Google Transparency Report

Google want to become frank by publishing a transparency report

Google have published the transparency report publicly. Google says, Transparency is their prime values in their business. Report what Google have publish is stats of User Data request. User data request is the request which Government of countries and other companies or an individual does to Google for banishing things from the Google. This can be like domains, pages, blogs, sites and etc. Many interesting facts has also revealed in the transparency report. It’s say something like as follow:

-          Microsoft has request most about copyright removal.

-          Brazil has recorded maximum number of request and reason is Orkut, a social networking owned by Google.

-          Now, China’s number of request is zero as they have their own implemented firewall and they use to filter out themselves.

-          India has to do maximum request to block pornography content and national security contents.

-          Every request of South Korea was considered and Google compiled.

Following image will depict the facets better.

Check the URL for more:  Google Transparency Report

Energy from Algae? NASA gonna do that

Prices of oil barrels are on fire all over the world. At the same time, NASA is going to develop a plant for generating fuel from the Algae. When crude prices are touching new height day by day, researchers are keen to find out some unconventional source of energy. This time Algae comes to the help of humans. Now a day’s land where agriculture is not possible, it is nice option to develop algae farms, which is very useful source of Biodiesel, Bio-gasoline, bio-fuel or vegetable oil.

NASA, in couple of weeks will show a latest technology of generating energy from algae which grows on the floating plastic bags. Challenges faced are:

• -          Lot of plastic is necessary as every year.
• -          Pumping of enough sewage water in to the plant.
• -          Need huge piece of land to make it affordable. Each acre can extract 2000 gallons of fuel.
• -          Weather condition should be suitable which helps algae to grow.

NASA has demonstrated the research using 9 meters long plastic bags at near San Francisco. The researcher on life-support systems, Jonathan Trent, has also developed the plant in around 1200 acres of land near San Francisco. It is possible to produce 2.4 million of oil for US when the total usage of oil in US is 800 million. Huge amount of waste water is necessary to provide necessary environment to let algae grow in optimum speed. Like sewage water has enough nutrition’s such as ammonia and phosphates which help algae to grow. Humid warm temperature will also help microbes to multiply fast which is taken care as processes in plant. This is really nice innovations carry out by researcher, which will be proved to be blessings when conventional sources like coal and crude will be out of stock. Anyway and anyhow we are not going to stop as far as technological innovations are concerned.

Now Smartphone will spy you, it’s good for you, don’t worry: PlaceMe

Three things- Sensors, GPS and Wi-Fi, these are the functionalities of the Smartphone which is used to log your every move. It will figure out, where I go and how long I spend the time at particular place and this information is stored locally in my iPhone or Smartphone.

No!!! It’s not unnecessary like you must be thinking. This technology can be proved to be very useful for different class of people. Basically, with viewpoint of family members, in which one is suffering from Alzheimer’s. Moreover, you can analyse yourself that at the end of month, how much time you spend at what place. This is the way to optimize your time management and basically your living pattern. Now this application is available in the iPhone, besides that if you are using android Smartphone you can also use it. Each places visited will be pin pointed on map and you can see how much time you spent there. Alohar mobile, see this innovation as blessings when one is suffering from some car crash and at that time it will be easy to track whole thing and automatic alerting emergency services.

Challenges for this kind of application to be developed are about finding the perfect location where you visited. Using services like Google maps also, it’s not so easy to get accuracy. They may use accelerometer and compass to be more accurate. Moreover this application doesn’t drain down the battery unlike other applications working on basis of GPS.  Developers of this application say it is very difficult to track the exact place in the dense city. But it is self trained application. Means if you feed once about the location and its details then later on it will be able to track for all the time. Humans!!! Unstoppable.

Technology we don’t use: Use laptop as your Bluetooth headset

People, who are continuously on the laptop, don’t need to take calls on mobile. If your phone and laptop is Bluetooth enabled, you can use laptop as a Bluetooth headset.

Follow these steps:

• Start Bluetooth in both the device
• Search Bluetooth places in laptop
• Find you mobile device and Map the devices by required verification
• Right click on the device’s icon
• Go to Advanced Operation
• Click on “Connect to handsfree audio gateway”

While you are using your laptop as Audio Gateway, you can talk on phone using Mic and Speaker of your laptop. This is very useful when you are on long calls or some conference calls, because you can use Computer headphone (with mic) to feel more comfortable on longer calls. It’s helpful when more than one person want to communicate from one place and one connection. Mostly, these days we have 3.5 mm audio output jack so we can directly connect speaker with mobile but limitation is when we need to give input as our voice, this idea fails. Except for this, you can enjoy playlist of mobile on the computer speakers, without transferring songs to your laptop or computer. You can get high quality output of sound of your mobile phone songs. Its good experience so please try this once. 

Now you can’t hide your age: Facial Recognition will tell your age

“You send is a photo and I will send you back the age of yours” says, Gil Hersch, CEO and founder of Face.com, which is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. So if you are under aging yourself beware that now software can catch you easilyJ. Software was trained by giving input of thousands of faces and adapting and improvising itself. Every innovation in this world has enough space to be utilized at somewhere or other. Gil is expecting huge market for his product. This will be proved to be very advantageous to filter the ads shown to the user in the internet. Say for example, if software scans the profile picture of the current user and then according to the, it can show relevant advertisement. This will make add more value to advertisement and campaigning.

Gil says, “We get the value of the data in form of portrait and which is already there but not yet explored.” Face.com has received lots of enquiries for this application. Another application of this type of technology can be used for video chatting sites and software. It can suggest people who come under same age group. Popularity can be easily understood when I will say, “There are 45000 of software professionals already member of this site and every moths millions of photo is get processed worldwide.”  You can go to this site for demonstration. The accuracy of this software is measured up to 90% overall. Hence we can say this innovation by another human is again a big success and we are ever unstoppable.

UFO: Undisputable Flying Obsession: Airbus A380 going to rock the sky

Airbus was fighting hard to be in the market after Boeing launched 747 models in the market. Boeing was dominating passenger plane market. In late 1980s, Jean Roeder, with team of engineers proposed a plan of making Ultra-High-Capacity-Airliner (UHCA). The design, Jean team was working on got approval for feasibility test from Airbus management.  In June 1994 it was finally decided to go for developing a monster aircraft which will have 20% more passenger’s capacity then biggest passenger plan of that itmes that is era of Boeing 747. After long 6 years Airbus launched a program to manufacture the model name A380 with the confirm orders of 50 at cost of $8.8 billion each.

 

The size of this plane is like 19 storage building with height of 73 meters. So just imagine that 555 people with their language can take off in one piece of extreme engineer and this can be seen as one of the man made wonder on this land. The Singapore airline was the first to get the delivery of this flight in 15 October 2007 and Emirates was the second to get in August 2008. Following to this Quantus, Lufthansa, Korean Air and so on got their first delivery in later year. In 2012, Airbus got 253 confirm orders for A380 which was an achievement in themselves. If you have ever seen Boeing or have flight in Boeing 747, you may relate better with following stats.

Boeing 747-400		VS	Airbus A380-800
70.70 m	232 ft	Length	73.00 m	239.5 ft
64.44 m	211.4 ft	Wingspan	79.80 m	261.8 ft
541.20 m2	5,825 ft2	Wing area	845.00 m2	9,096 ft2
19.41 m	63.7 ft	Height	24.10 m	79.1 ft
4		Engines	4
282 kN	63,300 lbf	Thrust per Engine	311 kN	70,000 lbf
1,128 kN	253,200 lbf	Total Thrust	1,244 kN	280,000 lbf
396,900 kgs	875,000 lbs	MTOW	548,000 kgs	1,208,000 lbs
13,400 km	7,236 nm	Range	15,000 km	8,100 nm
M0.85		Cruise speed	M0.85
416 passengers		Capacity	555 passengers

* Courtesy: This information is collected from website of Boeing and Airbus, but it is perfect up to my knowledge. 

 

Planes always needs runway? – Pretty old school

If someone ask me what is the main difference between air plane and helicopter, my brain will suddenly come up with a line that, plane will need a pace and run-way to take off and landing where as helicopter doesn’t need the same generally. But, let's change this wrong notion of air plane because humans have such fighter planes which doesn’t need a run-way and take off with the pace. These planes can keep themselves steal in air and act like helicopter as far as takeoff and landing is concerned.

There nothing like so unimaginable fundamental behind this superb show. Simple keeping in mind that when Space shuttle can take off from the earth without any runway why can’t planes too. This may strike you with the idea that plane can be in air with help of thrust which is vertically opposite to the gravitational force. Many countries have made this piece successfully. Talking about one of most powerful country in this area, The United States, they are going to replace their out dated planes with this type of fighter planes. U.S. and Allies countries have funded for the design and manufacturing of this type of planes called F-35. Lockheed martin is a lead of this project. Seeing to the peculiarity these planes will be like great advancements for the Naval force of country where in warships, a long run away is not expected. F-35 are single seated, single engine plane. F-35 has different models with different specialty and cost factors. It is experimented and founded that F-35 will be at least three times more powerful than the existing normal fighter crafts that too at the same cost. 

These types of planes have capacity to hover in the air also. It can be shifted to left and right being steal at zero pace. There are many other species of VOTL planes like Yak, Harrier, Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey and a long list. The image no. 2 presented here to understand the mechanism is of YAK-38 aircraft designed by Soviet Union. So it is very much understood that the throttle given at the downwards from the nozzle generates force against gravity which keeps this object up flying in air without a pace. Newton's law is very well implemented here. Our thrust for the technology innovation and invention is never going to get decelerated.

Window 8: Experience the new computing from Microsoft after Windows 1995

If you would have experienced the freshness of “Windows 1995”, it was very mesmerizing feeling at the first. It was complete change of User Interface from OS giant Microsoft. Computing was like re-defined into faster and ready-to-swallow way. Now you don’t have to wait much if you dint experienced it at that time, as Microsoft has again redefined the look ‘n’ feel interface of Windows OS and this time it is known as “Windows 8”. You might have read previous article regarding Lumia, so here by Microsoft is bringing similar type of Operating system for Computers aside from Mobile, needless to say that this was the primary idea.

The innovation and new perception which companies like Apple has given to the consumers, has forced every Giants to re-think on their interfaces and way of looking to the Computing. As a result, Microsoft, who was never ever, had anything for consumer with touch screen technology, are about to launch a complete Touch-screen Operating system for the Desktop computing. Talking about the GUI, this time you will get rid of the damn mouse even though you are Microsoft user, since its touch screen era. If you look to the above image, the screen you look is your so called Desktop screen which is divided into rectangular blocks or say “Colorful tiles”. Heart of OS that is the start menu will be no more available instead; all the applications will be visible in the tab under “Apps” tab. Beauty of this interface is the dynamically working of this tiles. These tiles can be seen as a monitoring window for each active app. Like you will be continuously updated with the application say for example outlook tile will be updated with new mails and weather tile will show atmospheric updates. Concept of task manager and explorer remain same but in fact we would not be able to judge this before experiencing the real time hands on over it. Most amazing thing what I found in this launch of Microsoft is the dual-mode usage. Getting clearer, I would say, this will be use as the Laptop as well as the Tablet independently. This feature might attract many user and can this is one of the salient features which may effectively dump Apple’s increasing dominance on tablet market this time.

None of the Giants are going to set themselves back in this cut-throat competition of innovation and grabbing more market share to their bucket. As end user we will always cherish this type of race by getting amazing things for our use and easing our day to day lives. 

Car to Car communication will save your life

Seeing to last couple of years, automobile industry is very aggressive for technology advancement. Companies like Mercedes, General Motors, Volvo, and quite many has equipped their cars to give more safe drive for their consumers. Now car to car communication is taking the pace in the mind of researchers.

Department of transportation seems very lucrative for promoting this research especially car to car communication. They have provided 14.9 million dollars to University of Michigan. Many Expensive cars come with the sensors and cameras. This car is able to sense the cars which may intercept the road and accordingly slow down. This keep checks on the degree of view which user cannot see even. So in case if car is losing its lane discipline or going towards pavement car will slow down and give necessary warning. When this technology will reach to basic or medium expensive cars then it is assumed that 75% to 80% crash will be reduces because of it. For information if we see data of US where we the traffic management is pretty good, the toll of accidental deaths on road reached to above 36000 in year 2011. Many automakers are joining hands with the University for this Research. Almost 65 cars will be equipped with the sensors and radio. This will connect to the concerned object and establish a connection to exchange the necessary data. These machines can communicate between themselves and act smartly which we can call artificial Intelligence.

As we have gone through in previous articles before, Google has been trying to apply cent percent artificial intelligence and making a self driven car. This project is going to take time but the above technology we discuss will be soon in almost every normal car too. Humans are making now planes without pilots so conclusion is only one. We are never ever stoppable as far as technology enhancements are concerned.

Most awaited launch this year: iPad3: Get the first looks and leaks

Any launch of Apple is always so awaited but the tech savvy people. That is none another than a next generation tablet that is the ‘Baap’ of iPad2, “The iPad3”. There are many speculations in the market regarding the design and features embedded in the iPad3. As this product is in the final stages of manufacturing it is expected that it will be soon in the hands of people. 

Seeing to the speculated image if iPad3, it seems like Apple will again flatter its fans by the bigger screen for better look and feel experience. It looks like approximately 9.7 inches of panel and hopefully user will have 2048 by 1536 retina display (Retina display can be seen like Apple had visuals smoother. Want to know more?). Apple has diversified bit in the business process as it confirmed rumor that Sharp is going to supply its display. There are many interesting corporate stories too regarding this. Besides this when we talk about over all body, expected thickness is around 10mm which was 9mm for iPad2. The rumors prevailing in the market, that it can have larger battery and more sleek board. Talking about the processor, it very much of expected that it will have Quad-Core or A6 processor and there may be two versions of iPad3, one which will support Wi-Fi only and another which will have 3G/LTE model. Moreover talking about camera sensors, it looks like it’s bigger and better. Company will cop up with demand, by initial supply of 4 million iPad3 which was 3.5 million iPad2 and good lot of back order also following that. Total iPad2 sales for 2011 were very surprising that was over 25millions keep 90% hold on the tablet market. That’s what we call as “First-Mover’s Advantage”. 

Apple is ever unstoppable at innovation and fan group will go on increasing. It would be challenging again for the companies like Samsung and HP who are suppose to be the high-end competitors as far as Tablet and Mobile phone market is concerned.