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10/06/2025

Elon Musk Unveils XChat: A New Era of Private Communication

-Elon Musk is Simply A Genuis

Elon Musk has introduced XChat, a cutting-edge messaging platform poised to transform how we communicate privately and securely. Designed with user privacy at its core, XChat delivers a powerful suite of features aimed at redefining the messaging experience.

At the heart of XChat is end-to-end encryption, ensuring that every conversation remains confidential—visible only to you and your intended recipient. With this robust protection, concerns about unauthorized access are a thing of the past.

Among its standout features is vanishing messages—a dynamic option that automatically deletes messages after they’ve been read, offering an extra layer of discretion for sensitive chats. XChat also supports audio and video calls without the need for a phone number, freeing users from the limitations of traditional telecom systems.

In addition, XChat enables seamless file sharing across all formats—whether documents, images, videos, or more—without restriction. Built on a high-performance Rust architecture, the platform guarantees both speed and security. Its use of Bitcoin-style cryptography adds another layer of decentralized protection, reinforcing its commitment to safeguarding user data.

With cross-platform compatibility, XChat is built for today’s digital world—whether you’re messaging, calling, or sharing content. It eliminates the boundaries of conventional messaging platforms and sets a new standard for private, secure, and unrestricted communication.

29/01/2023

*Apple Is Considering Curved Corners and Narrower Bezels for iPhone 15 Pro*

The iPhone 15 is expected to be released later this year, and new information has surfaced about its design. The two Pro variants may have narrower bezels, and all four models will have rounded corners to mimic the Apple Watch.

According to seasoned Apple leaker ShrimpApplePro, via MacRumors, the screen sizes of the four new phones will be the same as in 2022. Furthermore, Dynamic Island will be included in all versions.

A flat display is promised, with the tipster emphasizing that the curved edges of the bezels are all that will connect the phone's front and back panels. Unfortunately, it seems like the actual selfie camera phone module is not going to be updated too much.

The bezels on the iPhone 14 are already quite tiny, so it will be fascinating to see how much farther Apple can push this trend with the two more costly phones in the line.

Curved bezels are something else most people are interested in seeing. It is probable that Apple may return to an overall curved design, similar to the iPhone 11. In fact, this would not be the first time an iPhone display shrank toward the sides.

TechRadar's source refers to the top-tier iPhone as the "iPhone 15 Pro Max (or Ultra)," which is an admission that Apple still has no official name for this phone, even though there have been several speculations referring to it as the iPhone 15 Ultra in recent weeks.

It is said that Apple may be considering a titanium-framed iPhone Ultra. The tech company may use titanium to its maximum and build the phone with a slightly curved back plate like the iPhone 5c and MacBook Pro.

Apple may also replace the volume and power buttons with solid-state buttons, akin to the iPhone 6s and iPhone 7 generations. These buttons seem to provide a haptic sensation like physical buttons.

Apple's long-awaited switch to USB C may happen with the iPhone 15 series, as well. Apple has considered the move for years, but a recent EU order pushed Cupertino to acknowledge that it must comply with the universal standard openly.

portable devices must feature a USB Type-C charging connector.

In a previous report by PhoneArena, Apple's chief of marketing, Greg "Joz" Joswiak, once stated that Apple would comply with the order and switch to USB C. However, no USB C changeover timeline was specified. Analyst Mark Gurman anticipates Apple will go to USB C with the iPhone 15 generation in 2023, despite having time until 2024 with the iPhone 16 generation.

03/05/2020

Doctors discover reasons behind Coronavirus deadly clot

The novel coronavirus infection attacks the body of each patient differently with an onslaught of various complications that could be deadly if not treated. Among the complications they have seen among COVID-19 patients were neurological symptoms, including confusion and seizure, and an increase of young infected patients also developed stroke symptoms.

Researchers found that COVID-19 infection may cause blood clotting in severely ill patients.
Unfortunately, this "weird" complication is also the deadliest as experts believe the SARS-CoV-2 virus is capable of creating tiny blood clots that can block arteries and even reach the brain.
COVID-19 Causes Tiny Blood Clots

According to a report by BGR, experts found out that the virus can cause blood coagulation and could create tiny blood clots that form in the lungs first--and now, medical doctors finally understand how it happens.

28/04/2020

Study Revealed People With Positive Antibody Tests Can Still Be Infected With Coronavirus

According to NBC News' latest report, antibody tests that identify if a person is immune or not to the coronavirus may take months. However, the report stated that it doesn't mean the tests can't provide valuable public health information in the meantime. Currently, antibody tests cannot identify if an individual is immune to COVID-19, but the tests can show who is vulnerable to the virus.

NBC News explained that antibody tests can detect whether a person's immune system has developed antibodies needed to fight a particular infection.
Individuals with positive antibody tests show that they developed antibodies by having contracted and conquered a virus at some point.
Meanwhile, a negative test result can mean that the individual has not yet contracted a virus, so the immune system didn't need to create antibodies to fight it,The report stated.

20/09/2016

*Microsoft Surface Phone Rumored To Feature Unique Fingerprint Scanner*

Microsoft is rumored to be phasing out its popular Lumia-branded handsets in favor of its own Surface brand lineup of smartphones, and now a new patent discloses that the alleged Surface Phone from the company could tout a novel fingerprint scanner.

A patent titled "Fingerprint Detection with Transparent Cover," which was submitted by Microsoft in February 2015 and published on August 25, 2016, reveals that the Redmond-based company is considering the notion of equipping the purported Surface Phone with a fingerprint scanner.

However, unlike most handsets that sport the fingerprint sensor either on the rear of the device or on its home button, the Microsoft will apparently integrate the scanner on the device's display.

The patent has been filed with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and shares that the technology deployed by Microsoft would use a filter and wave guide below the display's glass.

Basically, when a user would hypothetically key in a fingerprint onto the Surface Phone's display, the sensor on the glass side would be able to scan the different ridges of their unique print.

"An electronic device includes a transparent cover and a light source disposed at an edge of the transparent cover. The light source is configured to inject light into the transparent cover. The transparent cover guides the light until interaction with a fingerprint ridge at the transparent cover. The electronic device further includes a filter disposed along the transparent cover. The filter is configured to selectively allow the light scattered by the fingerprint ridge to pass through the filter," notes the patent.

With this process allowing for a fingerprint scanner on screen, Microsoft would be able to make the handset thinner as it would free up space used for the component. The patent also says that the upcoming technology will be compatible with LED and AMOLED displays.

Microsoft has been rumored to be working on multiple variants of the Surface Phone that could boast the Snapdragon 830 chipset and a whopping 8 GB of RAM.

Previous rumors hint that the handset is anticipated to be released in 2017. The consumer variant will likely tout a 5.5-inch display, whereas the business version will have a 6-inch screen. The smartphone is also rumored to house Intel's 14nm Kaby Lake processor, a 21-megapixel primary camera and an 8-megapixel selfie snapper, and run Windows 10 Mobile out of the box.

Whether or not the ambitious smartphone will also eventually imbibe the patented fingerprint scanning technology remains to be seen.

27/05/2016

*New Solar Cells Transform Heat Into Usable Energy*

Solar cells add another function to an already long list of beneficial uses – they can transform heat into usable energy, a study has revealed.

Humans are on the lookout for more sources of renewable energy. In the past, scientists have been able to develop a solar panel that converts raindrops into electricity. Now, researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have come up with a device inspired by the solar cells' ability to surpass a theoretical limit on the amount of sunlight they can transform into electricity.

Solar cells were predicted to have an absolute theoretical ceiling, also known as Shockley-Queisser Limit, that defined the capacity of solar cells to convert energy. For example, a one-layer silicon cell has an upper limit of approximately 32 percent. To increase this capacity, several layers of cells would be added. An alternative method is to convert the energy first before it is allowed to generate electricity. The latter technique, also called solar thermophotovoltaics (STPVs), is what the researchers developed.

While the known theoretical energy cap still exists in conventional photovoltaics (PV), researchers explained that there is the possibility that that particular limit can be breached by the STVPs.

In explaining the theory, lead study author David Bierman, who is a doctoral student at MIT, calculated that the STPVs, which use traditional solar cells coupled with sheets of high-tech materials, can even exceed the efficiency limit by twofold.

25/03/2016

Canada Approves Sale Of Genetically Engineered Potato--Research work Delivery By Babalola M. Kolawole,A Geotechnologist from Ekiti State University

Simplot's first-generation Innate potatoes has been approved to be sold in the Canadian Market. The company said that the potatoes are of same nutritional value as a regular potato, but with less bruising or browning, and reduced asparagine.

Simplot's genetically engineered potato, Innate, has been approved for sale by Health Canada and Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). The first-generation Innate potatoes have passed the food safety assessment, and have been deemed healthy and safe as traditional spuds.

Based in Boise, Idaho, the J.R. Simplot Company can start selling the potatoes in the Canadian markets this 2016. It says that some of the benefits of the Innate potatoes include reduced bruising or browning, and reduced asparagines.

Innate potatoes are packed with the same nutritional composition just the same with regular potatoes. It's not labeled "genetically engineered" because it is not a requirement of Health Canada. In the U.S., the packaging has details about the product website and a QR code for consumer information.

Asparagine is released, and then produces acrylamide when potatoes are cooked at temperatures higher than 120 degrees Celsius (248 degrees Fahrenheit). Acrylamide is suspected to cause cancer. Some foods that contain high acrylamide are french fries, coffee, cookies, potato chips, bread and processed cereals.

"Our potato cuts acrylamide up to 62 percent and a future generation will take up to 90 percent, making it virtually negligible, which is a really big deal in the potato world," says Director Doug Cole, Marketing and Communications, Simplot.

Simplot says it was able to remove bruising and the browning effect of potatoes without using foreign genes. Cutting off parts that have gone brown, bruised and black results in less potato for consumption and more waste.

"Consumers throw away about 30 percent of their potatoes either due to bruising or sprouting, so we've solved the bruising problem," says Cole.

The general manager of United Potato Growers of Canada, Kevin MacIsaac, believes Innate will attract more commercial interest, as it is the kind of potato that makes cooking and storing easier.

According to Simplot, experts said that if potatoes have the traits of Innate, the carbon dioxide emission could be cut down to 30 million kilograms (66.1 million pounds), reduce water usage to 5.6 billion liters, and pesticide need per hectare will decrease by 15,000.

17/02/2016

*Robots, Artificial Intelligence May Leave Half Of Humans Unemployed In 30 Years*

Half of humans could be hounded by unemployment in 30 years’ time as machines fill job vacancies, warned a scientist in an expert panel that sounded the alarm on the threat of increasing use of autonomous systems on jobs.
Robots and smart machines such as self-driving car and intelligent drones are fast taking over traditional jobs, possibly resulting in this unprecedented rate of unemployment, according to computational engineering professor Moshe Vardi from Rice University in Texas.
“I do believe that, by 2045, machines will be able to do a very significant fraction of the work a man can do,” said Vardi, presenting at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington.
“if machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?” he continued.
Artificial intelligence experts predicted at the Feb. 13 news briefing during the annual meeting that these autonomous systems will “march into society” in the next two or three years. Driving is expected to be completely automated in 25 years.

With over a billion dollars allocated in 2015 for AI research – the biggest in the entire history of the field – experts agreed that these advances may threaten job security as well as unleash a number of ethical, legal, and regulatory challenges.
With the advent of self-driving cars, for instance, car accident rates will likely be reduced; the labor market can be seriously wounded and courts would have to determine liability given computers’ involvement in accidents.
Automation, said Vardi, has already slashed the number of jobs in the American manufacturing sector, whose jobs have now dropped below 1950 figures. The country now has more than 250,000 industrial robots, with a double-digit growth rate.
The scientist harped on what’s called “job polarization,” where jobs in the middle – in terms of skill requirements and cost efficiency – will be the easiest target for automation. “Great inequality” will result from the job disappearance, Vardi said, adding that the issue should be on the radar of U.S. presidential candidates.
"We need to start thinking very seriously: What will humans do when machines can do almost everything?" urged Vardi.
It is not too late, however, for policymakers to act on potential legal and ethical concerns surrounding AI machines.
"There's a need for concerted action to keep technology a good servant and not let it become a dangerous master,” said ethicist Wendell Wallach of Yale University, calling for “strong, meaningful human control” of the rapidly growing technology.
Wallace proposed the devotion of 10 percent of AI research funding to studying the machines societal effects.

21/01/2016

*ICT Stakeholders Converge In Ibadan To Discuss Sector’s Growth*

THE Minister of Communications, Adebayo Sh*ttu, with other stakeholders in the technology industry will at the weekend converged in Ibadan, Oyo State to chart growth path for the industry.

According to a statement by the Minister’s Special Assistant on Media, Victor Oluwadamilare, the theme of meeting, which is going to be for two-day, is “Repositioning the Nigeria Communications Sector as the Key Driver of the Nigerian Economy.”

The event will is scheduled to hold at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan and will be held between February Friday 22 and 23.

The statement disclosed that Sh*ttu, on assumption of office, embarked on various inquisitions and fact-finding exercises, the result of which culminated in the forthcoming retreat.“It was discovered that considerable efforts made in the past to mainstream ICT into vital aspects of life in the country, have unfortunately been undermined by the lack of an integrated framework for utilization of ICT for socio-economic development.

“In the ensuing scenario, the Minister of Communications had to re-examine the status quo ante in order to formulate new strategies for doing things differently so as to fast track the realization of the vision of a new Nigeria, hence the all-inclusive retreat”, Oluwadamilare stated.

Towards this end, the SA Media to the minister said the 2016 Communications Sector Retreat was designed to achieve among others: define a strategic roadmap for government on ICT; provide a common platform for sector stakeholders to share common vision for ICT development in Nigeria and to form a precursor for the minister to unveil his vision for the ICT sector that will be beneficial to all.

Other stakeholders expected at the retreat include national assembly members, key ministry officials; chief Executive Officers of NCC, NIGCOMSAT, NITDA, NIPOST, Galaxy Backbone Ltd and Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF), among others.

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