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Tech giant Google has announced a string of sustainability pledges for its hardware and has said that it aims to neutralise carbon emissions from delivering consumer hardware like Pixel phones and Google Home Minis by 2020. "By 2020, 100 per cent of all shipments going to or from customers will be carbon neutral. Starting in 2022, 100 per cent of Made by Google products will include recycled materials with a drive to maximize recycled content wherever possible," Anna Meegan, Head of Sustainability, Consumer Hardware, wrote in a blog post on Monday. "And we will make technology that puts people first and expands access to the benefits of technology," she added. The tech giant reportedly uses post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic in its portfolio of Nest thermostats, with the new pledge set to boost its use of the material, as well as recycled metals. "In 2018, we began publishing our product environmental reports, which help everyone underst

NASA's latest robotic mission to the Red Planet, the Mars 2020 rover which has an armada of imaging capabilities from wide-angle landscape cameras to narrow-angle high-resolution zoom lens cameras, underwent an "eye" examination after several cameras were installed on it, the US space agency said. "We completed the machine-vision calibration of the forward-facing cameras on the rover," Justin Maki, Chief Engineer for Imaging and the Imaging Scientist for Mars 2020 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement on Monday. "This measurement is critical for accurate stereo vision, which is an important capability of the vehicle," Maki said. To perform the calibration, the 2020 rover team imaged target boards featuring grids of dots placed at distances ranging from 1 to 44 yards (1 to 40 meters) away. The target boards were used to confirm that the cameras meet the project's requirements for res

US IT engineer Paul Klinger designed a laptop which has just screen of just 1 inch and the size of its display is just 0.96 cm. It's said to be the world's smallest laptop. Let us know the full details. According to information from Paul regarding the laptop, it took him seven days to prepare the laptop and cost $85, or about Rs 6,000. Paul has named the world's smallest laptop 'Think Tiny'. This laptop is said to be a short version of IBM's Thinkpad. It is powered by a 300 mAh battery that can be charged through a plug.- Also in the middle of its keypad is the red track point cursor. The game can also be played on the smallest laptop in the world. It has a 7-line keyboard made from a 3D printer. Thinktiny has a 14-pin AT Tiny 1614 micro-controller (20 MHz), which is connected to a small 128 x 64 pixels OLED display.

Several Pixel 3 units are now plagued with a camera issue. Users are reporting that the Pixel 3 camera is now stuttering and the images pictured are shaky. It's believed that the issue is happening because of a bug inside the Pixel 3 camera's optical image stabilization (OIS) system which also makes a noise when idle. With the Pixel 4 line expected to be released sometime in October, last year's Pixel 3 is nearing its one-year run-time but that hasn't changed the fact that Google's flagship series hasn't been as perfect as its predecessors. Reports have flooded Google's product forums as well as Reddit that several Pixel 3 units are now plagued with the same camera issue. Users are reporting that the Pixel 3 camera is now stuttering and the images pictured are shaky. As has been shown in a video by one of the users, opening the camera displays the viewfinder. The camera appears to be seated on a stationary stand but the camera lens appears

    “Curved Display, No Physical Buttons, True Wireless Charging”                One way to make the iPhone’s screen larger without increasing the size of the device itself is wrap it around all four edges. An artist‘s video imagines how such an iOS handset would look, with no physical buttons and an under-screen camera. This was dreamed up by Kevin Noki for   ConceptsiPhone . The description says “Forget iPhone 11 and take a look on this future 2020 year iPhone XII device with No Buttons, Wireless Charge and Hidden Camera!” Proposed iPhone XII features The designer calls the curved screen the Space Display, and proposes that icons along the edge function a bit like widgets, sliding open when tapped to reveal notifications or controls. The volume and side buttons would, of course, become virtual. Noki would like to see the iPhone’s front-facing camera under the screen, something still in development. This design makes no mention of the hardware needed for Fac

Abstraction Smart city has become a conception that is a must for future development where living standard will be improved in another level. There are so many initiatives aimed at analyzing the conception process, deployment methods or outcomes of Smart City are being developed in multiple fields. Understanding the advantages and disadvantages of this term is extremely necessary not only for planner, manager and director of projects, but also for people who has lived in these cities. In the report, it is important to go through benefits of Smart city which focus on some remarkable areas such as traffic management, home automation, health and security and the challenges that are existing in building process in developed and developing countries. After that, it is discussed about how 5G effect on Smart City by analyzing, illustrating and giving some examples, which help to have a clear acknowledgement about next wireless generation technology impacts in future development.  In

Future technology may allow us to Breathe Underwater Like Fish. Alan Izhar-Bodner has invented an apparatus that extracts the air out of water for breathing. Seawater contains 1.5 to 2.5% air, 34% of which is oxygen. Air can be dissolved in water by increasing pressure and released when that pressure is decreased. This is known as "Henry's Law". The system uses the "Henry Law" which states that the amount of gas that can be dissolved in a liquid is proportional to the pressure on the liquid. Raise the pressure - more gas can be dissolved in the liquid. Decrease the pressure - gas dissolved in the liquid releases the gas. This is exactly what happens when you open a can of soda; carbon dioxide gas is dissolved in the liquid and is under pressure in the can. Open the can, releasing the pressure, and the gas fizzes out. By using a centrifuge, Bodner's invention separates air from water and transfers it to a cont