Wondered why your PC/laptop shows correct time even after being switched on after a year? Here is why!How does Apple’s Mac keep time? The reason for this is a timekeeper chip known as Real-time Clock or RTC. RTC is a semiconductor chip present on the motherboard which is assigned the job of keeping a note of the time when the computer disconnects from the power source. The Real-time Clock (RTC) or the CMOS ( Complementary Metal-oxide Semiconductor) chip by some manufacturers....

Tutorial for installing Windows 10 on PCs and Notebooks running on Mac OS XWindows 10 installation through Boot Camp The new Windows 10 operating system has introduced revisions to its user interface, that includes addition of a Start menu similar to Windows 7 but combining Windows 8’s live tiles, a virtual desktop system, a notifications sidebar and the ability to adjust user interface behaviors based on available input devices. Windows 10 also provides integration with additional Microsoft services, including Microsoft’s highly appreciated digital personal assistant, Cortana and Xbox Live....

If you end up removing the filter, then voila, you have a fully converted infrared camera in the palm of your hands. The following video shows exactly how to modify a camera. However, a true infrared camera is similar to the visibility of a FLIR or Seek Thermal. This little camera hack will allow you to see a mixture of visible and near infrared light. As a result, you will be able to see hot things glowing through the camera, but not to the same degree as a real thermal imaging device....

“One of my colleagues was searching on eBay and came across what seemed to be a German Lorenz teleprinter, so we bought it and drove to Essex … and there it was in a garden shed under some rubbish, the Lorenz teleprinter in its carrying case,” said John Whetter, a volunteer at the museum. The volunteer very happily paid 10 GBP for the keyboard and went on his way....

Voice recognition with clap control Gesture control 24-inch 1080p screen MirrorOS with app support (these apps ranged from news, search, radio, YouTube, gaming and much more) Smartphone control With all these really cool features, it would have certainly cost a fortune for the software developer to come up with this right? Fortunately, the cost mounted to just $441, which is the cost of a smartphone with very decent hardware and features....

There are hardware differences and… software differences. Using a custom firmware (if supported by the router) can give you options/features available on much more expensive hardware. Such a firmware is Tomato USB. Its an open source firmware for Broadcomm based routers. The first step is to see if your router is supported by Tomato, so please check Shibby Tomato Builds. If it is, get the newest version and flash it on the administration interface....

The world’s thinnest and sleekest HP Spectre laptop available in India for $1800 (Rs.120,000)A sneak peek at HP Spectre 13 configuration With a thickness of 10.4mm, it’s thinner than both the 12-inch MacBook and 13-inch MacBook Air. The HP Spectre 13 weighs only 1.1 kg with 13.3-inch edge-to-edge full-HD WLED-backlit IPS display with a 0.4mm Corning Gorilla Glass layer protection. The company’s latest top-end laptop, the Spectre 13 will be the first to sport its new logo for the premium range, which first unveiled back in April....

Meanwhile, Huawei not only launched its replacement to the Google Mobile Service – the Huawei Mobile Service (HMS) but also launched its own App Store, AppGallery (the company’s alternative to Google Play Store). Now, the company is reportedly testing a new dedicated Search app in the UAE, which could soon be launched as a part of the Huawei ecosystem. The Search app was tested by an XDA developer on a Huawei Mate 30 Pro....

In 2015, IBM was granted 7,355 patents, with more than 2,000 in areas related to cognitive computing and the company’s cloud platform. Last year, IBM announced that it has rearranged its entire business strategy around the promise of cognitive computers, which can learn, reason, and efficiently process diverse data types all while interacting with people in natural and familiar ways. Two patents specifically mentioned in the IBM press release are Patent US9117446, which helps machines understand human emotion, and Patent US9146917, which helps machines learn from human beings....

The announcement comes after a recent report from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on the company’s internal research into teen’s experiences on Instagram and its negative mental health effect on young people, especially young girls. Mosseri said that while building “Instagram Kids” is the right thing to do, it will use the extra time to work with parents, experts, and policymakers to demonstrate the value and need of this product....

Back then, Gelsinger had said that the chip shortage would take “a couple of years” to decline due to rising demand amidst limited manufacturing capacity. Now, in a recent interview with The Hindu BusinessLine, AMD CTO and EVP, Mark Papermaster, too has spoken in line with Intel CEO Gelsinger predicting that the supply chains will start to ease up in the second half of 2022 with the semiconductor industry returning to normalcy by 2023....

Apparently, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, a division of the state-funded German research institution that funded the MP3’s development in the late ’80s, has decided to no longer issue licenses for certain MP3-related patents and software of Technicolor and Fraunhofer IIS. In other words, they want the MP3 to retire and make way for other better formats of storing music that have appeared on the scene of late. According to a post on their site, the German research lab said, “On April 23, 2017, Technicolor’s mp3 licensing program for certain mp3 related patents and software of Technicolor and Fraunhofer IIS has been terminated....

Is the famed 2 Factor authentication enough to secure your account?Service provider became a mediumExpert Speak Independent app developer Blakeman this week realised that 2 factor authentication did not prove sufficient in securing his account when he found out that his gmail account had been hacked and his Instagram account stolen. Service provider became a medium Blakeman for a moment was confused as to how this hack happened, since he considered himself security-savvy, definitely much more knowledgeable than the average Joe....

— Terrormonitor.org (@Terror_Monitor) January 26, 2016 Terror Monitor says that the Cyber Caliphate is planning a whole new hacking team dedicated to hacking Google called Google Hacking Team. Above is the propaganda image purportedly released by ISIS announcing the plan. In it, “Islamic” is spelled incorrectly. Cyber Caliphate has had varying degrees of success with their hacking exploits. In November, 2015, they had managed to hack 54000 Twitter accounts mostly belonging to media companies....

The idea is to increase the number of foreign tourists by using the system to prevent crime and relieve users from the necessity of carrying cash or credit cards. It aims to realize the system before the occurrence of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. The testing phase will involve using fingerprint scanners at around 300 popular souvenir shops, restaurants, hotels and other establishments in important tourist centers. They are located in areas that are popular among foreign tourists such as Hakone, Kamakura, Yugawara in Kanagawa Prefecture, and Atami in Shizuoka Prefecture....

Researcher builds $10 USB wall charger which can read data from any Microsoft wireless keyboardBugs ExploitedThe exploit Bugs Exploited The device, masquerades as a working USB wall charger. However, it secretly monitors any Microsoft wireless keyboards within range and “passively sniffs, decrypts, logs and reports back” everything typed on them, its creator claims. It can be used to log every input a user keys in, onto his machine. The apparent flaw in the Microsoft’s wireless keyboard transmitters has been exploited by the KeySweeper’s creator Samy Kamkar....

The added advantage for the criminals is that it effectively circumvents both two-factor authentication and device identification protections. IBM Security Trusteer who called it ‘virtual mugging’ tool, analysed it and has released a report detailing it. The report says that unlike banking Trojans, KL-Remote is less automated and requires some manual intervention from the criminal during various stages of the fraud event. KL-Remote is distributed by embedding it with other malware and comes preloaded with a list of targeted banking URLs....

A new leak about the upcoming WhatsApp build reveals that WhatsApp will now allow cross communication between Facebook and WhatsApp accounts. When messing with root commands, version 2.12.413 of WhatsApp shows the option of linking a WhatsApp account with a Facebook account to “improve Facebook experiences”. While the actual use of this facility is not known, it may be that WhatsApp may allow users to cross post on Facebook through their WhatsApp messages....

Legendary hacker and iOS jailbreak developer, Comex is reportedly working in association with iMods, a Cydia alternative, to develop a Mobile (Cydia) Substrate replacement called Substitute. Comex and iMod team have reportedly completed the ‘Substitute’ which is focused on providing the code injection platform for hooking advanced functionality into apps and bypassing OEM restrictions on the device. However it is not fully functional and deployable as it lacks some safety features like Safe Mode which is found in Cydia’s Mobile Substrate according to iDownloadBlog Comex has cited a three reasons for joining up for the project with iMod’s, the prime reason he said, Competition vs Community Jay Freeman aka ‘Saurik’ the developer behind Cydia has not taken kindly to this new initiative by Comex and iMods....