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Editor’s Note November 2015

When it comes to business ideas, it is implementation that matters. But, it only seems obvious in retrospect.

The truth is, access to funding, access to role models, better business infrastructure, and monetization capabilities, and talent are just as important.

for the Most Innovative Business Ideas of 2015. Plunge in.

In Haute Money, page 10, we talk about the never-ending Microsoft vs. Apple, the birth of civil rights movement exemplified by social media, The Alphabet conglomerate, Snapchat’s evolving revenue generation model, and many So far, 2015 has been the most more interesting stories. For tech exciting year for tech companies connoisseurs, Technopolis, page 28, around the globe. There’s a lot brings to you the goofiest gadgets happening around the world you that will make your life more fun and may not have heard of yet. Beyond easier. Trendspotting, bring you a bold all these, one thing is clear: there feature on joke-snagging aggregators is no shortage of impressive young on social media. Content theft has companies chasing truly innovative business ideas. In our humble attempt become so common that more and more people are demanding a robust to showcase some of the most exciting ventures, check out our picks policy on Internet plagiarism, see

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page 46. More on Microsoft vs. Apple in Hardware, Inc. on page 72.

Elsewhere, this issue, we delve into award-winning VFX practices in App Labs, page 98. Futurist, page 90, we

explore the future of artificial skin that would one day give sense of touch to prostheses and artificial robots.

Enjoy our November issue‌

Like always, we welcome your comments (facebook.com/Technowize, @ technowize on Twitter). You may reach us at editor@technowize.com or Editor - Technowize, The Fastest Media, 3651 Lindell Road, Suite 320D, Las Vegas, NV 89103.

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It’s Happening: Microsoft vs. Apple

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Technology sires New Civil Rights Movement

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We Pick 8 GOOFY GADGETS of 2015

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App Labs

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Tech Ed

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Tech Events & Conferences

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Most Innovative Businesses of 2015

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The Team Editorial Anna Domanska, Editor-in-Chief Christy Gren, Sub-Editor Riana Petanjek, Sub-Editor Priyansha Mistry, Sub-Editor Aubrey Chang, Associate Editor

Design Kevin Paul Sr. Graphic Designer

Project Management Tony Raval Project Director Jay Raol Project Director

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Marketing Jason Miller, Sr. Project Director

Advertising Richard Dean, Advertising Manager

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Technology John Hancock, Head-Web Department Le Manh Coung, Sr Sofrware Coordinator Julia Hunt, Magazine Production

Finance Control R R Baratiya

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Haute Money Short takes on the latest cult coverage straight from the tech world - find out about people and companies defining the cutting edge of technology and shaping leaders of the future: entrepreneurs coming from situations set against the backdrop of humble environments.

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted to be academics. When they first patented Google, they tried to sell it to Yahoo for $1 million. When Yahoo talked the duo down, they tried to sell to Excite for under a million dollars.

Excite passed up buying Google.

Now an ex-employee of Google is the CEO of Yahoo, and the founder of Excite works at Google. Google dominates.

Until two months ago, when Google co-founder Sergey Brin and Larry Page announced a substantial restructuring of the Silicon Valley behemoth under a new name – ALPHABET - separating bread-andbutter businesses from moonshot ones. It’s odd that a throwback to a fossilized conglomerate, the most distinctly unfashionable of all corporate models would galvanize Wall Street. But then again, the Wall Street no longer recognizes one integrated stock as growth stock.

to commit to split into pieces to lure popular investors. While some say, Alphabet is a riskier company to invest in than the old Google, it’s otherwise. Google’s top lieutenants are keen to prevent the moonshots from dragging down the company’s stock price and limiting its ability to attract top talent. Moreover, Alphabet can show investors that the company’s top-rank businesses are highly profitable, even if the futuristic projects fail to turn a profit for years on end.

Page will be having a cadre of CEOs running Alphabet companies and dole out capital from the holding company to these businesses based on their performance. As time goes, Google can more easily spin its moonshots into separate companies.

When you consider how much interference markets create inside the operations, it does make a compelling reason why Alphabet would be created. Google, which In years ahead, the new parent has an inglorious history of brushing company could dramatically influence off Wall Street, is finally becoming business models in many industries. more agreeable to its investors and It marks the dawning of a digital their desires. Alphabet wants to give transformation of industries driven investors greater transparency upon by the combination of powerful capital allocation, strategy, and legal machines and human minds. planning.

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No Spam, No Abuse, No Threats Comment boxes have been a staple of the online experience: they’re exhilarating or horridly vulgar. You’ll find them everywhere, from The Economist to Bloomberg to The Sun, where the audience, protected by a thick shade of anonymity - voluntarily, anonymously and characteristically - contribute to the “nasty effect”. A phenomenon where the nastier the comments, the more polarized the readers become about the article.

A tidal wave of sites nowadays is pulling the plug on comments.

Dropping the comments feature has become a slow but steady trend among online publications and the reason cited by most is that the real discussion is now on social where readers are more self-policed. Moreover, more and more news sites are opting for the time-worn “letters to the editor” feature. Albeit, the reason veneered under the tone and quality concerns is that companies are no longer willing to invest time and effort into cultivating healthy on-site discussion, where

comments left by a difficult to manage commentators’ community infiltrated by trolls and spambots are sanitized immediately.

At its best, the comments section can serve as a vibrant and insightful community that provides value to the reader, as well as the writer.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, after winning an award for his work at The Atlantic last year, thanked his commenters for correcting and informing him when necessary. At its worst, comments can be vitriolic – provocative, indisputably unproductive conniption by trolls about which Motherboard Vice, CNN, and The Verge complained a while ago.

Reddit, a site built on the strength of its users, doesn’t allow comments in its newly launched standalone news site, Upvoted. The comments section is more of a relic now. Readers are taking it to Facebook, Reddit or Twitter to continue their conversation. For news sites, removing commenting platforms on the web is the PG answer to the world.

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Snapchat wants advertisers to fork over $700,000 While this year alone, advertisers allegedly spent $32 billion on television and print media, social media companies like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are betting they can make a killing when brand advertising begins to rely exclusively on digital platforms. Much like its peers, Snapchat believes it can revolutionize brand advertising for digital platforms when the time comes.

The revenue-less app is pitching advertisers on sponsoring Lenses for as much as $700,000 a day as a part of a national campaign.

And of course, big-brand advertisers like Taco Bell, Coca-Cola, and McDonalds are coughing up a hefty $450,000 per day for Sunday to Thursday, $500,000 for Fridays and Saturdays, and $700,000 for holidays. Brands like Taco Bell that want to snag millennial eyeballs turn to Snapchat for obvious reasons.

Taco Bell’s chief brand engagement officer Marisa Thalberg, says that the youth-oriented fast food chain has been more successful on Snapchat that on any other social network. Coca-Cola North America content SVP Emmanuel Seuge says the soda brand learned to tailor its ad content the hard way. Snapchat’s audience can detect when it’s advertising. It spent time researching how to speak to their audience.

In June, McDonalds collaborated to Snapchat’s core team to create sponsored geofilters, allowing users to accessorize snaps with goofy graphics of burgers and fries. In August, a political advocacy group opposed to the Iran nuclear deal created a Snapchat filter to urge voters to “Tell Senator Cardin: No to the bad Iran deal!”

Despite the sky-high advertising rates, Snapchat doesn’t offer detailed metrics on viewership to its advertisers. Eager advertisers are willing to risk their money and resources into Snapchat as it continues to finetune its advertising push.

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It’s Happening: Microsoft vs. Apple Last month Microsoft explained changes to its reporting of financial results to Wall Street.

It has now used pieces of six different groups to build three new segments to the portfolio: Productivity and Business Process, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing.

The changes used in its reporting will give financial analysts a brief idea of where revenue in previous periods would have appeared under the new regime. Regardless of the tagline “mobile first, cloud first”, More Personal Computing remains the most salient as its execs unveiled a fourth gen Surface Pro, new Lumia smartphones, and the Surface Book, Microsoft’s first laptop.

According to Microsoft, More Personal Computing would have recorded revenue of $43 billion of the total revenue $93 billion if the unit had been in place during the Fiscal year 2015. In other words, 46 percent of all Fiscal year 2015 revenue was generated by the

pieces now included in More Personal Computing, making it the largest of the company’s three reporting segments.

More Personal Computing resembles the business model of Apple, and that too an extremely profitable one.

It includes not just operating system, gaming, and search, but also hardware designed

by Microsoft and made by Microsoft. To integrate software services and hardware in ways that its OEM (Other Equipment Manufacturing) partners simply cannot.

Microsoft has made it clear that it is competing with Apple by making premium devices and reinventing categories.

This remains true, as its More Personal Computing businesses are becoming smaller, laser focused and aiming for higher profit margins.

Apple and Microsoft’s strategy is now to cater to the top end of the market where virtually all profits are earned.

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Technology sires New Civil Rights Movement Fifty years ago, if you were a part of the nonviolent civil rights movement, it took a lot of infrastructure to live-tweet what was going on in downtown Wichita, Kansas or Montgomery Alabama. In 2015, if you’re a civil rights activist, all you need to do is choose a social media amplifier and make your move.

You could post a video of protest or arrest on Vine, Instagram, YouTube, or Periscope and share it up on Facebook, Twitter or G+. And of course, if you want to avoid being monitored by federal law enforcement agencies, you could seek out to more secure channels like GroupMe. If you want to rapidly mobilize a bunch of people you know and you don’t want the whole world clued in, you use WhatsApp. If you want to mobilize a ton of people you might not know and you do want the whole world to talk about it: Twitter.

Freewheeling stream of these sites makes it one of the most revolutionary tools of our time. It’s one of the fastest ways to say something to the world provided, one knows how to marshal it. Social media has become the fastest tool for digital and intellectual ferment, it gives easier access to see what the entire world is saying on a topic.

Social media has become a powerful tool to record interactions and highlight vulnerability. It empowers a strong dialogue on conversations like #ILookLikeAnEngineer that talks about gender inequality that has plagued STEM occupations or #BlackLivesMatter, the activist movement against racist police violence.

At the bottom of all the rhetoric, the message is clear: social media community is giving an equal voice to those who otherwise might not have one.

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Apple sticks to proprivacy stance It has been more than two years since Edward J. Snowden turned into an involuntarily international fugitive hiding out in Moscow from American espionage charges. The expose on National Security Agency’s snooping created a deep divide between nation’s top officials and tech executives sparring over security and privacy.

The absymal topic came up yet again during the Wall Street Journal’s technology conference in Laguna Beach, Calif. where Apple CEO Tim Cook followed NSA director Admiral Michael Rogers on stage. They shared contrasting views about a number of issues around privacy.

Cook asserted his opposition to back doors in data encryption meant to allow law enforcement and intelligence agencies like the NSA to sneak through.

“You can’t have a back door in the software because you can’t have a back door that’s only for the good guys,” Cook said after being asked about his privacy stance.

The federal government routinely asks large companies like Apple and Facebook for user data and cooperation in national security investigations. Documents leaked by Snowden showed that the NSA went much further by assimilating troves of email and other digital data.

Tech companies have started opposing the so-called back doors, fearful of jeopardizing their business. Some have even started tightening their security to avoid government snooping.

According to June 9 report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, disclosures about U.S. government snooping have prodded an international backlash that may cost U.S. tech companies an estimated $35 billion in lost sales by 2016.

Cook’s sensitivity on the subject goes back to 2013, when Apple was accused for working with the NSA to give indirect access to its customers through hidden software on its iPhone handsets. Apple denied allegations of working with the NSA and has since pushed a pro privacy message, winning praise from Snowden for a pledge to never sell user data.

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Haute Money Your ‘self-encrypting’ Hard Drive isn’t nearly that secure For those who’ve purchased an encrypted hard drive to protect sensitive files from prying eyes, there’s some bad news. The crypto on your device isn’t as secure as you think.

Researchers claim Western Digital’s line of “My Passport” self-encrypting hard drives is plagued by serious security vulnerabilities that allow an attacker access to data stored on its products. The findings were included in a paper dated 28 September, and posted to the Full Disclosure email list in October.

Researchers found that “backdoors on some of these devices, resulting in decrypted user data, without the knowledge of any user credentials.” My Passport drives allow a user to set a passcode in order to use them, so hypothetically anyone who stole the device wouldn’t be able to access the files without the right passcode. However, it turns out that the security of the drives is very weak.

The most salient of the issues is the way the encryption keys are produced.

“Western Digital does it using the C rand() function, which is known not to be cryptographically secure.” Rand() is an exceptionally simple command for returning a pseudo-random number, and is not up to the task of producing a solid key for keeping information secure. On top of this, the key is seeded with the time it was created in a 32-bit position. Thus, making it as easy as pie to guess the key in a short time using a single PC. Moreover, some models simply store the passcode on the hard drive. This means that an attacker wouldn’t even need the passcode to break into the device.

It’s going to be a major hassle for people who are relying on encrypted hard drives, especially those who are using them to meet regulatory requirements such as encrypting health information for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, a federal legislation that is designed to protect health care data.

Some of Western Digital’s line of products are pretty popular; one model has nearly 2,000 ratings on Amazon.

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Haute Money Theranos questioned over accuracy of blood tests A few weeks ago, one of the most prestigious newspapers in the world published trenchant critiques of Silicon Valley’s hottest biomedical startup. The newspaper alleged that the blood diagnostics company Theranos wasn’t operating at nearly the level of technology innovation its hype had led the world to believe.

After a week of objections across various media platforms, Theranos released a 6,000 page document offering an invalidation of the paper’s allegations and multiple

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jibes at its ethics and credibility. Albeit, it misses the point – the rebuttal is data barren.

Theranos aims to offer more than 200 blood tests at cheaper rate. The FDA data shown in the paper are comprehensive results, but not primary. The medical testing startup fails to offer a scientific rebuttal over why the fingerstick tests didn’t work as advertised.

Most companies routinely publish their test trails before or after submitting them to the FDA. Right now, Theranos appears to be doing just the opposite – it’s refusing to publish test claims and at the same time claiming its tests cannot be accurately evaluated. While, the company has every right to protect its secrets, releasing the data would be one big step towards showing more faith in science than public relations and repudiating claims by media publications.

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Technopolis We Pick 8 GOOFY GADGETS of 2015 Smart gadgets are all about convenience and sustainable living. Goofy gadgets, well, they’ll ridiculous and crazy.

According to Merriam Webster’s, goofy can be well regarded as a sense of humor for calling out silly, or acting mildly ludicrous.

Goofy Gadgets are those quirkier gadget concepts, which are backed by bizarre commercials and pun-driven brands. These look and sound so ridiculous that you wouldn’t be willing to throw a single piece of gauntlet over the heck that it might be, but once you have a look at the features they provide us with, surely everyone’s forehead will pucker with wonder and amazement.

Let’s have a look at ten quirkiest Goofy Gadgets, which we have shortlisted for our readers.

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Wrist Band Battery Lee: We have an emergency. I’m at the Gaylord Bar, come pick me up.

Me: Are you shit drunk?

Lee: Please be sensible. My phone battery is about to die.

Me: See you in 10.

Wrist band battery is a rechargeable and portable 1500 mAh lithium ion battery, which you can directly strap on your wrist. This gadget ensures that none of your smart gadgets run out of juice when you need them the most. You can fit an entire army of gimmicks as the band unit arrives with separate nine connectors. It’s a gnarly, latest wearable gadget.

The greatest parts of trips is spending quality of time on phone or playing handheld games, and lack of battery in such times is highly annoying. Recharge straps like wrist band charger are extremely helpful to portably charge any of your gadgets conveniently. This strap can easily power mp3 players, mobile phones, gaming devices, and many more having compatibility with mini USB. It is enough to charge many of your gadgets throughout the entire day. When you arrive at your destination, plug your wrist band for charging to have a long battery backup.

How much will it cost? : $24.99 Where to buy? : Online, not your neighborhood yard sale.

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Technopolis BitBite Lee: ‘Dude, what the heck is that in your ear?

Me:*grinning* It’s my food tracker gadget!

Lee: Sure now, all I needed was one goofy friend!

We are so getting obsessed by weight control methods, diets, and what not. In our busy schedule we always find some or the other gadget, which might provide us a shortcut way to keep a track of our weight and eating habits. Draw a blank on Weight Watchers, even though our favorite Oprah Winfrey might endorse the brand after buying shares of the company. All you need to do is put BitBite in your ears while you start eating. It is an in-ear gadget that will keep your eating habits at schedule. It will track everything about the food you are devouring, which means the quantity, number of times that item is being chewed, calorie count, bite count, and many more things.

The app accompanying this gadget will log into your diet plan and will keep notifying you in your ear about the portions and quantity limit of the food being consumed. Because, when you eat slowly, chew your food more, and maintain a regular interval between your eating times it will improve your health and nutrition.

Apparently, you will feel great and shed that extra flab from your body. It is a revolutionary gadget, which is meant to analyze, follow, and change your eating pattern.

How much will it cost? : $119 (Including Ear Piece Device, App, Charging Cable, and Kit) Where to buy? : Online

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Rufus Cuff Lee: Is that a smart watch you wearing and tapping at?

Me: It’s a wrist communicator babe!

The Rufus Cuff is a ‘Wrist Revolution’ as its makers quote it. It represents as a revolutionary take in the real estate world of wrist. Known to be a wrist communicator, it comes fully equipped with front camera, voice and video calling features, syncs easily with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices, which also includes Smart phones, Smart watches, and Nest thermostats. It allows users to text and control applications to perform various functions like playing music.

This cuff is way more than what we call being a hightech. Surely, Rufus Cuff has every feature that might put disappointment pants up for Gear 2 and Apple watch users. It comes with a 3 inch screen, and hosts an inbuilt microphone, a speaker, web browser, a camera, GPS, Google Play Store, and Voice control. It easily connects your phone with Bluetooth for internet, texts, and calls. It operates on Google’s phone OS. How much will it cost? : Starts at $200 Where to buy? : Online

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Technopolis Wired In Lee: Am I disturbing you?

Me: (Thinking: Yeah you are, Get Lost.) Of course you aren’t.

This is hard. While you are engaged in a busy schedule and someone keeps meddling in between, telling them to go away is tough. This gadget is perfect. While working, all you need to do is turn on this gadget and it will automatically deliver the message to people without bothering you. Wired In can be controlled via Bluetooth, and it is programmed with such efficiency that it automatically turns on if you are working over phone and computer applications like Slack or Outlook. One of the great features about Wired In is that you can customize your texts for the display screen. It arrives in a sleek base of aluminum with curved edges and an acrylic laser-etched sign that is replaceable. The sign on etched portion catches the light, so you are free to choose your own text or just signs according to your wish. So be nice or be rude, it’s totally up to you.

How much will it cost? : NA Where to buy? : Available on Pre-order at Kick Starter

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Nightmare Fuel Machine Lee: I had a terrible nightmare, probably I can ditch the sleep for now Me: Or you could extract some great stuff to dream on while you sleep?

The Night Fuel Machine is a fantasy goofy gadget envisaged by duo Elliott Montgomery and Chris Woebken. In their Extrapolation Factory they design future products, which might exist in upcoming years. This gadget from their Pawn Tomorrow project will allow you to replace memories of your choice with terrible nightmares. It allows the user to pilfer good memory’s energy source. Will it be a brilliant source of energy or an atrocious machine? Decision is yours.

How much will it cost? : $35 Where to buy? : This is just a future concept by Extrapolation Factory

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Technopolis Beverage Cup Warmer/ Cooler Lee: My coffee was cold and Pineapple Juice was hot by the time I finished my work.

Me: Maybe you could have used the latest gadget?

This USB-powered gadget arrives with a cooling and heating plate, which can chill or warm up your beverage while you are at work. This product reportedly increases the temperature of a beverage by almost 13 degrees and decreases by almost 7 degree Celsius within a span of ten minutes. Plug this device into USB port of your computer and enjoy your beverage hot or cold as per your wishes. All you need to do is simply flip the device’s switch on the back of the Beverage Cooler/Warmer to shuffle between cooling and heating. The device looks rugged, yet stylish. Next time you wouldn’t have to bother about pouring yourself a cup of coffee while at work and forgetting it.

How much will it cost? : $19.99 Where to buy? : Online Hot Pineapple juice and cold tea might taste like a disaster.

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Oto-Tip Lee: Have you heard about Wet Willy?

Me: Ughh! Don’t remind me You need to clean your ears but you are tired of those ear buds? Oto-Tip is a gadget, which is handheld cleaner that is rechargeable. The traditional ear buds are risky sometimes, especially if you are too involved in your work. The gadget has tiny wand, which comes with a mini brush that rotates and clean sweeps the ear wax out. A rubber stopper will automatically prevent the brush from sliding inside deeper. It is non-abrasive as it comes with flexible and soft tip, it is eco-friendly, and safe as it involves no risk of puncturing your eardrums. Being engaged in work is good, but you shouldn’t be engaged in your work till extent of popping your eardrums out.

How much will it cost? : $5.79 Where to buy? : Online Sounds like Wet Willy, when someone licks their finger and put it in your ear as they twist their wet finger around!

Ughh!

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Technopolis Sports ‘Fidget’ Games Le: Hey what you doing?

Me: Mindlessly tapping my fingers on desk. Bored.

No more mindlessly tapping your fingers over your desk. This gadget is basically a video game for computers. A USB- powered ball set controller will be provided in this gadget, which you can manipulate and move according to on-screen ball and collect points without any efforts instead of wiggling your fingers over desk in boredom during break hours.

How much will it cost? : $22.50 Where to buy? : Online I prefer twiddling my thumbs mindfully over desk with this ball game.

Technology evolves, so does human needs. It is impossible to spend a second without using any gadget now-a-days. Like the necessity of air, which we breathe, technology and gadgets are as important for us humans. This entire human revolution revolves around gadgets, Goofy or not.

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R e p e at , In 2007, releasing a sex tape was the short cut way to shot to overnight fame, in 2015 it is content theft and curation.

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“I will never again post something that doesn’t have attribution,” Josh Ostrovsky, otherwise known as “The Fat Jew,” finally broke his silence on rampant plagiarism accusations in an interview with New York magazine.

In August 2015, the native Instagram sensation The Fat Jew aka The Fat Jewish aka Josh Ostrovsky signed with AAA, one of Hollywood’s largest talent agencies. What started as an outlet to simply share curated LOLs turned into a money making operation for Ostrovsky, when his fame reached beyond his Instagram feed. Today, he has over 6.3 million Instagram followers and counting.

There are people with more followers on Instagram, but mostly because they were celebrities before they joined it. Take Kim Kardashian for example, she has over 51 million followers. On the contrary, The Fat Jew is solely a product of Instagram.

“I’ve gotten hit up by people being like, ‘You know you really pulled me out of my daily struggle.”

“I’m basically a hero,” he often quipps.

One look at the braggadocios Josh Ostrovsky, and you’ll find nothing in particular. It is his comedic alter ego, outlandish appearance and his feed of curated Internet memes, joke snippets, and screenshots of funny tweets that has him parlayed into several career delineating deals. In addition to paid 48 / Technowize Magazine / November 2015

appearances, his has brands asking him to create online videos and Instagram products. He eclectic resume includes hosting a radio show on Apple Music’s Beats 1 station, advertising campaigns with Burger King and Virgin Mobile. Get a glimpse of his profane sense of humor? Sure, it was Ostrovsky who stirred up a buzz by sharing a picture of him sitting – possibly naked – in a massive bowl of chili to watch the game. And there’s more - he recently launched his own brand of rosé. On October 27, his book Money Pizza Respect, published by Hachette Book Group’s Grand Central Publishing, hit the shelves.

But here’s the ugly truth: boil the façade down and Ostrovsky is merely an ‘Internet Curator’. Despite being a social media celebrity, Josh Ostrovsky, 33, is also a poster child for the fatalistic world of online joke theft, cherry-picking and reposting other comedians’ jokes while giving them little to no credit for it.

The comedic celebrity is the collective, jocular avatar of thousands put up words like ‘Internet aggregator’, ‘internet curator’, or ‘content provider,’ in their bio. Their main oeuvre includes blatantly and unapologetically stealing from hundreds of writers, artists, and comedians, and whip up internet success.

Content curators are acutely aware that viral marketing appeal is there and theirs to lord upon. These are the new kind of social media celebrity who eschew the stand-up circuit, the art gallery gig in favor of stunts that play well on social media. According to The Financial Times, an ad initiative can help these 49 / Technowize Magazine / November 2015

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aggregators pull in as much as $6,000 per. While, the writers and comedians they profile creativity from live paycheck to paycheck. Matt Besser, a Los Angeles-based comedian will be featuring one of the jokes during a comedy special in January 2016 that Ostrovsky stole from him. But, it seems his grade-A joke has been monetized already.

Their curated feeds have become an increasingly common place for ad initiatives. If a brand is strong and have same brand attributes as someone like @thefatjewish and the ilk, @fuckjerry, @pakalupapito, @BeigeCardigan and a few other peddlers, they’ll ride it until it gets bad. Then they’ll quietly walk away and find the next up and coming comedian to piggy back.

For all we know, their live-action abilities are untested.

It is an ironic commentary on the online world’s lack of originality. Greeted with an outrage from comedians and artists who have been pointing out such malpractices since years.

Stealing someone’s idea and presenting them as your own is a major violation.

Moreover, chronic refusal to properly credit those they aggregate from is hurtful.

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borrows their joke, screengrabs and carefully crops their name out, their taking their jobs away from them.

“People would love to be able to profit from their own work but can’t because he [The Fat Jew] is monetizing their words before they even have a chance to,” says Maura Quint, a writer who was one of the first to chronicle some of Ostovsky’s plagiarism.

In May 2014, controversial appropriation artist, Richard Prince, sold blow-up shots of other people’s Instagram artwork and photographs in a posh, Gosnian galley in Manhattan. A woman named Doe Deere, discovered her Instagram shot up for sale in the Gallery. The only contribution from Richard Prince was his comment at the botton, “No Cure, No Pay” along with an emoji. It fetched $90,000. But, Deere was philosophical about it and dropped the issue. A few months ago, fashion model Joan Smalls found herself in hot waters for posting a picture of her taken by a photography student on her Instagram page without crediting it. A month ago, supermodel Karlie Kloss was accused of violating copyright for leaving out photo credit on a photograph taken by an Oscar de la Renta house photographer. The photograph landed in several magazines, blogs and websites without permission or even credit.

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seriously. Sometime ago, Robert Alexander Kaseberg, a comedy writer for hire, filed a lawsuit alleging that Conan O’Brien plagiarized his jokes about Caitlyn Jenner, Tom Brady, and the Washington Monument.

It can sometimes be difficult to ascertain what the correct definition of copyright infringement is in today’s voyeuristic social media culture. The debate over Twitter joke theft, Instagram artwork and photography theft has escalated in recent years as people find more creative ways to profile their creativity and monetize their feeds. Although, this infrastructure may be in peril now that Twitter is allowing users to file DMCA complaints against joke thieves, then hiding their copycat tweets at the request of the “copyright holder”. Lately, there has also been a rise in the number of professional photographers contacting a photo attorney when celebrities and models use artwork and photography without permission.

Amassed influence on social media helps too. High profile accounts Patton Oswalt, Kumail Nanjian, Michael Ian Black, Chelsea Peretti, and Norm MacDonald, among many others have been astute enough to use their power and influence to call out such thieving behavior.

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quette PLAGIARISM: Never use the words of others without proper acknowledgement of the source.

Tweet-shaming accounts @PlagiarismBad and @FitJew have been the first to pick up on Twitter’s new initiative that will put an end to an easy path to viral infamy. Earlier this year, Twitter also introduced quoted tweets, allowing followers to have easy access to the source tweet. But transparent jacking of Tweets remains prevalent.

The idea of content ownership on social media has become more and more concrete. At the same time, there’s a wide disconnect in people who roll their eyes and refuse to acknowledge the ongoing tirade. This kind of behavior exhibits apathy that has led to a growing number of aggregator accounts on social media. Reposting someone else’s content without attribution, then collecting the retweets and stars, likes and comments that lead to one’s own deal has quickly become the modern path to fame. Albeit, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr and Facebook should add more functionality that endow original creators to retain ownership.

Copyright infringement on social media highlights a bigger problem: policymakers are far behind in recognizing and taking appropriate actions to put an end to it. There are plenty of loopholes due to outdated laws that protect aggregators and plenty more that protects social media sites from frustrated artists.

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Most Innovative Businesses of

2015

There are 12 billion entrepreneurs and 2.7 billion venture backed startups in the United States. Almost 90 per cent of the times some of this startups fail due to inability to attract and retain a substantial client base. To be successful in today’s economy, it requires not just capital but the ability to see if there is a market need for the product. It’s quite difficult to be truly successful in create an innovative product that has the potential to be used by a billion people on the planet.

All odds considered, Technowize brings to you 8 most innovative businesses of 2015.

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Mark43

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urrently, there are more than 200,000 felons on the loose in the U.S. that police are unable to track. Scott Crouch, a 23-year-old Harvard graduate wants to change this.

Crouch is building a cloud-based records management and analytics systems which will not only make policing smarter and more efficient, but also more accountable. The web app called Mark43 makes it easier for cops to enter arrest and incident reports, thereby slashing the time-consuming amount taken by the old systems.

The system works on a framework of algorithmic intelligence, connecting data such as phone records and social media activity to give cops a clearer and complete picture of a syndicate or a criminal. Crouch and his cofounder Flo Mayr went to West Point to gauge the real-world conditions in which Police would be using the software, to make the web app interface more friendly for data input and analysis.

Mark43 is already in use by LA County Gang Taskforce and will soon officially roll out across an entire major metropolitan department.

Mark43 a cloud-based records management and analytics systems which will not only make policing smarter and more efficient, but also more accountable.

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SLACK

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couple of years ago Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield tried to recreate the success of the inventive photo-sharing service by developing an online game. Instead, he ended up creating Slack.

A collaborative insta-messaging platform for businesses, Slack has become a corporate darling since its debut in 2014. It entered an already crowded ecosystem crowded by players such as Campfire, Flowdock, and HipChat. The reason why it is widely used? Its appeal lies in its unique personality and quirky features.

Only 24 hours since its launch, Slack had managed to bag 8,000 companies.

Today, it is used by more than 350,000 daily users, among 40,000 teams, with average logged on time 10 hours a day. It has raised $120 million in venture funding and entered the exclusive club of Unicorns of startups with valuations of $1 billion and above.

Only 24 hours since its launch, Slack managed to bag 8,000 companies.

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InVenture

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nVenture is a certified B Corporation with a unique solution: its software which can be downloaded by borrowers onto their Android phones, monitors and crunches 10,000 indicators of the person’s level of responsibility. If majority of the borrower’s calls are longer than four minutes, it means that person has stronger relationships and better credit risk.

During its first year in 2014, InVenture accepted 50% of applicants, for a total of more than 60,000 loans. Most of the loan amounts range between $20 and $100, with 5% interest and no fees. More than 75% of applicants returned for a repeat loan, while the repayment rate was 85%.

InVenture currently operates in South Africa, India, and Eastern Africa, where 2.5 billion people have no credit score.

During her years working on emerging markets and microfinance at investment banks, Shivani Shiroya observed that more than 2.5 billion people in South Africa, India, and Eastern Africa have no credit score. This was because banks wouldn’t help data-free borrowers to loan amounts.

InVenture will soon be offering mobile and web tools for individuals to help manage their businesses, and finances.

InVenture currently operates in South Africa, India, and Eastern Africa, where 2.5 billion people have no credit score.

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Da-Jiang Innovations

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he year 2014 will go down in the history of technology as the year of drones.

We saw everything, from consumer-friendly drones to creepy drones, and all credit goes to Dai-Jiang Innovations (DJI) one of the biggest and fastestgrowing drone manufacturers on the planet.

The Shenzhen, China–based company makes the pervasive Phantom line, an inexpensive ($1,300 for its best) remote-control camera quadcopter. In the past three years, it sales grew by 125times.

Smaller and lighter drones which can fly up to 35 mph and soar more than 900 feet up in the air, have made cameos on The Big Bang Theory and South Park.

These drones are embedded with GPS and stabilizing sensors, can hold their position in the air, and return to where they launched if they lose contact from remote.

Eric Chang, DJI director of aerial imaging says collective features like these in drones have made them a more appealing option for professional use in fields such as archeology, firefighting, roof inspections and sports training.

A slew of features in these drones have made them a more appealing option for professional use in fields such as archeology, firefighting, roof inspections and sports training.

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raditionally, the only weapon used against cancer has been surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. India-based healthcare technology firm Perfint Healthcare is developing a fourth tool, ‘image-guided, minimally invasive’ robotic systems that will changs everthing.

‘Maximo’, can guide doctors through cancer diagnostics, pain care interventions, and surgery. It can help them safely and accurately plan, navigate, and perform procedures. The procedures have been used in renowned hospitals in the United States, Germany, India, and Russia. In 2015, Maximo will launch commercially in Korea, Japan and other parts of Asia.

The robotic system can be easily moved from one location to another. “It is the first-of-its-kind integrated cancer-therapy-enabling device combining tumor visualization, treatment planning, robotic navigation, and verification,” says Nandakumar Subburaman, cofounder and CEO, who worked for GE Healthcare.

The global ultrasound guided procedure market is estimated to reach $1 billion by 2020. Perfint hopes to capture one tenth of that market.

The procedures have been used in renowned hospitals in the United States, Germany, India, and Russia.

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Stripe

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n September 2014, Apple set out to partner with Stripe as one of its premier partners to power integration with Apple Pay. The digital payments startup is backed by industry titons like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Sequoia Capital.

The year 2014 proved to be a successful one for Stripe, as it managed to bag many big partnerships over the year, including one with Facebook, Alibaba, and Twitter.

“We’ve long been beating this drum of becoming the universal infrastructure for merchants to run their businesses online, and we’re happy to see it’s finally coming to fruition,” says Stripe president John Collison, 24, who cofounded the startup with his brother Patrick in 2010.

Stripe helps website developers and app markers accept payments online.

Before Stripe, sending and receiving digital payment online was a complex and a technically exhaustive task filled with roadblock for merchants looking to sell their products online. The digital payments startup has made it easier for businesses by creating a simple back-end system that developers can embed in their mobile apps and websites to manage and facilitate transactions. One of the biggest reasons why is so popular amongst business is because to facilitate a transaction, Stripe doesn’t incur hidden fees or a transaction charges.

Stripe is currently available in the United States, Australia, and a few European countries. It can accept payments in 139 currencies, including Bitcoin. So far, Stripe has raised over $130 million in venture capital.

Stripe has made it easier for businesses by creating a simple back-end system that developers can embed in their mobile apps and websites to manage and facilitate transactions.

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WeWork

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efore WeWork came into being, coffee houses were deemed as a coworking space. Since its founding, investors have been intrigued by its appeal.

Unlike any other coworking space, WeWork offers its members features such as health insurance and payroll, lunches in bento box at affordable rates.

For first time entrepreneurs, it’s like candy-seeking on 365 days and not just Halloween.

“You’re not a small business by yourself anymore. You’re part of a large group of people who all feel like they are part of something.” says CEO Adam Neumann, trying to capture WeWork’s appeal. “ WeWork isn’t just for startups with low-budgets, it’s also used by companies like J.Crew and Red Bull. The coworking startup is helping transform neighborhoods, attracting talented young entrepreneurs.

WeWork isn’t just for startups with low-budgets, it’s also used by companies like J.Crew and Red Bull.

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FUHU

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ablet became a thing in 2007, but one of the biggest winners of the market isn’t Google Samsung, or Apple. It’s FUHU, a startup that has grown 160,000% bigger by revenue since its founding.

Its tablet called Nabi is made for kids, and come pre-loaded with 17,000 lessons for preschoolers to six graders. It features curfew time that can be set by parents, and even a virtual currency that is redeemable for music, movies, and more such digital goodies that parents can use to reward kids for completing chores or good behavior.

Some of FUHU’s sales directly comes from classrooms, however most of it comes from families. Robb Fujioka, Fuhu’s president and founder, unveiled a giant 24inch tablet in August 2014, for entire family to use together. Fugu intends to create tablets in various sizes that can cater to different needs and age groups.

FUHU has grown 160,000% bigger by revenue since its founding.

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Hardware, inc.

Microsoft’s Hardware Extravaganza

The question is, will Microsoft turn every single person on the planet into a Windows Believer?

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Inside Google’s Lenoir Data Center Facility “There’s going to be more personal computing in our lives.”

computing gadgetry running on Windows 10 OS.

The new philosophy voiced by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is in many ways contrasting of the old Microsoft. The forty-year-old software company, under Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer’s rein was a warmongering, competitive organization focused on getting a billion number of people to run Microsoft software on personal computers. The pre-2014 Microsoft was so enamored with its OS and software line-up that it was almost on the brink of obsoleting itself during the Internet and mobile devices party.

Windows that used to once dominate the computing devices scene on the planet has now taken a shotgun seat in a car driven by Android and Apple devices.

Microsoft is placing big bets. Microsoft is going after Apple with guns blazing.

On October 6, 2015 was one of the most exciting and enthralling tech event in years. The entire technology industry hasn’t assimilated this much hype and anticipation in a long time. It was one of Microsoft’s most important press events of the year, where its three-yearold computing hardware efforts showed up at the unveiling of its latest lineup of

Microsoft unveiled a more powerful version of its Surface Pro laptop/tablet hybrid at the October 6 press event in New York City. The Surface Book is “the ultimate laptop,” said Panos Panay, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for devices. “Ounce for ounce, pound for pound, this is the fastest 13-inch laptop ever made.”

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Microsoft’s hardware portfolio now includes the new Surface Pro 4 a new wireless version of HoloLens three new phones: 950/950XL on the high end, the Lumia 550 on the low end an upgraded Microsoft Band Microsoft’s first laptop called the Surface Book Microsoft’s strategy is to defeat Apple in two arenas: devices and infrastructure and solutions.

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Microsoft Challenges Apple MacBook Air with the all new Surface Book Microsoft disclosed an all the more capable rendition of its Surface Pro portable workstation/tablet half and half at the October 6 press occasion in New York City. The Surface Book is “a definitive portable PC,” said Panos Panay, Microsoft’s corporate VP for gadgets. “Ounce for ounce, pound for pound, this is the quickest 13-inch portable PC ever constructed.”

The Surface Book is a magnesium alloy laptop/tablet hybrid with a 13.5 inch, 267ppi screen and high-powered internals, and is twice as powerful as MacBook Pro. It’s thinner (0.51-0.90 inches), lighter (1.6lbs), and faster, thanks to Intel’s latest chips. Its base configuration of 128GB storage and

8GB RAM will cost you $1,500, while a fully-loaded workhorse at a full terabyte storage and 16GB RAM comes at $3,000.

Panay calls it the “thinnest and most powerful PC ever created.”

The Surface Book’s display detaches from a unique “dynamic fulcrum hinge” and folds down to about 45 degrees on the diagonal. It is flexible, articulated that steadies the entire laptop, allowing it to fold forward like a regular laptop and fold backward to a comfortable angle, although it doesn’t fold flat entirely. It’s a marvelous piece of engineering, with a unique design feature that gives the Surface Book an identity.

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It is powered by an Intel Core m3 processor and battery are built into the screen half making switching to tablet mode easier for the user. While, the high-powered Skylake chip and Nvidia GPU is in the keyboard base with 1GB of GDDR5 memory. The basic idea here is that users can easily use the device in laptop mode while connected to the graphics processor.

Below are the Surface Book’s integrated graphics options: The Intel Core i7 includes the Intel Iris graphics, the Core i5 includes HD Graphics 520, and the Core m includes Intel’s HD Graphics 515.

If a user wants to use a less-powerful clipboard-size tablet for “draw mode”, they can detach it from the GPU keyboard base. The new laptop has a blacklit Chiclet-style board and a multitouch glass trackpad that is 40% larger

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and smoother than the Surface Pro 3 keyboard. There’s also a fingerprint sensor and Cortana integration which fits perfectly in the display. The type cover comes in five different colors – green, light blue, red, dark blue, and black.

Microsoft has touted the battery life as resilient boasting a mileage of 12 hours in laptop mode and three hours in tablet mode.

The Surface Book will also work with the Surface Dock unveiled during the Surface Pro 4 demo, but it also has a pair of USB 3.0 ports built in. The main I/O connecting is a USB-C connection to the Dock, and Panay demonstrated its transfer speeds by zipping a 3GB file over it in about five seconds.

Preorders began on October 7, and started shipping on October 16th.

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The Campus Network Room

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Surface Pro 4 & the Surface Pen Stylus Microsoft unveiled the Windows 10-powered Surface Pro. The 12.3inch device runs on Intel’s latest Core M and i-series processors. The ever so light tablet weighs around 1.63 pounds.

Similar to the Surface Book, it gets a new Type Cover keyboard, with backlit keys, a fingerprint reader, and a responsive touchpad.

The Surface Pro 4 is compatible with existing keyboard accessories. There’s the all-new Surface Pen designed to work well with Microsoft’s Surface line up. It also has an eraser on the end of

it. The tip hass 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity and attaches magnetically to the top of the Surface Pro when not in use.

The Surface Pen comes in a variety of colors – silver, gold, blue, red, and black – and 24 different pen tips. It also has Cortana integration. Users can activate the voice assistant by holding on the stylus button. Although, double-clicking the button launches OneNote, as it does on the Surface Pro 3.

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Microsoft HoloLens Developer Kit Price and Release Date The forty-eight-year-old, mild-mannered CEO of America’s third-biggest company, Satya Nadella, dressed in dark jeans and a dim rock shaded T-shirt, offered the journos and fanboys a bit of Zen: “As devices come and go, you persist.”

Forms will change, functions will change, devices will change, he explained.

Nadella, who took over as Microsoft chief in February 2014, is changing the organization. He is set on creating a Hardware-software ecosystem that extends beyond traditional boundaries.

He considers SOFTWARE to be an essential part to the organization’s success. Nadella plans to deliver something new – the “ideal” Windows experience “We want to move from people needing Windows, to choosing

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Windows, to loving Windows,” said Nadella at the blockbuster press event in NYC. He at the end of the day shared his vision for the future of personal computing and made it clear that Microsoft has no plans of shying away from the device manufacturing market.

Despite the fact that the tech company has been commanding the PC-OS scene, it is ailing in the portable, smaller PC market that are today replacing traditional PCs. Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS, which was launched way back in 2010, has failed to capture the business sector with just 3 percent piece of the overall industry.

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There are now 110 million devices running on Windows 10 There are 110 million gadgets now running on Windows 10. Applications in Windows 10 are universal and will keep running on Microsoft’s product range including Xbox. EVP of Windows and Devices Group Terry Myerson said that there have now been 1 billion visits to the Windows Store. Developer’s payouts as well, have grown four-fold subsequent to the most recent Windows 10 upgrade.

Universal applications including applications for Facebook, Instagram,

Candy Crush Soda Saga, and Uber are coming soon.

Not long ago, Microsoft noted there were around 670,000 applications on the Windows Store, which includes both – applications for phones and Universal Apps. In comparison, Google has 1.6 billion apps on Google Play and Apple has 1.5 billion apps.

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The Health & Fitness Focused Microsoft Band 2 At the Windows10Devices occasion in NYC, Microsoft announced a second form to its fitness wearable, the Microsoft Band 2. The latest devices comes with more sensors and a comfy latch around your wrist.

The Microsoft Band 2 incorporates a barometer to measure atmospheric pressure and to keep track of wearer’s altitude during long hikes. It can assess VO2Max for advanced fitness tracking.

The Gorilla Glass 3 screen is bended on the adaptable and simple to-wear band. The devices promises two entire days of battery life. It additionally offers voice support for Cortana,

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Microsoft’s computerized voice partner.

It exhaustively tried in with the Microsoft Health platform, keeping track of your workouts, making recommendations about fitness goals. It bolsters a scope of applications and alters – Facebook, Subway, Twitter, Starbucks, RunKeeper, and Uber – were one of only a handful few specified by Microsoft in the press event. It additionally offers unique features for golfers, including automatic shot tracking.

The Microsoft Band 2 works with smartphones running Windows, Android, and iOS. The new band will retail at $249.99.

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A Big Roll Out of New Devices MICROSOFT 550

MICROSOFT 950 and 950 XL

Hands on to Microsoft for the arrival of its new Windows-10 enabled gadget, Microsoft 550. This new gadget 4.7inch gadget comes with a superior configuration, magnificent Windows 10 experience, and high-end features. The compact handset will be empowered with 4G LTE. Microsoft 550 will include a top notch 750-pixel resolution show with 315 per inch pixel. It will be accessible in two colors - white and black, with a glossy back finish. It keeps running on a 1.1GHz quad-center processor, and Snapdragon 210. The battery life has a wonderful 13.9 hours of usage time on 3G, alongside a 28 days standby time.

The device also comes with Cortana.

The camera include a 2 MP front cam for Video Chat and Selfies while the back comes with a 5 MP back facing camera with capacity to shoot video of 720p. The RAM is on the other hand, as low as 8GB, yet users can extend it up to 200GB in the outer memory through microSD.

Microsoft 950 and 950XL are two gadgets worthy of contending with S6, S6 Edge, and iPhone 6S, and iPhone 6S Plus. The traditional-software company has raised its bar higher to take on Apple which leads in the business sector of mobile devices. Both, 950 and 950 XL, are just about an indistinguishable set of gadgets with couple of variations. The 950 XL screen is decked with a bigger horizon of a 5.7 inch super AMOLED screen with a resolution of 2,560x1,440pixel display, while the size of 950 will be somewhat less than its twin. The battery life in 950 XL will last somewhat more as it comes with Octa-center Snapdragon 810 processor while 950 stays at hexa-center. The camera for 950 XL comes in 20 MP PureView rear-faced and 5 MP front-faced, with a gigantic and smooth edge-cutting design. The gadget is Windows-10 empowered and comes handy with Cortana. The gadget is empowered with 4K video capturing capacity and USB Type-C charging, which helps in charging the gadget speedier. Inner capacity is dependent upon 32GB while it can extend to 200GB in external storage.

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Your skin is a little more than a pod, a surface meant to be covered, exposed, tanned, tattooed, painted, and shaved for reasons such as comfort, beauty, vanity, or style. It is an interface between your brain and the world. It’s marvelous; it’s sensitive, constantly giving you useful information via signals about your surroundings. In a philosophical way, it helps people physically feel something and understand reality. Its functions are far more vital and complex than even researchers who’ve spent decades to study skin can imagine.

In contrast, electronic devices don’t feel any of this. Scientists have spent last two decades trying to unravel the enigma to get technology to feel the same way humans do. Their first endeavors could only sense one thing at a time – pressure, temperature, etc. Numerous attempts have been made to fix this, but the outcomes have been nothing more than flunkies. Prosthetics is one field where researchers are attempting to create a brilliant synthesis between human psychology, electronics, and robotics. The science of prosthetics has been around since 1990s and has evolved exceptionally over the last decade. It’s a mechanical wonder promising to wipe off words like limitations and disability.

Remember when Luke Skywalker lost his hand in a fight with Darth Vader and was fitted with a prosthetic arm that restored all lost functions, including sense of feel and touch? Researchers in Korea have developed their own compact electronic skin that can simultaneously sense pressure, temperature and sound.

In the study, published in Science Advances in October 2015, the researchers took design inspiration from fingertips, one of the most sensitive skin on the human body. Unique finger impression helps intensify vibrations, making touch to a great degree fine-grained, so

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you can tell crimped from grainy from velvety. Besides, the layers of dermis and epidermis underneath interlock with one another, which gives more points of contact. The artificial Korean skin is furrowed, as well, and moreover sandwiches two layers of rough film. So it’s sufficiently sensitive to distinguish a strand of hair, and can perceive between the scruffiness of a whiskers and lighter cheek stubble.

When our skin is pressed, nerves embedded in the tissue send out signals to neurons in the brain. The frequency of the pulses varies, signifying how much force is being applied. For example, 50 pulses of brain can tell that you’re holding an object that weights not more than 50 grams. Variations of artificial skin made in the past failed at generating pulses signals. Instead, they could only generate direct current with changing amplitude based on the amount of force. The electrical signal would then have to be calibrated and converted before it could directly activate neurons. In order to make the artificial skin more realistic, researchers tried to develop a flexible, multi-layered battery powered material that could overcome the obstacle. This material is known as Digital Tactile System (DiTact).

The way to getting the skin to multitask was the material, a mix of polymer and graphene oxide. At the point when the temperature changes, the material generates power; when an article lays on the skin, resistivity changes as the knocks in the skin smush together. On the off chance that a drop of water falls on the e-skin, researchers can tell how warm the water was, and from how high up it dropped.

It’s still only a proof-of-idea, yet innovative ideas for how to use skins like this one come pretty effortlessly. The microfabrication tech gotten

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up to speed to mankind’s cyborg dreams. “We are at a very stage,” says Benjamin Tee, an e-skin researcher at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore.

“It’s basically a Wild West for electronic skin right now.” Scientists are still throwing ideas out to see what sticks. And here, “sticking” means the tech’s ability to be cheaply mass-produced with decent specs.

In the short term, electronic skin presumably won’t be anything’s real skin. It’s promising for medication, says Heon-Sang Lee, a chemical engineer at Dong-A University and author of the paper. The skin is sufficiently touchy to recognize sound waves, which would make it valuable in listening devices. Also, his team has strapped their bendy, Scotch tape-slender skin around wrists to quantify beat. “You get a much better signal from skin-like materials than you do from boxy and rigid wearables,” says John Rogers, a materials scientist at the University of Illinois. Rogers’ lab is taking a shot at transitory tattoo-like hardware to gather health information. Further later on, e-skins could make for more touchy surgical robots, or possibly wrap around exoskeletons to offer the elderly some assistance with getting around.

Electronic skin is essentially only a shrewd surface, so hypothetically product designers could use it wherever people communicate with innovation. Tee says Apple’s late interests in things like Force Touch and 3D Touch could help make it mainstream. “We’re definitely moving to seamless integration with the digital world,” he says. “The question is, how do we integrate with the digital world, which is essentially 1s and 0s, into something we can feel and interact with?”

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App Labs VFX ‘Gliding through Hollywood’ A Skilled Artist’s Sheer Fantasy or a Pure Brilliance of Science?

“General Kenobi…... ……………This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Obi-Wan.” – Princess Leia Organa.

One of the most iconic scenes from Star Wars, where R2-D2 at Ben Kenobi’s house precipitously starts displaying

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Princess Leia Organa’s holographic message.

George Lucas’ film Star Wars will always remain paramount when it comes to popculture pagoda for too many reasons.

The advanced motion control special effects of the movie have reserved a

special place for them in tech history.

Episode IV of Star Wars- a New Hope was the first ever film to use a motioncontrolled camera. The complicated series movements of the camera over motion-controlled system-Dykstraflex allowed George to create remarkable shots unlike the ones seen in cinema previously. This marked the debut of VFX Company by Lucas known as Industrial Light & Magic, which until now rules the VFX kingdom in the giant market of cinema.

There is a freedom for writers, directors, and filmmakers to tell a story they prefer.

Humans have been recounting their stories to one another since primitive days. Everything imaginable is covered through written and verbal form of

storytelling. A writer can turn a small elephant into a giant dinosaur in his/ her imagination, describe about people and creatures that do not exist in real world, instead they are pure fantasy, so making it precise, it is all about freedom of imagination.

The different channels for storytelling have their great stories and places tailor made for each channel. Transforming a story into a film script, is where the main problem arrives, it means that the scriptwriter needs to form images in the mind of audiences by the medium of photographic reality. This is where the brilliant science of visual effects is integrated with artist’s sheer fantasy vision in order to please the audience.

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App Labs Shaping the Domain of Visual Effects A Long Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away (famous tagline from Star Wars)… animation, CGI, and other such fantasy filming options used to beguile mankind. As technology invigorates, we human beings need more evolution in every field. Now, the plain old animation or simple CGI used cinema does not allure us, we need something live, big, bold, strong, eye-pleasing, and hypnotic when it comes to cinema. This is where VFX enters the battlefield. Whether you are a producer, director, actor, or the film’s investor, all you need to make your film a huge success along with a great script and team is- a great VFX team. For example, big Hollywood all time praised blockbusters like Star Wars by Industrial Light & Magic, Avatar & Lord of the Rings by WETA Digital, Titanic by Digital Domain, and so much more.

Visual effects are a very important part of movie’s appeal and storyline. Most of the VFA works are primarily executed during a film’s post-production. Visual effects are broadly divided into four categories which are namely, Matte Stills and Paintings, Live-action effects, Digital animation, and Digital effects. The sub-categories for VFX include Simulation FX, Compositing, and Matte Painting. Nowadays, VFX using CGI( COMPUTER GRAPHICS IMAGERY) using compositing software, easy-to-use animation at an affordable have become handy to independent filmmakers, which ultimately leads to more VFX in cinema.

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Bento app cards At this stage Bento doesn’t offer the kind of crisp and clean integration that Google Now does, but it’s just the beginning.

Headlines from Reddit, events from Google Calendar and popular videos from YouTube can all be displayed on the front page by tapping the three dots by the side of each card to dismiss it or block it fully.

Tap the ‘Cards’ button in the the Bento Settings and choose which apps show up on the home screen by default. Song lyrics, weather forecasts, Yelp reviews (for venues near your current location), upcoming events and trending songs on SoundCloud are among the options you can choose from.

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App Labs Weaving the Commendable Magic for Star Wars

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Basically, Star Wars was a very complicated film, which couldn’t be filmed literally, regarding the availability of technology in those times. The technology at that time demanded to bring the entire world of cinema into a visual life that purely didn’t exist. With only $25,000 budget provided by the production house in order to finish the entire screenplay, George was solely dependent on his own. He not only invented the entire new-gen special effects but also launched a legendary VFX firm, which dramatically changed the total flow in the business of cinema; this was when the Industrial Light & magic was born. Industrial Light and Magic is known for its remarkable effects used in 317 films. Industrial Light & Magic is the company responsible behind the immense success of movies like Pirates of Caribbean, Harry Potter, and the philosopher’s stone, Iron Man, G.I. Joe, and many more. The indefatigable vivacity of innovation defines the signature and remarkable work of the company project by project. The immense force behind the quality of effects sustains the company for great. Visual effects are always omnipresent; Star Wars has been an edge-cutting example for visual effects always.

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App Labs Bracing the Gap between Technology and Arts with Interstellar Double Negative for Interstellar surely pushed the realms of reality, brilliantly enlarging viewer’s discernment of the future, and the stuff that lie above our planet. The film, which chases a former pilot of NASA and a team of researchers on an expedition into the space depth, to find a new habitat for humans before Earth becomes extinct. The remarkable VFX team behind Interstellar bridges the crack between technology and arts in a novel way by using cinema as a medium. In collaboration with Kip Thorne, the famous astrophysicist, the VFX team Double Negative of Interstellar created the first scientifically perfect view of a black hole over the big screens. Instead of making a typical cinematic appearance of a black hole that is known as a violation within space, the VFX supervisors along with Thorne chose to show the other most probable version of the black hole, which was in a form of three-dimensional spheres.

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Indulging into Human and the Extra-Terrestrials’ Fantasy life with Avatar The second billion dollar baby of James Cameron, Avatar director, expanded the process of establishing a blockbuster, which consists of visual effects as much as it stretched the perception of viewers streaming into movie theaters to unleash a unique experience of the extra-terrestrial world. Despite having lots of actors in the film, the team chose to accomplish a majority of scenes through performance capture techniques. The new technical systems allowed the filmmaker to view Computer graphics originated characters in Computer graphic environment during real-time filming. Weta Digital along with James Cameron integrated the two different universes of animation and live action in stereo 3D feature with great complexity and volume.

The powerful software developed by Weta translated the provided data and applied it to a facial animation system based on a blend-shape. The VFX studio further turned the video-game quality of graphics into plush environments, real characters, and redefined the motion-capture camera at Cameron’s Lightstorm.

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The world without VFX resembles Smartphone without the internet at the End It is too tough to imagine cinema these days without VFX. It won’t be unfair if we say the huge hits that sci-fi films deliver would not have created the magic like they did on big screens without visual effects. Actually, the filmmakers wouldn’t have even thought about attempting to make such films without the touch of visual effects. Now the era is all about reality, audiences watching the film always crave for a shrewd sense of reality in the films even if the film is a mere fantasy. The biggest Hollywood filmmakers not only consent by the technology of VFX but also espouse them for being capable enough to provide the ideas and vision they crave for in their film projects.

The most of the strategies over a film budget nowadays is sought after delivering a gigantic budget for VFX, because visual effects decide the essence of a project.

Surely, not every filmmaker agrees to this. Even if it does makes a sense as to why they do not agree to the fact that VFX these days is as important as the script and cast of a film; try imagining Transformers without robots, machines, and transformers, Star Wars film without its lasers, space, and spaceships, Titanic without enormous ship and water, The Matrix without its unimaginable physics and bullet time, Avatar without its upside down hanging flora, fauna, creatures, Na ‘vi, and artistic world, Alice in the wonderland without its fantasy wonderland, characters and creatures, Jurassic Park without huge and fierce dinosaurs, and Harry Potter without it’s world of magic. Everything mentioned above was impossible without the use of VFX, so ultimately visual effects are the integration of the evergreen brilliance of science and a skilled artist’s sheer fantasy. VFX provide both creative and monetary benefits to the filmmakers and studios. They play a very crucial part, especially in the current era, in not only film industry but also in commercials, TV, and other contents.

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tech tech ed ed Computation Structures – Part 2: Computer Architecture In this interactive computer science course from MIT you’ll learn the basic principles of computer architecture.

About this Course Digital systems are at the heart of the information age in which we live, allowing us to store, communicate and manipulate information quickly and reliably. This computer science course is a bottom-up exploration of the abstractions, principles, and techniques used in the design of digital and computer systems. If you have a rudimentary knowledge of electricity and some exposure to programming, roll up your sleeves, join in and design a computer system!

Using your browser for design entry and simulation, you’ll implement a 32-bit computer using our gate library and write assembly language programs to explore the hardware/software interface.

This is Part 2 of a 3-part program on digital systems.

What you’ll learn The design of an instruction set for computer systems How to translate high-level programs into sequences of computer instructions The design of the datapath and control logic for a 32-bit computer The role of caches in the memory hierarchy Starts: November 17, 2015

Effort: 6 hours/week

Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MITx)

Subject: Computer Science

Length: 12 weeks

Languages: English

Source: https://www.edx.org/

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Developing Windows 10 Universal Apps Part 3 Learn to develop a Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform app that truly comes to life with features like cloud service integration, background tasks, and geo-fencing. This course is part three of a three-part programming series.

About this Course Use C# and XAML to develop Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform apps that you will be proud to publish to the new Windows store. In part three of this three-part programming series (three x 4-week courses) you develop an app that connects to the cloud for data and services, implements notifications, geofencing, and live tiles, and includes advanced features such as speech-to-text and inking. Put your existing C#/XAML skills to work creating apps for the new Windows app store.

What you’ll learn Azure service integration Background tasks and communication Live Tiles and notifications Geofencing and map integration Speech-to-text integration Windows store publishing and monetization

Starts: November 25, 2015

Effort: 10 - 12 hours/week

Institution: Microsoft

Subject: Computer Science

Length: 4 weeks

Languages: English

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tech tech ed ed Implementing Predictive Analytics with Hadoop in Azure HDInsight Learn how to use Hadoop technologies like R, Mahout and Apache Spark in Microsoft Azure HDInsight to create predictive analytical solutions.

About this Course Learn how to implement predictive analytics solutions using Hadoop machine learning technologies like Mahout and Spark on Microsoft Azure HDInsight. In this four-week course, you will learn the basic concepts of data science and also use R programming on an HDInsight cluster.

Note: To complete the hands-on elements in this course, you will require an Azure subscription and a Windows client computer. You can sign up for a free Azure trial subscription (a valid credit card is required for verification, but you will not be charged for Azure services). Note that the free trial is not available in all regions.

It is possible to complete the course and earn a certificate without completing the hands-on practices

Starts: January 18, 2016

Effort: 3 - 4 hours/week

Institution: Microsoft

Subject: Computer Science

Length: 5 weeks

Languages: English Source: https://www.edx.org/

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Embedded Systems - Shape The World

Build real-world embedded solutions using a bottom-up approach from simple to complex in this hands-on, lab-based course.

About this Course Learn how electronic gadgets are designed, developed, and built as embedded systems that shape the world.

This is a hands-on, learn-by-doing course that shows you how to build solutions to real-world problems using embedded systems. The course uses a bottom-up approach to problem solving, building gradually from simple interfacing of switches and LEDs to complex concepts like display drivers, digital to analog conversion, generation of sound, analog to digital conversion, graphics, interrupts, and communication. We will present both general principles and practical tips for building circuits and programming the microcontroller in the C programming language. You will develop debugging skills using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and software instrumentation. Laboratory assignments are first performed in simulation, and then you will build and debug your system on the real microcontroller. At the conclusion of this course you will possess the knowledge to build your own arcade-style game from the ground up.

To complete this course, you will be required to purchase a Texas Instruments TM4C123 microcontroller kit and a few electronic components. This microcontroller has a state-of-the-art ARM Cortex-M4 processor. More at: edx.org Starts: January 20, 2016

Effort: 10 hours/week

Institution: University of Texas of Austin (UTAustinX)

Subject: Computer Science

Length: 16 weeks

Languages: English

Source: https://www.edx.org/

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tech tech ed ed Nanotechnology: Fundamentals of Nanotransistors Explore nantechnology and gain an understanding of the essential physics and technology of nanotransistors.

About this Course This nanotechnology course provides a simple, conceptual framework for understanding the essential physics of nanoscale transistors. It assumes only a basic background in semiconductor physics and provides an opportunity to learn how some of the fascinating new discoveries about the flow of electrons at the nanoscale plays out in the context of a practical device.

The course is divided into four units: Transistors fundamentals Transistor electrostatics Ballistic MOSFETs Transmission theory of the MOSFET This course is the latest in a series offered by the nanoHUB-U project which is jointly funded by Purdue and NSF with the goal of transcending disciplines through short courses accessible to students in any branch of science or engineering. These courses focus on cutting-edge topics distilled into short lectures with quizzes and practice exams.

Starts: January 25, 2016

Effort: 6 hours/week

Institution: Purdue University (PurdueX)

Subject: Computer Science

Length: 8 weeks

Languages: English

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Space Mission Design and Operations

Learn the concepts used in the design of space missions, manned or unmanned and operations, based on the professional experience of the lecturer.

About this Course Space exploration is truly fascinating. From the Sputnik mission to the assembly and exploitation of the International Space Station or the Apollo program, we are just beginning to uncover the many mysteries of our universe!

This course builds on university-level mechanics to introduce and illustrate orbital dynamics as they are applied in the design of space missions. You will learn from the experiences of Claude Nicollier, one of the first ESA astronauts, specifically, his role in the maintenance of the Hubble Space Telescope with NASA. The course focuses on conceptual understanding of space mechanics, manoeuvers, propulsion and control systems used in all spacecraft. Learners will gain knowledge of the challenges related to the use of the space environment as a scientific and commercial platform.

Starts: February 24, 2016

Effort: 2-4 hours/week

Institution: Ecole Polytechnique FĂŠdĂŠrale de Lausanne

Subject: Computer Science

Length: 8 weeks

Languages: English

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Tech Events & Tradeshows 30 Nov-01 Dec 2015 International Conference on Futuristic Trends in Engineering and Technologies The International Conference on Futuristic Trends in Engineering and Technologies, organized by the IACITE will take place from 30th November to the 1st December 2015 at the Holiday Inn Istanbul City in Istanbul, Turkey.

The conference will cover areas like Computer, Control, Electrical, Electronics, Electromechanics, Mechanical, Optical, Power, Photonics, Robotics, Telecommunications and Radio Frequency.

Venue: Holiday Inn Istanbul City | Istanbul, Turkey

01 Dec 2015 Cloud Computing & Virtualization The Cloud Computing & Virtualization, organized by the Whitehall Media will take place on 1st December 2015 at the Hotel Russell London in London, United Kingdom. The conference will cover areas like Public, Private, Hybrid Cloud Cloud Infrastructure / SaaS / IaaS / PaaS Cloud Governance, Security, Risk Management Cloud Standards and Compliance Privacy, Ownership, Access Control, Integrity Issues Data Protection Security Big Data Analytics Mobile Cloud Computing Architectures, Protocols, Services Unified user and device mobility management Cloud Programming, Application Development and Management Interoperability, Optimisation, Automation Storage Management / Data Centres Software Defined Networking Cloud Disaster Recovery.

Venue: Hotel Russell London | London, UK

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01-03 Dec 2015 AnDevCon Boston The AnDevCon Boston, organized by the BZ Media LLC will take place from 1st December to the 3rd December 2015 in Santa Clara, United States Of America. The conference will cover areas like software developers and engineers building Android apps.

Venue to be announced | Santa Clara, USA 01-03 Dec 2015 HP Discover

The HP Discover, organized by the Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. will take place from 1st December to the 3rd December 2015 at the ExCeL London in London, United Kingdom. The conference will cover areas like learn, connect, and grow. This is your opportunity to join the industry’s most dynamic technology conversation.

Venue: ExCeL London | London, UK 02-05 Dec 2015 International Robot Exhibition

International Robot Exhibition 2015 is a high technology concerned expo which will focus over advance technologies being used in robots devices and equipments. In the expo, the entire advance technologies used in Manufacturing robots, Non-manufacturing robots, related equipment and device / element equipment, Small scale production system, Robot simulation and vision system and more will be showcased at global scale. International Robot Exhibition 2011 will hold interactive special events, seminars and forum by the lemoniest researchers, professionals and experts to give awareness about the advanced technologies and latest systems to the general people through these kinds of exposition.

Venue: Tokyo International Exhibition Center (Tokyo Big.. | Tokyo, Japan

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Tech Events & Tradeshows 06-08 Dec 2015 IOT World Forum The IOT World Forum, organized by the CISCO will take place from 6th December to the 8th December 2015 at the Dubai World Trade Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The conference will cover areas like how the Internet of Things is providing business results today to how IoT can help create a sustainable energy future, More than 40 breakout sessions covering eight IoT verticals, First annual IoTWF Research and Innovation, real-world applications of the Internet of Things in the city of Chicago, IoT Hackathon, IoT Innovation and Security Grand Challenge winner announcements, The Innovation Celebration at Chicago’s world-acclaimed Museum of Science and Industry and more.

Venue: Dubai World Trade Centre | Dubai, UAE 02 Jan 2016

International Conference On Artificial Intelligence And Soft Computing The Solidcon Hardware, Software & the Internet of Things, organized by the O’Reilly Media, Inc. will take place from 23rd June to the 25th June 2015 at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, USA. The conference will cover areas like During the Conference Engineers Are Building Products Never Before Imagined, Programmers Are Reaching Beyond the Screen in Ways That Would Make a Sci-fi Writer Envious, Designers Are Creating Uxs That Make Previously Outlandish Ideas Seem Obvious and Intuitive, Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders Are Inventing Entirely New Business Models. Hardware, Software, Sensors, and Physical Things Are Coming Together in Uncharted Waters. To Succeed, You’ll Need to Build Teams That Cross Disciplines in Ways Never Before Attempted. Envision New Business Models. And Recognize the “crazy” Ideas That Are Now Entirely Possible. Learn How at Solid.

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06 – 09 Jan 2016 2016 International CES CES reflects the dynamic consumer electronics industry by evolving along with it The first CES took place in New York City in June of 1967 with 200 exhibitors and 17,500 attendees. Since then, CES has grown more than ten-fold. With more than four decades of success, the International CES reaches across global markets, connects the industry and enables CE innovations to grow and thrive.

Creative Forum, the event management sister company of Tradefair, offers a host of additional services for companies exhibiting; providing pop-up stands, custom stand design and build, and management of any additional events you plan on organizing around the exhibition.

Venue: Fort Mason Center | San Francisco, USA 09-11 Jan 2016

World Congress on Computer Applications and Information Systems The World Congress on Computer Applications and Information Systems, organized by the N&N Global Technology will take place from 9th January to the 11th January 2016 at the Mehari Hammamet in Hammamet, Tunisia.

The conference will cover areas like provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in Computer Applications and Information Systems.

Venue: Mehari Hammamet | Hammamet, Tunisia

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Tech Events & Tradeshows 02-03 Feb 2016 International Conference On Soft Engineering And Information Management The International Conference On Soft Engineering And Information Management, organized by the South Asia Institute of Science and Engineering (SAISE) will take place from 2nd February to the 3rd February 2016 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The conference will cover areas like AI and Knowledge based software engineering.Artificial Intelligence.Aspect-orientation and feature interaction.Business Process Reengineering & Science.

Venue: Venue to be announced | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 03 Feb 2016

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Com puting The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, organized by the Academics World will take place on 3rd February 2016 at the BEST WESTERN PLUS The President Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey. The conference will cover areas like AI Algorithms Artificial Intelligence tools & Applications Automatic Control Bioinformatics Natural Language Processing CAD Design & Testing Computer Vision and Speech Understanding Data Mining and Machine Learning Tools Fuzzy Logic Heuristic and AI Planning Strategies and Tools Computational Theories of Learning Hybrid Intelligent Systems Information Retrieval Intelligent System Architectures Knowledge Representation.

Venue: BEST WESTERN PLUS The President Hotel | Istanbul, Turkey

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01-03 Feb 2016 Advanced Telematics and Mobility for Automotive The Advanced Telematics and Mobility for Automotive, organized by the will take place from 1st February to the 3rd February 2016 at the in Detroit, USA. The conference will cover areas like Focus on the Technology that Customers are Expecting in Future Cars, How to Protect the Technology and the Customer from a Potential Accident, What new Technology will be Implemented and How to Teach the Customer to Use the Technology Safely, Discuss the Impending Insurance Participation within the Industry, Deliberate the Upcoming Regulations that Could Take Place and Will Effect the Industry.

Venue: TBA | Detroit, USA 04 Feb 2016

High Performance Computing & Big Data The High Performance Computing & Big Data, organized by the Govnet Communications will take place on 4th February 2016 at the Victoria Park Plaza Hotel London in London, United Kingdom. The conference will cover areas like The event will also showcase innovative, cutting edge and best practice case studies from the public and private sector – demonstrating how academics, researchers and the private sector and utilise HPC and big data for increased success.

Venue: Victoria Park Plaza Hotel London | London, UK

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Tech Events & Tradeshows 05 Feb 2016 International Conference on Communication and Signal Pro cessing The International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing, organized by the Research World will take place on 5th February 2016 at the Holiday Inn Oxford in Oxford, UK. The conference will cover areas like VLSI Signal Processing Mobile and Cellular Communications Vehicular Communication Networks Antennas, RF and Microwave Communications Optical Communication MIMO and Space Time Communications Cognitive Radio and Cognitive Networks Satellite Communication OFDM and CDMA Communication Receivers Bio Signal Processing.

Venue: Holiday Inn Oxford | Oxford, UK 05 Feb 2016

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, organized by the Academics World will take place on 5th February 2016 at the Makati Shangri-La in Manila, Philippines. The conference will cover areas like AI Algorithms Artificial Intelligence tools & Applications Automatic Control Bioinformatics Natural Language Processing CAD Design & Testing Computer Vision and Speech Understanding Data Mining and Machine Learning Tools Fuzzy Logic Heuristic and AI Planning Strategies and Tools Computational Theories of Learning Hybrid Intelligent Systems Information Retrieval Intelligent System Architectures Knowledge Representation Knowledgebased Systems Mechatronics Multimedia & Cognitive Informatics Neural Networks Parallel Processing Pattern Recognition Robotics Semantic Web Techniques and Technologies Soft computing theory and applications Software & Hardware Architectures Soft Computing Fuzzy Systems Neural Networks Machine learning Probabilistic Reasoning Evolutionary Computing Pattern recognition.

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09 Feb 2016 Cyber Risk Insights Conference The Cyber Risk Insights Conference, organized by the Advisen, Ltd. will take place on 9th February 2016 in London, United Kingdom. The conference will cover areas like network security, regulation, law enforcement, risk management and cyber risk insurance will offer their insights on managing risk on a rapidly evolving and increasingly dangerous threat landscape.

Venue: TBA | London, UK 10-11 Feb 2016

Big Data & Analytics Innovation Summit The Big Data & Analytics Innovation Summit, organized by the The Innovation Enterprise Limited will take place from 10th February to the 11th February 2016 in Melbourne, Australia. The conference will cover areas like Data Analytics Data Science Advanced Analytics Predictive Analytics Machine Learning & Algorithms Cloud Computing.

Venue to be announced | Melbourne, Australia 12-13 Feb 2016 Winter Global Technology Symposium

The Winter Global Technology Symposium, organized by the University of Riverside will take place from 12th February to the 13th February 2016 at the University of Riverside in Los Angeles, United States Of America. The conference will cover areas like Decision Analysis and Methods, E-Business and E-Commerce, Engineering Economy and Cost Analysis, Engineering Education and Training, Facilities Planning and Management, Global Manufacturing and Management.

University of Riverside | Riverside, USA

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Tech Events & Tradeshows 12-17 Feb 2016 Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence The Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence will take place from 12th February to the 17th February 2016 in Phoenix, USA. The conference will cover areas like focus on successful applications of AI technology.

Venue to be announced | Phoenix, USA 16 Feb 2016 Idaho Business And Technology Expo

The Idaho Business And Technology Expo is one of the significant and important events in the country. The event will be organized in Idaho and will be held for one day. The event will provide diversified business communication for the exhibitors. The event will be accompanied by informative seminars and workshops which will help in brand exposure and increase the sales. The Idaho Business And Technology Expo will provide suggestions and tips to the visitors for improving the business which will help the visitors to take proper decisions and steps regarding their business. The exhibitors will be able to introduce about the new products and technologies which will increase the visibility. The exhibitors will be able to come in direct contact of the visitors which will help them to understand the current market trend and make profitable deals.

Riverside Hotel | Boise, USA

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