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Crime-fighting robots with access to citizen databases will be patrolling the streets by 2084, according to an academic at the University of Sheffield.

Robotics expert Professor Noel Sharkey predicts that humanoid robots, that are able to arrest people, will have access to integrated databases of information on British citizens, including bank accounts, tax and movements, to enable them to identify who people are.

The “superior knowledge robots” will, according to Sharkey, be able to use their “super strength and inability to feel pain” to arrest criminals.

They will have human features and will be able to detect weapons including guns, knives and explosives, and recognise drunks and aggressive behaviour in large areas.

By 2070, police will also have the aid of autonomous police cars, which will be able to recognise speeding cars, identify license plates and automatically take fines from bank accounts and add points on driving licences.

The project examined the future of the robot in the UK and how it will be developed to aid police. The research was based on recent robotic developments around the world, and on current ideas and trends from robotics experts.

Amazing technology from Japan
but can you guess what it is ?

Look closely and guess what they could be…

Are they pens with cameras?

Any wild guesses? No clue yet?

Ladies and gentlemen… congratulations!
You’ve just looked into the future… yep that’s right!
You’ve just seen something that will replace your PC in the near future.

Here is how it works:

In the revolution of miniature computers, scientists have made great developments with bluetooth technology.. .

This is the forthcoming computers you can carry within your pockets .

This ‘pen sort of instrument’ produces both the monitor as well as the keyboard on any flat surfaces from where you can carry out functions you would normally do on your desktop computer.

Yesterday, there was an electricity flictuation and my computer’s 250gb harddrive stopped working. The boot partition of the harddrive damaged due to short circuit and all data was lost.

I bought a new 500gb (Western Digital - SATA II) harddrive today and then recovered my data from the damaged Harddrive using Easy Recovery software.

IBM (NYSE:IBM) snared the top three spots in the TOP500 Supercomputer record book and had a total of 210 systems on the list, the most of any upper computer vendor, the company said Wednesday.

IBM also had the most aggregate performance on the list with 5.6 petaflops—48 percent of the total—and the most systems in the top 10, top 50 and top 100.

The official results were reported during the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany, where the bi-annual listing of the World’s TOP500 Supercomputer sites was released.

Leading the pack was IBM’s much- ballyhooed Roadrunner supercomputer, which operates at 1 petaflop or 1,000 trillion calculations per second.

The speed demon was built for the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration to ensure the safety and reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile.

Roadrunner is powered by 12,240 IBM PowerXCell 8i Cell Broadband Engines—the specialty chips that power popular video game consoles. In addition, 6,562 AMD (NYSE:AMD) Opteron dual-core processors perform basic compute functions on Roadrunner, which free the cell chips for the math-intensive calculations.

Taking second place in the fastest computer category is the IBM Blue Gene/L system at Lawrence Livermore National Lab in California. The supercomputer clocks in at 478 teraflops or 478 trillion calculations per second.

IBM’s Team Blue Gene held the No. 3 spot with a 450 teraflop performance from the Blue Gene/P system. The supercomputer is housed at Argonne National Lab in Chicago.

IBM said it also has the most power-efficient systems. They are the IBM QS22 PowerXCell 8i-based supercomputers at IBM Germany and Fraunhofer; and the Los Alamos system.

According to the Top500 rankings, IBM also has the fastest machine in Europe, the Blue Gene/P at Juelich Research Centre in Germany.

The TOP500 Supercomputer Site is compiled and published by supercomputing experts Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee; Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim, Germany

Yahoo!’s free online email service is to grow new tentacles with the company planning to add two domains alongside its existing “@yahoo.com” addresses. The struggling internet firm said it is to introduce “@ymail.com” and “@rocketmail.com” to give people who use its service a better choice of Yahoo! email address options.

According to industry stats, the company has about 266 million peeps across the globe with a Yahoo! email address, making it the most popular web-based email in the world, ahead of Microsoft’s Hotmail and Google’s Gmail.”We recognise that people want an email address that reflects who they are,” Yahoo! Mail vice president John Kremer told Agence France-Presse.

Dell is to stop selling new computers with Windows XP from today unless buyers spend an extra $50 to downgrade their operating system.

Customers looking to buy models from the company’s Vostro line will be offered Vista Business, but Dell will downgrade the system for an extra $50.

Some of the company’s XPS gaming systems will also carry a charge for the downgrade.

The move will raise eyebrows, since Dell may be seen as trying to cash in on the unpopularity of Microsoft’s latest operating system.

Dell was one of the first companies to offer a free downgrade service to customers, primarily aimed at small businesses reluctant to make the move to Vista.

Microsoft has said that it will stop selling XP licences and boxed software on 30 June, although it has already extended the lifespan of the operating system.

Three major Internet provides have agreed to block access to websites and online discussion groups featuring child pornography, New York state attorney general said Tuesday.

“The pervasiveness of child pornography on the Internet is horrific and it needs to be stopped,” Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said in a statement on the agreement with Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable.

“We are attacking this problem by working with Internet Service Providers to ensure they do not play host to this immoral business,” he said, adding that the agreement “should serve as a model for the entire industry.”

Internet providers had initially refused to control the content of communication between online users, but they finally agreed to block the pedophile content, Cuomo said.

The agreement covers the entire United States and Cuomo said he was negotiating similar deals with other Internet providers.

“Online child pornography represents one of the worst abuses of the Internet,” said Jeff Zimmerman, senior vice president and chief ethics officer at Time Warner Cable.

“Among the steps Time Warner Cable is taking are removing Newsgroups from our Internet service,” Zimmerman said, referring to online discussion groups.

Verizon, with 8.2 million users, and Time Warner, with 7.9 million, are among the five largest Internet provides in the world. Sprint is one of the three biggest mobile phone companies.

News by : AFP
Date: 6/11/2008

Microsoft’s TownSquare internal social network provides employees with feeds and updates about their colleagues

At the request of its SharePoint and Office product development teams, Microsoft ’s Office Labs operation has created and is testing a prototype of an internal social network that can provide employees with feeds and updates about their colleagues.

Chris Pratley, general manager of Office Labs , is slated to disclose details of the prototype — called TownSquare — Thursday at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. He spoke to Computerworld about the project, which was launched in January and has already been used by about 8,000 Microsoft employees.

With a layout that is strikingly similar to Facebook.com’s (in which Microsoft invested $240 million in October 2007), TownSquare is fueled by enterprise news feeds that use Web services to query SharePoint for public information, such as promotions and company anniversaries, about an employee.

TownSquare also notifies users when a document or file is modified. Users can customize their feeds and monitor who is receiving information about them.

In early January, Pratley’s group told 100 Microsoft employees about the network. Since then, 8,000 employees who learned of TownSquare by word of mouth have visited the network at least once, Pratley noted. About 700 use it daily.

Some Microsoft customers, which he declined to name, are testing the TownSquare network for use in their companies.

Office Labs works as a sort of advance development team that tests technology concepts suggested by employees and, as in this case, development teams. Pratley stressed that TownSquare is not a product, but a platform to test the technology concepts. By hammering out the various likes and dislikes of its users before releasing a product, “We’re trying to get version three goodness into a first release,” he added.

“We have instrumentation ?so we know which things people use,” Pratley noted. “We share that with the client teams we work with. They take the knowledge about usage so they don’t make so many mistakes in product design.”

Many third party vendors have targeted SharePoint as the core data source for information to feed their enterprise social networking and other Enterprise 2.0 applications. Several have announced upgrades to their products or new integration with SharePoint this week at the conference.

Anecdotal evidence has shown that employees like the TownSquare tool, Pratley noted. Employees especially appreciate being able to monitor the creation and editing of documents by colleagues, he added. One employee used the network to find a sponsor within Microsoft to fund her trip to the Enterprise 2.0 Conference.

“That is the kind of information that spreads through an enterprise social network,” he said. “By posting it out there, the people interested can pick up on it, and other people can ignore it. It’s a way to keep in touch in a social way with people you work with.”

Like Facebook , TownSquare also includes a photos of users and allows them to note when they are away from their workstations, such as at a meeting or in the cafeteria for coffee.

While some employees have expressed initial surprise at all the information that Microsoft has about them in its intranet, once people see the type of information that is included in the feeds about them, “they see it’s pretty safe stuff and say okay,” Pratley said.

By Heather Havenstein, Computerworld

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