4 Best Apps For Blackberry: Feel Proud To Have BB Protection!

Internet is full of reviews about the Apps available for Ios and Android. Windows 8 is also in the competition. However, Blackberry is also enjoying the attention of its hard-core fans. This piece of writing will reveal the apps not for yours or Android, but for the Blackberry operating system.

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Rats With Linked Brains Work Together

Scientists have engineered something close to a mind meld in a pair of lab rats, linking the animals' brains electronically so that they could work together to solve a puzzle. And this brain-to-brain connection stayed strong even when the rats were 2,000 miles apart.

The experiments were undertaken by Duke neurobiologist Miguel Nicolelis, who is best known for his work in making mind-controlledprosthetics.

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Android Beats iPhone in Customer Satisfaction

The iPhone 5 is still quite popular worldwide, but when it comes to user satisfaction, it's not quite the king of the hill.

On Device Research has released a recent study on the popularity of smartphones in both the United States and the United Kingdom, polling 92,825 U.S. and 52,140 U.K. mobile users.

The Motorola Atrix HD leads the charge in smartphone satisfaction in the United States, earning 8.57 (on a scale of 10). Three other Android devices follow it: the Motorola Droid Razr M (8.5), the HTC Rezound 4G (8.32) and the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (8.26). Apple's iPhone 5 sits at fifth place, with a ranking of 8.23. That's hardly a bad number, and all the scores are quite close, but the results show how far Android devices have come in popularity.

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Drobox Users Hit with Spam Emails

Popular cloud storage company Dropbox saw another uptick in the amount of spam users reported receiving last week, leading to complaints on the company's own troubleshooting forum.One user, who went by "Nathan G," said his Dropbox-specific email address received it's first two spam messages on Feb. 12, followed by another on Feb. 13 and one more on Feb. 27.

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What is a Firewall?

Firewalls are software programs that filter information coming through the Internet to a network or individual computer. Firewalls keep destructive external forces away from your personal data. The name “firewall” comes from the idea of an actual physical firewall, a strategy used among firefighters to keep a fire from spreading from one area to another.

For companies with hundreds of employees, it’s more common for a firewall to be used at the network level. Without a firewall, every computer at a company would be directly accessible by anyone using the Internet. Hackers could easily probe the computers, create FTP connections to download data from the computer and so on.

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Another Hack Allows Access to Locked iPhones

A glitch in Apple's iOS 6.1 operating system makes it possible to access an iPhone's sensitive data, including contacts and photos, without entering the correct passcode, or personal identification number (PIN).

The security flaw, the second PIN bypass that security researchers have found this month, takes a bit of tricky button-pushing in a specific order. But once done successfully, it allows an intruder to download the phone's data over USB to a computer that would have otherwise been locked out.

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4-D Printing: The Invention that Built Itself?

The latest advance in 3-D printing technology might make it possible for underwater structures to build themselves. So-called “4-D printing” is being used by researchers to create materials that transform into geometrical structures all on their own.

Skylar Tibbits, a trained architect and computer scientist at M.I.T., recently announced to the audience at this year’s TED Conference that he’s working with 3-D printing company Stratasys to create this entirely new kind of building material, which, when exposed to an energy source, canfold itself into pre-programmed shapes.

The New York Times technology blog, Bits, reports that the self-folding structures are made of two core materials, a synthetic polymer that doubles in volume when submerged in water, and another polymer that remains rigid in water. When the two polymers are combined and submerged, the expansion of the first polymer drives the joints of the structure to move, creating a preprogramed shape, like this simple cube.

Tibbits and his team at the M.I.T. self-assembly lab believe that this technology will eventually be used to create much larger, more complicated structures. And since the materials being researched can also be activated by light, heat, and sound, companies who adopt this new technology will be able to use a variety of energy sources to create these self-building structures.

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Private Mission to Mars in 2018: Who Should Go?

WASHINGTON — A new, privately funded campaign is on to launch a manned mission to fly by Mars in 2018. Of the numerous open questions about the voyage, one of the most pressing is, who should go?Space tourist DennisTito announced the plans Wednesday (Feb. 27) during a press conference in Washington, D.C., at which he described a new nonprofit organization he founded, the Inspiration Mars Foundation, to plan the mission.

Tito envisions sending two crewmembers on a roughly 500-day trip to Mars and back. To combat the isolation and loneliness that could set in, the Inspiration Mars team hopes to recruit a married male-female couple to make the private Mars mission in 2018 together.

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Hindi typing coming soon to the BlackBerry 10 multi-lingual keyboard

While the BlackBerry10 launch with the release of the new Z10 smartphone revealed the fact that content consumption (essentially, reading) would be supported in eight Indian languages—Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Devanagari (Hindi), Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Gujarati and Bengali, what was missed was the fact that no Indian language featured in the list of languages supported by the virtual keyboard on the BlackBerry Z10, one that many reviewers have termed the best keyboard on any touch-screen smartphone.But in an exclusive, Vivek Bhardwaj, Global Head of the Software Portfolio for BlackBerry and the key executive responsible for BlackBerry10 has revealed that typing in Hindi will be supported on the Blackberry 10 virtual keyboard later this

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