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What is a PDF? PDF is an acronym that stands for “Portable Document Format”. PDF, in general, is a format that is used to display electronic documents in a form that is independent of the software, hardware or the operating system that the documents will be viewed. Adobe® Systems developed PDF. The program was designed to be a universally compatible file format that was based on the PostScript format. It is now an international de-facto standard that is used to exchange documents and information between computers, smartphones and the internet....

Despite the huge outcry over the leaking of the email ids, the websmasters of TRAI have so far not removed the email ids hosted on the TRAI website and now they have made a passionate love letter public. If making the email ids was indeed necessary, the webmasters could have atleast redacted the email ids before publishing them. Even now, TRAI website still has not removed the 1 million email ids on its website inviting spammers and cyber criminals to have a field day and attack those petitioners who genuinely acted in national interest and email TRAI about their opinion on net neutrality....

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The Tempe police said in a statement that the self-driving car was in autonomous mode when the vehicle struck 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg while she was walking outside of a crosswalk. Herzberg was taken to a hospital where she later died of her injuries. “The pedestrian was outside of the crosswalk. As soon as she walked into the lane of traffic she was struck,” Tempe Police Sergeant Ronald Elcock told reporters during a news conference....

The UEFI is a good security feature, but would create complications for alternative operating systems: if, you prefer compiling your own operating system, your boot files won’t include a signature that Secure Boot will recognize and authorize, and so you won’t be able to boot your PC. Microsoft’s rules for designed for Windows 8 logo included a solution to the problem this would cause: Microsoft mandated that every system would have a user-accessible switch to turn UEFI Secure Boot off, allowing computers to be compatible with other operating systems....

To that effect, even Huawei’s founder and CEO, Ren Zhengfei had recently made a statement that “Huawei’s HarmonyOS Will Compete With Apple’s IOS In 2 Years”. In other words, it means that the company requires another 2 years to become a possible iOS competitor. However, a recent video uploaded by the YouTube channel TechZG suggests that Huawei’s upcoming P40 series (P40 and P40 Pro) coming out in March 2020 could probably be the world’s first smartphones to run two operating systems, Google’s Android 10 (without Google apps) and HarmonyOS, side-by-side....

The nation’s largest wireless carrier will begin field trials on so-called fifth-generation, or 5G, technology within the next 12 months, Roger Gurnani, chief information and technology architect for Verizon, said in an interview last week. He expects “some level of commercial deployment” to begin by 2017. That’s far earlier than the time frame of 2020 that many in the industry have pegged for the initial adoption of 5G technology. The trials would make Verizon the world’s first carrier to seriously move into 5G....

1.4 million customers data of Viator.com compromisedCVV not breachedInvestigations into the breachParent Company TripAdvisor Comments Founded in 1995, Viator is a TripAdvisor company which is headquartered in San Francisco with regional offices in Sydney, London and Las Vegas. It is a leading global resource to discover and book travel activities, providing online and mobile access to thousands of curated trip activities including tours, attractions, shore excursions and private guides, in more than 1,500 destinations worldwide....

Recently Will Cathcart, the head of WhatsApp at its parent company Meta, told The Verge that the company “would love” to launch an iPad app at some point. His comment confirms that in near future there might be a version of WhatsApp for iPad. Sadly, Will Cathcart didn’t dive into specifics and he didn’t even share a particular date as to when this will happen. Cathcart stated, “We did a lot of work on the technology for supporting multiple devices....

Now, the Meta-owned popular instant messaging service on Monday announced that the much-awaited “Message Yourself” feature has started rolling out to all its users. It is expected to be available globally to Android and iOS users via an update in the coming weeks. About “Message Yourself” The ‘Message Yourself’ feature is a one-on-one (1:1) chat with yourself feature, which allows the user to send notes, reminders, to-do lists, updates, shopping lists, pictures, audio files, documents, and much more to their own account....

Marketplace It is a backbone of any sharing economy business model. A marketplace attracts entrepreneurs because it assists with client search, leads processing, loyalty systems, legal issues and payment options. A marketplace is a complex e-commerce platform embedding the following modules: Omni-channel commerce Banking, payments, refunds User’s agreements and legislation issues Executor’s portal Educational materials Editors, Communication, and Support portals Technical features of web services and apps are important, but a software application development company and investors should also pay a lot of attention to market requirements and choose an appropriate business model....

Sadly, similar to the previous updates of 2020, even this update is plagued with two serious issues. In this article, we have shared the security fixes offered by the Windows 10 KB4556799 update accompanied by the problems that it causes. Lastly, we have also shared several fixes to overcome the issues from KB4556799 Update. Security Fixes Offered By Windows 10 KB4556799 Update These are some of the security fixes offered by the May 2020 Windows 10 cumulative update....

Cirlig discovered that his Redmi Note 8 was “watching much of what he was doing on his phone” and was sending all that data to remote servers hosted by Chinese cloud giant Alibaba, which were apparently owned by Xiaomi itself. According to Cirlig, the default Xiaomi browser on his Redmi Note 8 recorded each and every website he ever visited, including search activities on Google and privacy-focused DuckDuckGo. He found that the company was recording details even when he was using the incognito mode on the phone, the device tracked his activities....

Quick glance at the features of the 40-inch Android powered Mi TV 2: It has 40-inch display with Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) screen resolution accompanied with a Sharp SDP X-GEN LED-backlit panel that offers a contrast ratio of 5000:1. Processor: It is powered by a quad-core 1.1GHz Cortex A9 processor along with 2 GB RAM. Storage capacity: 8 GB of internal storage. OS: Its a smart TV that runs on Android 4....

The aforementioned prototype virtual reality headset is manufactured by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Future Interfaces Group in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The headset relies on haptic technology to offer life-like sensations. This same technology is used in modern-day controllers. Thanks to things like seedy strip clubs and naked avatars Metaverse is already bad enough to start with. Now with new innovations like life-like kissing Metaverse is about to get even more creepy....

According to a new “image fingerprinting” patent application filed by the company in January (that’s Patent Publication US 20150124107) with the US Patents and Trademarks Office, Facebook seeks to associate “cameras with users and objects in a social networking system.” The patent application says the technology would analyse images uploaded by Facebook users “to determine signatures of cameras used to capture the images.” Each individual camera (be it on a phone or a standalone camera) will be recognized by its ‘fingerprint’ that will be present on every image taken by that camera and can even differentiate it from other cameras of the same make and model....

Hold Security, a Wisconsin-based security firm famous for obtaining troves of stolen data from the hacking underworld, announced on Wednesday, that it had persuaded a fraudster to give them a database of 272m unique email addresses along with the passwords consumers use to log in to websites. The database of 272.3 million stolen accounts includes a majority of users of Mail.ru, Russia’s most popular email service, and smaller fractions of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft email users, said Alex Holden, founder and chief information security officer of Hold Security....

This highly critical bug in iOS was discovered by Cisco Talos senior researcher Tyler Bohan, who described the flaw as “an extremely critical bug, comparable to the Android Stagefright as far as exposure goes.” The critical bug has already assigned a CVE-2016-4631 and resides in ImageIO – API used to handle image data – and works across all widely-used Apple operating systems, including Mac OS X, tvOS, and watchOS. According to Bohan, the that the potential hacker needs to do is create an exploit for the bug and send it via a multimedia message (MMS) or iMessage inside a TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) format file....

Microsoft Edge has been received well by the users especially due to its speed. However Edge still has a long way to go before it can offer a real challenge to the current market leader, Google’s Chrome or Mozilla’s Firefox. Also as of now it only runs of Windows PCs and Laptops hampering Microsoft’s need for a popular all OS browser like Chrome or Firefox. To give the users and developers the taste of Edge’s engine, which is responsible for its speed, Microsoft has created an open source browser that runs as an UWP application, and uses the platform’s WebView control to interact with the EdgeHTML engine....