WhatsApp has 480 million users

According to a report by the news magazine Focus in the online edition of 23 March 2014, the short messaging service WhatsApp has become one of world's 480 million users. Monthly average of 15 million new users would be won and even though WhatsApp was taken in February of Facebook. In February, the provider in Germany rose by 1 million to increase its user base significantly to 30 million users. Opposite Focus reported the WhatsApp-founder...

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A touch pad holographic display

Soon, we can interact with a terminal via a holographic display . Finish the touch screen, instead, the tablet directly displays the data in the air through a holographic screen as interface. The prototype was called AIRR Tablet for "Aerial Imaging by Retro-Reflection." The touch pad of a new genus is distinguished by its floating display. Allowing the user to manipulate and access to...

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This chip lets you know when food is expired

If refer to one's usual expiration date printed on the packaging of our products, Chinese researchers have found a way to do things differently in order to check the status of our food.Thanks to nanotechnology, they managed to create a chip that can notify the consumer when a product is damaged. invention that the team of the must Peking University , led by Professor Chao Zhang. This is a tag to be bonded...

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MIT develops a lifelike robotic fish

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have recently created a "fish" from soft robotics. Away from rigid metal models, their latest is more soft and supple. A PLC can swim like a fish in water. Based on biomimicry , this robotic fish is able to mimic the movement and mode of movement of its animal counterpart. A prototype is manufactured from silicon 3D printed, so...

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A robot wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times

The city of Los Angeles recently experienced a 4.4 magnitude earthquake . Southern California had not experienced such an earthquake since 2008, but the new fact, the article was dedicated to him was written not by a human but by a powerful algorithm . Quakebot , as it is called is in fact an algorithm capable of analyzing a series of information and write an article. Once the paper is realized,...

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Morpheus project helmet augmented reality PS4

Sony took the Game Developers Conference 2014 (GDC) to present the Morpheus Project , vision augmented to its PlayStation range. reality Under this code name, we discover what appears to Oculus Rift for PS4 . Only compatible with the next generation console from Sony, it sports a slick, streamlined design: a black box to position before the eyes and a white headband to hold it in place on...

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Internet is 25 years old

The Internet celebrates its 25th anniversary at March 13, 2014. The foundations for today's World Wide Web (WWW) put the British computer expert Tim Berners-Lee while he had designed an information network, which consisted of databases, computers and networks. As a tool he used the HTML programming language with which it was first possible to reproduce images, videos and sounds texts on the Internet. The first arose simple...

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