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MIT Media Lab already demonstrated DuoSkin’s capability in three different ways that functions as inputs, outputs and communication devices. The input devices can be used as a trackpad, a button or a slider to control mobile devices and computers or adjust the volume of a music system. Output devices display data such as changing colors based on your body temperature or what emotions you are feeling. Finally, the communication devices can keep data in your tattoo that phones and other NFC-enabled devices can read....

You already know NASA, the space exploration arm of United States. From time to time NASA engineers write their own program for air and spacecraft design, business optimization, systems interaction and biomedical applications. Most of these programs are open source and have been made available to general public for free use. NASA rolled out the third installment of the software. The newly released NASA 2017-2018 software catalog comes both in hard copy and offline format....

First four astronauts for NASA’s commercial spaceflight with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Boeing selectedRobert Behnken, Eric Boe, Douglas Hurley and Sunita Williams are the four astronauts chosen by NASA which says “are blazing a new trail, a trail that will one day land them in the history books” Astronauts Bob Behnken, Eric Boe, Doug Hurley and Sunita Williams aka “Suni” are the chosen ones who have previously flown on the Space Shuttle to the International Space Station (ISS) and thus have enough space flight experience....

The primary website of Nato https://www.nato.int/, the website of its cyber defence center https://www.ccdcoe.org/ and the website of NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly https://www.nato-pa.int/ were the premier NATO websites that were brought down with a concerted Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack . Nato.int and cccoe.org are still down at the writing of this article. A Ukrainian Hacker group going under the handle of “Cyber Berkut” claimed responsibility of the attack. A statement issued by them on their website read, NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu confirmed on Twitter that the NATO websites were indeed down for several hours from what’s known as distributed denial-of-service attacks....

According to the police, Earl Valentine is on the run after shooting his ex-wife and son and posting a video of the same. The police said that Valentine kicked in the back door of his ex-wife’s house and shot her, then his son in the chest. The 15-year-old boy, who called 911, died while talking to the operator. Keisha Valentine, his ex-wife, is in critical, but stable condition. “I’ve been in law enforcement 20 years and I’ve never seen anything like this, this guy is bragging about it on social media....

Anywhere where there is movement on Earth, friction is present, and this can affect objects in a lot of ways. It causes heat, that is why when people rub their hands together they warm up. Friction can also down object, for example, car brakes use friction to reduce speed. This leads to general wear and tear, which is why drivers have to replace their tires and brake pad very often....

Fruitfly According to reports, Apple has released a patch for the malware termed Fruitfly. However, newer variants of the malware have already emerged. In an analysis by Patrick Wardle, chief security of Synack and former NSA hacker, Fruitfly was found to be in development for years, yet it works well on newer versions of MacOS and it also deploys a Command & Control server that directs the malware on what should be done on the affected machine....

While Boston Dynamics calls this the “next generation” of ATLAS, it seems to be a huge technological leap forward that it’s more like a completely different species. According to Boston Dynamics, the new Atlas is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated. The company says the new robot uses sensors in its body and legs to balance and has other sensors in its head to avoid obstacles and navigate. Atlas is 5’9” (175 cms) tall and weighs 180 lbs (81 kg)....

While Nokia 9 has been able to keep Nokia fan lovers on the edge with the constant rumor mill surrounding it, the device was recently spotted on the benchmarking website GFXBench. According to the listing, the upcoming handset will be running Google’s latest operating system, Android 8.0 Oreo and not the Android 7.1.1 Nougat out-of-the-box as suggested by previous reports. This news should not come as a surprise as HMD had already confirmed an Oreo update for all its existing devices with the operating system being pushed to Android Open Source Project (AOSP)....

Also, Motorola’s Moto G (2nd Gen) is currently being offered at a discounted rate in India. The smartphone initially launched with a price of Rs. 12,999. Although, there have been rare price cuts, this is the first time that the smartphone has had its price permanently decreased. The Moto G (2 Gen) can be seized for only Rs. 9,999, which is Rs. 3,000 less the original price of Rs. 12,999 on Flipkart....

Since half a year it has got some slight changes like skin tone emoji’s. Now users can even manage their profile photo and status using this web interface. However, you will be getting an alternative to update your photo. An edit symbol appears next to status and lets you to share all with your contacts. Some UI tweaks have also been integrated in this update. The update comes from the server side; you will not need to do anything apart from opening your web browser....

According to the posts posted on Reddit and other social networks, including Microsoft’s support page, some users were complaining about issues such as picture freezing in gaming apps, audio failures, and picture distortions due to significant drops in CPU usage after installing the Windows 11 2022 Update. After user complaints became viral, NVIDIA acknowledged the problem and said that they were investigating the issue. Now, the leading manufacturer of high-end graphics processing units (GPUs), has released a beta GeForce Experience (GFE) update with version 3....

Joshua Peters, a U.S. Air Force veteran and a avid gamer, who lives in St. Cloud, Minnesota, was playing browser games on Wednesday when he fell victim to an apparent “swatting” prank. Swatting is the practice where a prank phone call is placed to the police with false bait information, base on which they then respond with the deployment of SWAT team or armed officers at the target of the swatter....

Open source tool called Gitrob trawls the Github repositories for sensitive dataHow it works Henriksen was tasked by SoundCloud to come up with creating a system that will constantly check the company’s GitHub organizations (i.e. repositories) for unintentionally leaked sensitive information. Henrikson did just that. He has developed an open source, command line tool that can be used for occasional checks of the same nature both by companies’ security personnel and by professional penetration testers looking for an easy way into a target organizations’ networks....

The layoffs were first reported by The Information last month where the publication revealed that Oracle was considering layoffs in its global workforce in August, as a part of a $1 billion cost-cutting proposal. While the current report does not mention the number of employees affected in the U.S., the layoff at Oracle will affect employees at its offices in the San Francisco Bay Area. According to Bloomberg, the layoff affected everyone ranging from a junior sales associate to a divisional sales director, in the U....

There is nothing new about the combination of fully-integrated touch screen mobile phones and haptic feedback. This concept was invented by BlackBerry years ago when it released the BlackBerry Storm in 2008. Featuring the company’s “SurePress” technology with haptic feedback, the Storm was BlackBerry’s (then Research in Motion) first touchscreen device without a physical keyboard. Neither of the other touchscreen devices including iPhone, the HTC G1 and Palm Pre that were available in the market at that time offered tactile feedback....

Both the companies did not show off much in the way of gameplay, but one may guess that the app will be free to download, with in-app purchases for additional content. The players can also purchase an optional Go Plus wearable that runs on Bluetooth and pairs with both Android and iOS. The Go Plus looks like a Pokeball flashes and vibrates notifying you that something is happening in the game in your neighborhood....

With over a billion of visitors every month, people visit YouTube to view the original content uploaded by its contributors. On the other hand, with great power comes great responsibility and for YouTube that means making the advertisers happy. Therefore, YouTube has rules in place over what kind of content can be monetized, for which it received criticism lately. In short, if you are unable to make content that is almost entirely “appropriate for all audiences,” (without references to drugs, violence, and sex, for instance), your content is at risk of making no money....

Well, this time around the PUBG news might sound interesting to people who own a budget-oriented or mid-range smartphone. Tencent games just launched PUBG Mobile Lite in India. So here’s everything you need to know about the lite variant of PUBG. PUBG Mobile Lite: Features PUBG Mobile Lite is a toned-down version of the full PUBG Mobile game for android. This game requires around 500mb of storage for installation and it can even run on smartphones with 1GB RAM....