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PS2 essentially broke all the console records and became the most successful console in terms of sales, game titles, and reach across the globe. Over two decades later, even its successor hasn’t been anywhere the milestone set by it. Sony doesn’t make PlayStation 2 anymore. Even the second-hand market is not reliable to buy PS2 anymore. The only way to play PS2 Games is through a PS2 emulator. We have compiled a list of the best PS2 emulators to run PlayStation games on your computer....

Looks like we have an answer to this. Swappa, a website for buying and selling used smartphones, has released a standalone pricing app. The owners can put a device up for sale on this website, and in turn it would give details on what the current pricing trend is for each device. Called Swappa Price, the app is a simple way of looking up your smartphone’s value. Convenient and intuitive, it pulls from the Swappa system to bring your device’s trending worth....

As per the instructions given by Carment Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo, the creators, the bot used to spend $100 per week to buy items from the darknet markets which enlists over 16,000 items for purchase, however not all of these items are illegal. The bot purchased a Hungarian passport, a baseball cap fixed with hidden camera, fake diesel jeans, a stash can, 200 Chesterfield cigarettes and 10 yellow pills containing 90 mg of drug MDMA each....

We are all aware how Samsung’s new Galaxy Note 7 that was launched last month started developing battery problems and explosions that were happening everywhere. As a result, Samsung had to announce a recall and ask its users to return their smartphones to the company to get a replacement. Not to be left behind, Samsung’s arch-rival Apple too has decided to follow suit. A Reddit user “kroopthesnoop” posted a picture of his burnt up matte black iPhone 7 on Wednesday....

The company has also increased the frequency of cleaning and sanitizing at all sites, including all door handles, stairway handrails, elevator buttons, and touch screens, among others. It’s staggered start and break times and suspended exit screenings to aid social distancing. He also went on to add that the company is implementing “a series of preventative health measures for employees and contractors at our sites around the world – everything from increasing the frequency and intensity of cleaning to adjusting our practices in fulfillment centers to ensure the recommended social distancing guidelines....

The study revealed that no less than two thirds of Americans expect robots to be in charge of most of the work currently done by humans in approximately 50 years, but when it comes to their jobs, they don’t think machines would be able to do them. The study reveals that Americans are pretty confident of the responsibility they carry out won’t be matched by robots even though they would take a chunk of the work limited to humans for now....

The experts at Blue Coat Labs first spotted the threat after a tablet running CyanogenMod 10 / Android 4.2.2 viewed an advertisement that silently served malicious payloads without any user interaction. The infection occurs when users visit a website that contains tainted JavaScript code. Blue Coat Labs says the malicious code is delivered via malicious ads (malvertising). The malicious code hijacks mobile advertisements to scam gift cards, it locks the device in a state that allows only victims to make payment....

The flaw which is basically a Linux kernel vulnerability, allows apps to gain nearly unfettered “root” access that bypasses the entire Android security apparatus. The bug was discovered in 2014 is a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that can be exploited by a local attacker to escalate privileges on affected systems. Linux developers patched the vulnerability in 2014 however Android smartphones which were also vulnerable to the same vulnerability were never patched....

As per a report from Reuters: “Finnish mobile games maker Rovio pinned its hopes on Thursday on a costly 3D movie project helping it return to growth, after a 73 percent profit drop gave the latest sign its mainstay Angry Birds brand is losing appeal.” The report also states that as per Rovio although revenue from mobile games grew 16% to 110.7 million on the back of new offerings; however the overall total sales fell 9 percent last year to 158....

“The next-generation iPad Pro pushes the boundaries of what’s possible on iPad, bringing even more versatility, power, and portability to the ultimate iPad experience,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing. “Powered by the M2 chip, the new iPad Pro features incredible performance and the most advanced technologies, including a next-level Apple Pencil hover experience, ProRes video capture, superfast wireless connectivity, and powerful iPadOS 16 features. There’s nothing else like it....

Apple co-found Steve Wozniak found himself nostalgic after reading the teenager’s misfortune with the clock which was taken to a bomb by his school authorities and led to his arrest. Wozniak or Woz as he calls himself on Facebook narrated a school time incident from his own life when he had to spend ‘juvie’ or juvenile detention. The real life incident from Woz’s life pertains to his school going days in 1967....

Following the launch of its “Shot on iPhone” Mother’s Day ad, Apple has created a dedicated website that allows iPhone users to create their own Mother’s Day video by uploading images of their mom. The Apple’s new Mother’s Day special website was first noticed by iPhone in Canada. The website is pretty simple and opens with an upload image link, which allows users to upload a photo. The photo is then inserted into a customized version of Apple’s Mother’s Day video and can be uploaded directly to Facebook....

What does iPhone SE stand for? Apple says its ‘Special Edition’Let’s have a look at the specs of iPhone at a glance: Twitter was grappled with many suggestions pouring in as to what does ‘SE’ stand for in iPhone SE. However, all those were laid to rest when Apple’s Phil Schiller told Jason Cipriani from Fortune that ‘SE’ stands for ‘Special Edition’. — Bìlísì (@slimcris33) March 22, 2016 https://twitter.com/avikingirl/status/712153283482284033 — ash (@swearilovedyou) March 21, 2016 While iPhone SE might be both smaller and lower-cost than its flagship iPhone lineup, it doesn’t mean that the device is not important....

Jermaine Smit, who is a famous concept phone designer in his video has imagined improvements in this master render of the iPhone 6s/7. Let’s see what the conceptual iPhone 7 has in store. Apple has brought some major changes to the home button. Besides the fingerprint scanner, the home button now let’s users to swipe back and forward in the menu by means of the iSwipe function. It is also rumored to feature a 1080p display....

After the update, a number of iPhones users are facing problems such as frequently broken calls, network and signal connectivity problems along with issues pertaining to battery life as well. “Since upgrading, owners of both new and old iPhones are finding their phones either don’t make or receive calls. Bluetooth connectivity, Wi-Fi and battery-related issues are again surfacing on an iOS generation which Apple has promoted as being all about efficiency, stability and speed,” Forbes reported on Friday....

Tentatively named as ‘M2’, after Apple’s current ?M1? processor, the shipments of the new chipset for use in the next-generation MacBook could begin as early as July given the three-month window of production. The new Apple MacBooks with in-house silicon chips are reportedly scheduled to go on sale in Q3 2021, before eventually ending up in iMacs and even iPads. The new chipset will be produced by Apple’s main supplier and the world’s largest contract chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co....

Apple has just announced its customary earning calls for Q2 2016, which is for the period January through March of this year. The results saw Apple’s earnings reach $50.6 billion with a quarterly net profit of $10.5 billion. However, for the same period last year, Apple had earned $58 billion in revenue, and $13.6 billion in profit. This year’s second-quarter earnings have made Apple emerge as the second-largest business after the iPhone for the first time, fell, with little else to take its place....

Called as the ASUS H370 Mining Master motherboard, the device enables the users to effectively power an entire mining farm with one single board. The ASUS H370, which is a follow up to the B250 Mining Expert launched in September last year, also supports streamlined connectivity by allowing USB riser cables to plug directly into the PCB (Printed Circuit Board) to simplify connectivity. According to the company, it will be easier to identify problems with the motherboard reducing the downtime and ensure fewer PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) disconnects....

Belkin releases patch for its flawed Belkin N750 dual-band router firmwareThe Flaw The Flaw IntegrityPT consultant Marco Vaz published a Metasploit module allowing guests to attack vulnerable routers. “A vulnerability in the guest network web interface of the [router] allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to gain root access to the operating system of the affected device,” Vaz said. “This vulnerability enables control over a part of heap memory where a variable that forces the execution of a CGI and also the variable with the name of the CGI to be executed are stored....

When it comes to trading Bitcoins, there are a couple of options available to traders. They can buy the cryptocurrency from a Bitcoin exchange and hold it till the price has risen to the expected level and then sell. Investors can also trade Bitcoins on these exchanges which have mushroomed in the recent times. Either way, what they are doing is trading the variation in the value of the cryptocurrency....