We’re a long way off from a future where every home comes with its own robot. But if that day ever comes, robots like NAO will have led the way. NAO, a nearly two-foot tall humanoid robot, is made by Paris-based Aldebaran Robotics. At this point, it’s largely used in research labs, universities and schools as a teaching tool for students. But as we’ll see in this video report, Aldebaran sees the potential for NAO beyond the classroom. NAO, a nearly two-foot-tall robot, uses various communication devices, such as a voice synthesizer, LED lights and two speakers.
A week ago, Microsoft handed out a OneDrive (
Linaro, the open-source development consortium for Linux on ARM architecture, is working on software, tools and drivers that could hasten the release of 64-bit Android. The move is significant because, apart from Apple’s iPhone 5s, no 64-bit smartphones have been announced, a situation that analysts partly attribute to the lack of 64-bit Android for ARM processors, which are the most widely used in handsets and tablets. The release of 64-bit Android will depend on Google, whose current Android 4.4 version code-named KitKat is 32-bit. But 64-bit Android adoption will be swift if software, drivers and tools are ready ahead of the OS release, said George Grey, speaking Sunday at the Linaro Connect Asia 2014 developer conference in Macau.
Work is well underway on a study of big data technologies’ impact on privacy rights, a senior Obama administration official said Monday, stopping short of saying that substantive new policy changes could be around the corner. President Barack Obama announced a 90-day-long study during a speech in January, when he also discussed changes to national security practices after former National Security Administration contractor Edward Snowden leaked documents about domestic surveillance programs. “We are undergoing a revolution in the way that information about our purchases, our conversations, our social networks, our movements, and even our physical identities are collected, stored, analyzed and used,” said White House senior counselor John Podesta during an event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “The immense volume, diversity, velocity, and potential value of data will have profound implications for privacy, the economy and public policy.”
Meetup’s website remained offline Monday, the victim of a massive DDoS attack, which began last week with an email asking the company’s CEO to cough up $300, or else. The social networking site and its mobile apps have been largely inactive since last Thursday, when the distributed denial-of-service attack began on its servers. At least several attacks have been launched at the site, causing many hours of downtime over several days, which the company says is its first such experience since it was founded 12 years ago. Problems began when Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman received an email Thursday morning that said, “A competitor asked me to perform a DDoS attack on your website.” The email said the attack could be stopped if $300 was paid, Heiferman said in a
Frankenmeat may not be the only spam in your refrigerator. A month or so ago, a smart refrigerator was identified as a The
A second federal bill that proposes “kill-switch” technology be made mandatory in smartphones as a means to reduce theft of the devices was introduced Monday. The kill switch would allow consumers to remotely wipe and disable a stolen smartphone and is considered by proponents to be a key tool in combating the increasing number of smartphone robberies. The Smartphone Theft Prevention Act was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives as H.R. 4065 by José E. Serrano, a New York Democrat, as a companion to
Google has been allowed by a court to keep a controversial film trailer that mocks the Prophet Muhammad on YouTube, but the video has to be scrubbed to remove the performance of actress Cindy Lee Garcia, who claims infringement of her copyright. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld its earlier order, asking Google to take down and prevent new uploads of the trailer, but did not preclude the posting or display of any version of ‘Innocence of Muslims’ that does not include Garcia’s performance. The court had
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Apple's CarPlay highlights tech industry's growing interest in cars
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Samsung's Galaxy Gifts promotion gives you free Evernote, Box, LinkedIn, and more.
Windows 7 Professional and 8 Pro don't just look cleaner and run faster than Windows XP, they also make you and your users more productive. Here are four ways to use the upgrade from XP as an opportunity to bring your business into a new era of growth, profit, and productivity.
It won't be available until this summer, but its privacy features could be a big hit with the security-minded.
Type "Show me the menu for" in front of the name of a restaurant, and your Google search results will now let you know what's for dinner.
Western Digital’s Black2 combo drive—an SSD paired with an HDD—is a great concept: SSD speed and hard-drive capacity in a single 2.5-inch package. But disappointing SSD write performance, a hefty $300 price tag, and the availability of much faster 512GB SSDs for just a few dollars more make the Black2 a difficult sell for laptop upgraders—unless you absolutely need its 1.1TB capacity. The Black2 is essentially a 120GB SSD married to a 1TB, 5400 rpm hard drive. The package 9mm high, so it will fit in many, but not all laptops (most newer thin-and-lights can accommodate only drives that are 7mm high). The SSD and HDD share the same drive interface, but they’re treated as separate entities, and Windows will assign different drive letters to each of them.
Sears Holdings said a review of its systems does not show evidence yet of a data breach as retailers continue to stay on guard in the light of payment card terminal hacking at Target and Neiman Marcus. The department store chain, with 2,500 stores in the U.S. and Canada, is the latest company to say it is investigating a possible breach, following the hotel management company
The Academy Awards take place Sunday, March 2. If you're not going to be near a TV and want to watch them, It's another of those weird network TV half-steps. In order to watch, you need to use the
You can now Google [show me the menu for ...] and Google will display their full menu directly in the search results, without you needing to click through to an additional page, whether on the restaurants homepage or on a third-party website.
Google has announced desktop voice search for Chrome has been release in beta for United States users. This functionality was publicly discussed nearly a year ago, but wasn't quite ready for use back in May 2013.
A network engineer intentionally created fake business listings for the FBI and Secret Service without them knowing to prove a point to Google once and for all that its business listings on Google Maps had major loopholes and were primed for spam.
To strategize your PPC optimizations most effectively, it’s vital to ensure you also get a high-level view of how your account is doing. Here's how you compare a variety of different KPIs to identify and prioritize the optimizations you can perform.
Yes, it's true! The foundational techniques of improvisation can be transferred off the stage and into the office to improve content development efforts. Here are eight lessons from improv that you can apply right now to support your marketing.
Blog comments. Press releases. Reciprocal linking. Directories. Guest posting. Although these tactics are on Google's "do not use for SEO" list, they remain valuable tools within a natural, diverse, intelligently done link building project.
As much as small business owners may miss the simplistic link building days, SEO is now a much more complicated activity. To remain successful in the rankings, small businesses must find the time to participate in the process.
NASA not only put the first man on the moon, but pioneered the use of brand journalism, product placement, and real-time storytelling with the epitome of transparency and authenticity. Here's what you can learn from marketing the moon.
Whether you're writing something technical or scientific, or you're writing for the general public, Google's Matt Cutts suggests the key to success is a focus on clarity above all else – making sure both experts and regular folks can understand.
If scraper sites that have copied your own content, you can now report it to Google by providing the source URL, where the content was taken from, the URL of the scraper site, and the keywords where the scraper site was ranking on.
Google AdWords has officially announced a new way for advertisers to track and measure conversions with their new flexible conversion counting. The goal is to help advertisers track the types of conversions that work best for their business model.
AdGooroo release research this week showing which brands were on top when it came to the top 50,000 keywords in U.S. Google AdWords. The announcement comes on the heels of a new mobile data offering by AdGooroo.
It is undeniable that organic search will remain a prevalent and profitable marketing channel for years to come, but in the short term it will be critical to think of, practice, and sell SEO as something larger than a way of marketing. Here's why.
Many sites and apps fail miserably because they don't consider the task environment or device usage models. Read this before you jump on the responsive design bandwagon to make sure you're taking the right approach for your site.
Google's DoubleClick and Yandex's advertising network are powered by real-time-bidding technology publishers and advertisers will be able to maximize their advertising revenues and cut costs through the algorithm based bidding.
Google has partnered with FOX to offer "American Idol" fans the chance to vote for their favorite season 13 contestants directly from its search results via phone, tablet, or desktop - just in time for the final competitions, which kick off tonight.
If you follow or like a Page on Facebook, and another Page tags that page on Facebook within their own post, there's a higher likelihood that you'll see that post in your feed, even though you haven't liked or followed that brand or business.
Twitter advertisers will now have the option to promote their accounts in search results, the great new high exposure ad placement for advertisers looking to promote their Twitter accounts, rather than promoting a specific tweet.
This partnership now allows both Google's and Yandex's real-time bidding systems integration, providing Google's advertising customers with access to Yandex's inventory and Yandex's ad customers access to the DoubleClick Ad Exchange.
From Prince to Vincent van Gogh, and more than a half million other famous or influential people, when you search for famous and/or influential people, Bing search result pages now present a sidebar timeline of important events from their lives.