Google accidentally published its Pixel 5A’s camera samples through its Google AI Blog. However, the tech giant manufacturer was able to fix it by deleting the leaked photos. (Photo : Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)A guest takes pictures of the new Google Pixel 3 smartphone during a Google product release event, October 9, 2018 in New York City. The phones will go on sale on October 18 for a base starting retail price of $799 for the Pixel 3 and $899 for the Pixel 3 XL. Google also released a new tablet called the Pixel Slate and the Google Home…
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Commodore 64 can now be used as a cryptocurrency miner after a software developer wrote a code and shared it publicly. The widely successful 8-bit home computer, which was launched in 1982, is powered by a 1 MHz processor and 64 KB RAM. Mining Cryptocurrency using Commodore 64 According to Decrypt’s Apr. 13 report, the software developer who wrote the code to make the Commodore 64 a dedicated cryptocurrency miner made it accessible on developer file-sharing platform GitHub. Maciej Witkowiak, the software developer who wrote the code, said that the cryptocurrency miner software can make the Commodore 64 mine using…
(Photo : Flickr/Skobrik) Cisco semiconductor chips Cisco has announced that the shortage of computer chips will last for 6 more months. Numerous firms were forced to delay the production of their products due to the lack of semiconductors, triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and exacerbated by other factors. Cisco says chip shortage to last 6 months Cisco chief Chuck Robbins said that the providers are building out more capacity right now and it will eventually get better over the next 12 to 18 months. That expansion of capacity will be crucial as advances in technology, including cloud computing, 5G, the…
The Pentagon finally explains why a small business in Florida was given control over 175 million IP addresses. The long-dormant IP addresses, which are about 1/25th, or almost 6% the size of the current internet, were handed over as soon as President Joe Biden took office on Jan. 20, 2021. Pentagon and Florida’s Mysterious Global Resource Systems Florida’s Global Resource Systems LLC (GRS), a private company just outside Fort Lauderdale, announced shortly after Biden’s inauguration that they have started managing an undisclosed number of unused IP address spaces owned by the Department of Defense. According to Washington Post’s report on…
The European Union (EU) and Germany said on Sunday they were mobilising aid to support India’s Covid-19 response following a huge surge in Coronavirus infections that has stretched medical facilities across the country and resulted in shortages of oxygen. Janez Lenarčič, the EU commissioner for crisis management, said the bloc’s Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) was coordinating with member states to provide oxygen and medicines. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had caused a stir in New Delhi last week with her criticism of the slowdown of vaccine exports from India, expressed solidarity in the “common fight” against Covid-19 and said…
Samsung could soon release a new laptop that would compete against the latest Apple M1 MacBook. This is a new trend for the Apple competitor since most of the popular tech giant firms are focusing on releasing new iPads, smartphones, and other small gadgets. (Photo : Screenshot from Twitter post of @TheGalox_ )This New Samsung Device Could Give M1 MacBook Some Trouble: Here are Galaxy Book’s Details The Samsung Galaxy BookVery little has been said about this device (other than its design) so…Up to 11th gen intel core i715.6 inch Display two USB Type-A portstwo USB Type-C portsfull-sized HDMImicroSD card…
As the Covid-19 pandemic ravages India, Canada has reached out to New Delhi with an offer to help in any way possible to alleviate the crisis.During the course of a press briefing on Saturday, Canada’s Minister of Public Services and Procurement Anita Anand said Ottawa has communicated its willingness to assist India during these difficult times. She said, “We will stand ready with PPE (personal protective equipment) and ventilators and any items that might be useful for the Government of India.”Anand, who is of Indian origin, was also quoted by the outlet Global News as saying that the Canadian government…
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who was swept to power in pro-democracy protests in 2018, triggered an early election on Sunday to try overcome criticism over his handling of last year’s conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.His resignation, which was expected, came a day after U.S. President Joe Biden said that massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 constituted genocide, a move welcomed by Armenians worldwide and condemned by Turkey.Pashinyan told Biden the symbolic decision was a matter of security to Armenia after the six week conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, in which Turkey backed Armenia’s neighbour Azerbaijan, where the ethnic Armenian-populated enclave…
Germany plans to ease some of the current coronavirus restrictions for people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19, according to a draft text drawn up by the government and seen by AFP at the weekend.The proposal is to be discussed at a meeting on Monday by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government and the powerful regional state premiers.According to the draft text, it was a question not of awarding people with proven immunity any special privileges, but of “lifting curbs on their basic rights that are no longer justified”.The debate comes as Germany is struggling to tame a third wave of coronavirus…
Italian residents will be allowed to return from India with a negative test result at their departure and one at their arrival and then have to go into quarantine, the minister said. Reuters | | Posted by Harshit Sabarwal, Milan PUBLISHED ON APR 25, 2021 03:43 PM IST Italy has joined other countries by imposing restrictions on travel from India to avert the spread of a Covid-19 variant as the Asian nation struggles with a surge in infections.Italy’s Health Minister Roberto Speranza said on Twitter he had signed an order barring foreign travellers who have been in India in the…