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My Collection Of Amoled Backgrounds - Part VII (Miscellaneous Backgrounds)

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Hey there! So, I have a good number of amoled backgrounds that I would like to post on this blog and for the sake of convenience, I'll post them in parts. My seventh collection is a random assortment of miscellaneous backgrounds. I've posted the links to the other six parts at the end of this post. Here are some of my favourite backgrounds of this collection. To download the wallpapers, simply click or tap them. You will be redirected to the corresponding Dropbox or Google Drive links from where you can get the uncompressed versions of the wallpapers. How to Download Images From Dropbox My Personal Favourites 1. Star Wars: 2. Pokémon: 3. Dragon Ball: 4. Random: I request you to download the wallpapers from the Dropbox / Drive links by clicking or tapping them. Please do not download the wallpapers directly by right clicking or long tapping them as the ones ...

Net Neutrality

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'Net neutrality' is not the most well known of terms. However, in the last few years, there has been a constant rise in discussions regarding net neutrality and an open-internet due to the threat of restrictions imposed on internet access by large corporate firms. Net neutrality is the principle that individuals should be free to access all content and applications equally, regardless of the source, without Internet Service Providers (ISPs) discriminating against specific online services or websites. Why is net neutrality important? The basic principle of Net Neutrality is that access to all websites and web services should be equal and that anyone can start their own website or service and make it accessible to anyone with internet access, just like any other website or service. Without Net Neutrality, your Internet Service Provider could arbitrarily block whatever websites it didn't want you to access. For instance, your ISP might block you from acces...

Goodbye, Opportunity

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NASA bid adieu to its 'Opportunity' Mars exploration rover on 13 February, 2019. The rover, which was planned to function for 92.5 days, managed to operate for more than 15 years. In addition to exceeding its life expectancy by 60 times, the rover traveled more than 45 kilometers on the surface of Mars by the time it reached its most appropriate final resting spot on the planet — the Perseverance Valley. An artistic rendition of the Opportunity rover on the surface of Mars Here are some of the major achievements of the Opportunity rover: The rover set a one-day Mars driving record March 20, 2005, when it traveled 721 feet (220 meters). It returned more than 217,000 images, including 15 360-degree color panoramas. It exposed the surfaces of 52 rocks to reveal fresh mineral surfaces for analysis and cleared 72 additional targets with a brush to prepare them for inspection with spectrometers and a microscopic-imager. It found hematite, a mineral that forms in ...