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Kamkar on Thursday unveiled a new tool, known as OpenSesame, which he says can open any garage door that makes use of an insecure “fixed code” system for its wireless communication with a remote. He says that it the duration to guess the fixed code for a garage door from several minutes down to less than 10 seconds. Most garage door openers that are commercially available have a set of 12 dip switches, which are binary, and provide a total of 4,096 possible code combinations....

Now, Sky Sports F1 teams up with Tobii – a company at the front of eye-tracking technology – and Sahara Force India driver Nico Hulkenberg to create a video to show what an F1 driver sees. To find out, Sky Sports put a pair of Tobii eye-tracking glasses on Sahara Force India driver Hülkenberg to see what he focuses on, for how long and how he uses his near-superhuman reaction speeds to cut milliseconds off his lap time....

Professor Geraint Lewis, from the University of Sydney, believes that the concept of possibility of ‘warp speed space travel’ is actually a part of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. But right now we need to find the appropriate materials required to build such a warp drive. In an interview given to ‘ABC News‘, prior to his presentation, Lewis said: “If you look at the equation that Einstein gave us, it shows you can bend and warp space so you can travel at any speed you like in the Universe....

What is GLONASS: The Russian GPS alternativeCreation story Creation story The development of GLONASS was started in 1976 by the then Soviet Union. Today, its a part of the Russian Space Agency, claiming over a third of its annual budget in 2010. The system was primarily used for weather positioning, velocity measuring, and timing till the collapse of the Soviet Union. Paired with the short life span of the satellites used by the system- approximately 3 years – meant that very few believed that the system would be a success....

What is NFC? How does NFC work? What is NFC for? Does my smartphone have NFC? Uses of NFC, Near Field Communication explainedHow do I know if my Android smartphone has NFC?How does NFC work on Android?1. Connecting with NFC tags2. View Public Transit Card Details3. Send Files, Photos, & More with Android Beam4. Ditch Your Wallet with Android Pay5. Share Wi-Fi Passwords with Friends6. Tap Your Wallet To Check Your Bank Account Balance7....

Enable WhatsApp calling feature on your smartphone without invite (For Rooted as well as Non Rooted Android Smartphones)Enabling WhatsApp on unrooted Android smartphonesRequirementsMethod 2 for enabling WhatsApp calling feature on Rooted Android SmartphonesRequirementsSteps The non rooted method works for those who have not rooted their Android smartphones but you need to have some basic knowledge of working with Android decompiler. Enabling WhatsApp on unrooted Android smartphones This is the latest method which was posted by Senior XDA member, mohamedrashad and works beautifully....

Earlier this year, the ubiquitous messaging app announced via its blog, that it would be dropping support for a range of mobile operating systems by the end of 2016, before updating the page to say some will be supported until June 30, 2017. The company claim that this move will make the messaging service more secure and keep up with constantly upgrading technology. “Earlier this week WhatsApp turned seven years old....

Whisper users tracked?Whisper The unique thing about Whisper was that it guaranteed anonymity and privacy to its users. However now it seems that the provider of anonymity itself was gathering and disseminating user information to the law enforcement agencies. Whisper The App which was launched amidst much fanfare in March, 2012, claims to deliver message anonymously. Whisper is a iOS and Android mobile app which purports to allow users to send messages anonymously, and to receive replies....

Wi-Fi WPA3 security protocol is finally here!!!WPA3-Personal:WPA3-Enterprise: WPA3 will replace the former security protocol, WPA2, that’s built in to protect almost every wireless devices including phones, laptops, and the Internet of Things (IoT). This new protocol is the first update since 2004, which is when WPA2 was introduced. According to Wi-Fi Alliance, WPA3 adds several new features to enhance WPA2 by making Wi-Fi security simpler, offering more robust authentication, and providing increased cryptographic strength, that will make it difficult for hackers to hack your Wi-Fi or spy on your network....

Well, three major Chinese smartphone manufacturers namely Vivo, Xiaomi, and Oppo have partnered to launch an alternative to Airdrop. So here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming file sharing service by Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi. Inter Transmission Alliance: Better File Sharing Experience As mentioned above, Vivo, Xiaomi, and Oppo have collaborated to launch a file sharing service. The cross-brand one-click transmission technology will allow smartphone users to effortlessly transfer files with a stable transfer speed of 20mbps....

To help thousands of Nepalese rebuild their life from scratch, you can now use Facebook to make a valuable contribution to the cause. The social network announced that it is rolling out a banner message on news feeds that will allow you to make a donation to International Medical Corps to support its response teams on the ground. For every dollar that you donate, Facebook would match your contribution to the cause (up to $2 million)....

Open the latest version of the Google app on your mobile device, or find your Google Search widget, tap the mic icon and say “what’s this song?” or click the “Search a song” button. Then start humming for 10-15 seconds. Alternatively, you can say “Hey Google, what’s this song?” on Google Assistant, and then hum the tune. Once you have finished humming, Google’s machine learning algorithm helps identify potential song matches....

Assign different shortcuts as you wish to your Android buttons without rooting your smartphoneHow to assign different functions to Android’s buttons But now thanks to ElementalX developer Aaron Segaert, you need not root your Android smartphone/tablet to assign any task to any Android button of your choice. Segaert has developed an App called Button Mapper which does all that a rooted Android smartphone can do for assigning functions to buttons. Once you have installed the App, you’ll be able to assign custom actions to your volume and home buttons, plus it even works with capacitive keys, and it does all of this without requiring root....

Earlier this week, during a visit to the Mall at Millenia Apple Store in Orlando, Florida, Cook met up with a 16-year-old coder, Liam Rosenfeld, one of the 350 scholarship winners attending Apple’s Annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2019 in San Jose, California starting June 3, reported MacRumors. Cook while speaking to TechCrunch said that he was very impressed with Rosenfeld’s coding achievements at such a young age, which is why he believes that coding education should begin in the early grades of school....

This prototype device called as “anti-laser” works the opposite way a laser does. Lasers emit light particles, one after another in a systematic fashion, triggering a chain reaction where many photons of the same color are shot out in a coherent beam, thereby creating a beam of light known as a laser beam. On the other hand, an ‘anti-laser’ reverses this process by sucking up photons one after another in reverse order instead of coherent manner....

The earth is 15 years from a “mini ice-age” that will cause sulkily cold winters during which rivers such as the Thames freeze over, scientists have predicted. Scientists have said, “There will be a “mini ice age” in 2030”. Solar researchers at the University of Northumbria have fashioned a new model of the sun’s activity which they claim produces “unprecedentedly precise predictions”. They said watery movements within the sun, which are thought to create 11-year cycles in the weather, will congregate in such a way that temperatures will fall considerably in the 2030s....

‘Nanopores’, a material developed by the researchers allows high volumes of water to pass through very tiny holes while blocking salt and other contaminants. Nanometre, the material used by the engineers is a thick sheet of molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) pierced with these nanopore holes is the most efficient of a number of thin-film membranes that they fashioned filtering up to 70 percent more water than graphene. Narayana Aluru, a professor of mechanical science and engineering at the University of Illinois and leader of the study, said “Even though we have a lot of water on this planet, there is very little that is drinkable....

On Friday, the European police agency Europol along with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security announced that the “Operation Onymous” had been initiated and they had arrested 17 people in countries given below and seized hundreds of Dark Web domains associated with well over a dozen black market websites. In addition to the takedowns of drug markets Silk Road 2, Cloud 9 and Hydra which was reported yesterday, the authorities also busted contraband markets like Pandora, Blue Sky, Topix, Flugsvamp, Cannabis Road, and Black Market....

Sergei Nicolaevich TšurikovThe CrimeThe inside linkHiding their tracksThe Trial The Crime RBS Wordpay used payroll debit cards to pay their employees and this was known to the gang. The gang managed to crack the encryption system used by the firm. Each of these cards have a specified limit to the amount that can be withdrawn. Once the crack was a success, the criminals not only increased this limit but only created 44 counterfeit cards, thus increasing their illicit gains manifold....

There are billions of Emails sent and received over the internet every day, which makes it even more important to evaluate which Email Service Provider, or better if we say “Free Email Service Provider” fits best for your requirement. Since there are many different ESP’s (Email Service providers) that offer a different set of features, we decided to pick the TOP 10 safest yet best email service providers for you....