According to the researchers they made it fly similar to a bee, but to ensure it could swim in water as well, they took inspiration from the Puffin. Puffin uses its wings to both fly and propel itself through the water when diving for fish. The researchers limited the robot’s wing speed from 120 flaps per second and adjusted the stroke angle of its wings so it could move through the water....
In a hope to revive itself, Polaroid on Wednesday unveiled a modernized version of its classic instant print camera, the Polaroid Snap at IFA 2015 in Berlin, Germany. Polaroid Snap revisits the company’s roots by merging instant prints with modern digital technology. It is designed to combine the best of both worlds in a pocket-sized camera that prints wallet sized photographs automatically after an image is captured. Further, the Polaroid Snap having more of a standard style is sleeker now....
Want a dual-boot tablet which has both Windows 10 and Android, try out Teclast Tbook 16 ProRating: 4.0 / 5 Price range: $209.99THE GOODTHE BADMy ViewTBook 16 Pro SpecsFinal thoughts Rating: 4.0 / 5 Price range: $209.99 My View With tablets gaining traction world over and outdoing laptops in sales, Teclast has come up with a good product to lure both laptop owners as well as tablet aficionados. Much like the tablets they have mostly superseded, these inexpensive 2-in-1s, popularized by the Asus T-series, are aimed mostly at casual content consumers....
Wi-Fi Assist is a feature on iOS 9 that automatically switches an iPhone user from a Wi-Fi hook up to a cellular connection if the Wi-Fi signal becomes weak. Many iPhone users have unknowingly used all their monthly data and have been hit with overage charges because of Wi-Fi Assist, as it is enabled by default. In the case of Ashton Finegold, the teen received a text saying that he was nearing his monthly data limit....
Reel life to Real lifeForensic medicine and security specialists to develop software to spot if pacemakers have been hacked DHS announced in October, 2014 that it is checking anything and everything which contains a programmable chip like pacemakers, defibrillators, bedside intravenous fluid pumps, scanners and hospital networks etc. Members of DHS’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) say that a heart pump by Hospira and cardiac implants by Medtronic and St Jude Medical all have security flaws that could make them vulnerable to external hacking....
Jatupat Boonpattararaksa was arrested in north-eastern Thailand and charged under the country’s lese-majeste law with royal insult under Article 112 of Thailand’s criminal code in the city of Khon Kaen. Apparently, this is the first arrest under the country’s tough lese-majeste law since King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun took the throne on Thursday, succeeding his father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died at the age of 88 in October. Article 112 says anyone who “defames, insults or threatens the king, the queen, the heir-apparent or the regent” will be punished with up to 15 years in prison....
For those unaware, a business card typically bearing business information such as name, e-mail address, phone number, and website about a company or individual. They are shared during formal introductions as a convenience for retrieving contact information. George Hilliard, the creator of the Linux-run business card, said that the idea for the business card came to him when he thought, “These processors are nearly cheap enough to give away.” Although George has seen electronic business cards before that includes features such as emulating USB flash drives, blinkenlights, or even wireless transceivers, he has never seen one running Linux....
Researchers at Harvard University have developed a new liquid flow battery that uses organic structures for power that could potentially help it last for a decade. Currently “flow batteries” store energy in a liquid and wear out rapidly when used regularly. Developed by a team at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), the battery stores organic molecules dissolved in neutral pH value water. According to the researchers, the new battery can run for a decade or more without maintenance....
So, what do you do when you are out trekking, or on a wildlife expedition and your smartphone is running out of battery and there are no power outlets to charge your device? In such a scenario, all you require is a little inventiveness that can turn random junk into a working hydro-electric generator. That is what YouTuber Thomas Kim showed in a video posted on YouTube. In the video, he demonstrated how he MacGyver’d some water bottles, disposable platters, 3 Phase stepping motor, rectifier circuit, metal pipes, and other materials into this hydro-electric generator....
Now, a cunning developer has brought the Nokia Lumia 520 back to life by getting the latest version of Android Nougat 7.1 run on it. The person behind this experiment is Nguyen Thinh who published details of his efforts on the XDA Developers forums, where he noted that the touchscreen, brightness levels, battery management, storage management, charging, sound and other features are all working well with his installation of the Nougat ROM....
While running all those tabs can take a heavy toll of the laptop, closing these tabs is also not an option. Because, closing them completely might make you lose something you intended to come back to later. There’s this neat little hack which can kill tabs while keeping them open at the same time and reduce the strain on your laptop. The page with the ‘Aw Snap’ error won’t take up any memory, but if you need to go back to it later, you can find it again by scrolling through your tabs and refreshing the page....
Any software which has a bug since the start of its lifecycle and is discovered later is called a zero-day. Every day we hear such zero-days being discovered making it easy for hackers to hack into the system or your PC. Though such bugs cost big money, there are many such instances that such software errors have caused losses in millions of dollars. Today we bring to you 10 such famous and interesting bugs from the tech world....
Top Programming Languages That Will Bag You A Top Notch JobJavaCC++C#PythonPHPVisual Basic [.Net]JavascriptPerlRuby TIOBE, a Netherlands-based company is one such company that keeps a regular list of the most commonly used languages and assesses code for quality. The company’s list not only shows the relative popular languages that it is testing currently, but also a good picture of the development market as it exists right now. Another way to figure out which programming languages are currently hot in the market is looking at the companies graph for hiring programmers, which in turn gives us a peek into the future....
If you are looking out to upgrade your skill set, here are 6 of the highest-paying skills for 2016 that you should consider. Cassandra: It is a free, open source ‘noSQL’ database that stores and handles various types of data and is increasingly becoming the preferred choice for mobile and cloud applications. Apple and Netflix are among the biggest users of this system. Cassandra:Cloudera:HANA:MapReduce:HortonWorks Data Platform: Pig: Cloudera: Cloudera makes the most popular version of ‘easily-usable’ Hadoop, which is a system through which huge amounts of data can be stored on and accessed through a network of low-cost servers....
Keep going through the article to find out all the latest Tower Defense Simulator codes that have not expired. Tower Defense Simulator is a Roblox-based game which is developed by Paradoxum Games. You can team up with another player in Tower Defense Simulator to defeat all the enemies and win the map. With the codes for Tower Defense Simulator, you can receive gems, XP, and coins for free. Those gems and coins will help you buy new towers and skins of your choice....
@God who has around 180,000 followers normally tweets memes however the new owners hijacked it to tweet spam. The last tweet mentions that they had hijacked the account — “recreating hotmails” — and thanks Twitter for the “0day,” hacker slang for a vulnerability that is immediately exploitable. Many of Twitter users were stunned to get these tweets. According to multiple accounts on Twitter, a flaw occurred when users tried to reset a password, and the social network then showed users the full email address associated with the account....
The Account leaked is up for download on file sharing service of Zippyshare. all the account leaks are in plain text format. The leaked data contains twitter id, twitter nickname, oauth_token, oauth_token secret codes. which can be used to login to the victim’s account. Hacker also added a guide on how to use oauth_token to login into the account -which can be done easily with the use of tamper data....
URL Shortening services like bit.ly are commonly used by cyber criminals and spammers to spread malwares and spams. however this is not new but unfortunately for bit.ly, Google has gone on taken this harsh step which will deter users from visiting bit.ly sites. Most of the times the malware warning like these are removed after few hours when someone from the team of webmasters takes proper action to remove the links which caused the website to be flagged as malicious....
According to a report published on The Guardian, it stated that the courts recently released court papers that show a clear trail between the government and the research that was taking place. On more than one occasion, the students were successful in their attempts, showing that they were more than your average student enrolled in a university. One adolescent even managed to stumble onto the infamous Silk Road swap shop....
