Researcher Mai-Ly Steers presented her research on the topic in the article, “Seeing Everyone Else’s Highlight Reels: How Facebook Usage is Linked to Depressive Symptoms,” published in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. To research how social comparison to peers on Facebook impact one’s psychological health, Steers conducted two studies for the same. The result of these studies revealed that users went into depression when they compared their lives with others....

Google has released the latest version of its OS Android and here are some quick facts to get started with it. Fine Tuned App PermissionsNow on Tap is the future Nevertheless,here are some points to be taken into consideration before moving on to Marshmallow for a smoother user experience. Fine Tuned App Permissions In the latest OS,user will have an option to grant only specific permissions to the app out of all asked....

In a server-side update to the Microsoft Edge browser (first noticed by Windows Latest), the company has pushed a new RTM (Release To Manufacturing) build 17134.1 to all rings of the Windows Insider program. The new welcome page reads: “Welcome to the April update. This Windows 10 update contains a lot of new features. Start here,” which suggests that the “Windows 10 April Update” could be the name of the next update....

Moving further in this direction, Nintendo has now sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Connecticut based U.S. company ‘Logistics Consulting LLC’ that offered to install SX devices into customers’ Switch consoles, according to Ars Technica. According to Ben Van Rheen, the founder of Logistics Consulting LLC, the company only offered a “Nintendo Switch SX CORE SX LITE Mod Chip Service” on its website for $60, which is “NOT for the purchase of the Nintendo Switch SX CORE or SX LITE mod....

Currently, debuting at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Sensorwake, takes a vastly different approach to getting your attention when it’s time to wake up. Thanks to the “timed release of an aroma of your choice”, the clock uses smell instead of sound to wake you. Sensorwake is a Paris-based startup that has become part of an incubation program with Google France after winning a Google Science Fair competition....

The social media platforms including the popular cross platform mobile messaging service, WhatsApp went into a tizzy on Sunday with leaked nude images and videos of actor Preeti Gupta being circulated widely. According to the reports, leaked videos and images feature Preeti Gupta’s “nude scenes” and “lesbian kissing scenes” from a banned film called Unfreedom. The film was banned last month by the censor boards of India for having explicit sexual content and has not been released anywhere....

Based on Nvidia’s new Pascal graphics architecture, the Quadro P6000 uses a GPU with 3,840 processing cores. It can reach 12 teraflops (TFlops) of computing performance, or twice as quick as the earlier generation. The new platform for designers, artists and animators at the SIGGRAPH Graphics Technology Conference was revealed by Nvidia in Anaheim, California. The company says the new workstation GPU and new enhancements in software will allow professionals to work quicker and with superior creativity....

Researchers at Nvidia have developed an unsupervised learning method for computers, which enables them to make changes in video content. Using this technique, the researchers were able to produce some amazing results. Earlier, AI tools required massive amounts of data in order to process comparison between the content. However, based on automated learning, it was quite difficult to train the machines to find their own patterns. For example, super-resolution can be considered as a problem of mapping a low-resolution image to a corresponding high-resolution image; colorization can be considered as a problem of mapping a gray-scale image to a corresponding color image....

The chipmaker is rumored to announce its new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti graphics cards on May 31st at 10 P.M. PDT during the Computex 2021 keynote. Powered by Ampere GA102-225 GPU, the RTX 3080 Ti will feature the PG132-SKU18 PCB design. It will reportedly include 12GB of GDDR6X memory, which is a 2GB increase over the existing RTX 3080. The graphic card will sport 10,240 CUDA cores within a total of 80 SM units along with a wider 384-bit memory interface....

What is an optical illusion? An optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality. The information gathered by the eye is processed in the brain to give a perception that does not tally with a physical measurement of the stimulus source. There are three main types: literal optical illusions that create images that are different from the objects that make them, physiological illusions that are the effects of excessive stimulation of a specific type (brightness, colour, size, position, tilt, movement), and cognitive illusions, the result of unconscious inferences....

However, it looks like the software company is not ready to hang its boots yet. On July 6, Oracle filed a motion in San Francisco U.S. District Court again asking the same judge that threw the decision out back in May, to chuck the verdict. The company referred to the case law suggesting use is not legal if the user “exclusively acquires conspicuous financial rewards” from its use of the copyrighted material....

It’s not long since KissAnime shut down its operation in August this year and now HorribleSubs. Sharing the news on HorribleSubs’s homepage, the farewell message reads, “HorribleSubs began more than a decade ago providing subtitles for anime. We have grown way beyond what was originally imagined. But… as the cliché saying goes, all good things must eventually come to an end. This was a hard decision to make for the team, but the truth is, our real life responsibilities have been growing, especially in the times of COVID-19....

Slack has been gain popularity over past few months and has been valued at a whopping $2.8 billion by its investors. The hack was noticed by the Slack security team who made a post on their website announcing the same. Though the hack occurred in February, it took more than a month for Slack to announce the hack. It also announced that it had enabled 2 factor authentication after the hack attack....

Popular Hacking Distro BlackArch Linux 2017-03-01 Released With Nearly 1700 Ethical Hacking Tools And Kernel 4.9.11Update option for existing BlackArch Linux users The newly released BlackArch Linux 2017-03-01 update comes with over 1700 ethical hacking and pentesting tools pre-installed. It is based on the Arch Linux 2017-03-01 install medium released earlier, which has dropped support for 32-bit installations. The BlackArch devs have released the new BlackArch Linux 2017-03-01 version as separate Live ISOs for both 32-bit and 64-bit computers, as well as a 64-bit OVA image that you can use in either the VirtualBox, QEMU, or VMware virtualization software....

The Xiaomi Mi LED Light is basically a small-size USB LED light without any wires or switches and needs just a USB port to function. It can either be plugged into the USB port of a computer or notebook or through a power bank. It has LED bulbs with a diffuser on top and comes in blue and white color lighting. The LED light is made of flexible plastic that can be curved according so that it can be adjusted into a position that can be convenient as per your needs....

We always hear that this programming language is good or that is better. We get the most popular programming languages list from a variety of sources like Stack Exchange, TIOBE, Github, etc. But do you know which programming languages are actually used in writing popular software like Google’s Chrome or Microsoft’s Office (Excel, Word and Powerpoint)? Contrary to popular perception, most popular software are forks of different coding languages which means that the tech companies use different programming languages to make the software....

Google today said that it is working with the government on a pilot project for providing internet connectivity by using large balloons. Google, under its Project Loon, will be sending big balloons to the skies. The Loon balloons floating at a height of 20-kilometres above Earth surface for transmission of internet services. Project Loon has already been successfully tested in New Zealand, California (the US) and Brazil. “Google approached government to set up the Loon project and drone-based internet transmission....

Thankfully for all the non-tech obsessed website owners out there, the current crop of premium CDNs are getting smarter so site owners don’t have to work harder. Cache-ing in with CDNs CDNs exist to improve website performance, mainly through faster page load times. A CDN can do so because it is a network of proxy cache servers located around the world. When a CDN is in use, a website’s users are automatically redirected to the server closest to them, which is ready to serve up a website’s cacheable content upon request....

This underground cyber-crime network named RAUM was discovered by the U.S. security firm InfoArmor, who said that the RAUM was used in active campaigns to spread malware through torrents. Researchers at InfoArmor discovered that RAUM has been used to essentially “weaponize” torrents to spread a variety of ransomware types including, CryptXXX, CTB-Locker and Cerber, the online-banking Trojan Dridex and password stealing spyware Pony. “RAUM is a special system developed by the owners of the identified underground malicious network, used for two things – analysis of trending torrent files on torrent trackers with high number of downloads, and further repacking of this files with malware for further distribution....

Democratizing the System The Joint Center for Housing Studies recently released its report noting that the spending for remodeling and repairs will grow over 11.3% . With such a healthy forecast in the residential remodeling market, homeowners will need quicker, and more cost efficient ways to address their growing needs. Democratizing the SystemPutting the power of home improvement into the hands of homeowners There has recently been a heated discussion in the market around the newer more technologically advanced companies that offer on-demand services....