Tuesday, 30 May 2017

Malware That Affected More Than 36.5 Million Android Users via Google Play (Judy Malware)



Recently, researches at the Check Point Software Technologies Ltd discovered a new malware campaign on Google PlayStore. The malware is said to be an auto-clicking adware which was found on 41 apps developed by a Korean company. This new malware is dubbed as "Judy".

 Researchers at checkpoint stated that the Judy malware is used to generate fraudulent clicks on advertisements for generating money. The malware named "Judy" has affected around 8.5 million to 36.5 million Android devices. This malware containing apps has downloads between 4.5 million to 18.5 million.

However, after checkpoint informed it to be a threat Google removed these malicious apps from the Google Play Store.

Checkpoint team stated "The connection between the two campaigns remains unclear, and it is possible that one borrowed code from the other, Knowingly or unknowingly, similar to previously reported malicious apps like FalseGuide, Judy also relies on the communication with its Command and Control Server for its operation".

 Several apps containing Judy malware were actually developed by other developers. The FalseGuide malware was hidden in over 40 guide apps for games in Google Play states checkpoint.

 Check Point team stated "Some of the apps we discovered resided on Google Play for several years, but all were recently updated. It is unclear how long the malicious code existed inside the apps, hence the actual spread of the malware remains unknown".



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Good News For Cricket Fans (Intel's Advanced New Drone To Analyze Pitch At ICC)





Intel is the Official Innovative partner for the ICC 2017. It unveiled three new gadgets that will be used during the ICC Champions Trophy 2017. The three gadgets includes an advanced pitch analysis drone, a virtual reality experience for cricket fans, a bat sensor powered by an Intel Curie module. These new Technologies are going to be launched first in Australia, India, US, and UK.

 Taking about each gadget separately, the Drone is equipped with infrared and HD cameras which will be used for the analysis of the pitch. The drone analyzes and sends all the data regarding the topology, grass health, grass cover. As, pitch is the most important aspects of cricket, that decides each game swings.

 Coming to the bat sensor it is actually called as Speculur BatSense, which can be mounted on any cricket bat and is used to calculate all the movements of the bat for every hit/stroke the batsman plays. The bat sensor measures the back-lift, bat speed of every stroke, which is displayed on a monitor or TV after every stroke the batsman plays.

 Relating to the three new advanced technology the Speculur Managing Director Atul Srivastava said, "Coaches can use their insights and expertise along with the bat sensor data to make specific adjustments to a batsman's technique ultimately helping him perform better."

 Coming to the third tech, Virtual Reality is one of the most innovative aspect of the latest technology. VR technology in ICC is used to give cricket fans a better experience where people will be able to play cricket in virtual reality and totally getting involved into it. Intel is going to showcase the VR cricket experiences at the Oval( London) and Edgbaston (Birmingham) stadiums. People will be able to test their batting skills against virtual bowler.

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Saturday, 27 May 2017

Google's AlphaGo Beats the World's Number 1 Go Player Ke Jei




What is Go??


Go is a strategy board game for two players, in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent. It is a very complex game and also the oldest known board game. The objective of a go player must be to surround a larger total area of the board than the oponent.


Google's AlphaGo is a AI, computer program which is developed by Alphabet Inc's Google DeepMind in London to play the board game Go. The Google's AI system proved its dominance in the complex strategy game, defeating the world's number one Go player, Ke Jie. The Alpha Go beat Ke Jie in the second of three scheduled matches, and gaining victory over him.


The AlphaGo uses neural networks and machine learning to analyse an opponent's moves and pick the the most suitable move.

This latest win proves that Alpha Go AI surpassed human player and is a huge victory for Google. Also proving the dominance in this board game.

Later AlphaGo's analysis showed that, in the second match Ke Jie played perfectly for 50 moves and altered his strategies attempting to flank AlphaGo. However, the AI was capable of countering Ke Jei at every turn forcing him to resign.

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said in a press conference that "For the first 100 moves it was the closest we've ever seen anyone play against the master version of AlphaGo".

Ke told media that " Today's game was different from the first, AlphaGo made some moves which were opposite from my vision of how to maximize the possiblility of winning. I also thought i was very close to winning the game in the middle but maybe that's not what AlphaGo was thinking. I'm a little bit sad, it's a bit of regret because i think i played pretty well."


The final game between AlphaGo and Ke will take place today, while AlphaGo will be pushed to the limits of its capabilites.



A Landmine Detection and Defusing Drone Invented by a 14-year old Signed Rs. 5 Crore



A 14-year old boy Harshwardhan Zala studying 10th class from gujarat signed an agreement worth Rs. 5 crore for the production of a drone created by him which can help the soldiers in detecting and defusing landmines in the war zones. He signed the Memorandum of Understanding ( MoU) at the recently-concluding Vibrant Gujarat summit in Ahmedabad.
He first started to work on a prototype of the drone right after reading in newspaper about high casualities due to landmines. Harshwardhan said " I first created a landmine detecting robot but realised that since the weight is heavy it would trigger a blast and damage it so i thought of creating a drone which will be at a safe distance while detecting the mines".

Harshwardhan also claimed "For the final prototype i created it cost me around 3.2 lakhs and improving it further may increase the cost a little but it will be still cheapter than the present system which are used in army".

 Dr Narottam Sahu, the head of Gujarat Council on Science and Technology said "An MoU has been signed with him and in the coming days Gujarat government will work with him on  this project".

 The interesting thing is that the state government financed his final prototype which cost him around Rs. 5 lakh. The drone is said to detect the landmines through an infrared sensor, and then defusing it by a detonator.
Harshwardhan set up his own company naming it Aerobatics 7 and has plans to create more innovational gadgets.

Tuesday, 23 May 2017

Human Emotion's Detected By A Wristband [ It is Real..]




An engineer at MIT developed a wristband that can detect changes in human emotions, brain and also behaviour. The wristband usually recognize the changes in human emotions, especially during seizures caused by epilepsy. When there is an abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity seizures occur. The wrist band has automated machine learning technology which detects the compulsive seizures by recognition of electrodermal activity on the wrist with measures of motion through a sweat response.

The professor of Media arts and sciences at MIT Rosalind picard said that " The skin is purely innervated by the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system". This sympathetic activation occurs when experiencing excitement or stress, whether physical, emotional or cognitive.  When some parts of the human brain are activated during a seizure, they can elicit patterns of electrical changes in the skin.

She added saying "We can observe increases in sympathetic brain activation by monitoring subtle electrical changes accross the surface of the skin."





"We Know that pain exacerbates anxiety and stress, we are doing more studies to determine how reductions in anxiety and stress could indicate an analgesic response activated by a pain management therapy," she said.


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Time To Leave Earth???




"Humans need to find a new planet to live on within the span of 100 years" said Professor Stephen Hawking. He said that humanity has to redouble its efforts to search for other planets to colonise other planets before the Earth becomes uninhabitable.

 "I strongly believe we should start seeking alternative planets for possible habitation, We are running out of space on Earth and we need to break through the technological limitations preventing us from living elsewhere in the universe." he said at a press conference in London. He also added saying "I am not alone in this view and many of my colleagues will make further comments on this at starmus next month,".
Professor Stephen Hawkings said that he believes that the climate changes on Earth will make it more hotter in the coming years and it will become impossible to grow crops as the population expands. He also believe's that humans won't survive in another 1000 years if humans don't escape .
Space X chief Elon Musk is also planning to launch space colonies in the next 100-years and even NASA said that its Mars missions might be helpful to colonize people on other planets.

Is this the end of Earth..??

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