NSA Building Quantum Computer to Crack Encryption Types

The National Security Agency (NSA) is starting a project, under the research program, to build a computer system that will be able to break almost each and every kind of encryption and securities to protect medical, business, banking and government records around the world.
The United States NSA is reportedly racing forward to create a machine considerably faster than classic computers, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. According to the document report provided by NSA whistle blower Mr. Edward Snowden, a research program named ‘Penetrating Hard Targets’ also includes a project in which manufacturing of a cryptologically useful quantum computer is included.

The expectations and implications of the machine manufacturing are very difficult to guess. Strong encryption tools which are used today may be included to crack any type of machine with that quantum computer. Probably, highly secured RSA standards are expected to be included in this machine which can decrypt any system at any time when required. RSA Algorithm is commonly used in web browsers security for emails and financial transactions.
Many scientific communities have been trying to develop such a machine which has revolutionary implications for fields like medicine as well as government records. The National Security Agency of US reportedly sees itself as in a race with Swiss and European Union sponsored quantum computing labs.

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Facebook Scanning Private Messages

The Social Networking Giant Facebook has been accused of scanning private messages of its user’s data to provide it to some marketers. A class action lawsuit has been filed in California federal court against Facebook.
According to the complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, this social networking company scanned plaintiffs’ private messages containing uniform resource locators that is URLs and searched the website identified in the URL. This is done for the purposes including but not limited to profiling and data mining.

 

The company enables it to mine the user’s data and gain some bucks by sharing it with the other parties like marketers, advertisers and other data aggregates, according to the complaint. This social networking company is said to have violated the California privacy laws and Electronic Communications Privacy Act by its international interception of electronic communications.
High Tech Bridge, A Swiss firm, reported in August that it used an especially dedicated web server and generated a secret URL for each of the 50 most popular and largest social networks for the sake of testing with respect to user privacy.
The filed lawsuit is asking for the class action status and injunction against Facebook’s practices. It also claims the greater of either $100 US dollars a day for each day of alleged violations or $10,000 US dollars for every user who is claimed to be affected.
But on the other side, Facebook people officially emailed a statement which said, allegations are without merit and they will defend themselves vigorously. With the effect of growing social networks and competitors, Facebook is already lacking users from the last year. Now we will have to wait and see what and how this report will affect its users.

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iPhone 6 on Its Way with Killer Specs and Features

Many Technology experts already amazed with the mechanism behind iPhone 5s. Now after the announcement about iPhone 6, they are out of expectations about the new version. From the month October in 2013, after the sale of iPhone 5s, the Apple Company got back the top spot in the Smartphone industry.
Technology giant Apple has not yet confirmed the release date of iPhone 5s successor but specifications are going very high for iPhone 6. With the start of New Year 2014 expectations of features are likely getting the huge bump in the market. With the sale of the iPhone 5s Apple reclaimed the Smartphone leadership from October 2013 and Tech giant closed out the year as number one again.
The Apple Company has aimed to deliver another game changer model that is iPhone 6, which is expected to possess fresh killer specifications and features that would dominate the older versions. In the last version that is iPhone 5s, Apple people introduced 64-bit computing in mobile devices, which was a latest Smartphone forward-looking.

iPhone 6 New Look
This new version is probably expecting as the first phablet size device and bigger screen size than 4 inch iPhone 5s. Experts say that this version will points to a display panel that is no more than 5-inch and optimized for one hand use.

Details are sketchy for now but numerous revealed patents from Apple suggest that Liquid metal and sapphire will come into play in the making of a virtually indestructible iPhone 6 frame, which of course would stun with radical new look as many phone concepts have envisioned in the past months.

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Last Doodle of The Year Welcoming New Year

The time has come that everybody is waiting for, New Yea Eve. Every person in the world has his or her own ways of celebrating or wishing others. Google, the search engine king, has its own way to wish users that is nothing but by using an amazing, colorful and cute doodle.

Included many things in today’s doodle such as sparkling ‘O’ which look as a globe and two blowing speakers up of the year number. Dancing, on the dazzling disco ramp, number of ‘2013’ with cute faces, legs also tiny hands and Number ‘4’ is eagerly waiting to join the party.

This is the last doodle in the year of 2013 by with Google is wishing a very Happy New Year. This dancing and celebrating Doodle is indicating that ‘It’s a party time’. One alone numeral that is ‘4’ is patiently waiting by the side and looking for the midnight to come sooner to join the party.

Many people are waiting for the midnight to come sooner as they also want to see the first Google doodle of the year 2014. It should be more sparkling than today’s one might be with more hugs and cheers. Today’s doodle when clicked redirects to the New Year’s Eve 2013 and with the search results containing some options and tips for the readers to celebrate and start the new year.

May the New Year welcome you with a colorful future – Happy New Year

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Decreasing Popularity of Facebook

According to a study by social media experts, Facebook is popularity is going down day by day. With the existence of the high profile competitors such as Twitter, Snapchat, Whatsapp and other applications Facebook is missing user existence like before. The Global Social Media Impact Study noticed that those people who aged 16 to 18 in about eight countries for 15 months and found Facebook use was in sharp decline.
Simpler social networks are dominating usage of Facebook and being replaced by the users. Many young people nowadays are adopting the other simpler networks instead and turning away from this. On the other side people, who are addicted and finding most of their friends and parents who need their updates, are just updating their status just sake of status updates.
According to an anthropologist Mr. Daniel Miller, Professor in University College London, most of the users feel embarrassed even to be associated with it. Many youngsters are moving away in their droves and turning to other networks.

 

Facebook Dead or Buried
Many of the schoolchildren in the survey recognized that in many ways, Facebook is technically far far more good than others such as Twitter or Instagram. It is more integrated, better for photo albums, organizing parties and more effective for observing relationships of peoples, said professor Miller, adding that "slick isn't always best" in attracting youngsters.
Facebook has been overtaken by WhatsApp as the best way to send and receive messages, said the researchers, while Snapchat has gaining in popularity from recent months by allowing users to send images which "self-destruct" after a short period on the recipient's phone in order to maintain privacy.
Researchers found close friends used Snapchat to communicate, while WhatsApp was used with acquaintances and Twitter broadcasted to anyone who chose to follow that person. If this is the case that leading declining and death of the social media giant Facebook, then it should be updated with the new version that users wants to be changed and it should be more user friendly than the other competitors.

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Microsoft Safety Application Guardian

A new safety application, named ‘Guardian’ has been launched by tech giant Microsoft on Thursday in Indian subcontinent. This safety application or app enables friends and family members of Windows Phone users to track them in real time. Guardian App is designed especially for women with the aim of protecting them in India.
This ultimate security app is available to download at windows phone official page and works with all Windows Phone 8.

 

Guardian App Features
The Guardian App has four features; they are SOS, Track Me, Locate and Report an Incident. Using this app, users can allow other such as family members and friends in real time. In a statement by Mr. Raj Biyani, Managing Director of Microsoft IT India, “Our employees wanted to do something to enable people to feel safer in our cities. So they used their spare hours to develop a robust personal security app Guardian”.
This app runs on Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud services and Bing Map APIs according to statement issued by Microsoft. The ‘Track Me’ feature of this app allows friends and family members to track the status and location of the user. This can be useful in the many situations such as emergency by enabling it.
The ‘SOS alert’ feature also let the user to connect with the security forces such as police and hospitals. By using this feature user can also send distress messages to a list of customized contacts through SMS, email or status update.
We can say that Guardian App is a future technology blow in India. These amazing features of Guardian App is very useful not only for women but for all as it is very technologically developed by Microsoft.

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Cryptolocker Trojan Pollution Crossed Quarter Million

Cryptolocker is a virulent or virus which is infecting many computers especially windows according to a report by cyber security resources. This virulent is scrambling users’ data by giving a countdown clock and demanding a ransom fee to release the data. According to Dell Secureworks, by BBC report, said that worst affected computers can be found in United States and United Kingdom.
The report added that this ransomware is targeting home internet users after focusing on professionals’ personal computers. The demanding ransom amount is presently $300 USD as this virulent is not the new to the world. In first stages, according secureworks report, it was around $100 USD. From the mid September it is estimated to affect around quarter million computers and grosses up to $30 million dollars.

About Cryptolocker
The Cryptolocker is a ransomware virulent which is affecting computers without any knowledge of the user. After encrypting the computer, it is asking for the ransom to unlock the system with a negative countdown for the deal.
The Symantec has defined it as a Trojan Cryptolocker.B, which encrypts files on the compromised system and prompts the user to buy a password in order to unlock or decrypt. According to Symantec, when this Trojan executed, it will be copied itself in MSUNET which is an executable file, and then creates registry entries. Whenever the windows starts it will get executed. This Cryptolocker virulent then locks the desktop by encrypting files and then displays a ransom demand.
Some of the Anti Virus software corporations such as Symantec have solution to clear the virulent like Cryptolocker B and they released some recommendations for the users who got infected by this ransomware. For more information on this virulent people can browse for secureworks cyber works intelligence page.

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Best Christmas Gift People Prefer

Christmas Celebrations has different meaning for every person who wants to celebrate the festival. December holidays, Santa Cruz, Shopping, Colorful gifts, tasty cuisine and many more. Each part of the world will celebrate this festival differently. Most of them wish each other with exchanging gifts.

Tech Christmas gifts are a favorite for many people who is interested in presenting gifts to their beloved ones. There are significant changes in technology today compare to the past. Let us consider an example of a tablet, an Apple tablet in the year 1993 would have cost around £430 with just 150kb of memory, that make a big difference from the present £399 16GB iPad Air today.
Smartphones, tablets, PCs and many other electronic items have been popular for past few years but they have actually been on Christmas lists for the past two decades.

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Schaft Robot from Google Wins DARPA Rescue Challenge

DARPA Robotic challenge event in Miami, Florida, A Japanese robot called Schaft, owned by Google won a rescue challenge. This challenge of rescue is hosted by the Pentagon’s research group called DARPA.
Google’s Schaft robot had beaten its rivals by a way of margin on eight different tasks. This event gathered some of the world’s most advanced humanoid robots against each other from around the world. The challenge had series of complex tasks that the competing robots have to compete with each other to win. Schaft is a Japanese company that was recently acquired by Google as part of segue into robotics. Now we can say that Google has a best humanoid robot as it won the rescue challenge.

 

The Rescue Challenge of DARPA Comprises of Below Tasks

Drive a utility vehicle for some distance

Climbing 8 feet high ladder

Clear debris that blocking a doorway

Pull open a lever handled door

Crossing a distance on has only ramps, steps and blocks

Cutting a shape of triangle in a wall using a drill which is cordless

Close three air valves, each controlled by a different-sized wheel or lever

Unreel a hose and then screw its nozzle into a wall connector

After the competition, DARPA said it has been an inspiration to organize the challenge after it became clear robots were only capable of playing a very limited role in efforts to contain disasters such as Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdown in Japan in the year of 2011. In a statement by program manager for DARPA Robotics Challenge, Mr. Gill Pratt said,” What we realize was … these robots couldn’t do anything other than observe. What they needed was a robot to go into that reactor building and shut off the valves.”

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Apple May Boost in China with China Mobile Deal

Technology master Apple has signed a deal with China Mobile to boost its iPhone market in China. We all know that iPhone is most technologically manufactured smartphone. Now Apple Company eyed Chinese market to boost its sales through the world’s largest carrier. China has largest Smartphone market which may help Apple to increase the sale of their iPhone sale.

 

Apple and China Mobile Deal

According the report in BBC, The China Mobile has more than 760 million subscribers and is one of the three networks which are to be given first 4G licenses. In the last quarter, China Mobile reported an up profit of 1.5% to 63.1bn yuan in August 2013. Despite tough competition through its competitors, this firm gained good profits in the last quarter.
In a statement by Apple’s Chief Executive, Mr. Tim Cook, “China is an extremely important for Apple, our partnership with China Mobile presents us an opportunity to bring iPhone to the customers of the world’s largest network”. The country of China is recorded as one of the biggest Smartphone using country with more than 1.2 billion users.

Apple's iPhone

According to researchers’ estimation, this deal can boost the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c sales in China which will be available to China Mobile subscribers from mid January 2014.

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