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Prisma is an app for turning your photos into works of art, which has gone viral.
Prisma, is a new app, which will make your Instagram filters passé. The app, which was first launched on iOS, is now also available on Android. Prisma lets you convert your pictures into works of art, following the styles of Van Gogh, Picasso, Levitan, according to the company’s website.
Prisma relies on neural networks and artificial intelligence in order to turn your photos into art, and the iOS-onl

Android Nougat will ensure that ransomware or malware are unable to reset the device password. (Source: Google via AP)
Android Nougat will ensure that ransomware or malware are unable to reset the device password, reports the Symantec Official Blog
According to the blog, Android introduces a new condition where the “resetPassword” API cannot be used to reset a device’s password, and it will affect both ransomware and disinfectors.
The security firm points out that Android.Lock

The new six-member Expedition 48 crew join each other for well wishes and congratulations from family, friends and mission officials. In front, from left, are the new crew members Kate Rubins, Anatoly Ivanishin and Takuya Onishi. In the back row are Flight Engineers Oleg Skripochka and Alexey Ovchinin and Commander Jeff Williams. (Source: NASA)
The strength of the astronauts increased to six on the International Space Station (ISS) as three Expedition 48 crew members on July 10 joined the

This map shows the frequency of carbon dioxide frost’s presence at sunrise on Mars, as a percentage of days year-round. Carbon dioxide ice more often covers the ground at night in some mid-latitude regions than in polar regions, where it is generally absent for much of summer and fall. (Source: NASA)
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found that carbon dioxide ice more often covers the ground at night in some mid-latitude regions than in polar regions of the Red Planet, where it

Prisma is an iOS app for turning your photos into works of art, which has gone viral.
Apple iOS users take note: Prisma, is a new app, which will make your Instagram filters passé. Prisma lets you convert your pictures into works of art, following the styles of Van Gogh, Picasso, Levitan, according to the company’s website.
Prisma relies on neural networks and artificial intelligence in order to turn your photos into art, and the iOS-only app has taken the Internet by storm. For iO

Intex Aqua Power 4G smartphone, priced at Rs 6,399 launched in India. The smartphone is now available via offline as well as online retailers across the country.
The Intex Aqua Power 4G smartphone features a 5-inch HD (720×1280 pixels) IPS display, with a pixel density of 267ppi. The smartphone sports a screen-to-body ratio of 67 percent.
Intex Aqua Power 4G is powered by a 64-bit quad-core processor, coupled with 1GB RAM and an 8GB ROM (expandable up to 32GB via microSD

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has appealed to creators on the site to help out people affected by the violence. (Image source: Susan Wojcicki’s Twitter account)
In light of the recent racial violence and police brutality in US, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has written an open blog to the community of creators, asking them to lend support to “the Black community, to Dallas and to all the victims’ families.”
The blog was posted on the Official YouTube Creator’s blog, and

Researchers are developing a personalised privacy assistant app that can simplify the task of setting permissions for your smartphone applications.
That is a job that requires well over a hundred decisions, an unmanageable number for the typical user, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the US said.
The privacy assistant can learn the user’s preferences and quickly recommend the most appropriate settings, such as with which app to share the user’s location, or contac

Tech giant Facebook has come up with a new feature that can help nonprofits and charity organisations to raise money for the causes they care about, the company said.
Several months after the social network launched a new “fundraiser” feature for nonprofits to collect donations, Facebook announced it has expanded the tool to individual users.
The tool is now available to 1 per cent of US users — standard for new Facebook products in order to gather feedback and make sure

Freedom 251, the world’s cheapest smartphone priced at Rs 251 on Friday dispatched to those who had booked the device in the cash on delivery (COD) mode. 540 units were dispacthed to customers in West Bengal, 390 units were sent to Haryana, 605 to Himachal Pradesh, 484 to Bihar and 221 to Uttarakhand, the company sources told IANS.
5,000 smartphones were out for delivery on July 9. Initially at the launch event on July 7, Ringing Bells CEO Mohit Goel

Purchasing something via debit or credit card might be different for you next time. (Representational Picture)
When it feels easy to pay for something, it might just make us feel less connected to what we are buying, researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have found.
“Debit and credit cards rule the marketplace, and while going cashless is convenient, that convenience may come at a price,” said Avni Shah from University of Toronto in Canada. Share This ArticleRelated ArticleIC

In light of the Dallas shootings, Facebook now has a policy on Live video stream, but will it be enough? ( Representational Image. Source: Reuters)
First it was the age of stills, then came video in the form of live TV, and now we’ve moved on to where ordinary folks can live-stream a video that could potentially change the world. And technology companies understand this power better than anyone else. This could well be the year in which the world moved from live-tweeting to live-streaming

Android Nougat will ensure that ransomware or malware are unable to reset the device password. (Source: Google via AP)
Android Nougat will ensure that ransomware or malware are unable to reset the device password, reports the Symantec Official Blog
According to the blog, Android introduces a new condition where the “resetPassword” API cannot be used to reset a device’s password, and it will affect both ransomware and disinfectors.
The security firm points out that Android.Lock

Yahoo has introduced four new bots for News, Finance, Weather and a MonkeyPet.
Yahoo has introduced four new algorithmically-driven bots to Facebook Messenger to help users get news, stock market trends, weather forecasts. The fourth bot is a pet monkey, in case that is what you wish for on Facebook Messenger, instead of friends.
The Yahoo Messenger bots can be found on iOS and Android by searching for @YahooFinance, @YahooNews, @YahooWeather or @MonkeyPet.
Yahoo Finance lets users to search fo

This image provided by the European Southern Observatory shows an illustration of the orbit of the gas giant planet in the HD 131399 system (red line) and the orbits of the three stars (blue lines). A University of Arizona-led team used an ESO telescope in Chile to find the system 320 light years away. The astronomers revealed their findings Thursday, July 7, 2016.  AP
Imagine a planet with triple sunrises and sunsets every day for part of the year, and nonstop daylight at other times.
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ESO 137-001 is a perfect example of a spiral galaxy zipping through a crammed cluster of galaxies. Gas is being pulled from its disc in a process called ram pressure stripping. The galaxy appears to be losing gas as it plunges through the Norma galaxy cluster. Image credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team.
Scientists may finally have an explanation for why some galaxies stop creating stars after a team of astrophysicists painstakingly analysed around 70,000 galaxies to understand the fo

This image provided by the European Southern Observatory shows an illustration of the orbit of the gas giant planet in the HD 131399 system (red line) and the orbits of the three stars (blue lines). A University of Arizona-led team used an ESO telescope in Chile to find the system 320 light years away. The astronomers revealed their findings Thursday, July 7, 2016.  AP
Imagine a planet with triple sunrises and sunsets every day for part of the year, and nonstop daylight at other times.
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Despite the colours, the M6 headphones seem like a decent option for fitness freaks.
We Indians have never been open to do much choice, especially when it comes to audio equipment. The latest to land on our review desk is the MEE Audio M6 in-ear sports headphones catering to those who are conscious about staying fit.
MEE Audio M6 In-Ear Sports Headphones
Rs 2999
The M6 has a striking design, or should I say striking colours. The review unit we got had a bright orange, one that make you gel into

By Bikramjit Basu & his group
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
For a variety of medical treatments these days, artificial, synthetic materials are inserted into the human body. Common examples include treatment for artery blockage and orthopaedic surgeries, like hip and knee replacements. Human bodies are not very receptive to foreign objects; most synthetic materials are rejected by the body. The choice of material that can be inserted, therefore, has to be very specific.
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