Mastercard To Authenticate Your Online Purchases With Your SELFIES

MasterCard is experimenting a new app that would let you make online purchases by taking a selfie rather than typing a password, moving a step forward in the mobile payments evolution.

This experimental ID Check security system uses the front camera of your mobile phone and "facial recognition" technology to get your payment done with a quick shot of your face. 

At checkout, you'll be asked to hold up your phone and snap a photo. MasterCard's thinking? It's easier than remembering a password.

"The new generation, which is into selfies ... I think they'll find it cool. They'll embrace it," said Ajay Bhalla on CNN Money, who's in charge of coming up with innovative solutions for MasterCard's security challenges.

This is MasterCard's way of cutting down fraud.

Currently, customers can set up something called "SecureCode," which requires a password when shopping online. This stops credit-card-number-stealing hackers from actually using your card on the Web. It was used in 3 billion transactions last year, the company said.

MasterCard (MA) will launch a small pilot program that uses fingerprints -- but also facial scans. It'll be a limited experiment involving 500 customers. But, once it works out all the kinks, MasterCard plans to launch it publicly sometime after that.
To pull this off, MasterCard said it has partnered with every smartphone maker, including Apple (AAPL, Tech30), BlackBerry (BBRY, Tech30), Google (GOOGL, Tech30), Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30), and Samsung (SSNLF). The credit card company is still finalizing deals with two major banks, so it wasn't ready to say whose customers will get this first.

How this new feature works?

MasterCard will provide you a new mobile app to download in order to use the feature.

After you make an online payment, the new app will provide you options to authorize your payment. If you go with the fingerprint, it scans your touch; and if you choose facial recognition, you just need to do is…

Hold up your phone – Stare your mirror image inside a designated circle – Blink once – and you are done.

But why blinking your eyes?

According to MasterCard's security researchers, blinking is the best practice to prevent a criminal from just holding up a snap of you and fooling the security system.

Is the feature Secure?

The credit card company said it does not actually capture or reconstruct a picture of your finger or face. All a fingerprint scanner do is creating a code that stays on your device.

Similarly, a facial recognition scan will map out the picture of your face, convert it to 1’s and 0’s and then securely transmit that information over the Internet to MasterCard.

Bhalla promised that this information remains safe on the company's computer servers and that the company won't be able to reconstruct your face.

The payments giant will pilot the new facial recognition system to only about 500 cardholders at first. However, once this new system works out all the kinks, MasterCard will inevitably launch it publicly for everyone.

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Facebook Successfully Tests Laser Drones In UK Skies

Facebook has been testing large, solar-powered drones in the skies over the UK, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has announced.

The drones use lasers to beam internet access down to the ground, designed to provide connections to rural and internet-free zones.

“As part of our Internet.org effort to connect the world, we’ve designed unmanned aircraft that can beam internet access down to people from the sky,” said Zuckerberg in a blog post. “We’ve successfully completed our first test flight of these aircraft in the UK.”

Developed by Ascenta, a Somerset-based designer of solar-powered drones bought by Facebook in March 2014, the drones will be able to fly at altitudes of 60,000 feet for months at a time on solar power. They will have wingspans greater than 29m, or that of a Boeing 737, but weigh less than a car.

“Aircraft like these will help connect the whole world because they can affordably serve the 10% of the world’s population that live in remote communities without existing internet infrastructure,” said Zuckerberg.

The drones form part of Facebook’s internet.org initiative that aims to connect the next billion people to the internet, creating new markets for the social network which already connects 1.39 billion monthly active users.

Facebook’s artificial intelligence group is already planning for the flood of new users by developing technology to help them cope with the surge in messages and photos on the social network.

“If we achieve our first goal, get everyone on the internet, build services at scale for the entire planet, we create this new problem: so much information you can’t consume the stuff that’s important to you,” Facebook’s chief technology officer, Mike Schroepfer, told the F8 developers conference in San Francisco, explaining how the company’s artificial intelligence group is working to solve information overload.

Mark post new post :

As part of our Internet.org efforts, we’re working on ways to use drones and satellites to connect the billion people who don't live in range of existing wireless networks.

Our Connectivity Lab is developing a laser communications system that can beam data from the sky into communities. This will dramatically increase the speed of sending data over long distances.

Normally you wouldn’t be able to see the actual beams, but for this demonstration we made them visible. This is just one connectivity project we’re working on, but I was excited to share this with you.

Google is also planning to provide internet access to non-connected areas using both high altitude balloons and drones, buying American drone firm Titan Aerospace in April last year.

The two US technology firms are fighting it out to become the pipe and hub that serves both new users and an untapped resource for marketers.


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Facebook CEO Predicted Some Wild Things For Future

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg predicted some wild things for Future.During a wide-ranging online question-and-answer session on his Facebook page Tuesday.


It includes:

•     Telepathy Technology, the ability for humans to talk to each other with their minds.
•     Laser Beams, used to transmit data from the sky to Earth.
•     Growth of Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality.

The social network's founder and CEO believes that one day, we'll be able to share our thoughts directly -- brain to brain -- using technology.  

Besides virtual reality, laser-toting satellites and artificial intelligence, what other futuristic technologies is Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg interested in? Oh, you know, telepathy. 

"“One day, I believe we’ll be able to send full rich thoughts to each other directly using technology. You’ll just be able to think of something and your friends will immediately be able to experience it too if you’d like," Zuckerberg said. "This would be the ultimate communication technology."

 

He made his comments during a public Q&A session on his Facebook (FB, Tech30) page on Tuesday afternoon. The response was addressed to a user who asked about Facebook's long-term plans. 

In the past decade, the company has expanded the way users communicate on the platform. First there were plain profile pages. Next came comments, and then the Wall, Likes, Groups and News Feed. 

For some people, Facebook’s interest in telepathy will be part of a bold new world for digital communications.

For others, it’ll be the latest spur to build an ark and fill it with tin-foil hats ready for the endtimes: if the social network ever does work on this technology, it will face important questions about how it handles the resulting data, from protecting it from surveillance agencies to ring-fencing it from advertisers.

Zuckerberg proved unafraid to tackle questions about Facebook’s long-term ambitions during the Q&A, including the company’s interest in artificial intelligence.

“Most of our AI research is focused on understanding the meaning of what people share,” wrote Zuckerberg, citing examples including detecting when a photo has a certain friend in it and making sure they see it, or using people’s photos and posts to connect them with likeminded Facebook users.

    “In order to do this really well, our goal is to build AI systems that are better than humans at our primary senses: vision, listening, etc.

    For vision, we’re building systems that can recognise everything that’s in an image or a video. This includes people, objects, scenes, etc. These systems need to understand the context of the images and videos as well as whatever is in them.

    For listening and language, we’re focusing on translating speech to text, text between any languages, and also being able to answer any natural language question you ask.”

Zuckerberg expanded on his thoughts on artificial intelligence in a later answer about how Facebook sees itself in a decade’s time.

“We’re working on AI because we think more intelligent services will be much more useful for you to use. For example, if we had computers that could understand the meaning of the posts in News Feed and show you more things you’re interested in, that would be pretty amazing,” he wrote.

“Similarly, if we could build computers that could understand what’s in an image and could tell a blind person who otherwise couldn’t see that image, that would be pretty amazing as well. This is all within our reach and I hope we can deliver it in the next 10 years.”

Zuckerberg also talked about Facebook’s investment in virtual reality, via its $2bn acquisition of startup Oculus VR, which will launch its headset in early 2016.

“We’re working on VR because I think it’s the next major computing and communication platform after phones,” wrote Zuckerberg.

“In the future we’ll probably still carry phones in our pockets, but I think we’ll also have glasses on our faces that can help us out throughout the day and give us the ability to share our experiences with those we love in completely immersive and new ways that aren’t possible today.”

VR is one way Zuckerberg would like to see news organizations delivering “more immersive content” beyond text, photos and 2D videos.

With Facebook emerging as a new gatekeeper for news – most recently with the launch of its Instant Articles program – he was questioned by Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington about Facebook’s role.

“Making sure news organisations are delivering increasingly rich content is important and it’s what people want,” he wrote.

    “On speed/frequency, traditional news is thoroughly vetted but this model has a hard time keeping us with important things happening constantly. There’s an important place for news organizations that can deliver smaller bits of news faster and more frequently in pieces. This won’t replace the longer and more researched work, and I’m not sure anyone has fully nailed this yet.”

Responding to a similar question from journalism professor Jeff Jarvis, Zuckerberg outlined how he sees Facebook’s role.

“When news is as fast as everything else on Facebook, people will naturally read a lot more news. That will be good for helping people be more informed about the world, and it will be good for the news ecosystem because it will deliver more traffic,” he wrote.

‘Real names make users safer’

Zuckerberg also fielded a question about Facebook’s policy on making people use their real names rather than pseudonyms – something highlighted recently when journalist Laurie Penny was banned from the social network for using a pseudonym to avoid being trolled with rape and death threats.

Facebook’s chief executive defended the company’s policy, with a claim that real names keep users safer:

    “There are plenty of cases – for example, a woman leaving an abusive relationship and trying to avoid her violent ex-husband – where preventing the ex-husband from creating profiles with fake names and harassing her is important. As long as he’s using his real name, she can easily block him.”

“Real name does not mean your legal name. Your real name is whatever you go by and what your friends call you. If your friends all call you by a nickname and you want to use that name on Facebook, you should be able to do that,” he wrote.

Zuckerberg added that the company is working with the transgender community – which includes other prominent critics of the real-name policy – on refining its policies.


 
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Facebook Laser Beams Will Offer Free Internet to the World from the Sky

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg predicted some wild things for Future.During a wide-ranging online question-and-answer session on his Facebook page Tuesday. It includes:

• Telepathy Technology, the ability for humans to talk to each other with their minds.
• Laser Beams, used to transmit data from the sky to Earth.
• Growth of Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality.

Mark Zuckerberg has posted a couple of demonstration pictures from its Connectivity Lab. 

According to Mark, the Connectivity Lab has developed a laser beam technology (as shown) that has the ability to transmit data from the sky into communities.

He has plans to equip drones and satellites with lasers to allow those laser-equipped devices to beam down Internet signals anywhere in the world.

If successful and practically implemented in Future, this project will "dramatically increase the speed of sending data over long distances." 

Year 2014 Facebook's Yael Maguire talks about the technologies we're working on that will make connectivity more affordable in communities around the world.


 
The lasers may not for end user connectivity, but rather for backbone. Lasers are point to point systems. While they can carry a huge load of information


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Uber-Trekkie CEO Built 100 Million Euros Office Building That Looks Like The Star Ship Enterprise

There are a lot of fandoms out there from Comics, to Star Wars, but one of the biggest and oldest is Star Trek. This is a massive fan base and rightfully so. Star Trek predates Star Wars and is credited for having some of the first conventions dedicated to just Star Trek. They even made up a name for their fans of the shows, trekkies.

So there are trekkies and then there are uber-trekkies. Chinese multi-millionaire Liu-Dejian is the latter. This guy is crazy about Star Trek and might be its biggest fan, or at least the fan with the most money. Not to be outdone by Apple’s new office building, Liu-Dejian set out to create the ultimate office building/experience.

He spent over 100 million euros to build an office that looks exactly like the starship enterprise, the main ship in Star Trek. The project which took over six years to build has been officially licensed by Star Trek. The building is as big as three football fields and even comes with automatic sliding gates between each working area. Now that is cool!.

The 43-year-old Liu-Dejian makes all of his money as the chairman of China’s most popular Internet provider for mobile devices. He has more money than the Queen of England, and is an uber-trekkie, so it is no surprise he spent the amount of money he did, to create the coolest building in the world. Check out the video below and see for yourself how awesome this building is!

Liu Dejian who is the creator of the gaming company NetDragon (and one of China's wealthiest men) decided to put a little fanboy spin on his company's building because boring office buildings are so 2014. The greatest part is Djian's lawyers had to send CBS, the owners of the Star Trek name, any of the show's likenesses and creations, documents asking for permission to construct the Enterprise building in the first place. Apparently CBS thought they were joking when first asked but eventually gave permission.

With measurements of 850 feet long and 300 feet wide with six floors total, NetDragon spent nearly $100 million to build the Enterprise look-a-like with construction finished by October. Just in time for a Halloween party! I wonder who had the balls to not dress up as a Star Trek character that year.

On top of employees working out of a sweet Enterprise replica, the company also owns more than a few tennis courts, a football field, a swimming pool and a T-Rex skeleton replica. My brain just melted a little.

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The U.S Navy is paying Microsoft $9 million to keep upgrading its Windows XP computers

In a statement, the Navy said it has a plan in place to upgrade its systems to a newer version of Windows. It expects to complete its upgrades by July 12, 2016.
But there's a chance that it could take even longer. That's why the Navy's contract with Microsoft contains options to extend the deal through June 8, 2017. That would raise the amount the Navy will pay for Windows XP support to nearly $31 million.

 Microsoft's support for Windows XP ended in April 2014, the Navy didn't issue its decision to upgrade its computers until Vice Admiral Ted Branch, deputy chief information officer for the Navy issued an agency-wide memo on July 2014. In the memo, Branch required all of its PCs to be upgraded to Windows XP by April 30, 2015 -- or apply for a waiver for computers and systems that couldn't be updated by then.

"The Navy relies on a number of legacy applications and programs that are reliant on legacy Windows products," said Steven Davis, spokesman for Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. "Until those applications and programs are modernized or phased out, this continuity of services is required to maintain operational effectiveness."

Davis said that all of the computers ashore have since been upgraded to a newer version of Windows. But the significant number of systems afloat, including ships, submarines and other vessels, have not yet been upgraded.

The Navy didn't have exact figures on the number of systems that still run on XP, but given the $9-million-a-year check it's writing Microsoft, it's not a small amount of computers.
The XP issue is not restricted to the Navy. A stunning 44% of corporations still have Windows XP installed on at least one PC. 

Worldwide, nearly 15% of PCs are still running XP, according to NetMarketShare. And most bank ATMs are still running Windows XP as well.


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Aztech DSL5028EN Series ADSL2+ Wireless-N Modem Routers with USB Host

Compact and Classical design that offers exceptional wireless coverage and performance customers would look forward to. Impressive speeds, remarkable wireless coverage and performance complimented further by top notch customer-centric features - the Aztech DSL5028EN Series offer superb user functionalities that will effectively satisfy your customers’ networking needs.

Key Features:

•     Wireless Speed Options
•     MIMO Technology for an Enhanced Wireless Range and Performance
•     TR-069 for Remote Management
•     Easier Connectivity through Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS)
•     Easy Setup and Installation

Product Benefits

The Perfect ADSL2/2+ Partner

Completely designed for ADSL connectivity, the Aztech DSL5028EN Series is capable of supporting both ADSL2 and ADSL2+ internet connections, allowing these devices to be a commendable companion for ADSL subscribers.

Wireless Speed Options 
Exclusively designed for ADSL connectivity, the DSL5028EN Series is comprised of two unique variants each capable of providing distinguished wireless speeds that would instantaneously fit your needs : (1) the DSL5028EN(1T1R) can provide up to 150Mbps data transfer rates, while (2) its DSL5028EN(2T2R) counterpart is capable of providing up to 300Mbps data transfer rates.

MIMO Technology for an Enhanced Wireless Range and Performance 
To thoroughly improve your overall wireless experience enjoyment, each model within the Aztech DSL5028EN Series is carefully integrated with MIMO Technology in order to provide a better, faster, and wider wireless coverage topped off with an even more reliable wireless performance.

TR-069 for Remote Management
Now with TR-069 support, each model within the Aztech DSL5028EN Series is capable of efficiently supporting remote management, remote configuration, and a zero touch set up that effectively allows optimum efficiency and impressive cost savings. 

Easier Connectivity through Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) 
Each variant within the Aztech DSL5028EN Series removes the hassle entering of router passwords by allowing you to connect their WPS-supported devices with just a simple press of the WPS button on your wireless and the DSL5028EN model.

Easy to Setup and Use
Implementing a simple yet intuitive device design complimented further by an easy to navigate and utilize web user interface, you will be able to conveniently set up each model and even easily manage each model’s overall features without any difficulty or complexity. 

Aztech DSL5028EN Default  User

user : user
pass : user

user: admin
pass: admin

Default WiFi Settings

SSID : Aztech5028_(Last 4 Mac )
Pre-Shared Key Pass : 1234567890
Authetication Type  : WPA-PSK
Encryption : TKIP/AES


Open port : 23  22  80



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A visitor to an Arkansas park discovered a 8.52-carat white diamond half the size of a quarter

(CNN) A glistening, white diamond half the size of a quarter was discovered at Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park  on Wednesday, park officials said.

Shaped like an icicle, the 8.52-carat gem is the fifth-largest diamond found by a visitor to the state park since the site was established in 1972.

Park visitor Bobbie Oskarson of Longmont, Colorado, discovered the diamond while digging around the Pig Pen, a 37-acre search field inside the park named for its muddy terrain after rainfall.

At first she thought the diamond was a quartz crystal because of its size and shape, but a park staffer confirmed later that it was indeed a diamond.

"Ms. Oskarson and her boyfriend Travis Dillon saw the Crater of Diamonds State Park on an Arkansas highway map while in the nearby town of Hot Springs and decided to visit the park. And what a lucky first visit it was for her!" park interpreter Waymon Cox said in a press release.

Oskarson named her find the Esperanza Diamond, after her niece, and plans to keep the gem.

More than 30 diamonds have been discovered in the park's search area this year. Cox said above-normal rainfall this year is one reason for the frequent finds.

"Rain, plus the regular plowing of the search field by our maintenance staff, increases visitors' chances of finding diamonds in the search area," he said.
More than 75,000 diamonds have been unearthed in the park since the first diamonds were discovered there in 1906.

The largest rough diamond ever discovered in Crater of Diamonds State Park (and the largest ever found in the United States) is the Uncle Sam Diamond, which was found in 1924 and was a hefty 40.23 carats, according to the park website.

No estimate of the Esperanza Diamond's value was available, but just for perspective's sake, the Uncle Sam Diamond was cut twice, the second being a 12.42-carat gem that sold for $150,000 in 1971 (about $880,000 adjusted for inflation).

The search area at the Crater of Diamonds, where visitors can hunt for gems, is one the world's only diamond-producing sites that is open to the public. The park exercises a "finders keepers" policy.

Park staffers help to identify the and register the diamonds, and even provide instructions on how to recognize these precious stones in the rough.

So far this year, 227 diamonds have been registered at the park.

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Razer’s Android-based Forge TV console only $100

Razer’s Android-based Forge TV console allows you to stream games from a PC to your TV, and it’ll be available soon for only $100. It also isn’t so tied to Steam, so it’ll help you stream non-Steam games to your TV with less hassle. - Imagine the gaming experience on your living room 60-inch HDTV.

The company’s new micro-console offering, Forge TV, lets you play many Android games on your TV and even supports up to four new Razer Several controllers for a true console-like social gaming experience.

Razer’s ForgeTV cleverly lets you stream pretty much any DX9 or newer game to the Forge TV—from Steam, Origin or U-Play. Sorry, Valve—your Steam-only consoles need to loosen up. Talking about compressing a game in real-time and spitting it across your WiFi or ethernet connection to another room and dealing with the input lag from the controller.

Playing a game using the Forge TV and Serval controller with no Lag.

Razer Bluetooth Wireless Controller is able to navigate and play games on Razer Forge TV. The controller is designed by the same Razer engineering team that created the award-winning Razer Sabertooth Xbox controller. With four action buttons, two thumb sticks, and trigger and bumper buttons, the Razer Serval enables play with any controller-ready Android TV game or Android mobile game on-the-go using the device’s phone clip. The versatile gaming controller has the ability to remember up to four unique device pairings, making the switch between the Razer Forge TV, mobile phone, tablet, and PC easy without having to worry about multiple controllers and settings.

Razer’s new $130 Turret lapboard -The concept of a lapboard isn’t new. Since the only way to get a mouse and keyboard out of a PC gamer’s hands is to pry it from their cold dead hands, peripheral makers have been trying to find a way to get the same controls to the living room for years.

Razer’s take is quite clever though. Besides the keyboard with attached mouse pad design we’ve seen before, the company thinks it has solved or at least mitigated the problem with the mouse by putting magnets into the mousepad. 

This helps keep the mouse from sliding off the mouse pad when you stop to type an in game chat message.

Don’t think the magnets are strong enough to let you tilt the Turret vertical without the mouse flying off.

Razer Forge TV was built to bring hard-core gaming and entertainment to the big screen. Forge TV opens the gateway for next-level Android gaming that is designed for the serious gamer. Intense Full HD graphics combined with the Razer Serval controller provide the detail and precision that is needed to dominate the living room.  Powered by a Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 805 quad-core processor and gaming-grade graphics with 16 GB of internal storage, the Razer Forge TV has the performance to tear through Full HD games and media. Get access to blazing fast connectivity and media streaming with Wireless AC and Gigabit Ethernet.

All this power and performance has been engineered into a sleek and compact design featuring a silent thermal solution. 

Not available in the Philippines

source: http://www.razerzone.com/press/detail/press-releases/razer-forge-tv-combines-android-and-pc-gaming-for-the-living-room

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First see-through coffee has been invented!

Here comes the revolution of preparing coffee! CLEAR COFFEE, the first pure coffee in the world.  A new type of coffee drink which has the distinctive taste and stimulating effects of coffee but does not negatively affect the whiteness of your teeth posted on indiegogo.com. It is produced by methods which have never been used before. Due to this technology a drink has been developed which is unique in taste and flavour. Making of clear coffee only requires two ingredients. High quality coffee beans and clear water. When the coffee beans are processed it always experience a loss in caffeine.

The compensate it by adding high-quality natural caffeine. As a result we can control the level of caffeine in your drink very accurately. Our product does not contain preservatives, artificial flavour, stabilizers, sugar or any other sweeteners. The goal is to bring this amazing product to You and there is No Preservatives, Chemicals, Sweeteners added.

The first 16 contributors who get the  1000 € perk will have their   logo displayed on the main page of  website for one year.

For example:

 If you order a 6 pack from the UK than you have to pay 12€ for the six pack + 6€ for postage.

 History and future

summer 2013 - very first idea

rest of 2013 - nothing happend

year 2014 - trying and figuring out

february 2015 - quit job - full time coffee hustle

march and april 2015 - testing, testing, testing

may 2015 - launching the INDIEGOGO project

july 2015 - INDIEGOGO project ends

august 2015 - first delivery

after august 2015 - world changing continues

Source: indiegogo

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32GB USB 3.0 Memory Drive on a Tritium container

The gadget, designed by an Athens, Greece-based maker and prophet of what he refers to as the “Next Industrial Revolution”–3D printing or additive manufacturing–is digitally designed and then 3D printed in stainless steel (420 stainless steel alloy with infused bronze–40%).
The designer, who’s Etsy Shop, InnovoDesign , offers the pieces for $120 each, says he most enjoys creating “functional, innovative, unique objects and artifacts.” We agree that there’s something kind of retro and mysterious about this gadget. The texture of the stainless steel and the shape of the object are evocative of the Art Deco style.

The real treat, however, is the gadget’s unique feature: It glows in the dark.glows a satisfying, sci-fi green and ice -blue. 

This is a 3D printed, stainless steel, 32Gb Usb 3.0 Flash Memory Tritium container, with two embedded (non removable) 3x22.5mm tritium Isotype vials (green and ice-blue).

This usb drive offers lightning speed read and write functionality, as well as great visibility in the dark and a very interesting conversation topic! .

The vial itself is resin and, since it is carefully embedded within the stainless steel body, it is not easily removed or broken, so you needn’t worry about leaks.

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I already bought 1 of InnovoDesign  before " Classic Tritium Container ",  for $30 with shipping fee $6. I was amaze within 7 days the item came from Greece. Nice transaction and delivery. InnovoDesign  sell various unique design like pendant , rings and accessories like key-chain.

Tritium–symbol T or 3H as it is also known as hydrogen-3–is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. It’s not cheap; the market price for a gram of tritium is $30,000, which is why the InnovoDesign USB gadget costs just under $120. We think they’re definitely worth it. Those hermetically-sealed vials are amazing little light sources thanks to the gaseous tritium isotope. It glows without requiring a light “charge,” as is the case with most phosphorescent, glow-in-the-dark products. During the day and in well-lit spaces, you won’t see the flow. In low- or no-light settings, however, the gadget will basically be your tiny lantern. As its creator boasts, it’s a genuinely, “nuclear-powered gadget.”  The light produced is literally "on" at all times , it's  intensity isn't reduce after a few hours and it will last non-stop for about 20 Years!!..Speaking of which, it occurs to us that the thing resembles a tiny submarine–a nuclear sub.


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Globe Aztech DSL5018EN(2T2R) 4-Port ADSL2+ 300Mbps Wireless-N Modem Router with USB

The Aztech DSL5018EN(2T2R) 4-Port ADSL2+ 300Mbps Wireless-N Modem Router with USB host uses complete Ralink chipsets solution that fully complies with ADSL2/ADSL2+ standard.

The Aztech DSL5018EN(2T2R) supports 2T2R MIMO technology with PHY rate up to 300Mbps.

Targeted at the residential and SOHO users that desires high quality triple play services, it is the ideal solution to provide a 6 in 1 device for both Wired and Wireless connectivity via a ADSL2+ built in modem, Routing functionality for multi-user sharing, double-layer NAT/SPI firewall, 4 port 10/100 AutoMDI/MDIx Managed Switch for video application QoS, high speed IEEE802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Access point. and USB host for network printing and NAS.

Aztech DSL5018EN(2T2R) is TR-069 compliant. TR-069 is a DSL forum technical specification report that defines the remote control/configuration of CPE from ACS (Auto Configuration Server), TR-069 is also well-known as "CPE WAN Management Protocol". The benefits of TR-069 include, remote management, auto-configuration, dynamic service activation, as well as saving cost on customer support and logistics.

Security is provided via a double Stateful Packet Inspection and NAT based firewall. Hardware accelerated AES/WEP/WPA/WPA2 based encryption/MAC Address Filtering for Wireless links. Multiple session VPN Pass-through and DMZ support provide additional security support for telecommuters as well as allow flexibility while maintaining security against malicious hackers. Choices of Dynamic DNS server give users the flexibility of hosting a web or an FTP server with various domain names.

With Universal Plug and Play support, home networking becomes a breeze for everyone in the family. Multi Port Range/Popular Application Forwarding makes it even easier to select which application you want your network to allow while ensuring your security at the same time.

Globe  default User:
user: user
pass: user

Globe default Admin:
user: admin
pass: admin

Globe default WiFi password:
aabbccddee

 If you want to change WiFi Password just simply click quick Setup...

Download rate 3mbps to 8mbps (Globe Internet)
Upload Rate  1mbps to 2mbps  (Globe internet)

  Vulnerability :
Open port 80,22,23 in short it can be remotely access..
Attacker can modified configs and get the PPPoE  account  user and password.
Once nag log in kana  auto log in kana sa susunod na pag visit mo sa IP address , so need mo mag clear cached dahil mag eeror log in ka ..




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Google Turns 10,000 New York Old Phone Booths Into Free SuperFast Wi-Fi Internet

Google has unveiled its new plan to bring Free, Superfast Wi-Fi to cities around the world.
Google is one of the many companies vying to transform New York City's increasingly anachronistic phone booths into Wi-Fi hot spots. (example the Van Wagner)

Google is no stranger to the business of Wi-Fi connectivity. The company has a project called Fiber, which aims to provide revved-up broadband speeds to Internet users. Google also has an ambitious initiative called Loon that seeks to bring connectivity to rural areas via high-altitude, giant Wi-Fi balloons.

The company also provides wireless access around its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters and its office in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood. Last July, Google announced that it would give $600,000 to San Francisco to provide Wi-Fi access to several of the city's parks.

The project was first unveiled in 2012 by then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg as a way to repurpose the city's more than 73,000 phone booths. In October, several of the city's existing contracts with companies that maintain and operate public pay phones will expire, and the city is looking at alternative infrastructure plans. The companies that are trying to take over the pay phones are allowed to charge for phone service -- excluding calls to 911 and 311, the city's informational phone line -- but are barred from charging for Wi-Fi access.

The strategy expands Google's reach -- in turn allowing more people to use the company's products and services. Google declined to comment on the NYC pay phone project.

Sidewalk Labs, a Google-owned company that focuses on improving city living through technology innovations, has announced that the company will roll out free WiFi to everyone in New York City around September this year.

Google-backed Sidewalk Labs will convert over 10,000 New York's old phone booths into ad-supported "Wi-Fi pylons." These booths will offer free wireless Internet access to anyone within 150 feet of radius.

Sidewalk Labs is leading a group of investors acquiring Control Group and Titan, companies working to cover New York City with Free, Superfast Wi-Fi service.

Besides offering free Wi-Fi, the booths are also intended to provide free cell-phone charging, free domestic phone calling and a touchscreen-based information hub that provides you everything you need to know about the city and transit directions.

According to the report, each Wi-Fi pylon will deliver advertising on the sides through Titan's advertising network, which is expected to bring $500 million in ad revenue to the city over the next 12 years.

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List of Most Influence Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) People

The definition of sexual orientation has changed greatly over time and the word "gay" wasn't used to describe sexual orientation until the mid 20th century. A number of different classification schemes have been used to describe sexual orientation since the mid-19th century. Much of the research about sexual orientation has failed to define the term at all, making it difficult to reconcile the results of different studies.However, most definitions include a psychological component (such as the direction of an individual's erotic desire) and/or a behavioural component (which focuses on the sex of the individual's sexual partner/s). Some prefer to simply follow an individual's self-definition or identity. See homosexuality and bisexuality for criteria that have traditionally denoted lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people.

Time and again the issue of equal rights for gays has been raised at several platforms, levels and at different enormity; however, even today societal acceptance of gay men and women is not very easy to come by. They are often perceived as different and not normal.

The times, they are a changing, suddenly at whiplash speed.

After a momentous week, same-sex couples can now marry in all 50 states, the Confederate flag's historic hold on the political institutions of the Deep South is fraying by the hour and Obamacare, after defying another attempt to dismantle it, is now reaffirmed as the law of the land.

And as a capstone to these seismic events, the first black president of the United States spent Friday afternoon singing "Amazing Grace" on live television in front of an African American congregation.

Political and social conventions on civil rights and race relations that for decades have seemed immovable are being swept away in a cascade of grass-roots change. Politicians have been left struggling to keep up.

READ CNN: Supreme Court rules in favor of same-sex marriage nationwide

Tech companies come out in support of historic Supreme Court ruling legalizing with rainbow flags and emoji's. Created with facebook.com/celebratepride

These LGA have not only gained more respect but have opened up the doors for homosexuals to come out and be outright vocal about their sexuality.

They are not only adored for their talent and contribution to the industry they select worldwide, but are also respected for their individuality.

Check out the list of world famous LGA in the World:

1.Alan Mathison Turing : a British Computer Scientist, Mathematician, and Cryptanalyst... responsible for breaking the Nazi Enigma ‪#‎Encryption‬ Code during World War II.
41-year-old Turing took his own life in 1954, two years after being outed as gay. At that time, Homosexuality was a crime in Britain, but he never kept his sexuality secret either. Turing will be one of Pride Hero happy if he still lives now.  You Must Watch The Imitation Game (2014) Movie.

2.  Apple CEO Tim Cook :Cook himself came out as gay last October, in a public letter stating he is "proud" of his sexuality. Prior to that, Apple's leader had been open about his sexual orientation for years with friends and colleagues. He admitted that coming out publicly was a difficult decision for him, as he cherishes his personal privacy. "I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me," Cook wrote last year. "The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do," Cook wrote on Twitter. Those words were famously spoken in Apple's iconic "Crazy Ones" advertisement, which was scripted in collaboration with Jobs, the company's co-founder.

3.Ellen DeGeneres : American comedian, television host, actress, writer, and producer. She starred in the popular sitcom Ellen from 1994 to 1998, and has hosted her syndicated TV talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, since 2003. Well we have watched some Pinoy Internet sensation guest in her show.

 4. Anderson Hays Cooper : an American journalist, author, and television personality. He is the primary anchor of the CNN news show Anderson Cooper 360°. During Yolanda Storm Surge 2013 Best! Coverage  Tacloban, Samar and Cebu, amidst the hunger and thirst, the chaos and confusion, we've seen the best in the Filipino people.

5. Enrique Martín Morales : commonly known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican, American, Spanish singer, songwriter, actor, and author. Martin began his career at age twelve with the all-boy pop group Menudo which visited the Philippines (1987). 2010 After years of sidestepping questions about his sexual orientation, singer Ricky Martin reveals in a heartfelt posting online that he is gay.

6. Sir Elton Hercules John CBE is an English singer, songwriter, composer, pianist, record producer, and occasional actor. In Dec 21, 2014 he married long-time partner David Furnish near London.

And many more to mention....

On Music, TV,  Movie, Fashion , Engineering  IT and News Industry etc..Not only adored for their talent and contribution to the entertainment industry worldwide, but are also respected for their individuality.  In the Philippines  we have also famous LGBT personality like Charice Pempengco, Aiza Seguerra and  Vice Ganda.

There are still 79 countries where homosexuality is illegal ..75+ (really more like 79 or 81) countries with anti-homosexuality laws..

The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, or ILGA, lists 75 countries with criminal laws against sexual activity by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex people (LGBTIs), but that’s an understatement.

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