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The researchers have developed a new brain-computer interface records “yes” and “no” answers in patients who lack any voluntary muscle movement. The researchers who are from Europe say they’ve found out the answer after using a brain-computer interface to communicate with four people completely locked in after losing all voluntary movement due to Lou Gehrig’s disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The new mind-reading tool has been developed by neuroscientist Niels Birbaumer from Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering in Geneva....

The M1 chip implements a security feature called “Pointer Authentication”, which acts as the “last line of security” against memory corruption exploits on the M1 SoC. For the unversed, Pointer authentication works by offering a special CPU instruction to add a cryptographic signature — or Pointer Authentication Code (PAC) — to unused high-order bits of a pointer before storing the pointer. With Pointer Authentication enabled, bugs that normally could compromise a system or leak private information are stopped dead in their tracks....

Cyberbullying Just when you thought bullying couldn’t get any worse, cyberbullying came to life, having the potential to scar a child for life. Instead of being bullied at a certain place, kids are now being targeted 24/7. They receive threatening or insulting messages on regular basis now, thanks to instant messaging apps and social networking platforms. They just can’t escape the bullying no matter how much they try. CyberbullyingOnline PredatorsPorn Addiction...

The Moto Turbo will sport a 5.2-inch Quad HD, 1440x2560p display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection and give a resolution of 565ppi . Moto Turbo will be powered by a 2.7GHz Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor and 3GB RAM and it will come with a 64GB internal storage. Motorola said that Moto Turbo is designed with ballistic nylon which is being used for the first time for smartphones. It features a 21MP rear-facing camera with an aperture of f/2....

NBA, which is set resume its season on July 30th in Orlando, Florida, will use the new Together Mode in the video meet app that would project fans on screens in its arenas during games. “Today, in partnership with the NBA, we are excited to announce a reimagined fan experience powered by a new feature in Microsoft Teams called Together mode,” Jared Spataro, VP, Microsoft 365 said in a statement....

New ‘Fakedebuggerd’ vulnerability in all versions of Android OS upto lollipop, lets hackers root accessFakedebuggerd targets Android 4.x devicesModus Operandi As per the 360 researchers, the Fakedebuggerd vulnerability enables a potential attacker to access an area that can be accessed only with system or root permissions. The vulnerability uses two known Android 4.x Privilege Escalation (PE) exploits, ‘FramaRoot’ and ‘TowelRoot’, to run code under root privileges and to install a root toolkit on the device....

The iBall Slide i701 runs on Windows 8.1 out-of-the-box, but the company says the tablet will be upgradeable up to Windows 10 when it launched later this year. The amazing thing is that it comes with a 1-year Microsoft Office subscription, and 1TB of free OneDrive cloud storage. The iBall Slide i701 is featured with a 7-inch HD IPS display, the iBall Slide i701 is powered by a quad-core Intel Atom SoC coupled with 1GB of DDR3 RAM....

DARPA researchers trying embedded water droplets cooling tech for processorsIf this happens, you will neither need an air nor a water coolerAre hot spots becoming an increasing problemWill Intel or AMD be able to adopt such a feature inside its processors Are hot spots becoming an increasing problem Even though Intel has introduced chips that possess lowered clock frequencies, hot spots are still an issue because of transistor density, which has continued to increase....

There were LTE versions of the tablet announced later on, but their expensive price tags also meant that not many consumers would be able to affordable such a slate. We mean to say that if you’re looking to invest in a machine that will give you a combined functionality of both work and play, then why not invest $399 in decent laptop rather than spending it all on a Nexus 9....

For those unaware, Game Boy Advance games are required to be played through browser-based emulators. While dedicated gamers struggle to find a legitimate platform, there are a few websites that offer this option, although without permission. GitHub, a platform for source-based code management, hosted a repository link on https://jsemu3.github.io/gba/, that allowed gamers access to multiple Nintendo titles including Advance Wars, Dragon Ball Z, Super Mario Advance, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, and Legend of Zelda among others....

For those unaware, VPN is a network technology, which links the private network over the internet using encryption methods and allows easy access of remote users to secured private networks. It also allows VPN users to maintain their anonymity and protect themselves from being snooped. A VPN can be used to access region-restricted websites, shield user’s browsing activity from prying eyes on public Wi-Fi, and more. The server in question was illegally accessed in March 2018, which was allocated to NordVPN in January 2018....

North Korean hackers fooled a Redbanc employee into a fake job interview over Skype and then tricked him into downloading malware onto his work computer to get access to the company’s interbank network, according to a report by Chilean news site trendTIC. For those unaware, Redbanc is an interbank network in Chile that connects the ATMs of all the banks in Chile. It all began when the Redbanc employee in question responded to a developer job advertisement on the job website, LinkedIn....

Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook came under intensive firestorm in Norway for deleting a photo of the famous ‘Napalm Girl’. At the center of the controversy is the deleted image, known as “The Terror of War,” was shot by Nick Ut in 1972. It depicts nine-year old Kim Phuc fleeing from napalm bombing during the Vietnam War. Zuckerberg and Facebook faced intense accusations of censorship from Norway’s largest newspaper and the nation’s prime minister on Friday following its decision to delete posts containing the Pulitzer-winning image....

The new features, called “Search FYI”, are designed to make it easier to find information on Facebook. If lots of users are talking about an event such as evidence of water on Mars for example, it will find posts around that subject. The search results will display links from news organisations, posts from friends and popular public statuses from non-friends. Facebook says that the tool will allow it to become more of a way of finding out what is going on — it will be possible to search for how people are reacting to a news event, for instance, or to find everything that everyone has said about a certain TV show....

The delay in availability of the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti by a week was confirmed by a moderator on the official Nvidia GeForce forums. This means PC gamers will need to wait for an additional week to get their hands on the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. “Hi Everyone, Wanted to give you an update on the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti availability. GeForce RTX 2080 Ti general availability has shifted to September 27th, a one week delay....

It is unclear at this moment whether the whole NVIDIA network was compromised and how the attackers managed to gain access to the database containing employee usernames and passwords, or if the passwords were stored in a secure manner. After noticing the intrusion into the network, the system administration deployed security upgrades in order to prevent future intrusions. In a letter to the affected employees (PDF), the CIO of NVIDIA has asked them to reset their passwords....

“Professional workflows are now infused with artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and photorealism, creating new challenges for our most demanding users,” said Bob Pette, vice president of Professional Visualization at NVIDIA. “Our new Quadro lineup provides the graphics and compute performance required to address these challenges. And, by unifying compute and design, the Quadro GP100 transforms the average desktop workstation with the power of a supercomputer.” The most interesting high-end product in NVIDIA’s updated Quadro family is the GP100....

OnePlus 5 to have Snapdragon 835 SoC along with 23MP dual camera, 8GB RAM and QUAD HD 2K displayWhy OnePlus 5 and not OnePlus 4?What will OnePlus 5 look like?When to expect and what price to expect? Why OnePlus 5 and not OnePlus 4? Why is OnePlus releasing OnePlus 5 and not OnePlus 4? This has to do with this long-held Chinese superstitious belief that the number ‘4’ is unlucky. Hence, OnePlus 3T is the device which was supposed to be OnePlus 4 and now, we have the upcoming flagship killer, OnePlus 5....

Now, IBM’s X-Force Application Security Research Team has discovered yet another critical vulnerability in Android smartphones and tablets. The flaw, which affects Android OS version 4.3 Jelly Bean to Android 5.1 Lollipop and also the latest Android M Preview 1 version, allows hackers to remotely control a targeted device. Since this flaw is affecting all devices running from Jelly Bean and above, almost half of the smartphones active in the world are affected by this bug....