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The set-up process is very easy once you have an instance of Pager running. The users first need to login using their Facebook account. Once they login, they would be given a list of their Facebook pages. Once the required page is selected, the website goes live automatically, reported TechCrunch. The team has already worked for restaurant owners, doing freelance work and making them learn how to update their WordPress websites....

Nintendo has announced that it will be airing a new Nintendo Direct on April 1st, The Fools Day.This is no April Fools prank, Nintendo Says. — Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) March 31, 2015 While Nintendo has recently delayed Legend of Zelda for Wii U into 2016. the company also confirmed it major plans to enter in smartphone gaming market and revealed its next platform, codenamed “NX.” Any guesses what’s coming during the Nintendo Direct tomorrow!...

In April, Google had launched custom voice action command, that allowed users to control select third-party apps simply by starting with the “Ok Google” command. Until now, this has used Hangouts, Google’s default texting application on Android. Google has now updated their Android-based voice-command system and expanded that functionality to messaging apps, including WhatsApp, Viber, WeChat, NextPlus and Telegram. This upgrade comes to the base version of the Google Now Launcher, which is available in the Google Play app store to most devices released within the last couple of years....

Turkish security bod Utku Sen has published what seems to be the first open source ransomware that anyone can download and spread. The ‘Hidden Tear’ ransomware, available at GitHub, is a working version of the malware the world has come to hate. It uses AES encryption to lock down files and could display a scare warning or ransom message to get users to pay. The Features of Hidden Tear are:...

The new game called Mr. Robot:1.51exfiltrati0n is a text based adventure game, published by Telltale. Telltale’s presser says, The game allows players to use the E-Corp messaging app to communicate with characters from the show, changing the story outcomes with each decision they make. Become embroiled in the world of fsociety, a renegade hacker group determined to “reset the world,” by texting different employees of their target corporation: E-Corp, a massive global tech company....

Complaints on OnePlus forums, Reddit, and XDA’s forums suggests that several OnePlus device owners are noticing a weird issue that reverses the audio channels of wired headphones. In other words, the strange bug on the smartphone is causing the left side audio of the headphone to come from the right side and the right one from the left side. While this is not a big issue while listening, the audio bug does, however, cause inconvenience while playing some games and videos....

Recently, also the Open Bug Bounty project announced a revision of its internal processes to comply with the ISO 29147 standard. Started as an XSS archive in 2014, the project has evolved into a coordinated disclosure and open bug bounty platform. The underlying non-profit and fully transparent concept of Open Bug Bounty may seem astonishing compared to paid bug bounty platforms that raise tens of millions of venture funding and get paid by companies to run their programs....

In other words, the virtualization software will allow users to run Windows 10 ARM Insider Preview and its apps on Macs with an Apple M1 processor. The M1 chip’s superior performance delivers the world’s fastest integrated graphics in a personal computer, revolutionary power efficiency, and was designed to work with macOS Big Sur3—which Parallels Desktop 16.5 transforms into a new standard for a seamless Windows-on-Mac experience. It also delivers M1 support for the most popular ARM-based Linux distributions....

Leblanc’s “Kill all Passwords” presentation, that he has been giving at US and Europe tech conferences highlights the necessity of “true integration with the human body.” Leblanc works with engineers and developers to bring about new identification technologies. He believes that using external body parts like the finger prints, iris scan are all old formulae and now we need to use “natural body identification” which means the heart beat and vein recognition methods will be incorporated in future for online identification and verification....

The middle finger emoji has so far been shunned by all the major social media websites like Facebook, Twitter and Android, iOS, Mac OS X, for its demeaning nature but Microsoft will becomes the first company that adds the middle finger in its operating system. Emojipedia, the website dedicated to emoji’s has listed all the new emoji’s that will be available in Windows 10. Microsoft had first refreshed the emojis on Windows 8 including support for color emoji in Windows with the help of the Segoe UI Emoji font....

For those uninitiated, Pokémon Go is a free mobile game that allows people to catch, train and battle their Pokémon ‘in the real world’ by walking outdoors and interacting with other users. Players can also pick up supplies at real-world landmarks that serve as ‘PokéStops’ in the game. The two authors, Mara Faccio and John McConnell of Purdue University, Indiana who have prepared a report titled ‘Death by Pokémon Go’ have blamed the game for “a disproportionate increase in vehicular crashes and associated vehicular damage, personal injuries, and fatalities in the vicinity of locations, called PokéStops, where users can play the game while driving....

A hacking group, PoodleCorp, has announced that it will attempt to take Pokemon Go offline on August 1 through a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which will apparently deny access to the players. “Just was a lil [sic] test, we will do something on a larger scale soon,” said Twitter user XO, who claims to be the leader of PoodleCorp. However, the game’s creators Google startup, Niantic Labs claimed Saturday’s outage was “Due to the incredible number of Pokemon Go downloads, some Trainers are experiencing server connectivity issues....

Prof.Hawking and Yuri Milner form $100 million Breakthrough Initiative to search for AliensOne of the biggest venture in support of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) was launched by the Breakthrough Initiatives group at the Royal Society in London. Milner, the venture capitalist made this announcement today at a press conference held at the Royal Society in London. The announcement was relayed live through a webcast. The initiative, ‘Breakthrough Listen’, is a 10 year old project wherein researchers would scan the skies and “listen” for broadcast signals from the billions stars that are closest to Earth along with the 100 galaxies that are spread beyond the Milky Way....

A recent report from eset shows the infection rate is highest in Netherlands followed By France, Italy, India, Australia and Canada. The recent evolution of Banking Malwares have increased the infection rate and Fraudent cases. in Recent years various other banking malwares such as Win32/Napolar, Win32/Hesperbot, Win32/Zbot and Win32/Carberp, few of which can alos bypass two steps authentication of banks have caused a serious problem in the way of Banking security....

According to Russian state Duma Official Aleksey Pushkov Snowden, A top pro-Kremlin lawmaker, Snowden has accepted the offer of Asylum, as said on twitter, “Predictably, Snowden has agreed to [Venezuelan President Nicolas] Maduro’s offer of political asylum. Apparently, this option appeared most reliable to Snowden,” Pushkov, the head of the lower house’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, tweeted. The tweet is no longer Available and have been removed now. And it Has not officialy confirmed yet, That Snowden have Accepted the Offer or not....

The researchers found these holes buried deep in the system through a new cyber-security analysis method. For their efforts, they were rewarded with the Internet Defense Prize, an award presented by Facebook, in partnership with USENIX, at the 24th USENIX Security Symposium that ended Aug. 14. Ph.D. students Byoungyoung Lee and Chengyu Song, with Professors Taesoo Kim and Wenke Lee, of Georgia Tech received $100,000 from Facebook to continue their research and increase its impact to make the Internet safer....

New research from Avast reveals just how easily compromised many so-called “smart” TVs actually are, as well as how little your consent to being tracked actually matters. It is apparent that Vizio’s Smart TVs track users’ viewing habits by default and this information is sold to third parties who can then use it to deliver targeted ads to other internet-connected devices that share an IP address or other identifier with the Smart TV)....

Next month, you’re going to waste 31 hours in meetings. At least, that’s according to Atlassian, who also found that most people attend 61 meetings a month. Added to that, 90% of the people in the study admitted to losing focus in meetings and thinking about other stuff. Meetings, as we know them, are not working anymore. Besides, when a large meeting like a seminar takes place, it becomes expensive, what with traveling, accommodation, beverages, venue costs, etc....

Larsen currently holds a 17% stake in the company, and according to experts, it has an implied market value of around $37.3 billion. Larsen, on the other hand, believes that if Ripple can be given such a huge value, then so can Bitcoin. “If centralised Ripple is worth $320 (billion) then decentralised Bitcoin is (definitely) going to be worth trillions.” According to Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, Ripple has done very well because it can be very useful for a low-fee payment method....