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Tripura CM Internet remarks open floodgates of humour, ridicule on social media

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb's claim that Internet existed in the days of Mahabharata has set off a flurry of reaction from Twitter users, who were largely unforgiving for his bizarre statement. While a section of the Twitterati used humour to ridicule Deb's claim, other took a swipe at him with tweets loaded with sarcasm. "Chief minister of Tripura Biplab kumar Deb said that internet exist during Mahabharat times So was he communication Minister there at time? ..... Thank god he didnt said that he gave training to Bheem in his Gym," a user, with handle @naina4ucozy, wrote on the micro-blogging site. Users mentioned characters like Krishna, Arjuna and Draupadi from the Hindu epic to mock the newly-elected chief minister of the northeastern state. "If according to Biplab deb internet existed during the times of Mahabharat, the main question is, what was Draupadi's favorite Snapchat filter?," tweeted another user @ThePolanator. "Biggest joke of the millennium. Tomorrow some ..

New IBM security tools utilise human-machine intelligence

IBM Security on Wednesday unveiled new technology and services that utilise both human and machine intelligence to fight, defend and respond to cyber attacks.

After Tencent, Chinese firm Alibaba confirms developing self-driven cars

Alibaba's research aims to reach Level 4, which means the self-driving vehicle can fully drive itself without human intervention under certain circumstances

'The Peripheral' adaptation in works at Amazon from 'Westworld' creators

After the massive success of "Westworld", creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan are set to venture in the sci-fi universe again with the adaptation of "The Peripheral" for Amazon Studios. The series is based on William Gibson's 2014 sci-fi novel of the same name and the streaming giant is expected to give a straight-to-series order for the project. The novel focuses on the character of Flynne Fisher, who lives in near-future America. Fisher subs in for her brother, a cyber-enhanced combat veteran who now works security in a virtual world for the Milagros Coldiron company, reported Entertainment Weekly. Nolan and Joy will executive produce the project along with scriptwriter Scott Smith, Steve Hoban, and Athena Wickham. Vincenzo Natali, who directed the "Dissonance Theory" episode of "Westworld" in the season one, will direct the pilot as well as executive produce. The project will also be produced by Kilter Films in association with Warner Bros Television and Amazon Studios. Season 2 ..

Digital afterlife industry must be regulated: Experts

To make the commercial use of digital remains more ethical, it is important to regulate the digital afterlife industry, says a team of experts from University of Oxford.

Tripura CM maintains his stand on Indians inventing internet

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Wednesday reiterated his statement, where he claimed that internet and satellites existed since the Mahabharata era.Speaking to ANI, the Tripura chief minister said that only the narrow-minded people will find it difficult to believe the facts stated by him."They want to belittle their own nation and think highly of other countries. Believe the truth. Do not get confused and do not confuse others," Deb said.Earlier while speaking at a Regional Workshop on Computerisation and Reforms at Pragna Bhawan in Agartala, Deb said that the internet was invented by India lakhs of years ago."Internet and satellite communication had existed in the days of Mahabharata. How could Sanjaya (the charioteer of King Dhritarashtra) give a detailed account and description to the blind king about the battle of Kurukshetra? It means internet was there, the satellites and that technology was there in this country at that time," he said.The BJP leader said that the ...

Delhi to host third annual 5G India Congress 2018

Nexgen Conferences, one of India's leading conferences and B2B event organizers, has announced that the third edition of the Annual 5G India Congress 2018 will be held on April 20 at Le Meridian Hotel here.Supported by well-known organisations, including Huawei, Nokia, Juniper Networks, Tata Communications, Aricent, Analysys Mason, Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), 5G India Forum, 3G PP, ETSI, TSDSI, Broadband Forum, TAIPA, Broadband India Forum, ITU-APT Foundation of India, NGN Forum, and Emreach; the summit will see key telecom industry professionals, stakeholders, thought leaders, and analysts having discussions on key strategies and on figuring out a road map for deploying 5G network.The next generation mobility service has a lot to offer to both consumers as well as service providers.According to the Global Mobile Operators Association (GMOA), 5G will account for 14 percent of global wireless connections by 2025.Another recent report published on Indian telecom ...

New system to spot fake Facebook, Twitter accounts

Scientists have developed a new algorithm that can spot fake accounts on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The method is based on the assumption that fake accounts tend to establish improbable links to other users in the networks, according to the study in published in the journal Social Network Analysis and Mining. "With recent disturbing news about failures to safeguard user privacy, and targeted use of social media by Russia to influence elections, rooting out fake users has never been of greater importance," said Dima Kagan, lead researcher from Ben-Gurion University in Israel. "We tested our algorithm on simulated and real-world data sets on 10 different social networks and it performed well on both," Kagan said. The algorithm consists of two main iterations based on machine-learning algorithms. The first constructs a link prediction classifier that can estimate, with high accuracy, the probability of a link existing between two users. The second iteration ...

LinkedIn introduces videos for 'Sponsored Content'

Microsoft-owned professional networking platform LinkedIn on Wednesday rolled out videos for "Sponsored Content" and "Company Pages" to help businesses reach and engage with the right audience.

Artificial muscles that can lift 12,600 times their own weight

Using carbon fiber, a very strong light-weight material which is readily commercially available, researchers have designed artificial muscles capable of lifting up to 12,600 times their own weight.

Facebook introduces new privacy updates for EU users

Continuing with its efforts to protect users' privacy after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook on Wednesday introduced new privacy updates for its users in Europe as part of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that will be effective from May 25.

Facebook begins fact-checking news in poll-bound Karnataka

With Karnataka heading for the polls in May, Facebook has announced a third-party fact-checking programme in the state to fight spread of fake news on its platform.

Gemalto to protect Cloud networks with Intel security solution

Digital security firm Gemalto on Wednesday announced that it is bolstering protection against cyber attacks for the new generation of Cloud-based virtualised networks with Intel technology.

World's largest superconducting camera can spot nearby exoplanets

Scientists have developed the world's largest superconducting camera that can spot planets around stars near our solar system. Distinguishing that planet's light from its star can be problematic, researchers said. The team from California Institute of Technology and Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the US created a device named DARKNESS (the DARK-speckle Near-infrared Energy-resolved Superconducting Spectrophotometer), the first 10,000-pixel integral field spectrograph designed to overcome the limitations of traditional semiconductor detectors. It employs Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors that, in conjunction with a large telescope and an adaptive optics system, enable direct imaging of planets around nearby stars. "Taking a picture of an exoplanet is extremely challenging because the star is much brighter than the planet, and the planet is very close to the star," said Benjamin Mazin, from University of California, Santa Barbara in the US. DARKNESS is an attempt to overcome some of .

AI system can create road maps from aerial images

MIT scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that can automatically trace out roads from aerial images of a city. Mapping roads for navigation apps can be tedious. Even after taking aerial images, companies like Google still have to spend many hours manually tracing out roads. As a result, vast majority of the more than 20 million miles of roads across the globe have not yet been mapped. Gaps in maps are a problem, particularly for systems being developed for self-driving cars. To address the issue, researchers have created RoadTracer, an automated method to build road maps that's 45 percent more accurate than existing approaches. Using data from aerial images, the team says that RoadTracer is not just more accurate, but more cost-effective than current approaches. "RoadTracer is well-suited to map areas of the world where maps are frequently out of date, which includes both places with lower population and areas where there's frequent construction," said Mohammad ..

Google testing landmark-based navigation to tell directions

In order to make navigation easy, Google is reportedly testing a new feature in Maps that will use landmarks, including restaurants, as points of reference to give directions to a commuter.

Junk food TV ads more frequent during kids's peak viewing times

Junk food advertisements are shown more frequently on TV at during children's peak viewing times, according to a study. The research also showed that children were exposed to twice as much unhealthy food advertising as healthy food advertising. Researchers from University of Adelaide in Australia found that children would view more than 800 junk food ads each year, if they watched 80 minutes of television per day. By building a TV monitoring system, believed to be the first of its kind in the world, researchers were able to capture an entire year's worth of television and ads from one free-to-air commercial TV network in South Australia. "This is the most robust data we've seen anywhere. It is the largest dataset ever used by health researchers for examining food advertising in Australia, and probably the world," said Lisa Smithers, associate professor at University of Adelaide. "Most research in this area is based on only a few days of data, and there are no Australian studies taking

Will take action if apps violate our policies: Google

Responding to a study that found nearly 60 per cent of free Andorid apps used by children potentially violate a federal law, Google has said that it will take action if company's policies are violated.

Facebook wearable device helps 'feel' words on your arm

Facebook researchers have created a wearable device that taught people to feel words on their arms, causing vibrations in patterns that match up with certain sounds.

34 global tech firms sign key accord against cyber attacks

Top 34 global technology and securities firms, led by Microsoft and Facebook, have signed a "Cybersecurity Tech Accord" to defend people from malicious attacks by cybercriminals and nation-states.