Here's All You Need to Know About Blooming Hill Set in BTS Track 'Stay Gold'

Fans and followers of BTS are shocked to learn that the spell bounding scenes in their latest track 'Stay Gold' were courtesy of a real, hand-built set.

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus chipset is expected to launch next month

The much-awaited Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+ is rumored to be launched in July. If the chipset is launched next month, most of the smartphones that will be launched later this year will be powered with it.

A report by Gizmochina quoted Ice Universe as saying, “If there is no accident, Qualcomm will release the Snapdragon 865+ processor in July."

The tipster also added that mobile phones with Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+ processors will arrive in the second half of the year.

The report mentions that the Snapdragon 865+ processor is expected to have a clock speed of 3.09 GHz, which will be higher than 2.84GHz in Snapdragon 865.

As per the AnTuTu listing, Snapdragon 865+ chipset has a total score of 646,310 points, which includes a CPU score of 183,149 points, a GPU score of 247,932 points, MEM score of 111,239 points and UX score of 103,990 points.

According to a report by Wccftech.com, one of the first smartphones to come powered with the upcoming faster Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+ chipset could be the ASUS ROG Phone 3.

It further says that if manufacturers plan on letting the Snapdragon 865+ run at the aforementioned clock speeds, then they will have to design a cooling solution accordingly. If they don't, the chipset will throttle, wasting away its actual potential.

A report by TechRadar mentions that the other few devices that may also rock the new SoC could be the Samsung’s Note 20 Series and iQoo 3 Pro from Vivo. There are rumours that Samsung’s foldable phone Galaxy Z Flip may be powered with the new chipset.

 

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OnePlus Nord will reportedly launch on 10 July in India; a teaser on Amazon also released

It was recently confirmed that OnePlus' much talked about affordable smartphone will be named OnePlus Nord instead of OnePlus Z or OnePlus 8 Lite.  The smartphone teaser has now popped up on the Amazon India website, hinting that the launch is near. The company has also confirmed that the smartphone will debut in July, hence we can expect that the OnePlus Nord might launch in the coming few days.

As per Amazon's OnePlus Nord dedicated website, more specifications about the smartphone will be revealed tomorrow (30 June).

According to a report by Android Central, OnePlus Nord will be launched on 10 July in India. The report also suggests that the smartphone is likely to feature a dual-camera setup on the front that houses a 32 MP primary sensor and an 8 MP wide-angle sensor.

As per a previous report, the smartphone is expected to sport a 6.55-inch Super AMOLED display with a 90Hz refresh rate. It is expected to be powered by Snapdragon 765 SoC with 5G support. The smartphone is likely to offer 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal storage.

The report mentions that OnePlus Nord may have three cameras on the rear. A 64 MP primary camera, a 16 MP (supposedly ultra-wide) lens, and a 2 MP shooter, which can either be a depth sensor or dedicated macro unit. It is expected to house a 4,300 mAh battery with the company's 30W Wrap charge.

To recall, OnePlus is also launching an affordable smart TV in India on 2 July. It will be priced under Rs 20,000.

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NASA will debut AI system on Mars rovers to direct the search for life on the Red planet and beyond

NASA has stepped closer to allowing remote onboard computers to direct the search for life on other planets. Scientists from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) have announced first results from new intelligent systems, to be installed in space probes, capable of identifying geochemical signatures of life from rock samples.

Allowing these intelligent systems to choose both what to analyse and what to tell us back on Earth will overcome severe limits on how information is transmitted over huge distances in the search for life from distant planets. The systems will debut on the 2022/23 ExoMars mission, before fuller implementation on more distant bodies in the solar system.

ESA’s ExoMars rover (foreground) and Russia’s stationary surface science platform (background) are scheduled for launch in July 2020, arriving at Mars in March 2021. The Trace Gas Orbiter, which has been at Mars since October 2016, will act as awill act as a relay station for the mission, as well as conducting its own science mission. Image credit: ESA

Presenting the work at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, lead researcher Victoria Da Poian (GSFC) said, "This is a visionary step in space exploration. It means that over time we'll have moved from the idea that humans are involved with nearly everything in space, to the idea that computers are equipped with intelligent systems, and they are trained to make some decisions and are able to transmit in priority the most interesting or time-critical information."

Eric Lyness, software lead in the Planetary Environments Lab at NASA GSFC, emphasised the need to have smart instruments for planetary exploration: "It costs a lot of time and money to send the data back to Earth which means scientists can't run as many experiments or analyse as many samples as they would like. By using AI to do an initial analysis of the data after it is collected but before it is sent back to Earth, NASA can optimise what we receive, which greatly increases the scientific value of space missions."

Victoria Da Poian and Eric Lyness have trained artificial intelligence systems to analyse hundreds of rock samples and thousands of experimental spectra from the Mars Organic Molecule Analyser (MOMA), an instrument that will land on Mars within the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Rover in 2023. MOMA is a state-of-the-art mass spectrometer-based instrument, capable of analysing and identifying organic molecules in rocks samples. It will search for past or present life on the Martian surface and subsurface through analysis of rock samples. The system to be sent to Mars will still transmit most data back to Earth, but later systems for the outer solar system will be given autonomy to decide what information to return to Earth.

First results show that when the system's neural network algorithm processes a spectrum from an unknown compound, this can be categorized with up to 94% accuracy and matched to previously seen samples with 87% accuracy. This will be further refined until being incorporated into the 2023 mission.

Victoria Da Poian continued: "What we get from these unmanned missions is data, lots of it; and sending data over hundreds of millions of kilometres can be very challenging in different environments and extremely expensive; in other words, bandwidth is limited. We need to prioritize the volume of data we send back to Earth, but we also need to ensure that in doing that we don't throw out vital information. This has led us to begin to develop smart algorithms which can for now help the scientists with their analysis of the sample and their decision-making process regarding subsequent operations, and as a longer-term objective, algorithms that will analyse the data itself will adjust and tune the instruments to run next operations without the ground-in-the-loop, and will transmit home only the most interesting data."

The team used the raw data from initial laboratory tests with an Earth-based MOMA instrument to train computers to recognize familiar patterns. When new raw data is received, the software tells the scientists what previously encountered samples match this new data.

Eric Lyness said: "The mission will face severe time limits. When we will be operating on Mars, samples will only remain in the rover for at most a few weeks before the rover dumps the sample and moves to a new place to drill. So, if we need to retest a sample, we need to do it quickly, sometimes within 24 hours. In the future, as we move to explore the moons of Jupiter such as Europa, and of Saturn such as Enceladus and Titan, we will need real-time decisions to be made onsite. With these moons, it can take 5 to 7hours for a signal from Earth to reach the instruments, so this will not be like controlling a drone, with an instant response. We need to give the instruments the autonomy to make rapid decisions to reach our science goals on our behalf."

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Google-Apple's COVID-19 exposure notification rolls out for users in India, not compatible with Aarogya Setu yet

Back in April, Google and Apple teamed up to launch a COVID -19 contract tracing technology and named it Exposure Notifications. Turns out, it is finally available for both Android and iOS users in India. Notably, users are required to download their public health authority's app, which is Aarogya Setu in our case, to use the Exposure notifications. However, the Aarogya Setu app is not yet compatible with Google's exposure notifications.

There are a few tweaks and requirements that Aarogya Setu needs to fulfill so that it is compatible with Google's API. Google is stringent to the fact that its API will only work with the public health authority apps.

(Also read: Apple-Google contract tracing API promises privacy protection, yet many govts want their own apps) 

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Countries like Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and others are already using this API.

If Aarogya Setu becomes compatible with exposure notification, here is all you would like to know:

Exposure Notification has rolled out on Android smartphones.

How to activate Exposure Notifications?

To let exposure notifications do its job, download the Aarogya Setu app on your phone, you need to turn on the Bluetooth and phone's location. According to Google, "the system uses location to scan Bluetooth signals and it does not collect or track your location."

Exposure notifications

How does the exposure notifications work?

Basically, when you turn on the exposure notifications on your phone via Aarogya Setu, it will send random IDs to nearby phones (given that they have also turned on this setting). This way, your phone will exchange and store a lot of IDs throughout the day. If anyone from those stored IDs tests positive for COVID-19, the user will be notified accordingly. Notably, these random IDs change every 10-20 minutes to maintain user privacy and are stored for 14 days.

(Also read: Aarogya Setu not 'open source' in real sense, claim cybersecurity activists, sat server code must be made public)

What if you come in contact with a COVID-19 patient?

If someone reports on the Aarogya Setu app that they tested positive for the virus, the system will share "the day that contact happened", "how long the contact lasted" and "the Bluetooth signal strength of that contact". This way, all the contacts will be notified of the next steps.

In case, you report that you have tested positive, you can choose to share those random ID so that the users who have come in your contact can be alerted. Google assures that your identity will not be shared with other users.

How to turn off exposure notifications?

Google has clearly mentioned that you can choose not to use exposure notifications and opt-in voluntarily if you want to use it. In case you change your mind, you can choose to opt-out as well. You can either uninstall Aarogya Setu or go to the phone Settings> Google>COVID-19 exposure notifications and simply tap on it to turn it off.

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Indian Film Festival of Melbourne rescheduled to October amid COVID-19 pandemic

After a grand 10th year celebration last year with Shah Rukh Khan as their last chief guest, 2020 Indian Film Festival of Melbourne goes ahead rescheduling to October 30 to November 7. This month the festival kickstarts a brand-new virtual event, the IFFM FILM CLUB featuring some of the finest filmmakers in India, discussing their films

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Nia Sharma, Rashami Desai's BTS photos from Naagin 4 sets go viral

After almost three months of complete lockdown, the shooting for various Television shows finally began keeping all the safety precautions in mind. One amongst those was supernatural show Naagin 4 the shootings of which finally took place in the presence of its lead actresses Nia Sharma and Rashami Desai. Counted amongst one of the popular daily soaps of the small screen, Ekta Kapoor's show will finally come to an end and begin with a new season real soon. But before that, the actresses geared up for the much-awaited finale and shared their excitement on social media. On one hand where Nia shared BTS pictures, Rashami, on the other, treated fans with her makeup video. 

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