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Motorola who had introduced “Shattershield” display technology with its Droid Turbo 2 smartphone has now filed a patent for a self-repairing phone display. Although the patent was filed by Motorola in February 2016, it has been just put online by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that describes the patent as a “method and device for detecting fascia damage and repairing the same.” According to the filed patent, the company is looking into developing a smartphone that can heal its own cracked display with heat, including the phone’s own heat or the user’s body heat over a period of time....

Net neutrality garnered a lot of criticism particularly in India, where a zero rating program from operator Airtel fueled the issue. In response to the debate, Facebook end up losing a number of partners in India who withdrew from Internet.org. Today’s announcement has only added more fuel to the fire. Facebook in a blog post said “Our goal with Internet.org is to work with as many developers and entrepreneurs as possible to extend the benefits of connectivity to diverse, local communities....

Like every year, this September will see the launch of iPhone 7 by Apple. Ever since the first news about iPhone 7 surfaced, lots of rumours, leaks and genuine news has been doing rounds on the Internet. But for the first time, a YouTube Channel UnBox Therapy seems to somehow have got hands on the upcoming iPhone 7 and made a video comparing it with the iPhone 6 Plus. The only confirmation that the leaked video shows is that iPhone 7 will not have the standard 3....

This flaw isn’t exactly a new discovery since similar flaws have been discovered in previous versions of iOS; however, Apple is usually quick to fix them by way of an over-the-air firmware update. Apple’s most recent figures show that the vast majority of iPhone and iPad users are running an affected version of the software, accounting to many tens of millions of users. Security researcher, Benjamin Kunz Mejri who discovered the flaw posted a proof-of-concept video on Facebook of the attack taking place....

Want to learn Linux? Start with HandyLinux, the best lightweight Linux distro for newbiesGetting the ISO HandyLinux offers a simplified approach for those who are new to the Linux desktop operating system. The developers make it easy to peal off the “Handy” layers to reveal a more standard Linux environment as users learn the system. Those who no longer need the IT tools included with the initial installation can remove them easily using the Handy2Debian application from the main menu....

Just few minutes after defacing nic.tg, https://www.cafe.tg/ (CAFE Informatique & Telecomunications) was also defaced, The Deface page shows a message, urging the world to help Syria,

Pokémon Go’s staggered global release has meant that a lot of Android users have resorted to installing the game via APK file rather than wait for their local Google Play Store. The game came out in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States last week, and over the past few days Germany and the UK joined in. However, that doesn’t mean people elsewhere can’t play it yet. As the craze spread, so did the various pirated copies, which have been downloaded millions of times already....

According to the benchmark listing, Nokia’s upcoming tablet will feature an 18.4” display with Quad HD (2560 x 1440) resolution that results in a pixel density of 160 pixels per inch. The Nokia tablet will be powered by a Snapdragon 835 processor running at 2.2GHz and will have Adreno 540 GPU. In terms of memory, it will include 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. On the imaging front, the rear camera will have 12MP primary camera at the back that can record 4K videos....

Modder Dave Bennet has managed to get the popular first-person shooter (FPS) video game, Counter Strike 1.6 up and running on an Android smartwatch. Not only that, he has also posted his method online, so now you can also indulge in mag-fragging on a tiny tiny screen provided you own an Android smartwatch. To start with, you’ll need to download the Xash3D app that lets you run the old Windows version of the game on Android Wear, as well as the APK for the Counter Strike client app....

These two GPU’s will offer drastic improvements in performance as compared to the predecessors. So here’s everything you need to know about the unreleased Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 and the GeForce GTX 1160. ALSO READ: NVIDIA unveils the Quadro RTX 4000 GPU with 2,304 CUDA Cores, 8GB GDDR6 memory Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Presently, Geforce Gtx 1060 and AMD’s Radeon RX 470 are two of the best mid-range GPU’s. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 will feature TU106 GPU core, and it will be the cheapest raytracing enabled graphics card in the entire RTX lineup....

According to Nvidia, its new GTX 1080 card is faster and cheaper than its current top-of-the-line card, the $1,000 Titan X, and it’s roughly three times as power-efficient, too. While the GTX 1080 will offer a powerful alternative to the already formidable GTX 980, the GTX 1070 is set to replace the value-for-money GTX 970 card. The impressive Titan X is expected to lag behind the new GTX 1080, according to insiders from the company....

“There’s some things in there that I don’t like, but that’s the nature of legislation and compromise, and I think the system worked,” the president said at his year-end news conference at the White House, reported the Associated Press. “It was a good win.” House Speaker Paul Ryan, a Republican of Wisconsin, had inserted the CISA into the Omnibus Appropriations Bills in a bid to prevent lawmakers from putting a procedural hold on the CISA bill and block it from a vote....

FIA wanted to curb the activities of grey traffickers and hence asked PTA to monitor the international calls which show up as local numbers on their devices. Generally in the grey trafficking operators use illegal routes to make the international calls by skirting the legal routes, ultimately leading to high financial loses to the Government. Normally an international call should show a legal number and the corresponding country code. However, maximum chunk of international calls coming in and going out of Pakistan are for Saudi Arabia and there are lots of issues going on with respect to the tariff....

Most of the websites were hacked by Pakistani hackers going with the handle “StrikerRude”, “KashmirCyberArmy”, “PakCyber Expert”, “HUnter Gujar” and the Operation was named as “#OP26jan”It could also be noted that Few of Indian celebrities including Poonam Pandey’s websites were also hacked and defaced in the last few days by Pakistani hackers.Where as Bangladeshi hackers are also targeting the Indian websites, earlier today Official website of BCCI was hacked by Bangladeshi hackers....

This move was greatly appreciated by the Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov of Ukraine. You can send and receive money in Ukraine on PayPal As per the latest update coming from PayPal, the payment processor has expanded its services in Ukraine. Earlier, users could only receive money in their Ukrainian wallets from outside the country. You can send and receive money in Ukraine on PayPalPayPal waives off transaction fee till June 30thHelping hands for Ukraine...

A hacking group, PoodleCorp, has announced that it will attempt to take Pokemon Go offline on August 1 through a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which will apparently deny access to the players. “Just was a lil [sic] test, we will do something on a larger scale soon,” said Twitter user XO, who claims to be the leader of PoodleCorp. However, the game’s creators Google startup, Niantic Labs claimed Saturday’s outage was “Due to the incredible number of Pokemon Go downloads, some Trainers are experiencing server connectivity issues....

According to the latest news from Google, it will be conducting Project Loon trials in Australia, New Zealand and Latin America. Mike Cassidy from Google says that Google will be using its own manufacturing facility and automated systems to deliver a balloon in hours instead of days. He further stated that the company is now ready to launch thousands of balloons in the skies. Google has tied up with leading service provides like Telstra in Australia, Telefonica in Latin America and Vodafone in New Zealand for end point connectivity....

PUBG Corp. argued that NetEase released two clones of its popular multiplayer online battle royale game, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) for mobile games, Rules of Survival and Knives Out. The PUBG team had made it very clear that anyone who tries to make their own Battle Royale game, should not be based on the original. For those unaware, PUBG was released last year and had become a sensational hit with the global gaming community....

Well, this time around Realme did the same with its Realme Buds Air. Oppo’s rapidly growing sub-brand Realme recently launched it’s first truly wireless pair of earphones namely the Realme Buds Air. The design ergonomics of these earphones are almost similar to that of Apple’s 1st and 2nd generation Airpods. In addition to the design language, the feature-set of Realme Buds Air is also heavily inspired by Airpods by Apple....