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Security in IoT space to be of prime focus in 2018: Experts
Amid a rise in cyber attacks across the world, ensuring the security of devices linked to the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem will be a key focus of companies in 2018, say experts. The IoT is a growing network of inter-connected devices that can be accessed through the Internet. "IoT devices have been a cause for concern for consumers. We will see an increase in businesses to 'secure' the entire network instead of each individual endpoint, which can help minimise the risk and cost involved in maintaining security across IoT devices," Juniper Networks VP, security marketing, Franklyn Jones told PTI. According to a Gartner report, global spend on information security products and services will grow to a massive USD 93 billion in 2018. "As smart technology and IoT becomes more widespread, safeguarding customer data is now even more important. As data breaches reveal sensitive information and can have a direct physical impact, organisations have become responsible and ...
President Kovind to launch Andhra Fiber Grid project
President Ram Nath Kovind will launch the Andhra Pradesh Fiber grid project on December 27 at the Andhra Pradesh Secretariat, Amaravati.Andhra Pradesh Fiber grid is a prestigious project initiated by state Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, which aims to expand high speed internet facility in the state.The project aims to cover over 1.45 crore households, 12,198 panchayats and 60,000 schools.It will also provide internet facilities to 10,000 government offices, 96 municipalities, 14 Corporations and 6,000 Public Health Centres in the state.The cost of availing this high speed internet facility would be as low as Rs 149 per month.The President will also visit the Real Time Governance State Centre and do a virtual inspection of Polavaram project works.He will also interact with DWCRA women in the state from the Real Time Governance (RTG) State Centre.The RTG centre has many unique features, including the Asia's biggest video wall.
High-speed broadband internet service launched in JK
Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh today launched a high-speed broadband internet service in the state as part of initiatives under the Digital India programme of the Central government. People living in Jammu, Srinagar, Ladakh, and Katra would be able to avail the benefits of the service. During the launch, Singh said: "By improving digital connectivity and improving digital literacy in the country, we will be able to promote inclusive growth that covers electronic services, products, devices and job opportunities." The deputy chief minister said that the launch of the service would assist in achieving the goal of the Digital India programme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He noted that Modi's vision behind the ambitious programme was to "transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy". "The Government of India has been undertaking a series of initiatives to promote e-governance by developing various applications and .
Whatsapp to withdraw services from certain platforms on Dec 31
Popular messaging platform WhatsApp will drop support from certain platforms on December 31st 2017, the company confirmed in a statement.According to express.co.uk, the Facebook-owned mobile messaging app, will stop working for people using BlackBerry OS, BlackBerry 10, Windows Phone 8.0 and older.WhatsApp had originally told users that support for these mobile platforms would be dropped by the end of 2016.Meanwhile, Android OS version 2.3.7 and older will also stop functioning after February 1st, 2020.The tech giant had earlier ended support for Android versions older than 2.3.3, Windows Phone 7, iPhone 3GS or any iOS 6 device and Nokia Symbian S60.
Qualcomm begins testing self-driving technology in California
Joining the race towards building self-driving cars, global chip manufacturer Qualcomm has begun testing its self-driving chipset technology in California.
UNICEF calls for action to end digital divide
Only 15 per cent people have access to the Internet in the least-developed countries, a UNICEF report has revealed. In developed countries, an estimated 81 per cent people use Internet, the report covering 24 countries, including India, in 2017 said. Digital divide do not merely separate the connected from the unconnected, they go deeper concerning how people, including youth and children, use Information and Communication Technology (ICT), a UNICEF spokesperson said after launching the report here last week. The report quoted data from world's wealthiest countries to show that ICT experience has a huge impact on the wages of labourers in countries like Australia and US. Adults without ICT experience were likely to earn less. "Other studies of adult population in countries such as India and Tunisia reflect similar findings," the report said. The report said while about 29 per cent of youth, in the age group of 15-24 years, (346 million individuals), don't have access to
New malware spreading fast via Facebook Messenger: Report
A new cryptocurrency-mining bot, named "Digmine", that was first observed in South Korea, is spreading fast through Facebook Messenger across the world, Tokyo-headquartered cybersecurity major Trend Micro has warned.
Scientists create world's smallest Christmas card
Scientists have created the world's smallest Christmas card - measuring just 15 micrometres wide - that could fit over 200 million cards in a single postage stamp. The 15x20 micrometres card requires a powerful microscope just to see it, let alone read the festive message inside. Created by researchers at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the UK, it features a whimsical, jolly snowman and the words 'Season's Greetings'. The card is made from platinum-coated silicon nitride, usually used in electronics, and both the design on the front and the message inside were carved out by a focused ion beam a jet of charged particles. The tools used to make the card are being used to develop cutting-edge techniques for understanding materials on a tiny scale, helping to further the miniaturisation of electronics, and the development of new battery materials. "While the card is a fun way to mark the festive season, it also showcases the progress being made in materials research
Hubble spots 'holiday ornament in space': NASA
Scientists at NASA using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a what looks like a colourful holiday ornament in space - a planetary nebula with glowing wisps of outpouring gas that are lit up by a central star nearing the end of its life. When a star ages and the red giant phase of its life comes to an end, it starts to eject layers of gas from its surface leaving behind a hot and compact white dwarf. Sometimes this ejection results in elegantly symmetric patterns of glowing gas, but the nebula named NGC 6326 is much less structured. This object is located in the constellation of Ara, the Altar, about 11,000 light-years from Earth, according to NASA. Planetary nebulae are one of the main ways in which elements heavier than hydrogen and helium are dispersed into space after their creation in the hearts of stars. Eventually some of this out-flung material may form new stars and planets. The picture was created from images taken using the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide ...
Google releases its annual Santa Tracker
Google's Santa Tracker, which has been around for the past 13 years, is back to help children follow Santa Clause's location and destination of next delivery.
China has shut down 13,000 websites since 2015: Xinhua
China has shut down or revoked the licenses of 13,000 websites since 2015 for violating the country's internet rules, state media reported today. The news comes as the Communist country continues to strengthen its already tight regulation of the internet, a move which critics say has picked up pace since President Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. Platforms have also closed nearly 10 million internet accounts for "violating service protocol", the official news agency said today, likely referring to social media accounts. "These moves have a powerful deterrent effect," Xinhua quoted Wang Shengjun, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), as saying. Despite being home to the world's largest number of internet users, a 2015 report by US think tank Freedom House found that the country had the most restrictive online use policies of 65 nations it studied, ranking below Iran and Syria. This year alone, it has enacted new rules requiring .
Seven held for illegally diverting international calls
Seven members of a gang involved in illegally diverting international calls through voice over internet protocol (VOIP) were arrested by the Commissioner's task force, south zone team along with Moghalpura Police on Saturday.The gang was busted after the Commissioner's task force and Moghalpura Police jointly conducted simultaneous raids in Hyderabad.The VoIP allows a person to make voice calls using an Internet connection instead of a regular phone line.The arrested persons have been identified as Syed Mohammed Ilyaz, Mohsin Bin Mohammed, Mir Muzaffar Ali, Dr. Mohd Omer, Mohd Zubairuddin, Mohd. Shahnawaz and Isa Bin Sayeed.They all were secretly doing an illegal business of termination/ illegal routing of international incoming calls through internet VOIP by arranging required equipment of VOIP Gateway, GSM-CDMA sims and fixed wireless telephones at three locations, Moghalpura, Golkonda and Tolichowki.Syed Mohammed Ilyaz, Mohsin Bin Mohammed, Mir Muzaffar Ali, Dr Mohd Omer, Mohd ...
Selling your phone? Ensure data is erased, not just formatted
Before disposing off old gadgets like hard disk drives or mobile phones, you need to ensure that data is securely wiped -- not just formatted -- by a recognised software data erasure to avoid passing sensitive data to strangers, hackers and cyber criminals, warns a study.
World's smallest Christmas card developed
Scientists have created the world's smallest Christmas card - measuring just 15 micrometres wide - that could fit over 200 million cards in a single postage stamp. The 15x20 micrometres card requires a powerful microscope just to see it, let alone read the festive message inside. Created by researchers at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the UK, it features a whimsical, jolly snowman and the words 'Season's Greetings'. The card is made from platinum-coated silicon nitride, usually used in electronics, and both the design on the front and the message inside were carved out by a focused ion beam a jet of charged particles. The tools used to make the card are being used to develop cutting-edge techniques for understanding materials on a tiny scale, helping to further the miniaturisation of electronics, and the development of new battery materials. "While the card is a fun way to mark the festive season, it also showcases the progress being made in materials research
Robots learn how to respect humans' personal space
Scientists are teaching mobile robots how to respect the personal space of humans beings and avoid collisions with them. "Humans respect social zones during different kinds of interactions," according to Daniel Herrera, a postdoctoral researcher at the National University of San Juan in Argentina. Specifics of a task and situation, as well as cultural expectations and personal preferences, influence the distance of social zones. "When a robot follows a human as part of a formation, it is supposed that it must also respect these social zones to improve its social acceptance," said Herrera. Using impedance control, researchers aimed to regulate the social dynamics between the robot's movements and the interactions of the robot's environment. They did this by first analysing how a human leader and a human follower interact on a set track with well-defined borders. The feedback humans use to adjust their behaviors - letting someone know they're following too closely, for ...
'New imaging system to help self-driving cars sense distances'
MIT scientists have developed a new imaging system that can more quickly and accurately gauge distance, an advance that could make self-driving cars practical. The system uses "time of flight" - an approach that gauge distance by measuring the time it takes light projected into a scene to bounce back to a sensor. The new approach to time-of-flight imaging developed by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US increases its depth resolution 1,000-fold. "As you increase the range, your resolution goes down exponentially. Let's say you have a long-range scenario, and you want your car to detect an object further away so it can make a fast update decision," said Achuta Kadambi, a PhD student at MIT. "You may have started at one centimeter, but now you are back down to a resolution of a foot or even five feet. And if you make a mistake, it could lead to loss of life," said Kadambi. At a range of two meters, existing time-of-flight systems have a ...
11,000 held in China for misuse of citizens' personal info
Chinese police have detained more than 11,000 suspects during the past two years for alleged misuse of citizens' personal information. Wang Shengjun, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), called the task of protecting Internet users' personal information "grim." "Illegal industrial chains have taken shape in some places, which involve illegal collection, theft, sale and use of Internet users' personal information," state-run Xinhua news agency quoted him as saying today. Some Internet companies and public service agencies have stored large amounts of personal information, but security protection lags behind in a major way, making them easy targets, according to the report. "Serious leaks of personal information have led to an increase in fraud targeting victims with high precision," Wang noted. More than 11,000 suspects in over 3,700 cases have been detained during the past two years for alleged misuse of citizens' personal ...
WHO to add 'gaming disorder' as a mental condition in 2018
Are your kids addicted to video games? Beware, soon their behaviour might be classified as a mental health condition by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the media reported.
New system can help machines think like humans
Scientists have developed a new type of neural network chip that can dramatically improve the efficiency of teaching machines to think like humans. The network, called a reservoir computing system, could predict words before they are said during conversation, and help predict future outcomes based on the present. Reservoir computing systems, which improve on a typical neural network's capacity and reduce the required training time, have been created in the past with larger optical components. Researchers from University of Michigan in the US created their system using memristors, which require less space and can be integrated more easily into existing silicon-based electronics. Memristors are a special type of resistive device that can both perform logic and store data. This contrasts with typical computer systems, where processors perform logic separate from memory modules. For the study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers used a special memristor
New depth sensors to male self-driving cars practical
A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is developing new depth sensors that could be sensitive enough to make self-driving vehicles practical.
