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Though there are many kinds of hugely promising battery innovations around that involves things like hydrogen, aluminum, and solar power sources, they are not of much use for the users with devices that run on current-generation lithium-ion batteries. So, what can be done to get that little extra juice out of your smartphone? Is there any tool? Yes, there is. A new tool for the Android users have been developed by the researchers at Purdue University in the U....

GitHub site, which is in its 10th year, was launched in April 2008 by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett. Speaking at the company’s annual GitHub Universe user conference this Wednesday, Chris Wanstrath, co-founder and outgoing CEO, in his final keynote said, “We think the future of coding is no coding at all.” In the month of August, Wanstrath had announced that he would be stepping down as the company’s CEO as soon as he would find a suitable replacement....

The online hub yesterday announced a new feature for its Atom text editor known as ‘Teletype for Atom’ that makes it easier for fellow developers on a project to work with one another on shared code. Teletype allows developers to share their workspace with team members, write or edit code together simultaneously, and collaborate on code in real time, thereby sharing valuable knowledge and producing quality software. Developers can create a Teletype session from Atom and share this with online collaborators....

Adblock Plus blocks annoying ads on the web which includes blocking the “tracking” as well. Hence, with a count of monthly 50 million active users across the world its one of the most popular browser extensions. Adblock Plus itself has no functionality, in the sense that it does not block anything until it is “told” what to do by its filter lists. Adblock Plus is an open source project created by Wladimir Palant in 2006....

The company will start charging once free storage of 15GB on the account has been used. Further, those who wish to add photos beyond the 15GB limit will be required to buy a Google One plan to continue using the Google services. Google has now announced a significant price cut on higher storage plans of Google One considering more people are likely to purchase cloud storage soon. “For members that need more space, we’re cutting the price of our 10TB, 20TB, and 30TB plans by 50%....

The Google Brazil was hacked by a hacker going by the online handle of “Kuroi’SH.” Kuroi’SH defaced the official Google Brazil domain earlier Tuesday afternoon and left a message on the hacked website for Google. Google Brazil immediately tried to restore the hacked website but seemed unable to gain control as the domain, Google.com.br is still unavailable to visitors. According to reports in Brazil media, the Google Brazil users were getting the defaced message from Kuroi’SH for a whole 30 minutes before Google took the website offline....

However, recently leaked pressed renders and a 360-degree render video by Android Authority and @OnLeaks have given a sneak peak of Pixel or Nexus Sailfish from all angles. The new renders confirm that the Sailfish will sport a USB-C port rather than one of the microUSB variant, which is currently being phased out. Also, it is expected to have dual stereo speakers, which are both placed behind two rectangular holes flanking the USB-C port on the bottom of the handset....

The Google Play Pass subscription service, which is somewhat similar to Microsoft’s Xbox Games Pass or Apple’s Arcade subscription, was originally launched in September 2019 and made available to U.S. consumers. The search giant later expanded the service and is now available in 90 countries, including Germany, Australia, Canada, and Europe, making it available now in India too. The Play Pass subscription service will offer a high-quality and curated collection of over 1,000 titles across 41 categories from developers across 59 countries, including local Indian app developers....

Google has now officially launched the Fuchsia OS developer website, fuchsia.dev, which was first spotted by Android Police. The website notes that Fuchsia OS is an “open source operating system”. However, it also clarifies that “Fuchsia is not Linux” in the System Documentation section of the site. “[It is] a modular, capability-based operating system.” Fuchsia is powered by a microkernel called “Zircon,” which is written mostly in C++ and also provides core drivers and Fuchsia’s lib implementation....

“Firebase is an amazing way for developers who don’t even know what a cloud is to develop cloud-based applications,” Greg DeMichillie, director of product management for Google’s cloud operation, said at a panel at I/O. And that means enterprise developers too. “Firebase will be an essential tool to build enterprise mobile apps,” said Urs Holzle, a Google senior vice president who heads Google infrastructure. Google wants the new Firebase to be a complete platform for developing and managing Android, iOS, and web apps....

According to Google, PhotoScan detects edges, straightens the image, rotates it to the correct orientation, and removes glare. It also includes new, advanced editing tools, including a better “auto enhance” feature, tools for making granular adjustments to light and colour in photos and a dozen new photo filters. The filters are also powered by machine learning, and will edit the photo based on its brightness, darkness, warmth or saturation before applying the new style....

The Rolling-PWN attack (codenamed CVE-2021-46145) is a serious vulnerability, which takes advantage of a remote keyless entry system (RKE), which allows remote access to unlock the car door or start a vehicle from a long distance. According to the experts, the issue affects all Honda vehicles currently existing on the market, from the Year 2012 up to the Year 2022. The Rolling-PWN issue exists in a vulnerable version of the mechanism of the rolling code, which is implemented in huge amounts of Honda vehicles....

“AgentTesla is a .Net-based infostealer that has the capability to steal data from different applications on victim machines, such as browsers, FTP clients, and file downloaders. The actor behind this malware is constantly maintaining it by adding new modules,” wrote Malwarebytes researcher Hossein Jazi in a blog post. For those unaware, AgentTesla was first seen in 2014, and has been ever since frequently used by cybercriminals in various malicious campaigns....

In recent years data breaches have been experienced by huge companies including Tesco, Adobe, Ashley Madison, VTech, Adult Friend Finder, Sony and Minecraft Pocket edition. If you are worried your details might have leaked in high-profile website hacks such as TalkTalk and Adobe – where millions of addresses were leaked online? Or are you just curious whether your other half was using infidelity site Ashley Madison? The site HaveIBeenPwned lets you enter your email address and see instantly if your details were leaked in ‘big’ hacks mentioned above....

A year ago, Gates was asked if he’d want anything removed from the Internet, Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates pointed to this picture. We feel that he would soon add the above video to that list. The press conference had Bill Gates dancing which is hard to come by now a days. The video has been shared on YouTube and is gaining traction again as people tune in to watch Gates’ incredibly happy and awkward celebratory dance performance....

In April, Samy Kamkar, a hacker and engineer and the inventor of the handmade device disclosed the technique of cracking Master locks by taking care of the hitches in the dial’s spin, which indicate at the actual combination and restrict it to eight options. The things that your hands can do, a machine can often do it more quicker. Hence, Kamkar made a lock-cracking machine from off-the-shelf parts that converts the whole process into an automatic operation....

Penetration testing is becoming increasingly important for organizations of all sizes, as security breaches continue to grow both in frequency and in the amount of damage they cause. The Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) is an intermediate-level credential offered by the International Council of E-Commerce Consultants (EC-Council). For IT professionals seeking to expand their knowledge in that area, the EC-Council’s CEH credential offers a solid base of expertise. CEH provides complete ethical hacking and network security training courses to learn white hat hacking....