Google launches “Ingress” A reality Based Game on Android

Google just launched Ingress—a World of Warcraft-like alternate reality game.

Ingress is a game that uses real world locations to allow you play a global game via an Android smartphone, which is not unlike Shadow Cities, an Android game we looked at earlier. The goal in Ingress is to discover augmented reality clues and messages embedded in physical locales, and gather virtual energy that allows you to continue playing the game. The fictional premise is centered on a conspiracy originating in Europe dealing with some new form of energy being released into various locations around the planet.

Developed by John Hanke and his team at Niantic Labs, Ingress is inspired by J. J. Abrams’s “Lost,” although Hanke says that they don’t want to leave people in that similar situation where they get into fiction of world but then it never ends. Currently in closed-beta, Ingress transforms the real world into a landscape for a global game of mystery, intrigue, and competition. To play the game, players will need to generate a virtual energy called “Exotic Matter” (XM) which can be collected by visiting real locations.

Google launches “Ingress” A reality Based Game on Android

XM can then be spent to launch missions around the world via “portals” that are virtually associated with public art, libraries, and other widely accessible places. Players can get to pick two sides – “The Enlightened,” who embrace the power, and “The Resistence,” who fights the power. “The concept is something like World of Warcraft, where everyone in world is playing the same game,” Hanke said. Ingress is free to play and it’s now available on Android. And iOS version of the game is coming soon. 

Those who want to test Ingress now must first request an invite at Ingress.com.

10 Facts About Europe

1.Europe is the second smallest continent in the world in terms of surface area with an area of 10,180,000 sq. km.

2.Mount Elbrus in Russia is the highest mountain in Europe.

3.Lake Balaton Hungary is the largest Lake in Europe.

4.Volga and Danube are the longest River in Europe.

5.The biggest European island is Great Britain.

Europe - Volga River

6.The European country with the highest number of volcanoes is Italy.

7.Europeans are living longer.Life expectancy in the European Union is rising.

8.Currency of Europe is Euro.

9.The First World War is supposed to have started in Europe, with the assassination of the archduke of Austria and involved almost the whole of Europe in it.

10.The largest city in Europe is Paris with a population of just under 10 million
people.The Vatican City is considered to be the smallest independent state in Europe.

10 Facts About North America

1.North America is the third largest continent.

2.North America is rich in minerals and other natural resources.

3.The longest river in North America is the Mississippi River.

4.Greenland is the biggest island on the planet and it is located in NA.

5.Lake Superior in North America is the largest fresh water lake in the world.

 North America - Mississippi River

6.The continent is named after Americo Vespucci, the Italian explorer.

7.Mount McKinley (also known as Denali)in Alaska is the highest mountain in North America.

8.North America is known for its many different cultures and food.

9.The American Buffalo is the heaviest land animal in North America.

10.North America is the only continent that has all kind of climate.

10 Facts About South America

1.It is the fourth-largest continent in the world.

2.Amazon Basin in South America is considered to be the home of many resources which
include copper, iron ore, tin and oil.

3.River Amazon is one of the largest rivers in the world is situated here.

4.Santo del Angel,the highest waterfall in the world is situated here.

5.The continent is named after Americo Vespucci, the Italian explorer.

South America - Amazon Basin

6.Mount Aconcagua in Argentina is the highest mountain on the South American continent.

7.Most spoken language is Spanish.

8.Amazon Basin in South America is the world's largest and most famous rainforest.

9.In South America each country has their own currency.

10.South America is home to many interesting species of animals including parrots,
tarantulas, snakes, and mammals.

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Security Hole Allows Anyone To Hijack Your Skype Account Using Only Your Email Address

A new security hole has been discovered in Microsoft’s Skype that allows anyone to change password and hijack account.The issue was first posted on a Russian forum two months ago and has been confirmed by The Next Web.


Skype shared the following statement with The Next Web:

“We have had reports of a new security vulnerability issue. As a precautionary step we have temporarily disabled password reset as we continue to investigate the issue further. We apologize for the inconvenience but user experience and safety is our first priority”

Skype

A number of hours after The Next Web revealed a flaw in the way Skype handled password resets, allowing third-parties to hijack accounts using just an email address, Skype has said that it has now fixed the issue. The company has confirmed it first mitigated the issue, but has now updated its password reset process so that it doesn’t send tokens to the client. Now it is confirmed that this flaw has been fixed.

What is Google’s Knowledge Graph?

The Knowledge Graph is a knowledge base used by Google to enhance its search engine's search results with semantic-search information gathered from a wide variety of sources. Knowledge Graph display was added to Google's search engine in 2012, starting in the United States, having been announced on May 16, 2012. It provides structured and detailed information about the topic in addition to a list of links to other sites. The goal is that users would be able to use this information to resolve their query without having to navigate to other sites and assemble the information themselves.

According to Google, this information is derived from many sources, including the CIA World Factbook, Freebase and Wikipedia.The feature is similar in intent to answer engines such as Ask Jeeves and Wolfram Alpha. As of 2012, its semantic network contained over 500 million objects and more than 3.5 billion facts about and relationships between these different objects which are used to understand the meaning of the keywords entered for the search.Source : Wikipedia

Google’s Knowledge Graph is launched in all countries for English search.It is amazing.The new Knowledge Graph will appear in the form of short snippets to the right column of its results and provide users more information on a topic and help users explore related items as well.

What is special in Google’s Knowledge Graph?

Information from the Knowledge Graph is available on desktop, tablet, and your smartphone. So wherever you search on Google, you’ll find that answers and discovery are at your fingertips.

Language can be ambiguous—do you mean Rio the city, the movie, or the casino? With the Knowledge Graph, Google can understand the difference, helping you more precisely express what you mean as you enter your search.

But currently when you search in Google's  knowledge graph, it shows you up to five related people, books, albums, movies and so on. If you want more, no option. That's why Google is testing new Google’s Expandable Knowledge Graph Test.In which, Google is adding an “explore more” more link that gives you a lot more related topics to scroll through right at the top of the page.

At the moment, a lot of searches don’t have answers from Knowledge Graph or other sources, so instead you get a conspicuously large amount of white space on the right side of the screen. But if anything, the new design seems like foreshadowing. Knowledge Graph may not provide too many answers now, but Google is leaving plenty of room for it to do so in the future.

Google’s Knowledge Graph results (Right side)

In the above picture, you can use the arrows on each side to scroll through more related people or topics.

Indians in Forbes Top 15 'Classroom Revolutionaries'

 Indians have been listed among the top 15 education innovators list by the Forbes magazine.The 15 education innovators named in the list are the people who are on the wheel to harness the disruptive technologies for the purpose of training the next generation teachers.

Indian Classroom Revolutionaries who are transforming education are,

Suneet Tuli, Indian origin CEO of British manufacturing and marketing company DataWind, Anant Agarwal, professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),The founder of Khan Academy, Salman Khan who holds multiple degrees from MIT and Harvard, are identified as "classroom revolutionaries" by Forbes for their contribution to the education field globally.

Suneet Tuli

 1.Tuli, the brain behind India's cheapest tablet Aakash, revolutionized the education system with the Aakash tablet which gave the technology access to many students.

"Tuli is the mastermind behind the world's cheapest tablet computer, the Aakash 2, which has the potential to revolutionize educational access in the developing world," the Forbes said.

"I don't care about creating the iPad killer. I care about the 3 billion people who can afford this device," the publication quoted Tuli as saying.

Tuli has a price target of $35 for his the device, even though it is selling for closer to $40 now. Even at the higher price Datawind has a backlog of “millions” of orders. “I care about the 3 billion people who can afford this device.”

2.The other Indian who is among the top 15 innovators is Anant Agarwal, the President of edX, online learning initiative of MIT under the joint partnership of MIT and Harvard University. The 53-year-old Agarwal, who aspires to educate billion people, is also a computer architecture researcher.

Anant Agarwal, the President of edX.

"EdX continues to up the ante by increasing partners (Pearson has signed on), classes (seven to dozens for spring 2013) and innovations, such as virtual laboratories," Forbes added.

Salman Khan 

3. The founder of Khan Academy, Salman Khan, is also in the list. The 36-year-old Khan, who holds multiple degrees from MIT and Harvard, is credited for creating 3,400 tutorial videos which have 400,000 subscribers in YouTube alone.

A single (and rather difficult) electrical engineering course from MIT attracted 155,000 students this past spring, and Coursera, a Mountain View, Calif.-based startup that hosts classes from 33 different universities (and received $16 million in venture funding earlier this year), claims 1.7 million people have signed up for at least one of its courses.

Salman Khan - (One Teacher.Millions of students)