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As it is rightly said in India : “Don’t mind, its Holi.” Well Holi is a festival which people of all ages celebrate with much vigor throughout India. It is festival of colors, happiness, a festival of meeting dear and near ones, playing pranks and everyone enjoys the festival. People use colors and colored water for enjoyment. Also, they consume Gujiyas AND “Thandai” i.e. sweet milk. People in villages and cities meet up and apply colors to each other throw water and then have delicious lunch....

Know these programming languages to get a job with decent salaries7. Objective C:6. Python:5. C++:4. C#3. JavaScript:2. JAVA:1. SQL: Employers across the globe will look for talent who are very knowledgeable with programming languages, skills and right education in this field. Skills such as coders or Android developers or data scientists are high in demand and employers are ready to pay handsome salaries to skilled employees. Therefore, students and professionals who are looking to build their career in the above fields need to have good knowledge of coding and programming....

Well, if you have been scouting for some of the best SNES emulators for Android or Windows PC, then this article might help you. So in no particular order, these are the best SNES emulators for PC, Mac, and Android. 5 Best SNES Emulators For Android 1. John NESS The first best SNES emulator for Android is John NESS. Well, John NESS is a successor to the very popular John NES and John SNES....

The massive 3D printer is termed as “Big Delta” and the makers of this device claim that with 40 foot height and 20 foot in diameter, it is the world’s largest 3D printer. In addition, it is even capable of creating budget friendly clay and mud houses in just one continuous printing session. Despite being so huge, Big Delta uses only 100 watts of power and hence it is extremely energy efficient....

The mobile app is designed to make it easy for users to send photos and documents across different phone platforms rapidly and just with an emphasis on spontaneity. For trial, BitTorrent lets you make your first three sends for free and later prompts you to pay $1.99 after the transfers are complete. However, the receiver is never charged for downloading the content. In other words, the product will always be free for the recipient....

The newly released Brave Search beta puts users first and allows them to take complete of their online experience. It will be built into its browser and available to users of other browsers via a website. According to the company, Brave Search is different from other search engines because it uses its own index and follows different principles: “Brave Search is the industry’s most private search engine, as well as the only independent search engine, giving users the control and confidence they seek in alternatives to big tech,” said Brendan Eich, CEO and co-founder of Brave....

The Office of Communications commonly known as Ofcom, is the government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom. Earlier Ofcom has instructed all landline and mobile phone operators that they have to create a tool that would allow a user to type what they wanted to say and have it spoken in a phone conversation by a human call centre operator. Ofcom wanted this service for the deaf users to be in place by April 18 last year....

In September this year, China’s Industry And Information Technology Ministry had issued a notice in this regard to “protect the legitimate rights and interest of citizens in cyberspace”. This will make it easier for the Chinese government to track mobile phone and internet users. According to the notice, telecom operators need to use “artificial intelligence and other technical means” to check the identities of people registering SIM cards. This means consumers will have their photos taken, which will be used to check against their identity information held online for a match....

Being brought up in the 1990s, Windows 95 was the first ever operating system that I worked upon and till date I feel nostalgic about it. Windows 95 not just a graphical user interface running on top of MS-DOS. The operating system brought many new features such as improved windows control and appearance of windows, new introduced desktop, right button menu, new help system, taskbar and start menu, the way the user navigates, build-in network support with dial-up for different protocols, folder view of all kinds of files and resources, support of 32-bit application, and pre-emptive multitasking and thread....

“I hold consequentialist approach during the hack, meaning that I only care about the public shock among Russians as a result of the hack, and to show the irony that Russians can defend against Hitler but cannot defend against hacker [sic].” The ill fated Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was reportedly shot down by a Russian ‘Buk’ missile. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was on a trip from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed on 17 July 2014 after being shot down....

According to the report, the threat actors used to spread PREDATOR through another piece of mobile malware called ALIEN, which was a precursor for deploying PREDATOR spyware onto compromised devices. It received commands from PREDATOR over IPC (inter-process communication), which included recording audio, hiding adding CA certificates, and hiding apps to escape detection. The TAG team said that the PREDATOR malware was developed by a commercial surveillance company, Cytrox in North Macedonia, which exploited five zero-day vulnerabilities, four in Chrome and one in Android, to target Android users....

Bradford Tousley, an executive of DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office, provided an update on ALASA at 18th Annual Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s Commercial Space Transportation Conference in Washington, D.C. Tousley discussed several pivotal accomplishments and challenges which the company had to face to make the module up to date, including its Phase 1 design, preference for Boeing as primary executive for Phase 2 of a program, that includes conducting 12 orbital exam launches of an integrated antecedent system....

The U.S. military wants to build more drones and this time, they want to make drones that have a computerized mind of their own to fly around and scout for dangers. To put it in simple words, the drones of today have to be manned by a pilot with remote control. The drones United States military aim to build, should be smart enough to navigate obstacles and reach the target all of its own accords....

One of the most common problems found in the regular and OLED Nintendo Switch is excessive battery drain. In response to users complaining about rapidly draining batteries, Nintendo has asked users to perform a deep-drain and recharge cycle on the batteries. Lately, OLED Nintendo Switch owners have been complaining about the draining of batteries overnight when the console is supposed to be in sleep mode. Clearly, Nintendo is not sure what the actual problem is and has decided to go with the generic solutions for the time being....

The lawsuit is the result of an Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs review of the company’s practices at its Redwood Shores, California, headquarters, according to a release from the Labor Department. “The leading technology company has a systemic practice of paying Caucasian male workers more than their counterparts in the same job title, which led to pay discrimination against female, African American and Asian employees,” the department said in a statement....

An ethical hacker, who goes by the username of @cowereth has revisited the issue that was reported a year back on Github as a bug. It was brushed under the carpet then due to various overlapping reasons. The Issue at Hand – Again DuckDuckGo stores the favicons(a small website icon that shows in the address bar or bookmark tabs) of the websites on a different internal server hosted at a subdomain icons....

Valued at about $67 billion when it was first announced almost a year ago, the transaction to combine Dell, a major manufacturer of PCs and servers and EMC, which makes data-storage and data centre products, on September 7, 2016, makes them the world’s largest privately held technology company. “This is an historic moment for both Dell and EMC. Combined, we will be exceptionally well-positioned for growth in the most strategic areas of next generation IT including digital transformation, software-defined data center, converged infrastructure, hybrid cloud, mobile and security,” said Michael Dell, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Technologies, in a statement....

Created by Facebook’s artificial intelligence lab, the tool instead of searching and recognizing just the face of the user, tracks their unique characteristics such as hairdo, clothing, body shape, and pose as well to confirm identity, reports New Scientist website. “We humans can already recognize people with these cues quite well. People have characteristic aspects, even if you look at them from the back,” explained Yann LeCun, head of artificial intelligence at Facebook”....

Leading up to the Independence Day (4th of July), the Liberty County Vindicator, a local newspaper, in Liberty, Texas had been posting daily bits of the Declaration of Independence in 12 excerpts – one posted each morning from June 24 to July 4. However, the 10th excerpt, containing paragraphs 27-31, was blocked after Facebook determined it “goes against our standards on hate speech,” according to The Vindicator. Apparently, the excerpt, from paragraphs 27 to 31 of the Declaration was a list of the people’s grievances against the king....

The video calling feature introduced on its mobile messaging platform allows users to have a face-to-face conversation with their friends by just pressing a single button inside the Messenger app. The reports by The Verge state this new feature is believed to pit Messenger against similar products from other companies like Microsoft’s Skype, Google Hangouts, and Apple’s FaceTime. According to Stan Chudnovsky, Facebook’s VP of growth and global strategy, said that the center of interest of Facebook’s developers was on making the video work well on relatively low-bandwidth cell networks....