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For those unaware, Raspberry Pi had launched its first camera board in 2013, which was built around the OmniVision OV5647 5-megapixel sensor. This was replaced by Camera Module V2 in April 2016 built around the 8-megapixel Sony IMX219 sensor. The High-Quality Camera is a big upgrade over the IMX219 camera module, as it consists of a 12.3-megapixel Sony IMX477 sensor, with a 7.9mm diagonal image size, and 1.55-micron pixels. It has a back-illuminated sensor for improved sensitivity....

“For me, it was easy … easy for me, for everybody,” Marcel Lehel Lazar, who goes by the moniker “Guccifer,” told Fox News from a Virginia jail where he is being held. Lazar told Fox News that he was not interested in the contents of her emails. “I was not paying attention. For me, it was not like the Hillary Clinton server, it was like an email server she and others were using with political voting stuff,” he said....

“Nearly 100 million records have been leaked online in yet another “mega breach”, this time from the website Rambler.ru for those who don’t already know, they are the “Russian version of Yahoo”. Rambler.ru was hacked for 98,167,935 users on February 17th, 2012 and this data set was provided to us by [email protected] who also provided the Last.fm mega breach. Each record contains: A username/email address Password ICQ # (yeah) And some other internal data ” reads the notification published by LeakedSource....

YouTuber Mark Spurrell, the owner of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4, has modified his Android-based foldable smartphone to create a faux Windows phone on the outside and faux Windows 10 on the inside. While the phone still runs Android OS, the outer display is like a Windows Phone and the internal display is like a full Windows PC or Windows tablet. To make it work, Spurrell used a combination of two separate third-party Android launchers and a Bixby Routine with some tweaks to run a highly customized launcher on top of Android....

OLED (Organic Light Emitting Device) is a display technology that offers bright, colorful images with a wide viewing angle, low power, high contrast ratio and fast response time for sports and action movies. This 55-inch mirrored display offers up a typical reflection of someone standing in front of it, but is also able to add augmented imagery overtop, like a necklace around the user’s neck. The transparent display was demonstrated as a billboard ad, with advertising information appearing on a clear panel, and background scenery still visible....

Like their predecessors, the new 850 SSD Pro and EVO drives remain in the same 7mm, 2.5-in. aluminum case. The storage capacities include 120GB, 250GB, 500GB, 1TB and 2TB. Designed for power users and client PCs that may need higher performance, the 850 Pro with up to 550MBps sequential read and 520MBps sequential write rates and up to 100,000 random I/Os per second (IOPS). However, the 850 EVO SSD has slightly lower performance with 540MBps and 520MBps sequential read/write rates and up to 90,000 random IOPS....

Serbian hackers deface the site of the Albanian state television and put the picture of Albanian flag on fireSerbian hackers followed up on recent soccer match incidentMysterious drone driver Serbian hackers broke down the site of the Albanian state television RTSH. Hackers at one point put up a image of burning flag of Albania, and embedded map of Kosovo with the message in English: “Kosovo is the heart of Serbia“. The defaced site of Radio Television of Albania was not accessible for many hours....

In 2013, MIT had unveiled a shape-shifting interface called Inform, a dynamic display that uses a Kinect camera to simulate the arms of a user in a different location in real time. It has now taken it further with Materiable, a shape-changing interface that allows you to see and even touch physical simulations. The idea is to allow users visualize and interact with materials or mathematical models of things like earthquakes and landslides....

While this method may work if the drop is a single instance but if your Internet speed has been continuously slowing down, it’s way better to reset your Wi-Fi router. Why? We will try to explain you in the article why resetting Wi-Fi router is better than restarting your router. First things first! Resetting your router is quite different from restarting your router. While restarting your router doesnt change any settings and merely reconnects with your ISP using your current configuration, a router reset will allow you to set it from scratch where it will work at optimal levels....

The research team found that Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) signals, which are constantly emitted by mobile devices generate a unique fingerprint. This is then exploited by attackers to track individuals’ movements. Devices such as smartphones, smartwatches, and fitness trackers, constantly transmit signals, known as Bluetooth beacons, at the rate of roughly 500 beacons per minute. These beacons enable features like Apple’s “Find My” lost device tracking service; COVID-19 tracing apps; AirTag, and connect smartphones to other devices such as wireless earphones....

Snowden leaks and NSA spying causes Brazil to avoid US materials as well as territory for its under sea cableFortaleza CableNew AlliesDamagesBrazil’s Countermeasures Fortaleza Cable Brazil is planning an optical fiber cable that will connect from Fortaleza up to Portugal thereby eradicating any need of the US. The project is expected to cost $185 million and the Brazilian government is firm on not using any US tech. The cable is being overseen by state-owned telecommunications company Telecomunicacoes Brasileiras SA better known as Telebras....

Sony’s New Movies Leak Online Following Hack Attack : Brad Pitt’s ‘Fury,’ ‘Annie’ among titles being downloadedThe Interview connection to hack attackFireEye’s Mandiant hired by Sony“Fury”, “Annie”, “Still Alice”, “Mr.Turner” and “To Write Love on Her Arms” leaked onlineSony’s response Sony Pictures corporate network was hacked on 24th November by a lesser known hacker group called Guardians of Peace. The hackers left a image of a skeleton on company computers with a message that said, “Hacked by #GOP....

Anthony Nguyen, a software developer studying at Queen’s University, has created SyntaxDB which is a ‘search engine’ for programming syntax. This website calls itself the programming syntax database and allows coders to search programming related query. Nguyen says SyntaxDB is especially helpful for those who often use search engines for their programming related queries. SyntaxDB appeals to a wannabe programmer with its clean UI and simple usage.You just need to enter a language or a concept and SyntaxDB throws up the relevant answers....

Want a dual-boot tablet which has both Windows 10 and Android, try out Teclast Tbook 16 ProRating: 4.0 / 5 Price range: $209.99THE GOODTHE BADMy ViewTBook 16 Pro SpecsFinal thoughts Rating: 4.0 / 5 Price range: $209.99 My View With tablets gaining traction world over and outdoing laptops in sales, Teclast has come up with a good product to lure both laptop owners as well as tablet aficionados. Much like the tablets they have mostly superseded, these inexpensive 2-in-1s, popularized by the Asus T-series, are aimed mostly at casual content consumers....

Gamers have been highly anticipating the new Game Mode which will make playing games that much easier fo them.Windows 10 Game Mode allows users to get improved performance for gaming from their hardware by prioritizing CPU and GPU resources to optimize frame rate.The Game Mode also allows gamers to take screenshots of the gameplay and also record the in-game happenings. Insider Build 15019, the Game Bar has been updated with Beam game streaming functionality....

If you are a Mac user, you may have faced this quandary many times. You want to download a video from a website, say YouTube or Netflix but are suspicious of using third party websites that are filled with ads, surveys, and malware. How would you like an all in one solution right on your desktop? iTube Studio is a software application built specifically for helping you download videos, extract the audio streams, as well as perform conversation operations....

Here’s a list of the top operating systems for PC gamingWindows 10Windows 7Windows 8macOSLinux Besides having a high-end gaming laptop, it is also necessary to have a powerful operating system that can power your device and influence the experience in playing video games on the laptop. In this article, we bring to you the best operating systems for PC gaming and experience. Let’s start the list of the best gaming operating systems in order of the best to the worst....

The top tier companies in U.S. have fierce competition amongst them to acquire the very best young engineering talent. Not only this, internships are highly-prized too. You get only or minimum wage salaries here and no expenses. In fact, there are several tech interns who are paid upwards of $6,000 per month, which is much more than the earnings of some people in other industries who have decades of experience behind them....

The iPhone X is an all-glass (front and back) and stainless steel device with a curved edge-to-edge screen display and the first smartphone from Apple to feature a bezel-less design. Apparently, its top center screen “cutout” design has inspired a developer with the Reddit handle name “damianpiwowarski” so much that he has developed an app that can convert any smartphone into an iPhone X. The app is known as “Smartphone upgrader 2017....