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HECTOR or Hexapod cognitive autonomously operating robot, was designed to help that how exactly the animals manage to move so gracefully. It is developed by Germanys Bielefeld University folks. HECTOR sports 6 legs, with 18-joints in total, that protrude from an exoskeleton made of carbon fibre reinforced plastic. Its legs are given a life-like range of motion provided by a special set of elastic joint drives and a series of biologically inspired algorithms, and its exoskeleton can carry a load of 30kgs the robot itself weighs a mere 12kgs. HECTORs is built to learn from its experiences. Dont forget to check the video after reading.

MSI has rolled out two new laptops now, its new 15-inch CX640 and CR640 models, which each boast what MSI calls a clutter free design and budget friendly prices. As for specifications, both packed with core i3-2310M Processor, 4GB of RAM and 500GB hard drive, and USB 3.0 ports. While the silver CX640 upgrades things from basic integrated Intel HD3000 graphics on the black CR640 model get NVIDIAs GeForce GT520M with Optimus technology. The price for CR640 and CX640 are $630 and $680 respectively. For more read the Press Release.

The NFC payment systems just starting rolling out in the US, Discover has just announced that it will let its card holders send money to people in 60 countries. So as long as they have either a cell phone number or email address, they can their money through them. As All Things D notes, Visa and American Express have hatched similar plans, though Discover is the first the bunch to partner with PayPal. While people sending money dont need PayPal accounts, people receiving one have do, at least they must be willing to create one. For senders the service is free and in fact, they got 0.25 percent cash back for the first $3,000 exchanged. As for Discover, a smaller player than Visa and MasterCard, it hopes some of PayPals $230 million customers will sign up for a new credit card while they are at it.

In this article we will see how to clone a Oracle database.There are There are two type of database cloning in Oracle, Cold Cloning and Hot Cloning. Here we will be looking into the how to take a Cold Physical Backup and Hot Backup in Oracle.

The Worlds Biggest Pac-man game takes over the internet. You have got two choices: One, mimic iTr3vor and toss up a You tube video of yourself dancing in an Apple Store, Second, blow your own mind with the magic of HTML5. In between two hour-long Pica-Pic sessions, it can be linked to your Facebook account for those who savvy statistics.

White House today just officially unveiled its plans for a national secure Internet id program. It has dubbed it as National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). It will be entirely voluntary and largely driven by various private sector companies, who will be responsible for verifying your ID and providing you secure credentials that you will be able to use across internet. The administration is pointing out that the system is not a national ID program or of any sort, and it is going to some length to play up the involvement of multiple credential providers. Check the video for more explanation.

Google video doodle celebrates the legend Charlie Chaplins 122nd birthday. The honour was bestowed upon John Lennon to celebrate his 70th birthday. His video was just an animation whereas Googles latest doodle dials up the frame rate to recent the lovable tramps antics in a very Google way. The video doodles only available from the Google Australia home page but we expect that to change just as soon as possible.

In this article we will see how to take a user managed backup in Oracle.There are There are two type of user managed backup in Oracle Physical Backup and Logical Backup. Here we will be looking into the Physical Backup and its sub types and how to take a physical backup in Oracle.

In this edition of the article we will see about RMAN Implementation in Oracle.

IBMs latest announcement is the firm is boasting a new version of Power7 products that includes an upgraded version of the supercomputers server. It had a BladeCenter PS703 and PS704, sporting 16 cores and 32 cores respectively. The PS704 touts a 60 percent increase in speed over its predecessors. The Power750, the same system that gave Watson the stuff to slaughter those humans on Jeopardy!, is getting an upgrade that supports as many as 32 cores and can run up to 128 simultaneous threads, while the Power755 offers high performance computing with 32 cores of its own. The cheapest version of the Power750 Express rings in at about $30,000.

Vudus movie service is already available on 300-odd set top boxes and HDTVs including PS3 and Boxee Box, but now it can add your Personal computer too. The Flash-based player will let customers watch movies they have rented or purchased like any other device, but due to licensing issues it is limited to a maximum of 480p resolution with stereo sound for now.