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Friday, May 31, 2013

Blog l The new face of Gmail

In November last year became the Gmail email provider world's largest. The service that Google began offering "beta" and private invitation treasures nine years ago today more than 425 million registered users and over 290 million active users, according to figures from ComScore. For Google the service has also become a key when promoting your social network, Google+ and chat tools. Gmail started as a conventional email but with more space that solutions exist so far. Over time, however, has been integrating elements such as the possibility of labeling and integration of messaging and calendars. Today Google has introduced a new version of the inbox that adds different tabs to organize messages and is able to filter messages according to their origin and content. I had access to this new version in the last week. When you receive the update your inbox is divided into four tabs: Home , which stores messages from family, friends and those who are considered "important"; Social, heed the warnings that social networking; Promotions , special offers and discounts, and Notifications, which are messages with confirmations, invoices and receipts. There is also possibility to add extra tab messages from forumsThe messages are organized automatically but may rearrange the headers by simply dragging between different tabs. Gmail "learns" the user's preferences and adjusts to your way of organizing emails so that over time becomes more accurate. This week, for example, my experience was mixed . Some flight confirmation emails reached Promotions-probably because the message inside had deals airline partner, while others had just Notices. Users, who will receive the update in the coming weeks, will return to the classic version of Gmail if desired. Google also implemented new inbox within their mobile applications, both Android as iOS. The app will only show when opening messages Principal but you can browse the other tabs. In the third-mail programs companies with synchronized accounts via SMTP or POP3, the organization remains the same and e are shown in chronological order.

The discovery of liquid blood in the remains of a mammoth opens the door to cloning

An international team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of liquid blood in the body of a mammoth . Experts have expressed their excitement at the possibility that this finding will allow them to clone the prehistoric animal. The caving expedition 'Yana-2012', made ​​up of scientists from Russia, South Korea, USA, Canada, Sweden and the UK, have worked in the northeastern part of Russia, known as Yakutia, to a depth of 100 meters below ice, which had been unable to find fragments of skin, scalp and skull bones of this animal. As stated by the director of the expedition, Cum Grigoriev, the frozen remains belong to a female woolly mammoth who may have died at the age of 60 years, ie 10,000 or 15,000 years ago. "When we broke the ice under his abdomen, blood flowed, very dark. This is the most amazing I've seen in my life," he told the scientist.Grigoriev believed that blood could remain liquid over many years because they "fell into a well or in a swamp, probably up to half its height, while the rest of his body froze." But the main reason for joy for this issue is that "this discovery offers real possibilities of finding living cells and realize the project of cloning a mammoth  The University of Yakutsk (Siberia), which is also part of the investigation, last year signed an agreement with South Korea's Hwang Woo-suk, a specialist in cloning. In case they are finally living cells will be transferred to the core elephant eggs in order to produce embryos with mammoth DNA , which would then be placed in the uterus of an elephant Asia.

Facebook already has its "pages verified"

Facebook began to authenticate members pages famous and big brands in the social network on Wednesday, a move that follows in the footsteps of Twitter"Today (Wednesday) we are launching verified pages' to help people find authentic data celebrities and other high profile people and businesses in Facebook", said in a blog internet giant, based in California. "You will see a blue badge next to their names , "he said. Verified pages show small blue circles with a white mark in the center to indicate the member's identity has been confirmed. In the blog looks a Facebook page verified the singer and actress Selena Gomez as an example. "Verified pages belong to a small group of prominent public figures (celebrities, journalists, government officials, well-known brands and companies) with large audiences," said Facebook.This update is being released also for profiles ". Twitter has long offered similar verification badges, which have become status symbols in the world of popular messaging service.

A scientist receives 1,000 million euros to create a replica of the human brain

The neurologist Henry Markram has got a contribution of 1,000 million euros granted by the European Commission (EC) to try to get an artificial brain that recreates the human brain. In 2009, at the TED Conference in Oxford, Markram announced its intention to create an artificial intelligence that recrease the human brain and place it in a supercomputer that discurriese independently, as a person. Dr. Markram is convinced that if science has not yet managed to simulate a human brain is so true"lack of ambition"Thus, he is convinced to simulate the functions of 86,000 million in the human brain neurons and 100 trillion connections established. Once built the artificial brain, it would be possible to ascertain the causes of brain disorders or birth to a new generation of robots and smart technologies. Markram believes that with today's technology it is possible to faithfully recreate the behavior of the human brain. His project has won the support of important figures such as Nobel laureate neuroscientist Torsten Wisley or co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim of Sun Microsystems. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has seen future Markram investigations in recent years. There has been recreated along with a group of 15 postdoctoral researchers, the behavior of a portion of a million neurons in the neocortex of the rat to be simulated by the IBM Blue Gene supercomputer. Markram research does not warrant that this recreation can scale to a full brain and even less that can get to rebuild a human brain, much more complex. Also, if it were to simulate the human brain with fidelity, there is no certainty that actually behave like a human brain does. In this sense, Markram says that "the only way to find out there that's building it." Markram has convinced and involved in some way to 6,000 researchers and now is when will the test of fire. Earlier this year, the European Commission decided to grant 1,300 million dollars (1,005 million euros) to develop their project. Professor of Caltech Chrostof Koch, chief scientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, believes, however, that " there are too many things we do not know yet." As an example, he notes that "the caterpillar of earth has exactly 302 neurons, and yet we have no idea of how this animal".