These Robotic Cubes Are Capable of Clustering Together Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developedself-assembling robotic cubes dubbed M-Blockcapable of climbing and rolling across the ground. These cubes are thesecond version of the projectMIT unveiled back in 2013. With the new iteration, these M-Block cubes have gained the capability to communicate with one another using a “barcode-like system” present on each face of the cube. This system is used for performing various tasks like forming a line or following a path....

This App Lets You Open Your Favorite Apps with a Single Swipe We have seen a lot of custom Android launchers that offer a completely different look &feel to your smartphone. However, there aren’t many apps that increase the functionality of your current launcher and luckily, Zone Launcher is one of them. Zone Launcher lets you access your favorite apps with a simple swipe gesture. The launcher works by requiring users tovertically swipe on the edge of the screen....

This Australian Startup Wants to Map the Oceans An Australia-based startup named UAM Tec wants to map the entire ocean floor by using autonomous submarines equipped with advanced technologies including motion tracking and AI. The company unveiled its autonomous submarine at CEBIT 2019 claiming it to be the “first fully autonomous and visual-based mapping submarine to exist in the world”. Thissubmarine has the capability to travel 100km at a depth of 200m, capturing 360-degree visuals with 22 cameras in the meantime....

This Device Aimed at Wearables Generates Electricity as You Walk Do you feel frustrated when your smart wearable devices run out of juice in the middle of the day? Well, researchers from the Mechanical and Automation Engineering department of Chinese University have created a device that generates electricity as you walk. The researchers have developed a “prototype harvester” capable of producing electricity from the motion of the knee joint. Notably,a four km/h walk produces 1....

This Software Protects Your Identity from Facial Recognition One of the major problems faced by companies for efficiently commercializing facial recognition technology is that the input data contains personal information that could reveal a person’s identity. To get around this problem, an Israeli company has developednew software that will anonymize people using computer-generated faces. D-ID is the company behind this project and it got founded by the former members of the Israeli Defense Forces....

AMD Unveils 3rd-gen Ryzen Threadripper CPUs with 24 and 32 Cores AMD has today unveiled new processors under the Ryzen Threadripper name. The Ryzen Threadripper 3960X is a 24-core processor, while the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X is a 32-core beast of a processor. Both the processors are built on the 7nm process with AMD’s Zen2 core architecture, and feature 88 PCIe 4.0 lanes. AMD claims that the processors are up to 90% better in performance, while also being 66% more power efficient than last-gen processors....

Galaxy Note 10, Note 10+ Android 10 Beta Finally Rolling Out in India After rolling out its Android 10-basedOne UI 2.0 beta programfor the Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10+ in South Korea and Germany over the past few weeks, Samsung is finally bringing it to 10 more countries, including India. That’saccording to SamMobile, which says the program will most likely also be available in a whole host of European countries, including France, Poland, Spain and the UK....