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The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has informed Apple Inc. this week that it will not spend another dollar on the Pearson software installed on its iPads. It is further seeking a multimillion-dollar refund from the technology giant for the iPad that have been issued to students under the Instructional Technology Initiative (ITI), which the school claims, students have hacked the iPads to visit less academic sites. Under the $1....

Robot found drowned in a fountain We were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots. pic.twitter.com/rGLTAWZMjn — Bilal Farooqui (@bilalfarooqui) July 17, 2017 This tweet ignited the viral news of the robot who apparently lost the battle against a water fountain. This story broke when onlookers at the Washington Harbour – an office complex – discovered the curious sight of a robot floating face down in the fountain. The robot was a Knightscope K5 which has the ability to detect unusual activity and report it for its human handlers to investigate....

Utility tokens are used for granting access to a company’s products or services or entitle their holders to be a part of an ecosystem where this token acts as a native currency. Utility tokens are not designed for investments and this leads to a lack of security regulations. Security tokens derive their value from an external, tradable asset and share specific characteristics with regular financial instruments which are subject to security regulations....

Called as Sega Game Gear Micro, the device will be available in four versions and each one will have a different color and offer four different games. As one can see from the video below, the four versions of the Game Gear Micro will be available in black, blue, yellow, and red color variants. The games that will be available as per color variant are as follows: Black: Sonic the Hedgehog, Puyo Puyo 2, Out Run, and Royal Stone....

We have all read about how people are losing their lives in their quest for the ultimate selfie. Now we have something more shocking to worry about – Snapchat’s speed filter! For those who have not used Snapchat, it’s a feature in it, that uses sensors in a smartphone to record the speed at which a user is traveling when he or she sends a message. Snapchat users use the speed filter to snap images at high speed and earn brownie points among friends to soothe their egos....

So far, the Apple vs DoJ iPhone hack decision has taken found pro and anti backers. In court filings last week in which the Department of Justice requested a judge compel Apple to assist them in opening the iPhone, the government said, “The phone may contain critical communications and data prior to and around the time of the shooting that, thus far: (1) has not been accessed; (2) may reside solely on the phone; and (3) cannot be accessed by any other means known to either the government or Apple....

Since playing cards first arrived on the scene back in the 1370’s, literally thousands of different games have been invented to help pass the time and keep us entertained while competing against our family and friends. As it turns out, Solitaire, also known as Patience or Cabale (depending on what part of the world you are from), is one of the most popular games that has withstood the test of time over the past few centuries....

Here is the complete list of tweaks ported into the latest Lollipop update for the Xperia Z2 and Z3 series, according to the official release notes: Increased customisation options – user can have even more control over the way volume, silent modes and alerts function Brand new LinkedIn integration – enables intuitive contact synchronisation in Calendar Camera improvements – faster, more accurate Superior Auto Mode focus for better images, regardless of conditions Enhanced enterprise support – latest Xperia in Business features for work SmartWear integration – selfie snapping made that bit easier, with SmartWatch 3 as a remote shutter button...

Spotify users will be able to control the in-car player by pairing it to the car’s sound system via Bluetooth. The device is also said to support voice commands and has preset hardware buttons. “Spotify’s device will sync to car stereos via Bluetooth connection, as well as preset buttons that correspond to Spotify playlists, according to people briefed on the plans,” notes the Financial Times. “The device would also allow people to control the player by voice, these people said....

Two years ago, during the month of September, hackers had systematically targetted iCloud accounts of Hollywood stars and leaked their private explicit images and videos on image boarding websites in tranches. The entire episode was named a Fappening by users of image boarding site, 4Chan where these images were first leaked. The media preferred to call the entire episode as more politically correct Celebgate. While the Fappening hacker has been caught and sentenced but a Fappening leak victim’s iCloud account has been hacked again and the hackers have leaked her private and explicit images online....

For those unaware, Swift is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple Inc., first released in 2014. Initially a proprietary language, Swift was made open-source software under the Apache License 2.0 on December 3, 2015, for Apple’s platforms and Linux. “Porting Swift to Windows is not about simply porting the compiler, but rather ensuring that the full ecosystem is available on the platform. This includes the compiler, the standard library, and the core libraries (dispatch, Foundation, XCTest)....

The lines are white on the gold and “rose gold” iPhone models, and gray on the silver and “space gray” models. It was discovered that the stripes are in fact the smartphone’s antennas, which are very significant as that’s how the device communicates with the network. These aerials cannot be hidden inside the handset, because the smartphone’s all-metal construction would stop the emission of the radio waves, averting the antennas sending and receiving information....

Swedish ISP Bredbandsbolaget blocks The Pirate Bay, other torrent websites like RARBG, ExtraTorrent, KickassTorrents, 1337X to be blocked soonThe Bredbandsbolaget and The Pirate Bay v/s media companies court caseWhat’s Next? However, there are indications that the Swedish authorities may further seek to block other popular torrent websites like Rarbg, Kickass Torrents, 1337X, Torrentz2, and ExtraTorrent. After tasting blood in The Pirate Bay and Bredbandsbolaget versus the media companies likeUniversal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music, Nordisk Film, and the Swedish Film Industry, the authorities are eager to block as many torrent websites as possible....

We had recently reported that Kickass Torrents had its domain kickass.im was seized within 24 hours of moving to it leaving Kickass Torrent no option but to return to Kickass.to domain. Now Kickass Torrents has switched domains again to a Costa Rican location and the new domain will be Kat.cr according to Kickass admin. The admin stated that till such time the move to at kat.cr is completed, Kickass will be available at Kickass....

Known as Poke Radar for Pokemon Go, which premiered on July 14 is now the second-most-downloaded free app (currently iOS only) in Apple’s App Store. The reason is that the app helpfully maps where Pokemon are hiding all over the world and lets you search for specific Pokemon near you. The tool (which is really just Google Maps with Pokemon scattered all over it) is available both on the web and as a mobile app....

If you are on Tinder, you will know that the popular dating App requires both parties “swipe right” on profiles they like, before they are allowed to exchange messages. But Sebastian Stadil developed a string of code to automatically swipe right and send a few messages of introduction to as many women as possible. His hack was so successful that he was able to send intros to more than 200,000 women....

“As a 19-year-old, I have coded the entirety of the robot on my own, and I think it does a reasonable job of replacing parking lawyers. I know there are thousands of programmers with decades more experience than me working on similar issues. If it is one day possible for any citizen to get the same standard of legal representation as a billionaire, how can that not be a good thing,” said Browder....

For those unaware, TikTok app is a popular video streaming platform with more than 800 million monthly users. According to the researchers, the latest versions of the TikTok app still uses the company’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) to pull videos, which has insecure hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) or no encryption instead of the encrypted hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS) protocol. This means that a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack can hijack and alter the data that’s being shared between the user and TikTok’s CDN....