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Woman sues Samsung over Galaxy Note 9 bursting into flamesSamsung Galaxy Note 9 Catches Fire The report brings back ill-fated memories of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, which was infamously recalled twice and discontinued merely weeks after it was released due to its exploding battery. Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Catches Fire Diane Chung, a real estate agent based in Long Island, was in the elevator of a Bayside building on September 3rd when her new Galaxy Note 9 “became extremely hot” after use, reveal the legal documents....

The Galaxy S7 has some of the latest, fastest, and most powerful specs in a smartphone, which means that the entire horsepower would create more heat than usual. To prevent overheating, Samsung has deployed a liquid cooling system to the Galaxy S7. “For the first time Samsung has established within the smartphone heat-conducting copper tube for cooling. The new chip Exynos 8890 is not only powerful, but also hot!” the blog says....

Also, what is remarkable is that the project proves that human cells can be introduced into a non-human organism, survive, and even grow inside a host animal, in this case, pigs. The human organ transplantation has stuck to transplanting kidneys and hearts due to this specific problem.Now with the successful human-animal hybrids, scientists can now address the issue of critical shortage of donor organs.

Scientists create ‘Brainet’ computer by networking brains of rats and monkeysScientists at the Duke University have developed a Brain-machine interface that utilizes multiple animal brains which can co-operate and exchange information in real time to accomplish simple tasks.The making of animal brain network: Scientists at the Duke University announced that they have managed to create an Organic Computer by interconnecting the brains of animals which can collaborate to accomplish simple tasks....

Called the Walabot DIY, all you need to do is just download the Walabot DIY app from the Google Play Store, connect the accessory to your smartphone’s USB port, and hold it against a wall. Since, it is a consumer-friendly product; it doesn’t require any training to use. The sensor can also magnetically attach to the back of your smartphone, which allows you to use the two devices single-handedly, leaving your other hand free to operate the app....

The Silk Road 3.0 is actually the fourth reincarnation of the marketplace but trades in almost all the same items its predecessors did. The announcement of Silk Road 3.0 came via a Reddit thread a few hours ago. The all new Silk Road 3.0 is run by the same person in charge of the competing Crypto Market portal. The two portals also share the same support forum and both are hosted on Dark Web....

As per The Intercept reports, the NSA does have a program called Skynet. However, it has a less lethal but legally dubious aims. This one is a surveillance program that makes use of phone metadata to record the call activities and location of doubtful terrorists. An Al Jazeera journalist reportedly became one of its victims after he was kept on a terrorist watch list. Chief bureau of Al Jazeera’s Islamabad office, Ahmad Muaffaq Zaidan got traced by Skynet after he was recognized by US intelligence as a possible Al Qaeda member and given a watch list number....

Though Sony has not corroborated this, the Times has quoted has quoted a “source” to report that agencies filming for Sony had cancelled shoots because the hacking had left it unable to process payments. It is not known whether the latest James Bond flick from Sony stable, “Spectre” will be affected by this stop production notification. According to the leaked emails, the Bond flick, “Spectre” which is set for a next November release, is reportedly way over budged costing Sony over over $300 million....

Many of the recent waterproof Xperia smartphones and tablets come with the IP68-certification. This 6 translates into a dust-tight device, while the second digit – the 8 – means submersion into deeper than 1 meter clean water for 30 minutes or more. Before the Sony Xperia Z5 lineup, many of the Xperia phones were advertised with press photos showing taking selfies or group photos underwater with fully submerged devices, which indirectly suggested that you can actually do those things....

Chronic depression can lead to shrinking of Hippocampus, region of the brain that is associated with memory and emotionsFindings of the survey: Based on the findings of this study, researchers ultimately concluded that brain damage is a consequence of recurrent depression and is not based on any predisposing or prerequisite factor as per their earlier belief. Earlier, scientists were able link some of the brain shrinkage to depression; however there was a lack of evidence because of small sample size, a variance in types of depression as well as the corresponding treatment methods which all led to conflicting results....

The Intercept report which was published today provides damning evidence against the National Security Administration (NSA) and the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) who formed a team together in April 2010 to crack mobile phone encryption. The team fromed by NSA and GCHQ was called Mobile Handset Exploitation Team (MHET) and it succeeded in stealing encryption keys from top SIM card makers and mobile networks. The MHET targeted SIM card maker Gemalto who is one of the largest SIM manufacturers in the world with production of 2 billion SIM cards a year....

Will Kerslake, a game developer, took to Twitter on Sunday to post a confusing picture of intersecting grey lines over a white background. The image was retweeted over 30,000 times as people tried to understand how it worked. — Will Kerslake (@wkerslake) September 11, 2016 The optical illusion came to prominence in the past few days after it was posted to Facebook this weekend by Japanese psychology professor Akiyoshi Kitaoka....

But it turns out that there are methods to run Ubuntu apps which have a GUI in Windows 10. This is definitely the best of two operating systems you can achieve . WindowsClan is reporting about a tool developed by reddit user w2q2, who managed to find a way to run X server outside of Bash and thus make it possible to launch Ubuntu apps with a graphical user interface....

Called “TikTok Stories,” the new feature will allow users to post short videos that automatically vanish after 24-hours. It works similarly to stories functions on other social media apps like Instagram and Snapchat. However, unlike other social media platforms, TikTok Stories currently only allows users to share videos and not images. Matt Navarra, a social media consultant, who spotted the “TikTok Stories” feature, posted the screenshots on Twitter to share the news:...

The lawsuit was settled just a day after a group of parents filed a class-action lawsuit against TikTok on Tuesday for violating children’s privacy laws by collecting and exposing their personal data. However, no details of the settlement were either provided by ByteDance nor TitTok. For those unaware, ByteDance purchased Musical.ly in 2017, then renamed it as TikTok. Musical.ly was a Chinese video social network app for creating videos and live broadcasting....

Google is the most widely used search engine and is the most successful company in online business today. We have actually become so accustomed to searching this mega search engine that we need Google for even the simplest chores like spell checks. However, like every year, Google comes out with different sets of updates to correct its search algorithm and remove spam links. We bring you the latest Google Search tricks which will help you get the best out of Google Search....

The resurrection must’ve been a blow to Swedish authorities; action against torrent sites is far from over. Investigation into The Pirate Bay and former operator Fredrik Neij is in process, while the police have struck again in the notorious torrent site’s backyard. This case is similar to December’s raid, where local authorities where providing a bare minimum of details. Mats Ljungqvist, a prosecutor said “We have made ??significant seizures, but I will not say more than that....

For those unaware, Leechers Paradise is an open torrent sharing service that does not host any ads or torrent files. Basically, torrent tracking co-ordinates the torrent sharing process. It helps in peers finding each other. When the peer sends a message to the tracker to register its interest in a torrent, the tracker responds with a list of other peers who have expressed interest in the past. Then, the peer connects directly to each of the peers it received from the tracker....

Microsoft’s latest operating system iteration is under fire from all quarters due to its snooping capabilities. Further reports suggest that Microsoft can wipe torrents and pirated software from people’s hard drives with a sort of piracy kill switch. For the uninitiated, torrent tracker is a server that communicates between peers using the BitTorrent protocol. Torrents are typically used to share files and the torrent tracker server keeps track of where these shared files reside on peer machines, which ones are available at time of request, and helps coordinate the sharing of that file....

Apparently, Twitter is looking to revive the microblogging site’s short-form video app, Vine so that it could take on popular Chinese short-video sensation, TikTok reports Axios citing multiple sources. Musk has asked Twitter engineers to work on a rebooted version of Vine so that it could be ready by the end of the year. Vine’s old code base, which hasn’t been changed or updated since the shutdown six years ago, has already been assigned to the engineers to be worked on, states the report....