For those who have not used Dos commands, the Windows Command Prompt tool, and many of its commands might seem boring or even relatively useless at first glance, but as anyone who has ever used the Command Prompt very often can tell you, there’s much to love! Here are some Command Prompt tricks and hacks that can make your life easier with PC/laptop : #1 Use Ctrl-C to Abort a Running Command Just like any command can be stopped in its tracks with the abort command: Ctrl-C....

Here’s a look at the 7 open source terminal games for Linux2048nInvadersMoon BuggyNethackRobot Finds KittenBSD GamesNudoku We bring to you some of the simplest open source games for Linux: terminal-based games that you can go and play at the Linux terminal and relive the older days. 2048 2048 had become one of the most popular web-based games hosted on GitHub a couple of years ago due to its simple mechanics of sliding blocks providing hours of entertainment....

According to media activist group ‘Raqqa is Being Slaughter Silently’, Junaid Hussain, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Hussain al-Britani, was killed on 24 August outside his house in Raqqa, capital of the IS Caliphate in Syria. Junaid Hussain was killed by a targeted airstrike while he was traveling in a vehicle near the Syrian city of Raqqa. However, it was not immediately clear whether the drone strike had been conducted out of Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, where the United States, in addition to stationing F-16 fighter jets, recently began launching armed drone strikes....

Apple has finally announced its new iPhones. As always, many people will upgrade their old iPhone to the new iPhone 8 or iPhone X, or buy an iPhone 7 at a favorable price. Some Android users possibly grab a new iPhone to try out a different mobile OS as well. After getting a new phone, the first thing should be transferring files from the old one to it. Besides contacts, photos are believed to be what we need most....

Removing unnecessary add-ons and toolbars. 2. Clear browsing history regularly. 3. Disable Firefox Auto-update(not recommended). 4. Block Flash. If you have already tried these steps and it is not working then i would like to suggest you some of other tried and tested techniques to speed up the browsing and make Mozilla Firefox faster than ever. Type “about:config” into the address bar and press Enter. Now click “I’ll be careful, I promise!...

As of now FBI needed a warrant from a court to hack into any computer in United States or around the world. A proposed amendment to Rule 41 would have allowed FBI to hack into computers behind Tor or VPN without warrant and based on suspicion that the user indulged in illegal activities. A U.S. court has ruled that the FBI can hack into a computer without a warrant. The US court delivered this landmark judgement in the case involving FBI’s hacking of child pornography site, Playpen, that had been accessible through Tor, a browser designed for anonymous web surfing....

In a recent development, Uber signed a Space Act Agreement with the US space agency, NASA on Wednesday to help develop traffic systems for its proposed flying taxi project, called Uber Elevate. Uber’s chief product officer Jeff Holden told the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal that it would be working with NASA to help create autonomous software for managing “flying taxi” routes, which it plans to deploy in the air by 2020....

Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 Beta 1 has been released as part of the Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak launch. The Ubuntu flavors taking part in the Beta 1 milestone include Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu MATE, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and Ubuntu Kylin. Xubuntu has decided to skip the Beta 1 release. Yakkety Yak’s release coincides with the fact that Linux celebrated a 25th birthday yesterday. The distro is in beta phase and you may encounter many bugs during its installation....

The undo and redo shortcut keys, however, are among the most significant and useful keyboard shortcuts. The undo option is used to reverse the action(s) you’ve just performed in any program on your PC, while the redo option reverses the undo action. In the event that a mistake is made and you need to undo something on your computer, these two keyboard shortcuts literally save you a ton of time....

Stating, “American soldiers, we are coming, watch your back.” linked to a paste on pastebin containing alleged Confidential data from Centcom’s Computer network. Followed by tweets containing alleged stolen data carrying details of US military personnel The twitter and Youtube Account of Centcom has since been suspended. following tweets were tweeted during the hack. “We can confirm that the US Central Command Twitter and YouTube accounts were compromised earlier today,” the Pentagon said in a statement....

These keyboard shortcuts will help you move around in Facebook on desktop with easeHere we go with the keyboard shortcuts for FacebookWindows :Apple MacThe ShortcutsNavigating the News Feed You will find that you can jump around the Facebook with ease using these keyboard shortcuts. To use them you have to press a key or two and a number which Facebook calls an access key. Facebook has been good enough to give access keys for all major browser like Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari, though the keystrokes may differ from browser to browser....

When it comes to automation, every developer or tester prefer to use open-source software that provides both security and reliability. And we simply cannot turn our eyes from the most recognized and renowned automation testing framework known as “Selenium.” So, let’s know something about selenium and why it is the best framework to perform automated cross browser testing. What Is Selenium? Selenium is an open-source automated testing framework that allows testers to automate cross browser testing effectively....

While there are no details on naming or products, Hidemi Moue, chief executive officer of Japan Industrial Partners (which owns VAIO) says the deal is expected to be announced by the end of March. VAIO was earlier a part of Sony Corporation and spun off in a massive restructuring exercise. The news of this super merger emerged after Toshiba confirmed it was not considering withdrawing from making PCs Toshiba has been bleeding big bucks in its PC manufacturing division and has already cut around 7,800 jobs in December amidst an accounting scandal....

DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, announced Friday that it hit a new milestone in the development of fast, lightweight drones that can navigate themselves. DARPA’s drone is loaded with sensors and can hit speeds of 40 mph or 20 meters per second while flying through a cluttered warehouse. In fact, the DARPA drone could navigate the turns and avoid objects at awesome speeds with ease. In another test in the aircraft hangar turned warehouse, the drone spotted boxes in its path and could fly around them....

In the latest update, the company has made the WhatsApp voice-calling available for users of its Windows Phone app. The calling feature introduced in version 2.12.60 will work on device running Window Phone 8 and above. In addition, smartphones running Windows Phone version 8.1 can also use the updated app to send audio files. “Call your friends and family using WhatsApp for free, even if they’re in another country,” the updated app description reads....

“A new way to keep the chats that mean the most. Today, you’ll have the ability to transfer your entire chat history from Android to iOS and vice versa. Now you have the freedom to switch to and from your preferred devices,” WhatsApp made the announcement on Twitter on Wednesday. — WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) July 20, 2022 Users who are moving from an Android phone to an iPhone can now transfer their account information, profile photo, personal messages, individual chats, group chats, chat history, media, and settings....

In the meantime, ArsTechnica was able to get a few details as to what all new developments are stored by Google for its Android. The session details have been summed up here: Android M details : Release date: Android Lollipop seems to have hit just 10 percent of the smartphones and now Google is ready to announce its latest version Android M; however as per Google’s earlier history there was a gap of almost a year between Android Kitkat and Android Jelly Bean and the Android Lollipop updates, hence as of now it seems that though Google will announce its Android M during its conference; the actual rolling out of this version would be in fall or early winter....

With just less than a week to go for the release, AdDuplex has released the numbers for September 2021 highlighting the market share of different versions of the Windows desktop operating system. For those unaware, AdDuplex is the largest cross-promotion network for Windows Store apps and games empowering developers and publishers to promote their apps for free by helping each other. According to the report, the test version of Windows 11 (Insiders) is already installed on 1....

Now, according to a new report from Windows Central, Microsoft is already planning for the release of the next operating system, Windows 12 in the year 2024. It appears that the company is planning to return to the traditional three-year release cycle for major versions of the Windows client. For example, Windows Vista debuted in 2007, Windows 7 in 2009, Windows 8 in 2012, and Windows 10 in 2015. While Windows 11 debuted at the end of 2021, Microsoft may release Windows 12 in the year 2024 in accordance with its policy of releasing new operating systems every three years....

Last week, CBC News reported that, in April this year, a German couple had discovered some postcard locked in a bottle which had washed up on the beach of Amrum Island. Retired postal worker, Marianne Winkler, found the bottle on the shores and though most of the times the letters locked in such bottles are known to have some romantic messages, this one however did not have any romance in it....