Author Archives: Rana Shakoor Akbar

We’ve started to see this play out in California. Renewables are able to supply nearly all the grid’s energy demand during the day on sunny days. The problem is just how different the picture is at noon and just eight hours later, once the sun has gone down.  In the middle of the day, there’s […]

Your Android device tells you that the “system UI isn’t responding” before crashing—what do you do? In most cases, this error is just a temporary bug that will fix itself. Even critical system apps, like those that provide you with the user interface to interact with, can crash. But they should restart automatically. The problem […]

Corn, like any plant that uses photosynthesis to produce food, sucks up carbon dioxide from the air. But using corn for fuel rather than food also creates pressure to clear more land for farming, a process that releases carbon dioxide from plants and soil. In addition, planting, fertilizing, and harvesting corn produce climate pollution as […]

As an Android user, it can sometimes feel like all the best offline, complete video game experiences live on Apple devices like the iPhone and iPad. However, there are plenty of gems on the Play Store, and here are some of the best. Note: Some of the pricing may vary slightly from what’s listed here. […]

As a leader in the field and a key player in the advancement of FRB research, Macquart would have been interviewed for this piece. But he died of a heart attack one week after the paper was published, at the age of 45. FRB researchers began to call the relationship between dispersion and distance the […]

AI tools like ChatGPT can analyze and summarize text, helping you gather insights quickly. This process can speed up your workflow and help you get more done—but how does it work? In this article, we’ll explain how to upload a Word document or PDF to ChatGPT and what it can help you achieve. How to […]

Synthesia has managed to create AI avatars that are remarkably humanlike after only one year of tinkering with the latest generation of generative AI. It’s equally exciting and daunting thinking about where this technology is going. It will soon be very difficult to differentiate between what is real and what is not, and this is […]

If you’re trying to stream a show or movie you see Disney Plus error code 41, that means the content you’re trying to view isn’t available from Disney’s servers. There are a number of reasons why you could be seeing this error code and a number of things to try to fix the problem. We’ll […]

One of those systems is Israel’s Iron Dome, in which radar systems detect projectiles and then signal units to launch defensive missiles that detonate the target high in the sky before it strikes populated areas. Israel’s other system, called David’s Sling, works a similar way but can identify rockets coming from a greater distance, upwards […]

Is your back camera not working on your Android phone? Unfortunately, many Android users report problems with their rear camera, including an all-black screen, a camera app that won’t take photos, or issues with focusing. In this article, we’ll cover the 10 most effective ways to get your Android’s back camera working again, depending on […]