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Fuel from the air : Scientists developing technology to turn Carbon Dioxide in the air into fuelScientists in Canada are mounting an industrial carbon dioxide recycling plant that could one day suck CO2 out of the atmosphere and convert it into a zero-carbon e-diesel fuel. Developed by tech start-up Carbon Engineering and partly funded by Bill Gates, the system will basically do the job of trees, but in places unable to host them, such as icy plains and deserts....

Xperia E4g has a 4.7 inch qHD Display and is powered by a MediaTek MT6732 chipset with quad-core processor clocked at 1.5 GHz. It is powered by 1GB RAM and has a internal storage of 8GB which can be expanded upto 32GB via microSD expansion slot. For all the creative geniuses out there, Xperia E4g comes with a 5MP rear shooter with LED flash and a 2MP front facing camera which is also capable of recording HD videos....

Sony threatens to take legal action against Twitter over leaked emailsLegal Notice The hackers have used variety of services including Twitter and Pastebin to leak sensitive information stolen from the Sony Pictures corporate network. Twitter has been used in recent times to leak links of the email correspondence between Sony and its stakeholders like employees, stars in its films and others. Sony has taken a strong objection to the use of Twitter for posting links for such emails....

When asked whether 2025 was too short a time frame, to which he replied that nine years “seems like a long time to me”. He added: “I’m hoping to describe that architecture later this year at IAC…and I think that will be quite exciting.” Speaking at the StartmeupHK Festival in Hong Kong this week, Musk said that he had already taken parabolic flights to prepare for space, which simulate weightlessness for about 20 seconds at a time....

Built by Japanese electronics brand imp, the gadget throws a qwerty keyboard on flat surface and emits the original voice of R2-Q5 when in use. The limited edition R2-Q5 Star Wars Droid projector will be available on Star Wars day May 4th, and will cost around £176. Another Version R2-D2 is a little bit cheaper and comes with a very rare difference in functionality

Hello Barbie is being produced by Mattel in collaboration with Toy Talk which is US based Start-up. It is found that kids are more attracted to smarter versions of the toys which can engage with them. Hence, toy makers are busy manufacturing such technologically advanced toys to meet the demands of next gen children. One such toy was Cayla, which was introduced in Nov 2014. This toy uses speech recognition and Google translation tools to operate....

What is Tamagotchi? For those unaware, Tamagotchi is an egg-shaped keychain device featuring an LCD image of an animal-like ‘pet’, which was originally unveiled in November 1996 in Japan and in May 1997 in the rest of the world to challenge users to look after a digital pet without killing it. The name ‘Tamagotchi’ is a portmanteau of the Japanese word for egg and the English word watch. Tamagotchi had a total of 11 characters, which included one baby character, one toddler character, two teen characters, and seven adult characters....

In the tender floated here, the department says interested parties can quote to find weaknesses in its vehicles and trucks. After the recent concerns over car hacking after a reporter was able to hack the Jeep, car hacking seems to have become the latest buzz word. The Canadian military contract will have a hacker analyze the systems of a 2015 light-duty pick-up truck — they’re not releasing specifics on the truck to be hacked....

The tardigrade, also otherwise known as water bears, are nearly indestructible, incredibly unique, eight-legged, microscopic worm-like animals that grow to just over 1mm on average and can be found almost anywhere on our planet. They can withstand temperatures of almost absolute zero, survive space radiation, extreme pressure and can live for more than 10 years without food or water. “We had no idea that an animal genome could be composed of so much foreign DNA,” said co-author of the paper Bob Goldstein from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....

This report provides a route to ensure the development of the National Quantum Initiative Act, which was signed into law by President Trump in December of 2018. “The Department of Energy is proud to play an instrumental role in the development of the national quantum internet,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette. “By constructing this new and emerging technology, the United States continues with its commitment to maintain and expand our quantum capabilities....

Meet, Erik Finman, an 18-year-old high school dropout from Idaho, U.S., who is a bitcoin millionaire and is the owner of a reported 403 Bitcoins. Currently, per bitcoin is valued at $2,622, which puts Erik’s bitcoin amount to $1.06 million, at the time of writing, which could rise or fall in mere hours due to the currency’s extreme unstable nature. He also holds smaller investments in other digital currencies, including litecoin and ethereum....

Donald Trump and FBI Want to Arrest Anonymous for “Hacking and Leaking” Data That’s Been Online Since 2013“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting”“Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance” says Sun Tzu Anonymous used this preamble to Sun Tzu’s Art of War with extreme nicety to fight its cyberwar against Donald Trump and Trump fell for it hook, line and sinker. On Friday, the Anonymous hackers set up a tidy little trap for Trump, his presidential campaign staff, the Secret Service, and the FBI — and they all fell for it....

Windows 1.01 was released in 1985 as one of the first operating systems with a graphical user interface (GUI), and went on to become the foundation for the Microsoft empire that keeps the brand alive today. With limited multitasking abilities and barebones graphics, the operating system sat on top of MS-DOS. Windows 1.01 allowed you to multitask DOS applications through a rudimentary taskbar. Further, Windows 1.01 did come with some classic programs like Notepad, MS Paint and Writer....

Some of the earliest malware that infected an MS-DOS computer is now live at the Internet Archive. So, when Hyponnen learned that the Malware Museum uses an emulator to let you watch the virus written for DOS computers and play it safely, he decided to share his bizarre collection of malware with the world. The destructive parts of the viruses in the collection have been removed from the 5.25-inch floppy disks and tweaked by hand so that all that remains is their visual effects – not their harmful ones....

Cook, CEO of Apple joined Sina Corp.’s Weibo, a Chinese microblogging service similar to Twitter earlier this Monday. The move is an indication of the significance of the Chinese smartphone market to Apple. In other words, the Chinese Apple fans and others will now be able to view information and news about the company on one of China’s largest social networks. As of today, the microblogging service has approximately 200 million active users each month....

Here are top 10 uses of USB OTG (On-The-Go) that you never knew1. Charging your Android smartphone with another smartphone using USB OTG2. Connecting it as a Game Controller for playing games on your Android smartphone3. Connecting Android smartphone to a Camera4. Connecting a portable external Hard Drive to your Android smartphone5. Connecting LAN Cable and accessing Internet on your Android smartphone6. Connecting a sound card or microphone to your Android smartphone7....

Up until yesterday, Twitch wasn’t available on Nintendo Switch. Luckily, that has changed now. The official Twitch app is now available for Nintendo Switch. In a blog post on Thursday, Twitch stated that, “Starting today, all the Twitch goodness you care about from gaming to music, to exciting live esports — it’s all available on your Nintendo Switch. With millions of unique creators every day streaming everything under the sun, if it’s worth watching, it’s live on Twitch right now....

Programming is one of the best career choices for students giving you high paying job openings in tech companies like Google, Facebook, Uber, Oracle etc. Programming can never be drab or dull. It presents newer challenges every day but sometimes it little frustrating especially on coders who suck at typing. One of the basic requirements of coding is typing. If you are a programmer you will by now have typed in countless lines of code....

The military’s six-year-old Cyber Command unit is working to disturb the Islamic State’s ability to communicate with one another, potential recruits online and circulate orders online. The militant branch of the NSA has previously been focused on China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. “We are dropping cyber bombs,” U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert O. Work told the NY Times. “We have never done that before.” The campaign has been conducted by a small number of “national mission teams,” newly created cyber-units loosely based on Special Operations forces....