Microsoft Surface RT Hard as Skateboard

It is hard to believe that Microsoft released a tablet PC that aside from its amazing functionality its durability is superb. Steven Sinofsky President of Microsoft Corporation demonstrated previous days the durability of the Microsoft Surface RT Tablet PC. Literally Steven rode a tablet prepared with a skateboarding wheels, he was at the Microsoft Redmund Campus Studio B when he do the demonstration.

On the same day Microsoft made Surface RT Tablet available for pre order, the RT Surface Tablet 10.6 inch screen was just big enough for Sinofsky to rest both of his feet as he started rolling along the RT Surface Tablet as skateboard on the carpeted floor. Sinofky says that “Couldn’t resist taking it out for a spin”. But the overall gimmick was not for Steven to show his skateboarding ability, but for Microsoft to show and promote their Surface RT Tablet.

Microsoft has covered all subway stations and other locations to put their advertising ads about this new product. Surface RT Tablet is now available for pre-order on Microsoft online store. Surface Tablet price ranging from 500$ to 700$, likewise the Microsoft Company will be hosting Windows 8 and Surface RT Launch event in New York City on October 25, and both product will be available on sale starting Midnight on October 26, 2012.

Microsoft Surface RT Tablet Specification

This lovable Tablet PC comes with its superb specifications, the thickness is less than an inch which is .36 inches and weight is at 1.5 pounds. It has 10.6 inches screen size which is measured diagonally it is multi-touch and it has a capacitive touchscreen type. Processor was produced by Nvidia and it belongs to Tegra CPU Family, internal storage drive has an option starting from 32-64GB which is enough for saving important files for presentation and even music and videos, and it can support an external storage drive which is microSD. Good thing that it has Wi-Fi where in you can access anywhere as long as it has a Wi-Fi hot spot, it can support from 802.11n, 802.11g and 802.11b. It has an external ports that can support USB for data connection and HD video port that can support HD display. Battery power is at 31.5 Wh and it can be used up to 8 hours, well of course this gadget is run by Windows RT OS.

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The Pirate Bay File Sharing to Cloud

The famous file sharing hosting website The Pirate Bay has moved its servers to the cloud; this is to avoid authorities for shutting down their server operations. It has been known that this website has been blamed for supporting illegal file sharing. To protect their operations they are now moving to cloud hosting providers across the globe. Aside from the reason that law enforcer will have a hard time to shutdown their operations, moving to cloud will lessen their cost for the equipment.

It has been known that last 2006 Sweden Authorities raided The Pirate Bay and confiscated their servers causing them to become offline. The Pirate Bay now stated that it’s a new cloud based servers which use only internet to transfer files for storage, it will not be hosted by the same provider or even in the same continent. With this being stated authorities will have difficulties of tracing the hosting servers and cannot be close down at anytime.

The Pirate Bay representative also stated that their website will look the same and be there to provide the same services, for as long as they want to. Being there to their client, but it will be a ghost for those who will harm them. Moving to the cloud will have them the capability to move from country to country, crossing the globe flawlessly without any downtime. He also added that the hosting provider will have no idea that they are hosting The Pirate Bay, and even if they knew it, it would be impossible for them collect data from the users.

Also, it will retain controlled by technology, load balancers and transit routers will be the medium to distribute file sharing request across from multiple computers. And also can protect the identity of both the users and the cloud provider. He also added that if ever authorities will decide to raid them again they will find no servers in their area but only transit routers. Now, if authorities will track down to the next node or hosting country all they can find is a load balancer and a diskless server. If ever they will found the cloud provider all they can get are encrypted disk images.

US Navy Funded Project MacGyver Bot

Have you ever dream to be intelligence? Like escaping in a life threatening conditions? Use any materials, devices found in a nearby area and produce this as tools to defend your self in an instance? Maybe yes, but not that really capable of doing such thing. Well, it’s time to be amaze since US Navy is aiming to develop a robot that can solve problems, escape threats, by using any materials, devices that can be found in its nearby location.

The Robot has been named after the TV character MacGyver. This TV series MacGyver has been known since early 80’s the character portrays an intelligent person that can use anything he found in an area and use this as tools or defense against life threatening conditions. The US Navy funded this MacGyver Bot project, the only challenge that they have right now is to produce software that understands what objects are in order to figure out and how they can be utilized.

The MacGyver Bot project may cost at around $900,000 and this fund will be handed to robotics researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology to carry out the work. There goal is to develop a robot that behaves similarly as MacGyver, the well known television character way back 1980s who solved compound problems and escaped precarious circumstances by using objects and materials found at hand. This is stated by the project leader Prof. Mike Stillman.

Project MacGyver Bot Planned

Prof. Mike Stillman stated that before creating this ambitious machine they would first planned on how to create software that could potentially determined things on how could be done with it. And put this into complete robot actions. Examples mentioned were stacking boxes, climb over, building a bridge out of debris or climbing on a chair to grab objects out of reach. Software should be able to perform and combined such tasks if needed.

Once the software developed, the researchers are planning to test the code first onto Golem Krang a robot already produced by Prof. Stillman and will be conducted in his laboratory; this is to ensure that the software will be converted into actions. The researchers eventually visualize a situation where-in MacGyver Bot might be deployed to rescue trapped officers without needing to risk anyone else’s life.

The MacGyver Bot Criticism

Prof.Barbara Webb of University of Ediburgh’s School of Informatics - "said that for example vision alone is not enough to tell you if an object can support your weight or be used as a lever. You need to interact with it physically to understand its Physical possibilities".

Prof.Noel Sharkey of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at University of Sheffield – "commented also that this project MacGyver Bot is somehow is to draw on existing research into how animals use tools. Such as monkey will use a longer stick to reach an out of reach banana. A crow will bend a piece of wire to get a trapped food. I have seen this kind of work with robots, but it is very difficult project and like all research may not work as planned, but it is well worth the effort and will advance the field".

New Variant of Dorkbot Targeted Skype

A report being publish that hackers distribute a worm malware to infect windows using the internet communication platform Skype. It is being stated that users may receive an instant messaging containing lol is this your new profile pic? Once you have click this link it will automatically downloaded a file containing a Trojan horse malware file. This could possibly opens a backdoor allowing hackers to hijack an infected PC’s and engage them into a “botnet army”.

The worm is a variant of Dorkbot which has been spread by social media platform such us Facebook and Twitter. This is according to Sophos the internet security specialist. When the computer is infected, it will send out automatically a message stating lol is this your new profile pic? To the contact list, this message will then appear to the recipient and undoubtedly they will click the link since they may think that this comes from a trusted source.

Skype Statement

According to Skype they are seriously taking care of their user’s experience and they are very particular when it comes to security. They said that they are aware of this situation and they are currently working on solutions. To mitigate the impact, Skype strongly recommend upgrading the application to a newer version and applying updated windows security features as well. In addition, avoid clicking links if you think that this link comes from un-trusted sources even if it comes from your contacts.

Botnets are frequently apply to mount distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, forcing websites to go offline, to run spyware or even to send out spam emails. We would like to advice users to be cautious by clicking strange looking links especially on those posted on social networking sites since we might not known that these perpetrators might change attack tactics.

Intel Perhaps Required to Correct its Standard Setting for PC-use Atom processors

Intel may perhaps be required to correct its Standard Setting for PC-use Atom processors as the top-2 netbook retailers.  Asustek Computer and Acer together aim to discontinue manufacturing interrelated merchandise, according to resources from notebook players.

Asustek is by now place to close down its Eee PC product line and legitimately phase-out from the IT production after fully absorbing several outstanding inventories. Like for Acer, so far, the business has not yet ended any strategy to open new netbook ventures, signifying that the seller may as well plan to step-out of the market.

Even though Atom series processors will at rest be accepted by handset and embedded products, the sources consider the two product lines are implausible to be capable to load the break formed by the lacking netbook products in short period due to pathetic shipments.

Asustek CEO Jerry Shen in recent times established that the company will discontinue production of Eee PC netbooks by means of Atom-based processors such as the N2600 due to collision from tablet PCs and notebooks, as well as a spiky drop in demand in promising markets. Asustek plans to have its Transformer tablet PCs fill the 10-inch mobile device market; substituting its netbook product line.

Micro-Star International (MSI), which is buying a small volume of Atom N2800-based stuff, also has no plans to maintain shipping interrelated products.

Though netbook sellers were at first positive concerning demand from Southeast Asia, Latin America and Middle East regions, as tablet PCs are increasing rapidly and lots of government procurement orders have twisted to tablet PC products as a substitute, order for 10-inch netbooks has go down rapidly, accelerating the segment's way out from the IT market.