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This article covers the top 7 leading European alternatives to ownCloud, that you can give a try in case you are planning to switch from ownCloud to another cloud storage provider. Let’s get started. 7 Best ownCloud Alternatives in 2020 1. pCloud 7 Best ownCloud Alternatives in 20201. pCloud2. Tresorit3. Jottacloud4. Secure Safe5. CloudMe6. Livedrive7. Icedrive pCloud is one of the best alternatives to ownCloud in Europe that is focused on data security....

Besides the Indian tricolour flag, it also displayed a ‘Happy Independence Day’ message on the screen. According to media reports, the message appeared on the news channel in Pakistan at 3.30 pm on August 2. It is known that both the flag and the message remained on the screen for a while before it disappeared. Soon after, videos and photos of this incident went viral on social media attracting a huge hue and cry with clips of the broadcast being circulated on Twitter....

PortalRoms first appeared as a very basic ROM download site ‘PortalRoms.com’ way back in 2004, perhaps even earlier. From undergoing numerous transformations to probable ownership changes, the last decade has seen the website grow into a decent-sized ROM, retro, and emulator player. While PortalRoms operated from PortalRoms.com right from the start providing users links to download content via torrents, it switched to the Swiss-based PortalRoms.ch domain last September or October in a rather surprising move....

Qualcomm has come up with the very first 10 nanometer mobile processor in partnership with Samsung. The company boldly describes the Snapdragon 835 as “smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient than any chipset in history.” It uses a 10nm design with over 3 billion transistors, staying 30% smaller, 27% faster, and 40% more power-efficient than its predecessor, the Snapdragon 820 SoC. Qualcomm says this will enable manufacturers to create thinner devices with more room for larger batteries....

The team of scientists and engineers at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center set a new world record for plasma pressure in the Institute’s Alcator C-Mod tokamak nuclear fusion reactor. Plasma pressure is the important ingredient for generating energy from nuclear fusion. When Alcator C-Mod set the world record, with the pressure maintained at 2.05 atmospheric pressure – equivalent to 10 metres below the surface of the ocean – the temperature inside the reactor reached more than 35 million degrees Celsius (63 million degrees Fahrenheit), more than double the temperatures achieved in the sun’s core....

Many of you may not know him but the laptops you use are based on the pioneering work John Ellenby did in 1980s. In fact, in the tech community, he is known as the Godfather of laptops. His son Thomas confirmed the death but said the cause had not been determined. Ellenby flirtation with laptops started when he founded Grid Systems, a company in Mountain View, Calif. As chief executive, he assembled an engineering and design team that included the noted British-born industrial designer William Moggridge....

Samsung plans to issue a software update for its recalled Galaxy Note 7 smartphones that will prevent them from overheating by limiting battery recharges to under 60%. Samsung announced the software update through a front page ad on Seoul Shinmun, a popular South Korean daily newspaper. The Samsung advertisement announces the software update plan for any users of the Note 7 who may be disregarding its recall notice and continuing to use the smartphone....

The threat was described by the researchers in a research paper to be presented next month at the USENIX Security Symposium in Austin, Texas. Thanks to services like Google Now and Apple’s Siri, voice recognition has taken off quickly on smartphones, according to Micah Sherr, Professor at Georgetown University and one of the paper’s authors. However, the voice software has also made it simpler to hack devices. Last year, two security researchers from French agency ANSSI controlled smartphones with voice commands by using radio waves to send hidden commands to smartphones running Siri or Google Now....

To further rub it in, Shadow Brokers said that they will auction stolen surveillance tools and want $500 million from NSA if it doesnt want them to release/sell the tools. To make good their NSA hack claim, Shadow Brokers also released samples of programs they said could break into popular firewall software made by companies including Cisco Systems Inc, Juniper Networks Inc and Fortinet Inc. The Shadow Brokers made their warning through a Tumbler Blog post written in imperfect English....

This new feature, as the company points out on Twitter, coincides with the 140th anniversary of the first successful telephone call of Alexander Graham Bell. — Wire (@wire) March 10, 2016 Wire promises to provide end-to-end encryption to its uses in addition to crystal clear voice and video service. Wire utilizes the Axolotl ratchet for end-to-end encryption, with prekeys employed for asynchronous communication. As such, both parties do not need to be connected simultaneously for the connection to be encrypted....

The lightweight display glasses are meant for augmented reality creators to reimagine the way people communicate, live, and explore the world together through AR experiences built-in Lens Studio. “Over the years, our journey building Spectacles alongside the creator community has been one of exploration, learning, and fun. We’ve used every iteration as a building block, opening the door to a whole new dimension of AR,” TeamSnap said in a blog post on Thursday....

On Tuesday, after two years, the White House finally responded to the petition to pardon Snowden with a “No” and saying thanks for signing. The White House’s response also added that while there is a lawful need for intelligence reform, Snowden chose the wrong way to do it. The pardon petition was signed by more than 167,000 people. “Edward Snowden is a national hero and should be immediately issued a a full, free, and absolute pardon for any crimes he has committed or may have committed related to blowing the whistle on secret NSA surveillance programs,” the petition says....

Sony has launched Xperia Z3+, its new flagship phone in India at Rs 55,990. The phone will be available starting today. However, only the 32GB variant will be available in India. The Xperia Z3+ was announced late-May. The model had earlier been launched in Japan as Xperia Z4, but Sony renamed it as Xperia Z3+ for the international release. That launch event was not hyped up by the company, and only a few news outlets knew about it....

Cybercrime can be done with simple means whereas previously it needed certain assets; Groups comprised fewer members can use newly cyber tactics to get greater value at less cost. A few skilled hackers equipped with a few tools can really disrupt a system. And with all of this comes results. Cybersecurity is not static and is growing quickly right alongside cybercrime. Up To Date Help On The Cyber Security Trade So without further ado, let us present to you Spyse, an up to date cyberspace search engine that was developed to guide the web into a danger-free zone....

The $100-million (AUD$130 million) research and engineering programme is expected to search for extraterrestrial intelligence by scanning the skies for radio and light signals from aliens. This program aims to suss out the scientific and engineering architecture needed to make an interstellar probe a reality. These nano-craft would have to travel roughly a thousand times faster than current spacecraft – and would also be much smaller, consisting of a light sail and a chip that could fit in your cellphone....

:putnam: doesn’t works any longer to show up as an emoji Hack Away The short answer – the one you will most likely find on the internet – is that Chris Putnam is an engineer at Facebook. The full story however, is a little more entertaining. At the end of this article, you will also realize that it wasn’t Putnam who added his emoticon to Facebook chat, it was his friends that did it....

At the time of writing the Article, all the websites were still showing the deface page.

This is believed to be one of the toughest sentence for such cases in recent years. Tiensutham Suttijitseranee, a 58-year-old businessman, was found guilty of posting defamatory content in a closed-door court hearing of the military court. Suttijitseranee was found guilty under Thailand’s lese-majeste law which is held to one of the world’s harshest laws and makes it a crime to defame, insult or threaten the king, queen or heir to the throne or regent....

Jatupat Boonpattararaksa was arrested in north-eastern Thailand and charged under the country’s lese-majeste law with royal insult under Article 112 of Thailand’s criminal code in the city of Khon Kaen. Apparently, this is the first arrest under the country’s tough lese-majeste law since King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun took the throne on Thursday, succeeding his father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died at the age of 88 in October. Article 112 says anyone who “defames, insults or threatens the king, the queen, the heir-apparent or the regent” will be punished with up to 15 years in prison....

Finland’s DigiToday reports that there was no evidence that Sunde shared music himself, but the lawsuit from the record labels held him responsible. According to Finland’s DigiToday, artists cited in the brief included “Deniece Williams, Chisu, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Suvi Teräsniska, Anna Abreau, Antti Tuisku, Michael Monroe, Juha Tapio and Children of Bodom.” Sunde, who left The Pirate Bay in 2009, said on Twitter that he didn’t even know about the court case....