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Review For reasons that continue to confound consumers, the two most popular areas for smart-home technologies right now are lightbulbs and plugs.

There are literally dozens of companies trying to do the electronic equivalent of designing a better mousetrap. Among the also-rans, there are a few that stand out, however.

We've already reviewed the BeON lightbulbs that actually manage to take something that doesn't need improving and add real value. Now it's the turn of the plug equivalent: Zuli.

Here's the biggest beef we have with so-called smartplugs: they stick out of the wall. You have to plug them in, and then plug something else into them. Whichever way you cut it, that's clunky. The Zuli is no different, although it does look a lot nicer that most smartplugs.

That aside, it's not easy to think of that many scenarios where having a smart plug is actually all that useful. Just as with a lightbulb, the only time you really want to use it is when you are standing right next to it. So why pay through the nose for something just because it connects to your phone?

The one scenario that may hold promise is, sadly, impractical: switching on a kettle. You could be in bed, or downstairs, or at your desk and decide you want a cup of tea or coffee. Being able to turn on a kettle and so shorten the amount of time it takes to make a cup could be useful.

Except it takes exactly one boil to realize a smartplug won't make this possible because it can't actually turn the kettle on - just the plug.

Now, you can turn the socket off, turn the kettle on, and then when you turn the socket on, get it going. But this works only once. It boils and switches off and then you have to reset it again. Here's betting someone has already created a kettle that gets around this issue but now you're buying a new kettle to work with your new plug. It's simply not worth it.

And so, in the perfect symbiotic relationship of worthlessness, most smartplug manufacturers envision that you will use them to turn on lights (which may or may not have smartbulbs in). All this trouble and expensive to replace your finger.

So why on earth are we reviewing the Zuli?

Well, because the team behind it – a mix of smart and energetic young people living and working in San Francisco's tech capital, SoMa – have come up with interesting add-ons to the basic on/off proposition.

Least interesting first: energy levels. The Zuli plug will give you a full rundown of the energy that has flowed through it and how long it has been on, plus an estimated cost. This is nice information to have. Maybe. If you really want to know the impact of leaving your TV on standby, you can. But it strikes us as a one-off kinda deal.

Next least interesting: control. You can turn a switch on and off using the accompanying app on your phone. Best case scenario: you're in bed and forgot to turn off the lamp on the other side of the room. Now, rather than get up and walk a few feet, you can pull out your phone and turn it off. Fun. But not worth $59.99 (yes, that's what each plug costs).

Just above that in usefulness is the ability to dim the light. Now, we can see people enjoying this aspect. Dimmers costs between $20 and $50 typically so for a little more you get your own dimmer. Downside: you have to use your phone to do the dimming rather than a slider on the actual light switch.

Next up: scheduling. You can set a schedule for your plug to turn on and off at certain times. Now these things cost from $5 to $30 in your typical hardware store but they can be fiddly - popping those little plastic tabs out or tapping buttons on a digital display.

The Zuli team have used the design simplicity that we all associate with smartphones these days to make scheduling simple and easy. So, assuming you have not installed smartbulbs that come with their own app to do this anyway, you have a useful feature.

Combined scheduling with dimming and the Zuli starts looking useful. If you go high-end on both, you end up at the same $60 price point.

The lithium-ion batteries that power everything from smartphones to electric vehicles carry a relatively low individual chance of failure, but the sheer quantity in use everyday means the risk of something going horribly wrong somewhere in the world is quite real. Looking to safeguard against such events, a team of scientists has developed a smart chip that can be embedded inside these batteries to monitor their health, offering a warning when it is at risk of catching fire or exploding.

Today's lithium-ion batteries come equipped with a chip that keeps tabs on voltage, temperature and an estimate of the amount of charge they are holding. This enables warning systems that alerts users if if the battery is overheating, just like the temperature alert that appears on screen when an iPhone is left directly in the sun on a warm day.

But according to Professor Rachid Yazami of the Energy Research Institute at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, what these current chips are lacking is the ability to detect malfunctions, which leaves the door ajar for potentially dangerous battery failures.

This poses a serious risk for electric vehicles and even in advanced aeroplanes as usually big battery packs have hundreds of cells or more bundled together to power the vehicle or aircraft, he says. If there is a chemical fire caused by a single failed battery, it could cause fires in nearby batteries, leading to an explosion.

Yazami, who actually invented the graphite anode used in lithium-ion batteries, has led the development of a new and improved chip that more precisely monitors the state of the charge of the battery, along with its health. This is done through a proprietary algorithm based on electrochemical thermodynamics measurements. The data is presented as a three-dimensional chart, which is said to resemble a ski route running down a mountain.

The 'ski route' of a brand new battery looks different from those of a degraded or faulty battery – just like how two fingerprints will look quite different, explains Yazami. In addition to knowing the degradation of batteries, our technology can also tell the exact state of charge of the battery, and thus optimize the charging so the battery can be maintained in its best condition while being charged faster.

The team says the new chip is small and versatile enough to be embedded in almost all kinds of batteries, from those in mobile devices to huge power packs in electric vehicles and advanced aeroplanes. It has been under development for five years and Yazami's startup KVI is now working on building it into commercial products. To begin with, these will include external battery packs for mobile devices and charge gauges for electric vehicles.

As the virtual- and augmented- reality wars heat up, Apple is making sure it stays competitive with occasional acquisitions such as AR pioneer Metaio and 3D sensor outfit PrimeSense.

Now it's adding another company to its quiver, Swiss-based Faceshift, whose motion capture tech allows animated avatars to double the facial movements of real actors. The tech was used in the new Star Wars movie.

Rumours of the Apple purchase had surfaced earlier in the year, but TechCrunch cited unnamed sources Tuesday in confirming the report. Apple declined to confirm the acquisition to TechCrunch, simply saying Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans.

Many analysts believe 2016 will be a watershed year for AR/VR tech. Samsung just released its $99 Gear VR goggles, which use a Samsung smartphone to power VR content that ranges from games to entertainment. And next year Sony will unveil Project Morpheus for PlayStation, Microsoft is expected to release a developer kit for its HoloLens augmented reality glasses, and Facebook-owned Oculus Rift also should be unveiling a dev kit for its much anticipated $1,500 product.

The CCTNS had its origins in a PolNet system conceived in the late 1990s to link police stations. PolNet never took off. Neither, for that matter, has its successor, the CCTNS, announced after the 26/11 attack. It is preposterous that 18 years later we don't have the simple network for police stations to share information, says Ajai Sahni, executive director of the Delhi-based Institute for Conflict Management. The government is still quarrelling over the architecture of the system with the private vendor that is developing it.

The CCTNS envisages fully computerising about 14,324 police stations and about 5,000 offices of supervisory police officers across the country. The project's initial completion date was to be March 2012 but implementation related issues pushed the deadline to 2015. Last year, the CCTNS was merged with an umbrella scheme for modernisation of the police and other forces. Subsequently, the umbrella scheme itself was dropped and this year, no funds were allocated for the scheme.

Meanwhile, the home ministry is coordinating CCTNS with the states to discuss linking up their databases even as various problems have cropped up, say officials who attended these meetings. Project implementation is at an advanced stage in all states except Bihar and Rajasthan. Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana and Tamil Nadu use their own software which is funded by the CCTNS project. This commonality of software has caused problems for integration of databases, say government officials, because the databases are not compatible with each other.

States such as Odisha complained that First Information Reports (FIRs) were being registered online only in 300 of their 561 police stations because of uncertain power supply and hardware repair issues. Several states such as Jharkhand complained of slow internet speeds. The states wanted the broadband speeds to be raised from 512 kbps to 2 mbps, which now means fresh contracts need to be drawn up between Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and the state governments.

We should have followed a top-down approach, rolling out various phases of the project, but we have instead gone for a bottom-up approach, says a government official privy to the discussions.

State governments want a five-year funding support from the Centre to continue the programme. Only six states have so far implemented the CCTNS network in all police stations.

This is just the modest first stage of getting all police stations to file FIRs online. After this begins the challenge of integrating state databases with central servers and then the second phase with new features such as mobile applications, fingerprint identification systems and an integration with the Integrated Criminal Justice System, a comprehensive database of courts, prisons and forensic evidence.

At an October 16 meeting of secretaries of various agencies connected with the project departments, the finance and the home ministries debated on the fine print-over whether CCTNS was a centrally sponsored scheme or a centrally funded scheme, a reflection of the bureaucratisation of the security architecture.

 

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Elecom has released a new line of waterproof Bluetooth headsets, the LBT-HPC11WP series, with IPX5 Certification that allows you enjoy music and telephone conversation and provide protection from water even during vigorous sports activities.

The headset with a microphone is perfect for listening to music or having telephone conversations even during physical and outdoor activities. The best selling point is that the product features the water protection coating technology developed by HZO INC, a U.S. company which is attracting a great deal of attention for its waterproofing technology for electronic devices. Using HZO’s state-of-the-art nanotechnology coating directly applied to the built-in electronic circuit board, the product is able to achieve excellent water protection in compliance with IPX5, which means the product is not affected at all even if it is directly sprayed from all directions.

The product’s compact design, weighing only 12 g and being as thin as 7.5 mm at the thinnest part, and its perfectly fitting structure equipped with a ‘secure arm’ allow you to wear the headset during vigorous activities, such as running and exercising without having to worry about it falling out of your ear. The excellent fitting in-ear plugs with open type ear pieces prevent the complete shutting out of the surrounding sounds, which means you will be able to safely enjoy music and sports activities while still paying sufficient attention to your surroundings.

The ear caps come in three generic sizes, S/M/L, so you can choose the best size to fit your ears.

This product supports a music streaming function (A2DP) which clearly reproduces music or navigation voices played on connected A2DP-compatible devices. It also supports hands-free profiles “HSP” and “HFP”, enabling you to receive incoming calls while listening to music.

The headset is equipped with a volume control button and also a multi-function button which allows you to turn power on/off, switch to pairing mode, play/stop music and go to next/previous song when connected to a device supporting AVRCP. The product offers battery performance sufficient for everyday use, such as while commuting, with a maximum of approximately four and a half hours of music playback time, a maximum of approximately five hours of continuous conversation time and a maximum of approximately one hundred and twenty hours of standby time.

If you are an Android smartphone user, you can download the Easy BT application from Google Play for free to establish Bluetooth connections. Equipped with a micro USB connector that is ready to connect to a PC or USB AC adapter, it can be power-charged using the USB cable included in the product. The new model is available in standard black and white as well as popular blue and pink.

Foshan, nicknamed “Guangzhou’s little brother”, is reputed for its cultural life. Besides its protected historical sites, ceramics and furniture shopping and nightlife, it’s also a proud cradle of kung fu. Wing chun grandmaster Ip Man was a Foshan native, as were the family of his most famous disciple, superstar Bruce Lee.

To get a local perspective on its potential for a 48-hour getaway from Hong Kong, I book a room on home rentals website Airbnb and jump on a bus for the 3½-hour ride.

My Airbnb host Lisa (who has “Superhost” status due to many recommendations for hospitality) whisks me 20 minutes south over the Dongping Waterway to Lecong town, Shunde district, home of the world’s largest furniture market. One mall is appropriately named Lecong Furniture Kingdom.

It would take a month to visit the whole of furniture country, which stretches for tens of kilometres and pulls in visitors from around the world. It has so many gigantic malls – specialising in home, garden, office or hotel furniture – that there are hotels in Lecong catering solely to buyers. Visitors from South Asia and the Middle East are served by a string of restaurants on and around Lecong Avenue, including Best of India Curry Palace, Lotus Indian and some named only in Arabic script.

We visit one of the smaller malls – the multilevel Louvre International Furniture Exhibition Centre, which could swallow an Olympic-sized stadium. Endless corridors are packed with everything from slick European brands to artisanal Chinese furnishings.

For dinner, head to Foshan Lingnan Tiandi, in the heart of old Foshan on Donghua Lane.

A quaint mix of old grey brick buildings with “wok-handle roofs” in the southern Chinese Lingnan style, and matching new buildings, Tiandi mixes traditional culture with a trendy nightlife. It has an old winery, a wedding hall that can be rented for traditional Lingnan nuptials, and a hall dedicated to wing chun, the kung fu technique developed in Foshan.

And that's why the last and most useful feature of the Zuli pushes it over into the possible purchase list: presence.

The Zuli can tell if you are near it. And that means you can configure it to turn on when you a certain distance away and turn off when you move away. In other words, assuming you have your phone with you, the lights can turn on when you enter a room and turn off when you leave. A lot of people like this idea but can never be bothered to install a system that does it - motion detectors attached to light sockets. The Zuli makes that possible. And so, combined with dimming and scheduling, you suddenly have a useful product.

But there is a catch.

The technology that makes the presence aspect work is actually pretty impressive and is the one thing that makes the company and product stand out from the competition. But it does have flaws.

One is that it uses multiple Zuli plugs to figure out distances. In fact, you need a minimum of three and they triangulate to give an accurate understanding of where exactly your phone - and hence you - are standing in your home.

So to get presence working, you are going to have to stump up $159.99 to get three plugs. That's a little cheaper than buying three individually, but you are still paying over $50 a plug for some nice-to-haves.

The system - which uses your phone's Bluetooth and the plugs constantly pinging it and themselves - also means you need to configure it. The Zuli app walks you through the process. It takes a few minutes and requires you to turn in a circle and then walk around the room to help it makes sense of the space you want to be considered as part of the room.

Cordero Caples suffered a broken neck, facial fractures, burns to his mouth and shattered teeth in the explosion, according to a post on a GoFundMe account his sister, Colessia Porter, setup to raise money for his medical bills. She says Caples, 29, was using an electronic cigarette made by Kangertech when it exploded Friday.

The Colorado Springs Fire Department told Memphis NBC affiliate WMC-TV that emergency crews responded to the medical call at Caples’ job, but that the incident is still under investigation. Kangertech did not immediately respond to TIME’s request for comment.

Caples, according to his sister, underwent spinal surgery on Sunday, a situation she described to the station as “heartbreaking” because “any sudden move can cause him to be in a paralyzed state, and that is something we don’t want.”

Safety officials say that fires and explosions caused by e-cigarettes are rare, with the Federal Emergency Management Agency aware of some 25 incidents between 1999 and 2014 where nine people were injured, according to CBS News. “The shape and construction of e-cigarettes can make them more likely than other products with lithium-ion batteries to behave like ‘flaming rockets’ when a battery fails,” FEMA warned in a 2014 report.

In the weeks after the November 26, 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai, India's stunned secu-rity establishment went into a huddle. No accountability was fixed for some particularly egregious intelligence lapses, such as the Indian Navy disregarding an Intelligence Bureau (IB) alert about a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) vessel. An LeT mole, David Coleman Headley, breezed in and out of the country at will, without ever being questioned. Even as the government rapidly expanded its counter-terrorism response unit, the National Security Guard, into four metro hubs, it looked for a raft of new measures among which were those to swiftly disseminate intelligence across agencies to warn of another terrorist attack.
The acronyms and capabilities of this three-stage transition to a smart counter-terror network were formidable - the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS) would seamlessly connect all of India's over 14,000 police stations; the National Intelligence Grid or NATGRID would link up civilian databases to give security organisations a 360° profile of suspects; and finally, the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), a self-contained terrorism fighting machine.

Nearly seven years later, not one of these intelligence-sharing databases are a reality despite a budget of thousands of crores of rupees and a Rs 800 crore spend on the CCTNS. All the government has to show for itself are a mess of reports, proposals, committees, red tape, turf battles, and the mirage of a robust security architecture.

G.K. Pillai who steered all three projects as home secretary in 2009-2011 says the projects were on steam during then home minister P. Chidambaram's tenure but suffered from 'ownership issues' after he quit in 2012. Officials say that there is a silent battle on in government to restore this architecture, but take it away from the home ministry and place it under the intelligence agencies.
On November 18, just five days after Islamic State (IS) terrorists killed 130 people in Paris, the government proved the truism that all reform in India is crisis-driven. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, headed by Prime Minister Modi, fast-tracked a Rs 2,000-crore CCTNS proposal. The network will now be completed by March 2017, government officials promised.

 

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Many OEMs are relying on touchscreen designs that allow laptops to double as tablets, either via flip-around hinges or detachable screens. Microsoft itself is launching its first laptop — with a detachable screen — the sleek, handsome, 13.5-inch Surface Book, due out October 26 for $1,500.

But Toshiba is taking a different approach, with a light, thin, 12.5-inch laptop that has a 4K Ultra HD screen, similar to those on the latest generation of TVs. This isn’t the first 4K laptop, but Toshiba claims it’s the first to be available in such a small size. It’s called the Radius 12 4K, and starts at $1,300 with 256GB of flash storage. With 512GB of storage, it costs $1,600. A version with just a normal HD screen and 256GB of storage starts at $1,000.

Though Toshiba didn’t say this, one reason for going 4K may be that convertible / detachable laptops have been around for a few years and have failed to revive the Windows laptop market. So the company may have felt something more was needed.It’s also not a given that Windows 10's popularity will translate into higher laptop sales, despite the generally positive reaction. Microsoft — unlike in the past — is strongly encouraging users to upgrade their current PCs for free.

I’ve been testing the Radius 12 4K and I did indeed find the screen to be dazzling. It’s not only super-sharp, but has brilliant colors because Toshiba worked with Technicolor to calibrate the display. It’s also a sleek, handsome machine, a hair under three pounds. It can be flipped around to be used as a (heavy) tablet. And it’s fast, because it uses the top-of-the-line i7 version of Intel’s sixth-generation Core processors.I compared the Radius 12 4K to two other laptops, both widely admired. One was the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. The other was a 2014 Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga with a 12.5-inch screen.

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Screen shots taken displaying the same 4K image on a MacBook Pro with Retina display (inset) and the Radius 12 4K.
When it comes to pixels on the screen, the Toshiba beat both, hands down. Its screen offers a resolution of 3840 x 2160 compared to 2560 x 1600 on the Mac and just 1920 x 1080 on the Yoga.

But I also found some significant downsides. The really bad news: Battery life is poor, presumably because it takes a lot of juice to drive all those pixels. Based on my experience, this laptop could never get you through a work day unplugged.

Also, like so many Windows laptops, its trackpad is jerky when used for scrolling. I — and other reviewers — have been complaining for years about this, especially since Apple’s trackpads are smooth as silk. It’s 2015 and we are on Windows 10 and this is a $1,300 laptop. But the problem persists.

More importantly, I’m pretty sure most average users won’t get much value out of the 4K display, at least today. To my eyes, even the carefully selected 4K images Toshiba supplied for testing didn’t look noticeably sharper or better on the Radius than they did on the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display, which has lower screen resolution, but much better battery life (albeit a higher price — $1,499 — for the same amount of storage and a lesser processor). This was true even when I zoomed deeply into the image.

Of course, 4K is likely to be increasingly important; Apple just bumped up its low-end iMac desktops to 4K. So, even for somebody who isn’t, say, a prosumer photo or video enthusiast, buying the Radius 4K may be a way to future-proof your laptop.And, a test 4K video I tried did indeed look richer on the Radius than on the MacBook Pro, though not so much that an average user who wasn’t writing a review might notice.

Also, I viewed a YouTube compilation of 10 short 4K videos on the Radius using a fast network. The Toshiba showed finer details in 4K — whiskers on a tiger, crevices in rocks — than when I watched the same thing on the Mac in HD. But it stuttered all the way through, undercutting the quality of the 4K experience. For instance, it supports Hello, the new Windows 10 facial-recognition log-in feature, even though it is too thin and light for the special camera typically used for that purpose. Instead, it employs a smaller infrared camera. In my tests, this worked almost every time on a desk, though less reliably on my lap.

It comes with 8GB of memory, and its screen is Corning’s Gorilla Glass, which makes it more scratch-resistant than the typical laptop display. It also has Harman Kardon speakers that the company says can adapt to whatever position the screen is in, so the sound doesn’t get muffled. In my tests, I found this to be true.There are also a plethora of ports, including a new USB Type-C connector (which isn’t used for charging) and an HDMI port capable of 4K output.

And then there’s the Achilles heel of the Radius 12 4K: battery life. Toshiba claims up to six hours, which is in itself a pretty low number in 2015 for a manufacturer’s claim. But, using my own battery test, the one I’ve employed for many years on scores of laptops, I got only about 3.5 hours. In this test, I disable all power-saving software, crank the screen to 100 percent, leave on Wi-Fi to collect email in the background, and play an endless loop of music.

Because I don’t expect real people to use their computers this way, I assume you’d likely get four and a half or five hours out of this new Toshiba between charges in typical use. But that’s still pretty weak. (Toshiba says the non-4K version of the Radius 12 gets up to nine hours between charges.)The Dell comes as close to the ideal Chromebook as anything I’ve tested. The catch is that you’ll pay for it. It’s probably best compared directly to the only Chromebook that’s more powerful and pricier—the Pixel. If you want a high-end Chromebook and don’t mind spending $900 for it, the Dell bests the Pixel in many ways, including battery life.

An accidental breakthrough in a Stockholm laboratory 15 years ago could reap a fortune for the engineers who made it - as long as they can win over some of the most demanding consumers: video gamers.Since John Elvesjo noticed a sensor tracking his eye movements in a lab experiment, the technology he developed with Henrik Eskilsson and Marten Skogo has helped disabled people use a computer by identifying where they are looking on the screen.The system uses invisible infra-red light to illuminate the eyes. Camera sensors capture the reflection off the retina and cornea to gauge where the eye is, and where it is looking.

The mass-market potential looks almost limitless. Advertisers could adapt billboard images depending on where you rest your gaze. A car could alert you when you're about to fall asleep. Eskilsson says eye tracking will one day be found in all laptops, smartphones, tablets and automobiles.

 

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Patel feels that poor women’s needs make a compelling reason for the government to reconsider the decision: “Surrogacy has helped many women build a house and move towards a more financially secure future. I want to ask critics who oppose surrogacy on grounds of ‘exploitation’: what can you do for these women? Can you get them a house; education for their kids? If not, at least don’t deny them the means to do so.”

The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill, 2014 has been in the making for at least 10 years now. Despite several versions of the draft law, it is still a long way from becoming a law. Meanwhile, the last decade has seen the industry burgeon (a 2012 CII study claims 10,000 foreign couples visit India for surrogacy every year; the industry generates $2 billion a year), with transnational surrogacy and infertility services provided by clinics in India becoming popular globally because of the good quality, and the cheap prices. As a result, ART clinics have mushroomed around the country. But the industry (regulated only by guidelines that are not binding) has also been witness to several malpractices - multiple IVF cycles performed on surrogate mothers, indiscriminate ‘harvesting’ of oocytes or eggs, and the lack of a check on the potential health risks faced by women who offer the service. There have also been controversial cases such as that of Baby Manji in 2008 (where the divorce of the couple led to the baby eventually being adopted by her paternal grandmother), and of the Australian couple who left behind one of their twins because they already had a daughter, to name a few. However, industry professionals feel the decision of banning specific groups of foreign couples hardly addresses the problem. “How does the exploitation debate settle by disallowing only foreign couples, even as OCI (Overseas Citizenship of India) and PIOs (Person of Indian Origin) are allowed?” asks Delhi-based advocate Anurag Chawla of Surrogacy Laws India. Agrees Dr Patel: “Why punish everyone for the fault of a few others?”

In the dorms, Manju and other surrogate mothers, at various stages of their pregnancies, feel the ban will affect them the most. “With a foreign client, you can expect a good tip,” says Farzana, who got one lakh extra the last time she had a baby for an American couple. “Indians are not so generous,” says Manju, a tinge of disappointment in her voice, as her surrogacy is for an Indian couple.

In the ‘choice’ versus ‘exploitation’ debate, however, the complex realities of women’s experiences - the issue of fair compensation, proper working conditions, information about medical procedures and the potential health risks involved, and the lack of better employment opportunities that compel them to turn to surrogacy - are obfuscated. The layered reality of the women’s experiences demands a position that addresses these issues. Deepa V of the Delhi-based NGO Sama, a resource group for women’s health, says a more useful position stems from a feminist, women’s health perspective. “One of the big problems here is the way clinics deal with informed consent. Our studies have shown that women are seldom aware of the potential health risks that they are enduring while undergoing these procedures,” she says. Studies done by Sama have highlighted the possible risks of multiple pregnancies (more than one embryo is transferred to ensure pregnancy) as “increased miscarriage, obstetric complications, premature deliveries, and birth complications”, as well as risks associated with foetal reduction.

At the surrogate house in Gujarat, however, Manju tells me that she feels fine, except for some discomfort when she walks outside for too long. “In my earlier pregnancies, I barely had any problem. In fact, I never even realised when I delivered the baby! Maybe what I am feeling this time is because it’s hot outside,” she says, adding that she’s up for surrogacy only this once. “I don’t like it all that much here. I am a bit hot-tempered so I get into fights here. But maybe I will come back if there’s a [financial] problem.”

I ask Manju how she feels about those who feel that women such as her are ‘incubators’ working in a ‘baby factory’. “Machine hi toh hai (We are machines only) Don’t we work at home and outside too?” she says, as she rushes out after hearing that another surrogate mother has delivered a baby boy in the delivery room opposite their dorm. The nurse quickly whisks away the new-born. “She [the surrogate mother] won’t be seeing the child now. Attachment ho jayega na (She will develop feelings),” explains Seema (name changed), before another surrogate mother from the house asks her to go inside. “Her partywaale (commissioning couple) don’t like it if she sits out on the stairs or such,” Manju tells me. “Now, I am also leaving; I feel tired. I have to be careful, it’s someone else’s baby.”
Revisiting a surrogate mom
‘My kids still think i worked in a hospital’

I first met Diksha Budhathoki (then Gurung) in 2011. The young woman from Nepal was then a second-time surrogate mother and a resident of the surrogate home at Anand. Diksha is still as sprightly, despite her ill-health today. “I have learnt how to talk in the past four years. I feel more confident now,” she says. There’s more that has changed: Diksha calls herself a “single mother” now.

Six months ago, she also finished her term as a third-time surrogate mother. This time it was for a Russian couple. “I needed the money. There was some [financial] problem,” she says. Later in the conversation, she hints at the fact that the split with her husband was a financial setback too. He left with her money and the Toshiba laptop that a grateful Japanese couple had gifted her. She also sold her house a year ago and so has taken up surrogacy once again. “I wasn’t sure, but the Russian couple [whose baby she was taking care of as a nanny], insisted that I would be the best surrogate mother for them,” she says. It helped that in Diksha’s previous terms as a surrogate mother, she had gotten pregnant after the first embryo transfer.
Being a three-time surrogate mother has changed Diksha’s life. “I speak five [Indian] languages now, and I also have a job as a 24X7 nanny that pays me about 15,000 every month,” she says. With the money she is able to take care of her two sons, who are at a boarding school.

“I just told them I am staying in a hospital. My younger one believed me. But the older son was quiet. Maybe, he got it. He never asked me again. I will tell them when they are old enough.”
The legal position
Several clauses of the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill, 2014 have sparked debate.

1 The latest draft of the ART Bill, 2014 has a few important clauses pertaining to women selling their services (surrogacy, egg donation). It restricts the number of times that a woman can undergo surrogacy to one live birth. This is in sharp contrast to the earlier versions that allowed a woman five live births, including that of her own children. “Restricting it to one live birth does not mean that the woman will not be subjected to multiple IVF cycles to ensure that one live birth,” feels Deepa V of Sama Resource Group for Women’s Health.
2 Other clauses include placing the onus of any kind of mishaps on the clinics, and holding them accountable in case of a death or disability as positives, says Deepa.
3 One of the biggest drawbacks of the Bill is the clause that says only married couples can access surrogacy, as opposed to the new adoption rules allowing single parents to adopt. “This just suggests a narrow, patriarchal understanding of parenthood. Also, the Bill says that egg donors have to be married, while sperm donors needn’t be. “

4 Surrogate mothers cannot have ‘unprotected’ sex with their husbands. They and their husbands are also prohibited from extra-marital affairs. Deepa says this impinges on their autonomy.
5 There are other clauses that the Sama activist feels are problematic - one that allows clinics to disclose characteristics of the surrogate/donor. This could have implications on choosing the caste, colour and educational qualifications of the donor/surrogate. More importantly, she says that monitoring of the procedures will remain a challenge.

6 Delhi-based advocate Anurag Chawla of Surrogacy Laws India feels that the big problem in the Bill remains the “discrimination” between foreign couples, who cannot access surrogacy, and PIOs, OCIs and foreigners married to Indian citizens, who are allowed to do so. “If the idea is to stop unethical practices, how will banning one group help the cause?” he asks, pointing out that the Bill states that compensation paid by Indian couples would be different from that paid by OCI, PIO or NRI, and a foreigner married to an Indian citizen.

Now that Microsoft’s Windows 10 is here, hopes are running high among PC makers that their laptop sales, which have been declining or flat for years, can be revived.At the same time, these hardware makers are hoping to nudge Windows users into the $1,000-plus category traditionally dominated by Apple, since margins are pretty thin on the more typical $600 laptops.

 

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Según informan los expertos en seguridad informática, un nuevo troyano Vonteera es capaz de impedirnos la instalación de antivirus en nuestro ordenador. Tal y como explican en el estudio de este malware para Windows, el troyano es capaz de utilizar los certificados y el control de cuentas del sistema para evitar la instalación de herramientas de seguridad, y afecta a una gran variedad de ellos.

Un malware que ha evolucionado peligrosamente en cuatro años
Hace ya cuatro años, este malware se detectó y analizó como adware. Es decir, que anteriormente provocaba en el navegador web del usuario la visualización indeseada de anuncios en las páginas de navegación. A través de este sistema, si se hacía click en los anuncios se descargaban aplicaciones no deseadas, pero ahora se ha descubierto que el troyano en cuestión va más allá poniendo en peligro la seguridad de los ordenadores infectados.
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Concretamente, el troyano Vonteera se instala en el ordenador y modifica los permisos de la cuenta para impedir la instalación de antivirus. Según explican, coloca en la lista negra un total de 13 certificados que afectan a herramientas como Avast, AVG, Panda, McAffee, Avira, ESET y Bitdefender entre algunos otros. Una vez impedida la instalación de cualquiera de las herramientas de seguridad afectadas, el troyano es capaz de inyectar su código malicioso en el navegador web que tenga instalado el usuario.

Un potente troyano, pero con ciertos límites importantes
Aunque impide la instalación de cualquier antivirus cuando ya nos ha infectado, no puede eliminar un programa que ya tuviéramos configurado en nuestro ordenador Windows. Por lo tanto, si antes de que nos afecte teníamos ya un antivirus, lo seguiremos manteniendo. Con respecto a los certificados afectados, corresponden a herramientas de seguridad con sus bases de datos actualizadas, luego no corremos riesgo si ya tenemos cualquiera de ellas instalada en nuestr ordenador.

En caso de que este troyano infecte nuestro ordenador y no tengamos un antivirus instalado, la solución es eliminarlo de forma manual -bastante complicado- y restablecer el control de cuentas de Windows a la normalidad, de forma que podamos instalar una solución antivirus a posteriori, una vez hayamos solucionado el problema con este malware.

Los emuladores son unas herramientas de lo más útiles. Con ellos es posible disfrutar de contenidos en diferentes dispositivos de, por ejemplo, consolas que pasaron a mejor vida como la añorada DreamCast de SEGA. El caso es que existe uno llamado BlueStacks que permite disfrutar de las creaciones de Android en la pantalla de los ordenadores.

Esto, como es lógico pensar, ofrece la posibilidad de ejecutar desarrollos como por ejemplo los de mensajería en PCs y Mac, ya que hay versiones para cada uno de los sistemas operativos comentados. Y, como no, también los juegos se pueden ejecutar y, por lo tanto, disfrutar de títulos basados en The Walking Dead o los conocidos de creación de reinos, como el muy utilizado Clash of Clans.

El caso es que BlueStacks es un trabajo gratuito que utilizando el desarrollo de código abierto de Android permite ejecutar un emulador que contiene el sistema operativo de Google y, además, es compatible tanto con el teclado como el ratón de los ordenadores. Por lo tanto, no hay que pagar absolutamente nada para poder conseguirlo y, evidentemente, no se infringe ninguna ley de propiedad intelectual de los desarrolladores (ni de las aplicaciones que se ejecutan con él).

Consigue BlueStacks y los jeugos
La página web del emulador se puede visitar accediendo a este enlace y, al pulsar el botón descargar, se consigue el ejecutable necesario. La página detecta si tiene un PC o Mac y proporciona el desarrollo que encaja con tu ordenador. Echo esto, simplemente abre el archivo que acabas de conseguir y sigue los pasos que van apareciendo en pantalla, llegará un momento en el que se inicia BlueStacks y se procede a la configuración de Android, como si se tuviera un smartphone.

Ahora debes dar de alta una cuenta de Google para que se sincronice la información y, esto, permitirá que se puedan descargar aplicaciones desde Play Store, la tienda de la compañía de Mountain View que tiene los desarrollos originales (si uno es de pago, hay que abonar la cantidad pedida para poder disfrutar de él). Un asistente es el que va guiando los pasos, incluso para conseguir las aplicaciones de Google. Hecho esto, puedes utilizar el emulador de como si de un teléfono o tablets se tratase.

La interfaz es totalmente reconocible, pero con un apartado específico en el escritorio en el que se ven las aplicaciones que se tienen instaladas. Pero, eso sí, los procesos de configuración y ejecución de opciones son los habituales con Android. De esta forma, disfrutar al máximo de los juegos más exigentes para el sistema operativo de Google es totalmente posible en el ordenador (incluso utilizando un joystick) y, también, se le puede dar un uso más personal para controlar por ejemplo la cuenta de correo o las redes sociales, por poner un ejemplo.

Hay que destacar que las versiones de entrada de ambos modelos, viene con la versión de prueba por tres meses de Windows 10 Home Edition, si deseamos la versión completa, tendremos que desembolsar más dinero. Eso sí, la versión de Android que se incluye es la 5.1.1 Lollipop sin ningún tipo de restricción.

La campaña en Indiegogo ha sido todo un éxito, donde han logrado superar la meta en más de un 800% y aún le quedan cuatro días por delante. El precio de la versión básica del MagicStick One es de 99 dólares, con envíos a todo el mundo durante el mes de diciembre por 29 dólares adicionales.

Para la versión de entrada del MagicStick Wave su precio es hasta este momento de 269 dólares y quedan 25 unidades, porque ésta ha sido la versión más popular, algo que ha provocado que se haya agotado en dos ocasiones. Por último, la versión de MagicStick Wave con 128GB de almacenamiento y Windows 10 Home Edition completo, tiene un precio durante lo que resta de la campaña de 379 dólares.

Fijado para llegar a PlayStation 4, Xbox One y PC el próximo 1 de diciembre; Just Cause 3 ha desvelado sus requisitos mínimos y recomendados para poder ejecutar el título ya sea en calidad baja o bien con un apartado gráfico más que notable.

Como suele ocurrir en algunos casos, la versión de ordenador suele reportar algunas mejoras con respecto a la versión de consola. En PC nos encontraremos no solo con una resolución mucho más escalable (900p en Xbox One y 1080p en PlayStation 4), sino también un mejor framerate, mayor distancia de dibujado o texturas mucho más trabajadas.

Fijado para llegar a PlayStation 4, Xbox One y PC el próximo 1 de diciembre; Just Cause 3 ha desvelado sus requisitos mínimos y recomendados para poder ejecutar el título ya sea en calidad baja o bien con un apartado gráfico más que notable.

Como suele ocurrir en algunos casos, la versión de ordenador suele reportar algunas mejoras con respecto a la versión de consola. En PC nos encontraremos no solo con una resolución mucho más escalable (900p en Xbox One y 1080p en PlayStation 4), sino también un mejor framerate, mayor distancia de dibujado o texturas mucho más trabajadas.

El invento recuerda a los tricorder de la serie de ciencia ficción Star Trek: un dispositivo portátil para escanear y analizar datos, similar a las agendas electrónicas de los años 90. La belleza de este instrumento es que puede ser adaptado a diferentes escenarios, desde un rover en Marte al estudio del hielo en Europa, explica a Teknautas la investigadora del Laboratorio de propulsión a chorro de la NASA (JPL por sus siglas en inglés) y cocreadora de la tecnología, Fernanda Mora.

Diferenciar el origen de estas moléculas orgánicas es uno de los objetivos del portátil químico. Esto es posible gracias a que los aminoácidos pueden encontrarse en dos formas espejadas, L y D, de la misma forma que nuestras dos manos son idénticas pero a la vez opuestas.

La hipótesis más aceptada indica que la vida en la Tierra evolucionó para utilizar los aminoácidos espejados a la izquierda, aunque es posible que en otros lugares del universo sea más común la opción contraria. En cualquier caso, si una muestra tiene una proporción equivalente entre ambas formas es muy probable que no tenga un origen biológico. Dicho de otra forma: Si encontramos que una forma predomina sobre otra es posible que se deba a la presencia de vida.

En el caso de los ácidos grasos, el dispositivo analiza la longitud de sus cadenas, indicativa de la presencia de algún tipo de organismos. Por supuesto, como siempre sucede en astrobiología, estos análisis se basan en la asunción de que la vida extraterrestre es similar a la de nuestro planeta: en caso contrario no se sabría qué buscar.

 

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