For those unaware, a business card typically bearing business information such as name, e-mail address, phone number, and website about a company or individual. They are shared during formal introductions as a convenience for retrieving contact information. George Hilliard, the creator of the Linux-run business card, said that the idea for the business card came to him when he thought, “These processors are nearly cheap enough to give away.” Although George has seen electronic business cards before that includes features such as emulating USB flash drives, blinkenlights, or even wireless transceivers, he has never seen one running Linux....

Researchers at Harvard University have developed a new liquid flow battery that uses organic structures for power that could potentially help it last for a decade. Currently “flow batteries” store energy in a liquid and wear out rapidly when used regularly. Developed by a team at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), the battery stores organic molecules dissolved in neutral pH value water. According to the researchers, the new battery can run for a decade or more without maintenance....

So, what do you do when you are out trekking, or on a wildlife expedition and your smartphone is running out of battery and there are no power outlets to charge your device? In such a scenario, all you require is a little inventiveness that can turn random junk into a working hydro-electric generator. That is what YouTuber Thomas Kim showed in a video posted on YouTube. In the video, he demonstrated how he MacGyver’d some water bottles, disposable platters, 3 Phase stepping motor, rectifier circuit, metal pipes, and other materials into this hydro-electric generator....

Now, a cunning developer has brought the Nokia Lumia 520 back to life by getting the latest version of Android Nougat 7.1 run on it. The person behind this experiment is Nguyen Thinh who published details of his efforts on the XDA Developers forums, where he noted that the touchscreen, brightness levels, battery management, storage management, charging, sound and other features are all working well with his installation of the Nougat ROM....

While running all those tabs can take a heavy toll of the laptop, closing these tabs is also not an option. Because, closing them completely might make you lose something you intended to come back to later. There’s this neat little hack which can kill tabs while keeping them open at the same time and reduce the strain on your laptop. The page with the ‘Aw Snap’ error won’t take up any memory, but if you need to go back to it later, you can find it again by scrolling through your tabs and refreshing the page....

Any software which has a bug since the start of its lifecycle and is discovered later is called a zero-day. Every day we hear such zero-days being discovered making it easy for hackers to hack into the system or your PC. Though such bugs cost big money, there are many such instances that such software errors have caused losses in millions of dollars. Today we bring to you 10 such famous and interesting bugs from the tech world....

Top Programming Languages That Will Bag You A Top Notch JobJavaCC++C#PythonPHPVisual Basic [.Net]JavascriptPerlRuby TIOBE, a Netherlands-based company is one such company that keeps a regular list of the most commonly used languages and assesses code for quality. The company’s list not only shows the relative popular languages that it is testing currently, but also a good picture of the development market as it exists right now. Another way to figure out which programming languages are currently hot in the market is looking at the companies graph for hiring programmers, which in turn gives us a peek into the future....

If you are looking out to upgrade your skill set, here are 6 of the highest-paying skills for 2016 that you should consider. Cassandra: It is a free, open source ‘noSQL’ database that stores and handles various types of data and is increasingly becoming the preferred choice for mobile and cloud applications. Apple and Netflix are among the biggest users of this system. Cassandra:Cloudera:HANA:MapReduce:HortonWorks Data Platform: Pig: Cloudera: Cloudera makes the most popular version of ‘easily-usable’ Hadoop, which is a system through which huge amounts of data can be stored on and accessed through a network of low-cost servers....

Keep going through the article to find out all the latest Tower Defense Simulator codes that have not expired. Tower Defense Simulator is a Roblox-based game which is developed by Paradoxum Games. You can team up with another player in Tower Defense Simulator to defeat all the enemies and win the map. With the codes for Tower Defense Simulator, you can receive gems, XP, and coins for free. Those gems and coins will help you buy new towers and skins of your choice....

@God who has around 180,000 followers normally tweets memes however the new owners hijacked it to tweet spam. The last tweet mentions that they had hijacked the account — “recreating hotmails” — and thanks Twitter for the “0day,” hacker slang for a vulnerability that is immediately exploitable. Many of Twitter users were stunned to get these tweets. According to multiple accounts on Twitter, a flaw occurred when users tried to reset a password, and the social network then showed users the full email address associated with the account....

The Account leaked is up for download on file sharing service of Zippyshare. all the account leaks are in plain text format. The leaked data contains twitter id, twitter nickname, oauth_token, oauth_token secret codes. which can be used to login to the victim’s account. Hacker also added a guide on how to use oauth_token to login into the account -which can be done easily with the use of tamper data....

URL Shortening services like bit.ly are commonly used by cyber criminals and spammers to spread malwares and spams. however this is not new but unfortunately for bit.ly, Google has gone on taken this harsh step which will deter users from visiting bit.ly sites. Most of the times the malware warning like these are removed after few hours when someone from the team of webmasters takes proper action to remove the links which caused the website to be flagged as malicious....

According to a report published on The Guardian, it stated that the courts recently released court papers that show a clear trail between the government and the research that was taking place. On more than one occasion, the students were successful in their attempts, showing that they were more than your average student enrolled in a university. One adolescent even managed to stumble onto the infamous Silk Road swap shop....

Next generation ? A vending machine company based in the US, has already begun work on this step. The company intends to install microchips inside human volunteers that will allow them to make payments without the use of a medium. The company Three Square Market have at least 50 volunteers from within their staff who have agreed to take part in this experiment. They will have a microchip – similar to a contactless credit card – inserted between their thumb and fore finger....

Centralized identity management systems are beset with many challenges that make them prone to various security and administrative complications. The deficiencies of centralized systems For instance, storing sensitive data of individuals in a particular location or server makes storage platform a prime target for hackers and identity thieves. There is also the risk of loss of identity in the case of eventualities like a system crash, or identity mismanagement by insincere administrators who may employ client information for non-permitted uses....

Google and Black Hat hit out against cyber security export bans through Wassenaar ArrangementWhat is an Wassenaar Arrangement?How it changes the threat landscape : What is an Wassenaar Arrangement? The Wassenaar Arrangement is a multilateral export control regime (MECR) with 41 participating states including many former COMECON (Warsaw Pact) countries. The Wassenaar Arrangement was set up to contribute to regional and international security and stability by promoting transparency and greater responsibility in transfers of conventional arms and dual-use goods and technologies, thus stopping unrest in accumulations....

According to BBC News, Rigo pleaded guilty back into July to one count of voyeurism and one count of another computer-related offense. The documents filed in the court reveal that Rigo used his ex-girlfriend’s credit card to purchase Blackshades malware, a well known remote access trojan (RAT) that surreptitiously infects users’ computers. In addition to observing his victims through their hijacked webcam, Rigo was also capable of stealing passwords from infected computers, reading email conversations, launch denial-of-service attacks, access banking data and so forth using the Blackshades malware which has been around since 2010....

How OSRS Was Played: Then & Now When RuneScape was first released back in 2001, the only way to play it was via your web browser. But since then, you can download the client version of it, which can run more smoothly on your laptop without the overhead of your browser. In a nutshell, OSRS does not require a powerful computer. You can play it on most laptops that are available in the market right now, as any cheap laptop models with an i5 or i3 and at least 4GB of RAM can run the game....

Currently, the platform allows users to post only images, videos GIFs, and text messages as their WhatsApp status. The new feature was spotted by WhatsApp features tracker WABetaInfo, on WhatsApp beta for Android 2.22.16.3 update, which will finally add support for voice notes in statuses. According to the WABetaInfo report, the messaging platform may call the voice note shared as a status update as “voice status”. As you can see from the screenshot above, there is a voice note microphone icon at the bottom of the status tab, which will allow users to instantly add a voice message to their status update....