The Polaroid Cube+ camera measures 1.4 inches square and can be connected to smartphones and tablets via the Polaroid Cube+ app for iOS and Android. Users can control their Cube+ cameras remotely, which will also allow them to transfer the photos and videos that they can edit and share from their phone or tablet directly with their friends online. It does not look like The Cube+ has any upgraded imaging optics....
Michigan police have recently asked the computer scientists at the Michigan State University to produce a 3D model of a fingerprint to unlock a victim’s iPhone and disclose clues that could help solve an open murder case. In other words, they are attempting to make a 3D replica of a dead man’s fingers in order to access his device. The victim’s body was apparently too decayed for a fingerprint to be directly applied to the iPhone, but the police already had a scan of the victim’s fingerprints from when the man was arrested in a previous case....
This PC with a modular, 10 litre eGPU-like design is built around designed around Intel’s Next Unit of Computing (NUC) architecture. It is made out of matte black milled aluminium and lined at the bottom with Razer Chroma RGB. It measures only 210mm x 150mm x 365mm. The Razer Tomahawk N1 chassis will be available as a stand-alone option for gaming enthusiasts and system integrators looking to build out their own custom rig....
For those unfamiliar, the company’s professional cameras have been used to shoot films like “The Martian” starring Matt Damon, “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” “Transformers: The Last Knight” and many others. Dubbed as “Hydrogen One”, the new smartphone comes with a 5.7 inch holographic display that can view and capture multi-dimensional images and runs on Google’s Android OS. According to the company’s press release, the smartphone uses “nanotechnology that seamlessly switches between traditional 2D content, holographic content, 3D content, and interactive games…....
Lead researcher, Dr Robert Maher, UCL Electronic & Electrical Engineering, said in a press release: “While current state-of-the-art commercial optical transmission systems are capable of receiving single channel data rates of up to 100 gigabits per second (Gb/s), we are working with sophisticated equipment in our lab to design the next generation core networking and communications systems that can handle data signals at rates in excess of 1 terabit per second (Tb/s)....
For those unaware, Astra Linux is a Debian-based Linux operating system developed to meet the needs of the Russian army, other armed forces and intelligence agencies. It provides data protection up to the level of “top secret” in Russian classified information grade and has been officially certified by Russian Defense Ministry, Federal Service for Technical and Export Control and Federal Security Service. In fact, Astra Linux distribution was developed by Russian company RusBITech in 2008 for use by Russian private companies but it was later expanded to the local government sector, where it became popular with military contractors....
One of LinkedIn’s possible suitors whom Microsoft beat was the American cloud computing company Salesforce. Perhaps the LinkedIn promoters feared uncertainties of a stock-and-cash deal offered by Salesforce. Now it is revealed that Salesforce was willing to pay much much more than Microsoft. “The email indicated that Party A would have bid much higher and made changes to the stock/cash components of its offers, but it was acting without communications from LinkedIn,” LinkedIn said in the updated filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission....
The quest to release the Galaxy Note 7 before Apple could release its iPhone 7 seems to have backfired big time for Samsung. After there were various reports of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 exploding, the South Korean firm has nearly completed the massive original recall of 2.5 million units. However, just when it seemed that Samsung had managed put a lid on its worst corporate controversy, a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 from the replaced batch has reportedly exploded....
Joo Sun Choi, Executive Vice President, Memory Sales and Marketing, Samsung Electronics has said the following regarding the company’s progress in mass production of large capacity memory chips for high-end mobile devices of the future. Much faster than any version of eMMC, these new flash memory are based on the company’s most advanced V-NAND flash memory chips and a specially-designed high-performance controller. According to the statistical data, the new UFS 2....
The South Korean company, Samsung has announced that it will begin supplying its “Safety Truck” worldwide after four months of reliability testing. While the tech company showed off the first commercial version of the vehicle to the public at a recent press event in La Plata, Argentina, the idea was conceptualised and revealed by Samsung in a blog post last year. In order to assist drivers while attempting to overtake, the company has come up with a neat “video wall” that live-feeds the view ahead of the truck for cars behind....
For those unaware, DeX is a docking station for the Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+ and Galaxy Note 8 smartphones that allows you to plug the device to an external display, power, Ethernet, and USB devices, which in turn offer users an Android-based desktop-like experience. Until now, Galaxy S8/S8+ and Note 8 users have been able to run Android apps in this desktop environment using DeX, but now the users will be able to convert their device into a GNU/Linux PC....
Last week the US defence force announced that it has given a paralysed man the ability to ‘feel’ physical sensations through a prosthetic robotic hand that’s been directly connected to his brain. Having been paralysed for more than a decade due to a spinal cord injury, the man was able to identify when and which of his prosthetic fingers was being gently touched by an object – and all while blindfolded....
A team of 11 geologists submitted their findings in a paper known as “Zealandia: Earth’s Hidden Continent” in Geological Society of America, and claimed Zealandia to be recognised as the world’s eighth continent in its own right. “Based on various lines of geological and geophysical evidence, particularly those accumulated in the last two decades, we argue that Zealandia is not a collection of partly submerged continental fragments but is a coherent 4....
“This is science fiction coming to life,” Daniel Weiss, a lung regeneration specialist at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, told the New Scientist. The secret to building a living, functioning, artificial limb starts with a dead one. Ott and his team built the leg using a technique called decellularization, which involves stripping living cells from the limbs of dead donors (in this case, other rats) to expose their “scaffolds” — all of the inert, non-living parts....
“SEANux POWER UP… YOUR PERFORMANCE”, says the slogan of Syrian Electronic Army’s newly released Linux operating system. Demo video released by SEA What is a Linux Distribution? A Linux distribution is an operating system made as a collection of software based around the Linux kernel and often around a package management system. Most distributions come ready to use and pre-compiled for a specific instruction set, while others are distributed in source code form and compiled locally during installation....
It took Aftenposten two months to get the full report of this fake base station and spying story. Through this two months Aftenposten journalists surveyed and revealed an extensive network of secret base stations in Oslo. After discovering the possibility of having NSA hearing stations in central Oslo and in the area near the Norway’s Parliament building, the journalist then contacted the security agencies to track the exact locations of the fake base stations....
Kotlin and Mozilla-developed Rust emerged as the most-loved programming languages, according to Stack Overflow’s 2018 developer survey. For the first time, the coders were asked about the Java-friendly Kotlin by Stack Overflow. The reason probably could be because of the full support that Google gave it in the Android Studio integrated development environment last year. This week, Kotlin was rated as the second-fastest growing language after Apple’s Swift for iOS and macOS app development, by RedMonk, a developer analyst firm....
Commenting on the recent news, StartPage CEO Robert Beens said: “We are not the only ones disturbed by Yahoo’s lack of openness about major privacy violations. Even though Ixquick.eu can’t be affected by Yahoo’s government ties because of our strict privacy protections and our location outside US jurisdiction, we no longer feel comfortable partnering with them.” He added, “We can no longer have confidence in them.” Beens expects that while his company is the first to part ways with Yahoo, others will likely follow suit....
Chronic depression can lead to shrinking of Hippocampus, region of the brain that is associated with memory and emotionsFindings of the survey: Based on the findings of this study, researchers ultimately concluded that brain damage is a consequence of recurrent depression and is not based on any predisposing or prerequisite factor as per their earlier belief. Earlier, scientists were able link some of the brain shrinkage to depression; however there was a lack of evidence because of small sample size, a variance in types of depression as well as the corresponding treatment methods which all led to conflicting results....
Github is an enormous developer community which does not request gender information from its 12 million users. On GitHub, women’s contributions actually outnumber men’s—as long as they don’t actually identify themselves as women. The study conducted by a team of six computer science researchers, which consisted of students and assistant professors at North Carolina State University and Cal Polytech State University, California, examined how gender impacts the acceptance of contributions on the open source code repository site GitHub....
