PSY's Gangnam-style becomes Youtube most-viewed video of all time

South Korean over-night pop sensation Psy's "Gangnam Style" on Saturday became YouTube's most-watched video of all time passing Justing Bieber's "Baby" by recording more than 805M views. Now it is 810,795,387  and counting. Recently it was awarded the Guiness world record for the most likes in its youtube official account(Currently it has 5,394,454).

Choose the right tablet for you. [Infographics]

What tablet is right for you?

With so many tablets on the market, there's sure to be one that fits your needs and your budget, but how do you find the one that's best for you?

'TITAN' The fastest Supercomputer on Earth with 20 petaFLOPS

Oak Ridge National Laboratory on 29th Oct2012 made operational the worlds fastest Supercomputer ---the Titan supercomputer is a Cray machine made of nearly 19,000 processing units stitched together with 710 terabytes of memory.

Claiming the first place it made 'Sequoia' second-most-powerful supercomputer with a crunching performance of 20 petaFLOPS.
i.e this machine can perform 20 thousand trillion calculations per second.

The Cray Titan is expected to be number 1 on the TOP500 list November 2012 update in a supercomputing conference in Salt Lake City.

DNA: The New Digital Data Storage Device

From photos and videos to text to tweets, Worlds digital data is more than doubling every two years.To accumulate this exponential growth we really need a challenging storage medium.Surprisingly, Researchers found that DNA can accommodate this growing need.  

DNA, What is known to be the building block of life can now be used as a Digital storage medium.Without doubt DNA can fix this issue with its two amazing features

 it is long lasting and
 it is very much denser medium to store data.

Gauss: Stuxnet Like Worm Spotted Stealing Banking Information

A new cyber weapon which is believed to be linked with Stuxnet,Duqu,Flame in its operation (i.e to  target Iranian nuclear facility) has been discovered which was aimed at stealing financial information from customers of a series of Lebanese banks.

Like Flame, Gauss is also discovered by ITU (International Telecommunications Union) as part of its mission to maintain world cyber-peace.
Kaspersky said

“Gauss is a nation state sponsored banking Trojan which carries a warhead of unknown designation”. Besides stealing various kinds of data from infected Windows machines, it also includes an unknown, encrypted payload which is activated on certain specific system configurations.

It shares some functionalities with Flame, such as the USB infection subroutines.

Kaspersky made some analsys on this Trojan and released a technical paper  which contains several details about the worm.

New Google Search to affect Copyright offenders

Google today announced that it will update its search Algorothm to ignore or lower the search results of web domains with high number of copyright removal notices.

Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: the number of valid copyright removal notices we receive for any given site.

Since last year the company has been gathering data(complaints) from Copyright owners.  Couple of months back Google published this data in its Google Transparency Report .

At this moment the Top 10 affected domains are ..

Metro UI: Call It Windows 8 UI?

There has been news going around that due to a naming dispute with a European partner (Metro Group) that Windows New Layout For Windows 8 can no longer be referred to as a Metro UI but "Windows 8,", according to some sources. It's said that references to "Metro design" will be replaced with "Windows 8 Design", thought not yet confirmed by Microsoft Executives publicly.So the Metro interface on Windows Phone is now known as the "Windows 8 interface" on Windows Phone.

Credit: ZDNET

New Mac Virus Detected

A new Mac OS X exploit was discovered Friday morning by Kaspersky Labs which propogates through a zipfile attachment. The attachment tricks the Mac user into installing a variant of the MaControl backdoor via point-and-grunt. Embedded in the virus is an encrypted IP address belonging to a server in China which is believed to be a C+C server.

Microsoft debut into tablet business with Microsoft Surface:Specs [Video]

Microsoft, the company which ruled the PC business by providing Operating systems(Windows) and ubiquitous application software is now entering into the tablet space with its own hardware, Where there is a huge competition with world-class makers.

The company made the debut by unveiling Surface tablet computer. Microsoft Surface tablets will come in two versions. There will be Windows RT model with an ARM-based processor for light weight and long battery life, and an Intel powered model with which can run all Windows 8 apps, as well as software designed for earlier version of Windows.

Stuxnet Origin Confirmed: Developed by US and Israel Governments to take off Iran's nuclear development

[NYT]: US officials confirm Stuxnet was a joint operation of US-Israeli governments to sabotage the computer systems at Iran’s nuclear facilities according to current and former US officials.
This Operation was code named Olympic Games.

 NYT reports:
From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program.


Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games — even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran’s Natanz plant and sent it around the world on the Internet. Computer security experts who began studying the worm, which had been developed by the United States and Israel, gave it a name: Stuxnet.

At a tense meeting in the White House Situation Room within days of the worm’s “escape,” Mr. Obama, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency at the time, Leon E. Panetta, considered whether America’s most ambitious attempt to slow the progress of Iran’s nuclear efforts had been fatally compromised.

“Should we shut this thing down?” Mr. Obama asked, according to members of the president’s national security team who were in the room.

Told it was unclear how much the Iranians knew about the code, and offered evidence that it was still causing havoc, Mr. Obama decided that the cyberattacks should proceed. In the following weeks, the Natanz plant was hit by a newer version of the computer worm, and then another after that. The last of that series of attacks, a few weeks after Stuxnet was detected around the world, temporarily took out nearly 1,000 of the 5,000 centrifuges Iran had spinning at the time to purify uranium.

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Google Glass Trackpad spotted in a demo by Sergey Brin [Video]

On promoting the company's sci-fi-inspired eyewear 'Project Glass', Sergey Brin( who has been working seriously on the project from an year ) appeared on The Gavin Newsom’s Current TV talk show Wednesday, May 23 along with his wife, Anne Wojcicki.

On the show, Brin demoed how the Google Glass interface is navigated.

Sergey also told Newsom that Google X is now his primary focus at Google. His team has been working on the glasses for two to three years, and Brin as been involved for the past year. Brin also explains why Google is working on the technology: “The idea is that you want to be free to experience the world without futzing with a phone.”

Apple's Tim Cook on Steve Jobs at D10 [Video]

Timothy D. Cook, Apple's chief executive making his debut performance at the D: All Things Digital conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. spoke about the companies former CEO Steven .P Jobs

Flame :The most complex cyber threat ever discovered

Like Duqu and Stuxnet, Flame is one of the massive cyber wepon ever discovered which was specially designed to perform cyber espionage as well as retrieve valuable and important information (read: steal) without you knowing it.
This malware was identified when  UN’s International Telecommunication Union came to experts at Kaspersky Lab for help in finding an unknown piece of malware which was deleting sensitive information across the Middle East.

This new malware is known as Worm.Win32.Flame, Flame for short.

Researchers says " It’s big and incredibly sophisticated. It pretty much redefines the notion of cyberwar and cyberespionage."

"Flame is a huge package of modules comprising almost 20 MB in size when fully deployed. Because of this, it is an extremely difficult piece of malware to analyze. The reason why Flame is so big is because it includes many different libraries, such as for compression (zlib, libbz2, ppmd) and database manipulation (sqlite3), together with a LUA virtual machine. "

Read More at The Flame: Questions and Answers

Facebook Camera for iPhone with Instagram features

After a $1b acquisition agreement with a free photo sharing company Instagram, Facebook has launched a photo sharing smartphone app called Camera(Presently only for some apple products).

The app allows users to take multiple pictures and share them at once rather than uploading them one at a time. And also ,users can -and share- videos much more easily than with the regular app.

This app includes many of the filters and tweaks similar to Instagram.
Download at itunes

"When you launch the app, you'll see a feed of just great photos from the people you care about," Facebook reps wrote in a press release. "You can swipe to see more of any album or tap to enlarge an individual photo." Facebook Camera is currently available on the iPhone; versions for Android and other mobile operating systems may follow.

Facebook's Growth And Reach At A Glance: Infographics

In just a few years, Facebook has grown from an idea hatched at Harvard to a worldwide social media phenomenon potentially valued at about $100 billion. Review key moments on Facebook's road to growth, see where it's most popular, and compare how much the shares held by Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives could be worth once the company goes public.

Google Project Glass Progress: More photos and a sample video released

Google Project glass an augmented reality head-mounted display got attention of the public in recent months because the project is being carried out by Google and also  slim design of the prototype.

Although many of the augmented reality experts aurged on the concept video of project glass saying that it is not possible on such a small device and may effect the eye.

Irrespective of this critisism the company has been testing the glasses in very public ways over the past couple of months. Google co-founder Sergey Brin showed off the glasses at a charity event in April and a group of employees at Google have published a series of photos from an event this week "Google Glass Walk".

Google also posted a sample video from its Project Glass Device on Goolge+.The video, just 15 seconds long and shot in 720P, shows what it's like to be on a trampoline while using Project Glass.