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According to a recent study by the researchers at UC Berkeley, smog kills about 4,000 people every day in China. On the other hand, in the US about 4 in 10 people live in counties that have unhealthy levels of either ozone or particle pollution, according to the American Lung Association. Daan Roosegaarde has created a 23-foot (7-metre) tall air purifier called the Smog Free Tower that will help address the country’s growing smog problem....

Even, President Barack Obama called Facebook a “dust cloud of nonsense” for spreading false information during the election cycle. However, on the other hand, Facebook said that since fake news is such a small percentage of the stuff shared on Facebook, it couldn’t have had an impact. Also, the social networking giant said that searching for the real news from the lies is a difficult technical problem. But not for these four college students, who during a hackathon at Princeton University sponsored by Facebook, created an algorithm in the form of Chrome browser extension in just 36-hours....

OLO works with virtually any smartphone (max 5.8-inch screen) and offers companion apps for Android, iOS and Windows. The device is battery-operated and it is completely portable. It weighs nearly 780 grams (1.7lb) and measures 17.2 x 11.5 x 14.8 cm (6.8 x 4.5 x 5.8 inches). The printer consists of three main parts — a reservoir, a special photopolymer resin that you pour into it, and a mechanized lid that contains the build plate and control electronics....

His bot dubbed [email protected] Looper, a Ruby-based service running on a Web server, managed to engross the spammers in never-ending and senseless conversations for days and sometimes weeks. Weinreich (@BeWeinreich) has posted such 16 hilarious conversations. “My inbox is a sacred place, and spammers shit all over it,” Weinreich says. “I get in the zone when responding to emails, and it’s tough to jump from an email about our businesses pricing strategy, to reviewing the latest bug reports, to [spam]....

For those unfamiliar, “Surgeon Simulator” lets players operate on people as surgeons would normally do in real life. The update to Surgeon Simulator was released on to the online gaming platform Steam on June 2, 2016. Players will find themselves inside an operating room, much like a hospital’s, and see Trump on the operating table. A heart transplant will be the goal and players must use the available items in order to pull it off....

A brainchild of Bishop Fox, Danger Drone is the new flying laptop that is designed specifically to fly near the target allowing the hacker to hack the target. The device was developed by security experts to aid penetration testers or pentesters bypass challenging aspects and ensuring organisations have effective defences against cyberattacks. Bishop Fox told Motherboard that the custom-developed flying hacker would cost about $500. “Think of it as a flying hacker laptop,” Francis Brown, one of the two creators of the device told Motherboard....

While some of us blame ourselves for not charging the smartphone the correct way, there are some others who have a deep-rooted notion that it’s better to charge them when they are almost dead, as charging smartphones in small spurts could cause long-lasting damage to their batteries. However, according to Battery specialist firm, known as Battery University, the lithium-ion batteries in our smartphones are sensitive to their own versions of ‘stress’....

Scientists were inspired to carry out further research on the problem, following a Cardiff University study that could identify potential cyber-attacks with up to 83 percent accuracy within five seconds and with up to 98 percent accuracy within 30 seconds, when a user clicked on a URL posted on Twitter and malware began to infect the device. Professor Omer Rana, principal investigator on the project, said “We are trying to build systems that can help law enforcement authorities make decisions in a changing cyber security landscape....

There are two important metrics in bandwidth allocation (measured in Megabits per second or Mbps): download and upload speed, denoting the speed of inbound and outbound data respectively. Here is a list of the top five countries that has the fastest internet connection speed in the world 2017. Hong Kong Hong Kong tops the list with peak internet speed of broadband connection in this country showing an average of 54....

Here are top 9 free phishing simulators for ethical hackers(1) SecurityIQ PhishSim(2) Gophish(3) LUCY(4) Simple Phishing Toolkit (sptoolkit)(5) Phishing Frenzy(6) King Phisher(7) SpeedPhish Framework (SPF)(8) Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET)(9) SpearPhisher BETA In continuation to our above, goal we bring this article on phishing tools. Phishing is the attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and sometimes, indirectly, money), often for malicious reasons, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication....

If you are a WhatsApp user, dont fall for the ‘Try WhatsApp Calling’ hoax messageIf you receive a message from your friend, which states, ’Hey, I am inviting you to try whatsapp Calling click here to activate now—> https://WhatsappCalling(.)com’ beware its a scam The program itself is in beta stage and WhatsApp is selectively inviting random users to try out the Voice over Internet call feature though the latest version of WhatsApp supports such calling option....

In 2018 alone, over $731 million has been stolen from cryptocurrency exchanges, and the majority of exchange hackings can be attributed to internal malpractices by the management teams. Earlier this year, Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck, was hacked for $500 million worth of cryptocurrency. Following the hack, the exchange admitted that the weaknesses in their security was a direct result from a lack of talented and experienced developers working at the company....

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has released a eerie video ahead of the independence day to remind you to stay safe. The video which is hauntingly scary shows just how dangerous the fireworks can be and in the process has destroyed many mannequins. The video, which you can see below, shows a series of circumstances you don’t want to be in. Happy Independence Day to all our American readers and Stay Safe

Microsoft is working towards bringing a new version of Windows 10 OS to its smartphones with a feature that users will have same experience as that of working on traditional desktop. “Since we’re building Windows 10 to be the same core platform for PCs, tablets and phones, it should be no surprise that participating in the program for phones will work pretty much the same way it has been working for PCs,” says Microsoft’s Gabe Aul....

After its launch last week, Torrents-Time streaming service made The Pirate Bay and Kickass Torrents one the world’s largest streaming sites. But the honeymoon is short-lived as a security researcher has discovered several vulnerabilities in the plugin that streams the content to the torrent lovers. According to the developer, Andrew Sampson, the Torrents Time browser plugin that allows users to stream multimedia torrents in real time inside their browser is plagued by various security issues that range from XSS to MitM attacks....

Here is announcing the V SQUARED, a water-proof smartphone that doesn’t “play dumb with the bare minimum tech.” It features a 21-megapixel optical image stabilized camera that can record 4K videos. There is an adequate 13-megapixel selfie camera on the front side, which can record at minimum 2K videos as well. Saygus V SQUARED has 64GB of storage standby on the storage front. Further, there are two microSD card slots that would give up 200GB of extra storage space each, which makes it over 400GB in total....

Lets Suppose a attacker want to DDoS a website targetx.com that have a image or a PDF file on its server, he will just replace the link with the file link and use it multiple times. Thapa Demonstrated his concept over a target using 3 laptop and the only browser he was able to achieve 400+ Mbps outbound traffic for 2-3 hours using a Image file. Think about a situation when multiple users are trying to access the note at a similar time, the amount of Inbound traffic can be extended to a much higher level resulting in a very strong DDoS attack which is strong enough to bring down any average website....

The narrative that’s meant to propel it goes something like this: through the interconnection of billions of autonomous devices embedded in everyday objects, data can be gathered, valuable insights gleaned, and systemwide improvements made in virtually every sector. No wonder experts are predicting that over half of new businesses will utilize IoT in some manner by next year. The idea of equipping physical objects with sensors, then connecting them to devices and systems such as cloud technologies, has more than a touch of science fiction to it....

While it’s good to be updated on the situation regarding COVID-19, but not all information shared regarding the epidemic may be true. Hence, in order to avoid the spread of fake news and misinformation, the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with Facebook-owned WhatsApp on Saturday launched a coronavirus pandemic-focused chatbot. Dubbed as the WHO Health Alert, this free service has been “designed to answer questions from the public about Coronavirus, and to give prompt, reliable and official information 24 hours a day, worldwide....