Which country has the fastest mobile network? How much data speed do you get on your smartphone? This is all that counts for a common man when he tries to open a website or an App on his Android smartphone or iPhone! While we hear news about how the upcoming 5G will allow smartphone owners to surf Internet at 5Gbps speed compared to the current 150Mbps in 4G/LTE, researchers from Nokia claim that 1Tbps speed can be achieved using 5G....
Even, President Barack Obama called Facebook a “dust cloud of nonsense” for spreading false information during the election cycle. However, on the other hand, Facebook said that since fake news is such a small percentage of the stuff shared on Facebook, it couldn’t have had an impact. Also, the social networking giant said that searching for the real news from the lies is a difficult technical problem. But not for these four college students, who during a hackathon at Princeton University sponsored by Facebook, created an algorithm in the form of Chrome browser extension in just 36-hours....
By the end of 2017, the company has plans to develop a prototype chip that is considerably more complex than those built by other groups working on fully programmable quantum computers. Chad Rigetti, the startup’s founder and CEO says that the next generation of chips should be able to speed up some kinds of machine learning and perform highly accurate chemistry simulations that might answer new kinds of industrial processes....
Apparently, a website tool named as the “I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent (IKWDB)” has been launched online that shows millions of IP addresses of the users who have accessed illegal file-sharing sites aka torrent websites on the Internet. In other words, this tool will reveal IP addresses of anyone who has downloaded songs, movies, or anything on the BitTorrent without using VPN (Virtual Private Network), proxy or seedbox for public viewing....
He also said that it has separately sourced over 20 million masks for medical professionals through its global supply chain. “We’ve launched a company-wide effort, bringing together product designers, engineering, operations, and packaging teams, and our suppliers, to design, produce, and ship face shields for health workers,” CEO Tim Cook said in a video posted on his official Twitter account on Sunday. He mentioned that the first shipment of face shields manufactured by Apple was delivered to Kaiser hospital facilities in the Santa Clara Valley last week, and the feedback coming from doctors was “very positive”....
Best in class HTML text editors that will take the your coding experience to another levelHere are the top Ten HTML text editors :1. Popline2. Squire3. WYSI HTML54. Mercury5. Rendera6. Aloha Editor7. Blue Griffon8. Qute9. Raptor10. LineControl This time it is for Web Developers and thus we’re focusing on HTML and Javascript editors. Here are the top Ten HTML text editors : 1. Popline Popline is an WYSIWYG based HTML editor....
Developed by the engineers at the University Of New South Wales (UNSW), the Phoenix99 bionic eye is a fully implantable system that represents a number of world-firsts in neural stimulation technology. The device has been demonstrated successfully in pre-clinical work led by a team of elite surgical experts from Sydney and it is expected to give patients better vision than any of the current restoration technologies. This initiative very recently received another big push forward, as the team behind the work received more funding to move towards the next stage of research: Human implantation....
For those unaware, jailbreaking means bypassing the restrictions Apple puts on the operating system and taking full control of the device including the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. With a jailbroken device, you can install apps, themes, tweaks, and other files that haven’t been approved by Apple, customize the interface in various ways, and remove the tough security protections that Apple has built into iOS. One of the reasons for jailbreaking is to expand the feature set limited by Apple and its App Store....
In a recent interview with Fedscoop, Pentagon’s CIO Terry Halvorsen praised Windows 10’s security and suggested employees of the DoD to install Microsoft’s latest operating system on their home computers too. “If you’re using a computer at home and you’re not on Windows 10, you’re doing yourself an injustice – you ought to be moving to Windows 10,” he said in the interview. “We’re going to put out some guidance to our employees in general – it’s not an endorsement of Windows 10 or Microsoft specifically – listing what the characteristics of Windows 10 would give you if you put it in your home system....
The Breach which took place on November 4 2013, was discovered in first week of December. Soon After The Fund came to know about the breach, investigation was set up, and it was confirmed that one of the servers was hacked. which was later disconnected for further investigation and also prevent any further exploitation. Report says, Information including Names, phone numbers, credit card numbers with CVV codes and e-mail addresses were accessed....
The victim, Hisham Salama grabbed an Uber to visit a friend at St. Joseph’s hospital in Toronto, Canada on Friday night. He was expecting to pay around $20 for the ride. However, he was shocked to see a significant amount of $18,518.50 pending on his credit card for a five-mile, 21-minute ride that was supposed to cost only $12 to $16, according to Slate. When he contacted Uber, the company said the fare was accurate and refused to alter the charge....
The first project to utilize the software was Popcorn-Time.io, a browser-based version of Popcorn Time employing peer-to-peer transfers. The Pirate Bay joined the fray a few days ago, placing links to Torrents-Time on all of its video torrents and effectively transforming the notorious site into the world’s largest streaming portal overnight. The move was welcomed by the torrent lovers community but it also caught the eyes of Hollywood studios. The development materialised in Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN issuing Torrents-Time with its first legal threat....
According to the company, the main purpose of developing the product was to allow companies to test if their devices are vulnerable to USB power surge attacks. So, how does it work? Once the USB Kill stick is plugged in, it quickly charges its capacitors from the USB power supply, and then ejects all in a matter of seconds. The makers of the device say it will “instantly and permanently disable unprotected hardware” on equipment that are not protected....
The nation’s largest wireless carrier will begin field trials on so-called fifth-generation, or 5G, technology within the next 12 months, Roger Gurnani, chief information and technology architect for Verizon, said in an interview last week. He expects “some level of commercial deployment” to begin by 2017. That’s far earlier than the time frame of 2020 that many in the industry have pegged for the initial adoption of 5G technology. The trials would make Verizon the world’s first carrier to seriously move into 5G....
This is what was discovered by Natalie Silvanovich, a security researcher with Google’s Project Zero security research team. She found a severe vulnerability in WhatsApp Messenger that could have given hackers complete remote control of your WhatsApp just by video calling you over the messaging app. Silvanovich reported the vulnerability to WhatsApp at the end of August this year. The company fixed the same on September 28 in the Android client and on October 3 in the iPhone client....
The ‘Joinable calls’ feature will allow the users to see the calls that were missed during the ring and join the group call while it is still going on. With the new feature, the participants can be seen on the video call screen, the way they are seen on various other communication apps. “At a time when so many of us are apart, there’s nothing better than getting together on a group call with friends and family, and there’s nothing worse than realizing that you missed a special moment As the popularity of group calls continues to grow, we’ve been working to improve the experience for our users – while of course still providing the security and privacy of end-to-end encryption,” WhatsApp said in a statement....
According to The Independent, the links appear to come from friends and leads users to a discount page which asks for personal details of the user. Some unsuspecting users are then led to a fake website via the links, which in turn infects the user’s phone with malware, allowing the scammer to obtain sensitive information about the user. Kaspersky Lab principal security researcher David Emm said WhatsApp’s prevalence in India and Europe has caught the attention of scammers....
Last Month WhatsApp made its way to the desktop version with earlier limited support on Google’s Chrome web browser. Earlier today the company announced that now its web client is available for both Firefox and Opera browsers. — WhatsApp Inc. (@WhatsApp) February 25, 2015 As before with Google Chrome you have to scan the QR code on your computer via your phone to login and access whatsApp on Firefox or Opera browsers....
One of the never-ending discussions is when was actually Google founded. Many different people have different views and many have different dates about Google’s birthday. So when is Google’s birthday? When is Google’s Birthday? In this article, we attempt to solve this chicken and egg question about Google! In the summer of 1995, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin first met at Stanford. Larry Page was considering attending Stanford for grad school, and Sergey Brin was the second-year grad student assigned to show him around....
