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Recently, researchers Yaniv Erlich and Dina Zielinski of the Data Science Institute at Columbia University and the New York Genome Center (NYGC) unveiled a new technique that allows DNA to store more data than ever before. In nature, DNA works by storing information about different forms of life and its characteristics using four base nucleotides: A, G, C and T. DNA has been studied for a while as a possible solution for storing human-generated data....

Major General Burke Wilson, commander of the 24th Air Force, a division of the US Air Force that is specialized in cyberspace operations, has revealed a new US Air Force project which involves using an airplane to provide an airborne hacking platform. Major Wilson made the comments at the Air Force Association Air & Space conference in National Harbor, Maryland. It is well known that all military networks around the world usually use air-gapped systems (without access to Internet connection) to protect sensitive data from being hacked by external actors like hackers or another country’s cyber-army....

Allo’s USP is that AI integration Google Knowledge Graph will bring to it. This will allow users to send custom messages which Allo will analyse from the user’s past usage. Allo is capable of analyzing images in your chat and sending out smart replies just like you would normally do in a standard communication. The problem with Allo is that Google added its “incognito” mode and end-to-end encryption is only as an opt-in feature, rather than as a default setting....

It all started when conservative podcaster and former OANN host Elizabeth Wheeler tweeted on Friday night, “If Apple & Google boot Twitter from their app stores, @elonmusk should produce his own smartphone. Half the country would happily ditch the biased, snooping iPhone & Android. The man builds rockets to Mars, a silly little smartphone should be easy, right?” To which Musk replied, “I certainly hope it does not come to that, but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone....

Both the rocket and the satellite were destroyed in the explosion, which resulted from an “anomaly” with the launch pad and not the rocket itself. However, there were no injuries, SpaceX said in a statement. “SpaceX can confirm that in preparation for today’s standard pre-launch static fire test, there was an anomaly on the pad, resulting in the loss of the vehicle and its payload,” SpaceX said in a statement about an hour after the explosion....

The app has been released two months prior to its scheduled unveiling (i.e. June) due to a rise in the number of users gaming and streaming at home due to the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Facebook said it has accelerated the launch “to encourage meaningful community interactions” and benefit people locked down at home. “The Facebook Gaming app is a focused, gaming-only experience where you can watch your favorite streamers, play instant games and take part in gaming groups,” Facebook said in a statement on Twitter....

Yesterday a Syrian hacker going with the handle “Ethical Spectrum” hacked into the Official Facebook fan pages of Supercell’s “Clash of Clans” and “Hay Day” In an Interview with e27 Hacker said he was able to hack into the engager Account of the Game developers which is used for social media Account Management. All though no harm has been done now, but hacker says he will be doing more damage if the Company does not cooperate with him....

Called as “TransCoder”, this AI-based language conversion tool can translate between high-level languages such as C++, Java, and Python into a different code with high accuracy. The research study has been detailed in the paper titled, “Unsupervised Translation of Programming Languages.” Converting code from one programming language to another is a difficult task for even an experienced programmer, as it requires knowledge of both the source language and the target language, making code-translation projects expensive....

Facebook again tops in the AVG report on top worst storage, data consuming and battery draining Android AppsTips for increasing Android performance As with earlier years, Facebook Android App tops the list of Apps which eat into everything from performance, data storage to battery draining. It is joined by Spotify and Instagram to be overall performance hoggers on Android. This time it seems like Samsung’s “bloatware” still can’t shake its resource cravings, particularly in the battery draining category....

For the very first time engineered hybrid crystal created for a powerful hyper efficient LEDCreation of Hyper-efficient LED emitting crystals: Suppose, a person has plain oatmeal cookies and a bowl of chocolate chips. Individually, these both have their own identities and taste, however just imagine if these both are combined together, you would definitely get an awesome mixture, isn’t it? Researchers have tried to do the same thing with the two promising solar cell materials to develop a novel Hyper efficient light emitting crystal....

This is the new age of entertainment consumption. All this media now at our disposal, comes with a new set of problems. How do I make sure that my growing collections of DVDs are available to me anytime and on every device? DVDs are designed to be compatible with a few niche devices like DVD players, home entertainment systems, personal computers, and gaming consoles. But what if you want to play that latest Marvel movie on your iPad?...

French police and two dozen computer experts raided Google’s Paris offices Tuesday in a fraud probe, with the US Internet giant already suspected of owing EUR 1.6 billion ($1.7) in back taxes. The French authorities suspect Google of “aggravated tax fraud and conspiracy to conceal (it),” the national financial prosecution service (PNF) said in a statement. The raids give first clear indications of how European countries will proceed against Google and other tech companies evading paying taxes....

While Microsoft has promised that GitHub will continue to operate independently and will remain an open platform, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that it would increase its focus on serving software developers via cloud services irrespective of whether they are coding for Microsoft Windows or not. At the time when Microsoft was busy announcing its acquisition, a developer named Alexander Prokhorov, who is also known on GitHub under the name Athari, made a mock-up of a GitHub page in the Windows 95 style and posted it on Twitter on June 4....

Android Police noted that some of the most recent code commits that Google is working to integrate Swift, an open-source programming language developed by Apple with its Fuchsia OS. Fuchsia already supports programming languages like Dart, a language similar to C developed by Google and other languages like C/C++ and Go. For those unaware, Swift, the successor of Objective-C, is a relatively clean, fast and error-free programming language that can reduce the length of the code, saving time and energy....

Well, using Google Project Stream users can now stream AAA gaming titles on laptops eliminating the need of gaming rigs. So here’s everything you need to know about Project Stream. ALSO READ: Secret game hidden in Google.com, and nobody knows about it Google Project Stream: Explained Google Project Stream is Google’s attempt to stream AAA gaming titles like Assassin’s Creed Odyssey to the desktop version of Chrome browser. Consequently, you can play these games on Windows, MacOS, ChromeOS, and Linux....

The report adds that after the business plan is drafted by employees, teams will be able to work within the incubator full-time. After some months, they get the option to pitch for additional funding and create a whole new company (which Google will invest in). The name “Area 120” is a reference to Google’s famous “20% time”. Here’s a description of 20% time that Larry Page and Sergey Brin included in their 2004 IPO letter: “We encourage our employees, in addition to their regular projects, to spend 20% of their time working on what they think will most benefit Google,” they wrote....

Now Google is reportedly toying the idea of releasing its own smartphone to give direct competition to Apple’s iPhone. The new Android smartphone by Google, which is expected to be launched by the end of 2016, is being looked as an attempt by search giant to firm its grip on mobile software. According to The Telegraph, this would allow Google to take more control over the “design, manufacturing and software” that doesn’t involve a partnership with a well-known brand....

However, recently leaked pressed renders and a 360-degree render video by Android Authority and @OnLeaks have given a sneak peak of Pixel or Nexus Sailfish from all angles. The new renders confirm that the Sailfish will sport a USB-C port rather than one of the microUSB variant, which is currently being phased out. Also, it is expected to have dual stereo speakers, which are both placed behind two rectangular holes flanking the USB-C port on the bottom of the handset....

Recently, the Google Brain’s team decided to throw a challenge to the AI AutoML of creating a ‘child’ that outdid all of its human-made counterparts by using an approach called reinforcement learning. AutoML acts as a controller neural network that can create a “child” network to execute a specific task. Called as NASNet, the child AI was given the task to recognize objects in a real-time video feed, like people, cars, traffic lights, handbags, or backpacks....