Posts Tagged ‘Aim’

Phishing attacks

Phishing is defined as the activity of stealing one’s account through the fraudulent acts. The main aim is to know the personal information of the people and hack their account. The phishing starts with a mail or a telephone call telling that they are calling from a particular bank and they wish to know the security code or other personal information of the credit card user.

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The future of social media (in context of the Facebook – Friendfeed marriage)

The Facebook and the Friendfeed marriage could have much larger future implications on social networking, content indexing and real time search. In the triangulur contest between Google, Facebook and Twitter, each of these players had one big speciality. Facebook has bad search for the vast quantity of content generated by its users worldwide.

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Intelligent Use Of The Earth’s Heat

From E! Science News:Geothermal energy is increasingly contributing to the power supply world wide. Iceland is world-leader in expanding development of geothermal utilization: in recent years the annual power supply here doubled to more than 500 MW alone in the supply of electricity. And also in Germany, a dynamic development is to be seen: over 100 MW of heat are currently being provided through geothermal energy.

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How Cobras Spit With Perfect Accuracy

Spitting cobra takes aim at a human face.Credit: Frank Luerweg/University of Bonn.From Live Science:Spitting cobras don’t truly spit venom. But they are incredibly accurate shooters, hitting a target — the victim’s eyes — from 2 feet (60 cm) away with impressive accuracy, studies have shown.New research confirms how they do it.Scientists have long known that spitting cobras don’t actually spit.

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Naked Beyonce gives viruses on LinkedIn

You may be tempted to become LinkedIn friends with Beyoncé and Victoria Beckham, but there may be a virus if you try.The network LinkedIn allows you to get in touch with professional contacts that may help you to new jobs, or just to keep track of where your contacts are.

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Quantum Computer Could Solve Problems In A Few Months That Would Take Conventional Computers Millions Of Years

From Science Daily:ScienceDaily (Sep. 13, 2001) — How to build a super fast computer that uses the bizarre properties of quantum physics is the aim of a project by computer scientists Fred Chong of the University of California, Davis, Isaac Chuang at MIT and John Kubiatowicz at UC Berkeley.

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Wisdom: We Still Don’t Get It

“The Thinker” is a sculpture by Rodin. Credit: DreamstimeFrom Live Science:There is more information than ever at our fingertips, yet we’re none the wiser it seems.And many old people are wise, as most of them will tell you, but sometimes they can’t remember your name, so how smart is that?It’s paradoxes like these that lie at the heart of a new $2 million research project called Defining Wisdom. Based at the University of Chicago, the four-year initiative, supported by the Templeton Foundation, has enlisted 23 scholars ranging from historians to economists to psychologists to computer scientists to examine the idea of wisdom, with the aim of cultivating it and better understanding its nature.Read more ….