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Russia has banned Jehovah's Witnesses
after the Supreme Court ruled the Christian
sect to be an “extremist” group.
“The Supreme Court has ruled to sustain the
claim of Russia's ministry of justice and
deem the 'Administrative Centre of
Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia' organisation
extremist, eliminate it and ban its activity in
Russia,” said judge Yuri Ivanenko.
“The property of the Jehovah's Witnesses
organisation is to be confiscated to the state
revenue.”
A lawyer for the justice ministry, Svetlana
Borisova, told the court adherents “pose a
threat to the rights of the citizens, public
order and public security”.
Judges ordered the closure of the group's
Russian headquarters and 395 local
chapters, as well as the seizure of its
property.
Lawyers for the Jehovah's Witnesses said
they would appeal the court's decision,
which has not yet come into effect, and
could take the case to the European Court
of Human Rights.
“We will do everything possible,” Sergei
Cherepanov, a Jehovah's Witnesses
representative, was quoted as saying by the
Interfax news agency.

source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-jehovahs-witnesses-ban-extremists-religion-christian-sect-vladimir-putin-supreme-court-a7693671.html

Samsung’s new Galaxy S8 is hitting stores this
week and it’s bringing a lot features, design,
and screen along with it. The S8 (and its
larger sibling, the S8 Plus) is one of the best
phones ever made and the best phone you
can buy right now, read,full review https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/18/15328968/samsung-galaxy-s8-review-s8-plus.
But if you’ve already ordered or bought an
S8, you might be wondering what the best
way to unlock it is. Because unlike Samsung’s
prior phones, the S8 doesn’t have a
fingerprint scanner on the front. Instead, it’s
on the back of the phone, near the camera.
This can present issues with comfort (it’s hard
to reach) and practicality (you’re very likely to
put your finger all over the camera lens
when trying to use it).
So Samsung has introduced a total of five
ways to unlock the S8 to make up for the
poor fingerprint scanner placement. Which
one’s the best? Let’s break it down.
PIN CODE / PASSWORD
As with every other smartphone, you can use
a four-digit PIN code or alphanumeric
password to unlock the S8. These are the
most secure methods to use, but they are
also the most inconvenient and clumsy. When
you unlock your phone hundreds of times a
day, it gets very tiresome to type in a PIN or
worse, a password, every time.
PATTERN
The S8 also supports the standard Android
pattern unlock method, whereby you trace a
particular line you set through a grid of nine
dots. This is the way most Android owners
unlock their phones, as it’s more convenient
than a PIN code or password. It is slightly less
secure than those options, but still
considered one of the more secure methods
to protect the information on your device.
FINGERPRINT
As mentioned, the S8 does have a fingerprint
scanner and you can use this to secure and
unlock your device. Unlike other devices, such
as the Google Pixel that put the scanner in
the middle of the phone where your index
finger naturally rests when holding the
device, the S8’s scanner is high up on the
back of the device and not in the middle.
That can make it very hard to reach,
especially with the larger S8 Plus, and it can
be more difficult for left-handed people that
have to move their index fingers awkwardly
to cover it.
To make matters worse, the fingerprint
scanner is right next to the camera, and
“feels” very similarly. So if you’re moving your
finger around trying to locate the scanner by
touch, it’s very easy to smear the camera
lens with fingerprints and oils, which is not
particularly pleasant. (Why is it there, you
may ask? Samsung says it’s because the
location of the battery inside the phone
prevented it from being placed lower down.)
All of that said, the fingerprint scanner is a
secure method, and the actual scanner on
the S8 is very fast. My colleague Walt
Mossberg had trouble getting it to register his
digits, but I’ve had no issues with it waking
and unlocking the phone with my fingers,
provided I can actually reach it. I’ve adjusted
a bit after some time with the phone, and
find myself using the fingerprint scanner a bit
more than when I had first picked up the S8.
But it’s still annoying and something I have to
think about doing, instead of it just
happening naturally when I pick up the
phone.
IRIS
To make up for the S8’s bad fingerprint
scanner placement, Samsung has included an
iris scanning method, which uses special
sensors on the front of the phone to identify
you and unlock the device. Iris scanning is
considered one of the most secure biometric
methods we have available, and you can use
it for everything from unlocking the device to
authenticating purchases with Samsung Pay.
But iris does have its downsides: though it
works in low light, it can have a lot of trouble
recognizing my eyes in sunlight, and I have to
hold the phone up and awkwardly close to
my face. It also can have trouble with glasses
and takes a second or two longer to
authenticate compared to the fingerprint
scanner. My colleague Vlad Savov found this
to be the easiest way to unlock the S8 Plus in
his time with the device, but again, Walt had
trouble with it seeing his eyes.
FACE
The newest means of unlocking the S8 is
Samsung’s new Face unlock feature (not to be
confused with the face unlocking feature
included in Android since 2011). This method
uses the front-facing camera to identify you
and unlock the device. It’s designed to be the
most convenient way to unlock the phone,
but it is less secure than any other method
and cannot be used to authenticate Samsung
Pay purchases.
In our tests, the Face unlock method was the
slowest and least reliable way to unlock the
S8. Despite promising to work at various
angles and from comfortable distances, this
method refused to work the vast majority of
the time. It would not see my face in good
light or poor light, and when it did work, it
would take several seconds of awkwardly
staring at the phone before it would unlock.
To make matters worse, some have been
able to trick the Face unlock feature with a
picture, proving its lack of security. I was not
able to replicate this, for, as I said, it
wouldn’t unlock with my real face anyways.
So of all these options, which is the best?
I’ve settled on a combination using pattern,
fingerprint, and iris methods, all of which can
be enabled at the same time. I find myself
most often using the fingerprint scanner,
which both wakes and unlocks in one motion.
But if I can’t reach it, the iris or pattern are
the fallbacks I use.
Either way, it shouldn’t be this difficult to
figure out a simple task such as unlocking
your phone and we hope that Samsung uses
a better design for its next device.

sourse: http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/21/15360584/samsung-galaxy-s8-unlock-face-iris-fingerprint-scanner-most-secure

StRichard:
They will never learn from mistakes of others

she looks like a frog

Cc : lalasticlala , seun.

Yelp Eat24 is using robots to deliver
food orders in two San Francisco
neighborhoods.

On a giant screen at Marble's San Francisco
headquarters, I'm watching one of their
robots deliver my lunch.
The four-wheeled bot is bigger than I
expected. To give you an idea of scale, it's
built on top of an electric wheelchair base,
the cargo bay can hold up to four grocery
bags at a time and it's just over 4 feet tall.
It uses various sensors, including Lidar, or
light detection and ranging technology like
used in self-driving cars, to help it navigate
city sidewalks. The robot rolls along at a
leisurely walking pace of 3-4 miles per hour.
Partnering with Yelp Eat24, a handful of
Marble robots are now delivering orders in
two San Francisco neighborhoods: Mission
and Potrero Hill.
Each robot is modular, so components like
the cargo bay can be swapped in or out
depending on the delivery type.
"We're initially starting with the meal
delivery, we're also looking at other markets
like grocery and pharmacy," said Matthew
Delaney, CEO and co-founder of Marble.
When you place an order, the robot
navigates to the restaurant where orders
are placed in hot bags in the cargo bay. You
receive a text message with a code to unlock
the food when it arrives.
The robots will be able to complete an
entire shift, around 6-8 hours. During the
initial phase, a handful of robots will be
completing dinner time deliveries in San
Francisco over short distances of 1-1.5
miles. Human handlers will accompany the
robots and can take control if needed.
The Marble bots are also creating high-
resolution maps of the sidewalk, detecting
things like potholes and cracks in the path.
The idea is that this data can be used to
track conditions of the sidewalk and
potentially feed back reports for
infrastructure purposes.

source: https://www.cnet.com/news/food-delivery-robots-yelp-eat24-marble-san-francisco/

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Khd95:
Kill snakes anywhere u see them,they are nt friendly,at all

Yea, i dont know why lala loves snakes

only God knows

An attempt to make a video by a 35-
year-old man of a snake wrapped around
his neck turned fatal after the serpent bit
him in Jodhpur district, police said.
The incident took place on Sunday when a
snake charmer put the snake around
Baburam Jakhar's neck as part of a religious
ceremony in Lohawat area, they said.
The reptile bit Jakhar on his temple region
during the act, police said, adding that the
video of the entire act has gone viral.
The snake charmer took Jakhar to a nearby
temple for conjuration and but later rushed
him to a hospital when his condition
worsened.
The doctors declared him brought dead,
police said, adding that the suspect fled
from the spot.
Lohawat police have registered a case under
IPC section 304 (culpable homicide not
amounting to murder).
A manhunt has been launched to arrest the
culprit, police added.
(Except for the headline, this story has not
been edited by NDTV staff and is published
from a syndicated feed.)

source: http://m.ndtv.com/cities/man-in-jodhpur-makes-video-with-snake-around-his-neck-dies-1679778


Cc : lalasticlala , seun

A whopper of an asteroid will make a close approach to Earth on April 19. There's no need to panic, though; NASA says it won't collide with our planet. But it will get extremely close for an asteroid of that size.


Named 2014 JO25, this giant space rock measures approximately 2,000 feet across — about the height of the Shanghai Tower, China's tallest building and the second-tallest building in the world. It will pass by Earth at a safe distance of 1.1 million miles, or nearly five times the distance between the Earth and the moon.

"Small asteroids pass within this distance of Earth several times each week, but this upcoming close approach is the closest by any known asteroid of this size, or larger, since asteroid Toutatis, a 3.1-mile asteroid, which approached within about four lunar distances in September 2004," NASA officials said in a statement. [Photos: Asteroids in Deep Space]

NASA first learned of 2014 JO25 three years ago, when astronomers monitoring the Catalina Sky Survey at the University of Arizona spotted it with their telescopes. Sponsored by NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) Observation Program, the survey searches for potentially Earth-threatening asteroids in the solar system.


While NASA doesn't know much about its physical properties, the agency's NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) mission indicates that the asteroid is about twice as reflective as the moon. Skywatchers will be able to see it with a small telescope. After it first becomes visible in the night sky, it will slowly fade into the distance, disappearing after one or two nights.

"The April 19 encounter provides an outstanding opportunity to study this asteroid, and astronomers plan to observe it with telescopes around the world to learn as much about it as possible," NASA said in the statement. "Radar observations are planned at NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar in California and the National Science Foundation’s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, and the resulting radar images could reveal surface details as small as a few meters."

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/04/11/big-shiny-asteroid-to-fly-safely-past-earth-on-april-19.html

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