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Orkut founder & JetSynthesys to launch 'Jet Hello' in India
Hello Network, the social media platform launched by Orkut founder, Orkut B"y"kk"kten, has tied up with digital innovation company JetSynthesys to jointly launch a new social network, Jet Hello, in India. Under the strategic partnership, JetSynthesys as a hands-on local partner will be responsible for larger business strategy and operations, marketing and monetisation for Hello to strengthen its reach in the Indian market, while the Hello Network team will continue to develop innovative technologies. "Making a social network for India which is driven by communities and enables connections of like-minded people, in real life as well, is our focus," B"y"kk"kten, who was on his first visit to the country told PTI here. India was among the most popular markets for Orkut, with over 80 million users. However, after an initial surge in popularity, Orkut lost out to Facebook. "Jet Hello will start with about 35,000 initial users and will scale up to about one lakh users very ...
3D printed self-folding materials developed
Scientists have used an inexpensive 3D printer to produce flat plastic items that, when heated, fold themselves into predetermined shapes such as a rose, a boat or even a bunny. These self-folding plastic objects represent a first step towards products such as flat-pack furniture that assume their final shapes with the help of a heat gun, said researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in the US. Emergency shelters also might be shipped flat and fold into shape under the warmth of the sun. "The software is based on new curve-folding theory representing banding motions of curved area," said Byoungkwon An, a research affiliate at Carnegie Mellon University. "The software based on this theory can compile any arbitrary 3-D mesh shape to an associated thermoplastic sheet in a few seconds without human intervention," said An. Self-folding materials are quicker and cheaper to produce than solid 3D objects, making it possible to replace noncritical parts or produce prototypes using ...
Hackers break into Nintendo's Switch to run pirated games
Hackers have broken into Japanese video gaming giant Nintendo's Switch, allowing them to run pirated games and custom homebrew apps on the gaming console.
Panasonic partners Kyoto University for innovation in living spaces
The Panasonic Corporation today announced it has agreed with the Graduate School of Engineering of Kyoto University to form a partnership for the creation of innovation in living spaces and consumer electronics.With the environment surrounding design undergoing a drastic change, the scope of design is expanding from simply optimizing the appearance of products to finding answers to social problems through services and solutions.Panasonic itself has shifted away from the designs of individual products toward the creation of lifestyles people desire through the design of new experiences for the entire space of a house, and even beyond to involve communities and society.Kyoto University, with which the Design Center of Panasonic's Appliances Company will build a collaborative relationship, is currently working to solve social problems by establishing the study of design, in cooperation with industry and government.The effort is led by the Graduate School of Informatics, the Graduate ...
Instagram makes updates on 'Stories' feature easier
Facebook-owned Instagram on Wednesday introduced a new update to make uploading photos and videos on its "Stories" feature faster and easier.
Planet darker than charcoal discovered
Scientists have discovered a 'pitch black' planet 470 light-years away that absorbs 99 per cent of light, making it one of the darkest planets ever found. The planet, named WASP-104b, was discovered by researchers from Keele University in the UK, who used NASA's Kepler telescope to show that it is 'darker than charcoal.' "This is one of the darkest planets ever discovered - reflecting very little light from its host star," said Teo Mocnik from Keele's Astrophysics Group. "WASP-104b is interesting because it was not even seen. All planets reflect starlight from their host star. Some planets are highly reflective, such as Venus reflecting 70 per cent of the light, while some others reflect only 10 per cent," Mocnik said. "When analysing the highly precise photometric data from Kepler, we were surprised not to see reflected starlight from WASP-104b," said Mocnik, who led the research. The planet was discovered orbiting a yellow dwarf star some 470 light-years away from us in the ...
5G to herald next wave of satellite communications: Report
Augmenting 5G mobile networks with next-generation satellite capabilities may help satellite operators become a major player in the emerging 5G ecosystem, leading data and analytics company GlobalData said on Wednesday.
OnePlus 6 coming to India on May 17
After the success of OnePlus 5T, the Chinese smartphone player on Wednesday announced that its next flagship OnePlus 6 will be launched in India on May 17.
Atos, Google Cloud to deliver secure AI solutions for enterprises
European IT services provider Atos has partnered Google Cloud to create secure enterprise business solutions in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) Hybrid Cloud, data analytics and the digital workplace.
HARMAN introduces 'JBL Free' wireless earphone in India
HARMAN International, a Samsung Electronics' subsidiary, on Wednesday announced the launch of its "JBL Free" wireless earphone in India.
Dell introduces new commercial PC portfolio
Dell on Wednesday introduced its latest commercial PC portfolio with advanced versions of the existing Dell Latitude, OptiPlex, Dell Precision and P-Series workstations.
New tech can 3D print your food
Scientists have developed a new technique to 3D print food that can allow users to cook according to their preferences. 3D printing of food works much like 3D printing of other materials in that layers of raw material are deposited to build up a final product. In addition to offering customised food options, the ability to 3D print food at home or on an industrial scale could greatly reduce food waste and the cost involved with storage and transportation. It might also help meet the rapidly increasing food needs of a growing world population. "We built a platform that uses 3D printing to create food microstructures that allow food texture and body absorption to be customised on a personal level," said Jin-Kyu Rhee, associate professor at Ewha Womans University in South Korea. "We think that one day, people could have cartridges that contain powdered versions of various ingredients that would be put together using 3-D printing and cooked according to the user's needs or preferences," ..
Twitter updates privacy policy ahead of EU data law
As the deadline for European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) inches closer, Twitter has updated its "Terms and Privacy Policy" to give its users more transparency over their data.
The digital revolution's dystopian potential - and what we can do (Book Review)
Title: The People Vs Tech; Author: Jamie Bartlett; Publisher: Ebury Press/Penguin Random House; Pages: 256; Price: Rs 499
More people prefer iPhone 8 over iPhone X in the US: Report
More and more people are buying iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus than the "super premium" iPhone X in the US, a new survey has revealed.
Facebook stops third-party apps from stealing users' data
Facebook has finally begun its crackdown on third-party apps from stealing, sharing or spamming your data without permission from its platform as well as from Instagram.
Upload multiple media at once on Insta Stories
Popular image and video-sharing platform Instagram announced a host of new updates to its app, making it easier for users to upload multiple photos and videos at once to their Insta Stories."We're introducing a few updates that make it faster and easier to upload photos and videos to your stories. You'll now be able to upload multiple photos and videos to your story all at once. Whether you want to preview your entire story to make sure it's just right or you're waiting for a strong connection to upload all of your photos and videos from the day, it's now faster and easier than ever to share to your story after the moment has passed," the company wrote in a blog post.To explore the new feature, a user may select the 'upload media' option, where a new icon will appear at the top right corner of the screen. Hereafter, the user may tap the option to begin selecting up to ten photos or videos from the gallery. On the edit screen, a preview of all the media selected will appear lined up at
Scientist in Facebook data scandal says being scapegoated
The academic behind the app that allowed consulting firm Cambridge Analytica to farm the data of some 87 million Facebook users said today he was being scapegoated while the social network was being "mined left and right by thousands" of companies. Aleksandr Kogan, who teaches at Cambridge University, told a British parliamentary committee that criticism of his work by Facebook showed the US social media giant was in "PR crisis mode". "I don't believe they actually think these things because I think they realise that their platform has been mined left and right by thousands of others," said the Russian-American scientist, who is now banned from Facebook. "I was just the unlucky person that ended up somehow linked to the Trump campaign. It's convenient to point the finger at a single entity," he said, playing down his own work as of little political value. Kogan created a personality prediction app through his company Global Science Research (GSR), which offered a small financial ...
USD 35 mn penalty for not telling investors of Yahoo hack
US securities regulators today announced that Altaba will pay a USD 35 million penalty for not telling them hackers had stolen Yahoo's "crown jewels." The 2014 breach blamed on Russian hackers affected hundreds of millions of Yahoo accounts, with stolen 'crown jewel' data including usernames, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdates, encrypted passwords, and security questions, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission. While Yahoo discovered the data breach quickly, it remained mum about it until more than two years later when it was being acquired by telecom giant Verizon Communications, the SEC case maintained. "Yahoo's failure to have controls and procedures in place to assess its cyber-disclosure obligations ended up leaving its investors totally in the dark about a massive data breach," SEC San Francisco regional office director Jina Choi said in a release. "Public companies should have controls and procedures in place to properly evaluate cyber incidents and ...
India tops list for flagging inappropriate content on YouTube
India tops the list of users flagging as many as 9.3 million unique videos on video streaming platform, YouTube during the October-December 2017 period for inappropriate content. Over 8.28 million videos were removed from the platform in the fourth quarter of 2017 based on automated flagging or human detection, as per YouTube's Transparency Report. The report said a total of 9,321,943 unique videos had been flagged for inappropriate content in the said quarter, of which about 95 per cent had been by individual users and 4.8 per cent was by "individual trusted flaggers". While the Google-owned company did not disclose details about the number of users flagging content like pornography, incitement to violence, harassment, or hate speech, it ranked India at the top in terms of total volume. Following in the tally was the US, Brazil, Russia, Germany, the UK, Mexico, Turkey, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. The company noted that the flagged content remains live when it doesn't violate its ...