World's Internet will Shut Down on July 9

4/25/2012 11:39:00 AM 8 mega pixel camera, FBI warning, Internet shutdown, July 9, remove july 9 torjan, Tech News

Yes this is no Joke. FBI issued a warning of a trojan that has infected millions of computers around the world.

Hackers have created a Trojan/virus, which will install itself on the computer and stays there just like until July 9. The Trojan virus is set to time bombed itself on July 9th. Thus Trojan will deflect all the Internet traffic to hacker's infected servers whereby blocking the access of the Internet.

Click here to see the location of the machines that will be most effected on July 9.

How July 9 Trojan Virus Works:

There's a reason why those machines will have difficulty accessing sites on the Internet. DNS, or Domain Name Services, is what gives Internet users access to websites by simply typing the name - like yahoo.com - instead of an IP address. DNS translates the name of the website to the actual IP address where the site lives. For most users, these requests are handled by servers at their ISP, or Internet Service Provider.

The DNS Changer malware, however, will redirect those queries to a server set up by the trojan’s creators, effectively hijacking all Internet traffic from the computer. This let the criminals send users to websites filled with ads allowing them to pocket millions of dollars from the traffic.

How to Check if Your Computer is Affected on July 9:

Go to the DNS Changer Check up site at http://www.dns-ok.us/.

If the computer is clean, the page will present a 'Green' graphic indicating the computer appears to be routing addresses correctly.

If a 'Red' graphic is displayed, that means the computer is infected.  

How to Remove the Trojan/Virus

Go to  DNS Changer Working Group website and use any one of the links there to clean the malware off the computer.

With great technology comes great threats.

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Nuclear Weapons

4/13/2012 11:11:00 AM Atomic Bomb, Fat Man, Hiroshima, little boy, Nagasaki, Nuclear, Nuclear weapons, Science, TNT

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Both reactions release vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter. The first fission ("atomic") bomb test released the same amount of energy as approximately 20,000 tons of TNT. The first thermonuclear ("hydrogen") bomb test released the same amount of energy as approximately 10,000,000 tons of TNT.[1] A modern thermonuclear weapon weighing little more than 2,400 pounds (1,100 kg) can produce an explosive force comparable to the detonation of more than 1.2 million tons (1.1 million tonnes) of TNT.[2] Thus, even a small nuclear device no larger than traditional bombs can devastate an entire city by blast, fire and radiation. Nuclear weapons are considered weapons of mass destruction, and their use and control have been a major focus of international relations policy since their debut. The technology of producing nuclear bombs have significantly improved after the first nuclear tests.

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Google's Project Glass -A revolution in Augmented Reality

4/05/2012 11:45:00 AM augmented reality, Google Project Glass, Project Glass, Research

Imagine augmented reality tied up with your glasses, rather Smart glasses we should say as it will work just like your smart-phone, and will have most of the Google apps like Google Maps, Google voice search, navigation, weather update and any other app that may be created in the future.

Though Project Glass is an ambitious project that is being launched by a team of Google secret development team who work on new technologies, called Google[x].

The project focuses on developing a technology where a person can see the augmented reality embedded in the wearable glasses. The user will be able to issue commands while seeing anything, get information about any places from within the display of the glasses and at the same time see the outside world. Make calls via dialing through voice app and even send and receive and can see a text message on the go.

The glasses seems to run a kind of  Google's Android operating system which is voice-controlled and view controlled. A small bar with icons is displayed just above the glasses, which user can activate by looking up, the wearer can interact with the icons to view the weather, send text messages, and do much of what a smart phone can do.

The team has also create a Google Plus page named Project Glass where anyone can propose suggestion and follow up on the new updates.

The teaser video can be seen in the embedded video below, where a few uses are presented as explained above. 

We have already covered a kind of similar augmented reality gadget/technology which is underdeveloped name : The Sixth Sense.

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