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After Canarevo announced his plans to cut off a man’s head and put it onto another body, he drew a lot of fascination and criticism for the same. There were many of them who believed that the operation would probably never happen until the team was announced. According to Russia Today, Canarevo is hoping to finish the procedure, which will take 36-hours, and cost $11 million by December 2017. The operation is set to take place at a hospital affiliated to Harbin Medical University in Heilongjiang, China with a team made up largely of doctors from the country....

So we should assume that the secluded and godforsaken communist holdout, North Korea may have a decent number of websites operating through its top-level country domain .kp. We were wrong, North Korea has only 28 websites operating using its top-level country domain, .kp. The usually hidden data came to light when by mistake, North Korea misconfigured its nameserver, leaking the list that holds information on all of the domains that exist for ....

This report provides a route to ensure the development of the National Quantum Initiative Act, which was signed into law by President Trump in December of 2018. “The Department of Energy is proud to play an instrumental role in the development of the national quantum internet,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette. “By constructing this new and emerging technology, the United States continues with its commitment to maintain and expand our quantum capabilities....

Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor has acquired exclusive rights to the revolutionary Vantablack pigment, said to be the blackest shade of black ever created. Kapoor, who has designed the Orbit tower for the London Olympics, is currently the only person in the world who can paint using this colour, and has been doing so since 2014. He has described the pigment as “so black you almost can’t see it.”...

The suspect was dressed as an Apple employee with a blue shirt and the similar Apple logo on the front. Unsuspected of being a stranger amongst the employees, the thief took the phones right out of a drawer in the store’s repair room. He then passed all the 19 iPhones to his accomplice who reportedly hid the phones under his shirt, and the pair walked out of the store. The store location on the Upper West Side was known as a training location for workers so new faces wouldn’t raise questions....

Now, a mad genius and YouTuber named Balázs Bank has managed to port Flappy Bird to his eVic-VTC Mini e-cigarette and he’s got video as proof which he uploaded on Sunday. The device comes from vape maker Joyetech and is notable because it has upgradable firmware. The Super Mario-style Flappy Bird works surprisingly well on the tiny e-cigarette screen. It’s in black and white, but simple up-and-down controls are all you need....

Established in 1993, an Israeli firm Ability has developed really amazing software, which has been named Ability Unlimited Interception System to provide unlimited surveillance chances to law enforcement in the US so that criminal activity could be kept at bay, it has been reported. Currently, this system can recognize calls, texts, and location of almost any mobile phone around the world and is available for US$20 million. It is also being guessed that it is quite an accomplishment by the Israeli firm to get it for this price and the amazing skills of the system....

A prosecutor asked a Paris court to hand the three men, aged 22 to 27, a one-year suspended sentence and a 5,000 euro (5,500 dollar) fine each, a lawyer for the police officers. The three member of French wing of Anonymous are also accused of breaking into two government sites and blocking public access for days. Back in Jan,2012, Anonymous had called for Operation Megaupload in retaliation for the shutdown of the file sharing service Megaupload and the arrest of four workers....

TikTok, the hugely popular video-sharing app, on Thursday said that it will stop its app from constantly copying the data from iOS users’ clipboards after it was exposed by a new feature in iOS 14 beta. For those unaware, Apple has introduced a new privacy feature in iOS 14 beta that sends a notification whenever a third-party app accesses your clipboard, a temporary store for text, and other copied assets....

Trojans targeting banks in South Korea have been using Pinterest as a Command and Control channelTPSY_BANKER,YYSI Some of the banks that have fallen victim to these attacks are Hana Bank, Nonghyup Bank, the Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK), Shinhan Bank, Woori Bank, Kookmin Bank, and the Consumer Finance Service Center. Once a customer has been infected with malware and is redirected to a phishing site that looks like a legitimate banking website, the criminals are able to steal their banking credentials....

The dumped documents reveal that the TTP trade agreement, if and when it will come into being, compels Internet service providers to hand over the identities of copyright infringers to rights holders. The dumped documents were studied by ZDNet and it has found that ISPs are about to be responsible for keeping track of which of their customers frequently infringe upon copyrighted material and for reporting those infringing users to content creators....

The micro-blogging website had announced last week that it would be cracking down on hate speech, which included the suspension of numerous alt-right accounts. Although, Twitter in the past has been slow to suspend people for hate speech and harassment, it is basically quick to remove accounts that post obscene images or videos. While the micro-blogging website has been slow to suspend people for harassment and hate speech in the past, it is usually quick to remove accounts that post obscene images or videos....

According to a new report released out of Cornell Tech, we should be showing some concern over the use of URL shorteners. Martin Georgiev and Vitaly Shmatikov discovered the issue after looking at the abbreviated web addresses used by companies like Google, Microsoft and bit.ly. After analysing millions of bit.ly generated short URLs, the duo found that randomly generating the addresses allowed them to access the content behind them. For instance, the standard Google Maps URL takes up around 150 characters, but for simple use, the product provided a six-character alternative....

Blu-Ray Player vulnerability allows hackers to compromise machines and steal dataVulnerability 1 – Windows – Cyberlink PowerDVDVulnerability 2 – Physical Blu-ray Players The flaws was discovered by British hacker Stephen Tomkinson who presented the vulnerability on NCC Blog. Vulnerability 1 – Windows – Cyberlink PowerDVD The first vulnerability demonstrated by Tomkinson shows how a potential hacker can create a malicious Blu-ray disc by taking advantage of poorly implemented Java. The malicious disc can execute arbitrary codes automatically and also bypass the auto-run prevention mechanism in Windows....

Did you know that Facebook allows you to find out your pending friend requests, with whom you attempted to be friends with on the social network but they chose to ignore your request instead. Here’s how you can find the people who have ignored you: Step 1: Log into your Facebook profile page on a desktop and tap the “Friend Requests” icon in the top right-hand of the home page....

But did the news broadcaster really show the NSFW clips or was the service provider from Boston hacked? At 11PM EST on 25th November, some unsuspecting viewers getting ready for a brand new episode of Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown on CNN were surprised to see that scheduled programming had been replaced by 30 minutes of adult entertainment. The 30 minute Xvideo broadcast news on CNN gained traction after a viewer from tweeted this....

If you have taken your PC/laptop for repairs or updating, you would have noticed the technician pressing refresh desktop a million times. Leaving aside the technician, you must also have noticed that when you right-click on your Windows desktop or inside an open explorer window, you see an option called Refresh in the context menu. The Refresh button has been there since Windows 95 to this date in the newly launched Windows 10....

This not only shows us that the receiving machine is alive and working, it also helps us to identify a number of things such as total time taken, loss of packets, etc that are used to judge the reliability of the connection. To run a ping from your Linux machine, you will need to open a terminal and write a command. The syntax of the command is “ping destination_ip” – replace “destination_ip” with the actual IP address of the machine you want to connect with....

With computers and other electronic devices becoming an integral part of our daily lives, many individuals end up watching computer screens, tablet, e-reader, and smartphones for prolonged or extended periods that can put a real strain on one’s eyes. This digital eye strain falls under the heading ‘Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS)’. CVS has become more common these days as almost 50% to 90% of people work on computer screens for more than 3 to 4 hours a day....