October 25, 2015

SP’s: Driven by the open source philosophy, two Facebook interns won $5,000 at a Facebook Hackathon. They performed a codeless hack and made a tool to debug the failed Battery Backup Units (BBU). Read more to…

SP’s: Mira Modi, an 11-year-old girl, has started a business of selling cryptographically secure passwords for $2 each. She generated Diceware passwords, writes them by hands and sends by postal mail. The unprecedented speed, at which…

SP’s: As the latest employee surveys indicate, Facebook is one of the best places to work for. But, getting a job offer from Mr. Zuckerberg’s company isn’t so easy. Here we are with a compilation of…

SP’s: Most of us can not imagine life without access to the internet for reasons ranging from social networking to doing projects and collecting information. But, not all of us know about these interesting facts about…

SP’s: Health and education are closely connected and very important for a child’s growth. Aiming to combine both the aspect together, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are opening a free K-12 school…

SP’s: Taking inspiration from another’s designs is an old tale in the smartphone industry. The latest controversy is revolving around iPhone 6-inspired HTC One A9. Defending HTC, a top executive said that it was Apple that…

SP’s: As we advance more and more in artificial intelligence and related technologies, we must solve some complex ethical problems. A similar dilemma is faced in the case of self-driving cars and how they should act…

SP’s: During a recent interview with Bloomberg, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer targetted Microsoft’s rivals Apple and Amazon. He said that Microsoft did a crazy thing saving Apple from bankruptcy in the past and bashed Amazon…

SP’s: WiTricity, a Watertown-based company, committed to the idea of wireless electricity, has emerged with a new technology that uses coupled resonators to power electronic devices wirelessly. Professor Morin Soljačić and his team from MIT are…

SP’s: Researchers at SEAS have developed a metamaterial with zero refractive index that will allow a phase of light to go at infinitely fast speeds.  Prepare yourselves to put silicon-based electronics in the archives as the…

SP’s: To make its search more functional, Facebook has indexed about 2 trillion public posts. Now, you can search the pictures, news and posts of your interest by entering some phrases in the search box. However,…