Multiple sources confirm that Google Wallet saw a jump in payment volume following the launch of Apple Pay.
and why the fledgling mobile payments feature is sure to be a success. Provides a quarterly update on the mobile payments industry including analysis of Softcard, Google Wallet, Currentc, Paypal, and Looppay.
a popular social coding site for programmers, is fighting a days-long cyberattack that reportedly originates in China.
The U s. coding site Github said on Sunday it was deflecting most of the traffic from the cyberattack that had caused intermittent outages.
The attackers paralyzed the site at times by using distributed denial of service, or DDOS, attacks, a technique commonly used to disrupt websites and computer networks,
according to the Wall street journal. They pushed massive amounts of traffic to Github by redirecting overseas users of the popular Chinese search engine Baidu Inc,
according to the Wall street journal. The newspaper said they targeted two Github pages that link to copies of websites banned in China-a Mandarin-language site from the New york times Co and Greatfire. org,
which helps Chinese users circumvent government censorship. A Beijing-based Baidu spokesman said a thorough investigation had determined it was neither a security problem on Baidu's side nor a hacking attack."
"We have notified other security organizations and are working to get to the bottom of this, "the spokesman said.
On its blog, Github said the attack began early on Thursday and involved"every vector we've seen in previous attacks as well as some sophisticated new techniques that use the web browsers of unsuspecting, uninvolved people to flood github. com with high levels of traffic.
Github said it believed the intent of the attack was to convince the company to remove a specific class of content.
#Facebook says drones could help extend internet access around the world A fleet of solar-powered drones could help provide high-speed internet to people around the world who currently live without it,
Facebook says of a project in development. The company's chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer unveiled the plans during a keynote speech on Thursday at the F8 conference in San francisco. The drones,
000 metres, the drones are designed to beam down internet connectivity to regions of the world where wireless internet access is unavailable,
."Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on Thursday, paired with a photo of an early prototype drone soaring over Palo alto,
a U k.-based company that Facebook acquired in 2014. Despite Facebook's obvious enthusiasm for the project, it's still in the early stages of development.
The social media giant told the New york times it hopes to have a fleet of 1 000 drones,
but it will probably be years before it becomes a reality. And that's to say nothing of the red tape Facebook would have to manoeuvre to get a fleet of remotely controlled aircraft in the skies around the world.
The Aquila project is part of Facebook's Internet. org initiative, which it says aims to extend internet access to people around the world who live outside of mobile networks."
"Aircraft like these will help connect the whole world, because they can affordably serve the 10 per cent of the world's population that live in remote communities without existing internet infrastructure,
"wrote Zuckerberg g
#India's top court upholds free speech online or via cellphone India's top court affirmed people's right to free speech in cyberspace Tuesday by striking down a provision that had called for imprisoning people who send"offensive"messages by computer or cellphone.
Police arrested a man last year for saying on Facebook that Prime minister Narendra Modi, then still a candidate, would start a holocaust in India
And last week, police in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh arrested a teenage student for posting comments on Facebook he attributed to a top state minister.
although his son had filed a police complaint in 2012 against a businessman for allegedly disparaging him in Twitter messages."
"Cyber analysts said the ruling marked a positive step in ensuring that the Internet would be governed by the same norms and laws as newspapers, TV commentary and other forms of communication as India's Internet users increase from today's 100 million online."
however, that there was still more work to be done in guaranteeing the Internet was governed fairly, including a provision that allows the government to block websites without announcing
or explaining its decision to do so. The Supreme court on Tuesday upheld that part of the law."
#The internet is almost out of IP ADDRESSES It turns out even the internet operates within finite dimensions.
The web is about to exhaust its supply of Internet Protocol (IP ADDRESSES. Now, technology companies are scrambling to get onto a new system to route internet traffic to the right place.
IP ADDRESSES are like the internet's phone numbers. Under the web's current system, there are billions of them. 3 billion to be exact.
But as more of us do more and more online, those addresses are being gobbled up. And soon, very soon, that supply will run out."
"The second half of 2015, maybe if we're lucky we could stretch it to early 2016,
"Over time, you'll realize you wont be able to reach half the internet. You won't be able to watch the video you want to watch.
At issue is one of the weirdest quirks of the internet's history. In 1981, as the internet was being built,
volunteers created a system to direct traffic and make sure people landed on the page they were looking for.
They called it IPV4 (though they didn't build versions 1 2 or 3). They made 4. 3 billion IP ADDRESSES to handle all that traffic.
But in 1981, the internet was a mere shadow of what it is today. Now, everything on the internet has an IP ADDRESS:
laptops, mobile phones, tablets, cameras, even coffee makers and thermostats. By 2020, there will be an estimated 50 billion devices online.
The Wall street journal claims that's enough to assign an IP ADDRESS to every atom On earth. But not everyone is rushing to adapt to the new technology.
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) says the transition to IPV6 has been slow at least in part because the changes are all happening behind the scenes"Nobody really knows about it.
But really IPV4 as a resource in any meaningful way is exhausted. And you can see that in that there is a secondary market that has sprung up,
the price per IP ADDRESS will only grow. In 2011, Microsoft bought up more than 660,000 IP ADDRESSES from Nortel for $7. 5 million US ($11. 36 each.
#India orders clampdown on internet porn websites India has ordered Internet service providers to block access to more than 850 adult websites in
users may still view the sites through virtual private networks and proxy servers. He said the move would protect children.
dated last Friday, orders Internet service providers to block access to the 857 sites on grounds of morality and decency.
The Supreme court said earlier in July that ordering a ban on adult websites was not its job
Not sex,"popular Indian author Chetan Bhagat said on Twitter.""Porn ban is anti-freedom, impractical, not enforceable.
In the past, India has tried to control social media sites like Facebook and Twitter and ask them to take down offensive material.
It had blocked briefly several Twitter accounts in 2012 citing security and law and order fears.
It also blocked access to a homegrown soft-porn website in 2009. Kaul said more websites may be added to the list of those to be blocke e
#Airbus patents plane that could fly from New york to London in 1 hour A rocket-plane that could fly from Vancouver to Tokyo in three hours instead of 10 has been patented by Airbus. The U s. patent for an"ultra-rapid air vehicle
and related method for aerial locomotion"was awarded to Airbus, also known as the European aeronautic defence and space company, in July. Airbus said the plane would be targeted mainly at business travel
along with a Youtube video. The feat was accomplished using a system allowing the brain to bypass the injured spinal cord
Smart thermostat maker Nest uses its internet-connected thermostat to respond to demand response requests on peak demand days.
Building and maintaining offshore wind technology is compared expensive with onshore wind projects because of challenges such as transporting equipment and workers to the sites
Google patents a way for autonomous vehicles to understand hand signals A Google patent has revealed that the firm self-driving cars will be able to detect
Google announced its self-driving cars would be capable of doing this last year, but the latest patent reveals new details about how it would work.
Google algorithms can then decide whether a cyclist is present, and then identify parts of his or her body.
HOW DOES GOOGLE'S AUTONOMOUS CAR WORK? Google's prototype two-seater'bubble'cars have buttons to begin and end the drive,
but no other controls. An onboard computer uses data from sensors, including radar, a laser and cameras,
Under the vision unveiled by Google, passengers might set their destination by typing it into a map
and the ability to self-drive will depend on specifically designed Google road maps tested on the company's current fleet of vehicles.
and will be able to use Google's extended maps service, using GPS technology to locate the vehicle's exact position on an electronic map.
leaving open different possibilities for exactly how Google self-driving cars could work. Google says it begun discussions with most of the world's top automakers in a bid to get self-driving cars on the road by 2020.
In March, a separate patent revealed that Google's self driving car could have airbags both inside and out.
It shows an external airbag system in action that inflates if the car hits a pedestrian or other object.
The head of self-driving cars for Google expects real people to be using them on public roads in two to five years.
and Google would collect data on how they interact with other vehicles and pedestrians. Google is working on sensors to detect road signs and other vehicles,
and software that analyzes all the data. The small, bulbous cars without steering wheels or pedals are being tested at a Google facility in California.
Urmson wouldn't give a date for putting driverless cars on roads en masse saying that the system has to be safe enough to work properly.
He told reporters at the Automotive News World Congress in Detroit that Google doesn't know yet how it will make money on the cars.
Google may face state regulatory hurdles depending on where it chooses to test the cars in public.
Under legislation that Google persuaded California lawmakers to pass in 2012, self-driving cars must have a steering wheel and pedals.
As well as asking for money, the demand also features an email address containing one of the show's most famous lines,
'Computer users who see the message are directed then to a website that shows them how to buy Bitcoins to pay the hackers.
A Youtube video is opened in the background featuring a song used in a fictional radio station in the game Grand Theft Auto V.'We believe that the crypto ransomware uses social engineering techniques as a means of infecting victims'
writes Symantec on its blog.''The malware arrives through a malicious zip archive, which uses the name of a major courier firm in its file name.'
Ransomware infiltrates a computer after a user clicks on a link or attachment in an email.
when a user visits a website, including well-known ones with good security systems, according to technology consultant Greg Miller of CMIT Solutions of Goshen, New york. Once inside the computer,
#Audi, Mercedes and BMW hit back at Google and Appple: Firms buy Nokia's map business in bid to beat tech firms with self driving cars and navigation German carmakers BMW,
known as HERE, clubbing together to keep the assets away from Internet rivals such as Uber of Silicon valley and China's Baidu and Tencent.
their parts suppliers and software rivals like Uber, Google or Apple.''With the joint acquisition of HERE, we want to secure the independence of this central service for all vehicle manufacturers,
which many in the automotive, Internet and logistics industries see as key to their own strategies.'
'There is a risk that the other automakers will be pushed further into the arms of Google, 'said Richard Windsor an independent financial analyst who tracks major tech players.
'It comes just weeks after Google has admitted it's self driving cars are being hit'surprisingly often'by other drivers
'said Google's Chris Urmson. The three Google employees on board complained of minor whiplash, were checked out at a hospital
and cleared to go back to work following the July 1 collision, Google said. The driver of the other car also complained of neck and back pain.
The simulation shows Google's car being rear ended at 17mph at a junction in Mountain view after stopping at a red traffic lightin a blog post
he says the problem has been common.''Our self-driving cars are being hit surprisingly often by other drivers who are distracted and not paying attention to the road.'
'New data released by Google reveals other drivers have hit the firm's cars 14 times since the start of our project in 2009,
It comes as the latest version of Google's self-driving car-a pod-like two-seater that needs no gas pedal
Google says. The technology giant's mission is to have driverless cars available to consumers in the next five years.'
'Google said.''They're ultimately designed to work without a steering wheel or pedals, but during this phase of our project we'll have safety drivers aboard with a removable steering wheel, accelerator pedal,
And the pod can only drive in areas that have been mapped thoroughly by Google. At first it will likely even have a steering wheel
But Google is lobbying for more flexible regulations. Google will initially build and test 25 pods,
mostly in neighborhoods surrounding its Mountain view headquarters. It will eventually build between 50 and 100,
and will broaden testing to sites that are hillier and rainier. The ultimate goal, says Google cofounder Sergey Brin,
is controlled computer cars that can eliminate human error, which is a factor in an estimated 90 percent of the 1. 2 million road deaths that occur worldwide each year.
Google shocked the auto industry in 2010 with its announcement that it was working on a driverless car.
Brin insists Google doesn't aspire to be a car company, but wants its technology to be adopted by automakers.'
Chris Urmson, who directs Google's self-driving car project, says the slow-moving, friendly looking prototype-his young son thinks it looks like a koala because of the nose-like black laser on the front-is a good bridge between the company's current test fleet of 20 specially outfitted Lexus SUVS
Earlier this week, in response to questions from The Associated press, Google acknowledged 11 minor accidents in the six years it has been testing autonomous cars.
and notes that Google's vehicles have completed more than 1. 7 million miles of testing. He says all but one of the accidents were caused by drivers in other cars;
in the only incident caused by a Google car, a staffer was driving in manual mode.
Urmson says Google needs to do a better job of educating people about self-driving technology and updating them on Google's progress.
and the site will feature a monthly report that will include details of any accidents involving Google cars.
The site will also have a section where people can send feedback when they interact with the cars.
The prototype cars-assembled in suburban Detroit by Roush Industries-have the same array of radars, lasers and cameras as Google's fleet of Lexus SUVS,
the head of software for the self-driving car project, says Google's software has gotten much better over the last year at classifying objects, like trees and mailboxes,
For example, Google's cars will slow down if they sense that a car in the next lane is speeding up to cut in front of them.
And in one recent test, a Google car paused when a cyclist ran a red light.
one of Google's Lexus SUVS seemed momentarily confused when a mail truck partially blocked its path.
Later, during a demonstration drive in Google's parking lot, the prototype-without a wheel or pedal-braked
like the time a Google SUV stopped and waited while a woman in a wheelchair chased a duck with a broom.
Google isn't alone in developing self-driving cars. Mercedes-benz Infiniti and other brands already have advanced driver assistance systems, like lane keeping and adaptive cruise control,
Unlike Google, automakers think self-driving cars will arrive feature-by-feature instead of all at once, giving people plenty of time to adapt to autonomous driving.
says Google's'moon shot'strategy is difficult and riskier than just adding features to existing cars.
Google could make self-driving urban pods for universities or urban centers, for example, or sell its technology to automakers.
can be ordered pre on Neuroon's website for $299 (£195) and will be shipped internationally after the initial run is processed.
'The Neuroon website also lets users calculate when they should seek and avoid light during their stay by using their origin location,
magnetic coils and the internet to send brain signals between two people. It begun with the first person,
Their opponent sent them a series of questions over the internet in an attempt to guess what they were thinking of.
to a wireless headset linked to the internet, and another person to a similar device in Paris. When the first person merely thought of a greeting such as iao Italian for ello the recipient in France was aware of the thought occurring,
Both Google and Nasa have been developing a quantum computer as part of their artificial intelligence work. However their D-Wave quantum computer needs to be kept at temperatures of around-273°C(-459°F). The latest research by Professor Dzurak and his colleagues,
They have applied their new technique to two super-eruption sites and a pair of very large eruptions and found that it took them no more than 500 years to move from formation to eruption.
wrote in a blog for International Business times:''Experts agree that an all out cyber attack, beginning with an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack on our electronic infrastructure,
We found the toothbrush for as low as $35 on ebay and for only $14 on Amazon.
Researchers at Switzerland Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne are also testing a low-carbon cement that could reduce the carbon footprint of construction sites by 40 percent, Forbes reported last year s
and designed to meet stringent groundwater standards at contaminated sites. Regenesis says the substrate reduces harmful chemicals and toxins,
This includes reducing chlorinated solvents at industrial dry cleaning sites as well as petroleum cleanup projects. Plumestop is composed of very fine particles of activated carbon (1-2 m) suspended in water through the use of unique organic polymer dispersion chemistry.
to identify the sites in the alpha-B-crystallin that attach to the beta-amyloid. It is the first direct structure analysis of a complete heat shock protein during interaction with a bonding partner,
which binds to an amino acid sequence of the prion protein, known as'fifth copper binding site,
opening the way for the development of new drugs targeting this copper binding site, and thus for new potential treatments".
which cells are transplanted into the injury site, "says research supervisor Dr James St john, from Griffith's Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery.
and better integrate into the injury site. In turn, this will help the spinal cord to regenerate more effectively."
In the early 2000s, Maria's group had pioneered the single-atom approach for metals anchored on oxide supports as the exclusive active sites for the water-gas shift reaction to upgrade hydrogen streams for fuel cell use.
While an Apple patent for wireless earbuds with bone conduction popped up recently on the USPTO website
across or even between continents in the networked way of regular digital internet traffic. These quantum dots basically achieve perfect single-photon emission by super-cooling the quantum dots so the emitting atoms do not fluctuate.
they only attach at certain putative sites. On the other hand, ubiquitins have a subtle trick up their sleeves they can tag other tags.
This technique permits the transfer of the masses of data around the internet, TV, etc. whereby a vast number of data channels are carried over a single optical fiber, wirelessly or copper cable.
not just FX,"said the head of Travelex's new digital team, former Google and e-Harmony executive Sean Cornwell."
Ola due to high encryption codes, say ISPS Dot had issued a letter to Internet service providers (ISPS) asking them to block websites of taxi operators Uber,
However, websites are still accessible to all. ISPS now say they are unable to block taxi aggregator websites Ola and Uber due to high encryption codes.
ISPS can only block http sites and not https as the latter have higher encryption. This means they can block Taxiforsure,
but not Ola and Uber. hese sites can not be blocked because of technical issues. We have given already representation to government earlier.
This was a general representation. We are giving compliance except in https sites, Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI) President Rajesh Chharia said.
He added that Dot had accepted itself that there was a need to set up a committee to discuss modalities around blocking of https sites around 3-4 months back.
The Delhi government had written to the Department of Electronic & Information technology (Deity) in March that despite the ban, Uber,
Ola Cabs and Taxiforsure continue to book passengers through their apps. All app-based cab services were banned in the national capital last year after a driver of Uber,
Among the other feasible applications for the transistors is better power electronics for data centres run by Google
Amazon, Facebook, and other companies, to power the cloud. Currently, these data centres eat up about 2 per cent of electricity in the US.
#Google Project Ara modular smartphone delayed to 2016 Google had announced earlier this year, that it will unveil the modular smartphone in Puerto rico as part of a pilot program that will allow people to choose their own hardware based on their needs and interests.
Looks like, amidst the all new structuring happening at Google, the modular device will have to wait until next year.
on day 2 of the Google I/O developers conference, at the ATAP keynote, Google engineer Rafa Camargo assembled a Project Ara phone as part of a live demo,
Google, known by its employees for frequent eorgs announced a major shake up with the holding company Alphabet.
Google, Google X and other products now become subsidiary of the parent company. Toshiba has teamed up with Gujarat-based Einfochips to provide chips for Google Project Ara.
The camera modules will be made available in both 5mp and 13mp versions, and a 2mp front-facing module is also in the works.
Nestlé unveiled its first'zero water'manufacturing site in the"water-stressed"Mexican state of Jalisco in October 2014.
Nestlé immediately started to look for other sites where we would apply the technology, "the Nestlé spokesperson said."
because of the development of user friendly interfaces (a topic covered in this earlier blog) for these accelerating technologies,
For starters, there are more than 700 different crowdfunding sites online, providing platform-level support for whatever kind of campaign you might have in mind.
And the other authors are Di-Yan Wang (Stanford), Mingyun Guan (Stanford), Michael Angell (Stanford), Changxin Chen (Stanford), Jiang Yang (Stanford) and Bing-Joe
which is joint venture among NRG ENERGY, Google and Brightsource energy. That project takes 173,000 mirrors and focuses the sunlight to the plant solar receiver steam generator,
#EU Formally Accuses Google Of Market Abuse, Opens Probe Into Android The European union competition chief formally laid down the gauntlet to Google on Wednesday,
accusing it of market dominance in web searches, particularly around online shopping. It also opened a formal investigation into
whether its Android operating system unfairly favored its own apps. would like to hear what Google has to say for itself,
said Margarethe Vestager, the EU competition commissioner at a press conference in Brussels on Wednesday. he Statement of Objection is not the end.
Wel take in the response of Google and decide how to proceed. Wee not here to take the side of rivals.
Google wrangle with the EU over search results has been going on for five years, but the formal Statement of Objections is a landmark step.
who was criticized by some for not taking a stronger stance with Google. Almunia was replaced by Vestager late last year.
The next step is for Google to formally answer the EU Statement of Objection, which at its core accuses Google of favoring its own shopping services over those of third parties like Tripadvisor, Microsoft and Streetmap,
who filed their complaints with the EU back in 2010. If Google and the Commission cannot reach a settlement
and the case reaches the European High court, it could not only drag on for several more years
but see Google fined 10%of its annual revenues. At 2014 levels that would be $6. 6 billion.
Some might argue that Google as a private company should have the freedom to organize search results how it wants
who added that she considered Google to be lose to a monopoly. Google sent a memo to its employees yesterday showing charts from Comscore and its own internet analytics
saying the Statement of Objections was isappointing news. But, it added, e have a very strong case. t
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