Building Jarvis

Remember Jarvis from IronMan? Meta is already working on 3D glasses with augmented reality and they are planning to build Jarvis. If you are a Unity 3D developer, you can join the team!

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.

Good News You May Have Missed in 2014

Bill Gates gives you the good news that you might have missed in 2014, and none of them is about Microsoft.

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)

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

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".

Animals that self-medicate

While humans choose to eat "junk" food to get diseases, animals choose to eat medicine to heal itself.

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.

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.

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.

Explained in animated gifs: How the Jet Engine Works?

A wonderful animation of how the Jet Engine works. Have a look at other Animagraffs by Jacob O’Neal.

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:

So you thought learning to code is simple?

Learning code might be a nightmare: Take it from a software engineer.

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

Paper light

What if you can make an LED as thin as paper?

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.

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.

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

I Love You

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

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.

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

Why only Thor's can lift his Mjölnir?

I love science. Especially when it explains some comics. A brilliant piece by James Kakalios.

Two Microsofts

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

Google's foobar

Get Confused: http://www.google.com/foobar/

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.

Slide to Select

Multiselect with smartphones are always a pain. Here is an interesting solution: From Medium

Amazon has no taste

Today Amazon releases Echo and here is a review that I liked most.

Independence Day

Microsoft is surely reinventing itself: http://news.microsoft.com/stories/independence-day/

The Art of Not Working at Work

"Non-work at work is a marginal phenomenon", from the Atlantic.

When Google Earth goes blind ...

Censoring in Google Earth. From Atlas Obscura

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.

What does an Idle CPU Do?

We dream when we sleep. But what does an idle CPU do?

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

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/

Woman of 24 found to have no cerebellum in her brain

In my career, I've seen people without brain, so this is no big deal: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329861.900-woman-of-24-found-to-have-no-cerebellum-in-her-brain.html

The Great Knowledge Box Showdown: Google Now vs. Siri vs. Cortana

Interesting to see Siri's answer to "Why are fire trucks red?": https://www.stonetemple.com/great-knowledge-box-showdown

Geek and Poke: Simply Explained

This is where all the smart phones landed us: http://geek-and-poke.com/geekandpoke/2014/9/13/simply-explained

She's Her Own Twin

The most interesting part of the story is her name: http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/shes-twin/story?id=2315693

X to Close. The origins of the use of [x] in UI design.

Solving [x]: https://medium.com/solve-for-x/x-to-close-417936dfc0dc

Govt of India Biometric Attendance System Dashboard

The awesome attendance dashboard of Govt Employees: http://attendance.gov.in/
The man behind it: http://qz.com/277897/meet-the-man-who-built-the-awesome-online-attendance-system-for-indias-government-officials/