Pirate Site Manga Rock Starts Shutdown

The website, which famously hosts pirated manga and occasional comics, issued a statement through its parent company, Not a Basement Studio. For those unaware, Manga Rock was launched in 2010 as a learning project by a group of college students who collected scanlations that were already released. This platform allowed users to read manga chapters online or download them for offline viewing. With the increased popularity of the site over the years, the group decided to launch their own app for a monthly subscription of $4....

January 10, 2023 · 3 min · 581 words · Maria Vanwinkle

Pokemon Go Players In Bosnia Warned Of Minefields Techworm

“Today we received information that some users of the Pokémon Go app in Bosnia were going to places which are a risk for (unexploded) mines, in search of a Pokemon,” a Bosnian demining charity, Posavina bez mina said on its Facebook page. “Citizens are urged no to do so, to respect demarcation signs of dangerous mine fields and not to go into unknown areas,” it added. Pokemon Go sees players use their smartphones to hunt for cartoon monsters in the real world....

January 10, 2023 · 2 min · 277 words · Sarah Claycomb

Popular Youtuber Tests With Webtorrent To Beat Censorship Techworm

With over a billion of visitors every month, people visit YouTube to view the original content uploaded by its contributors. On the other hand, with great power comes great responsibility and for YouTube that means making the advertisers happy. Therefore, YouTube has rules in place over what kind of content can be monetized, for which it received criticism lately. In short, if you are unable to make content that is almost entirely “appropriate for all audiences,” (without references to drugs, violence, and sex, for instance), your content is at risk of making no money....

January 10, 2023 · 4 min · 725 words · Manuel Mcintyre

Qualcomm Demonstrates World First Smartphone With Integrated Sim Technology

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....

January 10, 2023 · 3 min · 608 words · Roger Binkley

Robots Of Future Are Being Developed That Will Be Able To Predict Human Actions

While robots have been used for industrial purpose till now (A personal robot is a rare thing till date). Scientists, programmers, bioengineers and mechatronic experts all over the world have been putting great efforts to enhance their capabilities. And we are habitual of hearing mesmerizing news of wonderful robots at random times. Here is another one. The bioengineers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have developed a so called ‘psychic robot’ which is said to ‘read our mind’ using a mathematical algorithm that can supposedly predict what we’re about to do....

January 10, 2023 · 3 min · 483 words · Michael Wentz

Russian Prime Minister S Twitter Account Hacked Techworm

January 10, 2023 · 0 min · 0 words · Bobbie Smith

Samy Kamkar S Proxygambit Picks Up Where The Defunct Proxyham Left Off

The sudden and unknown demise of the ProxyHam device disappointed the privacy advocates. Caudill has declined to disclose why his talk won’t be given, and while he’s been discouraged in moving forward with his project, others have not. — Rhino Security Labs (@RhinoSecurity) July 10, 2015 — Rhino Security Labs (@RhinoSecurity) July 10, 2015 Samy Kamkar, a 29-year-old hardware hacker and entrepreneur who in the past seven months has hacked a USB charger to sniff keystrokes over the air and child’s toy to figure out garage door codes, has picked up the cause for devices like ProxyHam....

January 10, 2023 · 4 min · 815 words · Grace Martinie

Scientists Hack An Xbox Kinect To Create A Reflection Free Camera Techworm

The scientists investigated a principle called “Fourier transform,” which is a signal processing phenomenon that breaks down separate frequencies within a signal. For their project, the research team used the Xbox One’s Kinect motion sensor and camera, taking advantage of its depth sensor. “You physically cannot make a camera that picks out multiple reflections,” says Ayush Bhandari, a PhD student in the MIT Media Lab and first author on the new paper....

January 10, 2023 · 2 min · 320 words · Hal Johnson

Smallpdf Celebrates A Big Milestone Of 1 Billion Users

Due to the popularity and acceptance of PDF files, many PDF management and editing tools have emerged over the past few decades. Smallpdf is one of the most feature-packed, easy to navigate, and perfectly priced PDF management software that simply gets the job done. You will be surprised to know that SmallPDF offers more than a dozen of PDF tools. Every PDF management or editing tool offered by Smallpdf complements the other and vice-versa....

January 10, 2023 · 4 min · 682 words · Corina Linton

Snapdragon 820 Deep Learning Sdk Introduced By Qualcomm Techworm

The company’s new SDK is built for Zeroth, which is a machine intelligence platform. According to additional details from The Verge, this software development kit will allow companies to run deep learning programs locally on your devices, with the most common being your smartphone. Not only this, but thanks to the new Snapdragon 820 SDK, you will be ensured better privacy as the system will not be uploading much data to the cloud, since all the deep learning will be done locally....

January 10, 2023 · 2 min · 217 words · Kelvin Smith

Staring Into Someone S Eyes For 10 Minutes Can Give You Disturbing Hallucinations

Psychologist finds that staring into someone else’s eyes for 10 minutes is enough to induce drug free state of consciousnessConclusion: During his experiment he made 20 volunteers to sit one meter apart and stare into each others eyes at a stretch for 10 minutes, in a dimly lit room. The outcome of the experiment was quite strange and volunteers claimed to have experienced an altered state of consciousness that included viewing some disturbing hallucinations of monsters....

January 10, 2023 · 5 min · 966 words · Karen Holbrook

Student Manages To Jailbreak First Generation Microsoft Band Techworm

A student in NYU OSIRIS security lab, who is only known as b0n0n, has found a way to jailbreak the first-generation or version 1 of Microsoft Band. Given as a school project, he figured out how the Band client software communicated. It also paves the way for “third-party” improvements that could be added by the developer community. As he describes in a post on his blog, his jailbreaking method essentially allows for serving the Microsoft Band a modified update file, which could principally mean that the device might acquire some other functionality that’s filled into custom binary files....

January 10, 2023 · 2 min · 302 words · Veda Staples

Surfing Internet Becomes 100 Times Faster With The New Wi Fi Techworm

The system conceived in Eindhoven is simple and, in principle, cheap to set up. The wireless data comes from a few central ‘light antennas’, for instance, it could be installed on the ceiling of a business or home, which are able to very precisely direct the rays of light supplied by an optical fibre. “Since there are no moving parts, it is maintenance-free and needs no power: the antennas contain a pair of gratings that radiate light rays of different wavelengths at different angles,” reported the Science Daily....

January 10, 2023 · 2 min · 323 words · Sara Kent

Teen Hacker Who Shut Down Schools Around The Globe With Bomb Hoaxes Arrested Techworm

Vincent Lauton was arrested after local threats prompted them to track his IP address, local media reported. He is also being questioned about messages that affected UK and Australian schools, the Daily Mail has since reported. Described by French police as ‘a sophisticated computer operative’ who is “known for previous acts of piracy”, Lauton is linked to the ‘Evacuators 2K16’ bomb hoaxers, who called on children to Tweet if they want their school shut down....

January 10, 2023 · 4 min · 693 words · Maggie Frias

Teenager Linked To Xbox Live And Playstation Ddos Arrested In Liverpool Member Of Lizard Squad

Member of Lizard Squad Arrested? 18 year old linked to Xbox Live and PlayStation Christmas outage arrested in LiverpoolMember of Lizard Squad? The South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) which led the arrest party said that a 18-year-old man was held today on suspicion of un-authorised access to computer material. He was also detained for alleged un-authorised access with intent to commit further offences and threats to kill. SEROCU is the nodal authority, alongwith the National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), working on the operation which is focused on the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack which crippled the networks of Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox Live on the Christmas day throughout the world....

January 10, 2023 · 2 min · 389 words · Richard Hogarth

Tesla Motors Offers Bug Bounty To White Hat Hackers But Not For Hacking Its Cars

Tesla Motors has started a bug bounty program that will pay researchers up to $1,000 for disclosing vulnerabilities in its website. As said above, rewards don’t apply to bugs found in the company’s vehicles. The Tesla bug bounty hunters have to find vulnerabilities in the main teslamotors.com domain and other domains owned by the company. The Tesla car sales website and other sites that are hosted by third parties are not included in the bug bounty, which is being administered by Bugcrowd....

January 10, 2023 · 2 min · 309 words · Rona Moses

The Pirate Bay Loses Its Iconic Se Domain In A Court Battle Techworm

The .se ordeal for The Pirate Bay started in 2013 when anti-piracy prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad filed a motion in the Swedish lower court against Punkt SE (IIS), the organization responsible for Sweden’s top level .SE domain. Ingbland argued that since The Pirate Bay is an illegal site the domains are tools used to infringe copyright and should be suspended. Ingbland also said the domain authority, IIS was also responsible for copyright infringement....

January 10, 2023 · 2 min · 326 words · Marsha Amenta

The Top 5 Countries With Best Mobile Data Speeds Techworm

Which country has the fastest mobile network? How much data speed do you get on your smartphone? This is all that counts for a common man when he tries to open a website or an App on his Android smartphone or iPhone! While we hear news about how the upcoming 5G will allow smartphone owners to surf Internet at 5Gbps speed compared to the current 150Mbps in 4G/LTE, researchers from Nokia claim that 1Tbps speed can be achieved using 5G....

January 10, 2023 · 3 min · 619 words · Todd Mancias

Things You Should Do To Become A Top Quality Programmer Techworm

Here is how you can become a good programmer according to expertsHow do I become a good coder and what should the ideal characteristics of a good coder?AdaptabilityInquisitiveExperienced/well roundedKnow/Learn your needs instead of buzzwords While many youngsters aspire to be coders, a few of them actually make it to the list of top rung programmers. There are many reasons for this. One of the prime reasons is however poor choice and lack of dedication....

January 10, 2023 · 3 min · 558 words · Anabel Manning

This Developer Is Fighting A Lonely Battle To Keep Ubuntu Touch And Unity 8 Afloat Techworm

Ubuntu Touch and Unity 8 Are Not Dead Marius Gripsgård from UBPorts has taken to Google+ to react to the news and announced that he is not giving up on the platform and will strive to keep them alive for as long as he can. In case you haven’t heard about him, Marius Gripsgård is well known in the Ubuntu Police community for porting Ubuntu Touch operating system onto a range of devices....

January 10, 2023 · 1 min · 183 words · Anna Cruz