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One of LinkedIn’s possible suitors whom Microsoft beat was the American cloud computing company Salesforce. Perhaps the LinkedIn promoters feared uncertainties of a stock-and-cash deal offered by Salesforce. Now it is revealed that Salesforce was willing to pay much much more than Microsoft. “The email indicated that Party A would have bid much higher and made changes to the stock/cash components of its offers, but it was acting without communications from LinkedIn,” LinkedIn said in the updated filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission....

The incident took place minutes after the Alaska Airlines flight from New Orleans landed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The plane was carrying around 128 passengers and six crew members. As thick fire and smoke filled the cabin, the flight crew had to deploy evacuation slides and carry out an emergency evacuation of passengers. Apparently, the crew on Flight 751 had to use several fire extinguishers and place the device in a battery collection bag to contain the smoke....

A YouTuber named GuruAidTechSupport has shown that devices really can support serious video games. Although you might need really tiny fingers to play them with the onscreen buttons. Will these devices run the games with Bluetooth controllers? Sadly that’s a question he didn’t answer. Maybe one of our readers will give it a shot. Gaming Experience The games demonstrated on the device are: Super Smash Bros Melee Super Mario Sunshine Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker...

However, Opera has pushed out an update for its Opera Max Android app with support for both YouTube and Netflix. Also, the update boasts about using up less data while streaming videos, shows and movies. This means you can now optimize YouTube and Netflix video streams over HTTPS “without any significant loss in quality” in less buffer time and indulge in watching more viral clips within the same data allowance....

If you thought that emoji came with computers and smartphones, you are mistaken. Emojis have existed for years, however, the oldest emoji in existence was discovered recently. Researchers from the National Archives in Trencin, Slovakia claimed to found what they believe is the world’s oldest original emoji drawn by a lawyer called Jan Ladislaides – a 382-year-old smiley face. Head of the archive in Trencin Peter Brindza in Slovakia said: “We found a smiley face, which dates from the 17th century – from 1635 – by notary Jan Ladislaides next to his signature....

Scientists in Japan have succeeded in transmitting energy wirelessly, in a key step that could one day make solar power generation in space a possibility, an official said Thursday. It’s a game-changing achievement for electricity generation that could one day allow us to place huge solar sheets in space and beam the energy back to Earth. The researchers from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced last week that they had used microwaves to deliver 1....

“The robot hit my son’s head and he fell down facing down on the floor and the robot did not stop and it kept moving forward,” Harwin’s mom Tiffany Teng said. Harwin was left with a sore head and swollen right foot, as well as bruises on his right leg. Luckily, the child didn’t suffer any broken bones. “He was crying like crazy and he never cries. He seldom cries,” Teng said....

The patent application titled “E-Sports Betting Platform” was originally filed in 2019, but got published only this month. It doesn’t directly mention PlayStation but instead contains the phrase “computer simulation.” According to the patent, bets can be placed by using physical currency, Bitcoin, or even in-game assets. Any asset used by a bettor to place a wager can be tied to a digital wallet. Further, betting would be carried out via a user interface overlay to allow gamblers to bet in real-time while watching eSports games....

Built by Japanese electronics brand imp, the gadget throws a qwerty keyboard on flat surface and emits the original voice of R2-Q5 when in use. The limited edition R2-Q5 Star Wars Droid projector will be available on Star Wars day May 4th, and will cost around £176. Another Version R2-D2 is a little bit cheaper and comes with a very rare difference in functionality

The main problem if you are running Steam on Linux is to be careful of their program. It would be wise, not to connect to any local external hard drives while you’re running Steam. Users complaining of this bug appear to have moved their .steam or ~/.local/share/steam directories, or invoked Steam’s Bash script with the —reset option enabled. The bug appears to be caused by a line in the Steam....

The company still considers console gaming to be the centre of its business, even as casual gaming has moved to smartphones and tablets. Nintendo managed to sell only 13 million Wii U consoles (its last console) since its launch in 2012, compared with 101 million sales of its predecessor, the Wii, launched in 2006, clearly indicating that Wii U flopped badly due to lack of must-have titles. Nintendo is now hoping that the Nintendo Switch, a combination home and mobile device will reverse its fortunes in the console market....

The Ghostshell hackers claimed responsibility from a hacking spree that started on 30th June and is still continuing with every country in the world attacked. Their Twitter account is filled with series of tweets containing data of 100s of hacked websites with victim sites’ URLs and links to data dumps containing the alleged user information. The victim sites came from a variety of locations and backgrounds, ranging from educational institutions in Australia, India, Egypt, China to Korean websites in addition to many ....

macOS is a feature-rich computer OS and it’s used by millions of users across the globe. Well, there are many note taking apps available for macOS but choosing the right one can be quiet difficult. Consequently, in this article, we have compared some of the best note taking apps for mac. So in no particular order, these are the five helpful note-taking apps that are worth checking out. What’s The Best Note Taking App For Mac?...

Five years have passed since the Megaupload mission and now FBI seems to be keen on making money from the seized Megaupload domains rather than parking them without use. Nothing wrong in that but the fact is that the seized domains including Megaupload.org are now showing NSFW ads. For those who don’t know, FBI went after Kim Dotcom and his Megaupload for hosting illegal content through the file sharing service....

But when Netflix started to block subscribers who accessed its service through VPN services and other software tools that happen to bypass geolocation I was stunned and as a legitimate user, of Netflix service I was furious. Movie executives seemed to have successfully coursed Netflix on the VPN witch hunt as the movie studios want full control over what people can see in their respective countries. To be brutally honest I was not even aware I was being blocked at first....

Within a week the photo had reached out to Twitter, another social networking site and had received a colossal response of about 10 million tweets. People from across the world were eagerly giving their opinion regarding the color of this dress and eventually based on their opinions three groups were formed namely #blackandblue, #whiteandgold and a smaller #blueandbrown. Originally the dress was worn by the bride’s mother, during the wedding of a Scottish couple Grace and Keir Johnston....

The case becomes worse if your website is vulnerable to XSS. Why? Because when you open a new tab by reference from an existing tab, your browser allows this new tab to communicate with the referrer tab by using window.opener API. How Does It Work: imagine you have coded a webpage which has hyperlinks and you have used the target attribute with value _blank in this way: href=“http//:www.yourwebsite.com/a_link” target="_blank" And the link which is being referred here allows the users to put links on this page in some way....

Sri Lankan police have arrested the teenager and accused him of hacking into President Maithripala Sirisena’s official website and posting a message calling for the postponement of A-level examinations. President Sirisena’s website was hacked a week earlier and the hacker had posted a message calling for the postponement of exams. The police immediately swung into action and zeroed down on the boy who lives near the capital Columbo. According to the police, the boy was taken into custody on Monday under computer crimes laws and on conviction faces a fine of $2,000 and up to three years in jail....

Researchers from security firm, Bitdefender have discovered a new malware family that opens a backdoor via the Tor network on Mac OS X systems. Bitdefender researchers have named the malware as Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor. The security researchers said that the Eleanor creators are spreading the malware through phishing and EasyDoc Converter, a Mac app that allows users to convert files by dragging them over a small window. According to Bitdefender, EasyDoc in reality is created just to run the malicious Eleanor payload....

Yes, you have heard it right! Alex Jason is on the threshold of opening a public museum that will have a collection of vintage Apple devices. Alex’s Apple Orchard has more than 250 rare Apple prototypes, most of which he purchased with money earned from mowing neighbours’ lawns. According to the Cult of Mac, Alex started collecting discarded Apple stuff at the age of 10. In just 5 years, he has become one of the top 20 Apple collectors in the world....