Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Monday, December 22, 2014

Oil and electric cars

TIL that electric cars are not new. There are here for more than a century, but the worst news is that the pollution by electric cars are more than conventional ones.

A bonus link on oil, pricing and usage in the US.

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Air Fares 101 – Why do fares change all the time?

A very nice article that helps you understand why the fares change all the time (and if you are smart, you can figure out how to book at the reduced fare)

Monday, December 15, 2014

Fly anywhere within the world in just 4 hours!

This new plane can take you anywhere in the world in just 4 hours. Additionally it can fly in the space too! From Science Alert



Friday, December 12, 2014

Zurkerberg dislikes the idea of an "Dislike" button

Facebook is considering buttons other than "Like", but "Dislike" is not one of them. Zurkerberg dislikes the "Dislike" button and thinks its "not good for the world".



Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Your smartphone is powerful than NASA's spacecraft

NASA's new ORION spacecraft has PowerPC 750FX processors - the ones that were used in 2003 Apple iBook. With that little processing power, they could launch a spacecraft. With lot more power in our smartphones, we are launching some angry birds at egg-stealing-pigs. hmmm.





You can't win the game. It exists only to destroy the mind

Simple game. Sort of inception. A world within a world within a world within a world ...

Try it.


Tuesday, December 9, 2014

A Dual Screen phone

Seems like a naive idea, but having dual screen on a smart phone is good. Esp, when the second screen is e-ink, its lot of fun than you can imagine. Here comes YotaPhone.



Verge reviews YotoPhone 2.

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Captcha redefined

When Captcha was introduced in Yahoo Briefcase, the artificial intelligence was not that great. But now the algorithms are smart enough to read the distorted text - sometimes, better accuracy than humans. So Google is experimenting interesting ways of differentiating humans & automated tools.



Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Why do we invent technology?

Not just to speed up the typing of "I'll be there soon" in our mobile. But also to make Stephen Hawking talk. SwiftKey guys say that "the aim was to enable him to write and speak with greater ease for longer periods and minimise typos". And they were able to double the rate of his speech.

Well done!



Amazing robots at Amazon's warehouse

Santa’s workshop isn’t at the North Pole. Its at an Amazon warehouse near you.

Here is a video of those robots in action:

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Do you trust your mobile app?

Most of us don't look at the permissions requested by a mobile app, when we install it. But they are very serious. Look at the permissions that well known cab company Uber asks for:



And this is what they do with all the information:



Nice reverse engineering by Job

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

A Grammar Cheat Sheet Even The Pros Can Use

Engrish is funny, English can be funny two (or is it 'too', may be 'to'?): "The past tense of lay is laid, while the past tense of lie is lay". That aside, a good collection of items that/which you can ready everyday/every day: The Grammar Cheat sheet.



Monday, November 24, 2014

The secret life of passwords

Like a tattoo on a private part of the body, they tend to be intimate, compact and expressive. The secret life of passwords.


Friday, November 21, 2014

Meet the man who made Tetris

Life gets pretty chill after you escape the KGB and create the most successful video game ever. Meet the man who made Tetris.

Image by Castigautor

Thursday, November 20, 2014

I Love You

I've always thought "I Love You" are the three sweetest words. May be, they could be the three scariest words.


Wednesday, November 19, 2014

A picture is worth of thousand words (or even more for a blind person)

Imagine this: A blind person uses the camera in his mobile and point it to the objects in front of him. The mobile talks to him and explains the object. Thanks to Google Research, that day is not too far in the future.





Tuesday, November 18, 2014

A New Era for .NET

There was a time, where you can't use "Microsoft" and "Open Source" in the same sentence. Time flies. Here is a the new era for .NET and for Microsoft as well.





Blast from the past: Microsoft raps open-source

Monday, November 17, 2014

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Two Microsofts

Microsoft used to be the company that everyone hates. Thats changing in a drastic way. Here is an interesting take on it.





Monday, November 10, 2014

How Building a Black Hole for Interstellar Led to an Amazing Scientifc Discovery

Nolan wanted an visually-mesmerizing experience. What came out as a side effect was an amazing scientific discovery about the Black Holes.


Friday, November 7, 2014

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Friday, October 31, 2014

Definition of irony?

5 years ago if someone told me that Microsoft created a cross platform device or Google created a website that works only in a single browser, I would have laughed. But today both happened. Microsoft released Band and Google has Inbox that works only in Chrome.




Wednesday, October 29, 2014

10 tricks to appear smart in meetings

Next time when someone asks, “Sorry, could you go back a slide?”, I'm going to ask, what is the title of that slide: From medium, 10 tricks to appear smart in meetings



anti-portfolio

Cowan asked her “How can I get out of this house without going anywhere near your garage?”. Unfortunately he found a way: http://www.bvp.com/portfolio/antiportfolio

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

cursors, cursors, cursors, and more cursors...

If only you can finish this game (BTW, the rest of the cursors are others guys moving their mouse, updated real time): http://cursors.io/