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3,000 Trx/Sec matching 14 regions In comparison, mainstream blockchain technologies need minutes, with the Bitcoin Blockchain and the Ethereum network typically processing seven and 20 transactions per second respectively. The experiment emphasizes the newly launched Blockchain’s scalability while retaining fast transaction speeds makes it ideal for the processing of financial transactions and microgrids that use peer-to-peer trading to transform the energy sector. Fork-free, no double spending In addition to high throughput, Red Belly differs from existing solutions with a number of advantages....

How to get the best Broadband deal from your Internet Service ProviderBroadband connections in GeneralADSL and ADSL2+Naked DSLCableWirelessMobile BroadbandSatelliteWhich Broadband Deal should I Choose?Standalone or bundled packageStandard or superfast speedsCapped or unlimited Broadband connections in General Before we discuss the bundles, let us take a look at the different broadband connections available today. As you already know, broadband is high-speed Internet that is always on. It is several times faster than the traditional dial-up Internet....

Generally, when you increase the screen’s brightness, it affects the battery life of the device. Also, the color displayed affects the power consumption of the display. The Dark Mode basically reverses the color theme of an operating system (OS) or applications by replacing the white background with black. The Dark Mode for long has been associated with better battery life on devices, especially mobile devices. According to Business Insider, Dark Mode draws 43% lesser power at full brightness compared to “normal mode” in the YouTube app, which normally uses a lot of white....

Google and the Android engineers have finally come up with a simpler way of snapping a screenshot of your Android phone — at least if you’re lucky enough to be running Marshmallow. As noted by Droid Life, the company has updated Android 6.0’s Now on Tap feature with a new icon that will take a screenshot instantaneously. Also the screenshot can now be shared instantly. The small but clever addition should prove particularly useful for owners of the new Nexus 6P and other smartphones which are going to get Marshmallow soon....

In April 2020, Google Meet was made available to all users in lieu of Enterprise or Education customers to help users working/studying from home due to COVID-19 and compete with rivals like Zoom and Skype who were offering many benefits to users. The video calling service had also lifted the 60-minute time limit on calls and made it limitless for any number of participants. Back then, Google said that it wouldn’t enforce a 60-minute time limit on calls and the calls could run all day long until September 30th....

“Today, we’re making it easier for you to make decisions about your data directly within the Google products you use every day, starting with Search. Without ever leaving Search, you can now review and delete your recent Search activity, get quick access to the most relevant privacy controls in your Google Account, and learn more about how Search works with your data,” said Google’s Eric Miraglia, Director of Product Management, Privacy and Data Protection Office in a blog post....

The adware inside the apps is directing users to harmful phishing sites and stealing sensitive information or generating ‘pay-per-click’ revenue for malware operators by clicking on advertisements. In addition, some of these sites offer victims to download fake antivirus solutions or updates, infecting devices with malware. This family of four malicious apps is from the developer ‘Mobile apps Group’ and is infected with Android/Trojan.HiddenAds.BTGTHB. These apps have amassed at least a total of one million downloads on the Google Play Store....

Google has decided not to release the product itself, but it may work with partners to bring Project Ara’s technology to market, possibly through licensing agreements, according to Reuters. The company regularly partners with device makers to build its Nexus smartphones and tablets, so this wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for Google. “Most people do not upgrade their phone to get the next processor — they do not even know what that is — but they do it to get the next best camera, or fingerprint sensor, or better speaker, all in one device,” Rafa Camargo, Google’s engineering lead, demonstrated a functional developer version of an Ara phone told Digital Trends in an interview this year....

Recently, the Google Brain’s team decided to throw a challenge to the AI AutoML of creating a ‘child’ that outdid all of its human-made counterparts by using an approach called reinforcement learning. AutoML acts as a controller neural network that can create a “child” network to execute a specific task. Called as NASNet, the child AI was given the task to recognize objects in a real-time video feed, like people, cars, traffic lights, handbags, or backpacks....

On the other hand, Movidius’s new chips do not need a lot of power to run. Without help from servers, they can do complex computations right on the device they are in, which may be able to bring AI to smartphones and tablets, and even robots and drones one day. In a video released by the two companies, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Google’s machine intelligence research head, said “Instead of us adapting to computers and having to learn their language, computers are becoming more and more intelligent in the sense that they adapt to us....

The new cameras come with a larger sensor that can capture 8:7 aspect ratio photos and videos, 27MP resolution, the highest 10-bit color depth, next-generation HyperSmooth 5.0 stabilization system, a new HyperView lens, and much more. Let’s have a look at the specifications of the HERO11 Black and HERO11 Black Mini. GoPro HERO11 Black Specs Starting with the design, the GoPro HERO11 Black is very similar to its predecessor, HERO10, and even uses the same colors....

“We found that there had been an attempt to steal data from Tokopedia users. However, Tokopedia ensures that crucial information such as passwords remains successfully protected behind encryption,” a spokesman for the company said in a statement late Saturday. “At this moment, we continue to investigate further into this matter and there is no additional information that we can share,” the statement added. Under the Breach, a data breach monitoring and cybersecurity intelligence firm was the first to tweet about the Tokopedia user data leakage....

After two years, the long hands of law have finally reached the Fappening hackers. Illinois man Edward Majerczyk is pleading guilty to the crime of illegally accessing the iCloud and Gmail accounts of more than 300 people using an e-mail phishing scam, sending e-mails that appeared to be from the security accounts of Internet service providers, like “[email protected]” and “[email protected]” that directed targeted individuals to a website and prompted them to give up their personal information....

This latest technique of attack is known as DiskFiltration. The research from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev shows how data could be stolen from “air-gapped” computers, which are not connected to the Internet and any local networks and how they are not safe from hackers. “An air-gap isolation is considered to be a hermetic security measure which can prevent data leakage,” Mordechai Guri, a security researcher from Ben-Gurion University, told Ars Technica....

The same thing was repeated with Tewksbury, Massachusetts Police department database. The hackers used modus operandi similar to the Midlothian PD hack and encrypted all the police database with Cryptowall ransomware. The infiltration left the files, including backup copies, locked up and useless. “It basically rendered us in-operational, with respect to the software we use to run the police department,” Tewksbury Police Chief Timothy Sheehan told the Tewksbury Town Crier....

A team of researchers from the University of North Carolina at the Usenix security conference in Austin earlier this month showed an especially exasperating new technique for taking a face: one that depends on 3-D rendering and some light internet stalking. They presented a system that created 3-D facial models which were successful in fooling four out of five facial recognition systems. The digital 3-D facial models were based on publicly available photos and displayed with mobile virtual reality technology to defeat facial recognition systems....

The database is being advertised for a modest amount of $500, even though there is no clarity on the contents of the database, whether it has passwords and/or email addresses. While it does not look like there is any kind of personal connection or hard feelings between w0rm and Monopoly, the listing appears to be exclusively for the purpose of business. Many of the underground sites host or sell hacked databases, be it stolen credentials from Bitcoin enthusiast forums, or reams of customer and company information from the recent Ashley Madison breach, or pages of data from Internet service providers....

According to MonoX, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that allows users to provide liquidity with single assets on Ethereum (ETH) and Polygon, said that the exploit was caused by a smart contract bug that allows the sold and bought token to be the same. In the case of the attack, it was the native MONO token. The hacker used the same token as both the tokenIn (token sent by the user) and tokenOut (token received by the user), which are methods of exchanging the value of one token for another....

Hackers can speculate PINs by interpreting video of people tapping on their smartphone screens even when the display itself is not visible, according to the presentation shown by the researchers at Syracuse University. Software used to interpret such video relies on “spatio-temporal dynamics” to measure the distance from the fingers to the phone’s screen, and then guess exact which characters the fingers tap on a keypad. “It’s like lip reading,” says Vir Phoha, an engineering and computer science professor at Syracuse and co-author of a paper on the technology....

Facebook hacking using a forged Microsoft Word documentKnown VulnerabilitiesAftermathBounty Received Ramadan has successfully found vulnerabilities in major service providers like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft etc. and has been rewarded with bug bounty reward by them. Known Vulnerabilities It is a known fact that Facebook does not have the most secure servers in the world. Many people have reported high severity bugs since 2010 and the social network had also patched a dangerous XXE Vulnerability affecting OpenID in late 2013....