Utkarsh - The Contragravity

In computing, multi-touch is technology that enables a surface (a trackpad or touchscreen) to recognize the presence of more than one or more than two points of contact with the surface. But it is a (miserably) failed product due to the fact that hands could get very tired with prolonged use, but Leap Motion wants to challenge this dark area again with a more advanced idea. It lets you control the desktop with fingers, but without touching the screen. It’s not your typical motion sensor, as Leap Motion allows you to scroll the web page, zoom in the map and photos, sign documentss and even play a first person shooter game with only hand and finger movements. The smooth reaction is the most crucial key point here. More importantly, you can own this future with just $70, a price of a premium PS3 game title! If this device could completely work with Oculus Rift to simulate a real-time gaming experience, gaming is going to get a major make-over.         ...

Controlling your device just with your eyes !! Sounds pretty cool isn't it? “In the past year eye tracking technology moved from being a promising technology to being adopted in commercial products in a wide array of consumer segments simultaneously,” says Oscar Werner, vice president of the eye tracking company Tobii Tech. Although the concept of eye tracking isn't new but the past year saw a rising interest in the technology with many startups and roll-out of devices and software that supports eye tracking. There’s a chance that soon eye tracking will be a standard feature of a new generation of smartphones, laptops and desktop monitors setting the stage for a huge re-evaluation of the way we communicate with devices—or how they communicate with us. Less expensive and more potent hardware, new open source software platforms and new easier and faster ways of obtaining data, used to train algorithm models, have driven the progress in eye tracking technology. ...

“ “ Go, go!” was the thought racing through Grégoire Courtine’s mind. The French neuroscientist was watching a macaque monkey as it hunched aggressively at one end of a treadmill. His team had used a blade to slice halfway through the animal’s spinal cord, paralyzing its right leg. Now Courtine wanted to prove he could get the monkey walking again. To do it, he and colleagues had installed a recording device beneath its skull, touching its motor cortex, and sutured a pad of flexible electrodes around the animal’s spinal cord, below the injury. A wireless connection joined the two electronic devices. The result: a system that read the monkey’s intention to move and then transmitted it immediately in the form of bursts of electrical stimulation to its spine. Soon enough, the monkey’s right leg began to move. Extend and flex. Extend and flex. It hobbled forward. “The monkey was thinking, and then boom, it was walking,” recalls an exultant Courtine, a professor with Switzerland’s Éco...

IBM has announced a milestone in its race against Google and other big tech firms to build a powerful quantum computer. Dario Gil, who leads IBM's quantum computing and artificial intelligence research division, said that the company's scientists have successfully built and measured a processor prototype with 50 quantum bits, known as qubits.  Quantum computing, a technology that is still in its early phases, uses the quirks of quantum physics to perform calculations at far higher speeds than current computers. IBM still has glitches to work out but the 50-qubit announcement is a sign of significant progress. While technologies like AI can find pattern buried in vast amounts of existing data, quantum computers will deliver solutions to important problems where patterns cannot be found and the number of possibilities that you need to explore to get to the answer are too enormous ever to be processed by classical computers.  A quantum computer is a comp...

The World Once Laughed at North Korean Cyberpower.  No More. North Korea is country that believes peace can only be made when the enemy surrenders. In recent years North Korea has grown to be the most feared nation, not only in nuclear attacks but cyber warfare as well. Here’s a look at some of the biggest attacks put forth by North Korean agencies on the world. WannaCry On May 12, 2017, organizations across the world reported ransomware infections affecting their computer systems. The infections, caused by a ransomware strain referred to as WannaCry, restrict users' access to a computer until a ransom is paid to unlock it. Reportedly, 300,000 users in at least 150 countries were affected by the ransomware. In April 2017, an anonymous online group known as the Shadow Brokers released what it alleged was a series of surveillance-enabling tools stolen from the National Security Agency (NSA) that, among other things, exploited a Microsoft Windows security vulner...

IBM scientists have successfully made a new world record by storing 330 terabytes of data on a single magnetic tape. 330 terabytes of data are equivalent to the data stored by almost 330 million books. The record is of storing 221 gigabits per square inch which are almost 20 times more data density as stored by currently used devices. In earlier times, to store megabytes of data drum like space was required. Today the technology of compressed data has evolved to such an extent that the data could be stored on a magnetic tape. This tape would fit with the length of our palm. This tape has punches that increase its data density up to 20 times more than the devices used today. This punch card magnetic slip is re-writable. This invention would probably give a thousand-fold increase in the data storage density. In this nanotechnology, holes are drilled in a plastic which has 10 nanometers of spacing. This tape has punches that increase its data density up to 20 times more than the d...

Big data usually includes data sets with sizes beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture , curate, manage, and process data within a tolerable elapsed time. The term has been in use since the 1990s, with some giving credit to John Mashey for coining or at least making it popular. CHARACTERSTICS: Volume: big data doesn't sample; it just observes and tracks what happens Velocity: big data is often available in real-time Variety: big data draws from text, images, audio, video; plus it completes missing pieces through data fusion Machine Learning: big data often doesn't ask why and simply detects patterns Digital Footprint: big data is often a cost-free byproduct of digital interaction BIG DATA Vs. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE: Business Intelligence uses descriptive statistics with data with high information density to measure things, detect trends, etc.. Big data uses inductive stats. and concepts from non-linear system identification to inf...

The term   virtual reality   is commonly used by the popular media to describe imaginary worlds that only exist in computers and our minds.   Virtual   is defined to be   being in essence or effect but not in fact .    Reality   is defined to be   something that constitutes a real or actual thing as distinguished from something that is merely apparent; something that exists independently of ideas conceiving it.   Virtual reality is based upon a complete simulation of a real world environment which the user can explore and interact with by means of a head mounted display (HMD) and input device, e.g. data glove. The user loses or immerses themselves in this environment. While instead of replacing reality, augmented reality adds cues onto the already existing real world.  Computer graphics are embedded into the real world and ideally the human mind would not be able to tell the difference between computer-generated images and the r...

Ionic   is a complete open-source Software Development Kit for hybrid mobile app development. Built on top of AngularJS and Apache Cordova,   Ionic   provides tools and services for developing hybrid mobile apps using Web technologies like CSS, HTML5, and Sass. Ionic was created by Max Lynch, Ben Sperry, and Adam Bradley of Drifty Co. in 2013. After releasing an alpha version of the framework in November 2013, a 1.0 beta was released in March 2014, with a 1.0 final in May 2015. Need For Ionic With Ionic, we wanted to build an HTML5 mobile development framework that was focused on   native   or hybrid apps instead of mobile websites. So Ionic apps aren’t meant to be run in a mobile browser app like Chrome or Safari, but rather the low-level browser shell like IOS’s UIWebView or Android’s Web View, which are wrapped by tools like Cordova/Phone Gap. Services and Features Ionic provides all the functionality that can be found in nativ...

How do you remember importan t things that you think you might forget? Some rely on their brain to memorize information while oth ers prefer writing things down on post-it notes. There are ton of digital note-taking apps – from  Evernote  to  Trello  – that can also help you remember anything with ease. There’s another interesting option from Google that you may wish to explore for remembering things. It’s called  Google Assistant , the voice assistant app that is now available on newer Android phones. If you don’t have one, you can still use Google assistant inside the  Google Allo  app that is available for both iPhone and Android. To get started, say “ OK Google ” to launch Google Assistant on your phone and then say “ Remember  ... ” followed by information you would like Google to remember. For instance, you could say: ·       ...

Today 100% anonymity can't be achieved and so does the privacy. But to some extent it can be maintained a lot and VPN is the solution. VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. If you google about VPN then here's what Wikipedia defines it as:"A virtual private network (VPN) extends a private network across a public network, such as the Internet. It enables users to send and receive data across shared or public networks as if their computing devices were directly connected to the private network. Applications running across the VPN may therefore benefit from the functionality, security, and management of the private network."  As the name suggests; Virtual Private Network, it is a virtual network inside a network, just for saying. For example, you are connected to the Internet via a network, be it an ISP(Internet Service Provider), Wifi or wireless, your mobile data or some other way round. When you are connected to the network, it is public and anyone can know what...

“O No! Storage Full”, ”What! Only 200mb storage available”, “You have no more storage to click a new photograph”, ”You cannot download this app, your storage is full”…………………. Being an iOS user these alert messages can raise your temperature and give you thousands of reasons to spend sleepless nights as to now your gadget is useless. This chaos can turn the world upside down as your essential office work, important statistics, your various projects etc are all stuck till you find and effective measure to increase your storage and start up the work and fun again. So if you just thinking to change your gadget and throw away this one hold and just search again ,there are now innumerable ways to expand your storage area. Here are a couple of amazing products you can use . Leef iBridge Let’s view the accessories developed and designed marvellously  to plug easily into the nano port of your iOS device. The Leef iBridge, a tiny supplement that very well resembles a climbing carabin...