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Similarly, the launch of the Emirates Mars Mission marked the Arab world’s foray into interplanetary space travel. And on July 30, we saw NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover finally take off from Florida. For many nations and their people, space is becoming the ultimate frontier. But although we’re gaining the ability to travel smarter and faster into space, much remains unknown about its effects on biological substances, including us. While the possibilities of space exploration seem endless, so are its dangers....

Justice S. Manikumar, said linking Aadhaar to emails or accounts would violate the original ruling from the Supreme Court which allows the IDs use only for government welfare schemes. The high court was responding to two public interest litigations (PIL) filed last year that sought “linking of Aadhaar or any one of the Government authorized identity proof as mandatory for the purpose of authentication while obtaining any email or user account....

Engineers provided the small, cube-shaped robotic attendant with a (fictional) warning of a buildup of carbon dioxide aboard the station. (Such an event in real life could quickly prove dangerous for humans aboard the orbiting outpost). Bumble quickly traveled to an air recirculation vent, identifying the “blockage” — a picture of a sock, standing in for the real thing. The electronic aide-de-camp then called for human assistance in removing the blockage....

Developer Jane Manchun Wong, who often discovers upcoming features through reverse engineering, noticed the feature hiding in the app’s code. It seems to be in an early barebone version but I tried my best to demonstrate how it might work pic.twitter.com/ZrUZZj0TWo — Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) March 19, 2020 Though the feature is currently in barebones form, it appears you are able to enter an ephemeral mode from your Direct Messages....

According to the WHO, to beat TB, a patient must take four antimicrobial drugs for at least six months. But health officials across the globe say that without supervision and support, many TB patients will not finish their medications. “Non-medical drivers of disease such as stigma, access to care challenges, burdensome treatment protocols, and a lack of information, motivation, and support make it difficult for patients to do the right thing and take their medication,” said Jon Rathauser, CEO and founder of Israeli digital health startup Keheala, in a statement on Thursday....

This is the closest visible conjunction of the planets seen since the year 1226, when the empire of Genghis Khan reached its end, and the legend of Robin Hood began to take shape. Come together, right… in about three weeks… Stargazers using telescopes to view this display will delight in seeing Jupiter and Saturn huddling together, in view of their instruments at the same time. Using binoculars or a backyard telescope, it will not only be possible to see the two largest planets in our solar system together but several of their moons as well in this rare planetary alignment....

One day very soon, iTunes will be murdered. And I mean murdered. Tim Cook is gonna get in his dusty truck, and drive to the countryside with iTunes sitting quietly in the back. He’ll coax the beloved piece of software out onto a grass-covered bank, and get it to kneel. “Oh look,” Tim Cook will say softly to iTunes, “there are some rabbits over there.” The software will turn, a smile will light up its beautiful face....

Knowing about what Lean Six Sigma is really isn’t all that hard. A methodology and managerial approach that centers around eliminating waste and variation in a development process is a fairly simple idea to wrap your head around. Of course, implementing and perfecting the Lean Six Sigma process for your own project or business endeavour…well, that’s a whole different story. Knowing what how to guide a project from ideation to completion using the process can be a big career jumpstart — and users can learn all the right moves for making that happen with The Lean Six Sigma Career Advancement Bundle ($39....

It will also get you there at a tremendous discount, with the bundle available for a limited time for 98 percent off the regular price. You’ll get 12 different courses to get you on the way to becoming a Microsoft Excel expert. Over the course of 42 hours of instruction and more than 600 individual lessons, you’ll start with the basics and proceed until you are a master at most everything Excel can do....

If you’ve been quietly going about your business and hoping that the move away from the standard incandescent light bulb toward light-emitting diode (LED) models would somehow change course, we hate to break it to you, but…it’s not gonna happen. After slowly infiltrating the lighting market over the past 20 years, LEDs now represent close to half of all light sources in the world today. By 2030, that number is expected to top 87 percent....

Here’s some even better news: there are multiple cities and regions across Europe where a cybersecurity professional can locate — or relocate — to nurture a flourishing career in this rapidly growing sector. As we accelerate our cloud adoption and do more of our banking and shopping online, the potential for malicious actors to access our data increases; therefore the need for qualified, talented cybersecurity professionals increases exponentially too. Legislation, such as the European Cybersecurity Act and GDPR, have also raised demand for security professionals across the bloc, as has the rise in cyberattacks against businesses....

We’re all in agreement. Drones are cool. And with everybody wanting to get their hands on the controls of these awesome big-kid toys, the variety of drone options is quickly becoming as vast as the sky itself. Top-end models for deep pocketed pilots can rival the price of a used car. But if you’re like the rest of us, just looking to get into drone flying with a quality, easy to use craft at a reasonable price, the Ryze Tech Tello Quadcopter Powered by DJI is turning some heads....

At this stage, you probably have one of two questions: what’s Last.fm? Or, why the hell should I use that stupid old website? Well, friend, let me explain. Effectively, Last.fm is a service that tracks what you’re listening to, something it refers to as scrobbling. It then uses this information to build out your music profile, which consists of reports and personalized music recommendations. That’s Last.fm in a nutshell. Now to answer the second part: why?...

Such a development, if flown, could usher in a new era of spaceflight. That said, it is only one of several exciting avenues in rocket propulsion. Here are some others. Chemical rockets The standard means of propulsion for spacecraft uses chemical rockets. There are two main types: solid fueled (such as the solid rocket boosters on the Space Shuttle), and liquid fueled (such as the Saturn V). In both cases, a chemical reaction is employed to produce a very hot, highly pressurized gas inside a combustion chamber....

The chipmaker released its new flagship processor, called the Dimensity 1200, today. The chip is the firm’s first high-end mobile CPU since 2019, when it released the Dimensity 1000. It also released a toned-down cousin of the 1200, called the Dimensity 1100. The 6nm chip follows an architecture of 1 ultra-high performance core, 3 high-performance cores, and 4 efficiency cores. However, the most interesting feature of the process is support for 168Hz Full HD displays and ray tracing....

To learn more about the possibilities that the Lightning Network offers, Hard Fork spoke to someone deep in the trenches: a developer who’s set himself the challenge to make 12 Lightning apps in 12 months. If you’re not in the know, the Lightning Network is a payment channel that allows individuals to exchange Bitcoin directly without having to wait for the main blockchain to confirm the transactions, as that’s done off-chain....

LTSC or the perpetual version is important for businesses that don’t always have reliable internet connectivity, and prefer to have all their applications and features available locally on their systems. [Read: How do you build a pet-friendly gadget? We asked experts and animal owners] The company hasn’t revealed too many details about what features it plans to include in the upcoming release. But it said that dark mode across various apps, capabilities like dynamic arrays and XLOOKUP in Excel, and accessibility improvements will be part of the overhaul....

As part of the UN’s Playing for the Planet alliance, Microsoft joins several other game companies pledging to do what they can to help climate change. According to the United Nations Environmental Program, the promised changes from these companies could make a big impact: “Combined, these commitments from 21 companies will result in a 30 million tonne reduction of CO2 emissions by 2030, will see millions of trees planted, new “green nudges” in game design and improvements to energy management, packaging, and device recycling....

“We’ve decided that we will not sell facial-recognition technology to police departments in the United States until we have a national law in place, grounded in human rights, that will govern this technology,” Smith said during a Washington Post event. Microsoft has been calling for federal laws on facial recognition since 2018, admitting that tech firms weren’t likely to regulate themselves. However, the company has been seeking to influence localities that have been trying to fill the gap in national laws — with mixed results....

In a press release announcing the plan, the Xbox owner said the deal will “provide building blocks” for the metaverse. Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chairman and CEO, reiterated the point in a letter to shareholders: Bobby Kotick, the CEO of Activision Blizzard, further touted the metaverse. “Our talent and our games are important components of the construction of a rich metaverse,” he said in a letter to employees. If you’re cynical about their statements, I don’t blame you....