12 Interesting Computer Facts

Friends today we will highlight 12 interesting computer Facts that you might not be knowing it before,
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 1)Over 6,000 new computer viruses are released every month.

2)The first computer mouse, constructed in 1964, was made out of wood.(by Doug Engelbart)

3)The average human being blinks 20 times a minute – but only 7 times a minute when using a computer.

4)The first electro-mechanical computer was developed in 1939.

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Use WhatsApp? Get ready for more spam

Facebook-owned WhatsApp, the popular mobile messaging service, is considering opening its platform for businesses to communicate with their customers. This could be a potential way to monetize the service but will also allow brands and marketers to contact users leaving them vulnerable to spam.

The development was first reported by Bloomberg, which cited Facebook chief financial officer David Wehner, who spoke about the plans at a tech conference in Boston.

"We think that enabling that B2C [business-to-consumer] messaging has good business potential for us. As we learn those things, I think there's going to be opportunities to bring some of those things to WhatsApp, but that's more longer term."

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Hold your breath to dampen the pain of an injection

Painful needle heading your way? A sharp intake of breath might be all that is needed to make that injection a little more bearable.

When you are stressed, your blood pressure rises to fuel your brain or limbs should you need to fight or flee. But your body has a natural response for calming back down. Pressure sensors on blood vessels in your lungs can tell your brain to bring the pressure back down, and the signals from these sensors also make the brain dampen the nervous system, leaving you less sensitive to pain. This dampening mechanism might be why people with higher blood pressures appear to have higher pain thresholds.

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This holographic microbattery is just 10 micrometers thick

Researchers and companies alike have been scrambling to come up with a next-generation battery, but one of the more unlikely places we’d expect to hear about it is from the study of holography. Recently, a team of engineers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign demonstrated that porous, three-dimensional electrodes can boost a lithium-ion microbattery’s power output by three orders of magnitude, as first reported in Chemical & Engineering News. But now the team has gone a step further, and has optimized the electrode structure with holograms, the three-dimensional interference patterns of multiple laser beams, in order to generate porous blocks that could used as a sort of scaffolding for building electrodes.

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Intestine-inspired 3D printed fashion will hold glowing bacteria

Never mind ants in your pants, what about fluorescent bacteria? These 3D printed, over-sized knickers have been inspired by the human gastrointestinal tract and are designed to one day be filled with liquid containing two microorganisms – cyanobacteria and E.coli bacteria.

The designer, Neri Oxman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, describes it as a "wearable microbial factory". Oxman is experimenting with the idea of futuristic wearables that can do useful things such as produce consumables or give off scents. Although she has published designs for similar wearables in the past, this is the first time they have been 3D printed.

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Pics and chat data are hackable on apps like Tinder and Grindr

Dating is all about exchanging information to find a match. But if you've ever used Tinder, Grindr or any popular dating app, your personal information may have gone further than you'd like.

A new study shows that it is easy to hack into popular dating apps like Tinder and Grindr to reveal email addresses, profile pictures and private messages.

Raymond Choo, an information security expert at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, and his colleagues created fake profiles on eight of the most popular dating apps in the Google Play store. They then tried to get the data, now supposedly private, back out of a Samsung Galaxy S3 phone by capturing network traffic and trawling the app's private directory.

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TRAI recommends one bill for all services virtual network operator

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) recommended to the government creation of a virtual network operator (VNO), a new telecom service provider that would work like a reseller for telecom operators and bill directly to customers.

According to the recommendation, a VNO would offer all telecom services permitted under new licences.

“Since VNOs are a new concept in India, initially, the duration of the licence of a VNO should be fixed at 10 years, extendable further for 10 years at a time by the licensor,” TRAI said.

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