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Humanoid Robot can also interact with people

A humanoid robot, known as ‘Han’ can smile, wince, wink, frown or even act drunk with the touch of a button using a mobile phone app.  ‘Han’, which can mimic human expressions greeted visitors on April 18 at a Hong Kong electronics fair.Han_ Humanoid Robot_DMGWeblabs

Han can also recognize people’s face, gender and emotional feelings like happy or sad and will interact with them by holding conversations with the help of about 40 motors and several cameras inside it’s eyes and chest.

A unique feature of Han is his human-like skin, which is created by a patented material called “Frubber”, or “Flesh Rubber”,  an elastic polymer.

The developers Hanson Robotics hope androids like Han could have uses in hospitality, health care and entertainment Industries where communication is vital with different approaches of  welcoming & entertaining people and showing care for older people.

This post was posted by Daizy for DMG Weblabs, Toronto. DMG Weblabs is a Toronto based web design company specialized in creating SEO web sites and mobile ready websites.

Source: www.businessinsider.com

A Glossary of a hacker’s dictionary

++++Term++++ +++++++++++++++++Definition
Advanced persistent threat (APT): A strategic cyber attack that infiltrates a system and persists over a prolonged period of time, potentially undetected. APTs may be carried out by a nation state or criminal organization to steal sensitive data or compromise a target system.
Botnet: A large network of virus-infected computers that can be used to generate spam, spread viruses, perpetrate click fraud or conduct attacks on other systems.
Bug bounty program: A program where software companies offer cash rewards to hackers to find and report exploitable vulnerabilities before they can be used by cyber criminals. Facebook, Google, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft have been known to offer thousands of dollars in return for bugs.
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack: An attack designed to disrupt a computer system or website service by bombarding the site with so much web traffic that it crashes. Botnets are often used to carry out DDoS assaults.
Ransomware: Malicious software designed to block access to a system or account until a sum of money is paid.
Social engineering: Non-computer methods of manipulation to obtain sensitive personal information, such as birth dates, or social security numbers. Personal knowledge often used to bypass passwords.
Special phishing: An email masquerading as being from a trusted source or person you know sent with the goal of obtaining sensitive information, often by downloading data-sniffing and computer-controlling malicious software.
Zero-day exploit: A previously undetected software vulnerability that is used to hack into affected system before developers or manufacturers can address or fix the problem.

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Source: The Globe and Mail

Twelve big hacks

Some of the largest hacks in history, by records exposed :

# Name Hacks +++++++++++++++++Expose
1 NYC Taxi & Limousine 173 million Hack exploits poorly anonymized trip details and personal information of drivers
2 Adobe Systems 152 million Hack of company systems exposes informations related to customer orders
3 Shanghai Roadway 150 million Firm may have illegally bought and sold customers’ information
4 eBay 145 million Hack exposes names, encrypted password and personal information
5 Unknown South Korean Firms 140 million North Korean hackers expose e-mail addresses and identification numbers
6 Heartland 130 million Hack/malicious software exposes credit cards at processor
7 Target 110 million Hack exposes customer information by targeting point-of-sale systems
8 Korea Credit Bureau 104 million Insider fraud exposes 104 million credit cards
9 TJX 94 million Hack exposes credit cards and transaction details
10 TRW 90 million Hack exposes credit-reporting database
11 JPMorgan 83 million Hack exposes names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mails of the holders of household and small business accounts
12 Home Depot 56 million Hackers use malware to steal debit and credit card data from point-of-sale systems

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Source: The Globe and Mail

Facebook creates ‘Safety Check’ tool for disasters

A tool that push users notify friends and family that they are safe during or after natural disasters like Tsunami & Earthquake, is launched by Facebook.Webdesign CompanyToronto_DMGWeblabs

The tool, called ‘Safety Check’, which includes the basic “feature”  phones many people still use to access Facebook, will be available worldwide to the social network’s users on computers and mobile devices, especially in developing countries.

Though the people already use Facebook to tell people they are “OK” after earthquakes and other disasters, the Facebook’s Safety Check tool will make it easier. This tool was created in 2011 by Facebook engineers following the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan as a disaster message board.

Once users activate the tool, it will determine their location using the city they have listed in their profile, the last location they’ve shared or the city where they are using the internet. If they are in an area affected by a natural disaster, Safety Check will send them a notification asking if they’re safe.

If they say yes, their Facebook friends will be notified. There’s no option to say no. Users can also mark their friends as safe, but the friends have to approve it.

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Source: “http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/44834579.cms?intenttarget=no”

Ex-Googlers launch an app to make people talk

An app called Cord, developed by two former Google employees, Thomas Gayno and Jeff Baxter, is hoping to let people quickly record and send their brief voice messages lasting no more than 12 seconds to one or several people at the same time with just a single tap.

“Over the past decade, people are speaking to each other less and less,” Gayno told AFP.

“Increasingly they communicate by text — either by SMS, email or instant messaging. We want to tackle that and web design Toronotoget people speaking to each other again.”

To transmit the voice with Cord, users will simply tap on the face of a visible contact placed in a circle, pressing once to listen to a message or to respond without the requirement of any number or text.

This voice enabled app will certainly play a key role in controlling new devices, from smartphones to wearables and other connected objects, as said by Thomas Husson, an analyst with Forrester Research. “However, I doubt that a service based on the promise of voice-services alone can scale – it will have to embedded among other features in an open way to control new devices.”

The two Google Veterans are hoping that this innovative new app will trigger a renaissance in an increasingly unfashionable method of human communication: talking.

This post was posted by Daizy for DMG Weblabs, Toronto. DMG Weblabs is Toronto based web design company specialized in creating SEO web sites and mobile ready websites.

Source: “http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Ex-Googlers-launch-an-app-to-make-people-talk/articleshow/44500960.cms”