Are we closer to having robots as house servants?
How could this very question not be on the tip of everyone tongue? Well, if you are a Robotic Engineer working in Japan, it is! Robotic Engineers in Japan are working on service robots equipped with 3D object recognition in their task completion. Every year they showcase their work, and milestones in research. To the [...]
Real IM or Robot IM?
How you can tell if your IM buddy is a real person or a bot? Now before you laugh, did you know there is a yearly competition held where developers enter their prized programs designed to fool judges into thinking they are having a chat conversation with a real person. It is called the Loebner [...]
A New Conficker?
Conficker, the much-hyped worm that was supposed to trigger on April 1st but didn’t, has evolved dare I say it…..again. Multiple sources are now reporting a new variant of Conficker called WORM_DOWNAD.E by Trend Micro and W32/Confick-D by Sophos. This new strand of Conficker has an activation date of May 3rd. So here we go [...]