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STAR is the creation of a team of medical researchers and computer scientists led by Dr. Peter C. Kim, Vice President and Associate Surgeon-in-Chief, Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children’s National Health System in Washington D.C. The inventors of STAR don’t claim that robots can replace humans in the operating room or clinic trial anytime soon. In fact, they see the accomplishment as a proof of concept—both for the specific technologies used and for the general concept of “supervised autonomy” in the OR....

Reason #1: Freelancers are Flexible Driven by rapid advances in technology, the world economy is evolving at a dizzying rate. Faced with constant changes, the only way to truly have a sense of stability is to be flexible in your career. Freelancer, by nature, are masters of flexibility. Part of this goes along with striking out on their own into a field that has likely been around fewer years than they’ve been alive, but another part of it is learned as freelancers must develop the ability to wear many hats and excel in several areas in order to succeed....

Blair C. Armstrong, postdoctoral researcher and his colleagues from the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language noticed that the brain signals of 45 people as those subjects read a list of 45 acronyms such as DVD and FBI, according to the reports by Engadget. The difference between the volunteers’ brain reactions was enough for the system to find their identities with accuracy of up to 94%. New Scientist explained that these results suggest that brainwaves could finally be a way for security systems to verify a person’s identity....

Marc Dugain is the former boss of Proteus Airlines and he claims he has spoken to the residents of the island nation of Maldives and they in turn claimed to have seen “red and blue stripes with a white background” on a plane heading towards Diego Garcia on the day of MH370’s disappearance. Dugain’s claims are going to raise new hassles for US. The Malaysian flight MH370 disappeared from the radars after taking off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport....

— Antoine Bayet (@fcinq) November 11, 2015 The report was confirmed by an article published on Wednesday by French weekly Le Canard Enchaîné said the computer failure had affected a system known as DECOR, which is used by air traffic controllers to communicate weather information to pilots. Pilots rely on the system when weather conditions are poor. The problem is that DECOR, which is used in takeoff and landings, runs on Microsoft’s Windows 3....

According to the officially published notes by US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), this new product will be “configured to wireless transmit power over the wireless power transfer link.” It means that this new system may charge multiple devices simultaneously with both wired as well as wireless connections. Apple is currently focusing on short range wireless charging only because long range wireless charging is not feasible. Because as the distance increases from the charger, power decreases rapidly and there’s a limited amount of power which can be transmitted to single device....

Applemania has been sweeping through China over the past one year. Faced with a shortage of sperm donors, Chinese sperm banks have decided to catch on this craze by having a new marketing ploy: The are advertising iPhones in exchange for donations. According to a report by Shanghaiist.com, a sperm bank associated with Shanghai’s Renji Hospital is now offering eligible donors a rose gold iPhone 6s for sperm donation. The hospital’s website features several images of iPhones with things like “no need to sell your kidneys, easily have a 6s” underneath....

If you are still wondering if the report is too good to be true, in that case, you should note that this app can easily operate on several platforms such as Android or iOS, and this app is not dependent on any hardware or bionic sensor, which is present in iPhone X. There the app runs equally well on both the leading mobile operating systems. Isn’t very cool, when you can enjoy the same features without having an iPhone?...

An Islamic State (Isis) propaganda website on the dark web has been taken down by a Anonymous affiliated team called GhostSec. They went on to deface the hacked onion website with an advert for a site selling Viagra, Prozac etc. and a message for the ISIS : Too much Isis. Enhance your calm. Too many people are into this ISIS-stuff. Ghost Sec, a faction of the hacktivist collective Anonymous (unaffiliated with the counter-terrorism organisation Ghost Security Group), also told the ISIS that, “Please gaze upon this lovely ad so we can upgrade our infrastructure to give you Isis content you all so desperately crave....

While the graphical tweak will not allow you any shortcuts to complete the game at a quicker pace, it will deliver the same tone of visuals that made Borderlands popular in the first place. Keep in mind that graphics tweak is only for PC gamers so if you happen to be enjoying killing feral ghouls and Deathclaws in the wasteland using your PS4 or Xbox One, then you will not be able to apply this tweak....

However, there are no tools that allows developers to see how their website user experience compared to others. To help the developers with this, Google has launched the Chrome User Experience Report, a public dataset of key user experiences for top websites on the Internet. It is intended to give the developers a better insight into how users perceive and use their web pages on a day-to-day basis while using Google Chrome....

A few of Google’s Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL are experiencing battery and overheating issues after installing the February 2018 Android security update earlier this month. Pointed out first by 9to5Google, Pixel 2 and the Pixel 2 XL users have taken to Reddit and Google’s Pixel User Community website, to complain that their devices are running warm in standby mode and are experiencing reduction in battery life than usual....

Surprisingly, Google has offered several flagship Pixel exclusive features like three years of software updates, always-on music identification, voice-recorder with transcriptions, on-device dictation database, and many more on this device. Clearly, Pixel 4A is a direct competitor to the well-received OnePlus Nord and the 2020 iPhone SE. ALSO READ: Google Launches 2nd-Gen ‘Pixel Buds’ For $179 Pricing And Availability The $349 / Rs. 26,200 price tag of the Pixel 4A is one of the major highlights of this device....

For those unaware, The Great Suspender is an extension that focusses on reducing Google Chrome’s RAM usage by shutting down tabs that have not been used for a certain period. It replaces the suspended pages with a blank page until the users decide to use it again. Over the years, the Chrome browser has been infamously known for consuming a lot of RAM and taking up computer memory when a user opens multiple tabs....

Google has been on a silent crusade since August 2014 against websites contain unsolicited software or malware (or, as some AV vendors call them, potentially unwanted applications), as defined in this Google policy. Most unwanted software comfoulage their software into posing as a helpful download but ultimately these kind of softwares make changes to the users’ browser and its settings. Such changes that are profitable to the software’s creators but are a nuisance users....

June 8th, World Oceans Day is dedicated to keep safe the coral reefs and the life that prospers out of our sight. To honor this day, Google has decided to celebrate this day by sending its updated Street View service with lots of visual images from various underwater and seaside locations. On a serious note, Google points out, “Home to the majority of life on Earth, the ocean acts as its life support system, controlling everything from our weather and rainfall to the oxygen we breathe....

Government of India’s net neutrality disaster says you cant make Skype, Whatsapp voice calls within IndiaCalling your friends/relativesNo limit on messagesContent ‘Rules’Privacy is importantTwo areas where these don’t have significance Net neutrality is a principle that says Internet service providers should treat all traffic on their networks equally, and cannot slow down or block access to any website or content. The new report, prepared by the Department of Telecom (DoT), says net neutrality must be protected and that “content and application providers cannot be permitted to act as gatekeepers....

Chris Valasek, Director of Vehicle-Security Research at IOActive, and Charlie Miller, who worked earlier at Twitter Inc., will join Uber’s Advanced Technologies Center, the San Francisco-based car-booking company said in a statement Friday. The duo would be working with Joe Sullivian & John Flynn, the Chief Security Officer and the Chief Information Security Officer at Uber. Together, they will work toward “building out a world-class safety and security program at Uber....

Every coder and wannabe programmer should read these five ‘must have’ booksThe Pragmatic ProgrammerClean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software CraftsmanshipThe Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional ProgrammersCode Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software ConstructionThe Mythical Man-month: Essays on Software EngineeringAlso Read PART II of the Here are the five must read books if you are a coder/programmer With the technology moving forward at a speed quicker than anytime in the history of mankind, there are new programming languages and tools every few months, seeking to be the silver bullet for all deficiencies of existing languages, tools and practices....

We give you some interesting titbits about what Commander Kelly will do/will have done during his year in space. Commander Kelly has already completed 6 months aboard ISS and he has sent very rivetting pictures of Earth. We are reproducing a few of those for our readers. Photos courtesy NASA