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The Taiwanese smartphone maker says the Desire 326G Dual SIM is “built on the foundations of the popular HTC Desire 526G+ series with new vibrant colours.” The Android-based HTC Desire 326G Dual SIM with Sense UI is powered by a quad-core Speadtrum SC7731G processor clocked at 1.2GHz, and coupled with 1GB of RAM. It also includes a 4.5-inch display screen with an FWVGA (480×854 pixels) resolution. The smartphone has by a 2000mAh removable battery, which is expected to give upto 11 hours of talk time and 386 hours of standby time on 3G....

The Head of Development at midpoints GmbH and IBM Champion , René Winkelmeyer, has discovered some security issues that Microsoft will get and store your mail account credentials and server data in the cloud (without notifying you) if you use the new iOS Outlook app. He discovered these details while analyzing how the iOS Outlook app mechanism deals with push notifications and notes, that Microsoft has potential access to the personal information management data....

These specialized computers or the so called “supercomputers” are expected to work at a speed of 0.5 to 20 petaflop. Further, the speed of supercomputers would soar to a level of 50 petaflop when the project will be in full swing. Petaflop is a unit that measures the processing speed of a computer and it is expressed as 10^15 floating point operations per second. In an interview with Indian Express; Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary of Department of Science and Technology (DST) said: “The project, which costs around Rs 4,500 crore is in its nascent stage....

Answering to a question in the Indian lower house, Lok Sabha, the Minister for Communications and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad said that “The government has not decided to get servers of popular social networking sites, like hike, Facebook, Twitter etc established within the country” He added that Indian government regularly communicates with these social media websites to resolve the issues like unlawful and hateful content hosted on them. Mr.Prasad added that the security agencies in India face a difficulty in processing the encrypted communications provided by various tracking and surveillance agencies....

In a tweet, the PIB (Press Information Bureau) Fact Check, which is the government’s official fact-checker, dubbed the viral message as fake, saying that no such instructions were given to Google or Apple by the MeitY or NIC. — PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) June 19, 2020 The fake message circulated on the social media claimed that the Indian Government has directed the regional executive and representatives of Google and Apple to “restrict the functioning of Chinese applications from the respective stores with immediate effect”....

There are several reasons why the PC market has slowed down. First off, if you take a look at the performance differences between the processors of each new architecture (this would be between i7-5820K vs. i7-6820K), there is not much difference to them if you decide to run somewhat taxing applications and programs on them. Sure, those synthetics and occasional gaming benchmarks might have a different story to tell, but at the end of the day, those are not based on real-world performance....

For those unaware, a couple of months ago, Broadcom had made an unexpected and unsolicited bid to acquire its rival chipmaker, Qualcomm for $130 billion in November 2017 but this initial bid was rejected by Qualcomm’s board of directors, and so were every subsequent counter offer claiming that Broadcom’s proposed price for the deal “undervalues” the company. In February 2018, a revised buyout of $121 billion was offered by Broadcom, which was too rejected by Qualcomm....

The news is from the city of Federal Way (Washington) where a guy named “Rahel Mohamad” twitted about the incident. — Rocky Mohamadali (@rocky_mohamad) November 14, 2018 He said that “This year early January I bought the iPhone and have been using it normally.” The iPhone X was in process of getting new iOS 12.1 update and when Mohamad put it on charging at a later stage, he observed a “Dark grey smoke started coming from the phone....

This year, Iraq’s Internet went dark for May 14, 15, and 16, between 05:00 AM and 08:00 AM GMT. Adding timezone differences, that’s 08:00 to 11:00 AM, the time, and dates for Iraq’s official exams for secondary and high schools. However, this is not the first time, the communications ministry done the same thing in 2015. The diktat was implemented during the national exam days but no Iraqi official ever admitted it....

You may stumble upon outrageously cheap Bluetooth headphones and wireless phone chargers or whimsical swan-shaped toilet brush holders, depending on your personal demographics and shopping proclivities. Moreover, unbelievably low prices are a cherry on top, pushing you to buy everything you need (and do not need!) At the same time, this may raise suspicions about the site’s legitimacy, which is seemingly too good to be true. So, is Wish legit and safe or that’s just our wishful thinking?...

“We need to establish deterrents in cyber space. We need to not just defend ourselves against attacks but rather to dissuade people and states from targetting us in the first place,” Osborne said. In the first ever speech by a Chancellor at spy base Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), he also unveiled a £1.9 billion spending boost for online security by 2020 to combat their efforts. “We are building our own offensive cyber capability....

ISIS, the radical insurgent group holding territory in both Syria and Iraq, is fighting for its life in Mosul, a large city in Northern Iraq that the terrorist organization has occupied since 2014. Iraqi troops and other security forces have been fighting to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group since early November. Last week, Kurdish media network Rudaw reported that Islamic State fighters in Mosul are using drones to drop small bombs onto Iraqi security forces and civilians....

Java got an approval rating of 19.804 % followed by C with 12.238 % while C++ came in third at 6.311 %. Python and C# continue to hang in there with a slight downtick in their popularity. Java’s popularity rose at 2.08 percent while C and C++ have a little worry as their popularity shrank at -3.91 % and -2.33 %respectively. PHP, the programming language of choice among web applications developers made it to the top 5, while C# slid from the top 5....

Largest ever DDoS attacks carried out on Hong kong’s Democracy MomentsDNS AttackLargest ever in historyResponse DNS Attack What is striking about these attacks is the way they are being carried out. The attack involves bombarding DNS servers. A DNS server is responsible for taking a request from a user fro a website, resolving it and forwarding the request onto the website. What has happened in this attack is, the attacker/attackers have been bombarding the DNS servers with multiple request for these specific sites, which is ensuring that the DNS server resolves every request....

Redditor, tdark12 has made a full thread on Redditor describing the issue and give a solution for disabling the same. He noted that Avast is adding an unseen signature in his emails. As stated above, the settings for the signature have also been added to the Web Shield without any way of disabling it. So, even though you DON’T have Mail Shield installed, it could still be appending the signature....

In other words, this means that there will be no unique identity of Moto brand in itself. Now, all smartphones designed and manufactured by Lenovo will carry the ‘Moto’ brand. The news comes in light of the company’s no-so-good financial results. The announcement also comes as part of a larger shift in leadership at Lenovo, which involves replacement of current Co-President and SVP of the company’s Mobile Business Group Xudong Chen with Gina Qiao, formerly SVP of Human Resources....

How would it sound if we take the light all the way to the computer or TV, projecting it through the air over the last few meters and only converting it to an electronic signal at the end? That sounds amazing isn’t. The researches at Oxford University is working on the similar technique with a system that takes light from the fiber, amplifies it, and beams it across a room to deliver data at more than 100 gigabits per second....

“Thank you all for your donations and for your support. We’ve received a lot of help in preparation for the next release,” said Clement Lefebvre. “The ISO images are getting close to passing QA (quality testing) so we could see a Beta release early this month. Linux Mint 18 is just around the corner. I hope you’ll enjoy it.” The Mint team is expecting to receive lots of suggestions and help from the community to find bugs and polish the operating system before it pushes out a solid stable release subsequently with the beta release....

So here’s good news for those concerned about camera and microphone spying! MacKeeper developers came up with a must-have solution: Camera Protection and Microphone Protection. They are small but useful widgets are designed to notify the user when an app attempts to access the Mac’s camera or microphone. These features are included in the new version of MacKeeper. Camera Protection and Microphone Protection quickly detect any access to your Mac’s camera or microphone....