How To Prevent Facebook From Sending You Friend Suggestions Techworm

But, have you noticed people from your Google Circles popping up as Facebook friend suggestions? In fact, even people without Facebook accounts get Facebook friend suggestions, and some of these ‘friends’ are linked into email accounts and social media. This is because of the ‘Suggested Friends’ feature in Facebook. It basically works by suggesting old friends and casual acquaintances that you might want to add as Facebook friends. While this feature can be annoying to many of us, Facebook has not started recommending random people as Suggested Friends on the News Feed page....

December 31, 2022 · 2 min · 308 words · Mary Schleusner

Huawei Launches Two Budget Smartphones Huawei Honor 4C For Rs 8999 And Huawei Honor Bee For Rs 4999

Both the dual-SIM smartphones and the 13,000 mAh power bank will be available exclusively on Flipkart. The called Honor 4c is priced at Rs 8,999 while Honor Bee will set you back by Rs 4,999 along with a 13,000 mAh power bank which will cost Rs 1,399. The Huawei Honor 4C smartphone has a 5-inch 720p HD TFT IPS display having 1280×720 pixels with 76 per cent visual screen to body ratio....

December 31, 2022 · 2 min · 397 words · Steven Lafave

Hugo Barra Of Xiaomi Says Microsd Cards From Sandisk And Kingston Are Of Extremely Poor Quality

Hugo Barra gives reason why Xiaomi Mi 4i doesnt have microSD expansionWhen the world is moving to more memory smartphones, Xiaomi Mi 4i ships without expansion slot because Hugo Barra of Xiaomi is against it Speaking to Engadget, Hugo clarified why his company dislikes microSD cards. First things first, Barra says SD cards impede the functions of a smartphone, “For high performance devices, we are fundamentally against an SD card slot....

December 31, 2022 · 2 min · 423 words · Gustavo Snow

Image Of The Upcoming Rtx 3090 Ti Card Leaks Online Ahead Of Ces 2022

Now, a retail packaging box image of an alleged ASUS GeForce RTX 3090 Ti TUF Gaming graphics card has been leaked by Chinese news outlet IT Home (via HXL) that gives us a sneak peak of the upcoming flagship. Unfortunately, the image does not provide any new information such as the card’s specs, but basically reiterates rumours that have already been circulated. “IT House has reported that Nvidia’s upcoming RTX 3090 Ti 24G will be equipped with Micron’s 21Gbps GDDR6X video memory,” reads a machine translation of a portion of IT Home’s article describing the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti’s alleged specs....

December 31, 2022 · 2 min · 272 words · Patrick Barclay

India Develops World S First Iron Ion Battery

“The major limitations of lithium-ion batteries are the unavailability of lithium in conjunction with the safety issues. It is hence imperative to look for new and abundantly available electrode materials in order to make the energy storage devices commercially viable, devoid of safety limitations,” said Dr. M.V. Sangaranarayanan Department of Chemistry, a chemistry professor at IIT Madras. “The “iron batteries” investigated here have a lot of potential usefulness such as (i) low cost; (ii) ease of fabrication and (iii) enhanced safety....

December 31, 2022 · 3 min · 475 words · Thomas Hanson

India To Have Its Own Bitcoin Like Cryptocurrency Called Lakshmi Coin Techworm

The Bitcoin mania has finally caught up with India. The Indian government which had so far confidently shunned Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies have now decided to join the cryptocurrency bandwagon by launching its own blockchain based Bitcoin like crypto coin called ‘Lakshmi Coin’. By naming the new cryptocurrency ‘Laxmi’ the Indian government hopes to make it comfortable for billions of Indians to deal with the new currency. ‘Laxmi’ is Goddess of Wealth as per Hindu traditions and is prayed by billions during the holy festival of Diwali....

December 31, 2022 · 2 min · 423 words · Hannah Laird

Indian Cyber Rakshak Defaces Government And Educational Institutes Website Of Bangladesh Techworm

Website hacked and their mirror: BANGLADESH GOVT WEBSITE https://www.fltc.gov.bd/ https://www.zone-hack.com/137355.html BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA https://www.berdu.ac.bd/ https://www.zone-hack.com/137681.html DHAKA STATE COLLEGE, BANGLADESH https://www.dhakastatecollegebd.com/ https://www.zone-hack.com/137682.html METRO HOMES, BANGLADESH https://www.metrohomesbd.com/ https://www.zone-hack.com/137683.html ORBTECH, BANGLADESH https://www.orbtechbd.com/ https://www.zone-hack.com/137686.html SPSC DHAKA, BANGLADESH https://www.spscdhaka.edu.bd/ https://www.zone-hack.com/137713.html MAASRANGA TELEVISION, BANGLADESH https://www.zone-hack.com/137714.html It is not the first time when Indian hackers have targeted Bangladeshi cyberspace. but time to time, hackers from Both Country’s are hacking into each other cyberspace....

December 31, 2022 · 1 min · 85 words · Ralph Chaddock

Instagram Down Again For Many Users Techworm

Users trying to open Instagram are getting a blank page or an error message stating couldn’t refresh feed. A screenshot from outage.report, an independent website that tracks real time outages of websites, apps and networks around the globe shows the intensity of the outage as extreme. The social network giant acknowledged earlier today that Facebook and Instagram was down because of some network issues, which was resolved. however it seems like the issue has arisen again and this time just for Instagram....

December 31, 2022 · 1 min · 164 words · Don Troilo

Intel Launches 48 Core Cascade Lake Ep Xeon E 2100 Processors

Where Cascade Lake is expected to deliver high-end performance and, Xeon E-2100 processors are for entry-level servers. Talking about the availability, the Cascade Lake processors are due for release in the first half of next year whereas the Intel Xeon E-2100 processors are already available since 05 Nov 2018. Lisa Spelman, Intel vice president, and general manager of Intel Xeon products and data center marketing had the following to say about the new products: Specifically talking about the Cascade Lake processor then it’s a very scalable processor which is aimed at high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and infrastructure-as-a-service workloads....

December 31, 2022 · 1 min · 199 words · Rachele Black

Intel Remote Keyboard For Android Smartphone Lets You Control Your Pc From Your Couch

Intel Remote Keyboard designed for Intel® NUC and Compute Stick devices, remote control your mouse and keyboard in Windows 8.1 with your smartphone or tablet, it can be used with mini PCs that are about the size of a flash drive and doesn’t ship with peripherals — but you can use it on any system running Windows 7 or 8. Download the Android app and install the companion desktop software; The Intel® Remote Keyboard Host App allows you to control your Intel® NUC or Intel® Compute Stick from your mobile device (smartphone or tablet)....

December 31, 2022 · 2 min · 241 words · Mary Groys

Intel S New Storage Chip Is 1 000 Times Faster Than Flash Memory

From the time NAND flash was introduced in 1989, the companies claim that 3D XPoint is a major development in memory process technology, the first in the new memory category. Up to a thousand times faster (both in read and write speeds), it is said to be extremely fast and durable. It is also said to have higher withstanding power than existing NAND Flash memory that is currently being used in SSDs....

December 31, 2022 · 2 min · 399 words · Miguel Skinner

Internet Systems Consortium Website Isc Org Hacked Users Redirected To Malware Page

ISC.org hacked and users may have been infected with Angler Exploit Kit malware through redirected websitesInternet Systems Consortium In a blog report published on 22nd December, 2014, Cyphort Labs warned about the possible malware infection to ISC.org authorities. Internet Systems Consortium Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. which operates the website as ISC.org, is a Delaware-registered non-profit organisation that supports the infrastructure of the universal, self-organizing Internet by developing and maintaining core production-quality software, protocols, and operations....

December 31, 2022 · 2 min · 360 words · Joseph Salas

Iphone 7 May Get Tech To Heal And Fix Itself During The Night Techworm

Apple has been awarded patent technology for the iPhone that detects when you’re not using it and automatically cleans or fixes itself. The patent filed with the US Patent and Trademark office back in July 2014, the Automated Maintenance of an Electronic Device patent describes a number of different ways that an iPhone could keep itself running. This means that the future versions of the iPhone will be able to self-heal, ‘performing maintenance, repair and recalibration functions’ while you sleep, including fixing dead pixels on the screen....

December 31, 2022 · 3 min · 456 words · Clifford Maybury

Israel S Aspect Imaging Has Developed Some Of The World S Smallest Mris Techworm

As useful as they may be, actually getting an MRI is a different story. During an MRI, you’re placed in a small opening just large enough for a single person, but the machine itself is a large metal machine that takes up the space of nearly an entire room. In some cases, patients are given headphones to reduce the loud banging noise produced by the imaging machine while taking high-resolution images....

December 31, 2022 · 2 min · 380 words · Joel Arciniega

Japanese Firm Launches Worlds First Iris Scanning Smartphone To Make Mobile Payments And Unlock Phone

The iris is a thin, circular structure in the eye, responsible for controlling the diameter and size of the pupil. The user of the phone must first save its iris pattern in the phone by staring at animated circles on the screen to use the new security feature. According to Fujitsu, it does this by merging an infrared camera and infrared LED to shine light on a user’s eye and seize their iris pattern....

December 31, 2022 · 2 min · 245 words · Sarah Smith

Journalist Gets Two Year Jail Time For Helping Anonymous Hack La Times Techworm

Keys, who was found guilty of three criminal counts in October, was convicted of giving Anonymous login credentials to the computer system of the Tribune Company, which owns the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun and other media companies. According to the prosecutors, Keys provided the login credentials to Anonymous for facilitating the hack and also egged them to carry out the hack attack. Keys got hold of the login details from his time as a web producer for KTXL FOX40, a radio station which is owned by Tribune Company which also owns LA Times....

December 31, 2022 · 2 min · 421 words · Elsie Bailey

Laptops From Lenovo Hp Acer Asus And Dell Have Bloatware That Can Be Hacked Techworm

The problems relate to the bloatware that vendors put on laptops. “The OEM software landscape is complicated and includes a depressing amount of superfluous tools for vendor support, free software trials, and other vendor-incentivised crapware. Some apps do nothing more than add a shortcut to launch your web browser to a specific site,” the company said. The problem occurs when these OEM manufacturers insist on adding their own software on the laptops to make it more appealing to buyers....

December 31, 2022 · 2 min · 384 words · Nina Pascua

Lenovo Com Hacked And Defaced By Lizard Squad

https://twitter.com/LizardCircle/status/570473717240864768 — Lizard Squad (@LizardUniverse) February 25, 2015 Users visiting Lenovo.com were shown a slideshow of some rambling teenagers and a background song “Breaking Free” from High School Musical. — Lizard Squad (@LizardUniverse) February 25, 2015 https://twitter.com/JZdziarski/status/570697255201734656 After around 15 minutes, Lenovo security team seemed to have gained back partial control of the website but it is not fully operational. The background music was being heard by visitors even later in the day, while the defaced page, possibly cached version, was seen intermittently by some visitors....

December 31, 2022 · 1 min · 209 words · Addie Febus

Lenovo Laptops Preloaded With Ubuntu To Be Sold In India Starting At Rs 48 000

The Thinkpad L450, which is a part of Lenovo’s mainstream L-Series of notebooks is already being sold with Windows in India. An Intel Core i3-500U or an i5-5200U will typically feature in the Ubuntu versions of this system. The Windows version also has a Core i7 option that is carried by retailers. Lenovo has no plans to sell pre-configured systems with the Core i7 and Ubuntu, as the Ubuntu version of the system is aimed as a cheaper substitute to the Windows-based system....

December 31, 2022 · 2 min · 345 words · Christopher Williams

Linus Torvalds Officially Releases Linux Kernel 4 7 Techworm

Linux 4.7 ships with open-source AMD Polaris (RX 480) support, new ARM platform/board support, Intel Kabylake graphics improvements, Xbox One Elite Controller support, and a lot of other new features. For the last two months, the Linux 4.7 kernel has been in development. Since May 29, 2016, a total of seven Release Candidate (RC) testing builds were released, which introduced numerous new features and enhancements. Linus commented in the release announcement, “Despite it being two weeks since rc7, the final patch wasn’t all that big, and much of it is trivial one- and few-liners....

December 31, 2022 · 2 min · 379 words · Rosa Gagne