“We know we’re in competition, and it matters who gets there first,” Secretary of Energy Rick Perry told several hundred people at the Friday afternoon ceremony at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory. “We reached a pinnacle today.” The new supercomputer, dubbed Summit has been developed by IBM (International Business Machines) Corp. with the help of Nvidia Corp., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s ORNL in Tennessee....

The Great Firewall of China aims to block out websites that can pose any potential threat to the government (and its leaders). The Great Firewall scans the URL, the IP address and the page content every time a user in mainland China tries to access a webs To beat the Great Firewall of China, the Chinese hackers created a powerful censorship-circumvention called Shadowsocks. Hundreds of thousands of people in China, used Shadowsocks as the foundation of several key pieces of software....

Blizzard’s Overwatch is probably the best thing to happen to gamers in 2016. With Overwatch animated shorts and Overwatch porn already making news there is little surprise that in-game hacks would be far behind. A listing on Chinese equivalent of eBay, Taobao is selling Overwatch aimbots for Chinese Overwatch aficionados. The sellers who listed the Overwatch in-game hacks for chosen a pretty decent name, Overwatch Assistant Tool which gives the gamers a number of illegal in-game hacking tools as well as bots....

Palletizing is basically taking the packaged product and assembling it for transport by loading it on a pallet or similar device. Packaging and palletizing co-bots improve end-of-line efficiency in addition to saving costs. Most manufacturing plants, having realized the immense benefits have adopted these co-bots. However, if you are still on the fence, then the answers to these frequently asked questions about packaging and palletizing robot arms will put your mind at ease....

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....

Heenan, suffered from some posture related health issues and this gave him the idea to develop Posture.io which is a smart posture tracking and alerting system. During day time, Heenan works for Segovia, a NY based start up digital platform for NGO to reach the poor people. As per the report from Techcrunch: The Posture.io hack sports a Texas Instruments Bluetooth Low Energy sensor (which would cost around $20 to $30); this sensor is attached to the back of an office chair with velcro....

Qin Qisheng, 43, a former manager in Huaxia Bank’s technology development center in Beijing, discovered a flaw in the bank’s main operating system in 2016. According to the report, the loophole enabled Qisheng to make cash withdrawals from the ATM around 12 a.m. As the bank’s system was not working properly, the cash withdrawals made by Qisheng were not recorded and also no alert was raised. Apparently, Qisheng who had discovered the flaw in 2016, had inserted a few scripts in the banking system in November that year, which suppressed cash withdrawal alerts....

The massively Popular Battle Royale PUBG (PlayUnknown’s Battlegrounds), is now available as PUBG Lite, in the form of Open Beta Version. Here the term Open beta refers to the new free-to-play version of the game also known as public beta. The game is widely popular across the globe and now making its way towards low-end PCs. According to sources, the early phase of PUBG Lite is available in Thailand only, which means you have to be a resident of Thailand but later on, it’ll expand to more locations in the world....

And their latest action just showcased that. According to Kotaku, PUBG Corp. has issued a one-month ban to Michael ‘Shroud’ Grzesiek – the most popular streamer on Twitch for PlayerUnknown’s Battleground – for playing alongside a hacker. The ban was issued after he shared a few clips online where he is seen riding in a flying car and shooting a player hiding inside of a building using hacks. While he was half-way through a match, Shroud found that PUBG decided to ban him for an entire month for committing two offences as said above....

The San Diego based Tech giant wants to push the envelope with the all-new Quick Charge 5 technology that claims to recharge a standard device’s battery from 0 to 50% in under 5 mins, and the full charge being just 15 mins away. Better than the Predecessor? The company iterates precisely on that. Quick Charge 5 is being claimed to have 70% more efficient than its immediate predecessor. Moreover, it will provide up to four-times charging speed while running on 10 degree celsius cooler even its peak usage....

Unfortunately, malicious actors and criminals have taken notice of this and they now look to take advantage of consumers during the holidays. It’s become a busy season for hackers as scams and cyberattacks have turned out to be quite profitable endeavors during such a season. This means that consumers have to be extra vigilant and adopt measures to help them mitigate the threats posed by these bad actors. Fortunately, capable security solutions such as Reason are available to help protect users from these cyberattacks....

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....

The report, HTTP/2: In-depth analysis of the top four flaws of the next generation web protocol (.PDF), details four main vulnerabilities and attack vectors related to HTTP/2, of which adoption is steadily increasing. According to W3Techs, 8.7 percent of all websites — roughly 85 million — have adopted the new standard, which is meant to improve how browsers and servers communicate, speeding up the online experience. The vulnerabilities discovered by Imperva researchers are as follows :...

For those unaware, TPM (Trusted Platform Module) is a security module installed in a PC to provide hardware-based, security-related functions. Microsoft says a TPM chip is a secure crypto-processor that is designed to carry out cryptographic operations. The chip includes multiple physical security mechanisms to make it tamper-resistant, and malicious software is unable to tamper with the security functions of the TPM. As per a WindowsLatest report, Riot Games’ popular tactical shooter game, Valorant has enforced TPM 2....

With millions of games, Roblox is one of the greatest gaming platforms. As you might know, Roblox Avatars remain the same in every game. Consequently, it’s really important to customize Avatars to help them stand out from the crowd. But customizing the Roblox avatar will need you to spend Robux. One of the easiest ways to customize a Roblox avatar for free is by using Promo Codes For Roblox and Roblox Free Items....

Last week, the two companies buried the hatchet ending the most prominent Android patent dispute between them. They both finally agreed to drop all lawsuits between each other, and agreed to cooperate for the benefit of the consumer. “Google and Microsoft have agreed to collaborate on certain patent matters and anticipate working together in other areas in the future to benefit our customers,” both companies said in a joint statement....

The St. Petersburg team of Stanislav Ershov, Igor Pyshkin and Alexey Gordeev managed to solve 11 coding problems out of 12 within a five-hour timeframe. The Russian team was sponsored by VK, the Russian equivalent of Facebook. It received tutoring from Andrey Lopatin, a programmer with VK, who himself is a part of the team which won in 2000 and 2001 and as a coach in 2014 and 2016. In total, five Russian teams were awarded medals at the event....

For those unaware, NGINX (pronounced as “engine X”) is the world’s second-largest open-source web server. On the other hand, Rambler is a Russian search engine and one of the biggest web portals in the country. During the raid, equipment was seized and NGINX co-founders Igor Sysoev and Maxim Konovalov were detained by the authorities. However, both were released after questioning but their phones were seized. “Earlier today, Russian police came to the NGINX Moscow office,” an F5 spokesperson said....

Denmark, for example, is among the global leaders in e-government and has made using digital tools mandatory for communication between its citizens and the government. Other countries are also using one-stop portals to provide transactional services and public information. These digital channels, however, have become prime targets for hackers. Government portals can be vulnerable and many still fail to implement capable security measures to protect these channels. In 2019, local governments in Florida suffered from ransomware attacks due to poor security, with hackers demanding $1 million from Pensacola City in exchange for stolen documents....

According to a leak given by a company insider, China and South Korea will only get the 6GB RAM+128GB ROM variant of Galaxy S8. However, users in Asian markets will be able to choose between 64GB and 128GB of internal storage both with 6GB RAM. There will also be a third option available for all the users outside the Asian market, i.e., Europe and rest of the countries which is 4GB RAM + 64GB ROM, says the tipster....