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Bitdefender launches new security solution in India
Romania-based security solutions provider Bitdefender on Monday introduced the "Total Security-Multi-Device", in India for Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android devices in order to deliver multiple layers of protection against the prevailing cyber security threats.
Alibaba Cloud's ICP filing centre to be located in China's Guiyang city
Guiyang city, where India is establishing its second IT corridor in China, will become the technical support centre and Internet Content Provider (ICP) filing centre for the cloud service of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. Alibaba Cloud will also provide cloud storage service for the research data of China's five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope in Guizhou province, of which Guiyang is the provincial capital, state-run Xinhua news agency reported today. It is the world's largest single-dish radio telescope. All websites hosted on the Chinese mainland must be ICP filed with the ministry of industry and information technology. A website cannot direct to any server located on the Chinese mainland for public visits until the developer get an ICP filing number. Yesterday, India launched its second IT corridor in China in collaboration with the local government of Guiyang to access the Chinese software market. The National Association of Software and Services Companies ...
NIC launches new data centre in Bhubaneswar, to hire 800 people pan-India in 1 yr
National Informatics Centre will hire 800 professionals in the next one year, including for 355 cyber security experts, as increased cyber risks globally bring data protection and cyber safety to centrestage, according to a top NIC official said. The NIC -- whose new cloud-enabled National Data Centre was inaugurated by IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad here today -- currently has 4,500 people across India in its various operations. NIC provides technology support to all governance services and hosts nearly 10,000 websites of the government. "This data centre in Bubaneswar is of global standards," Prasad said unveiling the data centre that will host new as well as existing applications of central and state governments and has ability to support 35,000 virtual servers. Emphasising the significance of the new national data centre here, Prasad further said that in the IT ecosystem, data centre adds to the digital clout of a state or location and raises its global profile. "Data centre is ..
Google rolls out summer campaign to make kids Internet Awesome
Google India on Monday announced a fun, yet educational summer campaign that will help children across the country spend more time learning and making new discoveries, as well as teaching them how to become responsible explorers of the web.
Google India offers educational programme for summer vacations
Tech giant Google has launched a new educational programme for children and parents for the summer vacations. As part of its '#SummerWithGoogle', the company will offer a variety of activities to keep teenagers (13-18 years) engaged throughout their summer vacations, Google India Director (Trust and Safety) Sunita Mohanty said. Google will release one assignment every week for four weeks, which will include use of various Google products like Google Earth, Google Translate and Google Arts and Culture, she added. The last assignment will entail development of an app to share their summer experience. "After four weeks, 100 children will be chosen along with an accompanying parent to visit our campus in either Delhi or Hyderabad to attend an interactive workshop," Mohanty said. She explained that each assignment will also teach these youngsters "how to be Internet Smart, Internet Alert, Internet Strong, Internet Kind and Internet Brave". Mohanty said parents are also encouraged to be a ..
Huawei rolls out EMUI 8.0 for Honor 7X
Huawei's sub-brand Honor on Monday announced the roll out of Emotion User Interface (EMUI) 8.0 based on Android Oreo 8.0 on Honor 7X devices.
LG develops technology to reduce VR sickness
LG Display Co on Monday said it has developed a new breakthrough in Virtual Reality (VR) technology to prevent dizziness, headaches and other symptoms associated with motion sickness by reducing the delay between users' movements and the images shown on the screen.
Astronaut Alan Bean dies at 86
Former NASA astronaut and Apollo 12 lunar module pilot Alan Bean died on Saturday night at a Hospital in Houston, Texas.Bean's passing was announced by NASA in a press release this weekend. He became suddenly ill while travelling in Indiana two weeks ago.Bean earned an engineering degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and was commissioned in the US Navy. NASA selected him as a member of its third class of astronauts in 1963.Following his astronaut training and a few runs as a backup crew member, Bean received his assignment as the lunar module pilot for Apollo 12, which, in November 1969 became NASA's second mission the Moon's surface. He was the fourth man to walk on the moon, making him one of twelve people to do so.He also commanded the second crew to live and work on board the Skylab orbital workshop. During the then-record-setting 59-day, 24.4 million-mile flight, Bean and his two crewmates generated 18 miles of computer tape during surveys of Earth's resources and ...
Super-elastic electronic fibre paves way for smart clothes
Scientists have developed a tiny, super elastic fibres that can incorporate electrodes, paving the way for smart clothing and artificial nerves for robots. The fibres can detect even the slightest pressure and strain and can withstand deformation of close to 500 per cent before recovering their initial shape. Scientists at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland came up with a fast and easy method for embedding different kinds of microstructures in super-elastic fibres. For instance, by adding electrodes at strategic locations, they turned the fibres into ultra-sensitive sensors. The method can be used to produce hundreds of metres of fibre in a short amount of time. To make their fibres, the scientists used a thermal drawing process, which is the standard process for optical-fibre manufacturing. They started by creating a macroscopic preform with the various fibre components arranged in a carefully designed 3D pattern. They then heated the preform and stretched
TECNO Mobile launches AI-powered camera smartphone in India
TECNO Mobile, a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Transsion Holdings, on Monday launched its first "CAMON iCLICK" AI-powered camera smartphone in India for Rs 13,999.
10K 'Supercharger' stations worldwide soon: Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed plans to install 10,000 Supercharger stations for his company's electric vehicles around the world by 2019 end.
HP set to unveil game-changing 3D metal printers (Tech Trend)
In a bid to take the 3D printing industry to an entirely new level, global printing and PC major HP Inc has announced that its 3D metal printing solutions are set to enter the market later this year, thus giving the $12 trillion global manufacturing opportunity a new push.
Google rewards Uraguyan teenager for finding security flaw
Google has rewarded a Uruguayan teenager a "bug bounty" of more than $36,000 for disclosing a severe security flaw.
New AI system can identify people from their walk
Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) that can identify people by measuring their gait or walking pattern. The technology could be used at airport security instead of fingerprinting and eye-scanning. It can successfully verify an individual simply by analysing the footstep 3D and time-based data. The AI system, developed by researchers at University of Manchester in the UK and University of Madrid in Spain, correctly identified an individual almost 100 per cent of the time, with just a 0.7 error rate. Physical biometrics, such as fingerprints, facial recognition and retinal scans, are currently more commonly used for security purposes. However, so-called behavioural biometrics, such as gait recognition, also capture unique signatures delivered by a person's natural behavioural and movement patterns. The team tested their data by using a large number of so-called 'impostors' and a small number of users in three different real-world security scenarios. These were ...
No fly-by-night operator will be allowed to play with data: Prasad
The government will not allow "fly-by-night" data mining firms to improperly harvest social media data of Indian citizens, Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said. In an interview to PTI, he said that while the government is supportive of the social media, it will not allow abuse of the platform nor "irresponsible traffic in data commerce". The government has already slapped notices to the controversial, UK-based data mining firm Cambridge Analytica for improperly obtaining information from tens of millions of Facebook users globally, including in India and is awaiting its response. ...no fly-by-night operator will now be able to play with data. I am all for campaigning on social media and these platforms but you cannot play with the (user) consent," Prasad said. The comments assume significance in the run up to general elections slated next year. Cambridge Analytica, a data-mining firm embroiled in a scandal purportedly over its work for US President Donald Trump's 2016 ...
Egyptian court orders temporary ban on YouTube
An Egyptian high court has approved a month ban on video-sharing site YouTube on Saturday, over a video that is believed to denigrate the Prophet Mohammad.The ruling is considered final and cannot be appealed.Mohamed Hamid Salem, an Egyptian lawyer filed a lawsuit against YouTube for publishing the low-budget 13-minute video.The video, which was made in California with private funding, had provoked a wave of anti-American unrest in Egypt and other Muslim countries when it appeared in 2012.Salem said the ruling also orders that all links that broadcast the film be blocked.In February 2013, a local court ordered the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to block YouTube for a month for the same reason, according to Anadolu Agency.The ministry then said it would be difficult to enforce the ruling as it would eventually lead to disrupting Google's Internet search engine which could incur huge costs and job losses in Egypt.
'Firewall' for smartphones may protect your privacy
Scientists have developed the first ultrasound-firewall that can prevent hackers from eavesdropping on hidden data transmission between smartphones and other mobile devices. The permanent networking of mobile devices can endanger the privacy of users and lead to new forms of monitoring. New technologies such as Google Nearby and Silverpush use ultrasonic sounds to exchange information between devices via loudspeakers and microphones. More and more of our devices communicate via this inaudible communication channel. Ultrasonic communication allows devices to be paired and information to be exchanged. It also makes it possible to track users and their behaviour over a number of devices, much like cookies on the Web. Almost every device with a microphone and a loudspeaker can send and receive ultrasonic sounds. Users are usually unaware of this inaudible and hidden data transmission. Researchers from the St Polten University of Applied Sciences in Austria has developed a mobile ...
New element with magnetic properties discovered
Scientists have discovered that the chemical element ruthenium (Ru) is the fourth element to have unique magnetic properties at room temperature. The discovery, led by researchers at the University of Minnesota in the US, could be used to improve sensors, devices in the computer memory and logic industry, or other devices using magnetic materials. The use of ferromagnetism, or the basic mechanism by which certain materials (such as iron) form permanent magnets or are attracted to magnets, reaches back as far as ancient times when lodestone was used for navigation. Since then only three elements on the periodic table have been found to be ferromagnetic at room temperature - iron (Fe), cobalt (Co), and nickel (Ni). The rare earth element gadolinium (Gd) nearly misses by only 8 degrees Celsius. The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, opens the door to fundamental studies of this new ferromagnetic Ru. Magnetic materials are very important in industry and modern ...
AIR, Betar to co-produce radio programmes
The All India Radio (AIR) and state-run Bangladesh Betar will co-produce radio programme on music, quiz, theatre, tourism and sports among others, a move aimed at further strengthening bilateral ties, a senior official said. The two broadcasters have also agreed to jointly produce one daily news bulletin of ten minutes with a focus on cooperation between the two nations in various developmental aspects like tourism, commerce and trade, sports, culture, agriculture and climate change, the official added. A music reality show, drawing participants from both the nations, is also on the cards. "The programme would be in the nature of a music competition among participants from different categories namely school and college students and housewives," the official said. They would also produce a series of quiz programme on India and Bangladesh among school and college students. "The finale of it (quiz programme) can be held before invited audience either in Kolkata or Dhaka and the event ...
Wi-Fi adds wing to BharatNet, data usage jumps 190% in villages
The launch of Wi-Fi hotspots under the rural broadband project 'BharatNet' has seen 190 per cent jump in data usage to 95 terabyte in six months of the service, as per an official report. A DoT report said that as on April 30 this year, "190 per cent increase in data consumption has been recorded during the last six months in rural areas where broadband internet is provided through Wi-Fi hotspots running on BharatNet Infrastructure". The government has completed the roll out of the BharatNet project in over 1 lakh gram panchayats and aims to cover the rest of 1.5 lakh GPs by the end of this year, it said. "While the first half of last twelve months saw a data consumption of around 33 TB, the second half witnessed a consumption of around 95 TB," the report said. The government is providing Wi-Fi hotspots service, known as (Wifi Choupal) in 7,183 gram panchayats (GPs) under the BharatNet project in 12 states and Union Territories -- Bihar, Chandigarh, Chattisgarh, Haryana, Jharkhand, .