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Researchers Captured Light Bouncing Off Of Mirrors Using an Ultra Slow-Mo Camera As we all know that light is an element which travels at 29,97,92,458 m/s, which makes it impossible for us to catch a glimpse of it while it is traveling from one point to another. Now, it might seem impossible to capture light when it is traveling. However, a researcher and his team from a Swiss organization recently proved that it really is not....

Russell Kirsch, the Inventor of the “Pixel”, Passes Away at the Age of 91 When we browse through our favorite pictures on amodern display, we stare at millions of tiny illuminated areas on the computer screen. These minute illuminated areas on a display are what we call “pixels”. And the inventor of this revolutionary technology recently passed away. Way back in 1957, Russell Kirsch, an American Engineer of the National Bureau of Standards and his team developed the first digital photograph....

Ryan Reynolds’ New Free-for-All Streaming Platform Has Only One Movie Most of us are nowfamiliar with all the digital streaming servicesin the market, thanks to theNovel Coronavirus. However, with time, more and morestreaming platformsare popping up and major companies likeDisneyandAppleare trying to capture the market piece by piece. Now, these streaming platforms come with hundreds, nay thousands ofmoviesandTV shows. However, popular actor, Ryan Reynolds’ new streaming service only offers one movie....

These Special Earbuds Will Zap Your Nerve to Help You Learn a New Language With age, mastering a lingo becomes more and more challenging for people. While some are naturally good at it, others could use that extra help to help them wrap their head around a new language. One such device is a pair of earbuds that can help you learn new languages. Prototypes of such devices are already present after years and years of research that has gone into making it....

These “Pizza-Charts” Show Durations of Netflix Content At this point, we all know about thedigital streaming behemothin the market,Netflix. The platform has thousands ofmoviesandTV showsfor the audience to enjoy. So, to depict how long did all the movies and TV shows on the platform last, an Indian data analyst has made two interactive pizza-like charts (more like pizza-charts) that categorize them based on their runtime. Recently shared on the r/dataisbeautiful subreddit, a Reddit post (below) led us to a public data visualizations website which contains the interactive digital charts made by Nagaraj Bhat (@nagarajbhat92), an Australia-based Indian data analyst and machine learning expert....

This DIY “Mask Gun” Throws Masks Right at People Faces Apart fromlocking us all up in our houses, theongoing Coronavirus pandemichas also forced us to wear aface mask. However, for some people in the world, especially for a certain percentage of Americans, wearing a mask is against their free will. In light of this idea, there have been a lot of protests against wearing a mask. So, to cover the faces of these “maskholes”, an engineer turned YouTuber has built a “Mask Gun”....

This New AI Can Simulate “Wimbledon Championship” Matches With more and more development inartificial intelligence (AI), today’s AI systems can do just about everything. Fromaiding the military on the battlefieldtocontrolling an entire ship, there isn’t much that AI cannot do. Now, a team of researchers has created an AI system that can simulate tennis matches between popular players like Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic. As the famous tennis tournament, the Wimbledon Championship got canceled this year due to the ongoing pandemic,researchers from Stanford University created an algorithm that can synthesize tennis matches with the help of an AI system....