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FBI: ‘Too Early’ to Say if Anything Valuable Is on San Bernardino iPhone

April 11, 2016 SrijitaAnything, Bernardino, Early, FBI, if, iPhone, Is, On, San, Say, to, Too, Valuable

After a protracted and very public dispute between the FBI and Apple, federal authorities said last week that investigators were able to access a locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California, attackers. So what have they actually found? It’s too soon to say, according to the FBI’s top lawyer. The FBI is still analyzing data found on the iPhone, but it is “simply too early” to say whether the device contained any useful information, FBI General Counsel James Baker said at a conference Tuesday. Baker said investigators…

Antibiotic Resistance Is Worrisome, but Not Hopeless

April 9, 2016 SrijitaAntibiotic, but, Hopeless, Is, Not, Resistance, Worrisome

Image via iStock A century ago, the top three causes of death were infectious diseases. More than half of all people dying in the United States died because of germs. Today, they account for a few percent of deaths at most. We owe much of that, of course, to antibiotics, which came into use around the middle of the previous century. But we take them for granted, using them inappropriately and indiscriminately. This has led many to worry that our days of receiving benefits from them are numbered. Concern about…

How This Mumbai-Based NGO Is Protecting Children From Sex Offenders

March 30, 2016 SrijitaChildren, From, How, Is, Mumbai-Based, NGO, Offenders, Protecting, Sex, This

According to government figures, 53% children in India are abused and in half the cases, the abusers are known to the child Mumbai: Sex education is a near alien concept in India and sex education being imparted to 10 year olds – all the more unheard of. But Arpan, a Mumbai-based NGO is now changing this notion. In a bid to empower children, the organisation has designed a curriculum to teach children how to protect themselves from sexual predators. “Initially there’s a lot of discomfort when we introduce the class…

iPhone SE Is ‘Same Old Technology’, Says LG Mobile Chief

March 30, 2016 Srijita'Same, Chief, iPhone, Is, LG, Mobile, Old, Says, SE, Technology'

Apple’s new iPhone SE, unveiled on Monday, promises to meet the demand for a smaller iPhone, and by sticking to the smaller size of the iPhone 5s, it also means that people who didn’t like the larger screen size of the new models now have a smaller option to choose. Not everybody is impressed with Apple’s iPhone SE though, as an LG executive said it was no threat. During an event in South Korea, LG Mobile CEO Cho Juno, wass asked about the new iPhone SE and he said, “Rolling…

With the iPhone SE, Apple Hopes Small Is Big Again

March 28, 2016 SrijitaAgain, Apple, Big, Hopes, iPhone, Is, SE, Small, The, With

Apple Inc on Monday launched its least expensive iPhone, the $399 (roughly Rs. 27,000) iPhone SE (Pictures), filling a hole in its product lineup with a small-screen model that targets new customers in emerging markets and fans of smaller phones as the company tries to reverse falling phone sales. The low-key launch, held at the technology company’s Cupertino, California campus rather than its traditional splash at a much larger venue in San Francisco, did not wow tech experts or investors. But the new mid-range model was seen as necessary to…

Chocolate is Brain Food. Who Knew?

March 9, 2016 SrijitaBrain, Chocolate, Food., Is, Knew?, Who

In the mid 1970s, psychologist Merrill Elias began tracking the cognitive abilities of more than a thousand people in the state of New York. The goal was fairly specific: to observe the relationship between people’s blood pressure and brain performance. And for decades he did just that, eventually expanding the Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal Study (MSLS) to observe other cardiovascular risk factors, including diabetes, obesity, and smoking. There was never an inkling that his research would lead to any sort of discovery about chocolate. And yet, 40 years later, it seems to…