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For those unaware, DeX is a docking station for the Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+ and Galaxy Note 8 smartphones that allows you to plug the device to an external display, power, Ethernet, and USB devices, which in turn offer users an Android-based desktop-like experience. Until now, Galaxy S8/S8+ and Note 8 users have been able to run Android apps in this desktop environment using DeX, but now the users will be able to convert their device into a GNU/Linux PC....

Last week the US defence force announced that it has given a paralysed man the ability to ‘feel’ physical sensations through a prosthetic robotic hand that’s been directly connected to his brain. Having been paralysed for more than a decade due to a spinal cord injury, the man was able to identify when and which of his prosthetic fingers was being gently touched by an object – and all while blindfolded....

A team of 11 geologists submitted their findings in a paper known as “Zealandia: Earth’s Hidden Continent” in Geological Society of America, and claimed Zealandia to be recognised as the world’s eighth continent in its own right. “Based on various lines of geological and geophysical evidence, particularly those accumulated in the last two decades, we argue that Zealandia is not a collection of partly submerged continental fragments but is a coherent 4....

“This is science fiction coming to life,” Daniel Weiss, a lung regeneration specialist at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, told the New Scientist. The secret to building a living, functioning, artificial limb starts with a dead one. Ott and his team built the leg using a technique called decellularization, which involves stripping living cells from the limbs of dead donors (in this case, other rats) to expose their “scaffolds” — all of the inert, non-living parts....

“SEANux POWER UP… YOUR PERFORMANCE”, says the slogan of Syrian Electronic Army’s newly released Linux operating system. Demo video released by SEA What is a Linux Distribution? A Linux distribution is an operating system made as a collection of software based around the Linux kernel and often around a package management system. Most distributions come ready to use and pre-compiled for a specific instruction set, while others are distributed in source code form and compiled locally during installation....

It took Aftenposten two months to get the full report of this fake base station and spying story. Through this two months Aftenposten journalists surveyed and revealed an extensive network of secret base stations in Oslo. After discovering the possibility of having NSA hearing stations in central Oslo and in the area near the Norway’s Parliament building, the journalist then contacted the security agencies to track the exact locations of the fake base stations....

Kotlin and Mozilla-developed Rust emerged as the most-loved programming languages, according to Stack Overflow’s 2018 developer survey. For the first time, the coders were asked about the Java-friendly Kotlin by Stack Overflow. The reason probably could be because of the full support that Google gave it in the Android Studio integrated development environment last year. This week, Kotlin was rated as the second-fastest growing language after Apple’s Swift for iOS and macOS app development, by RedMonk, a developer analyst firm....

Commenting on the recent news, StartPage CEO Robert Beens said: “We are not the only ones disturbed by Yahoo’s lack of openness about major privacy violations. Even though Ixquick.eu can’t be affected by Yahoo’s government ties because of our strict privacy protections and our location outside US jurisdiction, we no longer feel comfortable partnering with them.” He added, “We can no longer have confidence in them.” Beens expects that while his company is the first to part ways with Yahoo, others will likely follow suit....

Chronic depression can lead to shrinking of Hippocampus, region of the brain that is associated with memory and emotionsFindings of the survey: Based on the findings of this study, researchers ultimately concluded that brain damage is a consequence of recurrent depression and is not based on any predisposing or prerequisite factor as per their earlier belief. Earlier, scientists were able link some of the brain shrinkage to depression; however there was a lack of evidence because of small sample size, a variance in types of depression as well as the corresponding treatment methods which all led to conflicting results....

Github is an enormous developer community which does not request gender information from its 12 million users. On GitHub, women’s contributions actually outnumber men’s—as long as they don’t actually identify themselves as women. The study conducted by a team of six computer science researchers, which consisted of students and assistant professors at North Carolina State University and Cal Polytech State University, California, examined how gender impacts the acceptance of contributions on the open source code repository site GitHub....

“With this security hole, it’s possible to eavesdrop on traffic without being detected. We discovered this in our theoretical calculations, and our colleagues in Stockholm were subsequently able to demonstrate it experimentally,” says Jan-Åke Larsson, professor at Linköping University’s Division of Information Coding. Many research groups around the world are working to make quantum cryptography unaffected to various types of disturbance, and so far it has been possible to handle the disturbance that has been detected....

Since technology has reached a point where you can place a small camera sensor at the rear side of a smartphone without it making the mobile device appear too bulky, Samsung has been able to take advantage of this. Coming to the modular camera, it looks like the design in the images shows that the lens of the camera can be interchanged with improved ones, particularly those which have a zoom functionality....

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player AndroidL did this and tricked over 3000 cheaters into getting banned by releasing ingenious fake hacks. AndroidL created free to download hacks that advertised a variety of services, including an aimbot, bunnyhop and wallhacks for use in Valve’s hugely popular competitive first-person shooter. As soon as the cheaters got the opportunity, they started downloading AndroidL’s hacks. But unknown to the cheaters, AndroidL slipped in features that would ensure a sure shot Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) ban....

Discovered by an Iranian web developer, Pouya Darabi earlier this month, the vulnerability resides in Facebook’s new Poll feature. He quickly reported the bug to Facebook on November 3, which was patched by them on November 5. Darabi in return received a $10,000 bounty from Facebook for preventing potential damage to both users as well as the social media giant’s reputation in general. Earlier this month, Facebook had launched a new Poll feature for posting polls that include images and GIF animations....

Apple, the biggest phone manufacturer had developed its own operating system called iOS and released in 2007, while Google brought Android in 2008, after it started to gain popularity with Google’s search engine. Considering that Google’s mobile platform is the largest in the world when it comes to market share, it is sad to know that Android users have to wait to get some apps and games after they are made available to iOS users....

The highly realistic-looking robot child named “Affetto” unveiled first in 2011 has now been incorporated with an artificial synthetic skin that allows it to detect changes in pressure. It can feel and distinguish between a light touch or a hard hit. The team behind the robot said that this would help robots understand emotional and physical pain like human beings. The group of scientists from Osaka University, led by Professor Minoru Asada, explained: “Engineers and material scientists have developed a new tactile sensor and attached it to a child robot called Affetto that has a realistic face and body skeleton covered in artificial skin....

But one such server is running since 1993 and has completed almost 24 years of life without a breakdown. This Stratus fault tolerant server was first booted in 1993 and has been running non-stop.Phil Hogan, an IT application architect working with steel products maker Great Lakes Works EGL in Dearborn Mich first booted up this brand-new Stratus Technologies fault tolerant server. While a lot may have changed since 1993 but the Stratus has been running like an old war horse....

Right now Netflix allows you to download some select videos using Android smartphone or iPhone. The Free Netflix Downloader takes Netflix video download forward by letting you download any Netflix video of your choice. Free Netflix Downloader has been developed by DVDVideoSoft and is available only for Windows run PC/laptops currently but the developers say that the Linux and Mac version will be coming soon. Free Netflix Downloader has a very easy to use interface which allows even a noob to download the videos....

Having said this, it may take a while for Microsoft to bring a more modern and desirable form and consistency in Windows 10, but an enterprising UI designer and a YouTuber has already reimagined the look and feel of Windows in a concept video called Introducing Windows 20 (Concept by Advan). Kamer Kaan Avdan, a Turkish designer, in his concept video posted on YouTube has met all the expectations of Windows 10 users by demonstrating how the Windows 10 successor, Windows 20 would look like....

Top 10 Linux GUI tools that can make life much easier for a Linux administrator1. MySQL Workbench2. cPanel3. Shorewall4. Webmin5. Apache Directory6. YaST7. Cockpit8. CUPS9. Zenmap10. phpMyAdmin In the recent times, many organizations have migrated from Windows, where everything is regulated with a point-and-click GUI. Thankfully, Linux has plenty of GUI tools that can help you keep away from the command line. Linux-based security tools and distributions can be used for penetration testing, reverse engineering, forensics and so on....