ATATHARVA GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY NEWS TIMES

2014 | Issue1

1 ST APRIL

ATATHARVA
GLOBAL
TECHNOLOGY
NEWS TIMES

THE WORLD THIS WEEK

INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
INDIAN TEEN COULD HELP US SAVE
$400m A YEAR

14-year
old
Suvir
Mirchandani, Indian origin
boy, has come up with a
unique plan that could help
the US save nearly $400m a
year by merely changing the
font
used
on
official
documents. The student in a
Pittsburgh area middle school
has claimed that if federal
government
uses
the
Garamond font exclusively it
could save about $136m a
year, nearly 30% lesser than
the estimated $467 dollars it
spends annually on ink.
IT SUPPORT

Findings of a survey, recently

released
by
HCL
Technologies Ltd, highlighted
how
global
2,000

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organizations could save up

to
USD6.8billion
through
improved
application,
support and maintenance
(ASM).
MICROSOFT EYES BIG BUSINESS
FROM SMALL FIRMS
Microsoft, which has for long sold its
Office software to small businesses
in CDs and downloads, is now eyeing
a potential market of 40 million
small
and
medium
businesses
(SMBs) in India by betting on cloud
computing in which companies can
simply rent its popular software over
broadband links.

EDUCATION
TECHNOLOGY
DIGITAL CLASSROOMS

Pearson, a learning company,

has selected IBM as its
strategic technology partner
to deliver customized elearning solutions to more
than
22,000
classrooms
across India. The five-year

agreement was signed in

Bangalore
recently
by
representatives from both
sides.

ELECTRONICS
FACEBOOK WANTS TO BEAM THE
INTERNET FROM THE SKY
Facebook revealed it has a lab
working on using drones, satellites
and solar powered planes to provide
web access around the world. The
lab is looking at varying tactics to
achieve its mission. For remote
regions or spread out populations,
the team is interested in using
satellites orbiting the Earth.

IN NEW SOCIAL
NETWORKS,
ANONYMITY IS THE
RAGE
Yik Yak, which allows smartphone
users to see posts in a radius up to
8km, is a part of flurry of new apps
that offer novel ways to interact on
social networks without revealing
ones identity. Some say the move to

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anonymity is a response to a
growing ability to track peoples
activities and social network postsin some cases leading to lasting
reputation damage

TALKING ATM TO SCARE CREDIT

CARD FRAUDS
The New ATMs are installed by
many leading banks in India. The
New ATMs have
an integrated
surveillance system of CCTV, Sensor
chips, and two way audio system.If
some one tries to tamper with ATM,
to plant skimming devices or with
suspicious behavior then control
room can RAISE ALARM in the center
SAMSUNG LAUNCHES S5 IN INDIA
FOR RS.51K-PLUS, SANS 4G
The Samsung Galaxy S5 is finally
launched in India but the phone
costs at least Rs. 51,000. It could be
as high as Rs. 53,000.

BIODEGRADABLE BATTERY MELTS

INSIDE THE BODY
A new battery is designed to
dissolve in the body after doing its
work as power source for devices
embedded in tissue. The battery
uses anodes of Magnesium foil and
cathodes of Iron, Molybdenum or
Tungsten. All these metals would
slowly dissolve in the body and their
ions are biocompatible in low
concentration,
along
with
the
biodegradable polymer packaging
the battery comes in. These
batteries could eventually yield
implantable drug-delivery devices
that are controlled by radio signals.

NON-CONVENTIONAL
ENERGY
POWER FROM SPACE TO LIGHT UP
CITIES
The scheme used a sandwich
module which packs all electrical
components between two square
panels. On top is a photo-voltaic
panel that absorbs the suns rays.
An electronic system in the middle
converts energy to radio frequency.
The bottom is an antenna that
transfers power to a target on the
ground. This allows heat to radiate
more efficiently, so the module can

receive greater concentrations of

sunlight without overheating.

PHYSICS
PARTICLES SMALLER THAN HIGGS
BOSON MAY EXIST
The Higgs boson is a central part of
the standard model of particle
physics that describes how the world
is constructed. Techni-quarks can be
the yet-unseen particles, smaller
than the Higgs particle that will form
an extension of the standard model
which includes three generations of
quarks and leptons. So far it has,
however, not been possible to prove
their existence.
CONTACT LENS THAT COULD LET
YOU SEE IN THE DARK
Researchers are working on a new
smart contact lens that could give its
wearer
infrared
night
vision.
Scientists developed the first room
temperature light detector that can
sense the full infrared spectrum and
has potential to put heat vision
technology into a contact lens.
EMOTION DETECTOR TO MAKE
DRIVING SAFER
Researchers at Swiss institute are
working on a device that could read
facial expressions of the driver. They
adapted a device for use in a car,
using an infrared camera placed
behind the steering wheel. The idea
was to get the device to recognize
irritation on the face of a driver.
SCIENTISTS FIND EARTHS NEW
ZEBRAPRINT JACKET
Scientists
have
uncovered
a
mysterious structure that surround
the earth like a giant zebra print
jacket. The structure is produced by
the slow rotation of earth, previously
considered incapable of affecting the
motion of radiation belt particles,
which have velocities approaching
the speed of light.
HUMANS TO BE SUSPENDED
BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH
For the first time, scientists in US will
test a groundbreaking emergency
technique in which knife-wound or
gunshot victims will be cooled down
and
placed
in
a
suspended
animation-a state where people are
not alive but yet not dead. The

technique, if successful, could be

used in medical emergencies giving
doctors more time to treat patients
with traumatic injury (gunshot,
stabbing etc.).

ROBOTICS
An agricultural robot or agribot is
a robot deployed for agricultural
purposes.
The
main
area
of
application of robots in agriculture is
at the harvesting stage. Fruit picking
robots, driverless tractor / sprayer,
and sheep shearing robots are
designed to replace human labour.
The agricultural industry is behind
other complementary industries in
using robots because the sort of jobs
involved in agriculture are not
straightforward, and many repetitive
tasks are not exactly the same every
time. In most cases, a lot of factors
have to be considered (e.g., the size
and colour of the fruit to be picked)
before the commencement of a task.
Robots can be used for other
horticultural tasks such as pruning,
weeding, spraying and monitoring.
Robots can also be used in livestock
applications (livestock robotics) such
as milking, washing and castrating.

ENVIRONMENT
Emissions from the worlds rapidlygrowing fleet of vehicles are an
environmental concern, and raising
the operating efficiency of transport
is a promising way to reduce its
overall impact.
"New techniques to nanostructure
carbon fibers for novel composites
are showing the potential in
vehicle manufacture to reduce
the weight of cars by 10% or
more. Lighter cars need less fuel to
operate, increasing the efficiency of
moving people and goods and
reducing
greenhouse
gas
emissions."

HEALTH
ELECTRONICS
"These virtually invisible devices include
earbuds that monitor heart rate, sensors
worn under clothes to track posture, a
temporary tattoo that tracks health vitals
and haptic shoe soles that communicate GPS
directions through vibration alerts felt by
the feet.

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"The applications are many and varied:
haptic shoes are currently proposed for
helping blind people navigate, while Google
Glass has already been worn by oncologists
to assist in surgery via medical records and
other visual information accessed by voice
commands."