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Restaurant in China is Staffed By Robots

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One of my favorite things to do is to go out and eat at a restaurant. And while I like the occasional fast food experience, I really prefer a sit-down kind of meal. It really doesn’t matter where I go, though, the experience is just about the same. I check in with the hostess, get seated, wait for the waiter (there’s an oxymoron), order a drink, order food, get my food, eat my food, pay the bill, and leave the restaurant. Whether I’m eating at an Olive Garden or some kind of upscale, ritzy place, it’s all about the same. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing – it’s just the way it is. But it’s not the way it has to be.</div>
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There’s a restaurant in China – in Kunshan, in the province of Jiangsu, to be exact – that does all of the above,<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/robo-cook-android-restaurant-boots-china-062418815.html" style="color: #0092dd;" target="_blank">except they do it with robots</a>. That’s right – you’re greeted by robots, seated by robots, given your food and drinks by robots – the whole deal. They even understand 40 some sentences. And it sounds awesome. It sounds like a trip to China needs to be in my future.</div>
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Heck, robots even cook the food in the restaurant’s kitchen.</div>
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After a 2-hour charge, each of the robots can work a 5-hour shift. While they can only move on certain tracks in the floor, if a customer gets in their way, they will nicely ask them to step aside so they can pass.</div>
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It seems many businesses are turning to robots because they don’t have to be paid a salary, and they don’t come with the problems of human workers, such as needing time off, calling in sick, etc. Each of the robots costs somewhere in the realm of $6,500.</div>
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What do you think? Can you picture a day when restaurants will be staffed with more robots than people? Let us know your thoughts regarding this story in the comments section below!</div>
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Restaurant in China is Staffed By Robots

One of my favorite things to do is to go out and eat at a restaurant. And while I like the occasional fast food experience, I really prefe...

Microsoft To Release Low End Phone Priced £15

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There are still people out there that have no interest in technology but still need a handset or those who want a mobile device but can’t afford one.  <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/" style="color: #0092dd;" target="_blank" title="Microsoft">Microsof</a>t has announced the release of a dual-sim mobile phone.  The best part?  It will only cost you £15.</div>
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For such a basic phone, it will be available in three different colours: red, silver and black.  It is a surprise introduction to the Nokia range.  Although it won’t be able to access wireless internet, users can use USB connection, an SD card or Bluetooth to download videos and music onto the Nokia 130.  £15 and you can still watch videos.  Amazing!</div>
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But that is not all, oh no, that is not all!  The mobile device includes a rear-mounted torch light, a 1.8 inch colour display screen as well as a FM radio.  Better yet, the Nokia 130 has a super long battery life and can last up to 36 days on standby and has 13 hours talk time.  For many areas in the world where electricity is not readily available, long-life battery is the key to the successful sale of this product.</div>
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Jo Harlow, the head of Microsoft’s mobile phone department said:  “this is a massive market segment, and there are not a lot of players in this segment for the reason that scale is really important. We have the distribution and supply chain scale to compete effectively in this market.  This is a space where smartphones today don’t reach, so there is still very strong benefits to our business.”</div>
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Although it is such a low cost phone, Microsoft expects to gain profit from the sale of this phone.  The plan is to market the device in countries like China, India, Vietnam and Pakistan.  However, if you are expecting it in the UK, you will be disappointed.</div>
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If you are looking for a cheap handset, you can purchase one for £26 from a firm called <a href="http://www.karbonnmobiles.com/" style="color: #0092dd;" target="_blank" title="karbonn">Karbonn</a> who launched a touchscreen smartphone last month.  But you’ll have to order it online as it has only been released in India.</div>
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You can see the rest of the specs at the <a href="http://www.nokia.com/global/products/phone/130-dual-sim/" style="color: #0092dd;" target="_blank" title="Nokia 130">Nokia </a>website.</div>

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New 3D Tool Fills In Missing Parts Of Images

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A lot of exciting projects are coming out of Carnegie Mellon University lately.  Dr. Yaser Sheikh, a computer scientist and his team, has recently created a digital editing tool that helps users manipulate objects in a photograph so that they can expose areas not in the original image.  For instance, users can turn a chair around to see the backside of it.</div>
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How does the software do this?  3D models of objects in our everyday surroundings are used by the software to “imagine what is not visible,”said Sheikh.  The software uses numerical data from the models and the software ‘guesses’what the object might look like if it were moved in the picture.  Quite intelligent stuff, really.</div>
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Another aspect of the software is that it uses pixels in the image to guess the colour, lighting and texture of the object after it has been moved around.  Sheikh states, “It infers the 3-D lighting of the whole scene to create somewhat realistic shadows.”</div>
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Perhaps you have photos that you are not quite happy with?  Perhaps you’d like to manipulate some photos to make them more exciting?  Now you can with this new software.  The best thing about it is that it is currently available for free, online, from the Carnegie Mellon computer science <a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/" style="color: #0092dd;" target="_blank" title="cs.cmu">website</a>.  You can even download the <a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~om3d/papers/SIGGRAPH2014.pdf" style="color: #0092dd;" target="_blank" title="Original Paper">original paper</a> published by the team so you can learn the ins and outs of 3D object manipulation.Natasha Kholgade, Sheikh’s doctoral student, led the project and will decide whether the technology will be sold at a profit.</div>
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Shiekh and his colleagues are appearing at the <a href="http://www.siggraph.org/" style="color: #0092dd;" target="_blank" title="siggraph">International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques</a> in Vancouver, British Columbia taking place this week, to show their findings.</div>

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How to use Cortana in your Car with the help of Bluetooth

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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; text-align: start;">If your car has Bluetooth and you have just updated your device to Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1, you need to rush towards your car and check this new feature out it is totally cool. </span>Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 has added a new feature<span style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; text-align: start;"> that let you activate </span>Cortana <span style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; text-align: start;">directly from the voice command button. Such a tool is useful for finding local eateries, gas stations, parking, supermarkets, places nearby and traffic updates. Or you can just look up for the news while you are driving towards office without getting a ticket with any harm. FastNewsMag begs to it readers that please like and follow us on facebook and Twitter.</span></span></div>
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<li style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To get started, turn on Bluetooth on your Windows Phone. Go to settings, Click Bluetooth and then press On.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pair your car to your Windows Phone device via Bluetooth. If you find something trouble please check out the manual of your car as there in no universal way to pair Bluetooth in different cars.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Once you are connected, you will see that Windows Phone adds Cortana to the Phonebook.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you don’t see Cortana in your Phonebook just add her with a random number.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Now all you have to do is tell your car to “Call Cortana” using the voice command button in your car.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It may be that you had to add Cortana to the Speed dial in order to get Cortana to work.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Once all the things are setup go ahead and ask Cortana for anything you normally do. You can start with searching a place nearby, to call someone or to set a specific reminder.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That is it! Try this out on your car and let us know if it works!</span></div>
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What Apple Is Doing About Lack of Diversity in the Workplace

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For a company as mighty as Apple, changing the composition of its predominately white and male workforce begins with outreach.</div>
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A <a href="http://www.apple.com/diversity/" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; color: #2e538f; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s;" target="external">diversity report</a> released by Apple today reveals the most likely person to hold a top-paying technology and leadership position at the company is white and male.</div>
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"I'm not satisfied with the numbers on this page," Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement. "They’re not new to us, and we’ve been working hard for quite some time to improve them. We are making progress, and we’re committed to being as innovative in advancing diversity as we are in developing our products."</div>
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Apple became the latest technology company to voluntarily disclose the diversity of their workforce -- showing the racial disparity in Silicon Valley.</div>
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A breakdown shows 54 percent of the company's technology jobs in the United States are held by whites, while Asians hold 23 percent of the jobs. White people make up 64 percent of Apple's leadership positions in the U.S., followed by Asians at 21 percent.</div>
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Cook said the iPad and iPhone maker recently pledged $100 million to President Obama's ConnectED project, which aims to bring digital learning and cutting edge technology to economically challenged schools. Cook said 80 percent of the student population that will benefit from the high tech investment are from groups that are under-represented in Silicon Valley.</div>
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Apple also works with the Human Rights Campaign and the National Center for Women and Information Technology.</div>
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"The work we do with these groups is meaningful and inspiring," Cook said. "We know we can do more, and we will."</div>
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Men make up 80 percent of Apple's technology workforce worldwide, however the company did not release the demographic composition of all 98,000 employees.</div>
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"Who we are, where we come from, and what we've experienced influence the way we perceive issues and solve problems," Cook said. "We believe in celebrating that diversity and investing in it."</div>
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For a company that burst onto the personal computing market in the Steve Jobs era with the slogan "think different," Apple employees are now hearing another call to action from Cook: "Inclusion inspires innovation."</div>
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"All around the world, our team at Apple is united in the belief that being different makes us better," he wrote. "We know that each generation has a responsibility to build upon the gains of the past, expanding the rights and freedoms we enjoy to the many who are still striving for justice."</div>

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Google Invests in $300 Million Underwater Cable

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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even the largest ocean in the world isn't going to get in <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/business/companies/google.htm" id="ramplink_Google_" style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Google</a>'s way.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The search giant announced today it is joining five other companies to build a $300 million undersea cable system that will span the Pacific Ocean, making the Internet faster for users in Asia.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The high speed submarine cable, called Faster, will connect two coastal locations in <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/japan.htm" id="ramplink_Japan_" style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Japan</a> with major West Coast cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.</span></div>
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Once complete, the cable will operate at 60 terabits per second, which is about ten million times faster than the typical cable modem, Urs Hölzle, Google's senior vice president of technical infrastructure, said today in a Google+ post.</div>
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"At Google we want our products to be fast and reliable, and that requires a great network infrastructure, whether it's for the more than a billion Android users or developers building products on Google Cloud Platform," Hölzle said. "And sometimes the fastest path requires going through an ocean."</div>
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Construction on Faster will begin immediately, according to a news release from NEC, the IT and network technology company that was awarded the contract to lay the cable. The project is scheduled to make its debut sometime during the second quarter of 2016.</div>
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It's not the first time Google has gone underwater to improve Internet speed. In 2008, the company invested in cable that connected Southeast Asia and Japan.</div>
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The company also backed UNITY, another Trans-Pacific cable system between the <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/u.s.htm" id="ramplink_United States_" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; color: #2e538f; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s;" target="_blank">United States</a>and Japan that debuted in 2010. The cable has a capacity of 7.68 terabits per second, according to <a href="http://submarinenetworks.com/systems/trans-pacific/unity" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; color: #2e538f; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s;" target="external">Submarine Cable Networks</a>, meaning that the newly backed cable system will blow it out of the water.</div>

Google Invests in $300 Million Underwater Cable

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IOS 7.1.2 Jailbroken

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A group of security researchers at the <a href="https://www.gtisc.gatech.edu/" style="color: #0092dd;" target="_blank" title="gtisc">Georgia Tech Information Security Center</a> (GTISC) have recently revealed a way to jailbreak the current generation of <a href="https://www.apple.com/ios/" style="color: #0092dd;" target="_blank" title="iOS">Apple iOS</a> devices such as iPhone and <a href="https://www.apple.com/ipad/" style="color: #0092dd;" target="_blank" title="iPad">iPad</a>, running the latest iOS software.</div>
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Analyzing previously patched vulnerabilities with incomplete fixes discovered the jailbreak.  This new jailbreak will enable circumvention of Apple’s closed platform and enable people to dig around in the system and tweak it to their liking.</div>
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To patch all vulnerabilities for a current, complex software system such as iOS is frequently difficult because of the volume of bugs and the response-time requirements involved. This latest jailbreak shows that rapid workarounds leave these devices vulnerable to exploitation.</div>
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Yeongjin Jang, one of the Ph.D. students who led this study said, ” Our work shows that software vendors must patch all publicly disclosed threats, as they may be exploited in other, equally disruptive attacks.”</div>
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Tielei Wang, a GTISC faculty member who worked closely with Jang as lead of the project said, “We start by finding new ways to exploit vulnerabilities with incomplete patches…Then, we use those vulnerabilities to discover new avenues of attack. We’ll detail these vulnerabilities and the exploit techniques that we developed.”</div>
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During <a href="https://www.blackhat.com/us-14/" style="color: #0092dd;" target="_blank" title="Black Hat">Black Hat USA</a>, the GTISC research team are set to inform people of the process for jailbreaking the current version of iOS (7.1.2) on any iOS device, including the latest flagship model; iPhone 5s.</div>
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The Georgia Tech team that comprises of Ph.D. students Yeongjin Jang and Byoungyoung Lee, and research scientists Tielei Wang and Billy Lau were named as the people that were responsible for the jailbreak.</div>
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Do you think tech companies should do more to protect operating systems from being hacked into and altered?  As always, if you would like to leave a sensible comment, then please do so in the comments section below.</div>

IOS 7.1.2 Jailbroken

A group of security researchers at the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) have recently revealed a way to jailbreak the cur...