Google search gets semantic
It’s absolutely true! The very own Google search has undergone transformation and has now turned to be semantic.
Google Inc. has confirmed on Tuesday that the search engine giant has modified its popular search engine to understand semantic relationships between words. This modification comes as a part of Google’s efforts to better understand its users’ searches. Google searchs from Tuesday will produce results based on semantic search in as may as 37 differnet languages.
The newly deployed technology would now attempt to understand the association between the words entered by the user in the search engine.
In the words of Google search quality team technical lead Ori Allon and snippets team engineer Ken Wilder, “We’re deploying a new technology that can better understand associations and concepts related to your search. We are now able to target more queries, more languages, and make our suggestions more relevant to what you actually need to know.”
Software giant, Microsoft Inc. late last month announced the compoany’s plan to roll out its sematics based search engine kumo.com.
Peer-to-peer heart monitoring
Yes! It’ll soon be possible. With the monitoring technology advancing by leaps and bounds every passing day, now the chronically ill patients will soon be able to get the advantage of remote monitoring.
Reportedly, a bunch of researchers in South Africa and Australia have already devised a decentralized system in an attempt to avoid medical data overload. They describe the newly developed peer-to-peer system in the forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology.
Chronic illnesses like diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart problems can now be taken care of from advances in monitoring technology. Such devices will monitor the person’s symptoms and send it directly to a centralized computer server located at their health center. This would allow the doctors to take appropriate action rapidly. This technology can be extremely beneficial in cases of emergencies.
However questions are being raised over the use of this technology as the centralized computer would fail to cope with the data over load. Computer scientists Hanh Le, Nina Schiff, and Johan du Plessis at the University of Cape Town, are working with Doan Hoang at the University of Technology, Sydney, in order to suggest an effective decentralized approach.
Le and colleagues have developed an application demonstrating how the principle of a P2P network could incorporate patient sensors including thermometers, blood-pressure units and electrocardiograms (ECG). It is the latter on which the team has focused to build a P2P heart-monitoring network.
iPoint 3D - Using fingers as a remote control
You have seen this as someone’s wild imagination in science fiction movie only but now the wait is over! Over to iPoint 3D!
The first presentation of iPoint 3D, would be at CeBIT from March 3-8 by experts from the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, HHI.
The iPoint 3D will enable the user to communicate with the 3-D display through simple hand gestures, absolutely without touching the screen and without 3-D glasses or a data glove.
Paul Chojecki, a research scientist at the HHI explains this latest technology, “The heart of iPoint 3D is the recognition device, about the size of a normal keyboard, which can be suspended from the ceiling. The two built-in cameras detect the hand and finger gestures in real time and would then transmit the captured information to the computer. The system would respond instantly. The small device is equipped with two FireWire cameras - inexpensive, off-the-shelf video cameras that are also easy to install.
Chojecki says, “Since the interaction is entirely contact less, the system is ideal for scenarios where contact between the user and the system is not possible or not allowed, such as in an operating room”.
In addition to its obvious use to video gamers, iPoint 3D can also be useful as part of an interactive information system.
Truly said, your finger is the remote control of the future.
Apple granted the patent for iPhone touch-screen controls
US electronics giant Apple Inc. now has its grant for the patent for its iPhone touch-screen controls sanctioned by the government.
Driven by the phenomenal success of the Apple’s product many companies including RIM, Nokia and Synaptics were in the line of launching a similar product of their own. However, winning the patent for its iPhone, Apple has legally succeeded in its attempt to halt its iPhone competitors from using the similar technology and there by restricting their efforts to come up with refined iPhones.
US Patent 7,479,949, which was issued on the 20th of Jaunuary, has been awarded to “(Steve) Jobs et al” for a method of “detecting one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display” to command computing devices. The good news was followed by the company’s official announcement of their all-time high quarterly profits, a day later.
“We think competition is good. We are ready to suit up and go against anyone. However, we will not stand for having our IP ripped off and will use whatever weapons at our disposal”, said the elated chief operating officer Tim Cook, hailing the iPhone as ‘Apple’s intelectual property’.
Recession knocks at Technology’s epicenter - Silicon Valley
It’s being talked about in every corner of the globe. And now, even in the technology’s hub, Silicon Valley. The global recession has now begun to impact the Technology’s Mecca, and worst, it’s likely to stay longer.
When John Donovan, chief technology officer at Dallas-based AT&T Inc., said “Consumer technology changes so fast that any company that tries to pause is likely to be overrun by its competitors”, it was strongly felt that the pace of the technological developments is least likely to slowdown fearing recession.
However, tech giants like Intel Corp and Microsoft Corp, Hewlett-Packard Co., Yahoo! Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc. and Palm Inc. are amongst the many firms who have decided to trim their staff by many thousands. This move from the tech world comes as an effort to cope up with the financial meltdown which has forced the industry to hack their advertising and investment expenses.
Silicon Valley, the corridor of office parks stretching between San Francisco and San Jose, is the headquarters of many world renowned technology companies. It has lost an estimated 11,700 jobs last year and the analysts say that this is just the tip of the iceberg!
Going by the official figures, California’s unemployement rate hit a 14-year high of 9.3 % in December 2008, 2.1% above the national average of 7.2. And also, any further increment in the figures should not be surprisig for anyone.
Believing the Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the global expenditure on computers and softwares is expected to slip by another 8 percent in the financial year 2009-10 in the U.S., Western Europe and Japan.
Andy Miedler, a senior technology analyst at Edward Jones, feels, “Layoffs and cost-cutting are unfortunate, but companies have to make tough decisions in a rough economy to preserve their own financial position.
Philips’ Cinema 21:9
Gone are the days when only a handful were privileged enough to afford the luxury of a personalized 4:3 television! As the technologies advanced, televisions reached every home and this done, people now aimed for ‘bigger’. As big as the cinema!
Aspiring high, yet little had the people realized that the magic of cinema could reach there homes so soon! Bingo! You can now get the feel of the captivating 21:9 cinematic experience in the comfort of your home, courtesy Philips!
Royal Philips Electronics Inc., popularly known as Philips, has successfully replicated the magic of cinema for personal viewing by adapting highly advanced formatting technology to give you a totally absorbing viewing experience.
The available traditional LCD televisions compromise by distorting or compressing the picture to fill in the screen width, thereby losing the full scope of the original shot. Sometimes, they prefer the letterbox format with black bars at the top and bottom. Philips, world’s one of the largest electronics manufacturer, claims its Cinema 21:9, to be cinema-proportioned LCD TV and gives the viewer a truly enriching cinematic viewing experience.
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CyberKnife
The name might scare, but there isn’t any need to force down the panic button, this isn’t another cyber threat. Rather this is an emerging surgical technology with the potential to revolutionize the medical history.
Gone are the days of the never ending treatments and painful surgeries, Welcome Cyberknife systems!
Cyberknife, invented by John R. Adler, a Stanford University Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology, is a frameless robotic radiosurgery system. CyberKnife System is the world’s earliest and lone robotic radio surgical system.
Cyberknife in other words could be described as the most advanced no surgical, painless technology that can reduce or eliminate certain scratch and tumors located in prostate, lung, brain, spine, liver, pancreas and kidney.
The benefits are countless. This technology is highly precise and considerably shortens treatment time. What adds to its value is the fact that this minimizes healthy tissue’s exposure to radiation. The irony is that using this system means no cuts and no complex surgeries!
The system uses computer-assisted, non-surgical technology to transmit small beams of radiation from several different angles into a tumor.
Over thousands of Cyberknife systems have been installed worldwide and have till now successfully treated 50,000 patients.
Cyber crime : Technological Threat
Computer together with the technology’s most sophisticated advancement, internet, has aided everybody’s work. Be that an office, a bank, a ticket counter, school homework, a showroom think of any place and computers have reached there. Sadly they have reached the world of crime too. Cyber crime, the unlawful acts wherein the computer and internet are either the tools or targets or both, today is one of the worst intensifying problems globally.
Cyber crime involves less of a risk because the criminal can’t be seen, they are as virtual as the cyberspace itself. Sometime down the lane, you might just run into the person who has all your passwords, say sorry and excuse yourself! Cyber crime is easy too. The expert spammers and hackers, with the use of the most sophisticated technology have developed every technique to break into any website/mail account.
Criminal activities in the cyberspace are on a sharp rise. This includes a whole array of activities that it gets next to impossible to list all. Illegal distributions of softwares which are mostly copyrighted material to cyber terrorism, the world of cyber crime has expanded to a very large extend.
Hacking and Spamming has widely increased. There is a major threat to personal data and passwords. Blogs, online forums, chat rooms, Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter and many other aren’t safe either. These rely on effortless downloading/distribution, publishing, and other information-sharing techniques which leaves every user vulnerable to cyber infections. Hackers have made their presence felt at the Social Networking Sites (SNS) like Facebook, Orkut, MySpace etc too. Recently, Orkut ‘communities’ of former India Prez APJ Abdul Kalam and Indian cricket star Rahul Dravid were hacked and abused by the hackers to send vulgar messages to the members and hack their accounts.
The transmission of pornography has also amplified. Frauds worth billions over the World Wide Web have happened. E-commerce sites are the most vulnerable targets. Cyber crime has left many in double minds when it comes to choosing the option of e-banking. Drug trafficking too has expanded by the use of encrypted e-mail and other Internet Technology.
And the latest, terror groups too are now emailing their agenda to the governmental authorities! Their accesses to governments’ official websites have left many wondering about the security on the web. Hoax emails are sent to terrorize authorities and citizens alike.
After all its 21st century and the evil bytes are fast replacing whizzing bullets. And for those who are surprised, this is merely the tip of the iceberg!
Hyperlinking reality!
If you have a quest to get into the minutiae of the places you visit, technology can now aid you better.
Researchers from Europe can now can now attach hyperlinks to pictures you take using your mobile phone. This advancement aims to develop an image recognition technology making it easier to connect to and explore the world around you. With this blend of imagination and web-technology, your pictures would offer you the name, history, art, architecture, culture, location etc, of the edifice in question.
Numerous photographs would constitute a database of photographs added with all the information, which are aimed to serve as reference points. As soon as one would click the image, association would be done and pertinent reference links would be returned to the user. The picture would then become the background and the icons appearing would take you through the journey right from the history to the shopping opportunities.
Striking technological concepts like local invariant feature detection, epipolar geometry and planarity constraints have been premeditated to be installed to enable it identify the accurate pictures and distinguish between the look-alikes.
Now why let the colloquial be the barrier when the pictures can speak for themselves? Happy exploring!
Innovation leads recession!
With the US economy plunging further towards the recession, the tremors are being felt all over. The global economy is muted but the feared recession has failed to imprison the brains of the innovators.
As John Donovan, chief technology officer at Dallas-based AT&T Inc., has said “Consumer technology changes so fast that any company that tries to pause is likely to be overrun by its competitors”, the pace of the technological developments is least likely to slowdown fearing recession.
To cite examples from the beginning of the 21st century, when the world slipped into recession, Apple Inc. introduced the iPod, Microsoft Corp. presented Xbox video game console, demands for the household broadband services doubled from the year 2000 and Google Inc. was transforming as an integral part of contemporary existence.
Out of the many ‘out of the box’ innovations, the ones lined up for unveiling in 2009 include, Femtocells – a Wi-Fi for cell phones, a laptop with 3G from RadioShack Corp., Mobile app stores from Microsoft that would help you use your cell phones as portable computers.
Truly said, with lack of finances or resources, the brains do not die out. It instead craves for more sophistication. Hence the innovations!
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