While Linux seems to be winning the Windows vs Linux battle, you would have noticed one astonishing thing. There are very few laptop and PC manufacturers in the world who ship Linux distro PCs/laptops. If you take a count, there must be only 1 top Linux hardware maker against the top Windows 10 PC/laptop makers like Dell/HP/Acer, etc. These manufacturers also ship DOS-based PCs which gives users the freedom to install any Linux distro they want but custom-fitted Linux distro PC/Laptop makers are rare....

However, the hardest task is when you have apps and you can’t use them on your PC due to a few issues that may stand in between. You don’t have to wait until it gets to that point. How To Use A Free Movie App Like A Pro: Compatibility Before you install Showbox for PC, you have to ensure that the app you select is compatible with the Windows you are using....

“Since 2009, Google has been running Doodle 4 Google contest. With ‘Doodle 4 Google’ competition, we aim to promote creativity, passion and imagination in younger users. We congratulate Anvita for being judged as the winner this year,” said Sapna Chadha, Head of Marketing, Google India, in a statement. Based on this year’s theme ‘If I could teach anyone anything, it would be’, Anvita had submitted her doodle titled ‘Live in the present’, which won compliments....

A Manhattan couple is suing their lawyer, whose AOL email account was hacked, causing the couple to wire a $1.9 million down payment to an account taken over by scammers. Robert Millard, a managing partner at Realm Partners, and his wife, Bethany, blame their real estate attorney, Patricia Doran, for “cybercriminals” stealing the 10 percent deposit intended for a Manhattan co-op they were buying for $19.4 million, according to a new lawsuit filed in New York State Supreme Court....

While running all those tabs can take a heavy toll of the laptop, closing these tabs is also not an option. Because, closing them completely might make you lose something you intended to come back to later. There’s this neat little hack which can kill tabs while keeping them open at the same time and reduce the strain on your laptop. The page with the ‘Aw Snap’ error won’t take up any memory, but if you need to go back to it later, you can find it again by scrolling through your tabs and refreshing the page....

The highly realistic-looking robot child named “Affetto” unveiled first in 2011 has now been incorporated with an artificial synthetic skin that allows it to detect changes in pressure. It can feel and distinguish between a light touch or a hard hit. The team behind the robot said that this would help robots understand emotional and physical pain like human beings. The group of scientists from Osaka University, led by Professor Minoru Asada, explained: “Engineers and material scientists have developed a new tactile sensor and attached it to a child robot called Affetto that has a realistic face and body skeleton covered in artificial skin....

Epicenter, a company in Stockholm, Sweden, implants chip into their employees, so that their bosses can monitor toilet breaks and how long they work. In other words, they are turning their employees into “cyborgs” by embedding them with tiny microchips. For those unfamiliar, Cyborg (Victor “Vic” Stone) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books, who is used by scientists as a test subject for various intelligence enhancement projects....

Half of 2016 has passed and the mobile benchmarking website, AnTuTu has released its index for 10 most popular smartphones in the first half of 2016. The website shows top 10 indexes with handsets from all over the world, thus highlighting which are the devices the market is most interested in. The first index that AnTuTu has released regards the top 10 most popular smartphones in the World during the first six months of 2016....

Here are top 10 uses of USB OTG (On-The-Go) that you never knew1. Charging your Android smartphone with another smartphone using USB OTG2. Connecting it as a Game Controller for playing games on your Android smartphone3. Connecting Android smartphone to a Camera4. Connecting a portable external Hard Drive to your Android smartphone5. Connecting LAN Cable and accessing Internet on your Android smartphone6. Connecting a sound card or microphone to your Android smartphone7....

How to make free International calls………just by installing any of the top 5 Apps on your device.Google Voice:Skype: Yahoo!Messenger: Facebook Messenger By using special software users can make free International phone calls anywhere by using the Free Internet phone programs. The free phone call applications basically can be categorized into 4 types: PC to PC Internet calling: In this case the free Internet call is from one computer to another computer....

Known as Tumblr TV, it’s a full-screen list of GIFs that you can use to search for new ones or scan through some of the most popular images being shared. It can be tried out using a few different methods. The easiest way is to just visit Tumblr.com/tv – which works well for users who do not have an account. By default, it will show you a slideshow of trending GIFs....

The above announcement by TRI come two months after the firm finally managed to ship the pilot Turing Phone, a crowdfunded Android handset, to early backers, after much delay and some revisions. Coming to Turing Monolith Chaconne, let’s have a look at its specifications at a glance: • 6.4-inch 4K display with 2160×3840 pixel resolution • 3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 processors • 18GB of LPDDR4X RAM (or 3 x 6GB memory chips) • 1....

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....

Developed by supercomputer manufacturer Cray, the new 12.8 petaflops Cray Shasta supercomputer will be the first high-performance computing system in the HPCMP to provide over ten petaflops of computing power to Department of Defense scientists, researchers, and engineers. The Cray Shasta supercomputer will be built with 290,304 AMD EPYC (Rome) processor cores and 112 NVIDIA Volta V100 General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs), interconnected by a 200 gigabit per second Cray Slingshot network....

The Fair Work Commission decided trimming someone out of your news feeds is equivalent to risking a colleague’s health and safety. The case came up when Real estate agent Rachael Roberts filed an application with Australia’s Fair Work Commission, in order to put a stop to workplace bullying by the agency’s principal, Lisa Bird. While Roberts sited 18 different incidents in which she claimed she was being bullied, nine were upheld by the Commission, according to News....

U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, said that Briana Jackson has accepted her criminal activities and had agreed to plead guilty to a single charge of unauthorized access to a University of Alabama computer and was also ready pay $9,598 that she had stolen electronically. As per the plea agreement, since 15th April 2011, Jackson started running her phishing scam wherein she created an email address for example [email protected] which seemed to be connected to the University’s Housing Department and started sending it to some 60 other students of the U....

For those unaware, DigiLocker is an online service provided by the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), Government of India under its Digital India initiative. DigiLocker provides an account in the cloud to every Aadhaar holder to access authentic documents/certificates such as driving license, vehicle registration, academic mark sheet in digital format from the original issuers of these certificates. It also provides 1GB storage space to each account to upload scanned copies of legacy documents....

When you think of file sharing, the first thing that likely pops into your head is torrents, but there is a new, yet also at the same time, old alternative. No, not Limewire or Kazaa, even more ancient. Usenet has been around for almost 40 years and has recently had a resurgence of use and popularity, stemming from the new capabilities it has acquired. At its core, Usenet is a system that allows users to create a network amongst themselves (hence, Usenet) to share files....

Which company’s interviews are more difficult: Facebook, Google, Apple or Dropbox?Question 1:Interviewer: have a cup of sugarless tea adding a teaspoonful of sugar.Question 2:Interviewer : There is one scooter which has 2 tyres and one stepney/spare (meaning 3 tyres). Each tyre can run up to max 5 km. How long will the scooter run till? Out of 100 software engineers who pass out, only 1 percent go on to open a startup, while 99 percent of them go on to join some tech firm....