"Imagine the sinking feeling of logging in to your Gmail account and finding it empty."
Ben Treynor, Google's vice president of engineering, explaining the recent interruption in service that affected a small percentage of Gmail users.(hp pavilion dv1000 battery) Google later explained that tens of thousands of Gmail users temporarily lost access to emails because of bugs in an update to a storage software program the search giant uses. It took several hours to restore the emails from backup tape drives. (InternetNews)
"I am detecting deception in your response."
Response given by an on-screen avatar during a test run of a new kind of "deception detection machine" being developed at the University of Arizona.(HP pavilion dv9000 ac adapter) While the system relies on an animated avatar, the term is also being used as an acronym for the project, dubbed the Virtual Agent for Truth Assessments in Real-time. The hope is that avatar systems, which include a high-definition camera and infrared sensors that can analyze both a person's facial expressions and voice, will be used by airport security departments.( ibm thinkpad r40 battery) "An agent can't detect changes in your pupil dilation down to the millimeter level, they can't, but the machine can provide that," said Doug Derrick, one of the researchers working on the project at Arizona. (PhysOrg.com and KOLD news video)
"I had this realization a few days ago when I thought I lost my laptop. Then I realized I don't think I have a single piece of information that's solely on my laptop. I think I'm indicative of a future generation."
Daniel Gross, 19-year-old co-founder of startup Greplin, discussing why he thinks there's a need for a new kind of search engine. (dell inspiron 6400 battery)Greplin is a user-authorized search service for finding information in your cloud-based accounts such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Docs and Salesforce. (Inc.)
"The number of people who use Wi-Fi to access the Internet in coffee shops, bookstores and beyond is growing by leaps and bounds. The quickest and easiest way to shut down this one-stop shop for identity theft is for major websites to switch to secure HTTPS Web addresses instead of the less secure HTTP protocol."(Acer aspire 3000 battery )
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), speaking at a press conference in Manhattan where he called on heavily trafficked websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Amazon to move to the more secure HTTPS protocol. (eSecurity Planet)
"Meanwhile, there are few consequences for technology professionals should they decide to jump to a competitor. Only 11 percent of hiring managers said they would not allow a former employee to return after being poached, while one-third indicated the opposite. (TOSHIBA pa3383u-1brs battery)Most hiring managers say it would depend on the individual employee."
From a report by IT jobs site Dice.com that found that more than half (54 percent) of hiring managers and recruiters expect tech talent poaching will get more aggressive this year, while just 3 percent of those responding expect it to let up. The report also gave a few tips for spotting employees who may be interviewing at other companies, such as a change in habits related to work or a noticeable lack of engagement with colleagues or projects.(Lenovo 3000 g530 battery) Other signals include employees taking large numbers of single-day absences, changing to more formal dress and getting up to date on expense accounts. (eWeek)
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