Friday, October 30, 2015

Companies will not resist the temptation to use software that … – International

The Volkswagen car did not faulty: he planned to cheat intelligently. The rules assume that human beings live in a universe reliably unreliable: people are tempted to lie if they think the benefits outweigh the risks, the objects no.

When you ask a person if they always use the seat belt, at best, his answer will be suspect; when measuring the energy efficiency of a light bulb, the answer is always honest. Objects sometimes do not work and have unpredictable behavior, but does not have a strategy, do not choose to deceive.

This was true in the past. Today objects contain software, and the software code can be included strategies based on game theory and any other form of applied mathematics. For companies in the near future it will be impossible to resist the temptation to teach products to lie strategically – as did the Volkswagen – even at the risk of severe penalties. As has always happened with financial fraud, it is just to find a way to do better than before.

Environmental regulations are ground too easy for strategic scams that aim to profit, but not the only one. The software that powers your car, the TV or the bathroom scale will also respect the privacy rules, but simply an upgrade of the software automatically and invisibly to turn that object into a lamp that provides discreet personal information through channels well hidden (the software is updated constantly: this is one of the aspects of the internet of things – the fact that the objects of daily use are connected to the internet – no one likes to dwell on that, because it will be a problem).

In addition, in a world in which every device interacts and depends on a host of other objects, devices of a company may jeopardize the operation of the competition. The problem of our legal system is that technical standards must be precisely defined to be fair and that this makes them easy to find and to get around.

These rules are based on a mechanical universe, not one in which the software inserted in the objects is updated with new lies every time that regulators devise a new system of verification. And even if the software did not change, check that it has undesirable behavior would still be impossible in many cases, the programs make mistakes because organizations that produced them have occurred (or could not verify) that behave as expected.

So our perception of the world will reflect more and more that of our computers and the Internet. All we sometimes have the feeling that our computer is a tool rather unpredictable full of programs that we never installed and performing activities never authorized to benefit companies of which we have never heard of.

In the future, cars, traffic lights and even the buildings will behave in the same way suspect. The car that drives itself is slowing down on purpose to give way to more expensive models? The ecological conditioner is really less efficient with a thermostat to another company? Because the TV, it should use the camera just to follow gesture control, it offers to download Disney movies whenever you sit in front of your children?

Probably none of these things will be legal, but all will be profitable, and if an object is able to conceal the state, as well as to you, it will be difficult to prove otherwise. Centuries of financial fraud have taught us that violate regulations is extremely profitable and worth comes late: why organizations continue to fall into temptation.

The cost of environment and health of the scam Volkswagen is remarkable, but it is easy to imagine situations in which industries and could be even worse. We can only hope that the violation of the rules on the internet of things are taken more effective remedies than those to which we have used the great financial wrongdoing.

(Translation of Floriana Pagano)

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Adblocking, pop-ups and subscriptions: all against the anti-spot – Affaritaliani.it

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We are” looking for technical solutions “to solve the problem AdBocking . Word of Mark Thompson, CEO of New York Times . At the moment there is no detail, but the words of the manager are clear: “The quality information costs and must feed on advertising.” The equation, in the words of Thompson, is easy: software weigh so much on the balance sheets of digital information that disrupt (when there is) the quality.

The software that blocks advertising are a worry for online newspapers. The New York Times is the latest to have revealed the possibility of countermeasures. The theme is relatively new, so that the solutions tried so far are different.

Washington Post has tried the way of demand: a pop -up that invites users to disable the adblocking. More abrupt Axel Springer . The editor of the Bild prohibits reading to those who operate the anti-advertising. There are two alternatives: turn it off, or to subscribe to the newspaper by paying a monthly fee.

What dell’AdBlocking is a recent problem but growing exponentially. The impact on online advertising was 7.2 billion in 2013. Today it is already at 21.8 in 2016 and will double. A river of lost revenue for an industry in search of profits.

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Thursday, October 29, 2015

SanDisk launches an updated version of the software FlashSoft® to … – ANSA.it


       
  SUMMIT MICROSOFT SQL PASS SUMMIT 2015 – SanDisk
       Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK),
       As a world leader in flash memory cards, it has announced
       today the next generation of software for Microsoft FlashSoft
       Windows Server and Microsoft Hyper-V. This new version of FlashSoft,
       a software server side caching employing solid state memories,
       It offers customers considerable acceleration performance
       application, to the extent of three to five times 1 , especially
       in transactional environments and virtualized often exhibit a
       I / O latency high.
     

       “The new release exemplifies our dedication regard
       the transformation of data centers by means of flash technology “has
       said Ravi Swaminathan, vice president and managing director
       Division of Systems and Software Solutions at SanDisk. “Are
       aware that efficient access to data for applications
       key is an indispensable prerequisite for our customers
       business. The new version of the software now offers customers FlashSoft
       acceleration application even more, regardless of the environment
       or the reach. ”
     

       FlashSoft software, now updated for Microsoft Windows Server and
       operating systems Microsoft Hyper-V and Linux, ensures that the data which
       you access most frequently (hot data) are stored in a flash memory
       the server side rather than in the back-end storage systems slower. That
       It allows to overcome the performance problems in storage and
       accelerate applications by reducing the response times, eliminating the
       need for substantial investment in hardware. Organizations
       run applications based on large databases through
       infrastructure shared storage normally exhibit a
       I / O latency high as the main problem the intaccante
       application performance. FlashSoft software helps these companies to make
       Faced with these problems dramatically improving the availability of
       so-called hot data.
     

       
  The key benefits dall’ultimissima version of FlashSoft
       include:

     
 

  •          
      Application Acceleration: Using FlashSoft, the
             enterprises can accelerate application performance to the extent of
             4.38 times in terms of volume of transactions per second 2 .
           

  •        
     

  •          
      Caching based on policies: the new caching technology
             policy-based file-level increases efficiency
             Caching enabling administrators to exclude files from the cache
             specific. The tests conducted by SanDisk have demonstrated that the
             caching performed by means of FlashSoft determines an improvement
             the performance of a workload SQL Server to the extent of
             2.8 times in a Windows Server Hyper-V and improvement
             performance to the extent of 5.9 times if you use functionality
             Exclusion of files to back caching only data more
             important 1 .
           

  •        
     

  •          
      SAN relief and density of the workload: reduces FlashSoft
             also traffic in networks and storage systems (“SAN
             relief “), which can extend the lifespan of investments
             current archiving. For more, allows a greater number of
             workloads on hosts accelerated (increased load densities of
             work for the host server), which may result in a reduction
             considerable costs associated with software licenses.
           

  •      
     

       FlashSoft is compatible with all devices enterprise flash,
       including PCIe interfaces, NVMe, SAS or SATA to all retailers. The
       software works in any standard servers based on x86 and it works
       efficiently in both configurations SAN (Storage Area
       Network) and DAS (Direct Attached Storage).
     

       
  1 Data based on internal testing. Based on measurement
       performed using the suite of benchmarking OLTP with MS-SQL
       Server. There is a full report on inspections
       performed.
2 In the tests carried out by SanDisk to evaluate
       application performance has used a workload on HammerDB
       Microsoft SQL Server to show an increase of 4.4 times the volume
       transactions per second .
     
 

       
  SanDisk at the top SQL PASS Summit 2015
     
 

       SanDisk is a gold sponsor of the Summit
       SQL PASS Summit 2015, held October 27 to 30 in Seattle.
       Visit booth of SanDisk n. 222 for more information
       how flash products business at SanDisk allow
       acceleration of applications and allow a run over
       efficient business operations. Join SanDisk and for SIOS
       attend the debate organized by a group of experts entitled “Switch
       the Grain “(PASS the Bacon) Friday, October 30 at 6:45.
     

       
  About SanDisk
     
 

       SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), which is part of the Fortune 500 index
       and S & amp; P 500, is a prestigious company operating globally engaged
       in providing solutions for the flash storage. For more than 27
       years SanDisk has expanded the possibilities for storage, providing
       reliable and innovative products that have transformed the industry
       e. Currently, solutions of high quality and cutting-edge
       SanDisk constitute the pillars on which rest many of the largest
       data centers in the world and are embedded in smartphones, tablets and PCs
       advanced. The consumer products of SanDisk are available
       at hundreds of stores worldwide. For additional
       information visit www.sandisk.com.
     

       © 2015 SanDisk Corporation. All rights reserved. SanDisk and
       FlashSoft are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered
       in the United States and other countries. Other trademarks mentioned herein
       They are given solely for the purpose of identification and may
       be trademarks of / the respective / the owner / s.
     

       The original text of this announcement in the language of
       departure is the official version which is authentic. Translations are
       as an accommodation only, and should be return to text
       in the original language, which is the only legally valid.
     

 
 

       SanDisk Corporation
Rebecca Parr, 408-801-3224
rebecca.parr@sandisk.com
     
 

  Permalink: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151028006936/it
 

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Energy certification Lombardy, 8 new online tutorial … – HOME & CLIMA.com

S s been put online by the Lombardy Region 8 new video tutorial illustrating how software CENED + 2.0, calculation software for energy certification of buildings, developed by Infrastrutture Lombarde and consists of two components that are compatible with all platforms: a calculation engine, combined processing algorithms and a simplified user interface for data acquisition ( read here).

Once again we are the first in the country – said the deputy, Energy and Sustainable Development Claudia Maria Terzi -. This software is a further step in the direction of transparency and practicality as well as aid in support of the industry.

The tutorial, as well as instructions for installing and downloading software, are available at: http://www.cened.it/cenedplus2. The movies are related to the following topics:

  1. General Overview on the client
  2.  

  3. Enter a matte texture in Archive
  4.  

  5. Insert a window in Archive
  6.  

  7. Enter Environments and Bring in a Thermal Zone
  8.  

  9. Enter dispersions in a thermal area?

  10.  
  11. Enter a plant ACS
  12.  

  13. Enter a heating
  14.  

  15. Enter a boiler combined
  16.  

In the next few days they will also be made available more video pills deepening of the following arguments:

  • Overview General Archives (Archive Software, User Archive, Archives Building, functionality and Copy Paste, Research)
  •  

  • Plot
  •  

  • Cooling (both in building and in terms of Thermal Zone)
  •  

  • Ventilation (both in building and in terms of Thermal Zone)
  •  

  • Central storage
  •  

  • Power stations
  •  

  • Launch of calculation, error resolution and preparing files to be attached to any reports, preview EPA
  •  

UPDATED VERSION. Infrastructure Lombard also announced that, starting from 14.00 today (Thursday October 29), will be issued a software update. More information about the features introduced in the release will come with the publication of the new version. In order to file a Certificate of Energy Performance then, starting from 14.00, then you will need to calculate the XML file with the new software version 2.0 + CENED.

COMPLAINTS. Let us assume that the updated version, which comes out at a distance of only two weeks since the first version, is a response to the letter written by the Lombardy Regional Council M5S, Gianmarco Corbetta, who, collecting complaints engineers Lombardy, complained relevant functional difficulties. The software was in fact “accused” a few days ago to be cumbersome and slow.

In addition – according to the engineers – the obligation to use the software would result in surcharges to the cost of certification because most of the time spent in preparing the documents, with a subsequent increase in costs borne by the public (read here).

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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Nintendo profits fall but the software will not misfires – International Business Times Italy

The first half of fiscal Nintendo shows a picture familiar: Wii U hardware sales are low but the software is solid. The Japanese company announced lower profits than in 2014, but sales hardware and software have been positive for both Wii U 3DS.

Between April and September, Nintendo said it sold 1.19 million Wii U and 2.28 million 3DS. Net sales rose from 171 billion to 204 billion yen (1.5 billion euro) in the context of a net profit of 11.45 billion yen (85 million euro). The commercial performance of exclusive games were positive: Animal Crossing: Happy Home Design has sold two million units worldwide; Splatoon has reached 2.4 million and 1.9 million Super Mario Maker. From the report of the tax, also it shows that almost half of the holders Wii U (10.73 million in all) has a copy of Mario Kart 8 .

In general, Nintendo sold 12,370,000 of games on Wii U and 19.2 million software units for the 3DS. Also improved profits from digital, rose to 21 billion yen (157 million euro). Statuettes NFC amiibo showed “solid sales”.

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Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate can not do it: it is the worst in the series in Sales launch

The new administrator Tatsumi Kimishima has short stirred the waters. As expected at the time of his recruitment, Kimishima will not be a revolutionary as it was Iwata: Nintendo midpoint until the launch of NX, the new console, and until the Board of Directors will not have found a suitable president, who can lead the company in the years to come.

Tomorrow October 29, Nintendo is expected to announce the first official details on its debut the mobile. We discuss the game developed in collaboration with DeNA, which will arrive on smartphones and tablets this year.

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Software to pay the tourist tax – Il Tirreno

PONTEDERA. It was the duty of contention. One many will remember for disputes and protests – even furious – who have seen the one hand the community leaders of Pontedera, on the other hand, the tourism industry in the area.

The city tax He debuted well in town: with hotel owners and managers of other hotels that have opposed from the first moment, to the point of making a protest during the city council in which was discussed and approved of what they thought was a heavy tax that could have been avoided .

And, in response, at least for the first year, there had been a strong evasion. So much so that the town data in hand, had denounced a situation of inconsistency between data Attendance formalized the province of Pisa and who, then, were found by the complaints made by the operators to the competent bodies and to the offices of the municipality, on which , venoiva paid the fee determined by the municipality of Pontedera.

Now there is a further step forward by the City of Pontedera starts. And thanks to a public tender won. It is a software that allows direct communication between accommodation and offices of the City, the collection of the tax is the tourism of their territories perform on behalf of the administration.

A software this year comes to those who so requests. “It will be optional – said the commissioner to the budget Marco Papiani – at least for this phase which will also serve as an experimental stage.”

But then the next year, that information tools, which reduces the practices to do for reporting and for payment of the tax, it will become mandatory for those who have managed a hotel,

an inn, a cottage or a qualsiais other form of accommodation in the city. “A tool that lets you communicate with greater ease – explains the commissioner Papiani – the offices of the City – everything about the city tax.”

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Smart drugs, in defense of young people get a software that unmasks – The Republic

DRUGS Carbs dish that circumvent the law: they can be easily found in specialty stores, or online; and sometimes even extracted at home by everyday products. First, we have to do with drugs that serve to enhance the activity of the brain. Many are stimulators of serotonin and dopamine which regulate functions such as mood, sleep patterns and memory and can improve concentration and learning ability. Are substances similar to those used by doctors, but changed in parts to be upgraded. And the result is that no one knows what the side effects are not always known as these substances are already available in the online market. In Italy the use of at least 40,000 students and do not know how many other people. And their effects they see, day after day, the doctors in the Emergency Room, located in front of children in serious conditions: abused something that, though, the white coats do not know; and then they do not know cure.

Hidden in the bubble bath. Not only that, most of the active ingredients of smart drugs is in everyday objects. And online is easy to find out how to acquire them, perhaps with the DIY: extracting, for example, the bubble bath Salvia divinorum, a powerful hallucinogen. The network is the preferred means of communication, and network focuses on the study of the CNR of Pisa in collaboration with King’s College London. It is the Cassandra Project: since February this year, and for two years, researchers have to develop a software that monitors the new psychoactive substances on the web allowing predictions on their consumption. As? First analyzing the conversations of the past 10 years to establish a scheme linking the discussion, the arrival and spread of the new substance. “We have seen that in 2010 the forum there was a spike in interest in mephedrone, a synthetic drug that can alter the perception of reality,” says Maurizio Tesconi, researcher at the Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the National Research Council in Pisa . And in the same year the substance has conquered online commerce, only to be banned by the European Union a few months later.

Thousands of online conversations. The posts are collected 5,000,000 and users who took part in conversations 550,000. Because the forum is traded everything from recipes to extract substances to advice on how to handle the ‘hit’, to the description of the side effects. The only prohibition is direct sale and purchase of illegal substances. “In these forums will seek the frontiers of new drugs, experiencing them in person and then share the experience on the internet,” says Tesconi. And in fact the home page of one of the blogs we find a section dedicated to the creation of drugs with conversations about chemistry, extraction and cultivation of psychoactive plants.

A software ‘hunting’ of drugs . The team was born in Pisa in 2012 with Social Trends, a project that analyzed the pages of famous people to understand who was most influential on Twitter, Facebook and Youtube. It was one of the first software able to tell if it was the most popular Vasco Rossi and Alessandro Del Piero. “When I read of Social Trends I immediately thought of an application in the field of health – remember Paolo De Luca, a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, King’s College who has decades of experience in research on addictions – We were already trying to extract useful information from the forums, but we did it manually, reading conversation to conversation. “

Data. The Italian computer can instead download large amounts of data and to classify them by keywords, respecting the meaning that the individual terms have in the context. At this stage we are looking for the names of 101 drugs recommended by psychologists at King’s College, but in the coming months, the challenge is to find new drugs for the first, to provide timely information to the doctors in the emergency room.

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Datacenter: “virtualized” is not software-defined – 01Net

 Datacenter One-fifth of the companies present in Europe believes it has already implemented a datacenter totally defined by software . The
say the results of research conducted by F5 Networks through a survey of more than 500 IT professionals , 46% of whom say their company has partially implemented a software-defined datacenter , thus leading to an overall percentage of 66% companies that already have a data center environment totally or partially Software-defined .

From here the offer to customers, found in 33% of the companies surveyed, its application services through a SDDC, while an additional 22 % of the sample said it plans to promote a Proof of concept specific to be in production within the next twelve months.

However, the survey data show up as a significant 30% of European companies say they are not yet ready to implement a datacenter partially or completely software-defined highlighting, in 18% of the cases, the absolute distance from a complete evaluation Overall in terms of Poc or in planning the development of any strategy against software-defined architecture.

Once again, The biggest challenge is still the safety , mail from 56% of respondents as the main priorities for the development of its IT infrastructure and the company’s business in the coming twelve months, followed by cost reduction (34%), greater agility (30%) and mobility (25%).
Specifically, when asked what the biggest challenges in the delivery of software-defined data center over the next twelve months, the security is indicated by 34% of respondents as an obstacle Main , followed by trust of end-users (30%), focusing on different technologies (28%) and cost (25%).

From here on suspicion of F5 that the IT managers surveyed They tend, in fact, play a datacenter totally SDDC ” as “ highly virtualized “, highlighting differences of interpretation with respect to what is a totally governed by the software to deploy applications quickly and safely to all users.

 
 
 
 
 

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Datacenter: “virtualized” is not software-defined – 01Net

 Datacenter One-fifth of the companies present in Europe believes it has already implemented a datacenter totally defined by software . The
say the results of research conducted by F5 Networks through a survey of more than 500 IT professionals , 46% of whom say their company has partially implemented a software-defined datacenter , thus leading to an overall percentage of 66% companies that already have a data center environment totally or partially Software-defined .

From here the offer to customers, found in 33% of the companies surveyed, its application services through a SDDC, while an additional 22 % of the sample said it plans to promote a Proof of concept specific to be in production within the next twelve months.

However, the survey data show up as a significant 30% of European companies say they are not yet ready to implement a datacenter partially or completely software-defined highlighting, in 18% of the cases, the absolute distance from a complete evaluation Overall in terms of Poc or in planning the development of any strategy against software-defined architecture.

Once again, The biggest challenge is still the safety , mail from 56% of respondents as the main priorities for the development of its IT infrastructure and the company’s business in the coming twelve months, followed by cost reduction (34%), greater agility (30%) and mobility (25%).
Specifically, when asked what the biggest challenges in the delivery of software-defined data center over the next twelve months, the security is indicated by 34% of respondents as an obstacle Main , followed by trust of end-users (30%), focusing on different technologies (28%) and cost (25%).

From here on suspicion of F5 that the IT managers surveyed They tend, in fact, play a datacenter totally SDDC ” as “ highly virtualized “, highlighting differences of interpretation with respect to what is a totally governed by the software to deploy applications quickly and safely to all users.

 
 
 
 
 

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Digitization of education, the Government will allocate one billion. By … – Horizon School

Classes connected and “innovative educational model”, as announced this morning by our staff, it is the innovation plan presented this morning by the Minister Giannini confrenza release.

“One billion euro figure Total allocated – explained the Minister of Education – through funds of funds Good school and Pon. 600 million will be invested for the infrastructure, 400 million for software, ie skills, monitoring, training of teachers, school managers and administrative staff “.

The schools will receive a manulae operating on the innovations being introduced until 2020 that consteranno in 35 actions.

These include:

  1. fiber and ultra-wideband to the door of every school,
  2. the internal wiring of all areas of the school,
  3. digital environments for teaching,
  4. Building innovative school,
  5. the electronic register for all primary schools.

This is not – said Giannini – a mere “technical dominion of the school”, but to contribute the creation of “a humanistic model innovator.” During the meeting, was signed, among others, a protocol with the Ministry of Economic Development, the present Secretary Antonello Giacomelli, for engagement of the two ministries to plan for ultra-wideband government touches as a priority schools.

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One in five has a datacenter “software defined” – Courier Communications

 It’s a hybrid cloud, an on-premises or simply a traditional data center, the use of virtualization technologies in its three main components (computing, storage and network) is critical. The “software-defined data center” is this: a computer center built with different technologies but standard, highly configurable and automatable. Broadly defined and interpreted differently (so much so that many companies use to describe the systems very far from each other). However, the computer center defined by the software becomes more popular, at least on paper. What is the reality of the market?

 If it is called F5 Networks , which has recently completed a survey of over 500 IT managers of many European companies. It found that 46% of European companies have embarked on the journey to the software defined data center ( SDDC ) and that safety is their main priority.

 “A significant number so – says Paul Pindell, Senior Solution Architect at F5 – for IT managers who claims to have created a SDDC full, as indicated by research, suggests that there are probably differences of interpretation by the respondents with respect to what is a totally Software-Defined. In my opinion, many want “totally SDDC” as “highly virtualized”. It seems clear that IT organizations have actually included with commitment to their strategic plan the journey to the Data Center Software-Defined, and probably in their path went much farther than you might think. “

 In short, one-fifth of the companies in Europe believes it has already implemented a data center totally Software-Defined, as evidenced by research. At this percentage of respondents, IT managers across Europe, must be added a further 46%, claiming that their company today has achieved a partial SDDC thus leading to an overall percentage of 66% companies which are already equipped with a data center environment totally or partially Software-Defined. The survey of F5 has determined, moreover, that 33% of companies offer their application services customers through a SDDC and that a further 22% planning to promote a POC (Proof of concept) specific to be in production within the next twelve months.

 “There remain, however, significant obstacles – says Pindell – for companies seeking to fully virtualize their data center environments – especially with respect to security, the cost and business confidence. These issues represent a key challenge for the IT industry and for the companies themselves to develop solutions SDDC that meet the requirements of the company and enable it to deploy applications quickly and safely to all users. ”

 Although many companies are in an advanced stage with respect to the strategy Software-Defined, the survey showed that a significant 30% say they are not yet ready to implement a data center partially or totally Software-Defined. In addition, 18% of respondents say that their company is still far from complete an overall assessment in terms of POC or does not plan to develop any strategy to architecture Software-Defined.

 Security remains high on the list of priorities expressed by IT professionals as they face the evolution of its IT infrastructure. 56% of respondents placed safety as top priority for their business over the next 12 months, followed by cost reduction (34%), greater agility (30%) and mobility (25%). When asked what the biggest challenges in the delivery of the SDDC in the next 12 months, the main response was, once again, the security, referred to as the main obstacle by 34% of respondents. Follow the trust of end-users (30%), focusing on different technologies (28%) and cost (25%).

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Monday, October 26, 2015

Smart drugs, software to discover them in social before they do … – The Republic

DRUGS Carbs dish that circumvent the law: they can be easily found in specialty stores, or online; and sometimes even extracted at home by everyday products. First, we have to do with drugs that serve to enhance the activity of the brain. Many are stimulators of serotonin and dopamine which regulate functions such as mood, sleep patterns and memory and can improve concentration and learning ability. Are substances similar to those used by doctors, but changed in parts to be upgraded. And the result is that no one knows what the side effects are not always known as these substances are already available in the online market. In Italy the use of at least 40,000 students and do not know how many other people. And their effects they see, day after day, the doctors in the Emergency Room, located in front of children in serious conditions: abused something that, though, the white coats do not know; and then they do not know cure.

Hidden in the bubble bath. Not only that, most of the active ingredients of smart drugs is in everyday objects. And online is easy to find out how to acquire them, perhaps with the DIY: extracting, for example, the bubble bath Salvia divinorum, a powerful hallucinogen. The network is the preferred means of communication, and network focuses on the study of the CNR of Pisa in collaboration with King’s College London. It is the Cassandra Project: since February this year, and for two years, researchers have to develop a software that monitors the new psychoactive substances on the web allowing predictions on their consumption. As? First analyzing the conversations of the past 10 years to establish a scheme linking the discussion, the arrival and spread of the new substance. “We have seen that in 2010 the forum there was a spike in interest in mephedrone, a synthetic drug that can alter the perception of reality,” says Maurizio Tesconi, researcher at the Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the National Research Council in Pisa . And in the same year the substance has conquered online commerce, only to be banned by the European Union a few months later.

Thousands of online conversations. The posts are collected 5,000,000 and users who took part in conversations 550,000. Because the forum is traded everything from recipes to extract substances to advice on how to handle the ‘hit’, to the description of the side effects. The only prohibition is direct sale and purchase of illegal substances. “In these forums will seek the frontiers of new drugs, experiencing them in person and then share the experience on the internet,” says Tesconi. And in fact the home page of one of the blogs we find a section dedicated to the creation of drugs with conversations about chemistry, extraction and cultivation of psychoactive plants.

A software ‘hunting’ of drugs . The team was born in Pisa in 2012 with Social Trends, a project that analyzed the pages of famous people to understand who was most influential on Twitter, Facebook and Youtube. It was one of the first software able to tell if it was the most popular Vasco Rossi and Alessandro Del Piero. “When I read of Social Trends I immediately thought of an application in the field of health – remember Paolo De Luca, a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, King’s College who has decades of experience in research on addictions – We were already trying to extract useful information from the forums, but we did it manually, reading conversation to conversation. “

Data. The Italian computer can instead download large amounts of data and to classify them by keywords, respecting the meaning that the individual terms have in the context. At this stage we are looking for the names of 101 drugs recommended by psychologists at King’s College, but in the coming months, the challenge is to find new drugs for the first, to provide timely information to the doctors in the emergency room.

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View Here, the Italian software that supervises airports – Fly orbit news

What the plane is the fastest and most secure in the world is well known, but how many times, however, we’ve had to wait for long minutes before boarding or having to present us with great anticipation of seeing at the airport did fade the advantage offered same plane?

All this meets the software View Real-Time Intelligence , designed dal’azienda Catania Bizmate: is a program Airport Monitoring Eche is already used at the airport Vincenzo Bellini of Catania Fontanarossa (2014, the sixth airport d ‘Italy for passenger traffic, the first of the South).

View allows you to collect, manage and process large amounts of data in real-time developing a vision and depth at the same time global system status, proving an effective instrument to support management. The transversal operating software allows its application in various fields, from transport to industry.

Designed to monitor and manage a large amount of information (the so-called Big Data ) , in airports View allows you to continuously monitor the flow of passengers , the operation of the gate, the critical issues to baggage claim , and queues especially – considering the concentration of passengers in certain areas of the terminal – can manage and optimize energy resources, such as lights, heating or cooling.

The possible anomalies in the control passengers are analyzed by making against cross on security gates , on boarding passes and the average time spent by passengers: the software is programmed to analyze the hourly trend of passengers, track flights planned, the state of each of them, the times estimated arrival / departure and notify events of interest relating to security, baggage, change gate .

View, the scope Airport

interfaced to the computer systems of ‘ airport, View collects and processes heterogeneous information, developing in real time a complete view of the system in terms of flights, passenger traffic, operation of gate . Thanks to the integrated alarms, Software promptly notify the personnel (through email, sms, voice, push notifications) the occurrence of any errors in the Security , the Operations and the level of service provided.

View identifies possible abnormalities in the control passengers, thus highlighting any suspicious conditions requiring greater control by the Security ; constantly monitors the level of service provided , notifying if the waiting time of passengers at security gates or times of baggage claim, exceed the maximum limits recommended by the national guidelines and European.

The objective is to minimize the waiting time of passengers , especially the waiting time in the queue for access to the sterile, providing management Airport the means to act promptly adapting access points to the real traffic of transit users. Overall the use of View facilitates the sharing of information and collaboration between different business functions, with noticeable influence on service quality and global security of passengers and staff inside the airport.

This Big Brother electronic enable companies – especially companies running Italian airports – to collect and manage the Big Data and thoroughly analyze the data stream in real time. L ‘ Airport Real Time Data Monitoring , in fact, constitutes a platform event-driven , capable of connecting data, events and processes, making available the required information in real time, developing a single, centralized processes and activities, integrating information from multiple sources into a single operating environment.

It also facilitates View sharing information and increase collaboration between more departments and supports the decision-making process, providing the necessary information to define interventions realignment timely and effective.

In addition to the world of aviation, View is still used by Enel Green Power (3Sun) that produces photovoltaic panels thin film multi-junction with a production capacity of approximately 200 MW per year. The adoption of View in productive environment has allowed us to analyze real-time data from production lines, instantly notifying the occurrence of alarm conditions by sending automatic notifications and customized according to the type and seriousness of the ‘ alarm itself.

View, the software for the Airport Real Time Data Monitoring The background: Rome, Catania, Florence

In the last two years, in Italy, have collected at least three cases of error in embarking : in July a lady from Florence and live in Catania has embarked by mistake on a plane to Amsterdam, where he landed. The place was accidentally booked on the flight Vueling also free on KLM.

Fiumicino last September a Belgian national has crossed through security with a expired boarding pass: l ‘officer of the company handling , contracted by the carrier, he would not have found the discrepancy between the date of issue of ticket (3 September) and the day the passenger decided to use them (September 6).

Just in Catania, in 2014, a passenger has passed through security with a boarding pass for a flight to London on which then rose, flying to Rome instead. L ‘ absence on the flight to the capital of the United Kingdom alerted the security , but this was dealt with very critical before.

We all know that after September 11 is the way to fly changed: anti-terrorism measures are not enough and, in this sense, View – thanks to its ability to control the ports – could give a big hand to the police and airport operators.

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Sunday, October 25, 2015

Apple hires expert Nvidia specializes in software for cars – iPhoneItalia – The Italian blog on Apple iPhone

The entries sull’autovettura electricity developed by Apple is now powered by an official news: the Cupertino company has hired Jonathan Cohen, former head of Nvidia learning program for car CUDA Libraries and Software Solutions.

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A few days ago, Cohen is officially an employee Apple and his task will be to work on software iCar or, at least, improve the functions of Carplay. Most opt ​​for the first option because the skills of the engineer are focused on their own learning software for private cars, through which you can manage certain actions as maneuvers and parking. A development of this software could lead to the creation of a car with auto-pilot.
For some time, Cohen worked in Nvidia right on a program of learning software for car, in collaboration with Tesla. The main focus of Cohen was just the machine learning for cars, and this specialization will be very helpful to Apple for its project “iCar”.

Remember that the car made by Apple could make his debut in 2020.

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