4 MAY 2014

Ø  According to the website teardown.com, researchers looked into one of the Glass prototype and revealed what goes into making Google Glass $1500 (Rs 90,000). It takes electronic components worth a mere $80 (Rs.4,800) to develop one eyewear device!

Ø  The Secretary of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, K. VijayRaghavan, has been elected a foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Dr. VijayRaghavan, who is also a Distinguished Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, joins a select group of Indians which includes the former NCBS Director, Obaid Siddiqi; National Research Professor C.N.R. Rao, evolutionary biologists Raghavendra Gadagkar and Madhav Gadgil, and aerospace engineer Roddam Narasimha. He was recently elected Fellow of the Royal Society (London) and is also the recipient of several prestigious awards such as the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, the J.C. Bose Fellowship and the Infosys Science Prize in Life Sciences.

Ø India ranks third highest source of overall malicious activity globally, according to a report by data security solutions provider Symantec. Terming India ‘A key threat frontier’, the annual internet security threat report said 5.1 per cent of all malicious cyber activities in the world originated from India in 2013. At the top spot was the U.S. (20.33 per cent), followed by China (9.93 per cent). India is followed by the Netherlands (3.52 per cent), Germany (3.26 per cent), Russia (2.63 per cent), the U.K. (2.58 per cent), Brazil (2.53 per cent), Taiwan (2.45 per cent), and Italy (2.35 per cent), as per the report. Moreover, India continued to hold its position as the spam capital of the world.