We'll all die eventually and that is a fact! But what if our digital selves continue online, tweeting and posting stuff on facebook and youtube? Technology could enable a service like that in the future to create a digital persona of ourselves, after analyzing all the content we have ever created online. People would be able to interact with your digital copy online as if it were you and find out about your history on this planet.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Microsoft is poking Google
Microsoft's latest Office 365 campaign is punching Gmail Man in the face, for peeking inside your emails to display relative ads. This is true, for the web client. If you access your email from a desktop client, you get rid of all the pesky ads. Google is claiming that algorithms do the dirty job and no human ever sees the contents of your email. Which of course would be ridiculous to think that humans can manage to scan billions of emails every day.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Robotic bird that can actually fly like a bird!
There are lots of robots that can fly, but all fly like a plane or a helicopter. A German industrial and automation company, Festo, deciphered the bird flight and then went and built a robotic bird that can fly like a real bird. They made a presentation at TEDGlobal2011.
Here is the video:
Here is the video:
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Winehouse Dies, Spammers Get To Work
It's tragic to see a 27year old woman die, and more tragic to see how inhumane people can be. Symantec posted on their blog that spammers got to work early on, when the news about the death of the singer was still being scares. Taking advantage of the human curiosity. The attack vector used by the spammers was an email containing an attachment, "loosely disguised" as an image, with the subject related to Winehouse's death.
Read the entire post here.
Read the entire post here.
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