SEND YOUR NAME TO MARS

In a recent post, NASA has mentioned that you can send your names along with the Mars 2020 rover, which is gearing up for its seven-month journey to the red planet. If you submit your name, you will be issued a boarding pass from NASA that contains information about the launch site, arrival site, and the name of the rocket. Pretty cool, right! Let’s see how to do it. Let us know how you can send your name to mars?

1. Go to the site https://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/mars2020/. 
   
   
   
2.  Fill in the necessary details, i.e., the First Name, Last Name, Country, Postal Code, and mail ID. Click on the ‘SEND MY NAME TO MARS’ button.
3. Voila! You will be given a boarding pass that looks like this:

Mars 2020 will be the first mission to look for signs of past life on the Red Planet. The rover will collect and store samples of rock and soil on the surface for a potential future mission to bring back to Earth. It is supposed to be launched in July 2020.

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3D Animals From Google Camera with Your Android/iOS | 2021

The Tweet by @Android really changed everything about AR. The Augmented Reality has now reached its next level. Let us come to the point straight away without beating around the bush. You can now bring 3D animals using the Google Camera of your Android/iPhone to the real world.

Just follow these simple steps:

• Search any well-known animal names (say, Tiger)

Search Result For Tiger

• In the search result, along with the regular search result you will get to see a big animated for of the animal you searched for under the caption “Meet a life-sized ‘Tiger’ up close.”

Click on 'View in your space.'

• Click on the 'View in 3D' option.
• You will get to see the animated animal (making sound) with the option 'View in your space.'
• Hit 'View in your space' and give access to media and sound to your phone.
• The camera will be opened. Move your phone in a circular motion centering a point on the floor.
• See the magic. The animal(Tiger) will appear Live.
• Now, you can give your creative pose with your favorite animal.

For the time being, the number of animals coming alive is limited. It seems Google will keep adding to the list, and someday each animal will be covered.

Supported 3D animals' list

We are listing down the name of the animals currently supported in Android AR: Cheetah, lion, tiger, ball python, alpine goat, emperor penguin, panda, wolf, angler fish, octopus, kitten, dog, Rottweiler, great white shark, hedgehog, sea turtle, eagle, Shetland pony.

Please join us in exploring and comment if you find anything new.

See the official tweet: 

AR in Search will have you feline excited. Bring 3D objects from your #Android phone to the real world with these easy steps. pic.twitter.com/KC7egBL5ll

— Android (@Android) June 12, 2019

Note: For this feature to work correctly, your phone needs to have GPS, compass, accelerometer, and gyro sensor. It will not work in the absence of any one of these.

Realme Beast Equipped with 64 MP Shooter

Realme, a relatively new entrant in the budget smartphones has confirmed that it is working on a new smartphone that is equipped with 64-megapixel camera sensor.

 

CEO Madhav Sheth has tweeted a photo taken from the 64-megapixel Samsung GW1 sensor. It comes with a mega 1.6µm pixel and 1/1.72” sensor. The ISOCELL Bright’s tetra cell technology improves light sensitivity in low-light conditions. It is also provided with a smart WDR feature that permits multiple exposures in a single shot, resulting in greater detail for bright and dark areas. The advanced Super-PD PDAF sensors can identify the distance of fast-moving objects even in low light resulting in fast and accurate autofocusing. 

The photos shared by Sheth compare pictures taken by the Realme 64MP AI quad camera and Redmi Note 7 pro 48MP triple camera.

Here's a glimpse of what this realme prototype can do. Even compared it with some other flagship model in a more premium price segment. Buckle up and #DareToLeap to some real exciting camera experience this year. pic.twitter.com/kVgz9griQy

— Madhav X (@MadhavSheth1) June 25, 2019

We can easily infer that the photos taken by the 64MP shooter are crisper and more detailed than the Note 7 pro camera.

Sheth has confirmed that this smartphone will be launched first in India. Any other details of this phone have not yet been released.

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OnePlus TV Launched Sooner than We Expected

This Article Contains:

• OnePlus is going to launch its smart android TV
• The TV will act as a smart hub in a smart home
• Expected date of release and specifications

1+ = Never Settle

It seems that One Plus will not get settled down with its primary product Android Smart Phone. OnePlus has already grabbed the smartphone space by offering high-end phones at reasonable prices. Now it seems the company is going to take a shot in the entertainment sector also. Though it was only hinted that OnePlus had been working on a TV project, but now It is all over the news that OnePlus is going to launch an Android-based TV by the end of this year, sooner than everybody expected.

 The current CEO, Pete Lau, back in September, unveiled the news of the TV project by OnePlus. He revealed that the OnePlus TV will debut with a “total connected” experience and emerge as a “premium, flagship TV.” As that sounds, the TV is not going to be a ‘regular’ smart Android TV, but an ‘intelligent smart hub.’

 It is rumored that the TV will act as a smart hub that will drive and control other smart home appliances. The TV is expected to compete with the already existing Xiaomi’s MI TV series.

Though Twitter is flooded with the news of the OnePlus TV, the actual date of the launch is found nowhere. It is also unclear whether the Android Smart Hub TV will get launched in India or in global markets. The price range of the TV is not mentioned anywhere, but as the description suggested, it is evident that the OnePlus TV will not be much affordable.

In a media interview, the CEO said, "The home - perhaps the most important environment experience - is just starting to enjoy the benefits of intelligent connectivity. Something that seems as simple as displaying the photos from your mobile phone to a television is still difficult to achieve. With the development of AI technology, our imagination is endless - and we are looking forward to the future."

Last year the company already made a contest to name their TV in OnePlus Community. The finalized name is not in the news, though; we may have to wait for the moment it will see the light of the day.

Stay tuned to know more. 

See here the tweet: ..... have very high expectations from it, what about you? #OnePlus #OnePlusTV 😀 pic.twitter.com/qzCJnfozi4

— Ishan Agarwal (@ishanagarwal24) June 21, 2019

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exFAT USB disk file system on Linux distribution, Ubuntu | 2021

This Article Contains:

• Different file system types of external memory(Hard Disk/Pen Drive): FAT, FAT32, NTFS, and exFAT
• File system supported in Windows, MAC, and Linux(Ubuntu)
• How to read exFAT in Linux(Ubuntu)
• Link for changing file storage type in Windows in the end

The File system is essential when we want to transfer files from one platform to another. There are four types of file systems: FAT, FAT32, NTFS, and exFAT. Among these, only the exFAT can be used on any platform, be it Windows, MAC, or Linux. Moreover, it supports the transfer of file size greater than 4 GB, unlike in FAT32, which has limitations in file size. This article will show how we can read a USB disk formatted with an exFAT file system on a widespread Linux distribution Ubuntu. 

Ubuntu does not come with pre-installed packages to recognize the exFAT system. If you connect a USB with an exFAT file system, it will show the following error: 

  

To bypass this error, you have to install the packages exfat-fuse and exFAT-utils manually. Let us see how to do it.

1. First, make sure your system is connected to the internet. Next, open the command window. To open the command window, go to search and enter the keyword ‘command.’ Select terminal from the search results.

2. Type the following commands in the command line:

sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils

3. You will be prompted for the password. Enter the password of your system.

4. Two packages required to read exFAT file system, exFAT-fuse, and exFAT-utils will be installed.

Now you can access your USB drive on Ubuntu.

Also:  Know How to Change File Storage Type in Windows/MAC/Linux(Ubuntu). 

Tips and Tricks:
How to Transfer Single File Size 4GB or More in Windows/MAC/Linux(Ubuntu).