The first steps to an online sales are given in the ’70s, but it was not until after 90 to verify a transaction with payment made over the internet
After Black Friday, Cyber Monday comes. The logic is the same, but the discounts are exclusively online. This initiative is proof that online sales are becoming more expression. And with the stores to strengthen this sector and the consumer to surrender the ease of purchase through a click is a question: what and when was the first sale made via the internet
A video of Shopify – site that lets you create an online store – back in time in search of the answer. And he retreated until 1971, still in the ARPANET time. According to the website, a student at Stanford University bought marijuana to an MIT student. However, this turns out not to count as first sale, since it was not made a payment via internet. Basically combined where to meet and finalize the transaction.
The video “traveling” then until 1984. In that year Jane Snowball, a British grandmother (as is said in the video), uses a system called videotex to order their purchases for the home. The Videotex was basically a TV connected to phone lines. But once again, this transaction does not count as eggs, margarine and Corn Flakes were delivered at home and paid at the time.
Only ten years later came the first purchase online. It is noted that although the Pizza Hut receive often claims, the truth is that it was a young man of 21 years, Dan Kohn, to create a website called NetMarket and gives the system that allowed the sale online.
So, what it is that was first sold on the Internet? A CD Sting ( Ten Summoner’s Tales ). The transaction took place August 11, 1994 and was done by a technology that allowed encrypt credit card data. The CD cost $ 12.48, plus shipping costs.
“Even if NASA were to hear, they could not get the credit card,” said Kohn damage to The New York Times , in an interview the day after the transaction, quoted by fastcompany site.
This site writes that some people claim to have been the first, namely the Internet Shopping Network, which claims to have made a sale a month before the NetMarket.
It is also noted that in the 80s there was already a form of online shopping in Europe but unsafe. Some operators offered the possibility of buying plane or train tickets, as well as access to services such as stock prices or weather data.
Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma and Richard Branson have joined Bill Gates to invest massively in a fund to support renewable energy.
During the summit UN Climate Change in Paris, Bill Gates challenged technology leaders to jointly set up an investment fund for the development of a new green technology with the aim of increasing energy production (clean) in the world, especially in countries poorest.
Over the past week, came news that Bill Gates would be preparing a multi-million dollar fund to invest in renewable energy. Now, in addition to Gates’ investment, the cause is supported by major technology leaders like Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma and Richard Branson.
This background million will be used to develop a new green technology It will increase the production of energy worldwide, without contributing to global warming and the main target, the underdeveloped countries.
Currently, over one billion people live without access to basic services of world energy.
This is a high-risk investment that not all investors are willing to take. There is already much public money to be invested in this area, but these technology leaders consider it even more necessary investment in equal proportion to the public, by private companies. There are, both parties willing to work together in this cause.
The private sector knows how to build companies, to assess the potential for success, and take the risks that run to apply in the real world innovative ideas.
Both the storage such as the production and management of energy efficiency are areas of technology that will be the target of this giant investment.
When the British actress Emma Watson campaigned in favor of gender equality in the United Nations (UN), she did not know who was making itself a target of persecution by a global mob.
Neither knew the developer Zoe Quinn games she would be abused by entering a predominantly male world – a hate campaign, called “gamergate” began when her ex-boyfriend accused her of having achieved a good media coverage of a of their games by offering sexual favors.
What came after was a misogynist harassment from other online players, including threats of rape and death. Similarly, the American actress Jennifer Lawrence has become a victim of “sexual offense” after photos in which she was naked were leaked and distributed by the digital world
As such, there are many other examples:. In constant connectivity times, technology has become a tool to “attack women and girls,” says the UN
Millions of women worldwide are subjected to domestic violence just for being what they are. women. And the popularity of communication technologies and social networks have enabled new forms of rape them.
It is time for the “world awakening” to the importance of this issue, the United Nations said. The organization estimates that 95% of all aggressive behavior and detractors on the Internet have women as targets.
“The online violence overthrew positive original premise of Internet freedom and, too often, to become a space chilling allowing anonymous cruelty and facilitates attacks against women and girls, “says Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Women, the agency’s organization dedicated to gender equality and greater female power.
Gender-based violence in the world digital is no longer a “first world problem”, say experts in technology, and comes in the wake of the global popularization of smartphones and tablets and the Internet.
It is not easy to fight it, since technologies Digital is a double-edged sword, which can be used both to perpetrate gender violence as to make women feel safe and more independent.
digital Pandemic > With one in three women have already suffered from it, the World Health Organization (WHO) considers violence against women “as a global health problem of epidemic proportions,” ranging from domestic abuse to harassment on the street, traffic sexual, rape and femicide.
Social media boosted further this pandemic. “The Internet is available to all, as well as violence. Their perpetrators are no longer limited by geographical or physical boundaries,” says Baroness Patricia Scotland, former Attorney General of the UK and founder of Alliance Corporate Against Domestic Violence organization.
The center of association studies for Progressive Communication established the “four A’s” that distinguish gender violence related to Technology: anonymity, accessibility, action at a distance (thus exerting less apparent form of violence without physical contact ) and automation (ie less time and effort are needed to perpetrate the attack)
This online violent behavior goes from cyber bullying and public vilification to physical aggression desire -. and the internet may be the tool to transform the virtual violence to real violence.
“Intimidation, threats and access to the victim’s information is not new tactics within the context of domestic violence. But the use of technology means that harassment and abuse can become much more invasive, intense and traumatic, “says Kaofeng Lee, the nonprofit National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV, its acronym in English).
A survey conducted by NNEDV, which is based in the United States, found that 89% of victims enrolled in programs related to domestic violence suffered some kind of abuse through technologies, often on different platforms. And the victims are younger and younger, according to the figures show.
Nothing hazing The reaction in social networks famous women against such violence has helped to raise awareness on poblema, experts say.
It was not just Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Watson. There is also Caroline Criado-Perez, for example, that for a time became the main target of online abuse in the internet speaks English after asking the British government to put more women in the printed faces in paper money.
She was the victim of intense persecution on social media: insults, provocations and threats by other users. Some believe that the lack of regulation in most countries needs to be addressed, beyond the simple fact that digital bullying is not always taken seriously.
Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland and author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (hate crimes in the cyber environment, in English), analyzed the most common reactions to threats of death and rape on the internet and found that sometimes these messages are considered “harmless” or “juvenile pranks.”
And the denunciation of tools created for social networks to help its members to report abuses “just a palliative to a problem of potentially dangerous real world.”
Citron has campaigned in the United States by laws that criminalize revenge porn. – posting sexually explicit images without the consent of the photographed person and a form of domestic violence in the digital age which is already penalized in some countries
But it has faced powerful critics , especially among online activists who argue that legislation so would hurt freedom of expression.
Jillian York, director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an international organization that advocates for civil rights in the network, believes that social media platforms not should filter content to monitor cases of violence. “This sets a dangerous precedent for some groups require censorship of Facebook the subjects that interest you,” she wrote in Slate website.
Jonathan Bishop, a specialist in online harassment, states that, on most sites, . Users are able to control the collective behavior, despite considering that laws are necessary when this self-regulation fails
A recent UN study urges members of this market – ranging from providers and telephone service companies mobile social networking companies, video games and all types of sites – undertake such monitoring
“Technology companies need to explicitly recognize violence against women as a criminal behavior” and provide “support for victims / survivors. “says the report
But the picture is quite discouraging:. Statistics show that one in five Internet users live in countries where gender violence is unlikely to be punished by law <. /> p>
The African Development Bank (ADB) will finance around EUR 85 million Development Project, Science and Angolan Technology, which includes the construction of a science park in Angola.
According to information released today by the Ministry of Finance of Angola, this project aims to contribute to the “diversification of the Angolan economy through the promotion of technological innovation,” but also by “improving productivity and competitiveness in the sector does not oil “.
It will cover the whole country,” especially “for the” construction and equipment of a science and technology park “as well as funding scholarships and research projects, implementation of promotional activities and strengthening the participation of women in scientific, technological and innovative activities.
The project, according to the Ministry of Finance provides benefit 155 researchers, inserted into 40 teams, of which 55 per cent women.
It will involve further developing skills in secondary education or support for the management of intellectual property.
The financing agreement was signed on Friday between the Ministry of Finance and the AfDB matches 100 million (EUR 94 million), where 90% of the budget will be financed by that financial institution, with a return of 10% of the Angolan government.
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Image copyright THINKSTOCK Image caption In constant connectivity times, technology has become tool for ‘attacking women and girls’, warned the UN
When the British actress Emma Watson campaigned in favor of gender equality in the United Nations (UN ), she did not know who was making itself a target of persecution by a global mob.
When technology is an ally
Last month, the Black Point campaign has taken the social networks by storm: a well-intentioned effort to identify victims of domestic violence seeking help by asking them desenhassem black spots on their hands and publish it on the internet.
“In just 24 hours, the campaign reached 6000 people worldwide and helped six women”, published one of its organizers.
Your viral success did not receive the support of groups fighting domestic violence because of fear that it would attract attention to the victims, which could become the target of the wrath of their abusers.
But it was an example of how technology and social networks can be an ally against gender violence. As well as this, there are other projects in the world.
The hashtag #NiUnaMenos was created in Argentina to condemn femicide that go unpunished. The campaign “Bites for All” seeks to combat gender violence in Pakistan.
The Medicapt application is created in the Congo to collect and transmit evidence of domestic violence. And the campaign # meuprimeiroassédio was launched in Brazil for women to report abuse still suffered in childhood.
Neither knew the developer Zoe Quinn games she would be abused by entering a world predominantly male -. the hate campaign, called “gamergate” began when her ex-boyfriend accused her of having achieved a good media coverage of their games by offering sexual favors
What came after was a misogynist harassment from other online players, including threats of rape and death.
Similarly, the American actress Jennifer Lawrence has become a victim of “sexual offense” after photos in which she was naked were castings and distributed by the digital world
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As such, there are many other examples: in constant connectivity times, technology has become a tool to “attack women and girls,” says the UN
Millions of women worldwide are subjected to domestic violence just for being what they are: women. And the popularity of communication technologies and social networks have enabled new forms of rape them.
It is time for the “world awakening” to the importance of this issue, the United Nations said. The organization estimates that 95% of all aggressive behavior and detractors on the Internet have women as targets.
“The online violence overthrew positive original premise of Internet freedom and, too often, to become a space chilling allowing anonymous cruelty and facilitates attacks against women and girls, “says Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Women, the agency’s organization dedicated to gender equality and greater female power.
Gender-based violence in the world digital is no longer a “first world problem”, say experts in technology, and comes in the wake of the global popularization of smartphones and tablets and the Internet.
It is not easy to fight it, since technologies Digital is a double-edged sword, which can be used both to perpetrate gender violence as to make women feel safe and more independent.
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digital Pandemic
With one in three women have already suffered from it, the World Health Organization Health (WHO) considers violence against women “as a global health problem of epidemic proportions,” ranging from domestic abuse to harassment in the street, sex trafficking, rape and femicide.
Social media boosted further this pandemic
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Image copyright ITU. Jacobson Gonzalez Image caption Game Developer Zoe Quinn was abused on the Internet
“The Internet is available to all, as well as violence. Their perpetrators are no longer limited by geographical or physical boundaries,” he says Baroness Patricia Scotland, former Attorney General of the UK and founder of Alliance Corporate Against Domestic Violence organization.
The center of association studies for Progressive Communication established the “four A’s” that distinguish gender violence related technology to:. anonymity, accessibility, action at a distance (thus exerting less apparent form of violence without physical contact) and automation (ie less time and effort are needed to perpetrate the attack)
This behavior online violent ranges from cyber bullying and public vilification to physical aggression desire -. and the Internet can be a tool to transform the virtual violence to real violence
“Intimidation, threats and access to the victim information not are new tactics within the context of domestic violence. But the use of technology means that harassment and abuse can become more invasive, intense and traumatic, “says Kaofeng Lee, the nonprofit National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV, its acronym in English).
74% of the countries do not take appropriate action through the courts and police forces
65% of women who are victims prefer not to report ciberviolência for fear of reprisals social
56% say they have experienced some form of harassment
26 % have been victims of persecution
25% suffered sexual harassment
5% say something happened online that led to run “physical danger”
A survey conducted by NNEDV, which is based in the United States, found that 89% of victims enrolled in programs related to domestic violence suffered some kind of abuse through technologies, often on different platforms.
And the victims are younger and younger, according to the figures show.
No hazing
The reaction in social networks famous women against such violence has helped raise awareness about the poblema, experts say.
There were only Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Watson. There is also Caroline Criado-Perez, for example, that for a time became the main target of online abuse in the internet speaks English after asking the British government to put more women in the printed faces in paper money.
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Image copyright AFP Image caption Women have joined worldwide to contain and expose cases of violence
She was the victim of intense persecution on social media:. insults, provocations and threats by other users
Some believe the lack of regulation in most countries needs be resolved, beyond the simple fact that digital bullying is not always taken seriously.
Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland and author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (crimes hatred in the cyber environment, in English), analyzed the most common reactions to threats of death and rape on the internet and found that sometimes these messages are considered “harmless” or “juvenile pranks”.
E the termination of tools created for social networks to help its members to report abuses “just a palliative to a problem of potentially dangerous real world”
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Image copyright GETTY Image caption famous Actresses have also been the subject of virtual violence, as in revenge porn cases Image copyright AFP Image caption Campaigns have been prominent, and some countries have already introduced measures legal to punish offenders
Citron has campaigned in the United States by laws which criminalize revenge porn – the publication of sexually explicit images without the consent of the person photographed and form of domestic violence in the digital age which is already penalized in some countries.
But it has faced powerful critics, especially among online activists who argue that legislation so would hurt freedom of expression.
Jillian York, director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an international organization that advocates for civil rights in the network, believes that social media platforms should not filter content to monitor cases of violence.
“This sets a dangerous precedent for that certain groups require censorship of Facebook the subjects that interest you, “she wrote at Slate .
There is only 40 years, sexual harassment and domestic violence were seen as normal. Today we see the same pattern of tying in cyberspace. Online harassment is seen as trivial.
Danielle Citron, author of “Hate Crimes In Cyberspace”
1. Online harassment – from abusive SMS to monitor the victim using geolocation
2. Intimate partner violence – for example, threats to disclose private conversations or “revenge porn”
3. Violence legitimated culturally – from pass sexist jokes to create Facebook groups that promote rape
4. Sexual violence – when technology is used to attract women to situations resulting in rape or other forms of physical violence
Jonathan Bishop, a specialist in online harassment, states that, on most sites, users are able to control the collective behavior, despite considering that laws are necessary when this self-regulation fails.
A recent UN study urges members of this market – ranging from providers and cellular service companies to social networking companies, video games and all types of sites. – exercising this surveillance
“Technology companies . need to explicitly recognize violence against women as a criminal behavior “and provide” support for victims / survivors, “the report
But the picture is quite discouraging: statistics show that one in five internet users living in countries where gender violence is unlikely to be punished by law.
This is a question that is increasingly being discussed.
The technology is seen as an asset when it is used and implemented to evolve the show, through mechanisms such as the installation of a larger number of TV cameras, or the referees can communicate with each other in time real in an attempt to minimize mistakes that could harm the show.
It is true that, in another aspect, the technology is being increasingly used by clubs, particularly for coaches to understand how we can take better performance of players and team by Video monitoring and use tools such as heart rate monitor or GPS, allowing a statistical data collection related to heart rate or distance covered in a game.
The spectacle evolved arm given to the measures implemented, starting communication of the arbitrators to be seen as normal and appreciated the introduction of goal referees at major tournaments for granted and increasingly necessary, but difficult to extend all competitions everywhere Globe. Serve these measures to analysts or adherents among games can discuss in detail the referee’s mistake, but are much more important to check truthfulness, transparency and justice to a game that continues to have in its pure and visceral state their true essence, and that the stadium takes fans that connect some of these details, preferring to unload adrenaline in song or a simple clap or whistle.
The technology is increasingly involucrada in football, allowing clubs and especially coaches have more and more information on the performance and quality of training and game. The first step was taken with the heart monitors that control the heartbeat and race pace, however are bothersome to the player on game day. Being football constantly evolving pass the heart rate monitor to the current GPS – recently validated by FIFA; system that has won the great powers of football. With this highlights the attempts by clubs to approach the high technical ability of players to their physical capacity, an increasingly close relationship.
The mentioned GPS gives us the variables and the individual and collective relations Game: Ten players with this technology paint a picture of how to bind and points and distances run in the field. This allows the coach to analyze, albeit a posteriori, if their interconnection is consistent with the intended design, looking after optimize income in order to narrow the idealized training game relationship. Of course, this system is no indicator of victories, but it helps to realize how far they can go to control the player and define what you want it to Bodily and tactical level, thus improving your income profile.
The precorrida distance and location of the field where it is held, the accelerations and desacelarações and at what pace are made, the more the heart rate gives us indicators of how we can approach more and more the training game. This measure, by FIFA, its concern extends beyond the quality of the show, also seeking to minimize the risk of injury. Better than that only an “emotional strain gauge device,” a virgin area in the football reality.
There are proponents of the controversial moves in the game in the future should be monitored and analyzed in real time to help referees to take the right decision; but football can not miss its essence, its unpredictability. We would leave as well to have the derision of debate and ill say commentators (which technology realize a lot, but the essence of the game perceive little) during the week. But the game would have endless breaks, because they could be as many bids that would kill the speed at which football is played, away fans from stadiums.
The football in its pure state seduces us simply with the ball hitting the post and goes, or hitting the post and going out, putting all the technology into the background.
A study by AVG security company specializing online , reveals that technology is affecting the relationship between parents and children globally .
These figures are worrying researchers: 54% of parents confessed that look too many times for your smatphone and 29% assume that they are not setting a good example for children regarding the use of mobile devices such as smatphones or tablets .
According to research, one of the worst parents’ habits are being distracted while talking the children. Another serious behavior common to children parents, is the use of mobile phone during dinner or other times when we are together.
The majority of respondents send text messages to people who are in the same house. It seems cliché, but it’s one of the study’s findings:. The great paradox of technology is approaching those who are physically remote and away from those who are close
“We can see a certain distance between people Use. Technology makes children’s contact with their parents and friends, more restricted. That’s why it takes a few rules for the use of the devices, both at home, as in relationship moments with friends, “said Elizabeth Duarte ., psychologist
In other words, it is important to assess whether the younger need or not to have one of these devices and set times of day to use – this last tip also applies to adults. “Young children should not have access to the Internet without being assisted because they may find inappropriate content, be harassed or suffer bullying,” explains Mariano Sumrell, Director of Marketing for AVG Brazil.
For most adults Internet is a work tool, so it is difficult to reduce the frequency of use of technological devices. In this case, the study tip is for parents only refer eg email after dinner or before bed.
The overuse of technology also affect the health and Family Safety. The study found that 59% of parents use the smartphone while driving, a fact confirmed by some 32% of children. According to a survey conducted by the Traffic Department of the USA, the NHTSA, this behavior increases by 400% the risk of accidents.
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New technology facilitates mobility in the city the blind For two years , Microsoft worked on the project Cities Unlocked.
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The Telegraph tested phase two of Cities Unlocked, a Microsoft project that uses advanced GPS and smartphone technology to help the blind to around the city independently.
It tells the newspaper that technology not only guides people to their destination, as it helps to understand exactly where they are and their relationship with popular sites.
The technology uses an accelerometer a gyro, compass and columns in different parts of the headphones to give the impression of various sounds from different directions.
Image copyright Thinkstock Image caption Major manufacturers are interested in producing smartphones compatible with LIFI
A popular wireless data transmission technology WiFi is about to become obsolete.
At least that’s indicating the first tests . a new technology, called LIFI, which can transmit data to 1GB per second
This represents a 100 times greater than the current speed WiFi And it can get even faster:. technology company Estonia Velmenni , which conducts these experiments, says that tests performed in laboratories at Oxford University have achieved 22GB per second.
The LIFI technology, short for “Light Fidelity” (Loyalty of Light, in literal translation) uses waves light for transmission, using light emitting diodes (LED).
“We created an intelligent lighting solution for an industrial area in which the data communication takes place through the light. We are also doing a pilot project, creating a network of LIFI to access the internet in the office, “said Deepak Solanki, director general of Velmenni
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How does it work?
Image copyright Thinkstock Image caption Technology uses LED lights for data transmission
In 2011, the creator of this technology, the scientist Harald Haas of the University of Edinburgh, showed that with just one LED can transmit more data than a telephone antenna.
The LIFI allows a lamp has two features:. enlighten and ensure connectivity to the router
The technology was presented in 2012 at the Consumer Electronics Show, an international event with technologies for consumption, in Las Vegas. In a demonstration, two smartphones at a distance of 10 m exchanged data with each other by varying the intensity of light from their screens.
It has been shown, too, that the LIFI is more secure than WiFi and does not interfere with other systems, but it could be used without problems on a plane, for example
But there is a drawback:.. light can not pass through walls
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It’s the end of the WiFi
Image copyright Thinkstock Image caption new system should not replace WiFi altogether in the near future
But despite its advantages, the new system will not replace the WiFi altogether in the near future.
On the contrary. Both technologies can be used together to create safer and faster networks. And researchers are working on the adaptation of current devices to be compatible with LIFI.
The PureLifi, a company created by Haas and his team, offers an application for secure wireless access.
The French company Oledcomm technology are installing your own LIFI system in hospitals.
At the same time, companies such as Samsung, LG and other electronic devices manufacturers are interested in creating smartphones with light sensors LIFI .
The popular wireless data transmission technology Wi-Fi is about to become outdated. At least that’s indicating the first tests of a new technology, called LIFI, which can transmit data to 1GB per second.
This represents a 100 times larger than the current Wi-Fi speed. And can get even faster:. technology company Estonia Velmenni, which conducts these experiments, says that tests performed in laboratories at Oxford University have achieved 22GB per second
The LIFI technology, short for “Light Fidelity” ( fidelity of Light, in literal translation) uses light waves for transmission, using light emitting diodes (LED).
“We created an intelligent lighting solution for an industrial area where data communication is performs through the light. We are also doing a pilot project, creating a network of LIFI to access the internet in the office, “said Deepak Solanki, director general of Velmenni.
How it works In 2011, the creator of this technology, the scientist Harald Haas of the University of Edinburgh, showed that with just one LED can transmit more data than a telephone antenna. The LIFI allows a lamp has two features:. Enlighten and ensure connectivity to the router
The technology was presented in 2012 at the Consumer Electronics Show, an international event with technologies for consumption, in Las Vegas. In a demonstration, two smartphones at a distance of 10 m exchanged data with each other by varying the intensity of light from their screens.
It has been shown, too, that the LIFI is more secure than Wi Fi and does not interfere with other systems, but it could be used without problems on a plane, for example. But there is a drawback:.? Light can not pass through walls
It’s the end of the Wi-Fi But despite its advantages, the new system should not replace Wi-Fi completely in the near future. On the contrary. Both technologies can be used together to create safer and faster networks. And researchers are working on the adaptation of current devices to be compatible with LIFI.
The PureLifi, a company created by Haas and his team, offers an application for secure wireless access. The French company of Oledcomm technology are installing your own LIFI system in hospitals.
At the same time, companies such as Samsung, LG and other electronic devices manufacturers are interested in creating smartphones with LIFI light sensors.
The internet may be about to go through another revolution -. the creation of Li-Fi
According to the World Economic Forum, the technology can deliver speeds 100 times faster than currently seen with WiFi, up to 228GB per second. The tests are being conducted in Tallinn, Estonia.
The technology uses visible light spectrum to transmit data when added to a high-speed fiber connection. LEDs and receivers operating in different fields of view and bands that affect the transmission speed.
Although still far from actually used on a large scale, the Li-Fi has the potential to provide internet low cost with greater security in remote areas and outlying areas. And because the light can not overcome walls, nothing to steal internet neighbor more.
In a talk TED Talk, a pioneer of technology, Harold Haas said that in the future any LED lamp can potentially be used as a potential ultra-fast alternative to Wi-Fi. “We have the infrastructure, we can use it for communication,” he said.
He also teaches, in conversation, that radio waves of base stations can only transmit the data to 5% efficiency, and much of the energy is being used to cool the stations
Who is within the technology sector hears often of great jargon, as the speed of information, ongoing communication and productivity with ICT to be highlighted by the advantages. These themes dominated the presentation of the six cross-cutting trends that APDC brought to the first panel discussion of the 25th Communications Congress. After an intervention Joaquin Almunia, representatives from Altran, CGI, IBM, Microsoft, Accenture and Novabase They made their “pitch” of 5 minutes showing the revolution that is happening in the energy sector, the data (especially the Big Data), the template as a service , centered experience . user and the future of the workforce, but also in cost optimization On the other side were invited to comment on the political, economic and social impact four speakers from outside the sector: the sociologist Antonio Barreto; António Ramalho, president of the Board of Directors of Infraestruras of Portugal; Fernando Ulrich, chief executive of BPI and Luis Marques Mendes, lawyer and politician. And the concerns are common, and focus on issues of social exclusion, privacy and security. António Barreto points out that there are concepts that can not be used without a critical point of view, as the speed and readiness, and always pointed out as virtues. “Communication produces the best and the worst,” the sociologist, remembering that today we see it in direct but at the same time also enhances the worst exclusion among people who do not have access digital tools. “It took me some time to realize that progress is not all positive. You lose a lot along the way. I believe that the loss of privacy is absolute, but it is what it is “, he stresses. And the difference between generations in how we share information on social networks is a good demonstration of this. While recognizing the advantages of ICT and the opportunities presented by economic development and democratization in society, Marques Mendes, lawyer and politician, also highlights some concerns, particularly on the balance between freedom and security, defending the privacy and ensuring the non-interference in citizens’ lives. For the lawyer, the answer from the reconciliation of two views must go through the way these accesses are regulated and legislated. “What worries me is that we are in a state of no one”, referring to some recent cases of information that is disclosed and it is not denied or contradicted. “The problem is never that privacy no longer will be the nineteenth century but the side damage of entities that have access and use of unlawful and abusive manner. [...] I’m scared, it is an injury to society. The problem is when not in use but the abuse “he says. Also Fernando Ulrich, chairman of BPI, shared his vision with respect to privacy, admitting that coexists with it smoothly, but there is a set of entities that have access to data and user profiles. “I take for granted that privacy is dwindling [… There are more and more entities who know a lot about our life. It’s a fact. And within organizations there are people who have access, “he adds, but argues that” it is important that the information can not be used against us “and that can not be aggregated, assuming that this would be a Big Brother worrying. António Ramalho more focused his remarks on the challenge that technologies bring to businesses and the way helped change concepts, still remembering that this revolution brings tremendous challenges to the state, and require a reclassification. 25 Congress of APDC Communications takes place today and tomorrow, 25 and 26 November, at the Belém Cultural Centre in Lisbon, bringing together more than a dozen panels which involved 99 speakers and addressing the main themes of the communications and IT industry.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The Chinese index ChiNext technology companies rose by almost 3 percent on Wednesday to a maximum of four months, boosting the market as a whole, which at the beginning of the session was being pressured by cyclical sectors.
The CSI300 index, which includes the largest companies listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen, rose 0.74 percent to 3,781 points. The Shanghai index was up 0.88 percent at 3,647 points.
Investors, encouraged by a series of government policies to promote innovation and entrepreneurship, put money in technology stocks, while giving little attention to the geopolitical tensions after Turkey shoot down a Russian combat game.
“Despite the recent high volatility, the overall market trend is still positive,” said the strategist of Kaiyuan Securities Yang Hai. “The government will probably maintain loose monetary policy to ensure a smooth economic restructuring.”
edgy or mechanical? Technology giants divided on virtual assistants
Siri, Cortana, M, anyone with a smartphone can theoretically have at their disposal a virtual assistant. As technology companies invest in artificial intelligence, increasing doubts as to the type of interaction that must exist between humans and machines.
As the technology giants compete to create artificial intelligence platforms getting better, increasing scrutiny about the personality nuances of your virtual assistants and what kind of interaction should have with humans, writes this Tuesday, November 24, Reuters reported.
When asked to Siri, the virtual assistant Apple, which she would drink, is quick to respond: “I have thirst for knowledge,” he says. Your Microsoft competitor, Cortana, opts for a “Martini very, very dry.” Already M, virtual assistant Facebook, flee to the question and says, “..? I have no opinion about it What is your favorite drink”
For users, virtual assistants are a doorway to powerful tools of artificial intelligence, something that programmers expect that may influence the decision making on what to buy and how to spend leisure time.
Technology companies can engage more consumers, as that virtual assistants accumulate data on the habits, interests and preferences. These information which can then be used, for example, to enhance the targeted advertising.
However, companies are divided on the best way to create a connection with users. The Siri and Cortana opt offensive of charm, both are quick to make jokes, for example. Its quite elaborate personas are created to ensure that users return to the wizard.
Since Facebook’s M assistant does not have a defined gender, voice or personality. Its construction is similar to that of Google assistant, writes Reuters.
Although captivating digital assistant with “personality” run the risk of alienating users or lead them into error as to the real purpose Software:. conduct simple tasks
“We want the M is really open and able to do anything – a blank paper – and see how people use” this tool, said Alex Lebrun, Executive Facebook who leads the team responsible for the virtual assistant Mark Zuckerberg’s company in an interview with Reuters.
An investigation conducted by Clifford Nass, a professor at Stanford University who died in 2013 and specializes in the interaction between humans and computers shows that users find most engaging artificial intelligence that resembles human behavior, although on the other hand, are more disappointed when the system is not up to your expectations, which increases the risks for companies that choose to follow by this means.
On the other hand, what captivates a user can annoy other -. a risk that both Facebook and Google have decided to avoid or minimize
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