The company says its new sensor is capable of distinguishing the lettering on the side of an airplane from 18 km away, i.e., 11.1 miles. APS-H is a sensor size bigger than APS-C but smaller than full-frame and is mainly used on Canon’s legacy EOS-1D line of DSLRs. The sensor has a fast signal readout speed of 1.25 billion pixels a second. Canon says it has good noise performance despite the pixel count....
So, have you ever thought of changing your Android’s Wallpaper into a Live Widget? Well, this is actually possible with an application. Developed by Google Creative Lab, an app “Meter” turns your mobile wallpaper into a real-time statistics display screen. This app is nothing more than a live wallpaper, but it stands out in the level of creativity. With this app installed, you can get notification updates, battery percentage and other network status on your home screen....
The NYT report suggests that President Barack Obama has decided to retaliate against China, specifically due to the extent and nature of the OPM robbery. That said, the White House is still trying to find a way to retaliate against China without sparking the rapidly increasing cyber conflict. The decision was made after the Obama administration deduced that the hacking attack on the OPM was so immense that the customary practices for dealing with traditional spying cases did not apply....
Sadly, someone took advantage of the Cyberpunk 2077 hype train and developed a fake mobile version of the game. In this article, we have shared everything that you need to know about the mobile version of Cyberpunk 2077. Cyberpunk 2077 Mobile: Beware Presently, Cyberpunk 2077 is only available for Google Stadia, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S, and Microsoft Windows. Cyberpunk 2077 Mobile: BewareHow To Play Cyberpunk 2077 On Smartphones?...
Investigative news publication ProPublica thinks it can correct this viewpoint in its own way. On Wednesday, ProPublica became the first known major media outlet to launch a version of its site that runs as a “hidden service” on the Tor network, the anonymity system that powers the thousands of untraceable websites that are sometimes known as the darknet or dark web. ProPublica says that its publication can clear some of the doubts users have about the dark web, “We don’t want anyone to know that you came to us or what you read,” ProPublica‘s web developer Mike Tigas told Wired....
Further, Dell says it will publish a guide to remove the web security backdoor it installed in its Windows laptops and desktop PCs. According to Dell, only the new models from the XPS, Precision and Inspiron families have the the self signed root level rogue CA called eDellRoot installed on them. As of now Dell has not clarified what this eDellRoot certificate can do or why it shipped its PCs/Laptops with the rogue CA....
Knowing the fact that coronavirus lasts on almost every type of surface for long durations and can be easily contracted by touching those surfaces. Hospitals are avoiding the reuse of face masks, personal protective equipment (PPE), thus causing a serious shortage of the same. A Bengaluru (India)-based nanotechnology start-up “Log 9 Materials” came up with the idea of decontaminating device “Coronaoven” that can be used for sanitizing masks, PPE (personal protective equipment) kits and grocery items conveniently that too in less than 10 minutes time....
Albert Einstein once said that his mathematical genius had nothing to do with language: “Words and language, whether written or spoken, do not seem to play any part in my thought processes.” Putting all the debates to rest, now a new study shows that the neural networks used to process mathematics are different from those that are used to process language. The study conducted by researchers from the University Of Paris, France, included 15 high-level mathematicians and 15 high-level academics in other fields who underwent fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) scans....
NASA makes it absolutely clear that the world ending Asteroid impact will NOT take place next monthNASA explained:Some facts about asteroids: The predictions had originated from the prophesy of the much famous Reverend Efrain Rodriguez, who also claimed that on the doomsday, the impact will take place near Puerto Rico which will result in causing “wanton destruction to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States and Mexico, as well as Central and South America”....
According to the company, the service called Passcode Lockout Data Recovery is the first “passcode lockout recovery service” for regular consumers that has a “100 percent success rate,” irrespective of passcode length. The service, priced around $3,900, uses new proprietary technology to recover data from password-locked smart devices that have previously been limited to law enforcement agencies and remained unavailable to the regular consumer. “Utilizing new technology, we have a 100% success rate with unlocking and recovering data from passcode-protected smartphones of every make, model and operating system with any length passcode, including phones and tablets with more complicated passcodes of six digits or more,” reads DriveSavers’ advertising pitch in part....
Seeing as how droneboarding is an evolved variant of snowboarding, the location where you will be practicing the sport will definitely have to take place in an area where there is heavy downpour of snow. On YouTube, a father was successfully able to capture footage of his son tethered to a fully capable drone with the child having a firm grip on the zip line that was attached to aerial machine and his feet planted onto the wakeboard....
The author says he got the information from people who have seen the manuscript of the LIGO paper that will pronounce the discovery. “This is just from talking to people who said they’ve seen the paper, but I’ve not seen the paper itself,” says Clifford Burgess, a theoretical physicist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in nearby Waterloo. “I’ve been around a long time, so I’ve seen rumors come and go....
Of these, 210 are skin tone variants for the multi-person emoji groupings “couples with heart” and “couples kissing”, while the other seven new emoji are: “heart on fire”, “mending heart”, “woman with beard”, “person with beard”, “face exhaling”, “face in clouds”, and “face with spiral eye”. In April this year, Unicode Consortium had decided to postpone the release of Emoji version 14.0 of the Unicode Standard by six months from March to September 2021 due to COVID-19....
“Today we’re excited to launch Ray-Ban Stories: Smart glasses that give you an authentic way to capture photos and video, share your adventures, and listen to music or take phone calls — so you can stay present with friends, family, and the world around you,” Facebook said in an announcement post on Thursday. “At Facebook Reality Labs, our mission is to build tools that help people feel connected, anytime, anywhere....
Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook in a post has disclosed that Facebook’s Connectivity Lab is making a laser communications system that can beam data from the sky into communities to provide cheaper and fast Internet. According to Zuckerberg “This will dramatically increase the speed of sending data over long distances.” In his post, Mark points out that “Normally you wouldn’t be able to see the actual beams, but for this demonstration we made them visible....
The company’s co-founder and chief, Mark Zuckerberg revealed the ongoing tests during a live Q&A session held at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California on Tuesday. “People have asked about the ‘dislike’ button for many years, and probably hundreds of people have asked about this, and today is a special day because today is the day that I actually get to say we are working on it, and are very close to shipping a test of it,” he said....
Facebook in the recent past has been in the news for invasion of privacy of its users. According to a report from Fusion, Facebook shows you “people based on mutual friends, work and education information, networks you’re part of, contacts you’ve imported and many other factors.” If you have got location services enabled for Facebook on your phone, the company can use that data to generate “People You May Know” suggestions, which is partly based on where you are and where you have been....
In an opinion piece in The New York Times on Thursday, Hughes, who co-founded Facebook along with his Harvard roommate Mark Zuckerberg some 15 years ago, called Zuckerberg’s power “unprecedented and un-American.” “Mark is a good, kind person,” Hughes says, “but his focus on growth “led him to sacrifice security and civility for clicks”. He also commented on Zuckerberg’s power within the company as the majority of the Facebook shares owned by him meant that there’s no internal check on his power....
For the second time this year, Zuckerberg’s Pinterest account has been hacked by OurMine again. OurMine is reportedly a group of teenage hackers based in Saudi Arabia who target social media accounts of top Silicon Valley executives in order to ‘raise awareness’ about internet security. It brings out the security flaws in a user’s account by gaining access to them, says OurMine team. Apparently, OurMine mailed folks at CNET who claimed to have hacked Zuckerberg’s Pinterest account....
