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The US Navy has sent a formal letter to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) requesting the development of the Aircraft Stability and Control Analyzer (ASCA) project. With this letter, the project to build the Tornado computer began. Whirlwind, led by JW Forrester, was the first high-speed digital computer. By December 1954, the Cyclone computer consisted of 12,500 vacuum tubes and 23,8...

Video streaming platform YouTube has launched a pause comment feature to temporarily control comments on homemade videos. By introducing this feature, creators can temporarily prevent viewers from commenting on their videos for a period of time. This makes controlling video comments easier than ever. Currently, comments on homemade videos can be completely blocked on YouTube. Comments can als...

Various types of fraud are also carried out by sending emails, phone calls and text messages. Scams involving unsolicited or spam emails being sent over the phone are on the rise. This is nothing new to Google. To protect Android users from unwanted or spam emails, Google has added spam detection feature in its Messages app. When this feature is enabled, the Messages app automatically scans all me...

Engineer Mohiuddin Ahmed has been appointed as the new Chairman of BTRC. A delegation of AMTOB led by Mr. Yasir Azman, CEO of Grameenphone and Sr. Vice President of AMTOB welcomed the BTRC Chairman in his office today. The attendees from left to right, were Hossain Sadat, Senior Director, Corporate Affairs of Grameenphone; Lt Col Mohammad Zulfikar (retd), Secretary General of AMTOB, Taimur Rahman,...

Cybercriminals enter malware into an iPhone via a keyboard application, thereby collecting a variety of information including passwords and a user's history of online activity. The differences between the iPhone's default keyboard app and the malware keyboard app are almost visually identical. Cybersecurity firm Serto Software says this makes it safe for users to use. Apple checks the securit...

Cybercriminals use QR codes to commit online fraud. Therefore, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) advises everyone to be careful about this. The regulator said in a statement that cybercriminals collected users' personal data by adding malicious links to fake QR codes. Users enter malicious links by scanning fake QR codes. This can put your personal data into the hands of cybercriminals. ...

Sony Corporation launches the PlayStation Portable (PSP), a portable video game console (game console), to the Japanese market. It was released in the North American market on March 24, 2005 the following year. This is Sony's first handheld game console. Original price $249.99. As of March 31, 2016, the PSP was manufactured by Sony Interactive Entertainment. PSP sales reached 80 million to 82 mill...

Apollo 17 was the 11th and final spacecraft of NASA's Apollo missions, landing on the moon with astronauts. The Apollo 17 mission lasted from December 7 to 19, 1972.Apollo 17 commander Eugene Kernan and lunar module pilot Harrison Schmidt stepped onto the lunar surface on December 11. Command module pilot Ronald Evans was on board.Schmidt is the only geologist on Earth to land on the moon. Schmidt...

Sir Frederick Williams patented Random Access Memory, or RAM. This type of RAM is called a Williams tube. This is an improved cathode ray tube. On the surface of the tube, draw dots and dashes made of a material that produces charges that represent the binary numbers 0 and 1. This was the main memory of vacuum tube computers such as the IBM 701.Williams developed his storage device at the Universi...

Recently, WhatsApp added the ability to share photos and videos in HD (High Definition) format. This feature allows users to send high-resolution images to friends on demand. W.A. WhatsApp has started allowing posting of HD quality photos and videos in the status option, Beta Info, the company that works with WhatsApp for various features, said in a report. The feature is experimentally avail...