Category: New Technology
Yahoo’s sign-in seal
Yahoo! recently implemented a new feature called “sign-in seal,” which pretty much is like what banks and credit card websites have already been using, but smarter. The feature, basically, is meant to help prevent phishing attacks. It is apparently smart enough in that it spans browsers and survives cookie deletions by way of cookie-like Flash…
Google Maps now enhanced with weather info
Google is really a juggernaut, innovative, technology-making machine. It’s Google Maps website now includes The Weather Channel to give consumers more info. Is that awesome or what?! To use the feature, simply click on the Google Maps’ My Maps tab and select The Weather Channel feature to begin exploring. Below are some screenshots.
Humanoid i-Sobot Toy
For $300, you can get a humanoid toy robot that can recognize spoken words and be controlled remotely. It has 17 motors that allows it to walk, somersault, and do karate chops. The Guinness World Records recognizes it as smallest humanoid robot in commercial production; i-Sobot went on sale in Japan, in white, and the…
Seagate hard drives ship with virus
Interesting…an undisclosed number of Seagate’s Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 units have shipped with a virus that steals passwords to online games, such as World of Warcraft. Identified as Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah by Kaspersky Labs, the virus also deletes similar viruses and can disable virus detection software as well. The virus, which was loaded onto the Maxtor…
Computer program detects author gender
I read an excerpt at the Nature website by Phillip Ball, wherein a computer program, developed by Moshe Koppel and his colleagues, can guess/tell whether the author [of a book] was written by a man or a woman. It’s algorithm (see below), says Ball, basically scans for keywords and syntax to accomplish this feat, and is surprisingly “around 80…
Air Canada’s paperless mobile boarding pass
You might be surprised to know that your mobile (cell phone) device may be the new airline boarding pass. It’s an interesting concept, but I’m a bit skeptic about the security issues that this could have. As stated on Air Canada‘s website: Introducing a new and efficient way to improve your flying experience, from the…