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The Pinna-Brelstaff illusion features a dot in the middle with circles made of diamond-shaped dashes surrounding it. When you stare at the dot and move your head closer, the circles will appear to move clockwise. Now, if you move your head back, slowly, the circles will appear to change direction to move anti-clockwise. See for yourself: This optical illusion breaks your brain for 15 milliseconds https://t.co/7ThwTYktXn pic.twitter.com/xBL4C3FNht — New Scientist (@newscientist) February 19, 2019 The team found a 15-millisecond delay between the activity of neurons that perceive global motion - in this case the illusion that the entire set of lines is moving - and those that perceive local motion, in this case that there is actually no movement, explains New Scientist. "Our brains probably have the same delay, which may seem like a flaw," explained Ian Max Andolina of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to New Scientist. "But they are just being efficient. When...

Energizer showed off the Power Max P18K Pro phone with 18000mah battery.The Energizer PowerMax P18K Pop is as thick as two to three ordinary smartphones and features an 18,000 mAh power pack that is claimed to be the highest capacity ever seen in a smartphone, compared with the 2,716 mAh battery of the iPhone X. To put that into perspective, the maker claims: “Users will be able to make up to 90 hours of calls, listen to 100 hours of music and watch two days of video on a single charge. In standby mode, the battery lasts up to 50 days.” While the battery might compel people to buy the P18K Pop, some of the phone’s other hardware isn’t quite as impressive. It comes with a 2GHz CPU from MediaTek and isn’t waterproof, but there are some modern features: USB Type-C for ‘fast charging’ (8 hours for a full charge), 6GB RAM, a 6.2-inch LCD screen, a triple-lens 12-megapixel rear camera array with depth sensor, Android 9, and a popup dual selfie cam. Additionally, that enormous battery...

YouTube has made it much harder for smaller YouTube creators to earn money from their videos through advertising. New rules say channels need at least 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watchtime over the last year to keep qualifying for YouTube's partner program, which lets creators monetise their videos. Smaller creators have already expressed their frustration, but the impact could be much greater on black and minority creators who already have a harder time getting subscribers. Logan was criticised for joking about a dead body he had found in  a Japanese forest  known for suicides. It took 10 days for YouTube to admit the video shouldn't have been published.Although the platform had earlier said it "prohibits violent or gory content posted in a shocking, sensational or disrespectful manner."Logan removed the video two days after it had been put up, but by then it had been viewed more than five million times.  YouTube was heavily criticised f...

A recent update to Google's art and culture platform added a new feature, "an experiment that matches user selfie with art from the collections of museums available on the platform". Initially this feature available in US ,but now it is  available for Indian users. Hey this one ain’t so bad. pic.twitter.com/er0FxZNVO8 — Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) January 13, 2018 When you download the app, you are prompted with a dialogue box that assures you “Google won’t use data from your photo for any other purpose” than to “find artworks that look like you.” It also won’t store your photo any longer than “the time it takes to search for matches.” Patrick Lenihan, a company spokesperson, reiterated in a statement that “Google is not using these selfies for anything other than art matches.”Even if Google wasn’t acting in good faith, technically, it can’t use your selfie to train its algorithms.   Computers learn to recognize patterns by being shown a data ...

WhatsApp  could go live with its much-awaited payments feature as early as next month, according to people aware of the developments, providing the biggest boost yet for  digital payments  in the country. Thanks to a government-backed platform called UPI (Unified Payment Interface), developers are able to more easily integrate digital payments for India into their apps. Google's  Tez  uses UPI for bill payments, and social app Truecaller added the functionality in a  recent update . The country's most used messaging app shouldn't be too far behind as Facebook-owned WhatsApp could be ready to offer a payment solution based on UPI as early as next month. According to a  report by ETtech , the service is currently being tested in conjunction with one of its partner banks. Apparently, there are several already signed up to support payments on WhatsApp, including State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, and Axis Bank. If all g...

Apple Inc will release a software update that will allow users to turn off a feature that slows down iPhones when batteries are low on charge, Chief Executive Tim Cook told ABC News. Apple will release a test version of its iOS  software next month that shows users the health of their batteries and will let them turn off a phone-slowing feature meant to prevent sudden shutdowns in iPhones with older batteries, Cook said in an interview with ABC News on Wednesday. “We will tell somebody we are reducing your performance by some amount in order to not have an unexpected restart, and if you don’t want it, you can turn it off,” Cook said. “We don’t recommend it because we think that people’s iPhones are really important to them and you can never tell when something is so urgent. Our actions were all in service of the user.” An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment beyond Cook’s remarks or say when the update would be available to consumers. Apple confirmed on December 20 t...