Posts

As per the executive of Xinhua news agency, Mountain Qomolangma in China has been moving at a speed of four centimeters per year and has been rising by 0.3 centimeter annually. This fact was collected by the bureau from 2005 to 2015. Geographical changes in the area have great influence on the climate, environment and ecology of East and South Asia, said by the citing experts. In the year 2005, the organization had set up a satellite monitoring system on Mount Everest to examine the mountain’s movement....

Then, the lights went off and music rumbled on. Twirling their heads, the robots began a synchronized dance to the ’80s hit “Mr Roboto” with blue spotlights flashing, waving flags grasped in their “hands,” and moving with flaunts and flourishes that had the crowd shouting with happiness. This noisy display was the “graduation ceremony” thrown for the ‘bots by Willow Garage, the company that had produced them with each at a rough cost of $400,000....

In an interview with The Guardian, Berners-Lee said people in prominent markets should “just say no” to the project. Speaking about the importance of privacy and the dangers of government snooping, he added that the initiative was not internet and that there were other ways of reducing the price of access. “When it comes to compromising on net neutrality, I tend to say ‘just say no’,” he said. According to the reports by The Guardian, Berners-Lee and the Web We Want festival came together to produce a Magna Carta for the 21st century on the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta....

It seems that the ISPs in the United Kingdom are on a warpath with Torrent users. We had written about how the ISPs like Sky are sending a popup message when the user visits The Pirate Bay, ExtraTorrent, Torrentz2, Rarbg, 1337x, KickassTorrents and other file sharing sites. Now we have got hold of one such email that was sent to a TPB user by Sky, which is the premier Internet service provider in Britain....

Anushka Binoy, of Isleworth , scored 162 to gain membership of the exclusive society, where entry is reserved for Britain’s brainiest 2%. The average IQ is 100 and a score of over 155 on the Cattell III B scale puts you in the top 1% of the population. What is this Mensa IQ test and why is it so important: Mensa is considered to be one of the oldest intelligence society in the world and it accepts only those individuals as members who score in the 98th percentile on an IQ test....

The developers behind the App, SektionEins GmbH wrote on a blogpost : “[We] wanted to provide the public with a low cost solution that allows to find out if someone used one of the public jailbreak or a customized version to hack and backdoor your device,” the developers wrote in a blog post. The app is developed by a team led by Stefan Esser who is a well-known iPhone security researcher....

UK YouTuber Colin regularly makes bizarre devices for his YouTube channel. Colin’s whose hobbies include pyrotechnics and cannons has designed an impossibly dangerous-looking thermite cannon. He has just posted a video of YouTube, which is a homemade pneumatic launcher that pushes lit canisters of thermite. Thermite is a horrid chemical composition made of metal power and oxide that burns as hot as 2500 Celsius, which when ignite you do not want to be anywhere near it....

However, the act of rooting can be inherently dangerous. While Android rooting opens up a world of possibility, but it can also void your warranty, or even leave you with a bricked device. There are several ways of rooting an Android smartphone or tablet with several tools available but most of this ways are a little technical. Kingo Android Root, a new free Windows utility now makes rooting a one-click affair....

A British boy of Pakistani origin has become the world’s youngest qualified computer programmer at the age of seven, a media report claimed. Muhammad Hamza Shahzad, resident of Handsworth area in Birmingham has been trained by his father Asim Shahzad, who works with an American IT firm. “I want to be Bill Gates,” he told Birmingham Mail. This is not the first time when Hamza has set a world record....

Microsoft itself has now given up on Windows 8 and 8.1 and is pushing out its latest OS, Windows 10 which hopes will rework the magic of Windows XP. Lets see the numbers as per NetMarketShare: The reports indicate that last year Windows 8 and 8.1 combined showed 11.3%, Windows 7 showed 48.8% whereas market share of Windows XP showed 27.5%. Now lets check the market shares this year: Windows 8 and 8....

The Chinese-owned app said it is taking the decision to suspend the services in response to the new “fake news” law imposed in Russia last Friday, as it wants to keep its employees and users safe. For those unaware, the Russian lawmakers have passed a new media law that imposes prison sentences of up to 15 years for those spreading “false information” about Russia’s military and/or government. Also Read – Russia Blocks Access to Facebook over Sate Media Censorship “TikTok is an outlet for creativity and entertainment that can provide a source of relief and human connection during a time of war when people are facing immense tragedy and isolation....

To help put all this in perspective, we’ll recap the five most recent, and notable, data breaches in America, and the consequences to which they’ve led. Each of the following data breaches has a “risk score,” based on many factors: financial loss, the amount of sensitive information lost, and the damage it caused to the company in question, its customers, and its partners. The following data breach ratings are presented in descending order....

For those unaware, Apple had released iOS version 14.5 with ATT on April 26th to the public. The new update requires any app to ask user’s permission before sharing their activity and data with websites and apps owned by other companies. In other words, apps can now no longer track users across other apps and websites without taking their permission. ATT gives users a little more control over whether or not they want apps to be able to track them....

The company said that the updated policy is part of its commitment “to build tools with privacy and security at the core.” “We’re updating our existing private information policy and expanding its scope to include ‘private media’. Under our existing policy, publishing other people’s private information, such as phone numbers, addresses, and IDs, is already not allowed on Twitter. This includes threatening to expose private information or incentivizing others to do so,” Twitter Safety team explained in a blog post on Tuesday....

In fact, majority of the leaks have come from a Ukrainian blogger, Ivan Luchkov, who reportedly works for Wylsacom media. The same blogger had also released a hands-on Pixel 3 XL video but it had a watermark attached which was a Telegram account. In the latest development, 9to5Google has learned that a Ukrainian seller is selling stolen Google Pixel 3 XL “near production” units for $2,000 each on the black market in Europe....

The Mark Zuckerberg-led company, which is hoping to begin the project next year with 100 partners, has already hit a roadblock with the announcement. Apparently, Maxine Waters, US Congresswoman and Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, has directed Facebook to pause its cryptocurrency project until Congress and regulators could examine it. “Facebook has data on billions of people and has repeatedly shown a disregard for the protection and careful use of this data....

We all know that a couple years ago when the value of cryptocurrency exploded, a lot of people made a lot of money. Especially coming out of a deep recession, for many people, the future looked brighter than it had in years. But there was one small factor nobody had considered: they couldn’t spend their newfound fortunes. Treasure troves of Bitcoin and ETH were more safe and secure on the blockchain than gold coins in a sunken ship deep under the sea, wrapped in smart contracts and guarded by the decentralized security that blockchain pioneers worked so hard to bring to reality....

Watch How a Tattoo Gun Is Made in PrisonTattoo Gun Tattoo Gun In a Facebook post doing rounds on Digg, the prison inmates urn a pen, a Walkman, a couple of paper clips, a few rubber bands, and a set of batteries into a fully functional tattoo gun. The motor, battery pack, and switch come from a Walkman which is torn down. The ink for the tattoo comes from the pen, the needle is made from the paper clip, and the rubber bands hold it all together....

Unfortunately, some of the most vulnerable companies are those that are least equipped to address these concerns. Industry experts estimate that 45% of all cyber-attacks are launched against small businesses. Almost half of all small businesses have been attacked, although most of them don’t know it. Nearly 70% of small businesses are forced into bankruptcy within six months of a particularly severe cyber-attack. Despite the risks, small businesses are under greater pressure to cut costs....

It is well known that HGST was working with helium for some time now. According to HGST, helium gas offers several advantages over traditional air-filled drives thanks to its lower density, with decreased power consumption and increased storage capacity. Western Digital’s HGST division has released the world’s first helium-filled 10TB hard drive for everyday use costing about $900 (£600). The Ultrastar He10 has two important features : Ultrastar He10 has seven perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) platters are packed into the standard 1-inch height of the drive....