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Zuckerberg who used his personal Facebook page and his Jewish heritage to speak out against attacks on “all communities” said, “After the Paris attacks and hate this week, I can only imagine the fear Muslims feel that they will be persecuted for the actions of others,” he wrote. “As a Jew, my parents taught me that we must stand up against attacks on all communities. Even if an attack isn’t against you today, in time attacks on freedom for anyone will hurt everyone....

Over the last 100 years, more than 75 planes and hundreds of ships are said to have disappeared and at least 1,000 people are reported to have lost their lives in accidents around Bermuda Triangle. These incidences also gave birth to intriguing theories including that of a lost empire within the depths of waters in the Atlantic and alien intervention. On average, four planes and 20 ships go missing every year....

Problems with NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity’s flash memory have intensified over recent weeksFlash Memory worn outOldman problemsWorries between Christmas celebrationsSurprised at the longetivityMilestone approachingSoftware Glitch Flash Memory worn out It’s primary mission it began in January 2004. But with its great successes, inevitable age-related issues have surfaced and mission engineers are being challenged by an increasingly troubling bout of rover “amnesia.” Opportunity utilizes two types of memory to record mission telemetry as it explores the Meridiani Planum region....

“People don’t think about this privacy vulnerability,” said Mordechai Guri, the research lead of Ben Gurion’s cyber security research labs, speaking to WIRED. “Even if you remove your computer’s microphone, if you use headphones you can be recorded.” The method works through a particular malware which repurposes a speakers’ earbuds into a microphone, “converting the vibrations in air into electromagnetic signals to clearly capture audio from across a room,” reports WIRED....

New Moto G 2015 and Moto X 2015 to be launched, Motorola sends out invites for July 28 eventMoto G 2015Moto X 2015 No details were provided as to which devices will debut at the event; however, thanks to the invitation from Motorola, a very good idea of what will be revealed could be guessed. Let’s have a look at the phones that may be launched: Moto G 2015 According to the leaked specs, the new Moto G is expected to feature a 5....

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday issued Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to Abbott’s ID NOW COVID-19 making the test available to healthcare providers as early as next week. This test can be used in a wide range of healthcare settings such as physicians’ offices, urgent care clinics, and hospital emergency departments. In a press release, Abbott Laboratories describes ID NOW as a “rapid, instrument-based, isothermal system for the qualitative detection of infectious diseases....

Now, Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities, a well-known iPhone analyst in his latest investor note, said that Apple is planning to increase the capacity and improved battery life of the second-generation iPhone X line-up for 2018. While the iPhone X features an L-shaped battery structure, Kuo predicts improvement in battery life by replacing the current two-cell design with a one-cell design for the device’s L-shaped battery, provided they are able to do it....

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The company also announced that Opera for Android (OfA) will become the first mobile browser with an Ethereum Layer 2 Wallet. With this new non-custodial wallet, millions of Opera users will be able to transact with Ethereum Layer 2 directly allowing them to benefit from efficient, ultra-low transactions and instant trading and making swaps 100 times quicker and more cost-effective. Transact instantly and gas-free with #L2 directly from the #Opera browser ?...

Gunjan Sachdev, National Business Head – ToughBook, Panasonic India said “The launch of these products will certainly enhance our portfolio catering to the enterprise segment. With the broadest range and configuration options available in their class, industry leading reliability and enterprise grade feature sets, the ToughPad FZ-E1 and ToughPad FZ-X1 are ideal tools for a host of usage scenarios in the industry.” The ToughPad FZ-E1 is powered by Windows Embedded 8....

Zerodium had stated on their website that they will pay a sum of $1 million to any hacker who can find/build such jailbreak tool for iOS 9 Zerodium has stated that the jailbreak tool released today by Pangu will not be eligible for the $1 million reward. Readers will remember that Pangu has released a Windows run jailbreak tool today and has promised a Mac based tool shortly. When asked by Ben Nagy about whether the Pangu team will be eligible for the $1 million bug bounty announced by the company, Zerodium founder Chaouki Bekrar said that the Pangu jailbreak tool does not qualify for the bug bounty as it local and also not browser based....

According to the leaked documents, starting Thursday, the majority of Starbucks’ company-owned stores in the U.S. will become official PokeStops or Gyms for the game. The reason for this is that stores have seen an uptick in traffic and sales in PokeStop stores, so the idea is to replicate that wherever possible. “The world of Pokemon Go is about to expand with new Pokemon and a new Starbucks beverage!” the “Barista need-to-know” promotional memo says....

Security researcher Nils Rodday at the RSA security conference in San Francisco on Wednesday demonstrated how defects in the $35,000 drone’s radio connection allowed him to completely take over the quadcopter with the help of just a laptop and a cheap radio chip connected via USB. Any hacker who’s able to reverse engineer the drone’s flight software can imitate that controller to send navigation commands by taking advantage of the lack of encryption between the drone and its controller module known as a “telemetry box....

The incident has shocked Kermani, and it shocked his BBC colleagues more. Police officers obtained an order from a judge that was served on the BBC and Secunder Kermani, who joined the flagship BBC2 news show early last year and has produced a series of reports on British-born jihadis. The editor of Newsnight, Ian Katz said: “While we would not seek to obstruct any police investigation we are concerned that the use of the Terrorism Act to obtain communication between journalists and sources will make it very difficult for reporters to cover this issue of critical public interest....

LUKS is the standard device for executing Linux hard disk encryption. LUKS is often put into action with Cryptsetup. The problem lies in the Cryptsetup default configuration file, which is a bad one. Known Linux distributions with this bug include Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). Details of the vulnerability were revealed by Hector Marco and Ismael Ripoll, who explain: The researchers found out problems in how Cryptsetup scripts handle the boot process when the user is asked for the encryption password....

Blackphone was intentionally made keeping in mind privacy and security at the forefront and is run on a forked version of Android previously called PrivatOS and now renamed “Silent OS,” which puts it more in line with the company’s other “Silent” products. Thanks to the encryption and special software, all calls and texts made with the phone are secure from all the inquisitive eyes. Recently, Silent Circle who acquired Geeksphone’s share of the business released the Blackphone 2 earlier this year at Mobile World Congress....

This ground-breaking move “paves the way for commercialisation of the technology, which could be rolled out in a host of new devices that will use iSIM to connect to mobile services.” A proof of concept (POC) demonstration was recently carried out in Samsung’s R&D labs in Europe using Vodafone’s advanced remote management platform. This proof of concept showed the technology’s commercial readiness and efficiency working on existing infrastructure, leveraging Vodafone’s advanced network capabilities....

JioMeet is available for free and offers an unlimited number of free calls in high definition (720p) to users during the video conference across all devices. It supports direct calls (1:1 calling) as well as hosting meetings with up to 100 participants in a single call, which is not allowed in free versions of Zoom and Google Meet. Interestingly, you can host unlimited meetings per day on the JioMeet app, and each meeting can go “up to 24 hours” long without any interruption....

The recall announced involved a wide range of Jeep, Dodge, Ram, and Chrysler cars and trucks manufactured between 2013 and 2015, fitted with touchscreen infotainment radio system, proved to be susceptible to remote hacking. FCA US, the American arm of the Italian auto group, in a statement said “The recall aligns with an ongoing software distribution that insulates connected vehicles from remote manipulation, which, if unauthorized, constitutes criminal action.” “Customers affected by the recall will receive a USB device that they may use to upgrade vehicle software, which provides additional security features independent of the network-level measures,” the company said on Friday....