Amazon Is Banning Shoppers Who Frequently Return Items
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The engineering startup company MX3D, which is behind this bold attempt aims to ‘print’ the complexed and ‘intricate’ structure in 3D using robots to ‘draw’ the bridge over water in the centre of Amsterdam. They hope to start the project by September. If all goes as planned, the machines will begin printing on one side of the canal, making rail supports to slide on and exactly draw the mid-section of the bridge into being as it makes its way to the other side....
Created by a team of anonymous archivists (who call themselves the PiLiMi team), Anna’s Archive is formed in direct response to law enforcement actions taken against the Z-Library website. For those unaware, Z-Library, an e-book pirate site that claims to be “the world’s largest library” offered scholarly journal articles, academic texts, and general-interest books. It was especially popular with college students and academics. However, on November 3, 2022, Z-Library’s network of online domains was taken offline and seized by the U....
An ominous video was posted by Anonymous last Wednesday, on January 20, announcing a new Anonymous campaign, #OpFlint. The group in the 4 minute YouTube video promised action for the 2014 water switch to the Flint River, which lead to a spike in lead poisoning cases and a shortage of clean water in the city. In the video, a person wearing a Guy Fawkes mask said Anonymous was supporting the citizens of Flint who had been affected by the water crisis....
Anonymous releases a draft proposal for protection of Whistleblowers to United NationsInformation ProtectionCompensationLegal ProtectionCensorshipEnforcement — Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) February 8, 2016 Anonymous has pledged to uphold the freedom of Internet and it includes protection of journalists, rights activists and whistleblowers. The Anonymous proposal for United Nations, available here, offers has 5 sections. Information Protection Anonymous has proposed that United Nations open a sovereign data server which will be out of bound for all countries....
For those unaware, Apple has replaced its Touch ID in iPhone X in favor of Face ID, which uses the TrueDepth camera system on the top of the display to unlock the device. Face ID can also be used for authentication, payments, accessing securing apps and be used with Apple Pay as well. The Bloomberg report says that Apple “told suppliers they could reduce the accuracy of the face-recognition technology to make it easier to manufacture”....
Apple iPhone 7 price, EarPods with lightening connecter leakedWhats new in iPhone 7No more physical home buttonsLightning ConnectorDual-cameraA10 ProcessorRAM EarPods with a Lightning connector The Weibo post also gave the prices for various iPhone 7 versions.Prices were listed in Yuan. Converted to United States Dollars, the prices for iPhone 7 would be as follows: iPhone 7 32GB model: $790 64GB model: $910 256GB model: $1059 iPhone 7 Plus 32GB model: $910 128GB model: $1030 256GB model: $1180...
For those unaware, Google has been iPhone’s default search engine for more than a decade. For years now, Google is paying billions of dollars to Apple to remain the default search engine service on Safari for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS platforms unless changed manually in Safari’s preferences. However, the deal between the two companies has caught the attention of the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for violating the competitive policy....
First, it was iFixit who did a teardown of the iPhone X to better understand its internal structure, now SquareTrade, an insurance company that provides extended warranties for mobile devices and other electronic devices, carried out breakability tests on the iPhone X to check what happens when it slips out of one’s hands. SquareTrade Labs uses a range of robots to drop, bend, tumble and dunk devices to see how they resist real-life accidents and how easy the device is to repair....
Unknown hackers seemed to have hacked into a private Facebook album and got hold of topless photos of Games of Thrones star, Massie Williams. The hackers then proceeded to release select images online. The actress plays Winterfell chieftain, Ned Stark’s daughter Arya Stark in the very popular HBO fantasy series called Game of Thrones and is expected to make a major comeback in the upcoming GoT season 7. The hackers seem to have hacked her social media account and accessed her private album....
Ever since the Bitcoin was launched, the mainstream banks had opposed the idea of having a digital currency for lack of controls. But over the years many banking institutions have been showing interest in the blockchain technology behind the bitcoin. While other interested banks have hired agencies to carry out research work regarding blockchain technology, the Bank of England thought it would be a better idea to ask local researchers from University College London....
BitTorrent was not only criticised on different websites but also on its own ?Torrent forum with users blasting it for installing the Epic Scale cryptocurrency miner without asking users for permission or warning them about it. Under the unrelenting barrage of criticism, BitTorrent today apologized to its ?Torrent torrent client users. Writing on the ?Torrent forum, a member of BitTorrent staff said that they had paused the installation of Epic Scale software with ?...
Sergeant Janelle Shoihet, from the RCMP of British Columbia, who was addressing a double homicide matter on Friday blamed “technical difficulties” for the error. She was giving a briefing about the double murders of American woman Chynna Noelle Deese, 24 and her Australian boyfriend Lucas Fowler, 23, whose bodies were found July 15 on a remote B.C. highway. In the original coverage on Friday, Shoihet is seen addressing the press conference with pointy pink ears, a kitty’s nose, and whiskers due to the cat filter....
The PIPL law, which takes effect on November 1, 2021, expands the ruling Communist Party’s clampdown on unscrupulous data collection by app developers by putting legal restriction on collection of user data. However, the policy is unlikely to affect the ruling party’s pervasive surveillance. The law, which lays out a comprehensive set of rules around data collection for the first time specifically targets how private companies should handle user data....
Although, China still has the fastest supercomputer in the world, in the last six months the country’s share of the top 500 high performance systems country has dropped by half. However, for the fifth consecutive time, China’s Tianhe-2 supercomputer has led the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the list-builders announced on Monday. Tianhe-2, which means Milky Way-2 in English, has a performance rating of 33.86 petaflops (quadrillions of calculations per second) and was clocked in the Linpack benchmark....
The driver can control the car by just wearing brain signal-reading equipment that can be used to make the car to go forward, or backwards, or come to a stop, and both lock and unlock the vehicle, all without moving their hands or feet. Speaking to Reuters, Zhang Zhao told that the equipment is made up of 16 sensors that capture EEG (electroencephalogram) signals from the driver’s brain. A computer program has been developed by the team that chooses the relevant signals and translates them, which helps in the controlling of the car....
Colorful calls the iGame GeForce RTX 3090 KUDAN a “Masterpiece” that features an “artistic and exquisite” shroud packed with the brand’s most advanced premium features. The RTX 3090 KUDAN comes with a hybrid cooling system that offers the perfect balance of air cooling and water cooling, enabling excellent overclocking stability even under extreme loads. In terms of air cooling subsystem, it is equipped with six 6mm high-performance heat pipes and a radiator as well as Colorful’s newly developed “Storm Chaser” three 90mm fans with fixed-rotating fan blades, incorporating iGame Vacuum Copper Plate Technology....
Being brought up in the 1990s, Windows 95 was the first ever operating system that I worked upon and till date I feel nostalgic about it. Windows 95 not just a graphical user interface running on top of MS-DOS. The operating system brought many new features such as improved windows control and appearance of windows, new introduced desktop, right button menu, new help system, taskbar and start menu, the way the user navigates, build-in network support with dial-up for different protocols, folder view of all kinds of files and resources, support of 32-bit application, and pre-emptive multitasking and thread....
A news report from UnleashThePhones states that Microsoft is bringing new features in Windows 10 that would allow PC users to start calls and send texts from their desktops directly through their phones. If what the post says is true than PC users can answer calls on their computers and use headphones and microphones to talk to their contacts. Sending text messages and emails could also be possible from the desktop once the new Windows 10 for phones becomes available....