Drones take flight into a world of possibilities



















A Hexo+ ramble model outfitted with a Gopro Polaroid being tried at the home office of the start-up Squadrone System in France

Like an overall prepared pooch, the Hexo+ tails you loyally wherever you go. Yet it doesn't walk other than you—its airborne

Created by a French start-up, Squadrone System, the six-rotor Hexo+—which helpfully totes a Gopro camcorder is charged as the first self-ruling little automaton for the mass business sector.

It's likewise a prime sample of the numerous courses in which robotization will take to the sky as unmanned flying vehicles, or Uavs, get to be a piece of day by day life in the not-as well removed future.

Due out in May 2015 with an arranged retail cost of Us$899, the Hexo+ is focused at compelling games devotees searching for an approach to deify everything they might do.

Clients initiate it with a cell phone application, then let it fly a couple of meters (yards) behind them, recording their each turn and turn, up to a top pace of 70 kilometers (45 miles) a hour.

"Making snowboard movies is my principle movement, so basically I began utilizing automatons a couple of years back," said Squadrone System's prime supporter Xavier Delerue, a previous world snowboard champion.

"At the beginning, it was incredible. It was simple. It was going to change everything—and after that I immediately acknowledged taking great pictures included a ton of logistics when it came to utilizing an automaton," he told AFP.

Delerue, whose wander has pulled in $1 million in Kickstarter financing, plays down worries that little automatons could have a more evil utilization, such as peering at little youngsters at play in a recreation center.

"Regulations are set up that prepare for oppressive utilization," he said.

In North America and in Europe, progresses in automaton engineering have gotten administrators on the back foot. They are currently hastening to discover approaches to direct the skies.

Not at all like military automatons, rambles for citizen utilization can work for up to 20 minutes and generally can't convey considerably more than a little Polaroid. At the same time huge business is looking to support that limit.


In the run-up to Christmas a year ago, Amazon, the world's greatest online retailer, created a buzz with its proposal to utilize little automatons to convey bund



















Factfile on potetial utilization for non military person rambles. For an AFP center.

Drones carrying medical supplies

"This is aggregate jabber. Why the hellfire would you do that?" requested Andreas Raptopoulos, CEO from Matternet, a start-up that is investigating approaches to give automatons something to do in creating countries for philanthropic purposes.


"Why not utilize the same engineering to spare someone's life when a mother needs medication, or a tyke needs solution... To me, this is the place innovation works best," he told Britain's Guardian daily paper.




                                 Snowboarder Xavier de le Rue modifies an automaton model


Raptopoulos imagines a system of automatons that can ship nourishment and medicinal supplies into clash zones or ranges hit by common calamity. 

Matternet has officially done trial flights in Haiti, and in September, it expects to shuttle blood examines in conjunction with worldwide medicinal philanthropy Doctors Without Borders. 

Since December, the United Nations has utilized automatons within eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to screen rebel movement along the fringes with Uganda and Rwanda. 

"Utilized creatively, future automatons could catch stirrings of ethnic clash, discover survivors in the midst of rubble, or even perform whimsical capacities, for example, body-temperature reviews of populaces to chase executioner flare-ups," said Jack Chow, a previous US diplomat and master on worldwide wellbeing strategy, talking at the Canadian International Council research organization.



Snowboarder Xavier de le Rue tests a Hexo+ ramble model

News media are in the mean time investigating the conceivable outcomes of automaton news-casting, with Canadian news-casting schools effectively offering particular courses on UAV newsgathering. 

Ethereal photography with automatons has additionally caught the creative ability of land operators excited to contribute extravagance properties spots like Los Angeles or Toronto—despite the fact that regulations strictly point of confinement flights in populated region


A teacher flies a drone as part of a class on aerial photography to high school students  on May 15, 2014 in France

An instructor flies an automaton as a major aspect of a class on flying photography to secondary school learners

Rustic regions remain an additionally inviting environment for automaton flying, where homesteads can grasp the engineering to assess soil conditions, guide tractors or survey the best approach to spread manure. 

Two years prior, French business visionary Vivien Heriard-Dubreuil, seeing open door in the field, established Flyterra, which is situated in New York with operations in Quebec. 

"Utilizing automatons to amplify harvests is extremely making a guarantee to he," told AFP, including that his automaton armada can likewise be helpful to assess mines, dams and windmills.

Project engineer Antoine Level shows a drone prototype named Hexo+ on July 2, 2014 in  France

Task engineer Antoine Level demonstrates an automaton model named Hexo+ in france

There's a social side to the automaton unrest too. 

A gathering of Australians as of late dispatched the I-Drone, which with its influential feature projector has transformed open air dividers in Melbourne into film screens after dim.

And in Japan, a contemporary dance troupe presented a show in May that explored the relationship between technology and the human body. Scenes featured three dancers—and as many drones.





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Apple conceded patent for all-glass iphone, ipad building procedure






















Apple conceded patent for all-glass iphone, ipad building procedure

Apple has been conceded a patent for a strategy to make all-glass shells for electronic gadgets, for example, iphones and ipads.


The system depicted in the patent, initially reported by Apple Insider, would permit Apple to make glass shells that are solid and lightweight. Glass shells would be made by intertwining separate glass pieces and after that machining them down to the sought shape.

Customers ought not expect a glass iphone or ipad in 2014, however the patent may be an intimation to what's to originate from Apple. The Cupertino, Calif., organization is known for its high-bore item plan, yet it often transforms its style. Case in point, Apple has utilized a few distinctive materials to make the outside of the past few iphone models.

The iphone 4 and 4s had glass front and back boards with metallic edges. The outer surface of the iphone 5 and 5s was the inverse, fabricated transcendently out of metal with simply a couple of glass boards. The iphone 5c, in the mean time, has a plastic shell. Fruit has never fabricated an iphone with an all-glass outer surface.

For the following iphone, anticipated that will go on special this fall, reports have said Apple will utilize a metal outline with a to a great degree sturdy screen made out of "sapphire gem glass."
















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Samsung presents new marked SSD controlled by 3d V-NAND




















Samsung presents new marked SSD controlled by 3d V-NAND


Samsung Electronics today dispatched the 850 PRO, another robust state drive (SSD) line-up offering Samsung's forefront three-dimensional (3d) vertical NAND (V-NAND) streak memory engineering. The new Samsung 850 PRO, revealed at the 2014 Samsung SSD Global Summit in Seoul, offers another type of execution for strong state drives and will be accessible universally over 53 business sectors from in the not so distant future.

In view of Samsung's exclusive V-NAND engineering, the new 850 PRO is perfect for utilization in top of the line Pcs and workstations. Samsung's V-NAND characteristics an exclusive vertical cell structure and speaks to an achievement in defeating as far as possible presently confronting planar NAND building design utilized within accepted blaze memory, yielding huge velocity, perseverance and vitality proficiency changes.

"With the new 850 PRO V-NAND SSD, Samsung is presenting the following significant advancement of SSD engineering, leads the pack in conveying high-thickness Ssds with extraordinary continuance, execution and vitality proficiency," said Unsoo Kim, senior VP of marked item advertising group at Samsung Electronics. "We are completely dedicated to creating an inventive registering environment by giving clients heading edge V-NAND Ssds with unrivaled execution."

The Samsung 850 PRO conveys blasting quick speeds and uncommon perseverance, offering the most elevated amount of execution among Ssds utilizing the SATA III (6gb/s) interface. Its consecutive read execution arrives at up to 550 megabytes for every second (MB/s), with compose execution of up to 520mb/s. Arbitrary read execution is dependent upon 100,000 info/yield operations-for every second (IOPS), with compose velocities of up to 90,000 IOPS.

The drive additionally offers a Dynamic Thermal Guard characteristic, which keeps up encompassing temperature while working and keeps potential information misfortune from overheating.

The Samsung 850 PRO will be accessible in 128 gigabyte (GB), 256gb, 512gb and 1 terabyte (TB) capacity limits.

With the quickening purchaser reception of Ssds, Samsung foresees that its new V-NAND Ssds will add to the development of the marked SSD market with its remarkable execution.

As indicated by the April 4, 2014, "Gartner Forecast Analysis: NAND, Worldwide, 1q14 Update" , the worldwide SSD business is relied upon to quickly expand from US $11.04 billion in incomes in 2013 to roughly US $14.47 billion in 2014 and US $23.54 billion in 2017.













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NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPU Accelerator

























NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPU Accelerator

NVIDIA couldn't have picked a superior venue for a picked focus on: The International Supercomputing Conference, rushing to June-26 in Leipzig, Germany, is the place NVIDIA took focal point of the audience, to show how server sellers are functioning with NVIDIA engineering to push 64-bit ARM centers into the elite processing business. The ISC is a key worldwide gathering and presentation for elite figuring, stockpiling and systems administration. Furthermore the proclamation is focused to the sort of expert figuring of enthusiasm at the occasion; NVIDIA was there to show some new ARM advancement frameworks. Ryan Smith of Anandtech, in setting the stage during the current week's occasion, composed that "NVIDIA will be taking to the ISC show floor to affirm that their Tesla items will be including Arm64 host similarity, empowering them to be utilized as a part of Arm64 frameworks."

NVIDIA Tesla Gpus are hugely parallel quickening agents focused around the NVIDIA CUDA parallel figuring stage and programming model. Tesla Gpus are intended for force effective, elite processing, computational science, supercomputing, enormous information dissection, and machine learning applications. They are said to convey significantly higher increasing speed for investigative and business applications than a CPU-just approach.

The Monday publication said, "Numerous server sellers are leveraging the execution of NVIDIA GPU quickening agents to dispatch the world's initial 64-bit ARM improvement frameworks for elite registering."

CUDA is an alternate key piece of the NVIDIA HPC story. In 2012 we expounded on NVIDIA's spruced up rendition of its CUDA parallel registering stage and noted that it was uplifting news for designers, researcher, scientists, physicists, geophysicists, and different analysts who are occupied with quick track reckonings utilizing Gpus. The new gimmicks were LLVM (low-level virtual machine)-based CUDA compiler, included imaging and indicator handling capacities and an overhauled Visual Profiler, with mechanized execution examination and master direction. NVIDIA's new goodies were intended to development recreations and computational work for such clients.

The report said, "Arm64 server processors were fundamentally intended for micro-servers and web servers on account of their compelling vitality productivity. Presently, they can handle HPC-class workloads when matched with GPU quickening agents utilizing the NVIDIA CUDA 6.5 parallel programming stage, which upholds 64-bit ARM processors."

NVIDIA included that "clients will instantly have the capacity to exploit many existing CUDA-quickened logical and building HPC applications by essentially recompiling them to Arm64 frameworks."

Three organizations have marked on to utilize NVIDIA illustrations processors and ARM-based CPU centers to dispatch the world's initial 64-bit ARM improvement frameworks for superior figuring. The main GPU-quickened Arm64 programming improvement servers will be accessible in July from Cirrascale and E4 Computer Engineering, with creation frameworks anticipated that will transport later in the not so distant future. The Eurotech Group additionally plans to ship generation frameworks later in the not so distant future.

The Cirrascale Rm1905d is one of the HPC-centered ARM-based frameworks. The portrayal is a high-thickness two-in-one 1u server with two Tesla K20 GPU quickening agents. Cirrascale gives razor sharp edge based distributed computing and stockpiling foundation for routine and containerized server farms.

From E4, the Ek003 was additionally presented, depicted as a low-control 3u, double motherboard server machine with two Tesla K20 GPU quickening agents, intended for seismic, indicator and picture transforming, feature investigation, track dissection, web applications and Mapreduce handling.
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Movie producers to get rush ride scenes with IMAX 3d advanced digital camera

         Movie producers to get rush ride scenes with IMAX 3d advanced digital camera





















MAX has created a 65mm 4k computerized extensive arrangement IMAX 3d advanced Polaroid. Producers will thus have entry to a "genuine" 4k stereo Polaroid, importance, said IMAX, that both the left eye and right eye pictures are caught at full 4k determination. The edge in this improvement is that movie producers may be truly pulled in to a Polaroid that is more modest, lighter and simpler to use than some other 3d advanced Polaroid frameworks. IMAX said the products of the soil of the IMAX 3d computerized Polaroid will be seen in "Transformers: Age of Extinction." The film, said IMAX, is the first gimmick film to utilize this new Polaroid innovation. The generation group on the film caught movement successions of the film in high-determination 3d in a manner that was presently conceivable due to the more reduced size of the Polaroids.

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As Techradar noted, "An executive utilizing this Polaroid will have the capacity to shoot complex activity scenes in 3d and for IMAX without the limitations that accompanied more established, bulkier and noisier IMAX cameras."

IMAX discharged a special feature which said, "The IMAX Polaroid is about getting you into the motion picture." The objective of the computerized digital camera was to construct something that was more modest, more minimal, lightweight, and simple to use on area.

Activity scenes which couldn't have been finished with bigger cameras were conceivable with the new advanced digital camera, leverage, said the feature, in spots where things are moving rapidly. "The generation group on Transformers: Age of Extinction could catch real movement successions of the film – including pursue scenes and helicopter shots – in high-determination 3d in a manner that was awhile ago outlandish because of the reduced size of the new Polaroids," said the organization




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For the viewer, the specialized points of interest of the new camera will be effectively seen in the nature of pictures. Solely in IMAX theaters, said the site, groupings caught with this Polaroid will stretch to fill a greater amount of the IMAX screen with freshness, clarity, color and 3d. The specialized term for the corresponding relationship between a picture's width and its stature is called perspective degree. In IMAX theaters, arrangements recorded with the 3d advanced digital cameras  will be displayed in a 1.9:1 viewpoint degree. This offers moviegoers 26% a greater amount of the picture than standard silver screens for an immersive IMAX 3d experience.

As the/Film online journal remarked, "It's short of what a large portion of the measure of all other advanced digita 3d cameras as of now accessible to movie producers, yet still catches pictures at a determination and extension IMAX is known for. It sounds really great."



















IMAX is an organization spend significant time in immersive movie advances. As of the end of a year ago, there were 837 IMAX theaters (701 business multiplexes, 19 business goals and 117 foundations) in 57 nations.






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Google buying | satellite maker Skybox | for $500M (Update)

         Google buying satellite maker Skybox for $500M (Update)

















In this document satellite picture gave by Skybox Imaging and taken by Skysat-1 on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014 at 11:10 a.m. nearby time, smoke climbs from the site of against government challenges, upper focus, in Kiev, Ukraine. Google is purchasing Skybox Imaging in an arrangement that could serve as a take off platform for the Internet organization to send its own particular armada of satellites to take aeronautical pictures and give online access to remote zones of the world. (AP Photo/Skybox Imaging, File) MANDATORY CREDIT
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Google is buying Skybox Imaging in a deal that could serve as a launching pad for the Internet company to send its own fleet of satellites to take aerial pictures and provide online access to remote areas of the world.

The $500 million securing published Tuesday at first will furnish Google with the intends to enhance the quality and quickness of the satellite symbolism utilized within its advanced maps.

Google Inc. arrangements to utilize Skybox's satellite as of now as a part of circle to supplement the material that it licenses from more than 1,000 sources, including other satellite organizations, for example, Digitalglobe and Astrium.

In the end, however, Skybox could transform into an alternate Google "moonshot"—a term that CEO Larry Page has grasped for depicting aspiring tasks that could take a few years to appearance

Google plans to assemble more satellites that could be utilized to bar Internet access to focuses around the globe. That would stretch an exertion that Google started a year prior when it uncovered "Venture Loon"—a wander offering jellyfish-molded blow ups furnished with reception apparatuses to bring the Internet to parts of the world without the correct wiring to get on the web.

As the holder of the world's most mainstream web search tool and email administration, Google commonly profits when more individuals are on the Internet to see the ads that produce a large portion of the organization's yearly income of $55 billion. Page and other Google executives say they are basically intrigued by getting more individuals on to the Internet to make a more populist and learned pop culture




















In this June 5, 2014 photograph, a man strolls past a Google sign at the organization's base camp in Mountain View, Calif. Google is purchasing Skybox Imaging in an arrangement that could serve as a take off platform for the Internet organization to send its armada of satellites to take aeronautical pictures and give online access to remote ranges of the world. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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The venture into satellites comes two months after Google purchased automaton creator Titan Aerospace for an undisclosed sum.

Google made about 250 acquisitions throughout the previous decade, utilizing a large portion of them to venture into new markets, including maps and cell phones.

To the disappointment of a few financial gurus, Google additionally has been using billions of dollars investigating new outskirts of engineering, including driverless autos, Internet-associated headwear, robots and a startup called Calico striving to discover approaches to abate the maturing procedure. Different financial specialists have extolled Google for having the vision and daringness to make huge wagers on striking thoughts that examiners say could incubate lucrative items in the quickly changing engineering industry.


Google's most-generally exchanged class of stock dipped $2.43 Tuesday to close at $568.30.

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Skybox is a 5-year-old startup in Mountain View, California, placed a mile-and-half from Google's home office in the same Silicon Valley city. Headed by avionic business veteran Tom Ingersoll, Skybox has been dealing with extra satellites that ought to be less demanding to finish with Google's support.

"The time is right to join an organization who can provoke us to think significantly greater and bolder, and who can help us in quickening our eager vision," Skybox said in a blog entry.

Skybox had awhile ago brought about $91 million up in funding. The organization says it utilizes in regards to 100 individuals.

Google is planning to increase administrative endorsement to take control of Skybox Imaging inside the following few months. The arrangement needs approbation from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and in addition the Federal Communications Commission.

Investigate further: Google purchases sun oriented fueled automaton creator Titan Aerospace
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Facebook offers | users control on | ads viewed (Update)

            Facebook offers users control on ads viewed (Update)     
                   


















Facebook said it would start permitting clients more data about the ads conveyed to them, and to square advertising messages they would prefer not to see

In a blog entry, Facebook said its clients "let us know they need more control over the ads they see" and that the enormous informal community is reacting to that.

"That is the reason we're presenting promotion inclination, another apparatus open from each advertisement on Facebook that clarifies why you're seeing a particular commercial and gives you a chance to include and evacuate engages that we use to reveal to you ads," the post said.

The choice will be accessible in the United States in the following few weeks, "and we are striving to extend universally in the nearing months," the announcement said.

As an illustration, Facebook said, "in case you're not intrigued by hardware, you can expel gadgets from your promotion engages."

In the meantime, Facebook noted that it would draw from clients Web searching exercises and not simply from Facebook—in an exertion to target ads for particular clients.

"Today, we research your investment fundamentally from the things you do on Facebook, for example, pages you like," the blog entry said.

"Beginning soon in the US, we will likewise incorporate data from a percentage of the sites and applications you utilization. This is a sort of investment based publicizing, and numerous organizations as of now do this."

Facebook will likewise permit clients to withdraw of this focused on publicizing.

"On the off chance that you don't need us to utilize the sites and applications you use to reveal to you more applicable ads, we won't," Facebook said.

Jules Polonetsky, official executive at the Future of Privacy Forum in Washington, said Facebook is extending how it uses focused on ads while in the meantime including controls.

"It's a huge venture advance in giving clients more control over promoting," Polonetsky told AFP.

"This new notice inclination supervisor without a doubt goes past what is in the business and will probably goad different organizations to do the same. It's unmistakably constructive to show individuals what's happening in the background and the key part is to let individuals out on the off chance that they are not intrigued."

However Bradley Shear, a lawyer represent considerable authority in social networking and security, said the Facebook activity raised concerns on the grounds that it successfully imparts perusing history to promoters.

"Facebook utilizes the information you post and gathered from your advanced movement (posts, messages, and now sites went by, etc...) to profit," Shear said in a blog entry.

"I don't exhort any individual who values their security to post particular data to Facebook on the grounds that it has a wretched record regarding the matter of ensuring client protection




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Review: Microsoft wants you to fire Siri

   Survey: Microsoft needs you to fire Siri















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Watch out, Siri. Somebody needs your employment. Since it appeared on the iphone 4s three years prior, Apple's Siri engineering has been synonymous with the idea of a virtual particular colleague. In any case now comes Cortana, a savvy colleague from Microsoft that should be much like Siri, just better.

Cortana is one of the key peculiarities of Windows Phone 8.1, the most recent upgrade to Microsoft's cell phone programming that is starting to appear in new gadgets. The gimmick is something like a mix of Siri and Google Now, the adroit collaborator innovation incorporated with Android.

Like Siri, Cortana can send quick messages, scan for data on the Web and dispatch provisions because of clients' request and articulations. Likewise with Siri, clients for the most part don't have to utilize particular charges, yet can talk characteristically, as though they were addressing a genuine individual.

Yet dissimilar to Siri, Cortana can likewise act like Google Now, giving data unprompted by a specific request. Taking a gander at your schedule, Cortana can let you know when you have to leave for a crosstown gathering with a specific end goal to set aside a few minutes. What's more by knowing your most loved games group, it can keep you overhauled on the aftereffects of its most recent amusements without you request the score.

Microsoft has composed Cortana so that individual clients can tweak it to a much more noteworthy degree than they can Siri or Google Now. Inside a settings range, clients can see and alter the data Cortana thinks about them, for example, the name of their life partner or their office address.

Cortana, which, in the same way as Siri, permits you to relegate it either a male or female voice, additionally knows some really cool traps. Like Google Now, however dissimilar to Siri, Cortana shows what it hears you saying as you talk. This criticism can promise you that Cortana is listening and comprehends what you are stating.

Likewise with Siri, you can utilize Cortana to set updates and can point out that you need to be reminded to do them at a specific time or when you touch base at a particular spot. Yet with Cortana, you can additionally ask to be reminded to do things when you associate with specific individuals.

So you can ask Cortana to remind you to wish your mother a joyful celebration whenever you converse with her. At that point when you send a content to your mother or get a call from her, Cortana will streak a message on the screen reminding you about the celebration.

With updates, Cortana has a tendency to be more curious than Siri. Cortana will ask what time you need to be reminded. Furthermore in the event that you need to be helped to remember something when you go to a store, say Trader Joe's, it will ask you which Trader Joe's area you mean.

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With Siri, you need to recall to let it know that you need to be reminded at a specific time. What's more Siri was confused when I said I needed to be reminded when I got to Trader Joe's.

Cortana has an alternate playing point over Siri. Microsoft is permitting application engineers to make custom charges for Cortana, something Apple does not consider Siri. So later on, you may have the capacity to ask Cortana to begin playing the following scene of "Breaking Bad" that you haven't seen through Netflix. On the other hand you may be to approach Cortana to purchase a book for you through Amazon.

By difference, Siri just perceives the summons that Apple has connected to it. Fruit hasn't yet permitted application engineers to take advantage of Siri other than for transcription. About whether, Cortana's openness could provide for it the capability to do a considerable measure a greater number of things than Siri can.

Be that as it may for the time being, Siri is a considerable measure more proficient particular aide than is Cortana. Possibly will help me find adjacent restaurants, yet just Siri will reserve a spot for me. Cortana, best case scenario, will steer me to the Opentable application.

On the off chance that I advise Siri I need to see "X-Men: Days of Future Past," it will rundown show times at neighborhood theaters and even let me purchase tickets. Tell Cortana the same thing and it will essentially do a Web look on the motion picture title.

Cortana likewise has some difficulty with games. It was dumbfounded when I asked, "Who won the previous evening hockey amusement?" and "What number of focuses did Tony Parker score in his last diversion?" Siri, by difference, could address both inquiries.

There are different things that Cortana can't yet do that Siri can. It can't set a clock, for instance. Nor would it be able to post overhauls to Facebook or Twitter, or send an email message.

Furthermore Cortana has other little disturbances. One specifically is the way you dispatch the peculiarity. It's a two-stage process - you press the telephone's wake catch and after that long-press its inquiry catch.

That may not would appear to be much, yet its one or two catch presses more than you require with contending colleagues. You can actuate Siri with just a long press of the iphone's home catch. Furthermore on Motorola's Moto X, you can dispatch Google Now by trying to say "alright Google Now," with no catch press needed.

Cortana can possibly be an extremely skilled individual partner in the not-to-inaccessible future. In any case I wouldn't fire Siri simply yet.

Microsoft's CORTANA PERSONAL ASSISTANT:

-Likes: Displays message as you talk it; permits clients to set updates focused around when they connect with contacts; prompts clients to give notice times or places when setting updates; permits application designers to make their own particular custom voice summons; permits clients to view and alter the individual data it recalls about them.

-Dislikes: Limited set of competencies; won't plan restaurant reservations or buy film tickets; has some difficulty with games data, for example, finding scores or player detail; can't post redesigns to informal communities, set clocks or send email; obliges two-catch presses to dispatch.

-Price: Free with Windows Phone 8.1.

-Web: microsoft.com
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New machine project intends to show itself everything about anything

New machine project intends to show itself everything about anything













This picture demonstrates to a portion of the numerous varieties that the new program has scholarly for three separate ideas.
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In today's digitally determined world, access to data seems boundless. In any case when you have something particular at the top of the priority list that you don't have the foggiest idea, in the same way as the name of that corner kitchen device you saw at a companion's home, it might be shockingly difficult to filter through the volume of data online and know how to scan for it. On the other hand, the inverse issue can happen – we can find anything on the Internet, however by what means would we be able to make certain we are discovering everything about the theme without using hours before the machine

Workstation researchers from the University of Washington and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle have made the first completely robotized machine program that shows everything there is to think about any visual idea. Called Learning Everything about Anything, or LEVAN, the project seeks a huge number of books and pictures on the Web to realize all conceivable varieties of an idea, then shows the results to clients as a thorough, browsable arrangement of pictures, helping them investigate and comprehend subjects rapidly in extraordinary subtle element.

"It is about uncovering relationship in the middle of text based and visual information," said Ali Farhadi, a UW associate teacher of software engineering and building. "The project figures out how to firmly couple rich sets of expressions with pixels in pictures. This implies that it can perceive occurrences of particular ideas when it sees them."

The exploration group will display the undertaking and a related paper in the not so distant future at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition yearly meeting in Columbus, Ohio.

The system realizes which terms are pertinent by taking a gander at the substance of the pictures found on the Web and recognizing trademark designs crosswise over them utilizing item distinguishment calculations. It's not quite the same as online picture libraries in light of the fact that it draws upon a rich set of expressions to comprehend and label photographs by their substance and pixel plans, not basically by words showed in subtitles.



Clients can search the current library of approximately 175 ideas. Existing ideas range from "aerial shuttle" to "window," and incorporate "excellent," "breakfast," "gleaming," "growth," "advancement," "skateboarding," "robot," and the scientists' first-ever enter, "horse."

On the off chance that the idea you're searching for doesn't exist, you can submit any hunt term and the project will naturally start producing an exhaustive arrangement of subcategory pictures that identify with that idea. Case in point, a quest for "pooch" raises the clear gathering of subcategories: Photos of "Chihuahua canine," "dark puppy," "swimming puppy," "scruffy puppy," "greyhound pooch." But additionally "pooch nose," "puppy dish," "pitiful puppy," "ugliest pooch," "sausage" and even "down pooch," as in the yoga posture.

The system works via looking the content from a large number of books composed in English and accessible on Google Books, scouring for each event of the idea in the whole computerized library. At that point, a calculation channels out words that aren't visual. Case in point, with the idea "horse," the calculation would keep expressions, for example, "hopping steed," "consuming stallion" and "barrel horse," yet would bar non-visual expressions, for example, "my stallion" and "last stallion." 

When it has realized which expressions are pertinent, the system does a picture seek on the Web, searching for consistency in appearance among the photographs recovered. At the point when the project is prepared to discover applicable pictures of, say, "hopping steed," it then perceives all pictures connected with this expression. 

"Significant data assets, for example, word references and reference books are moving at the course of demonstrating clients visual data on the grounds that it is less demanding to grasp and much quicker to search through ideas. Then again, they have restricted scope as they are frequently physically curated. The new program needs no human supervision, and therefore can consequently take in the visual learning for any idea," said Santosh Divvala, an exploration researcher at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and an offshoot researcher at UW in software engineering and designing. 

The exploration group additionally incorporates Carlos Guestrin, a UW educator of software engineering and building. The specialists dispatched the project in March with just a handful of ideas and have viewed it develop from that point forward to tag more than 13 million pictures with 65,000 separate expressions. 

At this time, the project is restricted in how quick it can research an idea as a result of the computational force it takes to process each one question, up to 12 hours for some wide ideas. The scientists are chipping away at expanding the handling pace and competencies. 


The group needs the open-source project to be both an instructive apparatus and also a data bank for analysts in the workstation vision group. The group likewise plans to offer a cell phone application that can run the system to naturally parse out and arrange photographs.
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Big to tiny | robots on risky ground | You go first

                Big to tiny | robots on risky ground | You go first














Analysts have recommended a methodology for securing unmanageable segments in enormous robots when on troublesome landscape. Send in little, modestly made robots in front of them as scouts. Whether the unanticipated danger is as frosty patches, sticky mud or unpleasant deterrents, the little and expendable robots might be utilized for sending in front of the enormous robots, for location of dangers ahead. Specialists from the Biomimetic Millisystems Lab at the University of California, Berkeley and ETH Zurich displayed their methodology at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2014 in Hong Kong, which occurred from May 31 to June 5.

Their study titled "Identification of Slippery Terrain with a Heterogeneous Team of Legged Robots" is by Duncan W. Haldane, Peter Fankhauser, Roland Siegwart, and Ronald S. Dreading. They set in movement a heterogeneous blending of a huge, exorbitant robot with a shabby robot going about as territory scout. Evan Ackerman, composition in IEEE Spectrum, said Velociroach was the robot of decision, made for the most part of cardboard, which "you can simply throw a bundle more into the mixto supplant any robots that you may lose." Velociroach, from Berkeley, served as the picket robot, combined with the primary robot Starleth quadruped, from ETH Zurich, and running in front.

Their study titled "Identification of Slippery Terrain with a Heterogeneous Team of Legged Robots" is by Duncan W. Haldane, Peter Fankhauser, Roland Siegwart, and Ronald S. Dreading. They set in movement a heterogeneous blending of an enormous, unreasonable robot with a shoddy robot going about as landscape scout. Evan Ackerman, written work in IEEE Spectrum, said Velociroach was the robot of decision, made generally of cardboard, which "you can simply throw a bundle more into the mixto supplant any robots that you may lose." Velociroach, from Berkeley, served as the picket robot, combined with the fundamental robot Starleth quadruped, from ETH Zurich, and running in front.



    Huge and Little Robots Team Up to Conquer Terrain

Future investigation, as per the scientists, will investigate what they said were "way arranging calculations and picket robot creations which will all the more viably distinguish unsafe landscape."




       Little Robot Gets Stepped On by Big Robot
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Latest Alienware 18 Gaming Latest Laptop

                                                     Alienware 18 Gaming Latest Laptop


















 Alienware Configurations
Process
Processor  4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-4940MX processor (Quad Core, 8MB Cache, Overclocked up to 4.4GHz)
Operating System  Windows® 8.1 Pro, 64Bit, English
Support2 4 Year Alienware Enhanced Support
Accidental Damage Service 4 Year Accidental Damage Service
Display 18.4" WLED FHD (1920 X 1080) TrueLife Display
Video Card3 Dual NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 880M graphics with 16GB total (2x 8GB) GDDR5 - NVIDIA SLI® Enabled
Memory4 32GB Dual Channel DDR3L at 1600MHz
Hard Drive5 512GB mSATA SSD Boot + 1TB 5400 rpm
Optical Drive Slot-Loading Dual Layer Blu-ray Reader (BD-ROM, DVDRW, CD-RW)
Add a Tablet for $99.99 Dell Venue 8 Pro - 32GB
Office Productivity Software Microsoft® Office 365 Home
Security Software McAfee LiveSafe 36 Month Subscription
Adobe Software Adobe Audition CC 12 Month Digital Delivery

Adobe Creative Cloud 12 Month Digital Delivery

Dell Recommended
Adobe® Photoshop Elements & Adobe Premiere Elements 12
Digitally Delivered Software Cyberlink Media Suite Premium, Digital Delivery

CyberLink Power Media Player
Wireless Killer NIC 1202 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0
Primary Battery 8-cell Lithium Ion (86 wHr)
Ports, Slots & Chassis AlienFX Lighting Zones
10 unique programmable zones with up to 20 distinct colors providing over 10 trillion lighting combinations

Dimensions & Starting weight
Height: Front: 2.23 in (56.71mm) Rear: 2.26 in (57.50mm)
Depth: 12.909 in (327.89 mm)
Width: 17.972 in (456.50 mm)
Starting at weight with optional SSD: 12.064 lbs. (5.472 kg.)

External Chassis Connections
(1x) Power/DC-in Jack
(1x) RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet IPv6 (3x) SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Ports
(1x) SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Port with PowerShare Technology
(1x) Mini-Display Port
(1x) HDMI 1.4 Output / 1.3 Input
(1x) 7-in-1 Media Card Reader
(2x) Audio Out 1/8" Ports (One compatible with inline mic headset)
(1x) Line In Microphone 1/8" Port (re taskable for 5.1 analog audio output)
(1x) Kensington Security Lock port (cable and lock sold separately)

Exterior Chassis Materials
Anodized Aluminum
Magnesium Alloy

Keyboard
4-Zone, multi-color RGB, keyboard with AlienFX lighting controls and numeric keypad
9 user-programmable keys providing up to 19 distinct functions per application or game

Memory Slots
4x 204-Pin DDR3L SO-DIMM SDRAM Slots

Software
Alienware Command Center
AlienFX™
AlienTouch™
AlienFusion
AlienAdrenaline w/ Accelerator
Alienware TactX™

Touchpad
Backlit button image sensor trackpad with all-points addressable (APA)
Regulatory Compliance
 





Product Safety, EMC and Environmental Datasheets
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Alienware Features & Design  

Accessible with Windows 8 - for a smooth, adaptable PC experience.

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Alienware 18

Looks and performs like no other
The Alienware 18 is a creature gaming powerhouse. Each point of interest is built to provide for you the most exceptional experience conceivable. A sturdy and refined outline is made for execution with an external anodized-aluminum shell surface, strengthened by a magnesium compound casing to secure the LCD.

Unleash awesome with overclocking
The Alienware 18 is the most powerful 18" laptop in the universe. With 4th generation Intel® Core i7 processors and optional overclocking, you can experience a maximum, blazing speeds of up to 4.4GHz. Unleash the speed and performance you need to dominate in everything you do. 
                 Maximum performance with dual graphics
      Get in the amusement like at no other time with double design choices from NVIDIA and AMD that convey expanded execution, better picture rendering and higher edge rates.

Charge through the most serious phases of your most loved diversions with Nvidia® Sli® empowered Dual Nvidia® Geforce® GTX 880m design with 16gb of joined Gddr5 memory. For included effect, Nvidia® Physx brings your recreations to existence with dynamic, intelligent situations while Nvidia® Adaptive Vertical Sync counteracts picture tearing for almost consistent gaming session

Get unrivaled diversion execution and immersive gameplay with the discretionary Dual AMD Radeon™ R9 M290x GPU with 8gb of joined Gddr5 memory. Saddle the force of two Gpus with AMD Crossfire™ engineering and unleash extra execution to help point of interest levels and impacts in your amusements and in addition keep up high casing rates throughout the most exceptional gaming sessions. Open revolutionary execution and remarkable picture quality with AMD's GCN structural engineering and Mantle API innovat

                    The next generation of immersive gaming

         Pump up your sound experience:get the force and subtlety of silver screen sound straight from your portable computer. The speakers are guaranteed by sound specialists from Klipsch® and the framework comes preloaded with Dolby® Home Theater® v4 programming for exceptional sound and a simple interface — whether you're gaming or appreciating other media.

Take your perspective to the following level:the new Alienware 18 offers a sweeping 18.4" Full HD Truelife show. With rich, vibrant colors and wide plot, your amusements will look astonishing from any perspective. Extend your perspective by uniting with a HDTV, and experience 3d gaming in all its glory.6

Connect and conquer  
 An inherent-Killer Gigabit Ethernet NIC recognizes and prioritizes your system movement so inertness-delicate streams that oblige most extreme rate, in the same way as diversions or feature talk, are prioritized over less-vital activity. See which provisions are hoarding your data transmission and utmost them utilizing Visual Bandwidth Control™ so they don't meddle with your amusements. Then again run remote with a Broadcom 5g Wifi connector for speedier velocities, better extend and enhanced battery life.
 

Massive storage and monster speed
Make your Alienware framework a vault of amusements, motion pictures and music with a discretionary 1tb Quad Play RAID 0 robust state drive (SSD) — that is four 256gb Ssds in a RAID 0 design . You get speedier boot speeds, information access times and the capability to compose monstrous measures of information in a glimmer with negligible battery life utilization or framework clamo

Plug in with plenty of ports
A lot of ports: Whether you need to connect to an outside presentation, speaker or exchange films and music, we got you secured with all the ports you require. Alienware 17 accompanies a RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet Ipv6, three Superspeed USB 3.0 and one USB 3.0 port with Powershare engineering (permits you to charge USB gadgets when the machine is turned off or in standby mode), a scaled down showcase port, HDMI 1.4 yield/ 1.3 info, 7-in-1 media card onlooker and that's just the beginning.


                    Ultimate control. All from one place.
Change how you experience the game. The redesigned Alienware Command Center 3.0 lets you choose lighting and special effects, accelerate your gaming performance, monitor in-game results, and more — all in one hub.










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new intel latest processor 2014

                        new intel latest processor 2014

         Intel® Core™ i7-4960X Processor Extreme Edition

                             (15M Cache, up to 4.00 GHz)
         















SPECIFICATIONS 
           Essentials

Status                                                           launched 

Propel Date                                                   q3'13 
Processor Number                                        i7-4960x 

# of Cores                                                   

# of Threads                                                 12 

Clock Speed                                                 3.6 Ghz 

Max Turbo Frequency                                  4 Ghz 

Intel® Smart Cache                                      15 MB 

Dmi2                                                              5 GT/s 

Direction Set                                                  64-bit 

Direction Set Extensions                                 sse4.2, AVX, AES 

Installed Options Available                              no 

Lithography                                                    22 nm 

Max Tdp                              130 W 

Prescribed Customer Price box : $1059.00 

                                                                     TRAY: $999.0

memory Specifications


Max Memory Size (reliant on memory type) 64 GB 

Memory Types                                                   ddr3-1333/1600/1866 

# of Memory Channels                                          

Max Memory Bandwidth                                     59.7 GB/s 

ECC Memory Supported ‡                                  NO


Expansion Options

PCI Express Revision                                          3.0 

Max # of PCI Express Lanes                               40


Package Specifications

Max CPU Configuration                             

Tcase                                                                  66.8°c 

Bundle Size                                                        52.5mm x 45.0mm 

Attachments Supported                                       fclga2011 

Low Halogen Options Available                         see MDD



Advanced Technologies


Intel® Turbo Boost Technology ‡ yes 

Intel® vpro Technology ‡                                   no 

Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology ‡                yes 

Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x) ‡            yes 

Intel® Virtualization Technology ‡ yes 

Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT) ‡ yes 

Intel® 64 ‡                                                           yes 

Unmoving States yes 

Improved Intel Speedstep® Technology                yes 

Intel® Demand Based Switching no 

Warm Monitoring Technologies yes 

Intel® Identity Protection Technology ‡ yes 

Intel® Smart response technology                         yes


Intel® Data Protection Technology

AES New Instructions                                     Yes


Intel® Platform Protection Technology


Trusted Execution Technology ‡                         No
Execute Disable Bit ‡                                        Yes








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