Israeli start-up develops app called FakeOff to detect fake Facebook accounts. The app uses algorithms to investigate suspect Facebook friends and ranks them based on a credibility score from 1-10. It scans up to 365 days of timeline activity and checks for abnormal usage patterns and signs the photos were stolen, in order to identify fake profiles used for crimes, scams, or impersonation. The app aims to protect users from risks posed by fake accounts on the world's largest social network.

1.  Scientists to Develop World's Smallest High
Performance Sensor
 According to the scientists at the University of Southampton's
School ofElectronics and Computer Science (ECS) , they are
working on creating the smallest high-performance and low-power
sensor in the world. The sensor is made in silicon and it will be used in
the fields ofbiosensing (the development of devices able to identify,
record or transmit physiological information, especially information
regarding the presence of chemical compounds) and environmental
monitoring. Together with his colleagues, Pr. Hiroshi Mizuta is
working on a 3-year project, which will allow the production of world's
smallest sensors. The project is funded by the European FP-7 and it is
entitled NEMSIC, which stands for nano electro mechanical system
integrated circuits.
 The Seventh Framework Programme for research and
technological development (FP7) is the central tool of the European
Union for funding research throughout the period between 2007 and
2013. FP7 supports RD activities that cover nearly all scientific fields.
 Besides being the smallest in the world, the sensor will also feature high
sensitivity and will consume very little power. Such advantages are

2. launches Paper, a news-reading app
user's News Feed. Users can customize the app from there with other topics.
By Doug Gross, CNN
January 30, 2014 -- Updated 1910 GMT
(0310 HKT) | Filed under: Social Media
over that Facebook app on the homescreen of your smartphone -- to make room for another Facebook app.
akin to existing options like Flipboard, Feedly and Zite, will be released for the iPhone in the United States Facebook content in a more attractive, magazine-style way that will encourage users to linger over posts, beautiful with an immersive design and fullscreen, distraction-free layouts," the company said in a post on the beautiful stories of your own."
be your Facebook News Feed. It won't have all the functions of the native Facebook app, but it will present categories, in a slicker, prettier package.
Feed section will feature a new design for photos and video and the ability to read longer written posts.
by adding more than a dozen other topics, "from photography and sports to food, science and design." Facebook voices and well-known publications."
Instead, users will be able to flip through stories and other posts by tilting the phone in various ways and swiping

3.  168
votes
 Tongue Drive System to Operate
Computers
 Scientists developed a new revolutionary system to help individuals with
disabilities to control wheelchairs, computers and other devices simply
by using their tongue.
 Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology say that a
newtechnology called Tongue Drive system will be helpful to
individuals with serious disabilities, such as those with severe spinal
cord injuries and will allow them to lead more active and independent
lives.
 Individuals using a tongue-based system should only be able to move
their tongue, which is especially important if a person has paralyzed
limbs. A tiny magnet, only a size of a grain of rice, is attached to an
individual's tongue using implantation, piercing or adhesive. This
technology allows a disabled person to use tongue when moving a
computer mouse or a powered wheelchair.
 Scientists chose the tongue to control the system because unlike the
feet and the hands, which are connected by brain through spinal cord,
the tongue and the brain has a direct connection through cranial nerve.
In case when a person has a severe spinal cord injure or other damage,
the tongue will remain mobile to activate the system. "Tongue
movements are also fast, accurate and do not require much thinking,
concentration or effort." said Maysam Ghovanloo, an assistant professor

4.  To live or die - computer will decide
 Are you ready to entrust your destiny to a computer? Researches say
that a new computer program can make life-or-death decisions for
disabled people better than their closest relatives.
 A new research conducted by National Institute of Health (NIH)
introduced a software program that can calculate all the pros and
contras for further treatment of the seriously ill patients based on the
mathematical formula. The decisions made by computer calculations are
claimed to be even more accurate than those of the patient's close
people.
 Usually, when a doctor deals with an incapacitated patient and the
chances for treatment are not evident, the decision is handed in to
surrogate. But NIH scientists revealed, the surrogate decision may not
be precise. A thorough analysis of the 20,000 choices of surrogates and
patients showed that their decisions coincided only in two third of the
times.
 NIH professor David Wendler suggested a population-based treatment
indicator to make such decision more precise. The program is based on
database of other patients with the same disease, with similar
characteristics like age, illness peculiarities, nationality and others along

5.  11
votes
 Computer the Size of a Molecule
Imitates Brain Work
 Scientists created a device that is not larger than a few molecules and
that is claimed to mimic how the most complicated computer – human
brain works.
 The computer can perform 16 times more operations than a
common computer transistor. Researchers expect the device to
complete even 1,000 times more operations.
 The tiny computer is made of a duroquinone, a molecule looking like
a hexagonal plate with four cones attached to it. Duroquinone is less
than a nanometer large, which is hundreds times smaller than a
wavelength of a visible light. The device is formed with 17 duroquinone
molecules with one molecule positioned in the center and 16 others
making up a ring. This wonder sits on a gold surface.
 The computer is operated with the help of electrical impulses
transmitted through the electrically conductive needle. The central
molecule shifts around in different ways, causing the 16 surrounding
molecules shift too.
 Anirban Bandyopadhyay, an artificial intelligence and molecular
electronics expert at the National Institute for Materials Science at
Tsukuba in Japan, explained that the work of the device resembles the
way brain cells interact.

6.  Scientists Create World's Fastest SuperComputer
 Scientists developed the world's fastest computer that is able to perform
1,000 trillion operations per second.
 The computer, called RoadRunner, is twice as fast the previous fastest
computer IBM's Blue Gene system, which was considered to be the
fastestsupercomputer, being three times faster than other
supercomputers in the world. The RoadRunner was developed by the
engineers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, US,
and IBM Corp. from 13,000 of computer chips.
 RoadRunner is the world's first petaflop computer, meaning that it
can perform 1,000 trillion operations per second. The daily performance
of the computer can be compared to the calculations made by 6 billion
people using a hand-held computer 24 hours a day for 46 years.
 It took more than six years to develop a computer technology like
this. Built from computer chips used in popular video game PlayStation
3 and 12,960 cell engines, it can boast 80 terabytes of memory. The
interconnecting system takes 6,000 square feet, having 57 miles of fiber
optics and weighs 500,000 pounds.
 The supercomputer will be used for nuclear weapons research, but will
have a numerous applications in medicine and science, engineering and
other fields. It has a great potential to help in developing biofuels, new
drug therapies and even vaccine for the HIV virus, solving global energy
tasks and find a clue to the origins of the universe.
 The RoadRunner is now placed at the IBM research laboratory in
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., but will be moved to the Los Alamos National

7.  The Most Dangerous Computer
Viruses in History
 Computer viruses have a relatively short history, but the damages
caused by some of them pushed cyber-experts to opening a new chapter
on computer viruses. Some viruses led to serious damages and affected
a large number of companies, universities and even governments.
 Here are some of the most dangerous computer viruses in history:
 Jerusalem - 1987
 This is one of the first MS-DOS viruses in history that caused enormous
destructions, affecting many countries, universities and companies
worldwide. On Friday 13, 1988 the computer virus managed to infect a
number of institutions in Europe, America and the Middle East. The
name was given to the virus after one of the first places that got
"acquainted" with it - the Jerusalem University.
 Along with a number of other computer viruses,
including "Cascade", "Stoned" and "Vienna" the Jerusalem virus
managed to infect thousands of computers and still remain unnoticed.
Back then the anti-virus programs were not as advanced as they are
today and a lot of users had little knowledge of the existence of
computer viruses.
 Morris (a.k.a. Internet Worm) - November 1988
 This computer virus infected over 6,000 computer systems in the United
States, including the famous NASA research Institute, which for some

8.  Second Light - the Second Generation Multi-touch
Computer from Microsoft
 At the South by SouthWest Festival visitors were told that in just
two or three years they will witness the appearance of a second
generation Surface - a computing gadget from the software
giant Microsoft. Currently, according to the developer Joe Olsen, the
device is in the development stage. It is worth mentioning that Mr.
Olsen works for a company namedPhenomblue that writes
applications for the Surface.Surface represents a multi-touch
computer that resembles a coffee table. The device features a flat
screen that is able to read multi-touch gestures. Surface may also
read content found on printed material that is placed onto the screen.
This became possible with the help of five cameras installed inside the
device.
 When developing Surface, engineers took into consideration enterprise,
tourism and public-facing solutions.
 The second generation of the multi-touch screen is called Second
Light. The device is going to be developed on the first model and
feature a second projector within the table computer. This projector will
be able to project pictures onto a layer above the face of the screen. In
fact, Surface 2 will be able to superimpose secondary pictures above
the images on the screen. For example it might overlay satellite picture
over a street map, reports News BBC.
 In addition, the device will include infrared sensors. With their help
the device will be able to read gestures and motions without having to

9.  Computers to be Tested on
Intelligence
 Six computers are going to compete in an experiment that aims to find
out if a computer has a potential to think like human.The experiment,
where computers will communicate with human volunteers, is planned
to take place on September 13 at the University of Reading. The
sixcomputer programs are called Alice, Brother Jerome, Elbot, Eugene
Goostman, Jabberwacky and Ultra Hal.
 Human interrogators will put the machines to the Turing test,
developed to find a computer's ability to demonstrate intelligence. Each
of the volunteers will start conversation with one unseen human and one
computer program on any subject. After that the volunteers will be
asked to tell which is which. The computer is considered to pass the test
if the interrogator is unsure or guessed wrong.
 The Turning test was developed by a mathematician Alan Turning in
1950 and was described in the article "Computing machinery and
intelligence". The renowned scientist studied if it is possible for
machines to think. Until now no computer has passed the test, while
Turning expected that thinking machines will appear by the year 2000.
 The designer of the computer that will succeed in an experiment will be
awarded with 18-carat gold medal and $100,000 offered by
the Loebner Prize in Artificial Intelligence. The Loebner Prize is
organized annually to determine which of the computer systems will
demonstrate the most human conversational behavior.

10.  Israeli start-up develops app to detect
bogus Facebook accounts
 An Israel-based start-up has developed an application, FakeOff, that helps
to identify fake accountson Facebook.
The app on the world's largest social networking platform claims to protects users
from scams devised by fake Facebook users, who are mistaken for genuine 'new
friends'.
"Recent statistics show that at least 10 per cent of about 1.35 billion Facebook
users are not authentic. Besides, there are millions of users who create fake
identities and appear as regular users," FakeOff creator Eliran Shachar told PTI.
Fake profiles are divided into several groups including criminals, commercial and
psychological, that can risk reputations (identity theft), children (paedophiles and
sexual abuse), property (home break-ins) and personal safety, he added.
"FakeOff app uses sophisticated algorithm to investigate the behaviour of suspect
'friends' and rank them according to a 1-10 credibility score. It scans up to 365
days of timeline activity for every suspect Facebook friend and checks for abnormal
activity," Shachar said.
The app checks timeline activity of the suspect and tries to locate abnormal activity
that indicates a non-normal way of usage. It allows the user to scan the photos of
the suspect to find out if it was stolen from someplace online, he added.