Google on Wednesday started transforming cell phones into continuous dialect interpreters - of both composed and talked substance.

The California-based Internet titan is trusting that, alongside making it less demanding for individuals to comprehend each other on their voyages, Google Translate will serve as a helpful device for educators, medicinal work force, police and others with critical parts in progressively multi-lingual groups.

The organization started revealing another adaptation of a free Google Translate application that, partially, lets individuals point Android or Apple cell phones at signs, menus, formulas or other material written in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish and see it in English.

"We're giving you a chance to immediately interpret content utilizing your cam, so its route less demanding to explore road signs in the Italian wide open or choose what to request off a Barcelona menu," the Google Translate group said in a blog entry.

The gimmick expands on Word Lens innovation that Google procured a year ago when it purchased Quest Visual, a startup established by previous feature amusement engineer Otavio Good.

Word Lens utilizes feature mode as a part of cell phone cams to sweep scenes, recognize composing and after that show it as though it were composed in English, a showing by Good uncovered.

"On the off chance that you are taking a gander at a restaurant menu, its decent to see which thing on the menu you are taking a gander at so you can point at it when you request," Good said as he utilized his iphone to output and interpret an Italian pasta formula.

Word Lens in Google Translate works free of the Internet, staying away from information charges from telecom administration suppliers, he clarified.

The new Google Translate likewise emphasizes a discussion mode that uses voice distinguishment and the force of the Internet cloud to decipher both sides of a visit between individuals talking distinctive dialects, the exhibit demonstrated.

Individuals combine any two of 38 dialect alternatives, then cell phones listen in and change over them amid talks. A mechanized voice talks interpretations, which are shown in composing on cell phone screens, while transcripts of visits can be spared.

Registering force for deciphering discussions originates from Google servers, so associations with the Internet through Wifi or telecom bearers are required.

The group at Google is attempting to extend accessible dialects and abilities, as per Good. RSS

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Utilizing lasers, researchers have made another material that is so water-repellent that droplets can skip straight off of it. The surface could be utilized for everything from keeping ice from creating on plane wings to making cleaning toward oneself toilets, the scientists say.

Researchers made the water-loathing material by laser-carving an infinitesimal example on a metal surface. Also not at all like customary substance coatings, the new material won't wear off, they said.

"The water falls towards the surface, and is repulsed and skips off the surface," study pioneer Chunlei Guo, an optical physicist at the University of Rochester in New York, said in a Youtube feature. "This is accomplished by making an one of a kind example of surface structures at micro- [millionth of a meter] and nanoscales [billionth of a meter] with our laser handling innovation." [see feature of water bobbing off new material]

The laser-scratched example makes the surface emphatically water-repulsing, or hydrophobic. It's considerably more anti-agents than commonplace compound coatings, in the same way as the Teflon in nonstick fricasseeing container. Teflon-covered surfaces need to be tilted at almost a 70-degree plot before a water droplet will slide off, though the new material just needs to be tilted at short of what 5 degrees, the specialists reported yesterday (Jan. 20) in the Journal of Applied Physics.

The surface additionally has cleaning toward oneself properties. As water droplets ricochet off of it, they get dust particles, the specialists said.

To make the new material, Guo and his associates utilized influential, however short, laser heartbeats to engraving a platinum, titanium or metal surface. Every laser heartbeat endured around a quadrillionth of a second, yet arrived at a crest force comparable to that of the whole power matrix of North America, the analysts said.

Guo and his group tried the material's cleaning toward oneself properties by applying dust from a vacuum cleaner to the material's surface. They observed that they could evacuate about a large portion of the dust particles utilizing just three drops of water, and they found themselves able to uproot the dust totally with around twelve drops, the scientists said. The result was a totally dry, spotless surface.

There are various potential applications for this water-repulsing material, the researchers said. Laser-carved coatings on planes could keep hazardous ice from developing on the wings. Scratched surfaces could likewise be utilized to keep toilets clean in creating nations, where water is rare —an utilization that has drawn enthusiasm from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which helped store the work.

In past work, the analysts utilized a comparable laser-designing method to turn metals dark by making them optically permeable. The blend of these light-retaining and water-repulsing properties could deliver more effective sun oriented boards that wouldn't rust and would oblige less cleaning, the analysts said.

There are still various difficulties to succeed, notwithstanding. At present, it takes an hour to engraving a 1 inch by 1 crawl (2.5 by 2.5 centimeters) bit of metal, and this procedure needs to be accelerated, the scientists said. The group likewise plans to apply the strategy to nonmetal surface

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SEATTLE, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will dole out its forthcoming Windows 10 working framework as a free move up to clients of the latest variants of Windows and Windows Phone, as the world's biggest programming organization tries to hold clients in the versatile period.

The "free" system is an ascertained bet for Microsoft, intended to place Windows in whatever number gadgets as could be expected under the circumstances. The organization would then compensate for any lost income by offering administrations, for example, Office over the Internet, or cloud.

"It's a vital abhorrent as CEO Satya Nadella and Microsoft have perceived the 'brilliant goose' and real income open doors will happen after the updates have occurred," said Daniel Ives, an expert at FBR Capital Markets.

"Microsoft needs to lay seeds for its cloud-driven system and Windows 10 is the epicenter of that methodology. It's about making it alluring for the biological system to redesign onto this cutting edge stage."

The prompt income hit is unrealistic to be vast, as Microsoft gets close to $500 million of its $20 billion or something like that yearly Windows income from updates, experts said. The dominant part of Windows income originates from equipment producers introducing it on new Pcs and organizations paying for multi-year licenses.

Speculators were not awed. Microsoft shares fell 1 percent to $45.91 on Nasdaq in no time before the nearby.

The organization is relied upon to say all the more in regards to the monetary impacts of the new approach when it reports quarterly profit one week from now.

Windows 10, normal available this harvest time, will be accessible for one year as a free move up to clients of Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1, Myerson said.

Industry and Wall Street investigators portrayed the move as unavoidable.

Windows just peculiarities on approximately 15 percent of registering gadgets including telephones and tablets, and is generally superfluous for some purchasers. It slacks Apple Inc and Google Inc , which frequently upgrade their product frameworks free for clients.

"The best approach to persuade buyers is to make updates straightforward and effortless - importance free and low-to-no exertion," said Forrester expert Frank Gillett. "Microsoft needed to match the desire set by the versatile and Web pioneers."

At an occasion at its home office close Seattle, Microsoft likewise attempted to shine its hailing notoriety for advancement.

Startlingly, it divulged a holographic lens gadget that permits clients to see three-dimensional renderings of machine produced pictures. Microsoft Hololens, which resembles a remote visor, ups the ante in the developing business for virtual and expanded the truth, being focused by Facebook Inc's Oculus and Google's Glass venture.

The gadget will be accessible around the same time as Windows 10 this fall, a Microsoft official said.

Administrators additionally flaunted a Xbox application for diversions on Windows 10 and another form of its program code named "Straightforward," which lets clients make notes on Web pages and offer them.

Microsoft affirmed its new Windows 10 working framework in September, charging it as a move to bring together numerous types of gadget clients. It skipped Windows 9 by and large, to put some separation between the new framework and Windows 8, which befuddled numerous clients by dumping the begin catch menu and utilizing another format.

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If you are a crazy whatsapp user then there is a good news for crazy whatsapp fans. Whatsapp are about to add voice call in its app in to take bid to skype and other voice and messaging apps.

After Facebook bought for $19bn this move is expected to open a major new market.

The users can make voice calls to contacts as trhe same way as they send messages.

Androidworld, A Dutch site has unsealed the screenshots in test code.
Bluetooth sets or either headsets will be applicable to make voice calls. IT is expected that the feature will be exactly like message text or picture.

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You may have done this on your childhood or often now when you are alone and sittting by a pond . Guessed ? May be you know it , you might have thrown stone in the pond to bounce it several times. You might have played competition even with your friends who will have the stone for maximum bounces. The science that lies behind this trick is amazing.

If you want the stone to bounce the water for several times you have to project it at an angle of 20 degree. This angle of projection will make your stone bounce for several times. A Utah researcher has investigated how things and substance skips on water. The flatter the angle should be made, heavier the object is. It is also practised in military on throwing cannon balls and bullets.

Reseachers described about the combined complicated physics behind the mechanism of skipping a stone in the water. Hope the next time you skip a stone you can beat all your friends. Good Luck !

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Chitwanix is Nepali Operating System created by the youth working in the IT Field in the Chitwan, Nepal. It is based on Linux Kernell . It is a free software. It is the primary software which lets user to interfare with the hardware and software components. In the Context of Nepal there are less number of users who use original softwares and operating System. Most of the users use cracked and pirated software which are generally low in cost. 

But, in reality the price of the original softwares are usually high which range from more than Rs.10,000.In order to stop illegal software piracy and to reduce the attack of the viruses Chitawanix is developed and operated. It is legally opened for the download. To install this Operating System you must not need any special license or any special software . It can be shared among friends too. Chiwanix is a copy left siftware. The Version 1st was named Kaade Vyakur(Spiny Babbler) which is the only bird found in Nepal and was launched on September 21,2013 with the help of FOS Community . It has been informed that the version will be named Ka, Kha, Ga,Gha and so on. It is launched for the publicity if Nepal among the World community . It relates with Nepali Items or names. Recently, the team are working on the second version named Khukuri 1.5 on which the bugs and errors are fixed. It can be available on languages like Nepali, Tharu, Newari, Gurung, Magar etc. Chitwanix group has expected to stop piracy by launching the similar Appications and same kinds of Software.

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Website-www.chitwanix.com

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Residents of a remote village nestled in a steep-sided valley in southern Norway are about to enjoy winter sunlight for the first time ever thanks to giant mirrors.

The mountains that surround the village of Rjukan are far from Himalayan, but they are high enough to deprive its 3,500 inhabitants of direct sunlight for six months a year.

That was before a century-old idea, as old as Rjukan itself, was brought to life: to install mirrors on a 400-meter (437-yard) high peak to deflect sunrays towards the central square.

“The idea was a little crazy, but madness is our middle name,” said Oeystein Haugan, a local project coordinator.

“When Rjukan was founded, it was a bit crazy to start a community in the middle of nowhere with this massive hydroelectric plant, huge pipes and a railway line to transport fertilizer to the rest of the world,” he added.

It was first mooted by Norwegian industrialist Sam Eyde, at whose behest Rjukan was established.

Eyde founded Norsk Hydro and wanted to take advantage of an enormous waterfall to produce chemical fertilizers.

From just 300 inhabitants spread out across scattered farms in 1900, the population grew to 10,000 by 1913 and the ambitious industrialist endorsed a project to deflect sunrays into the village.

“It’s one of the few projects that Eyde was unable to complete, due to a lack of appropriate technology,” mayor Steinar Bergsland said.
Instead he built a cable car, which is still in use, to allow his employees to recharge their vitamin D levels with sunlight on a mountain top.

An artist Martin Andersen, who arrived in the village from Paris, picked up the idea around 10 years ago.

“The further we got into winter, the further we had to drive out of the valley to enjoy sunlight. So I asked myself: why not move the sunrays instead of moving ourselves?” he explained.

The idea was challenged by other residents who questioned the appropriateness of investing public money in the project instead of in nurseries and schools.

“Some labelled it a Mickey Mouse project and it’s true it’s a little insane, but we have to think out of the box and explore new paths,” the mayor said.

Five million kroner (615,000 euro, $849,000) was raised for the project — four million from sponsors — and now three 17-square-metre (183-square-feet) mirrors tower over the north side of Rjukan village.

A computer will control the mirrors so that they follow the sun to reflect the light on the market square, lighting up a 600-square-meter (6,459-square-feet) elliptical area.

The inauguration is scheduled for sometime next week, depending on weather conditions.

“After basking in the sun, people are beaming themselves,” Haugan said after the final tests.

Besides getting more cheerful citizens, local authorities hope to capitalize on the extensive media coverage of the feat to bring in more tourists.

Encouraged by its expected tourist revival, Rjukan even hopes to be included in the Unesco World Heritage List by 2015, as an example of human industrial genius.

“We have already recovered our investment dozens of times over. Maybe not in cold, hard cash for the local council but in publicity and marketing value,” administrative head of the municipality Rune Loedoeen said.

“Now it’s up to us to manage this asset properly.”

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Two in One Ferrari

For those who love adventure and love sporting nothing but the best machines would cherish the two in one Ferrari. The lush two in one Ferrari is perfect for couples who love adventure. However, the only down side is that one cannot out run the other. Both can rule the roads together and win accolades from the dumbstruck socialites.

Don’t ridicule the graphic with a toy or fake design. It’s a genuine two in one Ferrari design that can redefine the joy of riding bike as well as a car at the same time. The pre-orders are already pouring in from all corners of the globe. Have you booked your’s?

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Mars had become a point of concentration for all the living Beings. Well it is considered to be a living planet too.But here are some of the facts that you have to know about mars if you really care about it.

1)Mars is only about half diameter of the Earth-We think that Mars may be enough to occupy all the humans but not so . It is only half of the diameter of the earth . Well dont mind only half portion of your body can adjust through it ...
2)The Gravity on Earth is triple than that of Mars-Well it is a simple true that mars gravity is one third of the Earth's. You cant come onto ground again if you jump hard.
3)Mars is somrtimes closest planet to the Earth- SOmetimes since the orbit of mars falls laterally it becomes the closest planet to the Earth and we can have ome clear view of it through our naked eyes or telescope.
4)Mars has two moons- Moon the natural satellite of Earth gets double in number if you go to Mars and you can se two moons at a time . How Good Vision!!
5) The surface of Moon is Extremely Cold/Hot- The temperature on the surface of the monn is not fixed. It nmay be more ant the day time and freezing cold at the night time  due to absence of Sun's Rays.

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The Google Nexus 10 2 release date may happen very soon as Google already slipped the next generation of Nexus 5 smartphone in the Google Play Store.

Reports claimed that Google Nexus 10 2 is bound for release on Nov. 29 just in time for Black Friday sale and holiday season. Reliable tipster @evleaks expressed via Twitter that a refreshed Nexus 10 is up for the last quarter of 2013.

Nexus 10 2 release date rumours intensified after the tablet is not released by Google when it silently slipped the Google Nexus 5 in the Google Play Store.

Below are some of the Google Nexus 10 2 features that consumers should watch out for on its imminent release date later this year.

Android 4.4 KitKat OS - The 10-inch Google tablet will run with the latest Android operating system that will bring new and improved features.

Processor - The Google Nexus 10 2 will be equipped with quad core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chip processor, which is a big jump from the current tablet's dual core A15 processor. Screen Display - It is most likely that Google Nexus 10 will retain its 10.1 inches screen display. However, the screen may have an upgraded pixel resolution of full HD.

LTE Connectivity - One thing that is missing in the current Google Nexus 10 is LTE connectivity. The upcoming tablet will likely support such feature.

Storage Options - The Google Nexus 10 2 may be available in more storage variants. The current Google's tablet is available in 16 GB and 32 GB models. 

Battery Life - The current Google Nexus 10 is equipped with a battery capacity of 9,000 mAh. However, its successor will have an even better battery life. Speculations said that the upcoming tablet will pack a battery with 9,500 mAh capacity.

Separate Graphics Chip - For better and faster processing, Google Nexus 10 2 will sport a separate Adreno 330 GPU.

Better Camera - Google Nexus 10 2 may pack an 8 megapixel rear camera just like the recently released Google Nexus 5.

Manufacturer - It seems that Google will drop Samsung as its partner in making the next Google Nexus 10 as reports claimed that Google will hire ASUS to make the device probably due to the immense success of the refreshed Nexus 7 tablet.

Cheaper Price - Google is known for releasing devices with high end specs and features at a much cheaper price. It is most probable that Google Nexus 10 2 will follow the pricing strategy of its predecessor. Thus, Google Nexus 10 2 may cost $499.

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Time is an illusion – at least in a toy model of the universe made of two particles of light. The experiment shows that what we perceive as the passage of time might emerge from the strange property of quantum entanglementMovie Camera. The finding could assist in solving the long-standing problem of how to unify modern physics.

Physicists have two ways of describing reality, quantum mechanics for the small world of particles and general relativity for the larger world of planets and black holes. But the two theories do not get along: attempts to combine their equations into a unified theory produce seemingly nonsensical answers. One early attempt in the 1960s was the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, which managed to quantise general relativity – by leaving out time altogether.

"It means that the universe should not evolve. But of course we see evolution," says Marco Genovese at the National Institute of Metrological Research in Torino, Italy.

In 1983 theorists Don Page and William Wootters suggested that quantum entanglement might provide a solution to the Wheeler-DeWitt "problem of time"Movie Camera. When quantum objects are entangled, measuring the properties of one changes those of the other. Mathematically, they showed that a clock entangled with the rest of the universe would appear to tick when viewed by an observer within that universe. But if a hypothetical observer existed outside the universe, when they looked in, everything would appear stationary.
Photon clock

For the first time, Genovese and colleagues have demonstrated this effect in a physical system, albeit in a "universe" that contains only two photons. The team started by sending a pair of entangled photons along two separate paths. The photons start out polarised, or orientated, either horizontally or vertically, and the polarisation rotates as both photons pass though a quartz plate and on to a series of detectors.

The entangled photons exist in a superposition of both horizontal and vertical states simultaneously until they are observed. But the thicker the plate, the longer it takes the photons to pass through and the more their polarisation evolves, affecting the probability that either one will take a particular value.

In one mode of the experiment, one of the photons is treated like a clock with a tick that can alternate between horizontal and vertical polarisation. Because of entanglement, reading this clock will affect the polarisation value of the second photon. That means an observer that reads the clock influences the photons' universe and becomes part of it. The observer is then able to gauge the polarisation value of the other photon based on quantum probabilities.

Since photons passing through a thicker quartz plate experience a different degree of change, repeating the experiment with plates of different thicknesses confirms that the second photon's polarisation varies with time.

In another mode, the experimenter is a "super-observer" that exists outside of the universe, and so measures the quantum state of the system as a whole. From that vantage point, the state of both photons taken together is always the same, giving the appearance of a static universe.
Quantum cosmos?

"It's very nice these people have done an experiment to illustrate this effect and show how in practice it can occur," says Page, who is now at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.

But not everyone thinks the Wheeler-DeWitt equation is the correct route to unification of the quantum and classical worlds, says Lee Smolin at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. "They have verified in the context of a laboratory system that quantum mechanics is working correctly," he says. But Smolin argues that any correct description of the universe must include time.

Genovese acknowledges that the result does not cinch the issue. Instead, he sees the work as a hint that quantum equations can in some ways mesh with general relativity, offering hope for a unified theory. The next step will be moving beyond the toy universe and seeing whether a similar effect scales up to explain what we see on a cosmic level.

"It's a visualisation of the phenomenon, it's not a proof," Genovese says of the experiment. "You should look to the universe itself for that."

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 US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their personal data, online transactions and emails, according to top-secret documents revealed by former contractor Edward Snowden.
This story has been reported in partnership between the New York Times, the Guardian and ProPublica based on documents obtained by the Guardian.

For the Guardian: James Ball, Julian Borger, Glenn Greenwald

    For the New York Times: Nicole Perlroth, Scott Shane

    For ProPublica: Jeff Larson

    Read the New York Times story here

The files show that the National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have broadly compromised the guarantees that internet companies have given consumers to reassure them that their communications, online banking and medical records would be indecipherable to criminals or governments.

The agencies, the documents reveal, have adopted a battery of methods in their systematic and ongoing assault on what they see as one of the biggest threats to their ability to access huge swathes of internet traffic – "the use of ubiquitous encryption across the internet".

Those methods include covert measures to ensure NSA control over setting of international encryption standards, the use of supercomputers to break encryption with "brute force", and – the most closely guarded secret of all – collaboration with technology companies and internet service providers themselves.

Through these covert partnerships, the agencies have inserted secret vulnerabilities – known as backdoors or trapdoors – into commercial encryption software.

The files, from both the NSA and GCHQ, were obtained by the Guardian, and the details are being published today in partnership with the New York Times and ProPublica. They reveal:

• A 10-year NSA program against encryption technologies made a breakthrough in 2010 which made "vast amounts" of data collected through internet cable taps newly "exploitable".

• The NSA spends $250m a year on a program which, among other goals, works with technology companies to "covertly influence" their product designs.

• The secrecy of their capabilities against encryption is closely guarded, with analysts warned: "Do not ask about or speculate on sources or methods."

• The NSA describes strong decryption programs as the "price of admission for the US to maintain unrestricted access to and use of cyberspace".

• A GCHQ team has been working to develop ways into encrypted traffic on the "big four" service providers, named as Hotmail, Google, Yahoo and Facebook.

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 New claims emerged last night over the extent that US intelligence agencies have been monitoring the mobile phone of Angela Merkel. The allegations were made after German secret service officials were already preparing to travel to Washington to seek explanations into the alleged surveillance of its chancellor.a

A report in Der Spiegel said Merkel's mobile number had been listed by the NSA's Special Collection Service (SCS) since 2002 and may have been monitored for more than 10 years. It was still on the list – marked as "GE Chancellor Merkel" – weeks before President Barack Obama visited Berlin in June.

In an SCS document cited by the magazine, the agency said it had a "not legally registered spying branch" in the US embassy in Berlin, the exposure of which would lead to "grave damage for the relations of the United States to another government".

From there, NSA and CIA staff were tapping communication in Berlin's government district with high-tech surveillance. Quoting a secret document from 2010, Der Spiegel said such branches existed in about 80 locations around the world, including Paris, Madrid, Rome, Prague, Geneva and Frankfurt. Merkel's spokesman and the White House declined to comment on the report.

The nature of the monitoring of Merkel's mobile phone is not clear from the files, Der Spiegel said. It might be that the chancellor's conversations were recorded, or that her contacts were simply assessed.

Ahead of the latest claims , the German government's deputy spokesman, Georg Streiter, said a high-level delegation was heading to the White House and National Security Agency to "push forward" investigations into earlier surveillance allegations.

Meanwhile several thousand people marched to the US Capitol in Washington yesterday to protest against the NSA's spying programme and to demand a limit to the surveillance. Some of them held banners in support of Edward Snowden, the former CIA contractor who revealed the extent of the NSA's activities.

The march attracted protesters from both ends of the political spectrum as liberal privacy advocates walked alongside members of the conservative Tea Party movement.

The delegation will include senior officials from the German secret service, according to German media reports.

Germany and Brazil are spearheading efforts at the UN to protect the privacy of electronic communications. Diplomats from the two countries, which have both been targeted by the NSA, are leading efforts by a coalition of nations to draft a UN general assembly resolution calling for the right to privacy on the internet. Although non-binding, the resolution would be one of the strongest condemnations of US snooping to date.

"This resolution will probably have enormous support in the GA [general assembly] since no one likes the NSA spying on them," a western diplomat told Reuters on condition of anonymity. The Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, had previously cancelled a state visit to Washington over the revelation that the NSA was scooping up large amounts of Brazilian communications data, including from the state-run oil company Petrobras. The drafting of the UN resolution was confirmed by the country's foreign ministry.

The Associated Press quoted a diplomat who said the language of the resolution would not be "offensive" to any nation, particularly the US. He added that it would expand the right to privacy guaranteed by the international covenant on civil and political rights, which went into force in 1976.

The draft would be sent next week to the general assembly subcommittee on social, humanitarian, cultural and human rights issues, and be put to the full general assembly in late November.

Germany and France demanded on Thursday that the Americans agree to new transatlantic rules on intelligence and security service behaviour by the end of the year. Merkel added that she wanted action from Obama, not just apologetic words.

British and US civil liberties groups on Saturday added their voices to the criticism of snooping by both UK and US intelligence services after the Guardian revealed that the British intelligence agency GCHQ repeatedly said it feared a "damaging public debate" on the scale of its own activities.

Shami Chakrabarti, the director of Liberty, and Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, issued a joint statement, saying: "The Guardian's publication of information from Edward Snowden has uncovered a breach of trust by the US and UK governments on the grandest scale. The newspaper's principled and selective revelations demonstrate our rulers' contempt for personal rights, freedoms and the rule of law.

"Across the globe, these disclosures continue to raise fundamental questions about the lack of effective legal protection against the interception of all our communications. Yet in Britain that conversation is in danger of being lost beneath self-serving spin and scaremongering, with journalists who dare to question the secret state accused of aiding the enemy.

"A balance must of course be struck between security and transparency, but that cannot be achieved while the intelligence services and their political masters seek to avoid any scrutiny of, or debate about, their actions."

"The Guardian's decision to expose the extent to which our privacy is being violated should be applauded and not condemned."

Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch, said the fact GCHQ had doubts about the legality of its surveillance "reinforces the public interest in the disclosures about what has taken place in America and closer to home

"Parliament never legislated to allow the scale of interception that has been exposed, with laws written long before widespread broadband internet access or Facebook existed. There is a clear and overwhelming need for a fundamental review of our legal framework."

"If companies are handing over customer data or access to their equipment when there is no legal authority, then those businesses may well have broken the law. This should be urgently investigated by the information commissioner."

Defending the NSA's actions, the US administration has insisted that it is necessary to intercept vast amounts of electronic data to effectively fight terrorism, but the White House has said it is examining countries' concerns as part of an ongoing review of how the US gathers intelligence.

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 यो दुनियामा धेरै विचित्र कहीँ हुन्छ भने हाम्रै छिमेकी चीनमा हुन्छ । केही समयअघि एकजना चिनियाले आफ्नो २६ तले घरको छतमा पहाड खडा गरेको समाचार आएको थियो ।

अहिले फेरि अर्को त्यस्तै तर अलि कम खतरनाक र सिर्जनात्मक प्रयोगको खबर आएको छ । समाचार अनुसार चीनमा घरको छतमा धानखेति सुरु गरिएको छ, त्यो पनि एक रक्सी कारखानाले ।

समाचार अनुसार लिउजियांग काउन्टीस्थित एक वाइन कारखानाले घरको छतमा धानखेतीको योजना बनाएको छ । घरको छतमा माटो जम्मा गरेर खेत बनाउने काम भैरहेको छ ।

चीनमा आवाद जग्गाको कमी छैन । तरपनि वाइन कम्पनीले किन घरको छतमा खेत बनाउन लाग्यो भन्ने कुरा चाहीँ अचम्मैको छ । विशेषज्ञहरुले घरको छतमा सही माटो तथा मल र पानी दिएमा राम्रोसँग धान फल्ने र त्यहाँ जमिनमा जस्तो रोगकिराको डर पनि कम हुने बताउँछन् ।
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Britain may recruit ex-hackers as reservists working in a UK cyber defence force. Photograph: Daniel
Convicted hackers could be recruited to the UK'S new cyber defence force, the defence secretary has said.

Philip Hammond announced plans for the unit last month, declaring it would have the capability to mount cyber attacks against other countries as a means of deterring them from striking against Britain.

Hundreds of computer experts will be recruited as reservists, trained with the help of GCHQ's joint cyber unit at Cheltenham, and, asked if they could include convicted hackers among their ranks, Hammond said it was a possibility.

"As a matter of policy, the armed forces don't necessarily exclude people who have criminal convictions," he told BBC Newsnight. "Each individual case would be looked at on it's merits. The conviction would be examined in terms of how long ago it was, how serious it was, what sort of sentence had followed. So I can't rule it out."

Hammond was asked for his views after the head of the new unit, Lieutenant Colonel Michael White, had responded positively, when the same question was put to him.

"I think if they could get through the security process, then if they had that capability that we would like, then if the vetting authority was happy with that, why not?" he said.

With many of the belief that there is a deficit of cybersecurity experts in the UK, the hiring of hackers could help plug the gap. A survey of IT professionals last month found that 70% believed businesses should hire ex-hackers to safeguard and improve online security. In the US, it is already common practice, with many companies recruiting at hacker conventions.

Last year, the UK's cyber defences blocked around 400,000 "advanced, malicious cyber threats" to the government secure intranet alone, according to Hammond. British ministers have not publicly named the culprits partly because it is so difficult to prove who exactly are behind cyber attacks but privately officials point the finger at Russia and China.

The defence secretary has said the new £500m unit could disable enemy communications, nuclear and chemical weapons, planes, ships and other hardware. He told Newsnight that there would be flexibility around recruitment criteria, for example in areas such as fitness, as it would be unnecessary for someone employed in cyber security to show the same physical fitness standards as other members of the armed forces.

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यसअघि पनि पृथ्वी ध्वस्त हुनै लागेका विभिन्न खाले भविष्यवाणी तथा समाचार आएपनि कसैले दाबी
प्रमाणित गर्न सकेनन् र पृथ्वी ध्वस्त भएन । त्यसैले पृथ्वी ध्वस्त हुने भन्ने भविष्यवाणीलाई मानिसहरुले हावादारी भन्न थालेका छन् । तर पछिल्लो पटक भने पृथ्वी ध्वस्त हुने बारेको वैज्ञानिक भविष्यवाणी नै र्सार्वजनिक भएको छ ।
अमेरिकी अन्तरीक्ष संस्था नासाका अनुसार सन् २८८० को मार्च १६ का दिन पृथ्वीमा ठूलो प्रलय हुने खतरा छ । उसका अनुसार उक्त दिन १९५० डीए नामको क्षुद्रग्रह पृथ्वीसँग ठोक्किने खतरा छ ।

झण्डै एक माइल ब्यास भएको उक्त क्षुद्रग्रह १५ किलोमिटर प्रति सेकेण्डको बेगमा पृथ्वीतर्फआइरहेको छ । सोही गति तथा दिशा कायम रहेमा यो क्षुद्रग्रह उक्त मितिमा पृथ्वीसँग ठोक्किनेछ र त्यस क्रममा ४४ हजार ८ सय मेगाटन टिएनटी नामक विस्फोटक पदार्थ विस्फोटन हुँदा जत्तिकै उर्जा उत्पन्न हुनेछ ।
नासका अनुसार यो क्षुद्रग्रह पृथ्वीसँग ठोक्किने र क्षति पूराउने खतरा ०.३ प्रतिशत मात्र छ । तथापि यसको यो खतराको अनुपात यसअघिका क्षुद्रग्रहको खतरा भन्दा ५० प्रतिशत बढि हो ।
स्मरण रहोस् यस्तै खाले क्षुद्रग्रह पृथ्वीसँग ठोक्किँदा ६ करोड ५० लाख वर्षपहिले पृथ्वीबाट डाइनोसर लोप भएको थियो ।
पृथ्वीमा भविष्यमा ठोक्किने खतरा रहेको भनिएको १९५० डिए क्षुद्रग्रह सन् १९५० मा पहिलोपल्ट देखा परेको थियो । त्यसबेला १७ दिन देखा परेर क्षुद्रग्रह हराएको थियो र आधा शताब्दीपछि सन् २००० को डिसेम्बर ३१ मा फेरि देखा परेको थियो ।
यो क्षुद्रग्रहको परिक्रमण दर २.१ घण्टा रहेको छ जुन क्षुद्रग्रहमा दोश्रो उच्च गति हो । वैज्ञानिकहरुका अनुसार अहिले ब्रम्हाण्डमा १४ सय वटा यस्ता जोखिमपर्ूण्ा क्षुद्रग्रह छन् जसले पृथ्वीमा असर पूराउने खतरा छ ।

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Have you noticed that your computer runs slower than before? Or just slowly in general? Try these strategies to make your Windows or Mac computer run faster.

 1    Check your hard disk space. As a rule, you want to keep at least 15% of the hard disk space free to keep the computer running smoothly. Simply go to My Computer, right-click on Hard Drive, and go to Properties. There you'll see a pie chart of your free versus used space. If it’s mostly full, you'll want to start by removing unnecessary programs and files; if it’s not, you probably want to tackle the actual way your computer operates.
    2    Remove any programs you do not use. Go to Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs (or Uninstall a Program, depending on your operating system) to find a master list of programs installed on your computer. Some things will strike you as useless immediately, in which case you can remove them right away. Others won’t look familiar to you and may require you some research.
        It may help to see how often you use the program. If you right-click one of the column titles above your program list (ex. Name, Publisher, Size, Installed On, etc.), you should be able to add additional characteristics by which to judge your programs. For example, find Last Used On on the list of options and check it; a column displaying the last time you used each program will now appear and can also be used to sort your programs. Some programs will not have been used in years and may be candidates for deletion.
        When in doubt, don't remove anything you don’t recognize; it may be critical to the function of your computer – and if you delete twelve different things only to discover that your computer no longer works properly, it will be very difficult to determine where exactly you went wrong.
        Don't forget to empty your recycling bin.
    3    Prevent unnecessary programs from starting when the computer boots. The more programs try to run while your computer initializes, the slower everything will be. Revise your startup programs by altering your system configuration via MSConfig.
    4    Install an anti-virus program, spyware scanner, and an anti-malware. The fewer bugs, viruses, and bits of adware your computer has to manage, the more time it will have to devote to other processes. While you're at it, make a point of keeping Windows up-to-date; not only will this keep Windows itself in better shape, but some viruses ride in on Windows updates that are downloaded way after the fact (and therefore not monitored as closely).
    5    Run a Disk Cleanup. This can clean up hundreds of megabytes of temporary files – sometimes even gigabytes (if you have Windows XP, Vista, or 7). It will also open a window in which you can chose what to delete. Go to My Computer, right-click the Hard Drive and select Properties, and then click Disc Cleanup (within the General tab). Check all the boxes except for the game files and setup files.
    6    Run a Disk Defragment. This will reconfigure the way the hard drive stores information for maximum efficiency. Go to My Computer, right-click the Hard Drive and select Properties, then go to the Tools tab and click Defragment Now.
    7    Check for any disk errors. These will also slow your computer down. Go to My Computer, right-click the Hard Drive and select Properties, then go to the Tools tab and click Check Now under the Error-Checking area. When the dialogue box opens, check both boxes.
        If you get a window saying that Windows can't check the disk while it's in use, click on Schedule Disk Check and then OK. It will run on your next reboot.
    8    Turn off indexing. Go to My Computer, right-click the Hard Drive and select Properties, then unclick the box indicating that the drive should be indexed. Don't do this if you actually use any of the Windows Search functionality. The background indexing is what makes those searches fast and Windows is already very good about not getting in your way to do indexing while you're trying to do something else.
    9    Clear your Prefetch folder. Windows saves a file of the program you are using to make it start up faster. After years of use, this folder gets stuffed with irrelevant programs.
        Open Notepad and type:
        del C:\Windows\Prefetch\*.* /Q
        Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks
        (Copy and paste this text to ensure you don’t make any mistakes.)
        Save as faster.bat (the .bat extension will run it as a batch file).
        Run it! Simply double-click the file to initialize. In a few moments, the command prompt will disappear and your programs should run more smoothly.
    10    Change Prefetch Parameters. This a dangerous task to complete unless you follow these steps exactly. If you're not sure about anything, don’t continue.
        Go to Start > Run and type regedit to initialize the registry editor.
        Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SYSTEM>CurrentControlSet>Control>Session Manager>Memory Management>Prefetch Parameters to access the parameters.
        Double-click EnablePrefetcher. Once the new window pops up, there should be a small, editable text box with the number 3 in it. (Windows allows 4 options: 0, 1, 2 and 3.) 3, the default, fetches everything.
        Change this to 2. Your PC will boot a lot faster and your PC performance shouldn't be affected.
        Click OK and then close regedit.
    11    Add RAM to your computer. To see if you need more RAM, initialize the Windows Task Manager by pressing CTRL+ALT+DELETE. Under the Performance tab, find the area devoted to Physical Memory. If the Free amount hovers around zero but the computer is still slow, you may need to take your computer in to add RAM or even add more RAM yourself.
    12    Restart your computer. The computer usually needs to reboot to implement changes.
    13    Remove gadgets you don't use. All gadgets that are running slow down your computer.
    14    Log off the users who do not want the computer. Switch user your account then if you see that many users are logged in, log them off.

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 Scientists in Austria have found 19 living descendants of a prehistoric iceman whose 5,300-year-old body was found frozen in the Alps.

Researchers from the Institute of Legal Medicine at Innsbruck Medical University took DNA samples from blood donors in Tyrol in the west of the country.

They managed to match a particular genetic mutation with that of Ötzi, whose body was discovered back in 1991.
Descendants: Scientists have found 19 living relatives of Ötzi the Iceman who was found frozen in the Alps

Descendants: Scientists have found 19 living relatives of Ötzi the Iceman who was found frozen in the Alps
It's all relative: The prehistoric iceman had a genetic mutation which matches those whose DNA was sampled in Austria

It's all relative: The prehistoric iceman had a genetic mutation which matches those whose DNA was sampled in Austria

Experts now believe that the same mutation might also be found in the nearby rgions of Engadine in Switzerland and the South Tyrol region of Italy.

According to the BBC, Walther Parson from the university, said: 'We have already found Swiss and Italian partners so that we can pursue our research.'

DNA from around 3,700 blood donors were analysed and the men were also asked to provide information on their ancestry.

None of the donors have been informed that they are distantly related to Ötzi.

Since the body was found frozen under the Alps two decades ago, scientists have conducted experiments to learn how he came to be buried between the Austrian and Italian borders more than 5,300 years ago.
Preserved: Ötzi is kept in a specially built museum in Bolzano, Italy. Visitors view the mummy through portholes into a specially refrigerated room

Preserved: Ötzi is kept in a specially built museum in Bolzano, Italy. Visitors view the mummy through portholes into a specially refrigerated room

A hole in his collarbone suggested he was killed by an arrow, then a brain scan concluded he died from a fall.

But research earlier this year, from the European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen (EURAC) in Germany, discovered he suffered brain damage likely caused by a blow to the head.

In 2001, scientists from Austria's Innsbruck University scanned Ötzi using a CAT scan.

They found dark spots at the back of the iceman mummy's cerebrum and concluded he may have died from a head injury.

It was suggested that falling, after being hit by the arrow, or while climbing, may have caused this head injury.
History: The mummy was found in September 1991 in the Ötztal Alps, hence the name Ötzi, near the Similaun mountain and Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy

History: The mummy was found in September 1991 in the Ötztal Alps, hence the name Ötzi, near the Similaun mountain and Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy

The mummy was found in September 1991 in the Ötztal Alps, hence the name Ötzi, near the Similaun mountain and Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy.

Scientists estimate he was aged around 45, was 5ft 5" tall and weighed about 7.9st when he died.

Ötzi is kept in a specially built museum in Bolzano, Italy. Visitors view the mummy through portholes into a specially refrigerated room.

The hunter was frozen with all his possessions including a bow, a quiver of arrows and a copper axe. He was wearing warm clothing including a cloak made of woven grass, a coat and leggings made from goatskin and a bearskin cap with a leather chin strap.

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Few months ago, there was this awesome post i found on a friend's blog, but i couldn't comprehend what the post entails at the moment due to some other scheduled activities i need to go for immediately. Later in the day, i decide to find the post again and i couldn't locate a search box, not even an archive page that can lead me to the post. What a bad idea?

People turns out to search for answer or information, and if there's no means of getting it on your blog, i bet, you are missing a lot. Adding a search box to your site not only offers your site visitors an important ease-of-use feature, but also provides you, the site owner, with powerful insight into what people really expect from your site.

If you don't have a search box on your blog, i recommend you to add Google custom search box, which can provide a better search experience for your visitors and also provide a data for you to work on.

So how do you know what people are searching for on your blog?

I believe you must have register for a Google analytic account but if not, you can sign up for one. Now, you need to run a search on your blog using your search box and look at the url in your address bar. We need to identify the query parameter for your blog.

In the case of this blog, the query parameter is "q" as shown in the screenshot below.

Any letter or word that comes before the equal-to sign (=) is your query parameter, i.e "query parameter=search terms". Some blogs will have their query parameter as "s" or "search".

Now you will need to login into your Google analytic account. At the main navigation bar, click on the "Admin" panel and go to "View Settings".

In your profile settings area, scroll down to where it says "Site Search Settings", enable it, activate "Site search Tracking", put your query parameter in the "Query parameter" box and save your settings.

You have save your settings, how do track your site search activities?

Under "Behavior" section, go to "Site search" and navigate to "Search Terms" to see what people have been searching for. But the report might not comes up immediately, you will have to wait for few hours for Google analytic to gather up the data.

With the information provided, you should be able to see what people expect you to have on your blog and if the information is not available at the moment, you can provide one and with that i think more content ideas will be developed.

Happy tracking and good luck in your blogging journey!

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iPhone सम्बन्धि भिडिओ हेर्न को लागि यो माथि को Box मा click गर्नुहोस

We are announced it has sold a record-breaking nine million new iPhone® 5s and iPhone 5c models, just three days after the launch of the new iPhones on September 20. In addition, more than 200 million iOS devices are now running the completely redesigned iOS 7, making it the fastest software upgrade in history. Both iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c are available in the US, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the UK. Demand for iPhone 5s has exceeded the initial supply, and many online orders are scheduled to be shipped in the coming weeks.

“This is our best iPhone launch yet―more than nine million new iPhones sold―a new record for first weekend sales,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “The demand for the new iPhones has been incredible, and while we’ve sold out of our initial supply of iPhone 5s, stores continue to receive new iPhone shipments regularly. We appreciate everyone’s patience and are working hard to build enough new iPhones for everyone.”

iPhone 5s redefines the best smartphone experience in the world with amazing new features all packed into a remarkable thin and light design, including the Apple-designed A7 64-bit chip, all-new 8 megapixel iSight® camera with True Tone flash and introducing Touch ID™, an innovative way to simply and securely unlock your phone with just the touch of a finger. iPhone 5c features an all-new design, packed with features users know and love like the beautiful 4-inch Retina® display, blazing fast performance of the A6 chip, and the 8 megapixel iSight camera—all while delivering great battery life.¹ iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c both offer more LTE bands² than any other smartphone in the world and include all-new FaceTime® HD cameras.

iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c feature iOS 7, the most significant iOS update since the original iPhone, featuring a stunning new user interface, completely redesigned with an elegant color palette, distinct, functional layers and subtle motion that make it feel more alive. iOS 7 has hundreds of great new features, including Control Center, Notification Center, improved Multitasking, AirDrop®, enhanced Photos, Safari®, Siri® and introduces iTunes Radio℠, a free Internet radio service based on the music you listen to on iTunes®.³ Over 11 million unique listeners have already tuned in to iTunes Radio since launch with the most listened to song being “Hold On, We’re Going Home” by Drake.

Every customer who buys an iPhone 5s or iPhone 5c at an Apple retail store will be offered free Personal Setup service, helping them customize their iPhone by setting up email, showing them new apps from the App Store℠ and more, so they’ll be up and running with their new iPhone before they leave the store. Customers can learn more about iOS 7 and their new device through new free workshops at all Apple retail stores worldwide. In the US, the new iPhones are available through AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, select Best Buy, RadioShack, Target and Walmart stores and Apple Authorized Resellers.

Pricing & Availability
iPhone 5s comes in gold, silver or space gray, and is available in the US for a suggested retail price of $199 (US) for the 16GB model and $299 (US) for the 32GB model and $399 (US) for the 64GB model.⁴ iPhone 5c comes in blue, green, pink, yellow and white and is available in the US for a suggested retail price of $99 (US) for the 16GB model and $199 (US) for the 32GB model.⁴ iPhone 5s cases are available in beige, black, blue, brown, yellow and (RED) for a suggested retail price of $39 (US) through the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and select Authorized Apple Resellers. iPhone 5c cases are available in blue, green, pink, yellow, black and white for a suggested retail price of $29 (US) through the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and select Authorized Apple Resellers. iPhone 4s is also available for free (US) with a two-year contract.⁴

¹ Battery life depends on device settings, usage and other factors. Actual results vary.
² LTE is available through select carriers. Network speeds are dependent on carrier networks, check with your carrier for details.
³ iTunes Radio is available with iOS 7 in the US.
⁴ For qualified customers.

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.

Source- apple.com

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