ANDROID TIPS(How to Add New Input Languages in Android 7.0 Nougat)

How to Add New Input Languages in Android 7.0 Nougat

Android 7.0 Nougat is the Google’s newest version of Android. While it doesn’t significantly change the way we use phones and tablets, but it provides a number of new features and improvements that make Android devices more productive, secure, and enjoyable.Among the new features, Nougat brings the ability to add an input language on your device. With this new feature, you can easily select and use multiple languages on a single device. Here’s how to add new input languages on your Android Nougat phone or tablet.
1. Open ‘Settings’ menu.
2. Tap on ‘Language & input’.

3. Select ‘Languages’.

 

4. Tap ‘Add a language’.

5. Pick which languages you want to be added on your device. That’s it.

SCIENCE NEWS (Smokers with HIV far more likely to die of lung cancer)

Smokers with HIV far more likely to die of lung cancer

 MIAMI: People who are infected with human immunodeficiency virus and who smoke are far more likely to die from lung cancer than HIV, researchers said Monday."Having HIV and using tobacco may together accelerate the development of lung cancer," warned the report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine.Smoking reduces life expectancy among people living with HIV -- and undergoing antiretroviral therapy to keep their disease at bay -- more than HIV itself, it added.The findings are of particular concern because smoking is so common among people with HIV.The prevalence of smokers among the population of people with HIV is 40 percent, about twice the rest of the US population."Smoking and HIV are a particularly bad combination when it comes to lung cancer," said lead author Krishna Reddy, a doctor at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston."Smoking rates are extraordinarily high among people with HIV, and both smoking and HIV increase the risk of lung cancer."Almost 25 percent of people who adhere well to anti-HIV medications but continue to smoke will die from lung cancer, said the findings.People with HIV who take antiviral drugs and also smoke are from six to 13 times more likely to die from lung cancer than from HIV/AIDS, it added.But there is hope for those who manage to quit.Among smokers who quit at age 40, only about six percent will die of lung cancer, according to the study, which is based on projections using a computer model."Quitting smoking is one of the most important things that people with HIV can do to improve their health and live longer," said co-author Travis Baggett, also of Massachusetts General Hospital.Nearly 60,000 of the 644,2000 people aged 20-64 living with HIV and receiving care are expected to die from lung cancer by age 80 if smoking habits do not change.

SCIENCE NEWS (Six Nasa scientists to emerge from Mars-like habitat)

Six Nasa scientists to emerge from Mars-like habitat




NEW YORK: Six Nasa scientists, who were living in isolation on a Mars-like habitat in Hawaii since January to determine astronauts' psychology and requirements during manned space missions, will return to civilization on Sunday.In January, the crew of four men and two women were quarantined on a vast plain below the summit of the giant volcano Mauna Loa -- one of Hawaii's five volcanoes and the world's largest.They remained there for an eight-month simulation activity to gain a better understanding and to get a bit of a feel for how astronauts would respond mentally, physically, and most important, psychologically to a long-term on a manned space mission as well as in an inhospitable environment."Long term space travel is absolutely possible," Laura Lark, specialist at the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) project, led by the University of Hawaii at Manoa, was quoted as saying to the inquisitr.com on Saturday."There are certainly technical challenges to be overcome. There are certainly human factors to be figured out, that's part of what HI-SEAS is for. But I think that overcoming those challenges is just a matter of effort. We are absolutely capable of it," Lark added.Their experiment included everything from being forced to live in the cramped habitat of the dome to having to rely solely on packaged food - and virtually no contact with another living soul.The atmosphere was as similar as possible to what life on Mars would be. All of the communications the crew could have with the outside world was subjected to a 20-minute delay -- the time it takes for signals to get from Mars to the Earth.The data gathered during this mission can better help in choosing crews that have certain traits and a better chance of doing well during a potential two-to-three year Mars expedition, which would then pave the way for humans settlement in the red planet by around 2030.

SCIENCE NEWS (Probiotics may help treat bowel cancer: Study)

Probiotics may help treat bowel cancer: Study


HOUSTON: Alteration of the gut microbiome with probiotics may help prevent and treat bowel cancer by reducing inflammation and suppressing colon tumours, a study in mice suggests.Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital and Columbia University in the US found that administration of histamine-generating gut microbes reduced inflammation and tumour formation in mice which lacked that ability to produce histamine on their own.These results suggest that alteration of the gut microbiome with probiotics may become a new preventative or therapeutic strategy for patients at risk for colorectal cancer associated with inflammatory bowel disease."We are on the cusp of harnessing advances in microbiome science - the study of the microbes living in our body - that would facilitate diagnosis and treatment of human disease," said James Versalovic, Professor at Baylor College of Medicine."By simply applying diet-based cancer prevention strategies, such as supplementing microbes that provide missing life substances, we can potentially reduce the risk of cancer," said Versalovic.Previous studies had shown that histamine, a chemical produced by the body that is well-known for its role in allergic disease, also may have a potential antitumour effect.In the new study, researchers investigated whether the probiotic L reuteri 6475, which is able to generate histamine, had the ability to reduce the frequency and severity of inflammation-associated colorectal cancer in mice that were not able to produce histamine on their own.The researchers conducted a series of experiments using mice that were deficient in histidine decarboxylase, the enzyme required to convert L-histidine to histamine.Experimental mice were orally administered L reuteri 6475, which has the gene for histidine decarboxylase to produce histamine; control animals received L reuteri that lacked the gene to produce histidine decarboxylase.The probiotic was administered both before and after the mice received a single treatment to induce tumour formation.Fifteen weeks later, the mice were sacrificed and the tissues removed for study.The animals treated with L reuteri 6475 showed increased expression of bacterial histidine decarboxylase enzyme and of the amount of histamine in their colons.Positron emission tomography (PET) used to visualise the tumours showed that these mice had fewer and smaller tumours than control mice.L reuteri strains deficient in histidine decarboxylase activity did not provide protective effects; the mice showed increased numbers of "hot spots" indicative of tumour formation, researchers said. 

SCIENCE NEWS (Carbohydrates may be key to better malaria vaccine: Study)

Carbohydrates may be key to better malaria vaccine: Study

MELBOURNE: Scientists have for the first time found that carbohydrates on the surface of malaria parasites play a critical role in malaria's ability to infect mosquito and human hosts.

The discovery may help improve the only vaccine approved to protect people against Plasmodium falciparum malaria - the most deadly form of the disease, researchers said.

The study found that the malaria parasite 'tags' its proteins with carbohydrates in order to stabilise and transport them, and this process was crucial to completing the parasite's life-cycle.

"We found that the parasite's ability to 'tag' key proteins with carbohydrates is important for two stages of the malaria lifecycle," said Justin Boddey, from Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Australia.

"It is critical for the the earliest stages of human infection, when the parasite migrates through the body and invades in the liver, and later when it is transmitted back to the mosquito from an infected human, enabling the parasite to be spread between people," said Boddey, who led the study published in the journal Nature Communications.

Interfering with the parasite's ability to attach these carbohydrates to its proteins hinders liver infection and transmission to the mosquito, and weakens the parasite to the point that it cannot survive in the host, researchers said.

Malaria infects over 200 million people worldwide each year and kills around 650,000 people, predominantly pregnant women and children.

Efforts to eradicate malaria require the development of new therapeutics, particularly an effective malaria vaccine.

The first malaria vaccine approved for human use - RTS,S/AS01 - was approved by European regulators in July 2015 but has not been as successful as hoped, with marginal efficacy that wanes over time, researchers said.

"The protein used in the RTS,S vaccine mimics one of the proteins we have been studying on the surface of the malaria parasite that is readily recognised by the immune system," said Ethan Goddard-Borger from Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.

"With this study, we have shown that the parasite protein is tagged with carbohydrates, making it slightly different to the vaccine, so the antibodies produced may not be optimal for recognising target parasites," Goddard-Borger said.

He said there were many documented cases where attaching carbohydrates to a protein improved its efficacy as a vaccine.

ANDRIOD TIPS(Hidden Android Features You Might Have Missed)

Hidden Android Features You Might Have Missed

1. Quick Notification Access
Starting with the most used feature in the new age Android phones — the quick settings menu. What do you do when you need it real quick? Normally, a downward swipe brings down first the notification drawer and then the settings menu.ezgif.com-gif-maker - CopyTo access it in a flash, use both of your fingers to make a downward swipe on the home screen.

2. Display Touch Points
 In few of the know-how videos, it’s difficult to pinpoint the exact place where the demonstrator is touching on his screen.Solution to the above issue: Enable the display touch points. This will display a white dot on places where you have touched.Android Hidden Features (3)To enable this option, you will have to take a dive into the Developer option. Head over to Input and switch on Show Touches.To access the developer option on your device, head over to Settings > About and tap on the Build number seven times.

3. Reduce Eye Strain
From built-in PDF converter to blue-light filter, Android covers most of the aspects that tempt you to skip third-party app installations. So the next time you are in an experimental mood, give a shot to the built-in grayscale mode. Once enabled, it wipes out the bright colors and replaces it with a monochromatic hue.Android Hidden Features (4)  Android Hidden Features (5)And like Touch Points, this one’s too lurking inside the Developer option. We all know that bright screens are the recipe for eye fatigue, so this nifty trick will save your eyes from further damage. What’s more, it also helps in saving the precious battery juice.

4. Restrict Data Usage
It’s a known fact that almost all the apps in our phones perform certain background activities like data-sync, update activities to fix bugs or to roll out new features.Android Hidden Features (7)Surely, these are important and shouldn’t be ignored but what’s more important is you to know when these activities are being carried out. You wouldn’t want Google Photos to sync 200 high-res pics over cellular data, would you?Fortunately, we have a savior hiding in the app settings menu. Open settings and navigate to data usage where you will see the option to restrict app background data. Once this switch is enabled, the background activities will cease to occur over the cellular network and will only occur once you are connected to a Wi-Fi network.

5. Save a Web Page as PDF
Chrome is among the most used web browsers today, but how do we make the most of it? Especially when you are off the grid? This neat little trick will require a bit of advance planning to pull it off, but let me assure you, it’s a foolproof idea when it comes to converting a web page to a pdf.Android Hidden Features (10)  Android Hidden Features (11)So before you head off, gather all the articles that you wish to read and open it through Chrome. Now all you need to do is head over to Share > Print and then save the web page as PDF.

SCIENCE NEWS (NASA gravity map shows Mars has porous crust)

NASA gravity map shows Mars has porous crust

WASHINGTON: Mars' crust is not as dense as previously thought, which means that at least a part of it is relatively porous, suggests a gravity map of the red planet created by NASA scientists.The finding may help better understand the red planet's interior structure and evolution, according to the US space agency.However, scientists said that they cannot rule out the possibility of a different mineral composition or perhaps a thinner crust."The crust is the end-result of everything that happened during a planet's history, so a lower density could have important implications about Mars' formation and evolution," said Sander Goossens of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, US.The researchers mapped the density of the Martian crust, estimating the average density is 2,582 kilogrammes per cubic metre. That is comparable to the average density of the lunar crust.Typically, Mars' crust has been considered at least as dense as Earth's oceanic crust, which is about 2,900 kilogrammes per cubic metre.The new value is derived from Mars' gravity field, a global model that can be extracted from satellite tracking data using sophisticated mathematical tools.The gravity field for Earth is extremely detailed, because the data sets have very high resolution.Recent studies of the Moon by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, mission also yielded a precise gravity map.The data sets for Mars do not have as much resolution, so it is more difficult to pin down the density of the crust from current gravity maps.As a result, previous estimates relied more heavily on studies of the composition of Mars' soil and rocks."We are coming to the conclusion that it is not enough just to know the composition of the rocks," said Greg Neumann, co-author of the research paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.Before taking on Mars, the researchers tested their approach by applying it to the gravity field that was in use before the GRAIL mission.The resulting estimate for the density of the Moon's crust essentially matched the GRAIL result of 2,550 kilogrammes per cubic metre.

ANDROID TIPS(Android 8.0 Oreo: List of compatible devices, how to install the update, and more)

Android 8.0 Oreo: List of compatible devices, how to install the update, and more

Google on Tuesday announced the roll out of public version of its latest iteration of Android, Oreo. Like always, the latest update will first hit only a select list of devices such as Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Google Pixel, Pixel XL, and Pixel C. Google has also confirmed that the Android 8.0 Oreo update will be available to non-Google smartphones soon.While Android Oreo has gone official, a lot of users are still waiting for the Over-the-Air (update). Google expects to “start rolling out in phases over the next several weeks.” If you cannot wait for the OTA update and want to upgrade to Android 8.0 Orea rightaway, here’s everything you need to know.

Compatible devices

Google has announced the update for the following devices:# Nexus 5X# Nexus 6P# Google Pixel# Google Pixel XL# Pixel C# Nexus PlayerIt is worth pointing out that some non-Google smartphone users can also expect the Android 8.0 update soon. “By the end of this year, hardware makers like Essential, Huawei, HTC, Kyocera, LG, Motorola, HMD Global Home of Nokia Phones, Samsung, Sharp and Sony are scheduled to be launching or upgrading new devices to Android 8.0 Oreo,” said Google in a blog post.Nokia has already confirmed that all its smartphones – Nokia 3, Nokia 5, Nokia 6 and Nokia 8 – will receive the Android O update. Samsung and LG, traditionally, roll out the latest software upgrades to their flagship smartphones first. Therefore, users of Samsung Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8+ and LG G6 can expect the upgrade by end of this year.Indian smartphone brand Micromax has also confirmed that its latest smartphone Canvas Infinity will receive the Android 8.0 update in the future. Lenovo’s K8 Note is also slated to receive the update.Asus has promised Android O update for its ZenFone 3 and the recently-announced ZenFone 4 series. The latest Asus ZenFone 4 series includes following models: ZenFone 4, ZenFone 4 Pro ZenFone 4 Selfie, ZenFone 4 Selfie Pro, ZenFone 4 Max, and ZenFone 4 Max Pro.OnePlus has promised the Android 8.0 update for its OnePlus 5 and older OnePlus 3 and 3T smartphones.

How to install the update

Via Beta program
One of the easier and safer ways is to wait for the OTA update. If you cannot, sign up with Android Beta Program and enroll your device to check eligibility of your hardware. Click on agree to terms of Beta program and check for an update on your device. The update is almost instantaneously available.Via system imagesGoogle has also rolled out system image files for Android 8.0 Oreo. You can download the system images on your compatible smartphone here.The process is quite tedious and requires lot of patience. Therefore, don’t forget to keep a back up of your data before flashing your smartphone. Read Google’s warning: “Installing this factory image will erase all data from the device. While it may be possible to restore certain data backed up to your Google Account, apps and their associated data will be uninstalled. Before proceeding, please ensure that data you would like to retain is backed up to your Google Account.”If you have already backed up your data, here’s what you need to do.# Go to About Phone under Settings and tap seven times on the Build Number.# Tap on USB debugging and unlock your device.# Connect your device to PC via the USB cable.# Launch command window on your PC.# Enter bootloader mode by entering following command: adb reboot bootloader.# Enter this command: fastboot flashing unlock# Give confirmation to the unlock message by pressing volume up to select the Yes option and power button to proceed.# Type fastboot reboot to get the device rebooted into bootloader mode.# Your device will reboot to Android 8.0 Oreo OS.