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“This important new capability will allow researchers to acquire high resolution – high frame rate video to provide new insight into the vast array of experiments taking place every day,” NASA wrote on their YouTube page. “It will also bestow the most breathtaking views of planet Earth and space station activities ever acquired for consumption by those still dreaming of making the trip to outer space.” NASA is partnering with Harmonic, a worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure, to launch the new channel, called NASA TV UHD, the first ever non-commercial consumer ultra-high definition (UHD) channel in North America....

Starting Tuesday, Netflix subscribers can play five mobile games everywhere: Stranger Things: 1984 (BonusXP), Stranger Things 3: The Game (BonusXP), Shooting Hoops (Frosty Pop), Card Blast (Amuzo & Rogue Games), and Teeter Up (Frosty Pop). Tomorrow, Netflix Games will start rolling out on the Netflix mobile app. First on Android, with iOS on the way. It’s early days, but we’re excited to start bringing you exclusive games, with no ads, no additional fees and no in-app purchases....

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A team of researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new type of radio frequency identification (RFID) chip that is virtually impossible to hack according to them. The chip if introduced by credit card companies will prevent your credit card number or key card information from being stolen. The chip prevents so-called side-channel attacks, which analyses patterns of memory access or fluctuations in power usage when a device is performing a cryptographic operation, in order to extract its cryptographic key....

The malware discovered four days ago is part of the spyware family and is designed to take a screenshot of the user’s desktop every 30 seconds. It then saves them to a temporary folder in the JPEG format using the extension .sst. If the screenshot cannot be saved as a JPEG, Ekocms attempts to save it in the BMP image format. In most cases, screenshot files are always saved to the same two folders, but if the folders don’t exist, the trojan will create its own when needed....

OS X security researcher has discovered a new way to to overwrite the firmware and take control of almost all Macs which are more than a year older. The attack, which Vilaca has posted on his blog, affects Macs shipped prior to the middle of 2014 that are allowed to go into sleep mode. Vilaca has written a script to reflash a Mac’s BIOS using functionality contained in userland. Userland is a boot up part of Mac OS where all applications and drivers are executed....

Based on the latest NVMe specification (up to version 1.4), these SD 8.0 cards can deliver a maximum data transfer rate of nearly 4 gigabytes per second (GB/s) or 3,940 Mbps with PCI Express (PCIe) 4.0 architecture. They are also backwards-compatible with old card readers that use previous specifications. “By dramatically increasing the speeds for SD Express we’re giving device manufacturers and system developers more storage choices,” said SD Association President Hiroyuki Sakamoto....

Researcher Mai-Ly Steers presented her research on the topic in the article, “Seeing Everyone Else’s Highlight Reels: How Facebook Usage is Linked to Depressive Symptoms,” published in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. To research how social comparison to peers on Facebook impact one’s psychological health, Steers conducted two studies for the same. The result of these studies revealed that users went into depression when they compared their lives with others....

Google has released the latest version of its OS Android and here are some quick facts to get started with it. Fine Tuned App PermissionsNow on Tap is the future Nevertheless,here are some points to be taken into consideration before moving on to Marshmallow for a smoother user experience. Fine Tuned App Permissions In the latest OS,user will have an option to grant only specific permissions to the app out of all asked....

In a server-side update to the Microsoft Edge browser (first noticed by Windows Latest), the company has pushed a new RTM (Release To Manufacturing) build 17134.1 to all rings of the Windows Insider program. The new welcome page reads: “Welcome to the April update. This Windows 10 update contains a lot of new features. Start here,” which suggests that the “Windows 10 April Update” could be the name of the next update....

Moving further in this direction, Nintendo has now sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Connecticut based U.S. company ‘Logistics Consulting LLC’ that offered to install SX devices into customers’ Switch consoles, according to Ars Technica. According to Ben Van Rheen, the founder of Logistics Consulting LLC, the company only offered a “Nintendo Switch SX CORE SX LITE Mod Chip Service” on its website for $60, which is “NOT for the purchase of the Nintendo Switch SX CORE or SX LITE mod....

Currently, debuting at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Sensorwake, takes a vastly different approach to getting your attention when it’s time to wake up. Thanks to the “timed release of an aroma of your choice”, the clock uses smell instead of sound to wake you. Sensorwake is a Paris-based startup that has become part of an incubation program with Google France after winning a Google Science Fair competition....

The social media platforms including the popular cross platform mobile messaging service, WhatsApp went into a tizzy on Sunday with leaked nude images and videos of actor Preeti Gupta being circulated widely. According to the reports, leaked videos and images feature Preeti Gupta’s “nude scenes” and “lesbian kissing scenes” from a banned film called Unfreedom. The film was banned last month by the censor boards of India for having explicit sexual content and has not been released anywhere....

Based on Nvidia’s new Pascal graphics architecture, the Quadro P6000 uses a GPU with 3,840 processing cores. It can reach 12 teraflops (TFlops) of computing performance, or twice as quick as the earlier generation. The new platform for designers, artists and animators at the SIGGRAPH Graphics Technology Conference was revealed by Nvidia in Anaheim, California. The company says the new workstation GPU and new enhancements in software will allow professionals to work quicker and with superior creativity....

Researchers at Nvidia have developed an unsupervised learning method for computers, which enables them to make changes in video content. Using this technique, the researchers were able to produce some amazing results. Earlier, AI tools required massive amounts of data in order to process comparison between the content. However, based on automated learning, it was quite difficult to train the machines to find their own patterns. For example, super-resolution can be considered as a problem of mapping a low-resolution image to a corresponding high-resolution image; colorization can be considered as a problem of mapping a gray-scale image to a corresponding color image....

The chipmaker is rumored to announce its new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti graphics cards on May 31st at 10 P.M. PDT during the Computex 2021 keynote. Powered by Ampere GA102-225 GPU, the RTX 3080 Ti will feature the PG132-SKU18 PCB design. It will reportedly include 12GB of GDDR6X memory, which is a 2GB increase over the existing RTX 3080. The graphic card will sport 10,240 CUDA cores within a total of 80 SM units along with a wider 384-bit memory interface....

What is an optical illusion? An optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality. The information gathered by the eye is processed in the brain to give a perception that does not tally with a physical measurement of the stimulus source. There are three main types: literal optical illusions that create images that are different from the objects that make them, physiological illusions that are the effects of excessive stimulation of a specific type (brightness, colour, size, position, tilt, movement), and cognitive illusions, the result of unconscious inferences....

However, it looks like the software company is not ready to hang its boots yet. On July 6, Oracle filed a motion in San Francisco U.S. District Court again asking the same judge that threw the decision out back in May, to chuck the verdict. The company referred to the case law suggesting use is not legal if the user “exclusively acquires conspicuous financial rewards” from its use of the copyrighted material....

It’s not long since KissAnime shut down its operation in August this year and now HorribleSubs. Sharing the news on HorribleSubs’s homepage, the farewell message reads, “HorribleSubs began more than a decade ago providing subtitles for anime. We have grown way beyond what was originally imagined. But… as the cliché saying goes, all good things must eventually come to an end. This was a hard decision to make for the team, but the truth is, our real life responsibilities have been growing, especially in the times of COVID-19....