Smartphones Hack

Here is Something new about the Smartphone which you may not know

1.     The Easiest way To Save Your Battery :

If you choose a black or simple dark background for your screen , the automatic pixel highlight will turn off , and you’ll notice that your device keeps it’s charge for much longer . This feature isn’t available for all Android devices yet , but it’s already implemented on most Samsung smartphones and tablets .Give It A Try!

2.     Text-To-Speech :

Not only you can read this article but you can also listen to it if you have a Android device . So if you prefer to hear incoming information rather than see it , go to Settings -> Accessibility and turn on the Text-To-Speech output option .

3.     Smartphone Remote Control :

Just go to Settings -> Security ->Device adiministrators , and check the boxes next to Android device manager ,Remotely locate this device , and allow remote lock and erase . Now if you lose your smartphone , you can locate and block it without losing your data .

4.     Turning On Guest Mode :

If you would like to temporarily give your phone to another person yet to keep your personal data confidential , use guest mode . Swipe down from the top with two fingers , and touch the user icon on the upper right . The add guest icon will appear , and you’ll be able to choose which actions the person handling your smartphone will be allowed to take . 

5.     Screen Magnifier :

People with poor eyesight often have no idea how much this feature can help them . Just go to Settings -> Accessibility -> Magnification Gesture . Then you’ll be able to zoom in on any part of the display just by tapping on it .

6.     Control Your Smartphone With Head Movement :

There are situations when you just have to use your gadget but your hands are otherwise occupied or it’s just too cold outside to take your warm gloves off . However , there is a solution for this! After installing a free app called EVA Facial Mouse  you’ll be able to control your Android device with movements of your head !

The Memristor

The Memristor , a Microscopic component that can "remember" electrical states even when turned off .It's expected to be far cheaper and faster than flash storage .A theoretical concept since 1971,it has now been built in labs and is already starting to revolutionize everything we know about computing ,possibly making flash memory ,RAM and every hard drives obsolete within a decade.

The Memristor is just one of the incredible technological advances sending shock waves through the world of computing  . In the following sections, we outline the basics of 15 upcoming technologies ,with predictions on what may come of them .Some are breathing down our necks ,some advances are still just out of reach .And all have to be reckoned with.

·         Memristor : A Groundbreaking new circuit

·         32-Core CPUs from Intel and AMD

·         Nehalem and swift chips spell the end of Stand-alone graphics Boards

·         USB 3.0 speed up performance on external devices

·         Wireless power transmission

·         64-bit computing allows for more RAM

·         Windows 7 : It’s Inevitable

·         Google’s Desktop OS

·         Gesture-based Remote Control

·         Radical Simplification Hits the TV Business

·         Curtains for DRM

·         Use Any Phone on any wireless network

·         Your fingers do even more walking

·         Cell phones are the new paper

·         Where you at? Ask your phone ,not your friend

·         25 years of prediction

India's First Banking Robot

India’s first banking robot named Lakshmi was launched by the Kumbakonam-based City Union Bank (CUB) in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.  Lakshmi will be first on-site huamanoid (robot) in India.
Currently, CUB has readied only one version of huamanoid banker and but is planning to deploy 25-30 robots at key branches by end of year if Lakshmi proves a hit with customers.

Key Facts:

• Lakshmi is artificial intelligence powered robot . It can speak English , gesture and engage in a life-like manner in conversation.
• The robot can interact with customers on more than 125 subjects including account balance and interest rates on loans .
• It will not voice the sensitive financial information like account details rather display it discreetly on it's screen .

What is artificial intelligence?

Artificial intelligence is the branch of computer science concerned with making computers behave like humans. In contrast to normal hardware and software, artificial intelligence enables a machine to perceive and respond to its changing environment. The artificial intelligence machines learn automatically like humans during their processing by assimilating large volumes of information.

Most Dangerous Computer Virus

Computer Virus is probably the term by which you get scared . Well probably there are many types of computer virus in this technological era . But also there are most dangerous computer virus over the world in the computers or laptops .

Well here are the 5 most dangerous virus :

• ILOVEYOU
• Melissa
• My Doom
• Code Red
• Sasser

1. ILOVEYOU :

This was perhaps the most dangerous computer virus ever created that in the form of a worm — it was a standalone program capable of replicating itself. Known as ILOVEYOU, this virus initially travel the Internet by e-mail and managed to crash PCs all across the world. To make it even more alluring, the subject of the e-mail said that the message was a love letter from a secret admirer. An attachment in the e-mail was what caused all the trouble. The original worm had the file name of LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs. The moment someone opened the file, the virus emailed itself to the first 50 contacts available in the PC’s Windows address book. The virus caused a total damage of around $10 billion affecting almost 10% of the world’s PCs connected to the Internet.

 2. Melissa :

Melissa was the first mass-mailing macro virus for the new age of e-mailing which became the breaking news across the world on March 26, 1999. Based on a Microsoft Word macro and built by David L, Melissa was spread in the form of an email attachment by the name “list.doc.” When the attachment was clicked upon, the virus replicates itself and seeks for the Microsoft Outlook address book to e-mail itself to the first 50 names on the list with a message, “Here is that document you asked for…don’t show anyone else. ;-)” Later on, FBI arrested David L and slapped him with a fine of $5000 for unleashing the fastest virus of its time.

3. My Doom :

My Doom explored its way to the malware world on 26th January 2004 and sent a shockwave around the world, as it scattered exponentially via e-mail through email with random addresses of senders and subject lines. My Doom destroyed the cyber world by activating a tremendous denial of service attack that infected close to about two million PCs. It transmitted itself in a particularly deceitful manner through e-mail as what receiver would first reckon to be a bounced error message as it reads “Mail Transaction Failed.” But, as soon as the message is clicked upon, the attachment is executed and the worm is transferred to email addresses found in the user’s address book. The damage caused by this fastest-spreading mass mailer worm was a whopping $38 billion.

4. Code Red :

It debuted in late 2001 taking advantage of the Microsoft Internet Information Server’s flaw. The variations of the virus plagued the Internet for several months. The interesting thing about this deadly virus is, it did not require you to open an e-mail attachment or run a file; it just required an active Internet connection with which it ruined the Web page that you opened by displaying a text “Hacked by Chinese!” And in less than a week’s time, “Code Red” brought down more than 400,000 servers including the White House web server. This virus caused a total damage of approximately $2.6 billion dollars by hitting almost one million PCs.

5. Sasser :

The 2004 worm virus affected Windows OS primarily, and was devastating to many critical infrastructures. It didn’t spread through e-mail unlike other viruses. Instead, once the virus infected a computer, it looked for other vulnerable systems. It contacted those systems and instructed them to download the virus. The virus would scan random IP addresses to find potential victims. The virus also altered the victim’s operating system in a way, making it even hard to reset without cutting the power. Sasser functioned by attacking the security controller Local Security Authority Subsystem Service, as it had a buffer overflow vulnerability. The worm affected hospitals, public transportation, airlines, news agencies and much more. After one million infections, there was an estimated 18 billion dollars in damage recorded.

Air into Water

Air Into Water

Johathan Ritchey has invented the Watermill, which is an atmospheric water generator. It converts air into fresh water.

This latest technology invention produces fresh water at a cost of about 3 cents a liter (1 quart). Originally designed for areas that do not have clean drinking water, the Watermill is for households that prefer an eco-friendly, cost effective alternative to bottled water.

Atmospheric water generators convert air into water when the temperature of the air becomes saturated with enough water vapor that it begins to condense (dew point).

"What is unique about the Watermill is that it has intelligence," says Ritche. This makes the appliance more efficient. It samples the air every 3 minutes to determine the most efficient time to convert the air into water.

It will also tell you when to change the carbon filter and will shut itself off if it cannot make pure clean water.

3D Printed Car

3D Printed Car

The latest technology inventions in 3d printing are rapidly changing how things are being made.

It's an emerging technology that is an alternative to the traditional tooling and machining processes used in manufacturing.

At the International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago, a little known Arizona-based car maker created a media sensation by manufacturing a car at the show.

It was a full scale, fully functional car that was 3d printed in 44 hours and assembled in 2 days. The video below shows the car being made

The car is called a "Strati", Italian for layers, so named by it's automotive designer Michele Anoè because the entire structure of the car is made from layers of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (A.B.S.) with reinforced carbon fiber into a single unit.

The average car has more than 20,000 parts but this latest technology reduces the number of parts to 40 including all the mechanical components.

“The goal here is to get the number of parts down, and to drop the tooling costs to almost zero.” said John B. Rogers Jr., chief executive of Local Motors, a Princeton and Harvard-educated U.S. Marine.
“Cars are ridiculously complex,“ he added, referring to the thousands of bits and pieces that are sourced, assembled and connected to make a vehicle.

"It's potentially a huge deal," said Jay Baron, president of the Center for Automotive Research, noting that the material science and technology used by Local Motors is derived from their partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge,Tennessee.

This technology can use a variety of metal, plastic or composite materials to manufacture anything in intricate detail.

People tend to want what they want, when they want it, where they want it, and how they want it, which makes this technology disruptive in the same way digital technologies used by companies like Amazon and Apple disrupted newspaper, book and music publishers.

Imagine if you could customize and personalize your new car online and pick it up or have it delivered to you the next day at a fraction of the cost of buying one from a dealership?

Car GPS Tracking

Car GPS  Tracking

Car GPS Tracking is fairly common in new vehicles, providing drivers with tracking and navigation.

However, latest technology inventions have made car GPS tracking systems more sophisticated, allowing for a wide range of additional uses.

Smartbox technology is one example of how car GPS tracking systems are being used to lower car insurance.

A comprehensive recording of a driver's habits allows insurance companies to provide "pay-as-you-drive" car insurance.

City officials in New York City are considering how car GPS tracking could be used as "Drive Smart" technology.

Most large cities have a limited capability to change the infrastructure of their roadways.

A car GPS tracking system that integrates with traffic information would give drivers the ability to select routes in real time that were more fuel efficient, less congested, faster or shorter.

A driver's recorded routing selection could then be used to penalize or reward drivers by lowering or increasing their related licensing fees or by calculating mileage based "road-use" fees.

Eventually, such a system would replace gasoline tax since these revenues will decline as more vehicles become less dependent on fossil fuels

Vein Identification

Vein Identification

Another technology innovation is the biometric identification and security device known as Palm Secure.

It works by identifying the vein pattern in the palms of our hands.

Similar to our fingerprints, vein patterns are unique to each individual. The purported advantages of this technology is that it is less expensive, easier to manage, and is more reliable than traditional methods of identification.

Walking House !

A House that Walks !

A new prototype house walked around the campus of the Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridgeshire, England.

The eco-friendly house is powered by solar cells and minature windmills, and comes with a kitchen, a composting toilet, a system for collecting rain water, one bed, a wood stove for CO2 neutral heating, a rear opening that forms a stairway entrance, and six legs.

Image of a waling house A collaborative effort between MIT and the Danish design collective N55 , the house walks about 5 km an hour similar to the walking speed of a human.

The legs require a software algorithm to calculate the movement and position of the legs to provide

stability over varying terrain.

The house can turn, move forward or backwards, or change height as required and can be programmed with GPS waypoints for traveling to destinations.

3D Printed Car

3D Printed Car

The latest technology inventions in 3d printing are rapidly changing how things are being made.
It's an emerging technology that is an alternative to the traditional tooling and machining processes used in manufacturing.

At the International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago, a little known Arizona-based car maker created a media sensation by manufacturing a car at the show.

It was a full scale, fully functional car that was 3d printed in 44 hours and assembled in 2 days. The video below shows the car being made

The car is called a "Strati", Italian for layers, so named by it's automotive designer Michele Anoè because the entire structure of the car is made from layers of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (A.B.S.) with reinforced carbon fiber into a single unit.

The average car has more than 20,000 parts but this latest technology reduces the number of parts to 40 including all the mechanical components.

“The goal here is to get the number of parts down, and to drop the tooling costs to almost zero.” said John B. Rogers Jr., chief executive of Local Motors, a Princeton and Harvard-educated U.S. Marine.
“Cars are ridiculously complex,“ he added, referring to the thousands of bits and pieces that are sourced, assembled and connected to make a vehicle.

"It's potentially a huge deal," said Jay Baron, president of the Center for Automotive Research, noting that the material science and technology used by Local Motors is derived from their partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge,Tennessee.

This technology can use a variety of metal, plastic or composite materials to manufacture anything in intricate detail.

People tend to want what they want, when they want it, where they want it, and how they want it, which makes this technology disruptive in the same way digital technologies used by companies like Amazon and Apple disrupted newspaper, book and music publishers.

Imagine if you could customize and personalize your new car online and pick it up or have it delivered to you the next day at a fraction of the cost of buying one from a dealership?

Fastest Motor

World's Fastest Motor

A new motor developed by researchers at ETH Zurich's Department of Power Electronics and marketed by the Swiss company, Celeroton, can spin in excess of 1 million revolutions per minute.

As a comparison, collapsed stars spin at 60,000 rpms, a blender at about 30,000 and high performance engines at around 10,000 rpms.

The matchbook-sized motor has a titatnium shell, ultra-thin wiring and a trade secret iron formulated cylinder. The need for smaller electronic devices requires smaller holes, which means smaller, faster, more efficient drills.

Fastest Super Computer

China’s ‘Sunway Taihulight’ has won the fastest supercomputer title in the recently released 48th edition of Top500 list of supercomputers.

With this, Chinese supercomputer has retained the top spot in the list of the world’s fastest supercomputers for the eighth consecutive year.

In this list, the number of systems installed in China had increased to 171 from 168 on last list released in June 2016. United States also now has 171 systems up from 165 in previous list.

About Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer :

• Sunway TaihuLight is built entirely using processors designed and made in China . It had made it's first public appearance in June 2016 .
• It was developed by China's National Research Centre of Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology (NRCPC) .
•  It can perform 93 quadrillions calculations per second (petaflop/s) almost three times as fast as Tianhe -2 .
• In June 2016 , TaihuLight had dethroned the former fastest supercomputer Tianhe -2 , also a Chinese system but built based on Intel Chips .
• Prior to it's introduction , Tianhe - 2 had claimed top spot in top500 list for past three years .
• TaihuLight is intended for use in research and engineering including climate , weather , life science , advanced manufacturing and data analytics .

Other SuperComputers in top500 list :

• Second Position : An intel based Chinese Tianhe-2 supercomputer which can perform calculations with processing speed of 33.86 Pflops .
• Third Position : Supercomputer Titan of US department of energy (DOE) . It has a performance of 17.59 Pflops .
• Fourth Position : IBM sequoia supercomputer system installed at US  DOE's Lawrence  Livermore National Laboratory .
• Fifth Position : The Cori supercomputer . It is a new system installed at US Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory . It has a performance of 14.0 petaflop/s .

  Top500 list is considered one of the most authoritative rankings of the world’s supercomputers. It is compiled on the basis of the supercomputers’ performance on the Linpack benchmark by experts from the United States and Germany .

In the 47th edition of list released in June 2016, China had overtaken US in the number of total supercomputers installed. That was the first time that US has not dominated this category since the list was started 23 years ago. It indicates the rise of China in the high performance computing (HPC) field .

First Android Phone

First Android Phone

Phones have come a long way since Innocenzo Manzetti played around with the idea of a “speaking telegraph” in 1844. Development of the landline telephone came in leaps and bounds but it is the mobile phone that truly captured a global audience.

The first mobile phones were produced by Bell System for use in cars only, introduced in 1946 on their Mobile Telephone Service in St. Louis, Missouri. The first call on a handheld mobile phone was made on April 3,1973 by Motorola’s Martin Cooper to his rival, Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs. Nicknamed “the brick” the first mobile phones weighed 2 lb and cost $3,995.

As with most inventions, it takes a while  before a product reaches an acceptable cost factor for both the producer and the consumer. Early mobile networks were patchy and phones were expensive, bulky and less than attractive.

When the 1G network launched in 1983, the phones were still too big for comfort and suffered from short battery life. By the time 2G was introduced, in 1991, the phones were better and the first smartphones were introduced. But it was only after 2001, when 3G cellular technology was launched, that the mobile phone market really took off. Networks were faster and phones were smaller and more affordable. The entry-level Nokia 1100, launched in 2003, was snapped up 1 million times a week to eventually become the world’s most popular cell phone with over 200 million units sold. By 2011, Apple had sold more than 100 million iPhone smartphones.

Introducing Android – a smart move

Android, Inc. was founded in October 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears and Chris White. Google bought it in 2005 and the Linux-based Android operating system was unveiled in 2007. The rest – as the Google history itself – is a remarkable piece of history. People loved Android.
By 2012, Android enjoyed 1.5 million activations per day. . There are almost a billion Android apps available. Some 25 billion apps have been downloaded from the Android app site, Google Play.

HTC Dream By 2013, mobile phones have replaced watches and cameras at the primary time tellers and for taking photographs and videos.

Many users have more than one phone or mobile device, resulting in more than 6 billion mobile subscriptions worldwide, almost half of these being smartphone subscriptions. Android is found on 75% of those smartphones in use.

But do you remember first phone to run on Android?

The world’s first Android phone was the HTC Dream – it came to the market in October 2008 as the T-Mobile G1 in the USA and, when signing a two-year service agreement, sold for $179.