THE FABULOUS LIFE OF MARK ZUCKERBERG - CEO OF FACEBOOK

             Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York. He grew up with his three siblings in the nearby town, Dobbs Ferry. At the age of 12, Zuckerberg used Atari Basic to create a messaging programme his dad used in his dental office.
    Zuckerberg enrolled in Harvard University in 2002, where he quickly became known for his developer skills. After his sophomore year, he decided to drop out and focus on 'The Facebook', which he had been running out of his dormroom.
    By the end of 2005, Facebook had surpassed 5.5 million users and received $12.7 million from Accel Ventures.
    Zuckerberg continued to see success with Facebook and in 2010 was featured as Time magazine's person of the year. Vanity Fair also placed him at the top of its New Establishment list, and Forbes ranked him at No. 35 on its '400 list', ahead of Steve Jobs.
    He took Facebook public on May 18, 2012. The IPO raised $16 billion almost instantly, making it the biggest tech IPO in history.
   Another sign of Zuckerberg having made it is the fact he received a $1 salary in 2013. (Not including the $653,164 for "other compensation," most of which covered bills for private chartered jets.)

    Also, he was the most charitable philanthropist in 2013, having donated half a billion dollars worth of Facebook stock to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. He has also donated a lot of money to Newark, New Jersey's public school system and his non-profit Internet.org.


Earlier this week, Facebook crushed its second quarter earnings and its stock hit an all-time high — which really just means Mark Zuckerberg is one step closer to being the richest man in the world.

Zuckerberg's current net worth is about $33.1 billion, putting him at No. 16 in Forbes's ranking of the world's billionaires. More impressively, he is one of just three people who currently have more billions under their belt than years lived.

 

SMART WATCHES TO RULE OUR WRIST!!

LG G watch (left) and Samsung gear live (right)

The long awaited smart watches has been released this week. The two watches built on Android wear platform. One is from LG, the G watch, and the other is from its arch Korean peninsular rival, Samsung, the Gear live.
 Android wear does two things, it moves app notifications to the watch’s face, and it puts Google Now’s voice-powered search capabilities on your wrist.

Both runs on the same platform and more or less same software. Using these watches one can check calendar, set remainders, set timers, send emails, Google search and even get map directions. Also can dictate a note and that will show up in Google Keep. Both watches need to charge every day, just like phone. And that means cradling it, neither watch can power up directly from a USB cable.

The Samsung Gear Live costs $200, got a better-looking body, it’s more comfortable, and has a better display to boot. It can detect your heart rate on command, the LG cannot. The Samsung watch is the clear winner on overall build quality. It has a slightly curved backside, and the band connection is angled, both of which means that it rests more comfortably on your wrists than the LG. Its screen is brighter than LG. 

The LG G Watch costs $230, let us upgrade relatively quickly, replacing this watch in a year. It has a nice cradles and covers the complete backside of the watch and feels rather hefty and substantial. Better yet, it connects magnetically to the back of the watch to charge the wrist computer. 
 

 Besides all its pros and cons they are pretty amazing and are the first truly useful smart watches to hit the market.

Nik Wallenda's Highwire Walk

Wallenda walking the high-wire at King's Island

Nik Wallenda, 7th generation of the "flying wallenda" family, is a first person to walk on a tight rope directly over Niagara falls in 2012.
 Click to watch : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSBye1LFaug

In 2008, Wallenda set Guinness World Records for longest and highest bicycle ride on a high-wire 250-foot-long (76 m) ride at 135 feet (41 m) above the ground in New Jersey. He nearly doubled the height record in 2010 to 260 feet (79 m). On the same day in 2010, he upped his personal best by tightrope walking over 2,000 feet (610 m) in a single performance.


Wallenda’s two-inch (5 cm) cable spans 1,400 feet (426 m) across the gorge, 1,500 feet (457 m) above ground; that’s higher than the Empire State Building. Also the site is likely to be buffeted with winds up to 30 mph (48 kph). Wallenda says, “I’ve trained for holding on to that cable if there is an emergency”. He performs that with no safety net or harness and inspired many people.

Watch the unimaginable art of brave Wallenda at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIWp_25WOhE

Incredible visual translation app WORD LENS !!!

Word lens - an augmented reality application that recognizes printed words using its optical character recognition capabilities.It translates printed words from one language to another with smartphones's video camera, in real time.

It was developed by Otovio Good (a former video game developer), John DeWeese, Maia Good, Bryan Lin and Erin Park. 

Initially released on December 16, 2010, only English-to-Spanish and Spanish-to-English were supported.

Later on December 14, 2011, English-to-French and French-to-English were released.

In 2012, English-to-Italian and Italian-to-English

2013 - English-to-German, German-to-English, English-to-Portuguese and Portuguese-to-English

2014 - English-to-Russian and Russian-to-English were released.

Current version : Word Lens 2.2.3(43.3MB)

Word lens is available for Apple iPhone, iPod, iPad and also for some selected android smartphones.

It does not require internet connection to translate the languages which adds value to it. 

Click to watch demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2OfQdYrHRs

APPLE - Mac in 30 years

1984 - Macintosh (computer that changed everything)
1985 - Macintosh XL (pioneering electronic music)
1986 - Macintosh Plus (bringing design into the digital space)

MacBook

1987 - Macintosh II (harnessing the power of data)
1988 - Macintosh IIx (setting topography free)
1989 - Macintosh Portable (visualizing the impossible) 
1990 - Macintosh LC (making art-kind friendly)
1991 - PowerBook (making liberal arts and technology)
1992 - Macintosh Quadra 950 (deconstructing traditional design)
1993 - Macintosh TV (re-imagining the video game)
1994 - PowerBook 540c (orchestrating music and technology)
1995 - Power Macintosh 8500 (envisioning the graphic novel)
1996 - PowerBook 1400 (designing pop culture)
1997 - Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (chronicling the digital age)
1998 - iMac (making the world smaller)
1999 - Power Mac G4 (reinventing music production)
2000 - iBook (bringing fashion to life)

PowerMac G4

2001 - PowerBook G4 (breaking down musical barriers) 
2002 - iMac (mobilizing the photo studio)
2003 - Power Mac G5 (leading the way in sports) 
2004 - iBook G4 (unleashing every student's potential)
2005 - iMac G5 (building an icon)
2006 - MacBook Pro (redefining radio)
2007 - iMac (charting new territory) 
2008 - MacBook Air (designing on the world stage)
2009 - iMac (taking science out of the lab)
2010 - MacBook Air (visualizing surgery from the inside out)
2011 - MacBook Pro (teaching the world to code)
2012 - MacBook Pro with Retinal display (exploring frontiers of art) 
2013 - iMac (performing at the highest level)
2014 - MacPro (creating future)

Information Technology

Sixth Sem Notes

http://www.4shared.com/folder/eg_FmE-t/Sixth_Sem_Notes.html

MOJAVE DESSERT - Largest Solar Plant

The Mojave Desert is blooming.

Construction crews are erecting mirrors, each measuring 70 square feet at a rate of 500 per day across some 3,500 acres.

The project has a partnership of NRG, BrightSource, Google and Bechtel.

Unlike photovoltaic technology, which converts solar radiation directly into electricity, the Ivanpah facility generates heat. More than 170,000 mirrors will gather tremendous amounts of sunlight and focus it on three towers filled with water, raising temperatures to more than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit and producing steam that spins turbines that generate electricity. The Bechtel corporation, says that using sunlight instead of fossil fuels to power the turbines will reduce carbon emissions by more than 400,000 tons annually. 



The world's largest solar thermal is now comprises the GOOGLE logo which is spell out in heliostats(mirrors reflect sunlight onto a central receiving point).