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Las Vegas Sands Corp. is a casino operating company, which operates some of the biggest casinos in the world on Las Vegas Strip like Sands, Venetian, and Palazzo hotels and casinos. And Sheldon Adelson owns 52 percent of the Las Vegas Sands Corp. and a Israeli resident. In October, 2013, while making a appearance on a panel at the Manhattan campus of Yeshiva University, he called for a nuclear attack on Iran to get the country to abandon its own nuclear program according to Bloomberg Businessweek....

The company is eager to offer more devices because the Priv, which launched with a $700 price tag (now $650), was probably too high-end and expensive for people to consider. “The fact that we came out with a high-end phone [as our first Android device] was probably not as wise as it should have been,” Chen told The National, while declining to say how many Privs were sold in the last quarter....

A significant hybrid The Qtum blockchain which is popular for its property of merging the reliability of Bitcoin’s unfailing blockchain with the endless possibilities provided by Ethereum’s smart contracts is seen as an important technology within the ecosystem of emerging technologies behind the ongoing disruption. The platform is also seen by many as the foremost toolkit for building trusted decentralized applications, suited for real-world, business oriented use cases. Just recently, the crypto experienced a significant surge, rising by up to 189% within 8hrs, reaching a market capitalization of $3....

The researchers, Daniel Komaromy and Nico Golde said that all Samsung devices including Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 Edge and Note 4 can have phone calls intercepted using malicious base stations. The duo demonstrated the attacks on Samsung’s ‘Shannon’ line of baseband chips in front of a live audience. Though they have not made their full research public, it makes use of Man-in-the-middle attack to intercept calls made on Samsung smartphones....

The researchers used a laser to zap a grid of microscopic holes in the paper, then coated one side in copper and laid it on top of a thin sheet of Teflon, joining the two sheets at one edge. As the sound waves vibrate the two sheets in different ways, it causes the two sheets to come in and out of contact generating electricity. The experiment is pretty similar to charge developed when a person rubs a balloon with hair....

On Wednesday, for the first time, an indigenously-developed mind-controlled car that would do away the use of accelerator or steering wheel was unveiled in China. The new vehicle has been developed by a research team from Nankai University in Tianjin in association with Chinese car maker, Great Wall Motor. According to the state-run Xinhua news agency, the car is controlled via a headset with 16 sensors that transmits impulses from the user’s brain to the car’s processing system....

Connecticut May Become First US State To Allow Deadly Police DronesHuman costs? The state of Connecticut has voted to allow law enforcement agencies to use drones equipped with deadly weapons.The legislation, approved overwhelmingly by the state legislature’s judiciary committee on Wednesday, would ban so-called weaponized drones in the state but exempts agencies involved in law enforcement. It now goes to the House of Representatives for consideration. Once the House of Representatives passes the bill, it will sent to the US senate and then notified into a law meaning that the Connecticut police will have hitherto unknown powers of shooting down a wanted criminal directly from the sky....

Many times, this can lead to a loss of productivity or the mishandling of important data. This typically happens when important company documents aren’t stored in centralized locations and company decision-makers (such as C-level executives and the board) don’t have access to the information and documents they need when they need them. Companies need a digital governance solution that’s equipped to match corporate file management and offers tools that enable users to securely store and share critical business documents in a safe, centralized location....

In preliminary tests, ControlFlag trained and learned novel defects on over 1 billion unlabelled lines of production-quality code. The tool shows promise as a powerful productivity tool to assist software developers with the labour-intensive task of debugging, according to Intel. Intel said that it’s estimated that of the $1.25 trillion that software development costs the IT industry every year, 50 percent is spent debugging code. “We think ControlFlag is a powerful new tool that could dramatically reduce the time and money required to evaluate and debug code....

Craigslist Domain Name Hijacked, Visitors Redirected to DigitalGangsterVisitor redirected to DigitalGangster.com Visitor redirected to DigitalGangster.com Visitors trying to access the website for weekends shopping took on to Twitter and various tech forums to confirm if they were not the only one facing the issue. Some users reported that they were directed to New York Times website while trying to access Craiglist. Other said that they were lead to third party website while clicking through Gateway, which could possibly be advertisements or an affiliate link....

According to the lecture given, Schukai stated that overall mobile subscriptions are set to jump by 1.7 billion over the next five years to 9.1 billion. In the future, 4.1 billion people of these will sign up to 4G technology, and almost 70 percent of all mobile traffic data is projected to be categorized under video streaming by 2021. Since people are constantly connected while they are at home or on the go, their work and personal lives are blending into one another....

Unfortunately, with so many 4K displays widespread in markets, Dell will really have to up its game with this one. So what has the company done that makes this display so special? Well, if you’re a multitasking freak, then you will absolutely love the 43 Multi-Client Monitor. According to Dell, the new monitor is able to display four separate 1920 x 1080 screens, making it the ideal monitor for someone who is used to handling more than one display for work....

Inside its gloss and fingerprint-prone shell, the Inspiron 11 3000 Series will have a 1366 x 768 pixel matte non-touch display (with limited viewing angles). It will come with Intel Celeron N3050 processor, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of solid-state storage, and 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi. It has a spill-resistant keyboard and a good sized trackpad. Ports include HDMI, one USB 3.0 and one USB 2.0 port, as well as an SD card reader....

The accused, 22-year-old Trevor Graves has reportedly changed his grades more than 90 times during the period between March 2015 and December 2016 and changed grades for at least five fellow students on numerous occasions, said the FBI, according to the New York Times. Graves who worked with an unnamed accomplice in the hi-tech hacking scheme secretly installed plug keyloggers into university’s computers’ for classrooms and labs, which allowed him to see whatever his professors typed, including their credentials to login in the university’s grading and email systems....

“Every day, there are more than 150 million video calls on Messenger, and more than 200 million videos sent via Messenger. Now, with Watch Together, you can enjoy videos and share the experience with your friends in real time,” Nora Micheva, Product Manager for Facebook said in an announcement blog post. “We created Watch Together to make spending quality time with friends and loved ones feel as close to an in-person experience as possible....

Paavo Siljamäki, director of record label, Anjunabeats, dropped in to the Facebook office for for enquiring about how to use Facebook optimally for his record label promotion. He however encountered a pretty bewildering scene when the person behind the desk at the Facebook office tapped into his Facebook account without even entering password, though he was politely asked for permission to access it. Siljamäki thought this a bit odd and made a Facebook post about it, here is what he had to say,...

Incidentally he has named the extension as Marauders Map after the fictional map by the same name in the J.K.Rowling masterpiece series, Harry Potter. The Harry Potter series contains a magical Marauder’s Map which reveals the whereabouts of any person to the owner of the map. It is a open secret that Facebook stores and shares FB users data with friends and the data is very accurate so using this extension, you can check on the locations of any Facebook friend with ease....

Just days after the FBI announced that it had gained access to San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, the agency has now agreed to help prosecutors in Arkansas unlock an iPhone and iPod belonging to two teenagers accused of killing a couple. Faulkner County Prosecuting Attorney Cody Hiland said the FBI agreed to the request from his office and the Conway Police Department Wednesday afternoon, while a judge agreed to postpone the trial so officials could ask the FBI for assistance....

The same hacker is also believed to have orchestrated the recent massive Rockstar Games’ Grand Auto Theft (GTA) 6 leak. The Uber And Rockstar Games Breaches Uber suffered a computer system breach on September 15th that forced it to take down several internal communications and engineering systems offline. The attacker managed to get into an external contractor employee’s account using malware and accessing the business Slack and G-Suite. However, Uber has confirmed that there is no proof of the hacker gaining access to any user accounts; or the databases used to store sensitive user information, like credit card numbers, user bank account info, or trip history....