Germany Demands Google to Show Their Searching Algorithms

Heiko Mass, Germany’s justice minister, wants Google to open their searching algorithms so the way Google works will be much more transparent. Google has lot of impact on businesses lately, and depending on how businesses are shown in Google’s search results make a major impact in businesses.

With Google dominating online search market with more than 60%, Google has become a standard for online search, and many of Europe countries including Germany feels that Google take this as an advantage and promoting its own brand of services over native services in Europe.

So Germany’s minister believes that Google must expose how it’s searching algorithms works, therefore explaining the search results with high Google service dominance.

Even though Google’s many works are open source, including all famous Android OS, but very important aspects of Google’s primary income generating businesses are closed source and proprietary. Google Search is one of these deeply closed and guarded project. Showing the algorithm to authorities may ended up in technology breach and others copying the algorithms.

Microsoft’s EMET 5.0 is Released, Providing Extensive Defense Against Cyber-Attacks

Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit is Microsoft’s second layer of security that was primarily available for enterprise customers, it helps prevent damages against cyber-attacks, and providing methods to detect and block exploitations techniques that are used by cyber criminals. It provides real time protection against such attacks and help secure your system before your formal anti-virus or anti-malware get updates with the patch for such attacks.

EMET is less known by normal users, because it wasn’t much advertised by Microsoft, but now this EMET is free and anyone can use it, even on your home computers, and it gives you extra protection against hackers.

EMET is also compatible with most anti-virus and anti-malware applications, so it can work alongside to provide more security.

Download EMET 5.0 here (11MB)

More details on EMET here.

Material Design Comes to Google Chrome Beta for Android

Google revealed Android 5 in their IO conference, it is called Android L, and it has some new UI makeovers, that Google called it Material Design. It gives more attention to type and have lot of animation based UI changes.

Before releasing the actual OS, Google has already showed off few of their apps with Material Design such as Gmail and Maps. Now Google released Chrome Beta for Android with Material Design.

Chrome Beta 37 has totally new look, but the dev team said they were experimenting with some of the elements of Material Design. It seems they will continue to work with the new design and finally it will come to Chrome for Android.

Download Chrome Beta for Android here.

Here is the full gallery at arstechnica

Three Super Massive Black Holes Rotating Closely

4.3 billion light years away, in a distance galaxy, 2 black holes have been identified, they are not ordinary black holes, they are supermassive black holes, that is they are millions or billions time massive than our Sun. Usually these kind of black holes lies in the center of the galaxy.

Super massive black holes are surrounded by disk of glowing hot gas, commonly with that it forms quasar. Quasars are monstrous objects in space and with its colossal power can outshine the entire galaxy.

The quasar named SDSS J1502+1115 is in constellation Bootes, 4.3 light years away is actually 2 supper massive black holes and are almost 24,000 light years apart. But when scientists looked one black hole closely with intercontinental array of radio dishes – which can produce sharper images than Hubble Space Telescope – they discovered that one of the black hole is actually a duo.

This new found pair of black holes are actually 450 light years apart and orbiting each other every 4 million years. There is only one more tightly paired black hole we ever discovered and that is 24 light years apart.

Scientists believe that tightly paired black holes can help detect “gravitational wave” predicted by general relativity, but so far no known binary black holes are tight enough to cause detectable gravitational wave.

Source: ScienceMag

Sony Kernel Sources are Available on GitHub

Sony is really great with cooperating with open community, and they have been releasing Xperia kernel modules as zip files until now. Recently it changed and they are now available on GitHub, this is great news because now it has all the changes and history logged and it is great for developers to merge any mother modules with them.

Sony already provides official way to unlock their Xperia devices’ bootloader – allowing the device to install 3^rd party roms such as famous CyanogenMod for Xperia from FreeXperia project.

It is also noted that recently Sony hired the founder of FreeXperia project, Alin Jerpelea.

Sony GitHub

Source: Sony Mobile

MIT Researchers Shows off 36 Core CPU with “network-on-chip”

Last week, at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture, MIT research group unveiled 36 core chip. What’s new about this chip is the way it communicates with its cores – it is called “network-on-chip”.

Today’s multicore CPUs are connecting and communicating with its multiple cores with single wire, called bus, when two cores are needed to communicated, they are given access to the bus. This will become an issue as the number of cores increases, because then time to wait for the access to bus will increase and it will reduced the performance of the chip.

Nexus 9 Details Leaked Ahead of Google IO Conference

The next version of Google Nexus 7 – Google Nexus 9 details have been surfaced. This 8.9 inch tables will be the successor of Nexus 7 and made by HTC – it is codenamed Volantis.

Though it is named as Nexus 9, but it may change before coming into market. It has 8.9 inch display at 2048x1440 pixels and powered by NVIDIA Logan 64-bit processor with 2GB of RAM. It also has 16GB/32GB storage configuration.

With 8MP rear camera with optical image stabilization and 3MP front facing camera.

The body is built using what they call “aluminum zero-gap construction”. It is also believed that 16GB version will be priced at $399 and $499 for 32GB

Source: Android Police