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This technology matches smartphones through the camera

It is possible to pair multiple devices at once thanks to a pattern of colors and lights

  Newly established NFC technology, wireless technology, US researchers have developed an information exchange system based on a camera and light beams.

This is the functioning of Capcam, created by a researcher from Carnegie Mellon University (USA). The system matches mobile devices with the user's touchscreen when put together. A touch screen can track devices as they move over their surface, while the devices extract data by reading a pattern of blinking colors.

  The union of the devices with this novel system is done through the contact of both mobile screens. This software allows you to detect the location of the device.

It begins to emit a unique pattern of flashing colors under the device, which contains pairing instructions. The smartphone, which must also have the CapCam software installed, uses its camera to detect the color pattern and establish a wireless connection. It is possible to pair multiple devices at once, and you can still interact with the screens with your hands.

The strategy of the lights to match devices and the touch screens to track them had already been used. But CapCam is unique in combining the two techniques.

The team at Carnegie Mellon University now wants to find a business partner interested in licensing the technology. It should work on many existing devices, so it would be possible to distribute it as a downloadable app.

Ariana Grande will be a character in 'Final Fantasy'

The popular singer will appear as the cover of her latest album 'Dangerous Woman'

  The future of Ariana Grande has no limits. After becoming a star of music and his past in the field of acting, the American will take the step of moving to a video game. "I am so excited to finally share that I will be available in Final Fantasy Brave," the 23-year-old wrote in one of her official accounts and added an icon to show that she was crying for joy. "Take a look at my character in the game, it's the cutest thing I've ever seen in my life and I'm so excited and delighted that I can not contain myself," he added.

The product, available for iOS and Android devices, is based on the successful Final Fantasy video game series. Although it will be developed with a completely new story, it will continue with the format of RPG and turn-based battles with which it has triumphed.

   At the moment, it is known that Ariana Grande will appear with the same attire as on the cover of her latest album (Dangerous Woman). Thus, the artist will participate dressed as a rabbit in the adventure based on the search of the young Fina by a trio of protagonists. In this way, the American will add one more line to a resume that includes success as an actress in Victorious (Nickelodeon series) and three albums that have sold six million copies. The singer of 'Side to Side', of course, will also put the voice to the character.

Artificial intelligence begins to replace administrative

"Some of those works will simply succumb to the rise of robots," say the experts

  With the cars driving alone on the Western motorways and some robots carrying out mechanical work worthy of the Ford assembly line, the next step for the replacement of human workers with machines has begun to be perfected in Japan. The insurance company Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance has announced that during the month of January will be dispensed with 34 administrative so that their tasks are developed by IBM Watson Explorer, a project based on artificial intelligence.

The IBM program will scan hospital records and other documents to determine insurance payments, bills for injuries, patient medical records and procedures administered, according to a statement from the Japanese company. The idea is that automating the research and data collection processes will help the remaining human workers concentrate on a faster final payment and improve productivity by 30%, according to the company.

  However, economic profitability appears in the background. The insurance company spent 200 million yen (1.63 million euros) on installing the artificial intelligence system and will need 122,000 euros for maintenance, according to the Japanese newspaper The Mainichi. As a result, you will save approximately one million euros per year, so that the investment will have balanced the expenses before the end of 2018.

The process has not surprised in a leading technology country that had seen examples abroad such as the Israeli company Lemonade, which had replaced 'brokers' and paperwork with 'bots' (routine programs that create indexes) and machines with the capacity to to learn. The Wall Street Journal had already pointed out that in the United States financial companies are already resorting to artificial intelligence to handle the overload of bureaucracy.

In the press dedicated to technology, the possibility had also been discussed. According to Harvard Business Review, most of the tasks in companies could be developed by machines or programs because they are "composed of a work by can be coded with a step pattern and decisions can be made with a clear database" . In the text signed by experts Julia Kirby and Thomas H. Davenport, they said: "Almost all jobs have important elements that - for the foreseeable future - will not be able to be controlled by computers. And yet, we have to admit that some of those jobs with some kind of knowledge will simply succumb to the rise of robots. "

The professions most in demand in 2017 are related to the Network

Big Data and Information Technologies are the most desired profilesBig Data and Information Technologies are the most desired profiles

  Engineers, information technology (IT) professionals and Big Data specialists will be the most demanded professionals in the labor market in 2017, according to the forecast made by the temporary work company Randstad Professionals.

The report, which analyzes the profiles of responsibility sought by companies, the most valued skills and the sectors that will boost job creation, concludes that digitization marks the passing of this new year, so the professional profile sought by companies it is "clearly technological", with international experience, versatility, adaptation to change, strategic vision, analytical capacity and great negotiation and management skills.

  The information technology sector will be one of the most dynamic in 2017, so the profiles linked to digitization will be in high demand during the next year.

In fact, Randstad Research expects that digitization will generate 1.25 million jobs in the next five years, with a high demand from developers and analysts Java and .Net, telecommunications engineers and Ienformáticos.

On the other hand, cybersecurity will be another of the sectors that will drive the hiring of highly qualified workers and investment in the Internet of Things will continue to be a trend, which means that demand will continue to grow in the field of telecommunications and connectivity. This boom joins the digital TV platforms, which continue to grow exponentially.

Regarding the skills associated with the digital profiles, the ability to adapt, autonomy, labor mobility and English proficiency stand out. In addition, transversal and multidisciplinary professionals will be highly valued. The convergence between the different edges of technology, such as front, back, infrastructure and telecommunications, will continue to increase the need to attract profiles that dominate several disciplines in their field.

Green light, the app for the blind that translates the traffic lights

The project is led by three students from the Polytechnic University of Valencia

   Three students from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) have been the winners of the fifth edition of 'HackForGood' global with a first prize endowed with 6,000 euros thanks to its 'Green Light' project, a mobile application capable of "translating" the state of the traffic lights to help the blind.

Jorge Fabregat, Javier Ferrando and Joaquín Montesinos, students of Telecommunication Engineering and Electrical Engineering, have been the creators of the application 'Green Light', which combines the information of the City of Valencia on the location of the traffic lights and the GPS position of the user .

   "It is a mobile application that warns the blind pedestrian with a vibration or a beep if it can happen or not," Ferrando explained. To obtain the real-time status of the traffic lights, they resorted to an Arduino board, an open source, low cost, easy to use and very flexible microcontroller, designed for artists, designers, computer novices and anyone interested to create interactive objects or environments.

The 2017 edition has been the most crowded and has gathered 1,500 hackers from 23 Spanish universities, which have presented 150 different projects in 15 venues. The first national prize is endowed with 5,000 euros, to which are added another 1,000 euros that the UPV team obtained by staying in the first place of the local phase.

The three students met in the association 'Makers UPV', a community of university students who are "passionate about making things", and where they built 3D printers and drones.

At the moment, 'Green Light' has achieved up to three local awards ('Geo-Open Data VLC', 'Think Big' and first place at the Valéncia headquarters) and the absolute award in the global phase. In this way, the 'Think Big' category of Fundación Telefónica will allow them to continue working on the project.

Samsung sells 10 million Galaxy S8 in less than a month

The South Korean manages to remove the bad taste of mouth of his fiasco with the Note 7

  On April 28, Samsung shelved one of its darkest episodes in its history with the fiasco of Note 7. Its great commitment to the market of phablets burned because of their batteries. However, the arrival of the Galaxy S8 has returned the smile to the leaders of South Korea.

In just under a month, the company has sold more than 10 million of its two versions of Samsung Electronics' new flagship, according to Chosun Ilbo. The first Galaxy took seven months to collect such a figure, while the youngest in the series has barely needed 20 days.

   The new models of the series of the Galaxy S smartphone went on sale on April 21 in South Korea, the United States and Canada, and then have been extended to other markets, including Europe-China will arrive tomorrow.

The pre-sales reserves of the Galaxy S8 reached a record of more than one million units in South Korea, where 260,000 of these smartphones were sold on its first day of sale.

The company plans that by the end of this month the smartphone will be available in some 120 countries, and analysts believe that given the success it is having, the S8 could exceed the 50 million that its predecessor, the Galaxy S7, managed to sell last year. .

The 22-year-old surfer who stopped Wanna Cry

The young British Marcus Hutchins dismantled the cyber attack that affected thousands of computers around the world

  Marcus Hutchins, a young British man of only 22 years, is rained with compliments and job offers. No wonder, this lover of surfing and passionate about new technologies managed to stop the unstoppable progress of the cyber attack that last Friday reached thousands of computers around the world, infecting important companies and multinationals.


  Self-taught computer scientist, never went to college, lover of pizza and Pokémon, Hutchins has ceased to be a stranger to become a global hero. It was not his intention, he tried to keep his anonymity in social networks under the pseudonym of Malware Tech and the avatar of a cat with glasses but, his real name did not take long to come to light.

Now he fears a possible revenge on the part of the hackers. He explained his fear of the Daily Mail, "in the future someone might want to retaliate and find me in a matter of seconds." Fear of hackers, who so far have raised more than $ 30,000 from the victims and that put in check more than 200,000 computers in 150 different countries.

The 10 best invested dollars of Hutchins

The solution to eliminate the virus cost the ridiculous figure of $ 10.69 and was created in his own room. "Quickly I was able to get a sample of the malware with the help of a friend and fellow researcher." When I executed it in my analysis environment, I learned that it was calling an unregistered domain that ended in gwea.com, said the computer specialist, exclusively for the Daily Mail.

He checked that the domain was free and proceeded to buy it for $ 10.69. He later redirected traffic to a server in Los Angeles. This was the necessary process carried out to stop the ransomwere. Precisely since California has received a succulent job offer for their efforts to combat the virus, however, he says he has no intention of leaving his current job.

The young man continues to work with the National Center for Cybersecurity in the United Kingdom to prevent the development of a new strain of malicious software. Hutchins himself has warned of the possibility of a second wave of attacks. He continues to live in England at his parents' house and his younger brother, in a town on the Devon coast.