If you have been a fan of the famous Star Trek series, and are familiar with the Emergency Medical Hologram program who can substitute for the regular medical staff or treat patients during emergency, then here is something similar that you can look forward to.
Well, almost similar.
Two research teams from the Aberystwyth University in Wales have marked a major advance in the field of artificial intelligence, by creating a robotic system that has made a novel scientific discovery with virtually no human intellectual input.
[In Pic: Adam the Robot Scientist (Image courtesy of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council)]
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What is .htaccess by the way?
Wikipedia explains this pretty nicely - “.htaccess (hypertext access) is the default name of directory-level configuration files that allow for decentralized management of configuration when placed inside the web tree”.
Ok, if that was confusing - if you look into the folder structure of your blog through cPanel or your favourite FTP program, you must have seen this file called .htaccess. This is a file which defines the configuration of different sections of your blog. For example, you can modify this file to restrict access to certain sections of your blog, such as your wp-config.php file where you have to set the password information of your blog; or you can modify it to hide the actual URL of your blog as displayed to the end user, or change the structure of your permalink (what you call URL Rewriting), etc.
For the sake of this post, I’m writing here about 5 different ways in which you can work with your .htaccess file.
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During these grim times of layoffs and increasing unemployment, what are you doing to keep yourself a step ahead of people who are in your own profile - other than increasing the number of qualifying certificates that you have?
Why not blog?
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According to an extensive study undertaken by Panda Security, about 10 million PCs all over the world are infected with ID theft malware, designed to steal secure information such as passwords, bank account information, etc.
Panda Security runs a free online scanner which helps users to check their PCs online for viruses and malware. The report come as a result of scanning about 67 million PCs all over the world. Considering that there are about a billion or so and growing number of computers around, the numbers could be much worse.
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There had been rumors in the industry about Nokia’s plans to move into the PC market. A recent comment from Nokia’s Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo now confirms this.
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To be shipped in May or June this year, AlwaysInnovating put their new two-pound touchbook at $399 dollars at the bleeding-edge DEMO conference in Palm Desert, California.
The device has an 8.9-inch, 1024 by 600-pixel display, and was running on a custom Linux based OS, but the company says that it can be modified to run Windows CE. Other goodies like WiFi and Bluetooth are part of the package, with 6 USB ports and a good battery life of 10-15 hours on the hardware side as claimed.
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