My Science School

The WOWcube, a new twist on the beloved Rubik's Cube, is the brainchild of 13-year-old DIY YouTuber, Savva Osipov. "What if we place characters and gameplay on Rubik's Cube surface and control the game by twisting, tilting and shaking," he thought. Together with his father, inventor Ilya, they came up with the WOWcube. The device comes with tiny, high-res microdisplays built into each of the cube's 24 square-shaped segments, and eight processors and an accelerometer on the inside. As with a Rubik's Cube, users can twist, flip, turn, and rotate elements along multiples axes, constantly changing how the screens align with one another, all accompanied by satisfying clicks. Its accompanying iOS/Android app allows users to load a number of games, including word games, puzzles, mazes and arcade-style games, into the device via Bluetooth. It runs on an open-source API (application programming interface) that enables youngsters with computer skills and developers to design their own games for the WOWcube. Place the device onto its charging base and the cube's individual screens become functional widgets, displaying the date, time, weather, social media, notifications, news and more. The STEM-learning certified device measures 2.8 inches on each side and weighs 335 gms. Its integrated 4,320 mAh lithium-ion battery runs for upto eight hours on a single charge.

 

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Scribbl offers a cool way to spruce up your images and videos with effects and animations. Draw striking scribble type animations over static pictures or tap on the animation of your choice and add it over videos. Change the colour, size and position of the animation, customize your art brush and edit your effects easily. Scribbl also lets you add a glow animation to achieve a neon sign or lightning effect. Export your animation in full HD quality for your social media posts and show off your creative side to your friends. You can even get your work featured in the app's home page. Free for iOS and Android.

Scribbl is an animation maker which allows you to draw animations on your images to achieve the Scribble Animation effect. We've simplified the process of animating your images, forget drawing frame by frame, you can easily create an awesome effect just by drawing over your picture once.

Scribbl gives you the option to customize your art brush. Play around with different sizes and styles. Scribbl also has the cool feature of adding glow animation to achieve that awesome neon sign or lightning effect.

Once you're done drawing your animation, you can export it in Full HD quality for your social media posts. Forget boring static images or videos without that extra flair for your Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram stories and posts, download Scribbl now and show off your creative side to the world with crazy animations!

 

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Fortunately, Instagram had the sense to include a way to rediscover these websites or links in your profile for later perusal. You can now view all websites you have opened on Instagram in a single location. Let's find out how to use the official Instagram apps for Android and iOS. This won't work on the Instagram web app.

That doesn't mean that the desktop or web app is completely redundant. You can still check your DMs or view Instagram stories. While everything said, putting links in the comments or an Instagram post is still a tricky affair. You'll need at least 10,000 users to post a link inside your Instagram stories.

If you ever need to revisit a product or blog link on Instagram, you don't have to find the original post or account from last time. Tap on your profile icon at the bottom of the screen, and then on the hamburger icon at the top right. Select Your Activity' from the menu. You will find all opened links under the Links tab arranged date-wise, starting from the most recent; and tap on any link to open it again in Instagram's in app browser. (The Time tab tells you how much time you spent scrolling through your feeds mindlessly!)

 

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Google's experimental app, Look to Speak, helps people with speech and motor impairments communicate by using their eyes to select pre-written phrases and have them spoken aloud by their smartphones. After positioning the phone slightly below eye level, a user looks left, right or up to choose from a list of phrases, which the device then speaks aloud. Users can personalize words and phrases, so that they can share their authentic voice. The app is one of Google's 'Start with One, Invent for Many projects that all begin with one person trying to make something impactful for their community. "Now conversations can more easily happen where before there might have been silence," says Richard Cave, speech and language therapist at Google.

Look to Speak is a ‘Start with One’ project on the “Experiments with Google” platform. It all started with an idea that could be impactful for one person and their community. Throughout the design process, we reached out to a small group of people who might benefit from a communication tool like this. What was amazing to see was how Look To Speak could work where other communication devices couldn’t easily go—for example, in outdoors, in transit, in the shower and in urgent situations. Now conversations can more easily happen where before there might have been silence, and I’m excited to hear some of them.

 

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The Garbage Watch is a functional watch made out of upcycled e-waste. "Today, most of the 50 million tonnes of electronic waste that's generated every year is treated like garbage even though it isn't. Instead it contains many of the world's precious metals, like silver, platinum, copper, nickel, cobalt, aluminium and zinc. You'll find 7% of the world's gold in e-waste," says Vollebak, the company behind the watch. "Everything you can see on the Garbage Watch used to be something else a motherboard from your computer, a microchip in your smartphone, or wiring from your TV." Of the unique design, the company says, "We've taken an 'inside- out design approach with the Garbage Watch, making the functional inner workings highly visible... Our aim was to reframe an often invisible and hazardous end of the supply chain, and make people think deeply about the impact of treating their wearables in a disposable manner."

 

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Dawn is a minimalistic calendar app that aims to be your central point for remembering and getting things done. It lets you sync your calendars and reminder lists, and sort, categorize, and filter your events. Create unique Spaces to organize different aspects of your life - group tasks, create itineraries, manage projects, plan vacations, and more. Dawn's Today page is an adaptive homepage that changes as your day goes by. Quickly add tasks to your day and check off tasks you've completed. Never miss a thing with multiple reminders. Pinpoint busy days with Calendar Heatmap and day summaries. Free for iOS.

The app lets you organise yourself effortlessly and gives you some interesting unique features to focus on your objectives.

• Pinpoint your busy days with heatmaps and day summaries.


• Manage everything in one place with integrated to-dos.


• Keep your days organized with the ability to add subtasks.


• Sync events with Apple’s native Calendar and Reminder apps

 

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The first rule of Zoom Club: Don’t give up control of your screen. 

You do not want random people in your public event taking control of the screen and sharing unwanted content with the group. You can restrict this — before the meeting and during the meeting in the host control bar — so that you’re the only one who can screen-share.

Zoom allows meeting hosts to pause a meeting and remove unruly participants and Zoombombers (pranksters who invade calls). Click on the 'Suspend Participant Activities' feature under the Security icon. All video, audio, in-meeting chat, screen sharing and recording during that time will stop. An unruly participant's details along with an optional screenshot can be shared with Zoom. Once you click 'Submit', the reported user will be removed from the meeting, and a notification sent to Zoom's Trust & Safety team. The feature is enabled by default for all free and paid Zoom users.

Zoom is a great way to stay connected right now, and we hope these tips will help you continue to host amazing events using our platform! If you’re not sure whether a public Zoom event is the way to go, share the meeting link only with your close friends, co-workers, and clients. You can even password-protect it for another layer of security.

 

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Tabnabbing is a phishing attack that takes advantage of an idle tab in your internet browser. When a malicious script detects that the user has moved to another tab or has been inactive for some time, it quietly refreshes the idle background tab, redirecting it to a fake login page of a seemingly legitimate website. When you click on the tab, you'll probably assume that you opened the site yourself. If you log in, your credentials are sent to the owner of the malicious website.

To prevent tabnabbing, keep as few tabs open as possible. Check the address bar for the correct url. Look out for differences between the page and the genuine site (e.g., spelling mistakes and unusual layouts).

Tabnabbing is a social engineering attack. It depends on the victim's attentiveness and the ability of the hacker to con the victim into believing in his malicious site.

 

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KASO's Keychain 4K is said to be the world's smallest 4K vlogging camera. You can record for up to 60 minutes, take time lapses and slow motion captures and stills, courtesy of its 20-megapixel photo mode. The camera features 4K/30 fps recording capabilities, image stabilization, a 1240 field of view, six-axis, anti-shake technology, and hands-free shooting. It has six LED lights arranged around the lens to act as a flash to illuminate its subject. All this is packed into a 36-gram casing with an IP56 waterproof rating. KeyChain measures 63x33x18 mm with a micro SD card slot for storage and a USB-C slot for recharging. It comes with a pivot stand and mount base, a carry-on camera case, a magnet pendant and an easy clip to help you share your adventures by attaching it to your backpack or tee to record all you do. The accompanying app features editing and effects options, you can even reverse the entire video so it plays backwards. The 'advanced edit suite allows for adding subtitles, stickers, doodles, placing another video/photo in the frame picture-in-picture style, adding music or increasing the speed.

 

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Seek by iNaturalist (a joint venture by the National Geographic Society and the California Academy of Sciences) connects people with nature. The app features live image recognition it scans its database of millions of wildlife observations while users have their camera open and before they take a photo. Once Seek identifies the species, it prompts users to take a photo, unlocking further features. It will also display a map of where the species is located near the user, and awards them badges that go towards completing various challenges. With the user's permission, the app sends collected data to iNaturalist's global biodiversity database, helping scientists to track the health of the planet. Free for iOS and Android.

The Seek app was originally released in 2018. It’s been redesigned and rebuilt in the past year.

Teachers interested in getting their classes involved can check out an online guide.

Grown-ups may be interested in the original iNaturalist app.

If you want to dig deeper, iNaturalist also is compiling a list of similar biodiversity observation platforms and social networks.

 

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Netflix users can have up to five profiles within a single account. To restrict access to a specific profile, protect it with a Profile Lock PIN. Sign into Netflix through a web browser. Click on your profile photo; go to Account > Profile & Parental Controls > Profile Lock > Change; enter your account password. Check the box 'Require a PIN'; enter four numbers to create a Profile Lock PIN. The next time you enter Netflix, your profile will appear with a lock under it; tap on the profile and enter the 4-digit pin to open it.

Any profile on your Netflix account can be given its own PIN, but only the account holder can set them up. So if multiple people in your house want a PIN, you can look away as they enter them in once you’ve authenticated with your password.

However, the Netflix account owner always has the power to disable the PIN and profile lock for any profile. Remember, this is meant more as a parental control tool than anything else.

 

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By 2022, astronauts on the moon will be able to make cellular calls, stream videos and more, thanks to NASA and Nokia's joint venture to put a 4G network on earth's lunar neighbour. Besides voice communication and data transmission, the mobile network could power navigation, stream biometric data on the astronauts' health and fitness, and direct remote-control robots and sensors on the lunar surface. Finnish phone company, Nokia, promises that the lunar network will be "ultra compact, low-power, space-hardened, end-to-end 4G LTE." It will also be upgraded to 5G over time.

The network will be designed to withstand the extreme conditions of the launch and lunar landing, and to operate in space. It will have to be sent to the moon in an extremely compact form to meet the stringent size, weight and power constraints of space payloads.

Nokia said the network would be using 4G/LTE, in use worldwide for the last decade, instead of the latest 5G technology, because the former was a more known quantity with proven reliability. The company would also "pursue space applications of LTE's successor technology, 5G".

 

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Designed for beginners to pick up guitar skills in a fun way, the Popular is a lightweight acoustic smart guitar from Chinese company Popumusic. The 96 LEDs located along the guitar's neck show users where and when to place their fingers on the guitar. A Bluetooth 5.0 paired app registers what you are doing on the guitar and gives you feedback as you play. The teaching system is made up of games and tutorials, there's a section for music theory, classic and modern pop songs and follow along playing. Short videos courses take you from basics like how to hold the guitar and pluck the strings to mastering popular songs. Only on completion of a song with a certain degree of proficiency can a student move to the next level. The final mode unlocks a smart guitar tool-kit, where the lights can be encouraged to dance as you play, a chord dictionary shows finger positions for "all kinds of chords in all kinds of keys", plus a tuner, a metronome and more.

 

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94-year-old natural historian and broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough said he's joined Instagram because "saving our planet is now a communications challenge. We know what to do, we just need the will." Attenborough reached a million Instagram followers in a record-breaking time: 4 hours 44 minutes. He currently has over 4.8 million followers.

"I'm making this move and exploring this new way of communication to me, because as we all know, the world is in trouble. Continents are on fire. Glaciers are melting. Coral reefs are dying. Fish are disappearing from our oceans. The list goes on and on and on," added Attenborough. Attenborough will be using Instagram to share messages explaining the problems our planet is facing, and possible solutions for tackling those issues. To follow Sir David on Instagram, go to @David Attenborough.

 

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Video calling apps like Zoom call it 'sharing but Google Meet likes to call it 'presenting'. That's why you won't find the share button in Meet. Instead, click on the 'Present now button at the bottom of the screen to reveal sharing options. You can present your entire screen, a window or just a Chrome browser tab. Clicking on the window option will allow you to select any open window on your computer. That could be an open folder, file or an app The rest will stay hidden.

Since video conferences are no longer limited to desktops and laptops, both Google Meet and Zoom are available for mobile devices based on Android and iOS. Google Meet is also accessible directly through Chrome and other modern browsers and doesn't require any additional plugins. You just need to visit meet.google.com to host a meeting. Similarly, you can participate in a scheduled meeting by visiting its link in your eligible browser. This isn't the case with Zoom as it doesn't allow you to host a meeting through a browser. Nevertheless, you can join a meeting via your browser. There are also plugins for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox that you can use to schedule your meeting.

Zoom is popular for its Gallery view that displays up to 49 participants on a single screen. However, Google Meet recently mimicked that interface by enabling an expanded tiled layout that simultaneously shows up to 16 participants at once. Google also recently added a low-light mode that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to adjust video on the basis of lighting conditions. The feature is initially limited to mobile users, though.

 

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