR5 memory within a low-profile design for installation in SFF as well as full-sized systems. Organizations can now confidently simplify their IT management by standardizing on a single, capable professional graphics solution throughout their workstation deployment.
The AMD FirePro W4300 has a core clock speed of 930MHz that is corresponded by 6GBps GDDR5 of and 4GB GDDR5 GPU memory. The card has a unique power monitoring and management technologie that puts the maximum power consumption at 50W in a low-profile form factor.
The AMD FirePro W4300 professional graphics card is optimized for the latest CAD applications including Autodesk® AutoCAD, Inventor as well as Revit®, Dassault Systemes SOLIDWORKS® and CATIA®, PTC Creo®, Siemens NX, and many more for engineering professionals. Users can help increase productivity by visualizing their workflows across up to six displays2, and up to 4K and 5K resolution.
"We designed the AMD FirePro W4300 specifically for CAD," said Sean Burke, corporate vice president and general manager, Radeon Technologies Group, AMD.
LOS ANGELES: Playing three dimensional video games such as 'Super Mario' may boost the formation of memories and maintain cognition as we age, a new study has claimed.
- Playing 3D video games may boost memory: Study
LOS ANGELES: Playing three dimensional video games such as 'Super Mario' may boost the formation of memories and maintain cognition as we age, a new study has claimed.
The finding by researchers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) shows the potential for novel virtual approaches to helping people who lose memory as they age or suffer from dementia.
For their research, Craig Stark and Dane Clemenson of UCI's Centre for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory recruited non-gamer college students to play either a video game with a passive, two-dimensional environment ("Angry Birds") or one with an intricate, 3D setting ("Super Mario 3D World") for 30 minutes per day over two weeks.
Before and after the two-week period, the students took memory tests that engaged the brain's hippocampus, the region associated with complex learning and memory. They were given a series of pictures of everyday objects to study.
Then they were shown images of the same objects, new ones and others that differed slightly from the original items and asked to categorise them.
Recognition of the slightly altered images requires the hippocampus, Stark said, and his earlier research had demonstrated that the ability to do this clearly declines with age.
This is a large part of why it is so difficult to learn new names or remember where you put your keys as you get older, researchers said.
Students playing the 3D video game improved their scores on the memory test, while the 2D gamers did not. The boost was not small either.
Memory performance increased by about 12%, the same amount it normally decreases between the ages of 45 and 70.
In previous studies on rodents, Clemenson and others showed that exploring the environment resulted in the growth of new neurons that became entrenched in the hippocampus' memory circuit and increased neuronal signalling networks.
Stark noted some commonalities between the 3D game the humans played and the environment the rodents explored -- qualities lacking in the 2D game.
"First, the 3D games have a few things the 2D ones do not," he said.
"They've got a lot more spatial information in there to explore. Second, they're much more complex, with a lot more information to learn. Either way, we know this kind of learning and memory not only stimulates but requires the hippocampus," said Stark.
- Why the 'Hoverboard' Scooter Is So Fly
Some call them hoverboards; others call them smart or self-balancing scooters. But whatever you call the two-wheeled motorized vehicles you've probably seen rolling over sidewalks of late, one thing is certain: These futuristic gadgetsare pretty cool. And the physics and mechanics that make them go are cool, too.
Unlike true hoverboards, which float above the ground using magnetic levitation technologies, smart scooters have two wheels that roll over the ground. These small vehicles lack handlebars, making them trickier to operate than Segways, which have a bar for riders to hold onto that extends from the footboard to arm height.
To stay balanced on a smart scooter, you must control the movement of the device using just your feet. To move forward, you lean forward, pushing down with your toes. To move backward, you lean backward, pushing down with your heels. Turning is a bit more complicated (but more on that later). [Gift Ideas for Kids: Best Educational Toys and Games of 2015]
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- Wearable Sensors Could Translate Sign Language Into English
Wearable sensors could one day interpret the gestures in sign language and translate them into English, providing a high-tech solution to communication problems between deaf people and those who don’t understand sign language.
Engineers at Texas A&M University are developing a wearable device that can sense movement and muscle activity in a person's arms.
The device works by figuring out the gestures a person is making by using two distinct sensors: one that responds to the motion of the wrist and the other to the muscular movements in the arm. A program then wirelessly receives this information and converts the data into the English translation
You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” ~ Steve Jobs
This commencement day speech at Stanford aptly describes what Steve Jobs was all about. He was always looking to build better things. He was always dreaming, of a better world, of a world enabled with better technology than what exists today, and by all means, he succeeded at every step of the way.
The Story Behind Steve Jobs Success Will Show You Why You Should Never Give Up On Your Dreams
© Reuters
Steve Jobs was the adopted son of a machinist from Mountain View, California. From an early age, Steve was a doer, and that is what set him apart from other innovators of the time. While he was still young, Steve Jobs once called William Hewlett, the co-founder and president of Hewlett-Packard, to give him some parts for a school project. Impressed by his attitude and charisma, the HP founder not only gave him the parts but also an internship at HP.
Jobs was highly influenced by Eastern Spiritualism and decided to do a part-time job designing video games for Atari to fund his trip to India. After he came back from India, Steve Jobs teamed up with Steve Wozniak who was trying to build a small computer. For Wozniak, it was just a hobby, but for Steve Jobs, it quickly translated into the future of tech as he set up the famous workshop in his parent’s garage with a total capital of $1,350.
The Story Behind Steve Jobs Success Will Show You Why You Should Never Give Up On Your Dreams
Steve Jobs, along with Steve Wozniak, made a very good team. While Wozniak was the brains behind the whole computer system, Steve always knew how best to run a business. Steve Jobs could always attract the best talent and extract the most out of them on any given day.
The hit combo of Wozniak and Jobs ushered in the new era of personal computer when they launched Apple II in 1977. This computer was designed for beginners and was a tremendous success. Steve Jobs had tasted blood with Apple II, and he wasn’t going to stop now. If innovation had an action figure, it would be Steve Jobs on roller skates.
Steve Jobs became bigger than the company and it led him to roll out Apple III, which was a minor upgrade and its follow-up LISA which was a complete blunder. The ego clashes with the board of directors started getting messy.
Apple’s sales fell to the ground but in his trademark style Jobs made a huge effort to bring out Apple Macintosh which featured a graphical-user interface controlled by a mouse. However, he forgot that having a revolutionary product is just one-half of the full marketing equation, and the poor pricing strategy saw sales decline fast. This resulted in axing of the mercurial founder from the board, and eventually, he left his company in 1985.
The Story Behind Steve Jobs Success Will Show You Why You Should Never Give Up On Your Dreams
At this point and time, Steve Jobs turned into a ‘has-been’ who was too egoistic to work with and too difficult to handle on his best days. But Jobs turned a new leaf when he founded NeXT and bought Pixar Animation Studios from George Lucas in 1986. When ‘Toy Story’ came out in 1995, it broke all box-office records, and the value of Pixar went through the roof when it went public. Steve Jobs had finally made it big with a valuation of $1 billion but not many knew that his best was yet to come.
Apple bought NeXT as soon as Pixar went public which paved the way for Steve Jobs back to the company which he founded. After Apple reported heavy losses in the quarter ending of March 1997, Steve Jobs was made the interim CEO, and then, everybody’s fortunes at Apple changed.
The Story Behind Steve Jobs Success Will Show You Why You Should Never Give Up On Your Dreams
© Reuters
Apple turned to profitability, and by the end of 1998, had pretty handsome sales figures of $5.9 Billion. Over the next decade, Apple went on to roll out some of the most revolutionary products the tech world had ever seen. Starting from the iPod in 2001, the iTunes store in 2003, iPhone handset in 2007, and the iPad in 2010.
Producing one hit product after another became a habit for the team at Apple, and this tradition was embedded in its culture with Steve Jobs at the helm. He, however, struggled with his health throughout this stellar innings at Apple. Jobs took a medical leave of absence in January 2011 but continued as the CEO.
The Story Behind Steve Jobs Success Will Show You Why You Should Never Give Up On Your Dreams
© Reuters
In August, Jobs resigned as the CEO of Apple owing to severe health concerns, and he passed away in October due to complications created by pancreatic cancer.
Steve Jobs was a visionary who aimed for the stars, fell several times in his quest for greatness, overcame exile and returned triumphantly to leave a legacy of path-breaking products for which he will be remembered till time immemorial.
People like him have built their lives and careers from scratch, and have faced every challenge with unwavering nerve and sass. They have rebuilt and reinvented themselves, just like Gillette has with its new Gillette’s Fusion ProGlide with Flexball Technology which features thinner, finer blades having an advaced low-resistance coating for less tug and pull.
- The Story Behind Steve Jobs's Success Will Show You Why You Should Never Give Up On Your Dreams
You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” ~ Steve Jobs
This commencement day speech at Stanford aptly describes what Steve Jobs was all about. He was always looking to build better things. He was always dreaming, of a better world, of a world enabled with better technology than what exists today, and by all means, he succeeded at every step of the way.
The Story Behind Steve Jobs Success Will Show You Why You Should Never Give Up On Your Dreams
© Reuters
Steve Jobs was the adopted son of a machinist from Mountain View, California. From an early age, Steve was a doer, and that is what set him apart from other innovators of the time. While he was still young, Steve Jobs once called William Hewlett, the co-founder and president of Hewlett-Packard, to give him some parts for a school project. Impressed by his attitude and charisma, the HP founder not only gave him the parts but also an internship at HP.
Jobs was highly influenced by Eastern Spiritualism and decided to do a part-time job designing video games for Atari to fund his trip to India. After he came back from India, Steve Jobs teamed up with Steve Wozniak who was trying to build a small computer. For Wozniak, it was just a hobby, but for Steve Jobs, it quickly translated into the future of tech as he set up the famous workshop in his parent’s garage with a total capital of $1,350.
The Story Behind Steve Jobs Success Will Show You Why You Should Never Give Up On Your Dreams
Steve Jobs, along with Steve Wozniak, made a very good team. While Wozniak was the brains behind the whole computer system, Steve always knew how best to run a business. Steve Jobs could always attract the best talent and extract the most out of them on any given day.
The hit combo of Wozniak and Jobs ushered in the new era of personal computer when they launched Apple II in 1977. This computer was designed for beginners and was a tremendous success. Steve Jobs had tasted blood with Apple II, and he wasn’t going to stop now. If innovation had an action figure, it would be Steve Jobs on roller skates.
Steve Jobs became bigger than the company and it led him to roll out Apple III, which was a minor upgrade and its follow-up LISA which was a complete blunder. The ego clashes with the board of directors started getting messy.
Apple’s sales fell to the ground but in his trademark style Jobs made a huge effort to bring out Apple Macintosh which featured a graphical-user interface controlled by a mouse. However, he forgot that having a revolutionary product is just one-half of the full marketing equation, and the poor pricing strategy saw sales decline fast. This resulted in axing of the mercurial founder from the board, and eventually, he left his company in 1985.
The Story Behind Steve Jobs Success Will Show You Why You Should Never Give Up On Your Dreams
At this point and time, Steve Jobs turned into a ‘has-been’ who was too egoistic to work with and too difficult to handle on his best days. But Jobs turned a new leaf when he founded NeXT and bought Pixar Animation Studios from George Lucas in 1986. When ‘Toy Story’ came out in 1995, it broke all box-office records, and the value of Pixar went through the roof when it went public. Steve Jobs had finally made it big with a valuation of $1 billion but not many knew that his best was yet to come.
Apple bought NeXT as soon as Pixar went public which paved the way for Steve Jobs back to the company which he founded. After Apple reported heavy losses in the quarter ending of March 1997, Steve Jobs was made the interim CEO, and then, everybody’s fortunes at Apple changed.
The Story Behind Steve Jobs Success Will Show You Why You Should Never Give Up On Your Dreams
© Reuters
Apple turned to profitability, and by the end of 1998, had pretty handsome sales figures of $5.9 Billion. Over the next decade, Apple went on to roll out some of the most revolutionary products the tech world had ever seen. Starting from the iPod in 2001, the iTunes store in 2003, iPhone handset in 2007, and the iPad in 2010.
Producing one hit product after another became a habit for the team at Apple, and this tradition was embedded in its culture with Steve Jobs at the helm. He, however, struggled with his health throughout this stellar innings at Apple. Jobs took a medical leave of absence in January 2011 but continued as the CEO.
The Story Behind Steve Jobs Success Will Show You Why You Should Never Give Up On Your Dreams
© Reuters
In August, Jobs resigned as the CEO of Apple owing to severe health concerns, and he passed away in October due to complications created by pancreatic cancer.
Steve Jobs was a visionary who aimed for the stars, fell several times in his quest for greatness, overcame exile and returned triumphantly to leave a legacy of path-breaking products for which he will be remembered till time immemorial.
People like him have built their lives and careers from scratch, and have faced every challenge with unwavering nerve and sass. They have rebuilt and reinvented themselves, just like Gillette has with its new Gillette’s Fusion ProGlide with Flexball Technology which features thinner, finer blades having an advaced low-resistance coating for less tug and pull.
- US hobbyists 'must register drones' from 21 December
Drones in the US, and the people who fly them, must be registered on a government database starting from 21 December.
Any drones purchased from that date onwards must be logged before the first outdoor flight, the country's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has said.
Existing drone owners have until 19 February 2016 to register their drones, but a $5 (£3.30) fee will be waived to encourage registration within the first 30 days.
FAA spokesman Les Dorr told the BBC that it would seek to educate, rather than punish, those found to have no registered their drones.
But he added: "For people who simply refuse to register, we do have enforcement tools available."
Those punishments could be civil penalties of up to $27,500, but in severe cases, criminal prosecutions could result in a $250,000 fine and a maximum of three years in prison.
The rule affects drones weighing in at half a pound to 55lb (228g to 22.7kg). Users older than 13 must register themselves, but parents can register on behalf of younger children.
Each drone will be given a unique identification number to be displayed on the device.
'Great responsibility'
On Monday, the FAA promised the process would be "streamlined and user-friendly".
"Make no mistake: unmanned aircraft enthusiast are aviators and with that title comes a great deal of responsibility," US transportation secretary Anthony Foxx said in a statement.
"Registration gives us an opportunity to work with these users to operate their unmanned aircraft safely.
"I'm excited to welcome these new aviators into the culture of safety and responsibility that defines American innovation."
In depth: Drone discipline
Hobby drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles. Remote-controlled copters.
Call them what you will, they're becoming a nuisance.
A minority of irresponsible users has been flying them too close to aeroplanes and helicopters, wandering into restricted military airspace, spying on neighbours; disrupting sporting events and even injuring people.
It was only a matter of time before some trigger-happy vigilante shot one of the pesky privacy invaders out of the sky.
Regulators and law enforcers are struggling to cope with the growth in their popularity, increasing the likelihood that heavy-handed legislation could stifle innovation in a sector that has great commercial potential for businesses large and small.
Read more: Can technology keep our skies safe from nuisance drones?
Regulators had been under pressure to clamp down on what many people, particularly those in the emergency services, consider to be a growing menace - hobbyist drone users flying in unwanted places.
Firefighters in California said drones had disrupted efforts to contain wildfires.
'Stupidity'
However, some believe the drone database will be ineffective.
"The fact is that for the most part, when there are sightings, they don't actually get to recover the drone itself," Mickey Osterreicher, from the National Press Photographers' Association, told BBC News when consultations began in October.
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Warnings about flying drones near fires were issued by the US Forest Service
"So, what would registering the drone accomplish?"
He added that further rules would not prevent bad drone use, drawing comparisons to people who drive cars without a licence or insurance, saying: "You really can't legislate against stupidity."
But other bodies, including the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), have backed the idea and taken an active role in consultations.
The regulations fall some way short of calls to make it legal for emergency services to forcibly disable drones by using electronic jamming.
The Wipro's billionaire founder, who has given away almost half of his stake holding in the company to philanthropy, was responding to a question from the audience at the Indian Institute of Management's first global alumni conclave and leadership summit IIMBUE, on Saturday.
The Americans are absolute leaders in philanthropy because their families are larger in terms of interrelationship and wealth sharing. However, a majority of wealthy Indians believe in leaving their wealth for the next generation, which is a deterrent," he told a packed audience.
- Wipro's Billionaire Founder Azim Premji Feels Rich Indians Must Give Away Their Wealth
You need a cultivated sense of insensitivity to be in politics. This was IT czar Azim Premji's tongue-in-cheek reply when asked why he wasn't in politics. "Why am I not in politics? Because I think it would have killed me in a couple of years," he said.
The Wipro's billionaire founder, who has given away almost half of his stake holding in the company to philanthropy, was responding to a question from the audience at the Indian Institute of Management's first global alumni conclave and leadership summit IIMBUE, on Saturday.
A philanthropic mindset should be imbibed in all from a young age and rich Indians should be more forthcoming in giving away their wealth in a poverty-ridden country, Premji said. "My biggest influence in philanthropy was my mother, a doctor who never practised medicine but founded an orthopaedic hospital in Mumbai for children suffering from cerebral palsy. She was the chairperson when she was 27 till the time her health started failing at 76. She had to raise money to fund the hospital as the government funds never came on time," Premji recalled during the fireside chat.
The Americans are absolute leaders in philanthropy because their families are larger in terms of interrelationship and wealth sharing. However, a majority of wealthy Indians believe in leaving their wealth for the next generation, which is a deterrent," he told a packed audience.
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Premji, whose Azim Premji Foundation works to improve the quality of education across many government schools in India, has given away about $8.5 billion in charitable causes. The not-for-profit organization works in eight states which together have over 3.5 lakh schools.
"The more wealth one takes, the more one sees it as a fiduciary responsibility. I give it away as I like to in a country which is so poor and where there is so much misappropriation of funds," Premji told Biocon CMD Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, who was the moderator at the event.
Premji applauded the new generation of wealthy professionals, who he said were more forthcoming in contributing their time and money to philanthropic causes unlike the previous one. "The older generation needs to be persuaded, given examples and it is a long-drawn process where it is tougher to make breakthroughs," he explained.
Mazumdar-Shaw opined that across the world, philanthropy is still associated with entrepreneurial initiatives and is not expected from a salaried person such as investment banker and hedge fund manager. "Bankers are the most scrooges," Premji said, amid a roar of laughter from the audience.
Asked whether leaders inspire such philanthropic culture in their organizations, Premji said though people are getting influenced, his was a mixed experience. "Employees are forthcoming in terms of their time but are disappointingly forthcoming in money. They should be giving more than they do and software professionals are well paid," he remarked.
But he regretted starting his foundation too late in life. "We only started 15 years back and that too in a small way in education in villages. The operations have scaled up only in the past four or five years. It began much later than when I made significant wealth."
Premji also stressed on the need to take up philanthropy as an active profession. When asked if philanthropic courses can be introduced at B-schools, Premji replied in the affirmative. "A well designed course can generate a lot of spark and philanthropy should be a profession.
"The 59-hour countdown activity of PSLV-C29/TeLEOS-1 Mission has started at 07.00 hours today," Isro said on Monday.
- Countdown Begins for Isro Launch of 6 Singapore Satellites
The 59-hour countdown for the launch of six Singapore satellites by Indian Space Research Organisation on board its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle from Sriharikota began Monday.
The launch is scheduled at 6:00pm on Thursday, at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in the spaceport of Sriharikota.
"The 59-hour countdown activity of PSLV-C29/TeLEOS-1 Mission has started at 07.00 hours today," Isro said on Monday.
The Mission Readiness Review committee and Launch Authorisation Board have cleared the countdown, it said.
Isro's trusted workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle on its 32nd flight would launch the six satellites into a 550-km circular orbit inclined at 15 degrees to the equator.
Of the six satellites, TeLEOS-1 is the primary satellite weighing 400kg whereas the other five satellites include two micro-satellites and three nano-satellites.
TeLEOS-1 is the first Singapore commercial earth observation satellite and would be launched into a low Earth orbit for "remote sensing" applications.
To be launched from the first launch pad, this is the 11th flight of PSLV in 'core-alone' configuration without the use of solid strap-on motors.
Antrix Corporation Ltd, the commercial arm of Isro, has provided launch services in PSLV for 51 customer satellites from 20 countries
Google's Project Loon, through which the online search giant plans to provide Internet connectivity using balloons, will interfere with cellular transmissions of mobile operators in India, the government said on Friday.
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- Google's Project Loon Will Interfere With Cellular Transmissions, Says Telecom Minister
Google's Project Loon Will Interfere With Cellular Transmissions, Says Telecom Minister Press Trust of India , 11 December 2015
"The proposed frequency band to be used in the Loon Project of Google is being used for cellular operations in India and it will lead to interference with cellular transmissions," Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha
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The statement of the Minister assumes significance in the backdrop of call drop problem faced by consumers due to poor network quality.
On a query that whether there are technical glitches in according approval to Project Loon, the Minister replied in affirmative.
Google, under its Project Loon, is using big balloons floating at a height of 20 kilometres above earth surface for transmission of Internet services. It has already tested this technology in New Zealand, California (the US) and Brazil.
As per Google, each balloon can provide connectivity to a ground area about 40 km in diameter using a wireless communications technology called LTE or 4G.
To use LTE or 4G, Project Loon partners with telecom companies to share cellular spectrum so that people will be able to access the Internet everywhere directly from their phones and other LTE-enabled devices.
Google uses solar panel and wind to power electronic equipment in the balloon throughout the day.
- Bon Voyage: US Navy's Futuristic Destroyer Sails Out to Sea
The U.S. Navy's giant new warship finally sailed out to sea this week to complete its first-ever round of tests and trials in the Atlantic Ocean.
On Monday (Dec. 7), the 610-foot-long (186 meters) destroyer, the USS Zumwalt, made its way from the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Bath, Maine, to the high seas. The massive ship tips the scales at 15,480 tons (that's nearly 31 million lbs., or more than 14 million kilograms) and cost more than $4 billion to design and build, according to a report by The Washington Post.
Over the next few days, the USS Zumwalt — named for Elmo R. "Bud" Zumwalt Jr., a World War II veteran and one of the youngest chiefs of naval operations in U.S. Navy history — will undergo what the Navy called a "multiday underway period," in which the boat's hull will be put to the test, along with its mechanical and electric systems. After taking on the cold waters of the Atlantic, the ship will anchor off Portland, Maine, giving locals a chance to ogle the strange-looking vessel. [7 Technologies That Transformed Warfare]
- Admiral Vinogradov: Large Anti-Submarine Ship
The large anti-submarine ship "Admiral Vinogradov" built in Kaliningrad, joined the Russian navy twenty five years ago. It is still successfully sailing, being on the sea since October 2013. Very soon it will set a course to its home base in Vladivostok.
If an overarching conclusion can be drawn from the results of Computerworld's Forecast survey of 182 IT professionals, it's that 2016 is shaping up to be the year of IT as a change agent.
IT is poised to move fully to the center of the business in 2016, as digital transformation becomes a top strategic priority. CIOs and their tech organizations are well positioned to drive that change, thanks to IT budget growth, head count increases and a pronounced shift toward strategic spending.
Amid the breakneck pace of change in technology and business alike, where should you direct your focus in the new year?
Read on for key highlights and data points on budgeting, hiring, business priorities and disruptive technologies that promise to define the IT landscape in 2016.
- Forecast 2016: Essential data points for the tech year ahead
If an overarching conclusion can be drawn from the results of Computerworld's Forecast survey of 182 IT professionals, it's that 2016 is shaping up to be the year of IT as a change agent.
IT is poised to move fully to the center of the business in 2016, as digital transformation becomes a top strategic priority. CIOs and their tech organizations are well positioned to drive that change, thanks to IT budget growth, head count increases and a pronounced shift toward strategic spending.
Amid the breakneck pace of change in technology and business alike, where should you direct your focus in the new year?
Read on for key highlights and data points on budgeting, hiring, business priorities and disruptive technologies that promise to define the IT landscape in 2016.
- Google joins Mozilla, Microsoft in pushing for early SHA-1 crypto cutof
Google is considering banning certificates signed with the SHA-1 cryptographic function in Google Chrome starting Jul. 1. This follows similar announcements from Mozilla and Microsoft over the past two months.
The browser vendors had previously decided to stop trusting SHA-1-signed certificates presented by HTTPS websites on Jan. 1, 2017, a year after certificate authorities are supposed to stop issuing new ones.
However, due to recent research showing that SHA-1 is weaker than previously believed, Mozilla, Microsoft and now Google are all considering bringing the deadline forward by six months.
"In line with Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox, the target date for this step is January 1, 2017, but we are considering moving it earlier to July 1, 2016 in light of ongoing research," Google Chrome team members Lucas Garron and David Benjamin said Friday in a blog post. "We therefore urge sites to replace any remaining SHA-1 certificates as soon as possible."
Until then, starting with Chrome version 48, which is expected to land early next year, the browser will display errors if the certificates served by websites have SHA-1 signatures and were issued after Jan. 1, 2016. That's because public certificate authorities (CAs) are not supposed to issue new SHA-1-signed certificate after that date.
Later in the year, Chrome might be updated to apply the same treatment to website certificates that chain back to intermediary certificates signed with SHA-1.
Websites like Facebook and those protected by CloudFlare have implemented a SHA-1 fallback mechanism. Both companies have argued that there are millions of people in developing countries that still use browsers and operating systems that do not support SHA-2, the replacement function for SHA-1, and will therefore be cut off from encrypted websites that move to SHA-2 certificates.
The companies also want CAs to continue to issue SHA-1 certificates into 2016, but only to website owners that can prove that they serve SHA-2 certificates to modern browsers and fall back to SHA-1 only for older clients.
The advent of cheap cloud computing in recent years has signed the death warrant for SHA-1, a hashing algorithm that dates back to 1995 and is known to be vulnerable to computationally intensive collision attacks that could result in signature and therefore certificate forgery.
While the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has long mandated that federal agencies should move away from SHA-1, the SSL industry has lagged behind, to the point that in September almost one in three of the most popular 145,000 HTTPS-enabled websites were still using a SHA-1 certificate. The percentage is now around 15 percent.
Three years ago, researchers estimated that a practical attack against SHA-1 would cost $700,000 using commercial cloud computing services by 2015 and $173,000 by 2018.
However, in October, a group of researchers presented a new way to break SHA-1 that is expected to lower the cost of attacks more quickly than previously anticipated. It is this research that has browser makers worried and prompted them to consider an early cutoff date for SHA-1 certificates.
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