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Hasbro has designed a lifelike lightsaber just in time for the premiere of the new Obi-Wan Kenobi series, one that might be the toymaker’s most ambitious — and expensive — replica yet. The Black Series Reva Force FX Elite Lightsaber costs $499 and measures a total of 6.5 feet long with both blades attached. It’s modeled after the lightsaber wielded by the Third Sister, also known as Reva, a cold and callous Inquisitor set on hunting down Obi-Wan. Just like the iconic lightsabers we’ve seen held by Inquisitors in past…

Facebook bought its new security program called Facebook Protect to India among many other countries across the globe back in 2021. If this is the first time you’re hearing it, perhaps you’re wondering what Protect is and how it can help you. To begin with, this program is targeted at protecting high-risk users on the social networking platform and has enrolled more than 1.5 million people globally so far. Here’s a detailed article explaining all that you’d need to know about Facebook Protect – what it is, how to enable…

Android’s security branding has never been particularly strong, but a new initiative by the company seems to be changing that by putting all branches of Android security under one umbrella. Posted to the official Android YouTube channel today, a video titled Protected by Android introduces the new branding of the same name. To be blunt: There’s not much to it yet. Protected by Android is just a phrase that the company seems to be using as a catch-all for its security measures. The phrase appears as the title of the…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A survey of how academics use social media to encourage people to interact with their research argues that much of the public value of their work is probably being overlooked in official "impact" assessments. …

Over 80 percent of international trade is carried by sea. Much of what we use and consume everyday either has been or will be transported on huge vessels which plough the global ocean.  The courses these container vessels take are fixed shipping routes known as marine highways, which are not unlike motorways on land. These highways, upon which vessels travel back and forth, connect distant ports, often on opposite sides of vast oceans.Marine highways can also cut across the movements and migratory routes of marine…

Search giant is now taking demands to remove home addresses, phone numbers and email accounts of users. Google finally responds to user demands to protect their privacy. (Reuters)…

The definition of a second, the most fundamental unit of time in our current measurement system, hasn't been updated in more than 70 years (give or take some billionths of a second).  But in the next decade or so, that could change: Ultraprecise atomic optical clocks that rely on visible light are on track to set the new definition of a second.These newer versions of the atomic clock are, in theory at least, much more precise than the gold-standard cesium clock, which measures a second based on the oscillation of cesium …

Distance sensors are an excellent tool for a variety of Raspberry Pi projects ranging from things like robotic navigation to this automatic soap dispenser. But what if you aren’t able to get ahold of one? Thankfully, the Pi community is incredibly robust. The makers at Freedom Tech have developed a workaround solution that uses a webcam with OpenCV to calculate the distance of a given user's hand from the camera.This project relies heavily on OpenCV and uses our favorite SBC—the Raspberry Pi. With the help of a webcam,…

India's federal cabinet did not take up proposals on Wednesday for providing financial relief to the country's cash-strapped telecoms sector, a government source said.The cabinet was widely expected to take a decision on a so-called relief package for the telecoms industry, which would have helped all wireless carriers but especially the embattled Vodafone Idea.The source did not specify why the proposal was not discussed.Shares in Vodafone Idea were down 1.2 percent while Bharti Airtel fell 0.2 percent at 0751 GMT…

Google Meet has been one of the most preferred choices to conduct official meetings or education classes online. The search giant keeps upgrading Meet every now and then with new settings and features, as Work From Home continues to be the new normal for most organisations across the globe. In the latest update, Google Meet has added new co-hosting settings, which allows the host to assign co-hosts before the meeting starts, in order to avoid wastage of time. This comes along with the additional update that let the host…