Showing posts with label INTERNET. Show all posts
Showing posts with label INTERNET. Show all posts

Thursday, 24 November 2011

Trap your search results with Trapit - A Sibling Technology of Siri

As Siri has been sensational with its AI ,A sibling technology of Siri 'Trapit' - a seach and web content aggregator has opened up offering  new search experience to users.Trapit uses same AI technology behind Apple's Siri to let users have magic experience over Web search.


Trapit evolved out of the five-year CALO project , or Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes, which is the largest artificial intelligence program in U.S. history. The $200 million project was co-produced  by SRI Ventures and the Department of Defense's innovation arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.

Users can type in a keyword ,phrase or URL and Trapit will find real time information including news articles ,blog posts pages that may be related.Users can save those results as 'trap' ,which will  constantly comb the web for more relevant content.Over time ,Trapit will improve search recommendation as users provide feedback to the search engine.

Thursday, 10 November 2011

Feel Out Gmail's New Look

Google recently rolled out a new and appealing interface for Gmail users and it's been drawn wide acceptance from its users.The Gmail redesign is made available to all its user and can switch to it using " Switch to the new look" link appearing in the bottom-right corner of Gmail. All users will get the redesign soon after ,regardless of whether they click the link.For now the new look  is purely optional and you can switch right back if you don’t like it.

Revamped version includes bettered features including a much-improved search interface, better customization features and some new high-resolution Gmail themes.

Here's a primer on what's  new with Gmail :

Novel Design

Gmail adopted similar look to Google + and other product that received appreciation. Google have worked on design by eliminating some of the clutter and allowing you to focus more on your actual mail.Buttons are made more appealing by making it gray with sharp edges .A Big red ' Compose Mail' button is easily to be recognized and adds tough of color to the interface.

New  Gmail Look

Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Newly found Duqu Virus ,linked to MS Word


Duqu Virus , It's been talk of the town lately.Hackers are not letting cybersecurity experts not rest.Recently Hackers made use of a security flaw in Microsoft's Windows operating system to infect computers with the the Duqu virus.Microsoft have admitted this security flaw and responded swiftly to this security risk by releasing a temporary fix.

Hackers made use of new zero-day flaw which has been discovered in Windows operating systems including Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.This virus named 'Duqu' targeted victims via email and attached with a Microsoft word document and can silently pass over control from the users computer to a remote hacker.

The troublesome is that attackers can exploit this vulnerability to be able to run arbitrary code in kernel mode. This would then allow the attacker to install programs; view, change, or delete data; and even create new accounts with full user rights.This Duqu virus consists of a driver file, a dynamic linked library (DLL) containing many embedded files, and a configuration file. Those are then installed by an installer built into the code.