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The 17-year-old Adelaide schoolboy, who can’t be named, along with another teenager from Melbourne first hacked into Apple’s mainframe in December 2015 when he was just 13 years old. He again hacked the system in early 2017 when he was 15 years old, and managed to download internal documents and data, according to ABC News. His actions came to the notice of authorities after the second incident. Apple then contacted the FBI who in turn contacted the Australian Federal Police (AFP)....

Fortunately, VR headsets are getting more lighter and affordable. Additionally, the PC requirements to play VR games at good framerates are also getting lower. In fact, we can expect VR games to become mainstream in a year or two. What Are VR Games And How To Play Them? Before sharing the list of best VR games, it’s important to know what actually are VR games and how you can play them using your existing hardware....

The Defense Secretary said the following in a statement: The warship has been described as a vessel for defense purposes, but at the same time, we are confident that it can also be used as an offensive weapon as well. The missile system has a short to medium range, and the technology present inside will be there to protect Britain’s nuclear-armed submarines from being detected by enemy boats. [The UK government] reached agreement in principle with BAE Systems to turn our Type 26 ambition into reality and that the first steel cut will now take place next summer....

Mobile Hardware A modern piece of technology which no student should be without if they can help it. Any piece of sufficiently advanced mobile equipment will work here, whether a phone, tablet or laptop. This helps not only in being able to easily check online for updates but in allowing the quick research of anything which comes up in real time. This is something our parents would have killed for, so make the most of it....

Google’s $44 million Lunar XPrize moon shoot space race nearing end, additional bonus of $5.8 million for detecting waterHAKUTO MOONRAKERFORMING ALLIANCESPRIZE MOTIVATION The first privately funded team that lands on the moon and then travel 500 metres and transmits high-definition video back to Earth will given the Google’s Lunar XPrize. An additional bonus of US$4 million (NZ$5.8 million) would be given if water is detected. The teams from India, the US, Japan, Brazil, and Germany view the race as an opportunity to seize the top position in a market that consultant London Economics predicts will be worth US$1....

How to get the best photo quality out of your photo editing softwareGeneral Rules to FollowCrop Your ImagesHave Some Structured FunMost Images Aren’t Worth KeepingThings to AvoidNice Applications, Great ToolsPhotolemurConclusion General Rules to Follow Forgot the complicated image editing techniques, at least in the beginning. Instead, remember the following: Crop Your Images Determine the focus of your photograph and use cropping to remove objects and persons in the background. By doing so, you can improve the overall composition of the image....

However, one man made it a mission to bring Internet to the rural masses of Nepal and he was successful in providing 60,000 Nepalis living in villages. Meet Mahabir Pun. Fed up with the fact that he had to hike for two days whenever he wanted to check his email, he decided to connect his home town of Nangi to the Internet. This video explains how he did it....

This sysadmin hacked his ISP company to bring it down for a week for firing him, got two years in prisonISP was down for a weekPrugar gets two years in jail and a $26,000 fine On one fine June morning he was fired after a series of ‘personal issues.’ While any other individual may have moved on with his life by seeking treatment for ‘personal issues’ and possibly another job in the highly lucrative sysadmin field....

TikTok will soon have Snapchat Stories-like feature According to TikTok, the Snapchat-like stories feature on the platform is now expanding in terms of pilot testing with more users joining in. TikTok will soon have Snapchat Stories-like featureThe pilot feature in the works You can add a video or a photo to your stories on TikTok similar to how you would upload a TikTok video, however, it will be ephemeral meaning it will vanish after 24 hours....

The TikTok Android app was collecting media access control (MAC) addresses of Android devices until November 2019. MAC addresses are a “unique identifier” assigned for every user, which is mainly used for target advertising. In 2015, Google as a policy had restricted Android apps downloaded from the Play Store from connecting “personally-identifiable information or associated with any persistent device identifier,” which includes MAC addresses and (International Mobile Equipment Identity) numbers....

10 Easy Tips and Tricks For WhatsApp users1) Hiding Last Seen, Profile Picture And Status2) Check When A Message Was Read3) Read Messages Without Others Seeing The Blue Check Marks4) Manage Auto Downloading Of Media5) Bold, Italicize, And Strikethrough Text6) Send Group Messages Using Broadcast Lists7) Backup Your Chat History8) Change Your Number9) Set Up Popup Notifications And Reply Directly (Android Only)10) Hide Notification Preview Of Messages While WhatsApp is easy to use, there are also some hidden features and twists that we tend to miss out on....

Follow these Top 10 Tech Security Tips To Keep Yourself Safe From Hackers10. Look Out for Social Engineering Attacks9. Make Your Phone’s Lock Code More Secure8. Always Back Up Your Computer/Smartphone7. Install the Best Antivirus and Anti-Malware Software6. Lock Down Your Wireless Router5. Never Send Sensitive Information Over Email Unless It’s Encrypted4. Don’t Use Public Wi-Fi Without A VPN3. Use A Password Manager2. Use Two-Factor Verification1. Frequently Review Your App Permissions and Security Settings...

However, it can feel like an eternity, if you have a slow internet connection speed that makes you wait for that page to load, or that video to buffer, or that file to download. There are two important metrics in bandwidth allocation (measured in Megabits per second or Mbps): download and upload speed, denoting the speed of inbound and outbound data respectively. In this article, we bring to you a list of the cities with the highest average internet speeds worldwide, as well as in India....

Here is a list of the five most disastrous smartphones that were ever released. No. 1: The BlackBerry Storm This smartphone tops the list of the worst smartphone ever. However, thanks to the strength of the BlackBerry brand and a major marketing push from Verizon, which was eager to have a device that could counter the incredible hype AT&T was generating with the iPhone at the time, the device initially sold very well....

While the default setting for Trello boards is set to ‘private’, several users change them to ‘public’, which means that the content posted there can be viewed by anyone. When a Trello board is made public, a search engine such as Google is efficient at getting the content of that board into its index. This means anyone with a browser, in theory, could see the data, which included names, addresses, performance ratings, and company training videos, simply by using a specialized type of search called a ‘dork’....

For the uninitiated, FBI along with other law enforcement agencies had arrested Vaulin in Poland after a police raid. The FBI also confiscated the world’s most popular torrent website, Kat.cr during the raid. The arrest of Vaulim led to a big churning in torrents community with The Pirate Bay and Extratorrents emerging as most popular torrent websites. KickassTorrents has made a comeback with a new domain called katcr.co/new but it is yet to create any mark....

At the time of writing the Article, the website was still down. Few Days ago RedHack, hacked the website of AK Parti, turkey Before that Metropolitan water, and sewerage Administration system of turkey was hacked by RedHack

The announcement of the new policy comes after a Twitter account run by a college student ‘Jack Sweeney’ that tracked the live location of billionaire and Twitter’s new boss Elon Musk’s private jet was suspended as of Wednesday morning. Not just this, the microblogging site also suspended the personal Twitter account of Sweeney along with more than 30 other accounts that he used to track the private jets of celebrities for violating Twitter’s rules against “platform manipulation and spam....

Do not panic! There seems to have been a some error by Twitter. Your Account has not been compromised. Twitter has accepted the error and has confirmed that the mails were being sent due to a system glitch. This is not the first time when the Social media giant Twitter have sent mails notifying about the password reset. earlier in November 2012, after a security breach, Twitter sent mass password reset mails to many who were not even effected with the breach....

Currently, Twitter has limited tweets to up to 280 characters in one post. However, it allows users to create threads on the platform so that they can share thoughts longer than the given 280 characters limit. The upcoming feature called “Notes” will help users to write in-depth posts, which can include text up to 2,500 words. The title is restricted to 100 characters. Notes can also include photos, videos, GIFs, a header image, and more in posts that can be tweeted and shared with the followers....