Tell me what "you like" and I'll tell you who you are

The researchers developed an algorithm that uses the "Like" on Facebook to createpersonality profiles with intimate details of the users. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS ), is signed by researchers at the  University of Cambridge  (UK) in collaboration with  Microsoft Research Cambridge. These mathematical models able to extrapolate personal information about the user, such as sexual orientation, if you did drugs, or even if their parents had divorced. With respect to political preferences , the coincidence between the data provided directly to the internet and the computer system used deducted from the 'Like' selected was 85% when the question was whether the user was Democrat or Republican. In determining whether it was male or female, the coincidence was 88% . In 82% of cases, the system was right at the time of cataloging the user as Christian or Muslim , while the classification according to marital status orsubstance abuse was a match of between 65 and 73%. These data can be used for commercial purposes, but can also scare the users with the amount of personal information disclosed. " It's very easy to click the Like button, is seductive , "said David Stillwell, psychometry expert and co-author of the study. "But you do not realize that all these years later 'Like' can build up in your against ". The scientists created a Facebook application, " You Are What You Like " (One is what you like), which provides an assessment of the user's personality. 

Hitachi introduced a vehicle for elderly

The company  Hitachi  has unveiled a prototype electric vehicle aimed at the elderlyand people with mobility problems, after entering the coordinates, leads the occupant to your destination. The vehicle has been christened ROPITS , which stands for "Personal Robot for Intelligent Transportation System" (in Spanish, Robotic System Intelligent Personal Transportation) and can be programmed via a tablet  electronic packages containing specific maps. Through the tablet, the user can enter an address for the ROPITS transport it up there or, Hitachi says in a statement, " to come and get you ", as the four-wheeled carriage moves autonomously, once set coordinates. The vehicle is equipped with a 3D camera, gyroscopes and sensors to laser distance measure to avoid or stop automatically before pedestrians. To detect potholes or spaces used staggered three-dimensional geometric mapsproduced from electronic data from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan and real-time data transmitted by GPS satellites.

Photo l Shakira and Piqué show your child

"After the game, the Camp Nou and empty the classification enjoy with my family, "wrote the defender culé at the bottom of the picture accompanying the first "family photo", uploaded on Tuesday night in his profile Twitter, which appears alongside Shakira and Little Milan. A Mebarack Piqué Milan is seen in the photograph asleep in the arms of the Colombian singer, sporting a minicamiseta Barca shorts and red socks, while his father hugs the waist to Shakira and with the other hand protects your baby. Piqué Mebarack Milan was born in Barcelona Teknon clinic on Tuesday January 22 after a cesarean caesarean section, and weighed nearly three kilos. Piqué hung in the social network of 140 characters a picture of your baby's little legs with sneakers a few days after birth, and again, days later, which was shown with his littlearms Milan.

Seoul asked the U.S. not to withdraw nuclear submarine

The South Korean Defense Ministry asked the military command of the United States not to withdraw from the region a nuclear submarine in the Navy who took part in the joint military exercises known as Young Eagle. The request was related to the growing threat of a North Korean nuclear attack against South Korea, according to Chinese media reported, citing government sources Seoul. As evidence of the latent possibility of such an attack, the sources refer to  military maneuvers  on a large scale that has made ​​North Korea during the month of March. The last one took place this Thursday when North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, directedartillery exercises with South Korean border islands under the spotlight, according to the North's KCNA state agency, in a new chapter of the recent escalation warmonger the country. The full European Parliament condemned the nuclear tests and missile launches conducted by North Korea, whose government asked "to refrain from provocative actions other".  Pyongyang recently said he does not feel bound by the armistice signed 60 years ago with South Korea, which ended the war between the two countries, after the Security Council of the UN adopt tough sanctions against Pyongyang in response to  nucl test.

Iraq l 2,000 billion U.S. dollars cost for Use

More than 134,000 Iraqi civilians killed and a cost of 1,700 billion dollars to the coffers of the U.S. government: these are some of the numbers provided by the project 'Costs of War' the 'Watson Institute for International Studies' on war in Iraq, of which a few days, on March 19, will be 'the tenth anniversary. To 1,700 billion should be but 'add 490 billion dollars in allowances' for veterans, spending over the next 40 years, with the interest due, could reach 6,000 billion dollars.