#GOP Sony Hackers had demanded ransom from Sony CEO or warned them of massive cyber attackAlso read : FBI says that North Korea is not linked to Sony Hack attack The email which was sent on Nov. 21, was addressed to Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton, Chairman Amy Pascal and other executives. This ransom email is accidentally the part of the trove that is being leaked by the hackers after the hack....
Samsung, the South Korean tech giant has successfully developed a technology that will enable it to double the capacity of lithium batteries effectively. In other words, the research team of Samsung Electronics has come up with a technology that basically involves the development of a silicon cathode material for the purpose of coating high crystal graphene on a silicon surface. In comparison to the existing current lithium batteries, this is said to double the energy density....
The mobile phone manufacturer Xiaomi has a commanding influence and control in the mobile manufacturing industry in China. It has became one of biggest manufacturer of mobile phone in world in just a short span of time. The leaked mobile information on the site gives the details about the features of the Xiaomi Mi 5 and Mi 5 Plus mobile phones. According to the information, it says that the phone Xiaomi Mi5 will feature a 5....
Unfortunately, the same happened to my trusty HP Pavilion Notebook. After researching for quite some time, I found out a feature-packed tool, namely BoostSpeed 11. As advertised, BoostSpeed 11 drastically improved the performance of my Windows 10 device. What intrigued me more was the fact that this tool was completely free to use, and in addition to enhancing the performance of my PC, BoostSpeed 11 also optimized my Notebook. Recently, Auslogics reached out to Techworm for a detailed review of BoostSpeed 11....
Popcorn Time uses BitTorrent’s P2P technology and enables you to stream content without having to wait for the download to complete, making it easy for you to watch your favorite films and television series. The content is downloaded in a secret folder on your hard drive and gets deleted on system reboot. Another alternative is Stremio has been around for a while, it is not all that popular. Stremio is an application built with Electron that streams and plays TV shows, movies, TV channels, and YouTube channels, from torrents....
The Syrian Electronic Army took on the site yesterday and altered a news feature written by one of IBTimes reporters, Alessandria Masi. The SEA which takes pride in just hacking websites and defacing pages to make their views known to world did not touch other articles on the website. They also left a message on the deface page which said that,“This time we only deleted the article that [contained]false information about Syria and the Syrian army,” the message posted online read....
Currently, the video calling feature is in Telegram beta and expected to officially roll out with version 7.0 of the application. “2020 highlighted the need for face-to-face communication, and our alpha version of video calls is now available on both Android and iOS. You can start a video call from your contact’s profile page, and switch video on or off at any time during voice calls,” the company said in a statement on Friday....
The car dubbed as “Cybertruck”, according to Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk, could survive a 9 mm handgun. However, the attempt to prove so failed miserably during the demonstration. In an effort to demonstrate the car’s durability of its “Armor Glass” windows, Musk ordered Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla’s chief of design, to hit the driver’s side door with a sledgehammer, which did not make a dent. However, the windows shattered when Musk asked Franz to throw a metal ball at the driver’s side window....
In 1977 Tom Baker was the fourth actor to play the character of famous nerd “Doctor Who” and then the robotic canine made its first appearance in the series. Now, we have this K9 toy for real which has the same look as the one which appeared in the opera years ago. The robotic K9 has many interactive features including the moving ears and the illuminated key pad. The eyes, nose probe, ears and all movements of this robotic K9 can be controlled using a smartphone....
The newly developed quantum computer is only made from five atoms, and is one of the significant steps leading towards developing new devices. “We tried to make a quantum processor of five qubits with trapped ions that is reconfigurable, and by that I mean that you can literally program algorithms into it,” Shantanu Debnath, an optical engineer, a quantum physicist at University of Maryland and the lead author of the Nature paper, from the US University told WIRED....
Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym of the Federal District Court for the District of Central California ordered Apple to bypass security functions on an iPhone 5c used by Syed Rizwan Farook, who was killed by the police along with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, after they attacked Mr. Farook’s co-workers at a holiday gathering. Judge Pym ordered Apple to build special software that would essentially act as a skeleton key capable of unlocking the phone....
Prima facie it seems that someone hacked her smartphone to obtain the images and later used her Instagram credentials to post the images. The images are very grainy and extremely NSFW but the captions put the hackers are more saucy and too hot to handle. Her spokesman confirmed that Charlotte had been hacked, “Charlotte has once again become a victim of hacking,” the spokesman told The Daily Caller. “It is disgusting someone does this and hopefully laws will change to protect people from these cyber attacks....
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Google’s new Science Journal app is just the kind of app students might need in science classes. But if you’re an aspiring scientist, the free app will turn an Android smartphone or tablet into laboratory full of experiments by grabbing data from the device’s various sound, light, and motion sensors. Science Journal app is essentially a data logger tool that can record measurements taken by the device’s built-in microphone, ambient light sensor, gyroscope, or external sensors connected over Bluetooth to expand its capabilities....
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Uber under fire for suggesting Uber would slime media and its criticsMatter reach Capitol HillGods ViewMichael ApologisesUber’s Privacy Policy The seriousness of proposition is that the comments came from Emil Michael, Uber’s senior vice president of business and seems to be a policy decision taken by Uber at sliming its critics and media who pan Uber and its privacy policies, through the private information saved on its servers. Michael made this comments last Friday at a dinner table that included Kalanick, celebrities and some journalists....
“In this release, we celebrate the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s commitment to put open computing in the hands of people all over the world. We are honored to support that initiative by optimizing Ubuntu on the Raspberry Pi, whether for personal use, educational purposes or as a foundation for their next business venture,” Mark Shuttleworth, CEO at Canonical explains. This release comes with updated packages, toolchain upgrades, security improvements and more....
Well, all these problems can be gone for good, if the UK government is successful in testing a special road surface that actually charges your car as you drive. This week, the UK government announced that it wants to begin testing this tech, and soon. Highways England, is a government organization responsible for road infrastructure maintenance. Announcing last week, Andrew Jones, Highways England and Transport Minister said that off-road trials of dynamic wireless power transfer technology are expected to start later this year and run for 18 months” before the on-road testing begins....
With the latest almost finalised version of Windows 10 released, Microsoft is adding finishing touches to the launchpad, and preparing itself to ‘celebrate’ what is their biggest launch ever. Gabe Aul took the opportunity to announce performance findings from the latest Windows 10 build in a blog post on the Windows blog. He added: “The Edge team has been continuing to optimise performance since first adding the new browser to Windows 10....
The defence administration and Pentagon want a better way to not only identify the malicious hacker but also looking for practical algorithms that can predict where that hacker might attack next.In order to fulfill this goal, DARPA is offering funding for security researchers who can help the agency to develop algorithms that can identify hackers under ‘Enhanced Attribution Program’. With new methods of cyber attacks and hackings being devised everyday, DARPA has thought it prudent to include the security researchers and ethical hackers in this program....
