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Nokia executive Mike Wang, president of the joint management team in China, has confirmed the news to local site ThePaper that three or four new Nokia-branded Android devices are set to be unveiled in the fourth quarter of 2016. These devices will be split between new smartphone and tablet launches. However, the devices may not hit the market until early next year. The upcoming products will be designed by the HMD Group, which comprises of ex-Nokia and ex-Microsoft employees....

South Korean police has said today that North Korea was behind cyber-attacks that started as early as July 2014 and breached two of the country’s telecom giants – the SK Group and the Hanjin Group – stealing over 42,000 documents. However, the intrusion was detected by the authorities only in March 2016. Of the more than 42,000 materials stolen, more than 40,000 were defence-related. The stolen documents included wing blueprints for an F-15 jet fighter taken from Korean Air Lines, a contract manufacturer for the South Korean military....

Jalopnik has reported that Allstate filed the new patent which was discovered on August 11th, details all sorts of things Allstate want to watch you do. According to the patent, Allstate plans to use monitors and cameras fitted in the cars to check on car owners so that their insurance scores and premiums can be decided. According to Jalopnik, the list of things Allstate wants to check you up on is ridiculously lengthy and includes some weird stuff like who is riding your car with you, how many people you are riding with, the ages of people in your car with you, your phone usage while driving, your eating habits while at the wheel, as well as other potentially distracting objects like animals, bags, trash, or literally anything and everything they can witness going on in your car....

OTP’s VPN exploit team assigned its members to branches to specifically focus on regional teams, including a “Cross-Target Support Branch” and a custom development team for building targeted VPN exploits. At the regional level, the VPN team acted as liaisons to analysts, providing information on new VPN attacks while also gathering requirements for specific targets to be used in developing new ones. Some VPN mechanisms —specifically, the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPTP)—have previously been isolated and identified as being vulnerable to attack because of the key exchange at the beginning of a VPN session, while others have generally been assumed to be safer from scrutiny....

Based on Nvidia’s new Pascal graphics architecture, the Quadro P6000 uses a GPU with 3,840 processing cores. It can reach 12 teraflops (TFlops) of computing performance, or twice as quick as the earlier generation. The new platform for designers, artists and animators at the SIGGRAPH Graphics Technology Conference was revealed by Nvidia in Anaheim, California. The company says the new workstation GPU and new enhancements in software will allow professionals to work quicker and with superior creativity....

Sadly, the RTX 4090 is melting or burning cables that supply power to the GPU. Multiple users have posted evidence of RTX 4090 power connectors burning or melting. At the time of writing this article, Nvidia has officially opened an investigation to check out what’s happening behind the scenes. Well, Reddit user reggie_gakil was the first to post details about their Gigabyte RTX 4090 issues. They showcased burn damage on the new 12VHPWR adapter cable that Nvidia ships with the RTX 4090....

The chipmaker is rumored to announce its new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti graphics cards on May 31st at 10 P.M. PDT during the Computex 2021 keynote. Powered by Ampere GA102-225 GPU, the RTX 3080 Ti will feature the PG132-SKU18 PCB design. It will reportedly include 12GB of GDDR6X memory, which is a 2GB increase over the existing RTX 3080. The graphic card will sport 10,240 CUDA cores within a total of 80 SM units along with a wider 384-bit memory interface....

Perhaps the slew of launches from Xiaomi and other manufacturers has worried OnePlus or the fact that Xiaomi is investing heavily on building a support service infrastructure in India. With an view to revamp its customer service mechanism in India, OnePlus made the announcement of extended warranty support for its OnePlus One and forthcoming smartphones for Indian users on its blog. For Indian buyers, the OnePlus One has been a huge hit but on the support side it has been lacking proper customer service....

If this happens, the OnePlus 8 Lite would be OnePlus’ first mid-range smartphone in more than four years. According to the leaked CAD-based renders, the mid-range OnePlus 8 Lite will feature either a 6.4-inch or a 6.5-inch display panel. Further, there is no mention of 90Hz refresh rate as seen on the premium OnePlus 7T and OnePlus 7T Pro models. The smartphone could offer an in-display fingerprint scanner on the front, which means it could have an OLED display....

Let’s have a look at the features added to the new update: Integrated Media Player The headline feature in this release is a custom, integrated media player. According to Opera, this media player provides you with a smooth media experience and removes the need for third-party players. It includes Play Queue support so that you can watch or listen to your downloaded media in the order you like, while continuing to browse your favorite sites....

Parrot Security 3.3 Ethical Hacking Operating System With Plenty of New Hacking Tools ReleasedParrot Security OS 3.2 to 3.3 Changelog:Parrot Security OS 3.3 download: “We are sorry for all the silence behind our development process of these days, but we were secretly working on 2 main projects,” the announcement says. The blog post also mentions the upcoming Parrot 3.4 release being under development. Parrot Security OS 3.2 to 3.3 Changelog: include Linux 4....

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian and actress Vanessa Hudgens personal photos leakedRound 2 of iCloud hacksOriginal or fakesMore to follow ? Though todays leaks are yet to be confirmed to be that by the same hacker who leaked the iCloud hacks, experts believe it is the same person or the group of hackers who is responsible for the current leaks. For one the modus operandi seems to be the same and the fact that the present set contains images of Jennifer Lawrence also points to the same....

Developed by the FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium, passkeys is a new passwordless authentication solution designed to replace passwords with cryptographic key pairs and reduce dependence on login credentials. They are resistant to phishing and social engineering attempts. With passkeys, PayPal users will no longer need to remember their password, which will allow them to check out with greater ease and complete their purchases....

But even after paying it is not sure that user will gain back the access to its device as the PIN generated by this app is random that even hackers who developed it dont seem to know it according to security researchers at Bratislava-based IT security company ESET . ESET said the threat, which it dubbed LockerPIN, is already being circulated by third party app stores, torrents and adware. “Based on ESET’s LiveGrid statistics, the majority of the infected Android devices are in the USA with a complete percentage share of over 75 per cent,” said ESET’s detection engineer Lukáš Štefanko....

However, technology once again is coming to the rescue of all who fly. Great improvements have been made through the years. With the 9/11 tragedy and heightened necessary security features in place, great strides continue to be made for airline customers. Yet, we all recognize the room for improvement. Being tech geeks after all, let’s look at some of the new advancements made to make the life of the airline traveler more effective and efficient....

The path near Lidzbark Warminski in the Mazury region is illuminated by blue luminophores, a synthetic material that emits light after it’s charged by sunlight. Cyclists and ordinary Poles are making a beeline to get a glimpse of the newly laid bicycle track which evokes strange sort of romanticism in moonlit or moonless skies. Created by construction company TPA Instytut Badan Technicznych in Pruszkow, the track is still in its testing phase....

For those unaware, Popcorn Time, a multi-platform, open-source and free software BitTorrent client, following its creation had increased in popularity. The applications provide a free “alternative” to subscription-based video streaming services such as Netflix using the BitTorrent protocol. However, on March 14, 2014, Popcorn Time’s original website and GitHub repository were abruptly taken down by its original developers due to pressure from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). This is when PopcornTime....

Gary Sampson, Program Director for 100.9 FM, WCHQ said: Later, Sampson said that the song broadcast to insult U.S. President Donald Trump on the day of his inaugural speech was sung by rap artists YG & Nipsey Hussle titled “FDT (F**k Donald Trump).” The song interrupted WCHQ’s FM feed and was being played on a loop for 15 minutes until station manager managed to shut down the feed. “We apologize to anyone who was offended by the unauthorized broadcast....

All the three monitors are all 17.3-inches 4K IGZO displays with Nvidia’s G-Sync anti-screen tearing technology enabled, which add up to a resolution of 11520 x 2160 with Nvidia’s Surround View. When the user decides to go from one to three screens, the additional displays automatically deploy, aligning themselves with the primary. Valerie weighs around 12 pounds and is 1.5 inches thick when it is folded up and closed. Razer said this was comparable to many standard gaming laptops, which tend to be heavier than home and office devices....