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For the uninitiated, Aarogya Setu is India’s COVID-19 contact tracing app whose purpose is to spread awareness of COVID-19 and notify people if they have come into contact with a coronavirus infected person. The app is available for Android as well as iOS mobile operating systems. It should be noted that the Centre government has made downloading of the contact tracing app mandatory only for those employed in the government and private sectors....

According to AdAge, the “Free to Watch” section was added to the “Movies & Shows” section in October. However, there is no “Free to Watch” section for TV shows yet. “We saw this opportunity based on user demand, beyond just offering paid movies. Can we do ad-supported movies, free to the user?” Rohit Dhawan, YouTube’s director of product management, told AdAge. “It also presents a nice opportunity for advertisers.” YouTube hasn’t disclosed the deals it has made with studios and advertisers....

The behind-the-scenes NSA concerns, which have not been reported previously and only discovered as a result of the Snowden leak, could be relevant as Congress decides whether to renew or modify the phone records collection when the law authorizing it expires in June. After the program was disclosed, it was obvious to argue, saying the records could give a secret intelligence agency a road map to Americans’ private activities. NSA officials presented a forceful rebuttal that helped shaped public opinion....

A team of hackers lead by Michael Ossman, a wireless security researcher and founder of Great Scott Gadgets, have created their own version of the surveillance kit. It involves a circuit board, transceiver and a cover – total of $20 (£13). They put a radio-frequency implant inside a USB stick called TURNIPSCHOOL. The team demonstrated it at SchmooCon, Washington at over the weekend. NSA uses a covert surveillance device in a USB stick called Cottonmouth-I ....

Latest Nvidia AI transforms 2D snapshots to 3D render According to Nvidia, it has named its tool as Instant NeRF or neural radiance fields that the folks at UC San Diego, Google Research, and UC Berkeley developed back in 2020. Latest Nvidia AI transforms 2D snapshots to 3D renderNvidia’s Instant NeRF applications Instant NeRF contemplatest color and light intensity on each 2D shot and maps it out on a 3D space thereby rendering a 3D image thanks to the snapshots captured with different vantage points....

According to NVIDIA, the RTX 3080 Ti is the new flagship gaming GPU of the GeForce RTX family. The RTX 3080 Ti features the GA102-225 graphics chip containing 10240 CUDA Cores, 80 RT cores, 112 ROPs, and 320 Tensor cores. It is clocked at 1,440 MHz base and 1,665 MHz boost and can draw up to 350 watts of power. Further, the RTX 3080 Ti is equipped with 12 GB of GDDR6X VRAM memory on a 384-bit wide bus and aims for a bandwidth of 912GB/s....

Operated by the Swiss National Supercomputer Centre CSCS in Lugano, it will have its 7.8 petaflop current performance doubled to nearly 16 petaflops. This is not the only upgrades that are going to be present in the Large Hadron Collider. Piz Daint’s CPUs will also receive a CPU upgrade; from Intel Sandy Bridge to the Haswell architecture. Perhaps the primary reason why the second generation of Intel processors are going to be replaced by the company’s 4th gen of chips is because the tasks carried out are most likely GPU intensive and might not require that much power from the CPUs....

1. Smartphone and Tablet Repair Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last decade, and you haven’t, you’ve noticed that no matter where you look, everyone has their noses stuck to their devices. People even pay more attention to their smartphones or tablets than their walking and driving, which really isn’t a good idea. You may be tempted to shout, “Look up! Enjoy the beautiful day!” but what if you could others’ obsessions into your pot of gold?...

Complaints on OnePlus forums, Reddit, and XDA’s forums suggests that several OnePlus device owners are noticing a weird issue that reverses the audio channels of wired headphones. In other words, the strange bug on the smartphone is causing the left side audio of the headphone to come from the right side and the right one from the left side. While this is not a big issue while listening, the audio bug does, however, cause inconvenience while playing some games and videos....

The terrorists used either new phones or phones that were taken from their victims in order to communicate with each other. And the terrorists discarded all of them, with one attacker activating a phone less than an hour before he carried out a suicide attack, according to the report. The newest details revealed by the NY Times also about how at least nine suspects planned and carried out the attacks....

Technology and communications specialist Verizon described the hack in its annual data breach post mortem released on Tuesday. According to the report, “Rather than spending days holding boats and their crew hostage while they rummaged through the cargo, these pirates began to attack shipping vessels in an extremely targeted and timely fashion. Specifically, they would board a shipping vessel, force the crew into one area and within a short amount of time they would depart....

Mathpix App for iOS devices uses image recognition technology to solve math equation. With Mathpix lets you point your phone camera at a problem and calculates solutions in seconds. Do note that since, it uses image recognition to process problems and pings its servers to do the mathematical heavy lifting, so it likely requires an internet connection to work. Mathpix was developed by Stanford PhD student Nico Jimenez, who was advised by Stanford grad Paul Ferrell....

According to The Korea Times (via GameInformer), the Korea-based PUBG Corp had filed a lawsuit way back in January with the Seoul Central District Court against the Korean unit of “Fortnite” developer Epic Games alleging that the latter copied “Fortnite” from “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” (PUBG). “We filed the suit to protect our copyright in January,” a PUBG official informed the Korea Times to determine whether Fortnite has copied PUBG. The company last Friday requested an injunction at the Seoul Central District Court, hoping to stop the alleged infringement....

According to the company, the Qualcomm Smart Protect hardware-based tool is not as the same as conventional anti-virus apps that thoroughly goes through and searches for known threats collected by the manufacturer. Any new malware, which is not in the antivirus app’s known list of threats, can go past the security check process and enter the device. On the other hand, the Smart Protect detects zero-day malware threats in real time and alerts the user to take necessary measures....

The new DDR5 module has been designed to orchestrate the most extreme compute-hungry, high-bandwidth workloads in supercomputing, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), as well as data analytics applications. Samsung’s new DDR5 memory module is claimed to deliver more than twice the performance of DDR4 at up to 7,200 megabits per second (Mbps). It utilizes the highly advanced HKMG technology that has been traditionally used in logic semiconductors. Due to the continued scaling down of DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) structures, the insulation layer has thinned, leading to a higher leakage current....

Samsung had in January, 2016, filed a patent suggesting that the company was working on a smartphone with foldable display tech. In a call with investors in January, director of Samsung’s Display division Lee Chang-hoon said “Development of Foldable OLED is taking place according to our plan…We are planning on mass-production and release this product by discussing without partners.” It seems that Chang-hoon was speaking about a foldable device which it had patented in January, 2016....

The Galaxy S7 has some of the latest, fastest, and most powerful specs in a smartphone, which means that the entire horsepower would create more heat than usual. To prevent overheating, Samsung has deployed a liquid cooling system to the Galaxy S7. “For the first time Samsung has established within the smartphone heat-conducting copper tube for cooling. The new chip Exynos 8890 is not only powerful, but also hot!” the blog says....

These leaks were revealed via @onleaks. It seems like the Galaxy Tab S2 features a physical home button (which may also work as a fingerprint sensor), with the power and volume buttons on the right hand side. In addition, the microSD and SIM-card slots are also on the right side of the tablet. The recent leaks also hint that the Galaxy Tab S2 will be offered in 8-inch and 9....

Recently scientists had developed new advanced prototype of contact lenses that could give the wearer a more clear vision than earlier. What’s more, the advanced prototype will also the user to zoom in and out with normal and 3x magnification. The lens so developed will prove a boon to thousands of elderly people suffering from vision loss, both far and near sighted. The prototype lenses, presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Jose, California, contain tiny aluminium telescopes that would interact with a pair of specially designed glasses to allow you to toggle between normal and ‘zoomed in’ viewing....