Should Your Autonomous Car Choose to Kill You Instead of Others?

Automobile manufacturer and some companies are starting to invest autonomous driving technology. Tesla put it in their Model S, Uber CEO said; they will invest in driverless technology, Volvo’s new flagship S90 will come with new advanced autonomous technology, and many other big manufacturers will invest on this for sure.

Should Your Autonomous Car Choose to Kill You Instead of Others?

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Until 2015, probably we will have some cars that don’t need a driver at all. But how about this; you are driving with your family on a highway and all the sudden your high technology car realized some kids on the road and calculated the course you are on might kill these children so the car decided to steer you and your family out of the cliff. Driverless cars are programmed to avoid any accidents. Save you and others even Volvo S90 new sensors programmed to avoid the large animals.

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That is why The California Department of Motor Vehicles is trying to draw limits for what autonomous vehicles can do. But Google that operate their driverless vehicle cars in California does not want DMV to insist what should be the limits are. Google proposes that car manufacturers should develop collision avoidance algorithms as they see fit. But it is too much responsibility for the companies, because of any accident cause by the computer in the car, can be open a door for big lawsuits. If they let DMV responsible for the limits of the chooses they are going to be responsible for an accident that resulted deadly.

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Regulatory agencies need to set some boundaries. For example, if some try the kill himself to jump in front of your car, the car should avoid him and put you in danger to avoiding killing that person, a person who try to stop you because he wants to harm you what should car do. We can be many examples like this. One thing for sure the autonomous system will save many lives but the extreme situations’ bounded should set well.

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Tesla S’ autopilot avoiding an accident.

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What ever happens with this technology, we still think that the person who is in the driver seat should give her/ his attention to the road all time. Even the computer system will react faster than a human being, never get drunk and drive or look away from the road and can see everything around the car but still in some situations logical choose can only make a human being.

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Original Story from latimes.com / Eric Schwitzgebel

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Do You Want to Install Solar Panel for Your Home, Here It is How

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Finally, we are in the era in which clean energy is getting popular; countries start installing new wind turbines and solar farms. Car manufacturers are beginning to get serious about producing all-electric cars except Telsa, the company already making great all electric vehicles. We are changing our power source on a commercial level or government level, many of us very hopeful, right! But how about homes that we live. Solar panels are much cheaper than before, Tesla will start producing batteries for home usage, they choose Australia to test this new idea.

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After the price decrease on solar panels. Estimate 700.000 homes in U.S. have installed solar panels. 65,000 of the solar system just installed in the first three months of 2015. If you have 100 square feet roof in good condition, you can installed solar panels to your home. What are the benefits of installing solar panels; first you can feel good because of the environmental causes, second you home’s value will increase, third you don’t need to pay high electric bills.

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Do solar panels require a lot of Sunlight, it is not certain that a solar panel in Texas will generate more power than panels in New York. All regions can benefit from solar energy; even solar panels show an increase in their efficiency in cooler temperatures. High production numbers and fast installing process made solar panels cheaper to buy. And you are not only relying on solar panels for energy, but your energy gathering system also connected to the city grid, if there is not enough energy system automatically use the city electric, otherwise system send the electric back to the city grid when your solar panel generate enough power for your needs.

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Some links you might interested,

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“Solar Industry Data” Solar Energy Industries Association

“Should You Put Solar Panels On Your House?” TIME

“Everything You Need To Know About Adding Solar Panels At Home,” Forbes

“Everything You Need to Know About Solar,” UnderstandSolar

“The Complete Guide to Residential Solar Panels,” Solar Tribune

“How Much Does it Cost to Install Solar on an Average U.S. House?” Solar Power Authority

“Why are solar panels so expensive?” Solar Tribune

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Samsung and Baidu Want to Make a Autonomous Car

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Two Asia-based technology giant Samsung and Baidu officially announced that they will enter the driverless, autonomous cars industry.These two companies also will make improvements in this area by setting up separate individual departments themselves.

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Samsung’s driverless car plans different from Baidu and Apple.Samsung will produce the both hardware and software of these autonomous vehicles such as (sensors, cameras, etc. ) in this department. Hyundai also announced that they had discussed to produce components of autonomous cars in the past week. Thus, we can say that there will be a competition between Samsung and Hyundai.Samsung did not announce such a plan that if the company entirely will produce a driverless car.On the other hand, Baidu announced that the business fully developed a driverless car.In fact, Baidu shared that tests have been done, and the vehicle can speed up to 100 kph.The plan of Baidu is these driverless vehicles could be used for public transport in the cities.As a note, Professeur Andrew Ng who has a significant role in Google’s ”deep learning”, is working for Baidu’s autonomous car project now.Baidu uses a modified BMW 3-Series car for this project.And the car has laser radars, sensors and cameras.All These components work with mapping and ”deep learning” software developed by Baidu.

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Baidu announced that the first driverless cars will not be available to private consumers, it planned to use as a public service vehicle.Finally, Baidu continues negotiations with the government for this kind of individual projects.

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Google Will Use Pixar Characters for Teach Coding to The Girls

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If you use Google these days, probably did. You might have spotted a link that says ” code a movie scene.” The link will take you code site that made by Google. Click ” start coding ” and you will see a scene from the last favorite Pixar movie Inside Out.

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The interface allow you to control Riley, program use a simple graphical coding language. When you put the stuff in the correct order, you can make Riley do some things like; running, sliding or playing hockey. The program designed to teach the basics of the coding principles like sequencing, if / then statements, and looping. According to the studies 74% of girls express interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields in middle school, yet by the time they reach high school, only 0.3% of them plan to major in computer science. And Google want to change this and that is a really good idea to use ” Riley ” – a young girl – who is want to be successful on a man dominant sport. It can be good example for little girls who interested in computer science which is also dominant by man.

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Google’s coding program is not the first one who try make the youngster learn programming. There is also a Minecraft-based and Star Wars themed coding websites.

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https://www.madewithcode.com

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Apple Watch 2 and iPhone 6C Can Be Introduced in March

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After introducing iPhone 6S, Apple TV and iPad Pro in September event, Apple team is now preparing for the first event of 2016. It is expected to be introduced Apple Watch 2 and iPhone 6C products in this event.

According to leaked information from Apple, new iPhone 6C will have a 4-inch display. The most important underlying reason for this decision is that Apple users want smaller size iPhone than iPhone 6S. The New product is expected to be located somewhere between the iPhone 5S and iPhone 6S regarding technical specifications. And the other expectation is that new iPhone will have an A9 chip and NFC technology.

Another rumor is about the Apple Watch 2.After Samsung Gear S2 was introduced, the expectations also have increased considerably for the Apple Watch. The next model of Apple Watch may come with new features such as camera, wireless and new health monitoring technologies. All the things that we talked about are unclear for now.But it expected the new Apple Watch will be available in April 2016.

Netflix Crushed Other Streaming Sources

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According to a survey which done by Sandvine – a broadband services company – Netflix has 37% of the downstream traffic, it followed by YouTube ( 18% ), Amazon video ( 3% ) and iTunes ( 2.8% ). This year streaming market got stronger, last five years video streaming doubled its percentage of internet traffic.

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Why many people are choosing Netflix not Torrents anymore; first of all Netflix doesn’t charge too much and they can watch the content right away with the high-quality, Torrent sites you need to find the right link and enough seeder to download the content. Also, Streaming site gives suggestions for what to watch; sometimes you end up watching a beautiful movie that you even heard before. Torrent has only one advantage you can watch TV-shows or movies just the hours later after they release. In 2008, BitTorrent occupied 31% of the internet traffic. It means that if the companies make a good interface with high-quality content people are willing to pay money for it.

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The Value of Airbnb Increased to $ 25.5 billion With New Fund

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Approaching the end of the year 2015 it finalized that one of the largest investment round belongs to Airbnb.

Airbnb confirmed the $ 1.5 billion investment with SEC document and company value increased to $ 25.5 billion.Thus, Airbnb became the third most valuable public unicorn after the Uber 62.5 billion and $ 45 billion Xaomi.Last summer,WJS News mentioned about this topic, but it was not confirmed that the investors were General Atlantic, Hillhouse Capital Group, and Tiger Global Management.The exact information is that the participants of this tour are Temasek Holdings, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, GGV Capital, Horizon Ventures and China Broadband Capital.

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Will ”500px” be Able To Compete With ”Instagram”?

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500px is one of the largest platforms for the photographers and it is online since 2009.As you remember, we have heard its name with a new investment in July of this year.

After only four months of this investment, 500px platform decided to update logo and changed most of the things about photo sales field to compete with rivals such as Adobe Stock photo and GettyImages to strengthen its hands.
500px makes some technical changes to photo sales channels called ‘’Marketplace’’ and trying to get a more solid position in this market.With strengthening the mobile side, it tries to grab a role in this area where Instagram dominates it.

Last week, 500px announced the renewed Android app, and it tries to provide a simplified experience on this platform.
The new applications aimed to offer more usable and easily consumable content streaming with only ‘’like’’ button leaving behind ‘’favorite’’ on the social network on mobile devices.On the other hand, Apple TV application which was announced two week later shows that 500px obtains a better place for itself in this market with doing its best.
In fact, these discussed topic is only one of the recent innovations of 500px.As a note 500px has 6 million users and we will see what happens.

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PHP 7 is Ready to Provide Faster Website Access

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20 years ago, PHP created by Rasmus Lerdorf and later PHP community continued to develop it for years.Now, the new version of PHP named PHP7 is on stage with most comprehensive developments.PHP 7 named PHPNG (PHP Next Generation) was expected by software developers for a long time.

It was opened to developers in the beta process, and it is obvious that performance has increased significantly.After the PHP 5, it was expected to be published the PHP 6, However it was not published because of Unicode problems and other lots of complications. Furthermore, according to the final test it seems that PHP 7 is at the same level with HHVM which provides improved performance for the hackers and Facebook also uses it.We can say that the performance of PHP 7 is enough for the developers, who do not want to use HHVM.In fact, This issue does not concern only the developers.It offers less source consumption for internet applications and reach more people through the same system and hardware.

Simply, An e-commerce site which use Magento will reach approximately 2x speed and performance with this update.According to the WordPress tests, PHP 7 is two times faster than PHP version 5.6, and it provides less memory usage.According to data in the official PHP site, there was 244 million sites use PHP in January 2013.Some of the most popular sites that use PHP are Facebook (HHVM supported PHP), Wikipedia, Baidu, Yahoo!, Tumblr, Flickr, WordPress, Digg, StockPhoto.

Toronto’s Electric grid Back up is at the bottom of Lake Ontario.

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Hydrostor is a system that contains a big compress air balloon under the deep of Lake Ontario. Toronto doesn’t need any boost on regular days, it power source is enough for the city, the system only required to be used when something go wrong, and city grid system needs some -extra boost. It is like a jump start batteries, these under Lake compress balloons can store one megawatt of power.

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These balloons are stay 1.5 miles out into the lake. First the plant that is on the land compress high-pressure air to the balloons, and when the boost needed they release the compressed air back to the system and that gives a one-megawatt boost to the electric grid. This sturdy nylon balloon is designed to use when some ice-storms or super-peak days hit The city of Toronto.

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So why is the reason to store compress air under water, not in a tank. The advantage of going underwater is to equalize the pressure outside and inside of the nylon balloons; that create easily managed safe space. Hydrostor can use almost anywhere, where is water is deep enough. Hydrostar also some another ongoing project off the coast of Aruba.

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The project is very clean and installable almost anywhere in the world. Boosting station’s ideal working standard is 200 meters deep and 2.4 miles of shore. The best advantage of this system is, it doesn’t affect by any climate changes and the electric grid can always a reliable source of backup power whenever it needs.

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