Facebook has recently put a lot of curbs on advertisement through its pages. The social network is apparently trying to convince different brands to pay up significant sums in order to send messages to their fans. This has irked at least one of them, namely Mark Cuban, who owns the Dallas Mavericks.
NASA recently lost a laptop from the locked vehicle of one of its employees. The laptop contained data which NASA said was ‘sensitive personally identifiable information.’ More importantly, it wasn’t encrypted. To counter any such future incidents, NASA has now ordered all data on its portable computers to be encrypted.
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Thanks to Google search which is an important part of Gmail we can easily find the emails we need by simply searching for it, but until recently we was quite limited on number of parameters we could use inside search field. Luckily Google has expanded the number of these parameters and in this tutorial we will cover all of them and show you how to use them.
Texas Instruments(TI) emerged as a key chip player in the mobile arena a few years ago. However, the company has had a few setbacks as off-the-shelf processors become undesirable for mobile vendors. As a result, TI has been contemplating a move away from the mobile industry and as part of that, has announced the elimination of 1700 jobs.
If you are new in a city and looking for a place to rent for a brief period of time, you would want it to be fairly ideal. Airbnb, the popular online rental service, is now launching ‘Airbnb Neighborhoods’ which would essentially help you find the best place for rent in a city where you are new.
Apart from many small unmanned helicopters or drones that can be controlled with remote control or smartphone, we have seen brain controlled helicopter too. Though the brained-controlled technology is not new, still we’ve seen very few of mind controlled helicopters. However now a Silicon Valley startup Puzzlebox has come up with a new project in Kickstarter – a mind-controlled helicopter.
MIT researchers have found that a newly developed “polymer material” can make bulletproof armors ultra-light and can resist speedy bullets more effectively.
With the available biofeul resources depleting fast on our planet, the world is beginning to warm up to the notion of energy efficiency. This has led to tapping alternate energy sources, reduced reliance on biofeuls and a number of new measures. Below is an infographic which shows how the per capita consumption has changed over the years.