Session 12-newsbytes
- 1. By: HARSHIT GUPTA CSE (E) FIRST YEAR
- 2. MICROSOFT launches HOW-OLD.net Microsoft introduced How-Old.net, a website to guess how old you are, at Microsoft Build 2015 developer conference. The site is way for Microsoft to show off what it's working on behind the scenes, with smarter applications that can use facial recognition and huge amounts of data to make intelligent guesses. Supposedly, the app learns over time from the data everyone uploads, improving and becoming more accurate as more people use it. How-Old.net isn't highly accurate, but it's close, and it's getting better. Using How-Old is easy. You can upload your own photos, or choose from a Bing Image Search.
- 3. INFOSYS launches youth banking tool The digital banking solution for customers between the ages of 12 to 18, is aimed at making banking a fun experience, while giving them a sense of financial responsibility. This solution will give banks an opportunity to expand their millennial customer base, that is largely unbanked. While the account holders will have the freedom to operate the account, transactions beyond preset limits will have to be approved by the guardian before completion . Banks can deploy the solution seamlessly with Finacle suite of products or any other third-party or in- house developed applications .
- 4. ASUS Zenfone2 in INDIA
- 5. SONY ANNOUNCES FREE GAMES FOR PS3 , PS4,PS-VITA USERS Ether One - PlayStation 4 Guacamelee Super Championship Turbo Edition – PlayStation 4 Race the Sun - PlayStation3 , PlayStation vita Hohokum - PlayStation 3 , PlayStation vita The Unfinished Swan- PlayStation3 , PlayStation vita Murasaki Baby – PlayStation vita
- 6. NOW RUN ARDUINO BY WINDOWS 10 Windows Remote Arduino is an open- source Windows Runtime Component library which allows Makers to control an Arduino through a Bluetooth or USB connection which will enable them to extend their Universal Windows Application with Arduino commands. Developers who include this Remote Arduino in their projects will automatically have access to its features in any of the WinRT languages (C++/C, C# and JavaScript).
- 7. To setup your Windows virtual shield for Arduino, after getting hardware, you will need Arduino IDE 1.6 or better, ArduinoJson library and repository as software requirement. You just have to setup these three software in which you need to create some directories and copy some stuff here to there. Next will be to setup your Phone or desktop, you will need Visual Studio 2015 and Repositoryfor the device. Now you are good to go with your first project.
- 8. THE DISAPPERABLES Developed by Munich-based Bragi GmbH, the Dash is a wireless in-ear headphone that looks like a discreet hearing aid. Packed inside is a music player, 4 gigabytes of storage, a microphone to take phone calls — just nod your head to accept — and sensors that monitor your position, heart rate and body temperature. Nick Hunn, a consultant who lays claim to the term ‘hearables’, reckons the Dash is just the start. He predicts smartwatches will dominate wearable sales for the next three years, hearables will then overtake and, by 2020, will account for more than half of a $30 billion wearable device market.
- 9. APPLE WATCH HAS PROBLEMS WITH TATTOOS Apple watch heart-rate reading sensors works on a simple principle of photo- plethysmography.. But in a way, it really has a simple explanation that your blood is red because it reflects red light and absorbs green light. So the watch will use green LED (Light Emitting Diode) with some photo-diodes (Light Detecting Diode) to detect the amount of blood flowing through your wrist. When your heart beats, the LED will absorb green Light and in between, it will remain undetected, so that will record in count and you will know your heart beat.
- 10. OPEN SOURCE FRAMEWORK FOR JAVASCRIPT DEBUGGING BY MICROSOFT It is a remote testing and debugging tool for JavaScript. Vorlon will help developers to test, inspect and debug the JavaScript code running on any device with a browser. From any device, we literally mean any device – be it a game console, smartphone or a fridge. It is a Node.JS application that will run on your computer and use a single line code for connecting to remote devices and systems. The errors will be shown on your computer.
- 11. Microsoft released a new development tool – Visual Studio Code – that works Windows, Linux, and Mac. This is being seen as a move by Microsoft to expand its horizon outside the Windows operating system world and a continuation to its last year’s move to make its .NET development platform open-source. VISUAL STUDIO CODE GOES FREE
- 12. The current Facebook Notifications tab is simple and you get all the useful notifications like comments, likes, posts from close friends at a single place. But now, Facebook going for a different type of notifications tab. Now notifications will be filled with more information and it is better to call it more cluttered. Facebook will now start showing things like life events, nearby places, trending topics and more.
- 13. FACEBOOK LAUNCHES ANONYMOUS LOG-IN In order to give people more control over their personal information, Facebook has recently announced Anonymous Login and Facebook Login. This feature enables users to log into apps more privately, giving them better privacy control settings. The Anonymous Login which is currently in testing phase is expected to be available soon. Facebook also plans to launch the new Facebook Login feature, which enables Facebook users to choose what information they share with an app. It gives users the option to uncheck categories of information.
- 14. XIAOMI’s NEW FLAGSHIP Mi 4i MAKES ITS DEBUT In INDIA Xiaomi has collaborated with manufacturing partner Foxconn to manufacture a motherboard that is one of the smallest and thinnest found in a phone this size, making space for a huge 3120mAh battery that can power through 1.5 days of normal usage. THIS IS 72% higher capacity than the iPhone 6 battery. For faster performance, Mi 4i comes equipped with a 2nd-gen Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 octa-core 64-bit processor, 2GB of LPDDR3 RAM and 16GB of onboard Flash. It also features 4G dual SIM slots. With a 13MP f/2.0 rear camera In a first for MIUI, Mi 4i ships with MIUI 6 based on Android 5.0 Lollipop.
- 15. The technology that Google is proposing is a hybrid contraption that integrates the spacebar with the trackpad on a laptop, or on a tablet keyboard. Essentially, the trackpad would extend into the space where the spacebar would usually be, and "a top portion of the trackpad may be profiled to simulate a shape of the spacebar". One or more spring mechanisms may be placed under the region of the trackpad designed to function as the spacebar, and there could be a marked boundary that would delineate the spacebar portion from the rest of the trackpad. GOOGLE PLANS TO GET AWAY WITH SPACEBAR
- 16. Fossbytes.com Timesofindia.com Hacking news and tutorials Wired.co.uk Efy.com