Google introduced ‘Project Bloks’ to teach kids how to code

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June 28, 2016

Google introduced ‘Project Bloks’ to teach kids how to code

Google know how kids like to learn things – usually through playing and interacting with one another, with everything around them. So Google launched a new set of toys – “Project Bloks“, that will teach kids how to code instead of using traditional screen and keyboard.

Project Bloks is an open hardware plan from Google which will allow developers to create physical blocks that can be used together in order to teach kids how to code. It is a part of a research partnership between Google, Paulo Blikstein (Stanford University) and design firm Ideo.

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Teach Kids How to Code with Google’s Project Bloks

The Project Bloks system is made up of three core components the “Brain Board”, “Base Boards” and “Pucks”. When connected together they create a set of instructions which can be sent to connected devices, things like toys or tablets, over wi-fi or Bluetooth.

The three core components of the Project Bloks system

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The Brain Board houses a processing unit based off of Raspberry Pi Zero, both controlling and providing power to the rest of the connected units. It can also interact with WiFi and Bluetooth devices. Meanwhile, the ‘Base Boards’ are connective units that let you design instruction flows. The Pucks are the fun bits you directly interact with, shaped like switched, arrows, buttons, dials and more. These can be programmed to do things from turning things on or off, moving avatars, playing music, or more.

You can also record instructions from multiple pucks into a single one. As they have no active electric components, they can be made from a variety of inexpensive materials, including something as simple as paper with conductive ink.

Last year Codie Labs introduced a a rolling and programmable robot,Codie – which is controlled via a mobile application to teach kids the programming concepts.

The whole aim of the Project Bloks is to make programming more interactive to help future generation to master in their programming skills. Google said they will test a reference design at a small group of schools. If it catches on, expect the program to expand.

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Microsoft Edge Experiment Shows How Using Edge Instead of Chrome Saves your Laptop’s Battery

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June 22, 2016

Microsoft Edge Experiment Shows How Using Edge Instead of Chrome Saves your Laptop's Battery

Google Chrome – favorite browser of majority of PC users. We all know Chrome eats a lot of our PC’s RAM even also its the no.1 browser around the planet. But the recent Microsoft Edge experiment results clearly shows how Google Chrome badly drains your laptop’s battery than other popular browsers.

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Microsoft Edge Experiment

Microsoft did this experiment to shows how its Edge browser is better and power saving than any other available browsers. Microsoft Edge experiment done through three tests to measure the power consumption by browsers. First they tested browser’s power consumption in a controlled lab environment by measuring typical browsing behavior on popular sites. Secondly examined the real-world energy telemetry from millions of Windows 10 devices. And finally, recorded time-lapse videos of each browser performing the same tasks until the battery dies. And the test results shows that Microsoft Edge wins out in every case and crowned as the most power efficient browser.

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In Microsoft Edge experiment video, they used four identical fully charged laptops with four different browsers – Mozilla Firefox,Microsoft Edge,Google Chrome and Opera to check how long streaming HD video lasts. And the results were amazing the laptop one with Microsoft Edge lasts for 7 hours and 22 minutes on the streaming video test where Chrome drained battery first by playing video for just 4 hours and 19 minutes. After Chrome, Mozilla Firefox ended up playing for 5 hours and 9 minutes. And then Opera lasts to play 6 hours and 18 minutes. In short in the Microsoft Edge experiment, the PC running Edge lasted 70% longer than PC running Chrome, 43% longer than the PC running Firefox and 17% longer than the PC running Opera.

In these four popular browsers, new comer Edge succeeded to save battery life and also world’s no.1 Chrome became the last word of most power consuming browser. Google is implementing many technique to improve Chrome browsing speed but they forget to improve its power efficiency and memory consumption.

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This Made in China Supercomputer is Now World’s Fastest

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June 21, 2016

Made in China Supercomputer - the Sunway TaihuLight System

The Sunway TaihuLight, a made in China supercomputer is now declared as the world’s fastest. And the highlite is, it uses only Chinese-designed processors instead of U.S. technology.

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Sunway TaihuLight – Made in China Supercomputer

The Sunway TaihuLight takes the top spot from previous record-holder Tianhe-2 (also located in China), built using US-made Intel processors. And Sunway TaihuLight is twice as fast and three times as efficient as Tianhe-2, which posted a performance of 33.86 quadrillions of calculations per second.

And also Sunway TaihuLight is roughly five times more powerful than the speediest US system, Titan,which is now ranked third worldwide.

The TaihuLight is comprised of some 41,000 chips, each with 260 processor cores. This makes for a total of 10.65 million cores, compared to the 560,000 cores in America’s top machine. In terms of memory, it’s relatively light on its feet, with just 1.3 petabytes used for the entire machine. (By comparison, the much less powerful 10-petaflop K supercomputer uses 1.4 petabytes of RAM.) This means it’s unusually energy efficient, drawing just 15.3 megawatts of power — less than the 17.8 megawatts used by the 33-petaflop Tianhe-2.

Why China Used Domestic Chips?

China’s efforts in developing their own processors stems from Washington’s decision to block Beijing’s access to Intel’s processors last February. This was based on an unfounded fear that the Chinese government would use the technology to develop nuclear weapons, though some Chinese critics feel American politicians used this excuse to stymie progress of the Eastern nation’s supercomputer development.

The TaihuLight is installed at China’s National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, and uses ShenWei computers that operate on a system called Sunway Raise and were developed at Jiangnan Computing Research Lab in Wuxi.

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Hackers Hijacked Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest Accounts

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June 6, 2016

Hackers Hijacked Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest Accounts

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is also not that much cautious about his passwords. Yesterday a hacker group called OurMine Team hijacked Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts and the hackers claimed the Zuckerberg ‘s password “dadada” was leaked through a massive data breach on LinkedIn in May, with more than 164 million users’ data stolen.

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The hack implies Zuckerberg reused passwords across multiple sites or perhaps that the format of the password he chose for other sites was guessable after breaking his LinkedIn login credentials.

The group claiming responsibility for the high-profile hacking left a taunting message on both social media accounts. “Hey @finkd, you were in Linkedin Database with the password “dadada,” the team wrote from Zuckerberg’s Twitter page. On his Pinterest, the new title was “Hacked by OurMine Team.” In a deleted tweet, OurMine claimed it also breached Zuckerberg’s Instagram (which Facebook owns) claiming it was “just testing your security.” Zuckerberg’s Facebook account was not affected.

The affected accounts were rapidly re-secured, hopefully with a stronger password, and cleaned up. In a statement, Facebook said: “No Facebook systems or accounts were accessed. The affected accounts have been re-secured.”

Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts hack following the LinkedIn attack goes to show the serious extent to which password re-use, and simple forms of authentication, can have huge knock on effects to online security.

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Facebook Going To Be A Lot Smarter With Its New DeepText AI

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Subith

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June 2, 2016

Facebook is going to become a lot smarter with its latest DeepText AI project. DeepText – Facebook’s new artificial intelligence system that will help Facebook to analyze several thousands posts a second across 20 languages with near-human accuracy.

About 400,000 new stories and 125,000 comments on public posts are shared every minute on Facebook. So the goal of the DeepText is to more precisely understand the content and context of text on Facebook, in order to improve its overall user experience.

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DeepText AI – Facebook’s New Text Understanding Engine

DeepText is already being tested on some Facebook experiences. In the case of Messenger, for example, it is beginning to give us a better understanding of when someone might want to go somewhere. DeepText is used for intent detection and entity extraction to help realize that a person is not looking for a taxi when he or she says something like, “I just came out of the taxi,” as opposed to “I need a ride.”

DeepText also help people find the right tools for their purpose. For example, someone could write a post that says, “I would like to sell my old bike for $200, anyone interested?” DeepText would be able to detect that the post is about selling something, extract the meaningful information such as the object being sold and its price, and prompt the seller to use existing tools that make these transactions easier through Facebook.

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DeepText has the potential to further improve Facebook experiences by understanding posts better to extract intent, sentiment, and entities (e.g., people, places, events), using mixed content signals like text and images, and automating the removal of objectionable content like spam.

Facebook is not yet open sourcing this technology. And the company is only beginning to use DeepText with its own services. But as described by Facebook, DeepText shows how the giants of the Internet hope to accelerate the progress of natural language understanding in the months and years to come. In building these systems, they aim to rely far less on humans and far more on data—enormous troves of online data.

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Windows 10 Upgrade Offer Ends Soon, Upgrade It Now For Free Or Else Pay $119 After

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May 6, 2016

Windows 10 – Microsoft most secure and flexible OS now on 300 million active devices and company announced that they are going to end Windows 10 upgrade offer – upgrading Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 to Windows 10 free of cost – on July 29, 2016.

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Windows 10 Upgrade Offer Ends Soon

In their official blog post Microsoft confirmed that – “The free Windows 10 upgrade offer was a first for Microsoft, helping people upgrade faster than ever before. And time is running out. The free upgrade offer will end on July 29 and we want to make sure you don’t miss out. After July 29th, you’ll be able to continue to get Windows 10 on a new device, or purchase a full version of Windows 10 Home for $119.”

So after July 29, you’ll either have to purchase a license by paying $119 or buy a new PC with Windows 10 pre-installed. There’s still plenty of time to upgrade at no cost so upgrade to Windows 10 now.

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According to Netmarketshare, most popular desktop OS is Windows 7, with nearly 48 percent share and that nearly 10 percent of people still use Windows 8.1. Combined, that means nearly 60 percent of Windows users are eligible for an upgrade that they didn’t used Microsoft free Windows 10 upgrade offer yet.

And the happy news is on the same day, Microsoft will also take down the controversial Get Windows 10 app.

You may know that many new features are coming in the upcoming Windows 10 Anniversary Update this summer, mainly Bash on Window 10. So what are you waiting for upgrade Windows 10 now for free or else you have to pay $119.

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Someone Installed Windows 95 On Apple Watch, But It Takes An Hour To Boot

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Sabarinath

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May 3, 2016

At last an Apple product successfully booted a Windows OS.

Yes, developer Nick Lee managed to install classic OS Windows 95 on an advanced and compact Apple Watch. Nick Lee, Partner & CTO at TENDIGI, has also demonstrated the whole process, step by step, in a video.

Windows 95 On Apple Watch

This is not the first time we are hearing that someone installed Windows 95 on a strange device.Last year Nintendo 3DS XL managed to run Windows 95 and now Apple Watch.

Nick Lee in its YouTube video neatly described how he successfully installed 20-year-old Windows 95 on a 1.7-inch screen Apple Watch.

It’s certainly not fast — it takes around an hour to boot the emulated OS that’s been shoved inside a WatchKit app. And also need some way of keeping the screen awake during the booting process. Li glued a motor to a small prodding device to ensure it didn’t nap.

Since Windows 95 not built for touch input, a little code-wrangling is also required. Li says that it’s possible to patch some files within a WatchKit app in order to load your own app code.

This isn’t the first time Lee has been installed an old operating system on a watch. Previously he made Apple Watch to run Mac OS 7.5.5. That time his technique was a bit different. To get System 7 on his Watch, Lee ported over the Gryphel Project’s Mini vMac emulator.

Find Out And Delete Data Google Stored About You In Its Server

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Sabarinath

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April 27, 2016

Find Out And Delete Data Google Stored About You In Its Server

Google is the biggest search engine now ruling the web. But did you know, Google is storing your private data. Yes, Google keeps tabs on a lot of data about you. How and when you surf, the search terms you use, the pages you visit. This happens when you visit them while logged into your Google Account from a Chrome browser, an Android device, or by clicking on them in Google.

Only way to avoid this problem is by accessing Google in incognito mode. It’s a good option if you know you’re going to surf something objectionable.

But always this is not a bad thing because Google uses most of these stored data to display relevant ads to you. But sometimes this ads becomes so irritative we hope to get rid off them but don’t know how to?

In this article we will help you to find out and delete data Google stored about you.

Clearing your browser history is NOT the same as clearing your Google Web & App History. When you clear your browser history, you’re only deleting the history that’s locally stored on your computer. Clearing your browser history doesn’t do anything to the data stored on Google’s servers.

Contents

1 Find Out Data Google Stored About You In Its Server
2 Backup Data Google Stored About You In Its Server
3 Delete Data Google Stored About You In Its Server
4 Disable or Pause Google Web & App History

Find Out Data Google Stored About You In Its Server

First logon to your Google Account

Now go to Web & App Activity

Their you can see complete insight of search keywords that Google stored about your online activity.

Backup Data Google Stored About You In Its Server

Before deleting you can download your entire Google Web & App History. For that,

Click the vertical ellipsis (⋮).

Choose “Download Searches” from the drop-down menu.

You’ll see a window confirming that you want to “Download a copy of your data” .Read the important information before you proceed. Then click on “Create Archive“.

A message will appear telling you that Google is preparing your archive. Click Ok.

Check your email. A link to your archive should be there.

Delete Data Google Stored About You In Its Server

Now we are going to delete these past searches and the content you’ve browsed in Chrome and other apps. You can delete selected queries or delete entire content from Google.

To delete selected items, tick on each check box that you want to delete and tap on “Delete” option appear on the header of the page.

To delete entire records from your Web & App History, click the vertical ellipsis (⋮) on top right corner of the page and select “Delete Options“.

Now a small popup will display, their choose “Advanced” and in “Select Date” field choose “All Time” and tap on “Delete“.

Google will ask if you are sure you want to delete your web & app activity. Keep in mind that deleted items cannot be recovered! Click “Delete” to proceed.

After the process is completed, you should see that there are “No items to show” in your Google Web & App Activity.

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Disable or Pause Google Web & App History

You can also pause Google servers from storing your search history. For that:

Again click on vertical ellipsis (⋮) and choose “Settings“.

On the “Account controls” page, there is a blue switch next to “Your searches and browsing activity”. Slide the switch to the left.

You’ll see a window asking, “Pause Web & App Activity?” Read the important information before your proceed. Then click “Pause“.

Your “Account history” page should say that your search and browsing activity is paused, and the switch should be gray.

If you want to go a little further, you can tell Google to “pause” all of the other history it logs from the other Google apps and services you use. This includes the places you go, information from your devices, and your YouTube watch history. To access these settings, click on “Show More Controls“.

Slide all the switches to the left. After you slide each switch, you will see a confirmation message asking if you would like to pause each activity. Read the important information for each item, then click “Pause” to complete the process.

Even though you delete and disable your history, you are not invisible to Google—especially if you maintain a Google account for using various Google apps and services, such as Gmail and YouTube.

The reality is that it’s pretty much impossible to be invisible to Google. But you can be prudent. Start by eliminating all Google apps and services from your daily web use.