Archive for the ‘internet’ category: Page 294
Mar 4, 2016
“Internet pioneer”: Interview With Google Vice President Vint Cerf
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: alien life, computing, government, humor, internet
Google’s VP Vint Cerf states in the future that “The brain will be digitally altered by software”.
Considered one of the fathers of Internet, renowned in the computer industry, awarded with the highest award of US government, co-creator of TCP/IP internet and current vice president of Google, the Phd Vint Cerf emerges as one of the most authoritative voices in the world to reflect on new technologies around the world.
The computing Scientific who the United States commissioned along with Bob Khan the creation of a network protocol that will interconnect computers in 1973 in the age of cold war who at the age of 20 will work on F-1 engines used as propellant rocket of Saturn V rocket that “visited” the moon, apart from his academic skills, he can be characterized as a very simple person having fine and good sense of humor and very elegant, like someone from an European royalty party, definitely a different personality and image projecting into the collective imagination a professional of his career.
Reflections about internet of things, the possibility of extraterrestrial life, scanning the brain, space internet and even the possibility that humans can communicate with animals were the subjects Cerf answered who recently toured South America sharing time with inhabitants of end of the world.
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Mar 4, 2016
Truly Random Number Generator Promises Stronger Encryption Across All Devices, Cloud
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: encryption, information science, internet, quantum physics
So long pseudo-random number generator. Quantum mechanics brought us true randomness to power our crypto algorithms, and is strengthening encryption in the cloud, the datacenter, and the Internet of Things.
Mar 2, 2016
AT&T will start selling you cable TV over the Internet
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: internet, mobile phones
AT&T is going “over the top” with television.
In the fourth quarter of this year, AT&T will start selling cable-like bundles of TV to people across the country through a new app. Subscribers won’t need an AT&T wireless phone or an AT&T broadband connection at home.
It’ll be like Netflix — download the app, sign up, type in a credit card number, and start streaming a TV show.
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Mar 1, 2016
Atlas The Robot Can Enlist in the US Military Anytime She Wants
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: government, internet, military, robotics/AI
I hear this author; however, can it pass military basic training/ boot camp? Think not.
Back when Alphabet was known as Google, the company bought Boston Dynamics, makers of the amazingly advanced robot named Atlas. At the time, Google promised that Boston Dynamics would stop taking military contracts, as it often did. But here’s the open secret about Atlas: She can enlist in the US military anytime she wants.
Technology transfer is a two-way street. Traditionally we think of technology being transferred from the public to the private sector, with the internet as just one example. The US government invests in and develops all kinds of important technologies for war and espionage, and many of those technologies eventually make their way to American consumers in one way or another. When the government does so consciously with both military and civilian capabilities in mind, it’s called dual-use tech.
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Mar 1, 2016
There Will Be Netflix on Mars
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, internet, space
Mar 1, 2016
What was Ray Kurzweil saying about the future in 1990?
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: internet, Ray Kurzweil
Feb 29, 2016
How to make your own Bluetooth-controlled underlit miniskirt
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: internet, transportation, wearables
The Internet full of incredible DIY projects that make you wish you had the years of experience required to build your own Batmobile, flaming Mad Max guitar, or hoverboard. Thankfully with the underlit miniskirt, we’ve come across a DIY item that looks awesome and is still easy to make.
This wearable was inspired by the Hikaru skirt, a programmable LED miniskirt that took certain corners of the Japanese Internet by storm earlier this year.
Feb 29, 2016
This AI tells you where to invest your money
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: economics, internet, robotics/AI
The Hong Kong startup can analyze websites and social media to take the Internet’s temperature.
Feb 29, 2016
Google opens applications for free DDoS blocker to prevent hackers taking out the Web
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cybercrime/malcode, internet
The DDoS prevention tool is part of Google Ideas, renamed Jigsaw, whose stated mission is to “build products to help people investigate corruption.”