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Strike shut down permanently following a lawsuit from the RIAA. However, Strike developer Andrew Sampson has now released the search engine’s source code to the public. Strike was engulfed in a tortuous legal battle with RIAA which Sampson reportedly settled for a massive $3 million. Since the legal disputes started, Strike has been offline for weeks. Even though the site was as good as dead, Sampson said that it still got million visitors daily who were served pages cached by CloudFlare....

One of the several tweets fired by Syrian Electronic Army over twitter. A screenshot tweeted by sea On their official twitter account shows they were having full control of Registry system Portal of qatar. A series of tweet fired from the Account showed various websites were effected, including https://google.com.qa , ooredoo.com.qa , diwan.gov.qa , qaf.mil.qa, https://mofa.gov.qa, aljazeera.net.qa , https://isp.qa , https://vodafone.qa , gov.qa , https://mozabintnasser.qa , qtel.com.qa, facebook.qa , qe....

Almost four years later, the search giant has decided to pull the plug on the Trusted Contacts app. Ever since the launch of Trusted Contacts app, functionality found in this app have been built directly into Google Maps with Location Sharing making it even easier for users to share their live location with trusted family and friends. As a result, effective October 16, 2020, Google has removed the Trusted Contacts app from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store....

To make matters worse, Google has pushed out a major security update to the latest version of Chrome, the 67, that will increase Chrome’s RAM usage by over 10%. However, this time around, it is done to reduce any future security threats posed by the highly-publicized system vulnerabilities like Spectre and Meltdown that shook the technology industry in January. This was due to the design flaw that affected every CPU in the market, enabled hackers to launch attacks such as stealing sensitive information when victims visit malicious websites....

Search Engine Land, who was the first one to notice the statement by Google, made it clear that the service is temporarily shut down while a new moderation system is under construction. “Given the current state of the [moderation] system, we have come to the conclusion that it is not fair to any of our users to let them continue to spend time editing. Every edit you make is essentially going to a backlog that is growing very fast,” Google rep Pavithra Kanakarajan wrote....

Titan Solara 50, one of Google’s 5G drones had crashed during a test flight in New Mexico in May 2015 last year. The drone was solar powered and didn’t last long in the air after it encountered an updraft and one of its wings failed before crashing in the company’s Albuquerque test field. This drone was part of Google’s larger effort to deliver Internet from the stratosphere. It has been more than half a year since the May 2015 incident, and U....

The GPD Pocket is a 7-inch laptop with a capacitive touch-screen and Gorilla Glass 3 protection along with an impressive 1,920 x 1,200 resolution – 323 pixels per inch (PPI). It is powered by an x7-Z8700 quad-core Intel Atom processor running at 1.6GHz (2.4GHz burst). It comes with 4GB of LPDDR3-1600 RAM along with 128GB of eMMC storage. It has an all-in-one body made of magnesium and alloy. There is a fan under the hood to help keep the system cool....

According to Cyble, Unacademy was compromised in January 2020, and the hacker apparently had access to the complete database of the edtech platform. “However, they decided to only leak users’ accounts at this point in time, further leaks are expected in the near future,” Cyble said in its blog post. “Along with disclosing the data breach, Cyble has also acquired the leaked database which approximately contains 22 million (21,909,709) Unacademy’s user account details,” the company added....

Google has discovered three new critical vulnerabilities that allow hackers to hack an Android smartphone just by looking at a PNG image. This bug has affected millions of devices that run on Android OS versions, ranging from Nougat 7.0 to its current Android 9.0 Pie. The vulnerabilities, identified as CVE-2019-1986, CVE-2019-1987, and CVE-2019-1988, were, however, patched in Android Open Source Project (ASOP) by Google as part of their Android Security Updates for February 2019....

Hackers test BitTorrent Sync, say its not safe to share sensitive informationGrowing PopularityThe Hacker’s TestBitTorrent RespondsUpdate of response to Techworm : If you have used BitTorrent Sync before, you know how different it is from other cloud storage services. Not only can BitTorrent Sync users sync files between devices on a local network, but also between devices online via “secure distributed P2P technology” without the pitfalls of the cloud like file size limits, third-party snoopers and painfully slow transfer speeds....

Those who remember the maverick neurosurgeon, Sergio Canavero from our earlier post, will remember that he has promised to perform the first ever human head transplant in December 2017. Well that may still be far off, for now, Dr.Canavero claims he has has successfully done the procedure on a monkey. Dr.Canavero told the New Scientist that he and his team successfully tested the procedure in experiments on monkeys and human cadavers....

Let’s look at some simple solutions to the ever-so-complex Pangu jailbreak for iOS 9Unsuccessful Attempts To JailbreakEnvironment Error Code: 45% ErrorCydia App Not AvailableGetting Stuck At 90%Pangu Start Button Disabled Unsuccessful Attempts To Jailbreak If you have been unable to jailbreak your iOS 9 device after multiple attempts, Pangu suggests that you try the following steps:- Enable “Airplane Mode” and try again Reboot both your computer system, and your iOS device, and try again Restore your iOS device, preferably through the Pangu restore functionality, and have another go at it...

Our hearts skip a beat when we delete files from a phone by a mistake. And it’s even more disheartening when we don’t know how to recover the files lost. In such a scenario, what do you do when the file you happen to delete is very crucial? Our mobile phones today store so much of important and personal data that losing it might be like losing a part of the memory for our life....

This is how you can restore your WhatsApp chat history to your new phone to preserve important dataOn iPhoneOn Android But, despite of what it offers and it can offer, there has been a problem consistently faced by the users. It does not matter whether you use an iOS device or an Android device. There is a persistent problem of loss of chat data when someone change their mobile phone. In this article I’m gonna show you how you can set up Web backup of your chats so as to retrieve them back on your new device....

However, trading in cryptocurrency works on different functionality than forex or stock markets. A beginner starting to trade in this space may find it challenging as the mechanism to store and trade digital currencies is pretty new. In this guide, we decode the different ways on how to trade cryptocurrencies, trading with cryptocurrency exchanges and brokerage firms, as well as risks and tips in trading digital currency. What is Cryptocurrency Trading?...

Well, this does not mean that user can purposely damage their phones and keep getting a new one every now and then!! User needs to follow some procedure in case their HTC One M9 gets damaged and needs a replacement : User needs to dial the toll free number of HTC and provide the details of their HTC One M9 handset which will then be verified by the agent at HTC....

Known as Deepin Linux, this OS seems to be limited to select models like the Matebook 13, Matebook 14, and Matebook X Pro, according to a Reddit user who shared the link of a Chinese website VMALL offering MateBook with Linux. For those unaware, Deepin is a debian-based operating system that uses its own desktop environment called Deepin DE, and is developed by Chinese tech firm, Wuhan Deepin Technologies for the Chinese market....

Consequently, Huawei was banned from using Google’s services, including Android on their smartphone. The move left the leading smartphone makers in high and dry. Huawei is making a Comeback The ban on using Google services was a significant setback for the major smartphone manufacturers which prompted Huawei to push their products with massive discounts, especially on their flagship products. Huawei is making a ComebackWhat is HarmonyOS? Moreover, the launch date is being predicted on 10th September for the HarmonyOS 2....

The message posted on the site states, “No more new uploads. Instaudio is shutting down. Instaudio has started the process of shutting down, and is no longer accepting new uploads.” Currently, Instaudio is no longer accepting new uploads, nor new user account signups. On August 31st 2019, all uploads will become unavailable to the public, which includes both normal and “private” uploads. The links will stop working except for the logged-in users that uploaded them....