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Police said that the 27-year-old Riddle lost apparently lost control of the aircraft in an attempt to take pictures of the iconic building on Thursday night. Investigators said Riddle was arrested at the scene and is expected to face criminal charges, which can come with a punishment of up to seven years in prison. He was being questioned by officers at the Midtown South police zone. Riddle tweeted that he was speaking with security after the drone got stuck on the Empire State Building....

Nike shoe designer Tinker Hatfield sent Fox a letter today that stated, “As the first, most celebrated wearer” of the Nike Mag shoes, “we wanted you to be the first to receive a living pair,” according to a tweet from the actor. — Nike (@Nike) October 21, 2015 Nike said today in a statement that it “reinvented the conventional lacing system, integrating it into an inimitable design that became an enduring beacon of popular culture....

Lawsuits During the one year period when Microsoft allowed a free upgrade from Windows 7 & 8 to Windows 10, Microsoft downloaded GBs of data onto user machines that were eligible for the update. This led to many angry Windows users filing lawsuits against the company. In 2016, a consumer rights body in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, took Microsoft to court over these downloads, claiming that the company would download up to 6 GB of files onto machines without user consent....

Ever since, we had reported on the leaked press renders of the new Nokia smartphones, we have been inundated by messages, both here and our social media for further news about Nokia’s forthcoming Android smartphones. Well, there is a good news of sorts for all Nokia lovers. A benchmark that was recently spotted on GeekBench suggests that an Android-powered device dubbed the Nokia D1C is in the works. The Nokia smartphone spotted on Geekbench is not the expected Nokia flagship Android smartphone by any means....

Two researchers, Florian Grunow and Niklaus Schiess, who presented their assessment on Sunday of a leaked version of Red Star OS 3, the North Korean Linux distribution at Chaos Communication Congress, a security, art, and politics conference held annually in Hamburg, Germany said, “We found that features implemented in Red Star OS are the wet dream of a surveillance state dictator. It provides a set of surveillance features like the capabilities to watermark different types of files that can be used to track the distribution of documents and multimedia files....

— Netflix US (@netflix) November 30, 2016 “Netflix members worldwide can now download in addition to stream great series and films at no extra cost,” Eddy Wu, director of product innovation, said in an announcement. “While many members enjoy watching Netflix at home, we’ve often heard they also want to continue their Stranger Things binge while on airplanes and other places where Internet is expensive or limited. Just click the download button on the details page for a film or TV series and you can watch it later without an internet connection....

However, now researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have discovered a new acoustic data exfiltration method that leverages on a mobile phone positioned in the vicinity of the targeted machine to monitor the computer fans. This version of the data-exfiltration attack against air-gapped computers involves the machine’s fans. The malicious code developed by the researchers can use the device’s fans to exfiltrate data. With this method, it sends out bits of data to the mobile phone or any other computer equipped with a microphone....

Nvidia has added support for both the cards with a new driver release that brings a significant number of features like ReShade Filters, Improved Customizable Image Sharpening, Nvidia Ultra-Low Latency Mode for G-Sync Displays, and Turing Encoder for Gaming and Broadcasting. Nvidia’s press release claims that “the pair [of new Super cards] delivers up to 2X the performance of the prior generation GTX 10-series GPUs and up to 50-percent more performance over the original GTX 16-series....

Christopher Moore, owner of a UK-based security and tech blog, has claimed in a detailed article on his Security and Tech Blog that OnePlus is constantly collecting user data without his knowledge. The data being sent to OnePlus servers included the phone’s IMEI numbers, phone numbers, MAC addresses, IMSI prefix, mobile network names, phone’s serial number, and wireless networks ESSID and BSSID. “Those are timestamp ranges (again, unix epoch in milliseconds) of the when I opened and closed applications on my phone....

OnePlus has also posted a 6 second teaser Vine video of DR-1 which it says is coming to stores next month. — OnePlus (@oneplus) March 31, 2015 Other than the above tweet and the Vine video the OnePlus’s DR-1 project remains a secret.

The vulnerabilities were discovered by the security researchers at Rapid7. Osram, which sells both Home and Pro products, claims it agreed to test its Lightify products by Rapid7. Similar to the Phillips Hue series, the technology provided by Osram is designed for users to set moods, brightness, and other lighting controls from their apps. Rapid7 research lead, Deral Heiland, who discovered one of the most concerning of the nine vulnerabilities, is a cross-site scripting fault in the web management interface of the Pro product which could allow an attacker to launch browser-based attacks....

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian and actress Vanessa Hudgens personal photos leakedRound 2 of iCloud hacksOriginal or fakesMore to follow ? Though todays leaks are yet to be confirmed to be that by the same hacker who leaked the iCloud hacks, experts believe it is the same person or the group of hackers who is responsible for the current leaks. For one the modus operandi seems to be the same and the fact that the present set contains images of Jennifer Lawrence also points to the same....

Currently under development by Romanian programmer, Claudiu, “PC Building Simulator,” is a game that allows you to build a gaming PC with high-end components from scratch. However, though the game is still in a pre-alpha state, the demo still offers tutorial from the very basic key points of the process, basic graphics and limited gameplay mechanics. There is also a ‘career mode’ in the works where you can sell PC builds and make money from it....

The video posted by Wahl on YouTube shows him standing in the middle of a swimming pool holding a string that will pull the gun’s trigger aimed at him from 1.5m away. When the string is pulled, the bullet bursts out of the gun with as much power as it would above the surface. However, it does not even come close to hitting Wahl. The video shows that the bullet loses a lot of its momentum before it sinks to the bottom, which is not even halfway to its mark....

Sony has said that the games listed below will be available for subscribers once it refreshes PlayStation Store next week on May 5. PlayStation 4 Ether One Guacamelee Super Championship Turbo Edition Race the Sun Hohokum The Unfinished Swan PlayStation 3 Hohokum Race the Sun The Unfinished Swan PlayStation Vita Hohokum Murasaki Baby Race the Sun The Unfinished Swan

And their latest action just showcased that. According to Kotaku, PUBG Corp. has issued a one-month ban to Michael ‘Shroud’ Grzesiek – the most popular streamer on Twitch for PlayerUnknown’s Battleground – for playing alongside a hacker. The ban was issued after he shared a few clips online where he is seen riding in a flying car and shooting a player hiding inside of a building using hacks. While he was half-way through a match, Shroud found that PUBG decided to ban him for an entire month for committing two offences as said above....

Qualcomm has come up with the very first 10 nanometer mobile processor in partnership with Samsung. The company boldly describes the Snapdragon 835 as “smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient than any chipset in history.” It uses a 10nm design with over 3 billion transistors, staying 30% smaller, 27% faster, and 40% more power-efficient than its predecessor, the Snapdragon 820 SoC. Qualcomm says this will enable manufacturers to create thinner devices with more room for larger batteries....

Sapper was born and educated in Munich, Germany but spent most of his working life in Italy. He is best known for designing IBM’s gamechanger laptop in 1992, and iconic espresso makers, in both their stovetop and electric, capsule-based forms, for upmarket kitchenware manufacturer Alessi. “[Good design] has to transmit a message to whomever is looking at it, or who has it in their hand,” Sapper said in a 2013 interview with Dezeen....