When Facebook copied Snapchat in 2016

Facebook has been busy trying to out smart Snapchat in every way possible since the time Snapchat rejected Facebook's offer of  $3 Billion .Snapchat is still a very small company compared  to Facebook but it has its own thing going. Snapchat rolled over many new features and even "Spectacles". Snapchat has a constant growth, it's parent company may file for IPO next year.

Here are all the things Facebook copied from snapchat
http://www.businessinsider.in/here-are-all-the-times-facebook-copied-snapchat-in-2016/articleshow/56170772.cms?format=slideshow

PayPal alleges that PayTm copied it's logo

PayPal has filed a case against Paytm for alleged trademark infringement.

The logo might look different but the colors used are more or less the same. As both the entities are in the same industry i.e payments the case would be treated with more attention and detail.

The recent rise of Paytm due to demonetization in India, would have been the cause for the case filed by the California company PayPal which was initially founded by Elon Musk and later sold. PayPal was one of the initial pioneers of the online payment industry and payment wallets mainly.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/paypal-files-case-against-paytm-for-alleged-trademark-infringement/article9430703.ece

 

Cisco claims Arista copied it's Command Line Interface (CLI)

Arista has won the battle over  Cisco's infringement accusation.


In Cisco's blog it has said that

"By contrast, the extent of Arista’s copying of our CLI sets them apart from others in the industry. They have directly lifted more than 500 multi-word command line expressions. By comparison, networking products from HP, Brocade, Alcatel-Lucent, Juniper Networks and Extreme each have only a small fraction of overlapping commands."

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John Oliver looks like Vector Perkins

After posting the post on Gru and John, I ended up watching "Despicable Me" movie again.

I noticed that the villain Vector Perkins, looks very much like John Oliver. I do like John Oliver's "Last week tonight show"  and watch it without fail. However the resemblance never occurred to me till day. If you haven't watched the movie or the show; you should watch it right now.

 

John Lithgrow looks like Gru

 

John Lithgrow from "The Crown" tv series looks like Gru from "Despicable Me"

Source: Mindy Kaling's Twitter feed.

Amazon Go was forseen by IBM?

Here is a commercial by IBM on the future of shopping which was aired 10 years ago. While today Amazon announced

Amazon Go

which enables user to pick goods off the shelf and walkout of the store without standing in the checkout line.


IBM RFID commercial

Amazon Go

How the Tech works: The tech in Amazon Go uses Deep Learning and RFID and few other key technologies at start the user uses the app provided to identify himself with the store and then goes on about picking the goods/items he needs, the items picked by the customer and gets added  to the virtual cart. Once the customer exits the store the cart gets checked out and the customer is charged accordingly. More Details

"Martian" and the "Red Planet"

So I happened to watch Red Planet movie recently and couldnt help but notice a wide range of similarities between in the Martian Movie starring Matt Damon and the Red Planet movie. For starters, it is about a group of astronomers doing research on the forsaken planet mars. When things go south they need to rely on their basic human instincts for survival. I liked both the movies, they are different in their own way.

Reddit user darthstrayder has summarised all the similarities I could possibly think off.

Similarities:

• Female mission commanders
• Crew of six
• Pre-launch HABs
• HAB explosions
• Crew stranded on Mars
• Radio communications re-established using Pathfinder
• Long travel between past and future Mars mission locations
• Relaunch into orbit using existing rocket that must be stripped down
• Relaunch causes front of vehicle to be exposed
• Relaunch fainting
• Retrieval in orbit using tether by lead commander
• Crew member love interest sub-plot