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Apparently, researchers at Utah’s Brigham Young University (BYU) uses the method dubbed as “optical trap display” that is capable of projecting 3D “volumetric images” into “thin air”. According to a study published in Nature’s journal, the technology can be used to project small floating 3D volumetric images that can be viewed and interacted from all angles. Viewers can walk around the projections and even place a finger below them. “Often, when we think of an image that’s floating in space that’s 3D, we think of a hologram,” explains the lead researcher, Daniel Smalley, the study’s lead author and a BYU electrical and computer engineering professor and holography expert....

Users are unable to connect or login into the call of duty server. Sites like down detector and outage report are showing users from around the globe are reporting the downtime and facing issues logging into the server. What Happened? Activision, the developer of the call of duty is aware of the situation and is working to fix the issue. We’re currently experiencing connectivity issues. This incident is under investigation, Online status page of activison said....

With the summer in full swing and the temperatures all set to soar, air conditioners are are almost mandatory in some areas. How much as we need the living room to remain cool, our technology needs to do too. The most phones that have lithium ion battery does not cope up well in the heat. It has been known to explode in some cases. Even the regular air conditioner could not cool the phone, when it was placed on the charging shelf in the new 2016 Chevys....

Customers of Comcast who had been hoping the PS4 version would bring a resolution to the problem that has existed on PS3 for a year were sorely disappointed and Comcast has yet to offer any satisfactory answer for the lack of support. Customer complaints over the past year since the PS3 got HBO Go have been met with a variety of responses from Comcast. Not technical incompatibilities as a company spokesperson said the issues were up to “business decisions....

“Thanks to our AMAZING community, we’ve crossed the exaFLOP barrier! That’s over 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second, making us ~10x faster than the IBM Summit!,” [email protected] announced on Twitter. — [email protected] (@foldingathome) March 25, 2020 Currently, the cumulative compute performance of systems participating in the project has exceeded 1.5 ExaFLOPS or 1,500,000,000,000,000,000 floating-point operations per second. Launched in 2000, [email protected], a crowdsourced project run by Stanford University brings together citizen scientists around the world who volunteer to run simulations of protein dynamics by using the underutilized GPU and CPU of personal computers of people worldwide to form a crowdsourced supercomputer....

Apparently, two desperate men named Wu and Huang from China, Jiangsu province tried to sell their kidney in order to be able to buy Apple’s latest handset, iPhone 6s. Wu, who was looking to buy the brand new handset did not have the money. So, his friend, Huang, suggested that the two of them sell a kidney to raise funds. The two got in touch with a salesman over the internet asking him to sell the kidneys illegally....

New Android ROM, LineageOS gets popular among OnePlus One users, releases custom ROMs for Google Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, Moto G4 Plus, and moreLineage OS Supported Android smartphones On the bright side, though, there’s a new developer team which stepped into CyanongenMod’s shoes and that team is Lineage OS. The new OS team didn’t waste any time and started releasing ROM builds for many smartphones. One of the ROMs released by LineageOS team was for the One Plus bestseller, One Plus One....

The appropriate section of Sarbanes-Oxley reads as follows: Khairullozhon Matanov, a friend of the Tsarnaev brothers, the Boston Marathon bombers was interviewed by the Federal authorities about his association with them. However, the federal authorities never accused him for any activity linked to the bombing nor have they said that he was having knowledge of their plans or felt for them. During the interviews, he did however perpetrate a few small lies, of which none had any actual relation to the case....

First, they have been named the Precision 7520 and Precision 7720 and feature screen sizes of 15 and 17 inches respectively. They do not come close to the thinness of Apple’s MacBook Pro, and with all the powerful hardware underneath them, you cannot expect them to. Since these have been labeled as Dell’s workstations, you can either choose to use Intel’s 7th generation Kaby Lake processors or Xeon E3 1505M or 1535M CPUs....

For the unversed, Discord is mostly used by gamers all across the globe to communicate with other gamers while playing games. Thanks to useful features like Keybinds, Priority Speaker, and YouTube / Twitch Integration, Discord has become one of the best VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) applications. However, according to a new report by 9To5Google, Discord users on Android have been reporting issues with the app’s audio on their Bluetooth headsets....

MediaTek had officially launched its deca-core Helio X20 chip for mobile back in May, which features a tri-cluster CPU configuration that included two Cortex A72 clocked at 2.5GHz and eight Cortex A53 cores, of which four clocked at 2.0GHz and four at 1.4GHz. After its launch, the Helio X20 had caused a bit of a stir many questioning its performance, consumption of energy and even the theoretical multi-core use cases of MediaTek’s latest design choice....

Shedding more light on Neuralink’s progress at an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Musk said it has plans to insert highly flexible brain reading “threads” into the brain that would link a human brain directly to a computer to detect the activity of neurons. According to Musk, the technology will help “solve brain disorders of all kinds” and let humans merge with artificial intelligence (AI). The chip called “N1 sensor” sits outside the head and will wirelessly receive information from “threads” embedded in the brain....

The incident was first reported by the English-language Ukrainian news site UNIAN. The episode occurred took place in July at the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant at Yuzhnoukrainsk, in southern Ukraine. The employees installed several bitcoin mining equipment at one of the plant’s administrative buildings to take advantage of the uninterruptible electricity from the local grid as well as the plant’s internet connectivity. By doing so, they unintentionally disclosed information on the site’s security arrangements at the nuclear facility....

For those unaware, Epic Games had filed a lawsuit against Apple in August 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, related to Apple’s practices in the iOS App Store. Epic Games specifically had challenged Apple’s restrictions on apps from having other in-app purchasing options outside of the one provided by the App Store. Apple typically takes a 15% to 30% revenue cut of gross sales on each purchase made in the App Store, which was challenged by Epic Games’ founder Tim Sweeney....

Somebody used the Twitter account of 2UE News and tweeted a text saying It is believed that this tweet was a work of a disgruntled ex-employee of the network following the sackings of high profile staff as a result of the Macquarie/Fairfax Radio Network merger. The news company however says that the ROGUE tweet is a random hack rather than an act of revenge by a former employee. The alert security team of 2UE removed the tweet 11 minutes after it was posted but not before many noticed it...

ESA scientists are now worried because a recent study reveals that though the space debris that can be detected by radar do not pose much threat to other spacecrafts however the smaller space debris, that are non detectable by radar, are the ones that are hazardous to the future missions and spacecrafts. Hugh Lewis said it is essential to understand these objects and added: “Even though many of these objects will be no bigger than the ball in a ballpoint pen, they can disable a spacecraft in a collision because of their enormous speed....

The Pirate Bay Keeps Crashing and Giving CloudFlare Error After ExtraTorrent.cc ShutdownMore Torrent website shutdowns to come? ExtraTorrent shuts down permanently; Top 3 alternatives The problem is somewhat aggravated by the sudden spurt of ExtraTorrent clones and proxies which are filled with malware, adware and viruses. Torrent users prefer the cleaner and safer TPB to these clones and as such are flocking to TPB resulting in users getting constant errors when browsing TPB....

The EZTV takedown hit the torrent fans hard as EZTV specialises in TV torrents. But fortunately for EZTV, its crew had managed to recover several servers after the raids and takedowns, which they used today to restart the services and serve the latest TV torrents again. EZTV crew told TorrentFreak that getting the entire site up and running was a difficult challenge but they have successfully completed it today. With it being up, torrent fans seem to queuing up for their fresh dose of TV shows....

In other words, users are watching about 12 minutes of video per day on Facebook on an average. The numbers disclosed on Wednesday only reflect plays from Facebook’s native video player confirmed a Facebook spokesperson. These numbers represent people who click on other third-party sites or YouTube to watch videos that are not included in their news feeds. While those numbers might appear a lot, people spend 12 minutes pales in comparison to the 40 minutes on average in watching videos on YouTube from their mobile devices....