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As you might have guessed by looking at the cover image of this article, Ana resembles an actual human being. Well, Krafton was able to reduce the differences between a digital character and a real human using the hyperrealism production technology of Unreal Engine. Some of the most noteworthy human-like features that Ana are baby hairs and fluff on her skin, delicate movement of the pupil, fine facial muscles and wrinkles, and natural joint movement across the entire body....

Perhaps only reading about it is not convincing enough, but when you’ll watch the video you will realize that this could be one of the coolest gadgets that you could ever own. The self flying drone that can capture everything you do is designed to follow you outdoors with the help of complex software and a GPS tracker. It can fly at a minimum altitude above your head of 5 ft (1....

Although BlenderBot 3 is Meta’s product, the chatbot had not so flattering things to say and had some conflicting opinions about Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as pointed out by some Twitter users. When Max Woolf, a data scientist at BuzzFeed asked the chatbot, “How do you feel about Mark Zuckerberg as CEO of Facebook?” It replied, “No strong feelings. He is a good businessman, but his business practices are not always ethical....

To obtain the emails, the publication made public records request to the Prosecutor’s Office in King County. The publication got its hands on a slew of filthy emails sent to prostitution houses and pimps between 2014 and 2016 that document the industry’s middle and upper echelon’s patronage of brothels and purchasing of services from trafficked sex workers. The emails from the employees are all quite alike and most of them are hidden as responses to wrong email addresses....

The parties have cleared conditions to go Contract-In-Force (CIF) with their plans, and the construction of the “state of the art” undersea cable system will begin in August 2016 with over 6,600 kilometers to be laid by October 2017. Frank Rey, Microsoft Director for global network acquisition described that “this marks an important new step in building the next-generation infrastructure of the Internet.” Christian Belady, General Manager, Datacenter Strategy, Planning & Development, Microsoft Corp, said “As the world is increasingly moving toward a future based on cloud computing, Microsoft continues to invest in our cloud infrastructure to meet current and future growing global demand for our more than 200 cloud services, including Bing, Office 365, Skype, Xbox Live and the Microsoft Azure platform....

Microsoft will cut 7,800 jobs and write billions off the value of its mobile phone division, just a year after buying the devices unit of Finnish technology giant Nokia. The newspaper sources said that the latest job cuts are in addition to the 18,000 jobs that Microsoft said it intended to cut a year ago, a number that represents 18.18% of Microsoft’s overall employees, and counts as one of the largest round of layoffs by any company....

In the lawsuit filed in federal court in the Western District of Washington on Wednesday, Microsoft accuses the government of violating the US Constitution by preventing the tech giant from notifying thousands of customers about data requests for their emails and other documents. Microsoft says in its suit that it received 5,624 federal demands for customer information in the past 18 months, and nearly half of them came with gag orders stopping the company from telling customers the government was looking at their data....

According to the company, the issue was caused due to a Windows 11 update (KB5016691) released in late August, which blocked users who recently added a Microsoft account from signing in to Windows 11 for the first time. However, the Redmond giant clarified that the issue does not affect Active Directory domain users or Azure Active Directory accounts. “After installing KB5016691 and adding a new Microsoft account user in Windows, you might be unable to sign in for a brief time after the first restart or sign out....

Myerson said “Google ships a big pile of… code, with no commitment to update your device,” with an deliberate pause that made the audience laugh. “Google takes no responsibility to update customer devices and refuses to take responsibility to update their devices, leaving end users and businesses increasingly exposed every day they use an Android device.” However, Myerson did not announce how Microsoft plans to bypass carriers and deliver regular updates to its Windows 10 phones in future....

It is seems that a number of Chinese smartphone manufacturers will participate in this launch of Windows 10 by manufacturing Windows phone, which could be only for China and Chinese mobiles. There are news that Microsoft is inviting a select group of Xiaomi Mi 4 power users to help them test Windows 10 and contribute to its future release later this year. Xiaomi Mi 4 is an Android phone and it definitely shows that Windows might have plans to get Xiaomi to manufacture Microsoft based smartphones in future....

Comey said he understands that these companies are trying to provide users with what the market demands Recent revelations of the NSA’s capabilities made by Edward Snowden and the recent hacks in big websites and service habe played their part in users seeking end to end encryption of their data. FBI said that it is not looking for a backdoor or vulnerability to carry on the lawful surveillance, so in defence to the decryption needs, they point out that, with sophisticated encryption they won’t be able to track the criminals....

The team led by Peter Garnavich, astrophysics professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, analysed light captured by Kepler every 30 minutes over a three-year period from 500 distant galaxies, searching some 50 trillion stars. They were hunting for signs of massive stellar death explosions known as supernovae. Supernovas tend to occur when an aging red giant star has expended the last of its nuclear fuel. Because the star can’t sustain itself any longer, it collapses before exploding in a massive burst of energy....

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday issued Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to Abbott’s ID NOW COVID-19 making the test available to healthcare providers as early as next week. This test can be used in a wide range of healthcare settings such as physicians’ offices, urgent care clinics, and hospital emergency departments. In a press release, Abbott Laboratories describes ID NOW as a “rapid, instrument-based, isothermal system for the qualitative detection of infectious diseases....

Scientists at South Korea’s Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology have developed new solar cells thinner than human hair and flexible enough to wrap around a pencil. These solar cells could power wearable electronics like fitness trackers and smart glasses. According to the scientists, the new solar cells are 1000 times smaller than human hair and could solve the huge space problem in smartwatches. At just a micrometre wide, the photovoltaic cells are thinner than a single human hair or a coat of paint, which both measure up at around 100 micrometres....

To celebrate this, Nintendo has teamed up with Google to bring Mario straight to Google Maps on Mario Day. Starting today, Google Maps users will have the option to replace the usual blue navigation arrow that marks your car’s position in navigation mode with Mario and his Super Mario Kart appearance. The updated feature will remain active for the following week. According to Google, “We know a true Mario fan when we see one....

According to Nintendo, 160,000 user accounts that use a Nintendo Network ID (NNID) to login to their Nintendo Account may have been affected by the breach. The attackers have been exploiting its NNID legacy login system to hack into user accounts since the start of April. Nintendo did not provide any more detail about how attackers had accessed NNID accounts, except that the account passwords were ‘obtained illegally by some means other than their service’....

Pokémon Go’s staggered global release has meant that a lot of Android users have resorted to installing the game via APK file rather than wait for their local Google Play Store. The game came out in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States last week, and over the past few days Germany and the UK joined in. However, that doesn’t mean people elsewhere can’t play it yet. As the craze spread, so did the various pirated copies, which have been downloaded millions of times already....

According to the latest leak, Nokia 9 suggests to have features that can give tough competition to Samsung Galaxy S9 or the recent Apple iPhone X. Nokia 9 may feature a 6.01-inch QHD AMOLED display panel with 18:9 aspect ratio and Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection. The smartphone is said to give “more display area in the same footprint as a traditional 5.5-inch device”. The device will be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, coupled with 8GB RAM and 256GB of internal storage....

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 ....