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Brought up in a small town of Bhadra in western India, nobody expected that one day Anand Prakash would become a multimillionaire. As a kid, Prakash chose to spend his free time playing computer games in cybercafes rather than playing cricket outdoors with the other boys his age. While he has was still struggling to find a job at college that is when Prakash chanced upon Facebook’s bug bounty programme that rewards “whitehat” hackers, who test the website for bugs and help protect users’ data....

We already have tiny computers but researchers at the University of Washington Sensor Lab have gone ahead and found a way to make them even tinier. They got rid of the battery to make WISP that much smaller. As reported by Fast Co. Design, the team’s Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform (WISP) gets its power by harvesting radio waves from the air. In order to function, the WISP gathers energy from a standard radio frequency identification, or RFID reader....

To visualize the landscape wireless world around us, a Dutch artist named Richard Vijgen, who is also a programmer from Netherlands has created a new iOS app called Architecture of Radio, which uses your GPS location to give a 360 degree visualization of the unseen digital world. “We are increasingly dependent on a global ecosystem of digital signals. We use them for so many things, yet we cannot see them,” reads Vijgen’s description of the app....

The couple, James and Therese Arnold who shifted to the Farmhouse near Potwin, Kansas in the year 2011 were looking forward to a perfect retired life. But little did they know that their perfect home was linked with 600 million IP addresses. So, whenever a digital fraud or a cyber crime was committed using one those 600 IP addresses, the authorities including FBI knocked on their house. sources, due to the technical issue with an IP mapping company Maxmind, the company had taken James and Therese Arnold’s Farmhouse as default to map IP addresses....

The woman behind this team called DiRT (Disaster Recovery Testing) Team is Kripa Krishnan and through this process, the team makes sure that Google can keep itself running no matter what happens. Kripa and her team create all kinds of doomsday scenarios possible for Earthlings. Sometimes DiRT makes Martians invade the earth. Other times they create earthquake or a chemical attack. The DiRT teams work is to strik internally at Google targets without giving a warning just like your local police conduct secret mock terrorist attacks to be every ready for the actual think....

Due to this fact, tests have shown that OnePlus 3 lags behind Samsung Galaxy S7 in various benchmarks. It has also been noticed that OnePlus 3 requires apps to be reloaded more frequently that phones with less RAM, and this has upset some users. However a XDA Forum member has devised a nifty hack which can make your OnePlus 3 use the 6GB RAM in its entirety. The bad news is that you need to some bit of editing in the smartphone configuration....

Tom Krupenkin, professor of mechanical engineering, and senior scientist J Ashley Taylor described the innovative energy-harvesting technology that can capture the power of human motion to charge mobile electronic devices such as smartphones and laptops. This could enable a footwear-embedded energy harvester that captures energy produced by humans during walking and stores it for later use. Power-generating shoes could be especially useful for the military, as soldiers currently carry heavy batteries to power their radios, GPS units, and night-vision goggles in the field....

The fight against these ISIS propaganda and recruitment networks is a never ending one, but three anonymous British computer experts have taken it on themselves to expose and destroy these networks. They are computer and hacking experts and their language and goal is similar to the global hacktivist collective Anonymous but what differs between the Anonymous and them is that their sole mission is to destroy the pro ISIS networks while Anonymous may be fighting its own ISIS fight, elements within the Anonymous, especially from the Middle East, are pro-ISIS....

We saw tech giant Microsoft unveil Xiaoice, an AI-bot that can place voice calls just like humans, gaming leader NVIDIA joining hands with Nuance to create an AI Marketplace for Diagnostic Imaging, and other big players leveraging the powerful and versatile technology that AI is. However, there are many innovative startups in the AI domain that the disrupting the industries too. The following are top 5 of them: Riminder is taking the recruitment process to a whole new level by simplifying and accelerating the hiring process to help recruitment companies find the right candidates easily....

For all the above reasons and more, Python as a language has achieved huge success. It features a dynamic type system and automatic memory management and has a massive and complete standard library. It has a vast collection of first and third party libraries. With so many libraries out there, though, it’s no surprise some get crowded out and don’t quite grab the attention they deserve. Plus, programmers who work exclusively in one domain don’t always know about the goodies that may be available to them through libraries created for other kinds of work....

For those unaware, TRAI had implemented new regulations for the DTH and cable TV industry earlier this year. TRAI is planning to regulate OTT platforms and bring them under a licensing framework that is the same or similar to the one for TV channel broadcasters. In other words, TRAI wants to have a uniform set of regulations for all the players in the broadcasting industry. “Carriage of TV programming has been licensed out to registered broadcasters who are then allowed to give the content to cable operators or satellite players, under a licensing framework....

Steve Huffman, a Reddit co-founder, is taking over as CEO, the San Francisco-based company said Friday. Huffman, chief technology officer at the travel startup Hipmunk Inc., has had no official role for several years at Reddit. “First, I’m super excited. Second I am terrified,” Huffman said in an interview. A decade ago, Mr. Huffman and Alexis Ohanian started Reddit in a two-bedroom apartment in a Boston suburb. Users go to the site to discuss a wide variety of topics, including viral memes, current events and gifs....

According to the publication, Valve has reportedly been working on a new handheld gaming computer codenamed “SteamPal”, or Neptune, for some time now. Also, Steam’s latest client beta showing references to both “SteamPal” and “SteamPal Games” was found by SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik pointing towards new hardware. It’s named “SteamPal” (NeptuneName) and it has a “SteamPal Games” (GameList_View_NeptuneGames) — Pavel Djundik (@thexpaw) May 25, 2021 SteamPal is an all-in-one PC with a touchscreen, gamepad buttons, triggers, dual joysticks, a thumb-sized touchpad, and a USB-C port to “dock” to larger monitors....

Victoria Police have Australia’s fastest and most powerful highway patrol car to promote safetyMean Machine : The car is worth more than A$200,000 (US$149,064) and is powered by a massive AMG-tuned 5.5-litre twin-turbocharged V8 petrol engine that produces 430kW and 760Nm mated to a seven-speed automatic, enabling the 2.3 tonne machine to hit 100km/h in 4.2 seconds. It can easily catch up with most vehicles on the highway and is faster than any Holden Commodore or Ford Falcon pursuit sedan....

Failed Blockchains and Dead Coins Yet defining how a blockchain project looks like and what a dead coin is are not easy tasks. There is no consensus out there around these definitions. Therefore, CoinJanitor took on the issue and came up with its own definitions. These failed projects or dead coins were basically abandoned by developers and community members, they were either delisted or they were never listed on an exchange, they have blockchains that do not comply with their own operational specifications, they did not achieve their goals, and can no longer be used to transfer value....

An embedded-SIM often abbreviated as eSIM is a form of programmable SIM that is embedded directly into a device. So here’s everything you need to know about eSIM and how does it differ from a physical sim card. What is An eSim? Whenever you buy a new smartphone, the first thing you do is install a SIM card. A typical SIM card allows users to connect to a cellular provider’s network and access voice-calling, video-calling, and internet services....

The fine was announced in conclusion to a GDPR investigation the DPC had conducted into WhatsApp Ireland Ltd in 2018. The DPC started its investigation on December 10, 2018, to determine whether WhatsApp had discharged its GDPR transparency obligations with regard to the provision of information and the transparency of that information to both users and non-users of WhatsApp’s service. This included information provided to data subjects about the processing of information between WhatsApp and other Facebook companies....

Big Data refers to the huge data piles most organizations have collected and encourages teams to find new and helpful ways to leverage the data to make better products or services. Applying DevOps concepts to Big Data can unlock great insights for an organization and help them act on exciting opportunities. Collaboration between developers creating code and analyst who understand algorithms can help provide valuable operational perspective to business leaders....

New driver companion app Rydar promises to be better than the competition and help drivers make more money in less time. We all crave efficiency; it is the tip of the business sword. So, it might not come as a shock to business people, but everything can be optimized. From waiting tables to managing a fortune 500 company, anyone’s job can be done better, faster, and more effectively. Those who might feel it the most, are taxi drivers, whose income and results vary greatly from night to night....