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According to the data obtained through the Freedom of Information (FoI) request, it showed that drones were used as much as 33 times in 2015 to smuggle banned items to prisoners, which saw an increase of 1,550% from just two cases in the year 2014. However, there were no recorded incidents in 2013. Items discovered include just the drones themselves, drugs, mobile phones and chargers, and USB drives. Mike Rolfe, national chairman elect of the Prison Officers Association (POA), said: “The use of drones to smuggle traditional drugs, NPS (legal highs) and mobiles phones into prisons is of serious concern to the POA....

Back then, the electric car maker said that it was buying the cryptocurrency for “more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash.” It also added that it will accept bitcoin in exchange for its products “subject to applicable laws and initially on a limited basis, which we may or may not liquidate upon receipt.” Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk on Wednesday has formally announced that the company’s electric vehicles can now be bought using bitcoin....

Strap the Rockets The BFR – short for Big Fucking Rocket – is what SpaceX intends to use to make travel to Mars a reality in its Interplanetary Transportation System. Elon Musk however, believes that the same rocket can also be used to transport people between two distant points on the earth. By his calculations, people one day might be able to board a rocket in New York and arrive 7,000 miles away in Shanghai in 39 minutes....

Well, everyone knows that internet is a pretty sinful place and the adult content very often finds its way onto Facebook, Instagram and their likes. To provide a ‘sin-free’ competition to the world’s largest social network, a group of Evangelical Christians in Brazil has launched a site named Facegloria. The site’s religious motive is to help people erase the sins created by the use of Facebook and to cleanse the already dirtied hearts of religious people....

The ground-breaking show, which was launched on September 8, 1966 on NBC, was cancelled three years into its mission. “Star Trek’” showed a utopian future for the universe in which a cast of international fictional characters, including Americans working side-by-side with Russian and Japanese characters in the middle of the Cold War, featured exploration rather than fighting, as well as peace between not only the people of earth and aliens, like the Vulcan character Spock, but also among races on Earth itself....

The change is expected at the upcoming annual conference of the company happening on 28th of October, 2021. Last weekend, Facebook posted about creating 10,000 new jobs at Facebook spanning across the technology metaverse. A larger empire consisting of tech products such as WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and some VR projects under the control of a single parent company. The move is stated as inspired by Google, which created Alphabet in 2012 to manage an extensive line of their technology business and its products....

He had sprung from job to job in Silicon Valley’s start-up land, and now he had been rejected by both Facebook and Twitter, from where he had tweeted few months prior. It feels like you are being pushed out the door when you are nearing the dreaded age of 40. However, the most striking part about Brian’s struggle is the good grace and positivity with which he handled his rejection — “It was a great opportunity to connect with some fantastic people....

Reza Moaiandin, technical director of Leeds-based company Salt.agency discovered a way to harvest Facebook users data using just their telephone number. Writing on the company blog, he says he discovered the flaw by mistake. He used a simple method to harvest data using a little-known search feature which allows you to search for any Facebook user using only their phone number. Moaiandin says, Once he chanced upon the vulnerability in Facebook, he wrote an an algorithm that generated thousands of numbers automatically....

Called “Lasso”, the music app is directed at teens which allows users to create short music videos similar to TikTok, the short 15-second video app that had recently merged with Musical.ly. Lasso is available on both, iOS and Android. Currently, the app is available only for users in the U.S. Apparently, almost half of teenagers in the U.S. say they use Facebook, which is a decrease of 20 percent from 2015, according to Pew....

Launched on Tuesday, the new Instant Games platform is an HTML5-based gaming platform that eradicates the need to download the recent Facebook Gameroom app. Instant Games are much faster to play, as all you have to do is just tap on the title you want to play and get started. Instant Games are cross-platform, so they will be playable on both the web and mobile. The real fun happens in Messenger, as the benefit of this is that the users can start a game with a friend on the company’s Messenger app, and the friend is potentially more likely to respond because they don’t have to install anything....

The jury awarded the sum after determining that Oculus executives violated a ZeniMax non-disclosure agreement in the early days of building the Oculus Rift VR headset. The lawsuit was filed in 2014 for a dispute between ZeniMax and Oculus, with ZeniMax alleging that John Carmack, the Chief Technology Officer at Oculus and Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey stole intellectual property to begin work on the Oculus Rift VR headset. The company also claimed that Facebook hurried through its acquisition process, not properly inspecting Oculus and its executives for possible conflicts and other warning signs....

An eight-month-old baby boy who was lost in the commotion after the truck massacre in the French Riviera city of Nice was tracked down through Facebook on Friday. Tiava Banner – who said she was not the mother of the baby – sent out an appeal on social media urging Facebook users to help her find the parents of the lost infant during Nice attack. The boy, who was in a blue stroller, was lost when the rioting truck killed at least 84 people and sent hundreds of people fleeing in panic, after Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel zig-zagged through the crowd, who had been watching Bastille Day fireworks....

The recall does not affect any other Apple AC wall plug adapters designed for Canada, China, Hong Kong, Japan, United Kingdom, United States or any Apple USB power adapters. In an official statement, the company explained how to identify adapters that may be affected by the problem. “An affected two-prong plug adapter has either four or five characters or no characters on the inside slot where it attaches to the main Apple power adapter....

Do you know Facebook knows everything about you and your preferences? Find out howFacebook has three ways to figure you outVisit your Ad Preferences to see what Facebook thinks you likeClick on Manage Your Ad PreferencesYou can make Facebook stop tracking you on the internet However, you can do a lot to control the ads you see and stop Facebook from tracking what you do on the rest of the internet in service of its advertisers....

Linux is everywhere and nearly all Linux distros need network connections to offer their services. Network connection failures is one of the major headaches if you are using a Linux based PC or a system. Because if your network fails, all other services will fail and you will be left with a dud system. For this reason, the administrator must have the appropriate tools and commands to analyze and troubleshoot network connectivity....

Let us consider some important possibilities and advantages of this program: All code highlights depending on a type, the also mixed code is thus supported, so the area of HTML will be highlighted as HTML, PHP as PHP, and Javascript as Javascript in a the same file. Thre is possibility of choice from color schemes, including popular IDEs. Powerful autocompletion for HTML, PHP, CSS and Javascript, including HTML5 and CSS3....

Additionally, the 128GB RAM kit is also running at extremely low frequencies (if you do plan to run them at 3,000MHz); CL14-14-14-34. The bundle comprises up of eight 16GB sticks and will definitely look nice inside your X99 motherboard in order to augment your gaming performance alongside a powerful Core i7-5960X, or even an Intel Core i7-5820K processor. DDR4 RAM modules eclipse the performance of DDR3, which was expected and the largest memory kits that were released in 2015 did not go above the 64GB capacity....

You must have heard the adage “there is a code of honor among thieves” Mr.Smith Group, the hackers who hacked into HBO servers seem to be a living testimony to this code. They had yesterday promised (only reported on Techworm and Independent) that they will leak the entire script of Game of Thrones season 7 episode 7 finale “The Dragon and the Wolf” today. And they did it!!! A Reddit post detailing the complete storyline of Game of Thrones season 7 episode 7 finale “The Dragon and the Wolf” was made today....

The Security advisory for Goo.gl/fb states as follows : Though exact causes are not known but Google blocking its own link shortening service is nothing short of a irony. Techworm is waiting for a comment from Google to know whether this is a genuine blockade for malware or some software glitch in its search algorithm. What is the current listing status for goo.gl/fb? Site is listed as suspicious – visiting this website may harm your computer....

The latest browser will now alert you if the passwords you have asked Chrome to remember have been compromised. However, Google’s password check works only if you use Chrome to store your passwords. To check if your username and password have been compromised, Chrome will send an encrypted copy of your username and password to Google. The search giant will check them against lists of credentials known to be compromised, which are sent to the company in a special form of encryption so that Google cannot derive your username or password....