Facial Recognition to Replace Credit Cards

No more burden of remembering PIN codes, safeguarding plastic money. Finnish's Uniqul facial recognition system allows us to use our face for making payments and related transactions.

How does it work?

Uniqul FR software uses bio-metric information of the user to recognize their face and links it to user bank account. The camera points called Qpoint are arranged near billing counters. They start their recognition process as soon as the customer starts walking towards it. It displays all the necessary information on the screen and awaits for user confirmation. All the user/customer need to do is to press "OK " to complete the transaction. Presently, this is worlds fastest payment system and it reduces average transaction time from 30 seconds to 5. To register, all you need is your credit card details. This process is positively expected to launch first in all big economies.

Recent studies from USA Today says 'any fast access system can be fooled by a user photograph'. But Uniqul FR software uses mathematical model of a face instead of photo image. In-case of ambiguity, it may ask for PIN. And data is protected by military grade algorithms. This software can accurately identify the minor differences between twins and even tested on plastic surgery look-a-likes. "Every face has unique mathematical model and everyone's face is unique, even twins and plastic surgery can't produce same model", they say. It can also distinguish persons face, live face and mask. So the system is near impossible to cheat.

It takes some time for outlets and users to enroll, adopt and execute the system. Technology, connectivity and convenience of the people plays a major in its market success.

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Mandela Day - 18 July

Nelson Mandela International day (Mandela day) is celebrated on 18 July of every year on his birthday and it was officially declared by United Nations in 2009. This day is a global call for each and every individual to serve social justice through community service. Its main objective is to bring together people to fight poverty, promote peace and reconciliation. The campaign message says 

Nelson Mandela has fought for social justice for 67 years. We’re asking you to start with 67 minutes

Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) Review

For past couple of days I dedicated myself to this manga and wow it just blew my mind. I really enjoyed this manga and I have been looking manga of this kind of genre. 'Shingeki no Kyojin' translates to 'Advancing Giants', both anime and manga popularly known with title 'Attack on Titan', written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. The series won the Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category in 2011.

As much as the title conveys, it's Humans Vs Titans, their struggle for survival and no further spoilers from my side. It can be mainly classified into genres : Action, Mystery, dark humor, supernatural and Thriller.

Story: Starting from first issue, it keeps the tempo and carriers the suspense all the way. Every chapter unravels few details of history along with plot and character development. So far I liked every chapter and direction of plot where it is heading. All in all story gets 4/5.

Art and Illustration: Clever use of panel space and characters were more pronounced compared to background. Though a panel delivers its entire idea, detail and emotion, sketching is bit messy. Objects contains many scratchy  lines instead of free-form smooth drawings. Characters give a visual vibe similar to Claymore. Story telling: 4.5/5, Art: 3.5/5.

GATE 2014 Notification Out

Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is an all India examination administered and conducted jointly by the Indian Institute of Science and seven Indian Institutes of Technology. GATE score is essential for the admissions into Master programs in engineering and its applied fields, for financial assistance during masters and it is gate way into many PSUs. It's score is also considered for fellowships(JRFs) and Post Doctural programmes. 

GATE 2014 preliminary notification is out with details consisting of application fee, closing dates and eligibility. This time IIT kharagpur is coordinating the GATE exam.

Important dates:

Online Application Portal opens on 02 SEP 2014 and closes on 03 OCT 2014. The hard copy of application along with required documents has to  reach respective zonal offices by 10 OCT 2014.

New in GATE 2014 : All 21 papers are to be conducted online during weekends of February 2014. Question papers to consist both MCQs and Numericals.  

Download or view the notification poster:  Click here for detailed notification

To bookmark the Official GATE 2014 website: Visit this page 

Also refer to Eligibility, Syllabus, Pattern of Question paper, Gate score formula, Previous year Question papers.

Power Vocab - July13 Issue

Hello guys, every month i will put 10 words here, the words that came across my readings of newspapers, journals etc which are worth knowing. Well! 10 words seems very less for a month, considering laziness and reluctance of an average adult(+of-course his busy schedule), working with these words is more than enough to gradually build ones vocabulary. Make sure to notice and recollect these words when they come across in your readings.  

1. Equivocate  : making an argument purposely ambiguous. -When you say "it isn't Australia who won, but it was India who lost", your are equivocating.
2. Genocide   : killing of an entire race/tribe/nation. -  What do you think Germans did to Jews?

PGEC / PGECET 2013 Admissions

Good News fellas, finally OU has came up with notification regarding the GATE / GPAT / PGECET 2013 counseling  schedule.

What is it?

It's a central counseling conducted by Osmania University for the major universities and their affiliated colleges that are in Andhra Pradesh for various Post Graduation programs in Engineering and Pharmacy.

Eligible Candidates:

• GATE 2012, 2013 qualified candidates.
• GPAT, PGECET 2013 qualified candidates.

Important Dates:

• Certificate Verification    : 30 July 2013
• Exercising Web Options : 01 Aug 2013 onward

For detail notification: Click Here

Since One Piece is on a break this week...

To all the manga freaks out there, One Piece is on a break this week as it was mentioned in previous chapter - 715, chapter 716 will release on next mid-week. Meanwhile, I found some One piece one-shots made by some author other than Eiichiro Oda. Click here to check them out. I haven't read all them but I can say there are good enough to fill this week void. People with sword fetish will like these chapters as Zoro gets the spot light. Overall it's a good read if you choose to overlook few yaoi moments. Definitely a good comic relief, not up to the Odas level though. 

Random says hi :)

Hello guys, thanks for checking out my blog. Here you will find many posts of different genre, hope atleast few of them will tickle your interest. In life we do many things and by doing, we develop passion for a few and pursue them further. For me this doesn't hold as I have a mind of a garden-sprinkler. On a day I find everything and anything interesting, informative and fascinating, the other day nothing amuses me and drives to boredom. So I decided to accept whatever life gives me and share few of them in this blog. I hope it will help you or entertain you in some way. Please go-ahead and bookmark me, at least  checkout when you bored of your  cyber routine, thanks.