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Now, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the iPhone, Apple Marketing Chief Greg Joswaik has called Samsung smartphones a “poor copy” of the iPhone in a recently released documentary made by The Wall Street Journal (via MacRumors). The first Apple iPhone had gone on sale on June 29, 2007. The 21-minute documentary features journalist Joanna Stern interviewing current and former Apple executives, including Joswiak, and looks back at the 15 years journey of the iPhone....

United States may fine Apple for refusing to create backdoor for data accessApple may face problems same as Yahoo faced in 2007 when it refused to participate in the PRISM program,which set a precedent for non-compliance with government demands.Could that happen to Apple, or any other company? Apple’s defiance comes at a time when the FBI is pushing for access to user data in the wake of the claims that the U....

A report by Business Insider notes that Apple was able to recover over 61 million pounds of steel, aluminum, glass, and other materials from its computers and iPhones. The most valuable of them was of course, Gold. Apple was able to recover 2,204 pounds of gold, which is well over a ton. Environmentalists will be happy with the commendable efforts by Apple in recycling has allowed it to actually recover a whopping 2,204 pounds of gold from old devices, which is worth approximately $40 million on the open market today....

Breaking its silence on the security concerns reviewed in Google’s report and to curb speculation the extent of the vulnerability, Apple, via an official press release, said that the scale of the attack was far smaller than Google implied. The Cupertino giant said that “the sophisticated attack was narrowly focused, not a broad-based exploit of iPhones ‘en masse’ as described,” by Google researchers. “The attack affected fewer than a dozen websites that focus on content related to the Uighur community....

The tech giant went on to launch three new iPhones, namely iPhone X, iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus at the brand new Steve Jobs Theatre in its yet-to-be-opened Apple Park campus in Cupertino. Let’s have a look at each of them and see what does it has to offer to its users. iPhone X specs and features: The much anticipated iPhone X called as “the biggest leap forward since the original iPhone” by Apple’s CEO Tim Cook features a radical redesign and new technology....

The software was able to came up with the same verdict as its human counterparts in almost 80% (584 cases) of the cases that focused on torture and degrading treatment, fair trials and privacy. The method is the first to predict the outcomes of a major international court by automatically examine case text using a machine learning algorithm. The study behind it was published in PeerJ Computer Science. “We don’t see AI replacing judges or lawyers, but we think they’d find it useful for rapidly identifying patterns in cases that lead to certain outcomes....

The pre-order price of Asus ROG GX700 starts at $4300, and while the machine is definitely impressive for its hardware, Asus should definitely dial that pricing variable down when it releases another high-end gaming laptop in the future. CNET

Called as ‘ROG Rapture GT-AXE11000’, this is a high-end, tri-band gaming router, which means it also broadcasts a 2.4GHz network and 5GHz network for older devices. Asus claims that “The ROG Rapture GT-AXE11000 is the first of its kind in the world to transmit wireless signals on the untapped 6GHz Wi-Fi spectrum, allowing it to deliver the fastest and lowest-latency signals around.” For those unaware, Wi-Fi 6 is a brand-new, faster version of the newest generation of wireless tech, 802....

Kaspersky Lab has described the ASUS hack as a “one of the biggest supply-chain attacks ever.” Apparently, the hackers behind the APT operation dubbed ‘ShadowHammer’ modified the ASUS Live Update Utility – a pre-installed utility in most new ASUS computers – which delivers BIOS, UEFI, and software updates to ASUS laptops and desktops. The hackers injected a backdoor in the ASUS Live Update Utility between June and November last year, which was discovered by Kaspersky researchers in January 2019....

Today they leaked database from Russian Republic Bank, well we still don’t know if they got it themselves or simply copied it from someone else. and that is because few hours before they posted the leaked data, same data was posted by Other hacker team Xhàcker TN, the difference in data leak was more than 1 hours, with Xhàcker TN leaking it before Palestine Elite Force.Here are some of the screenshots that can show the time difference:...

Around 10:20 a.m. ET. The cryptocurrency jumped up to $1,241.30. In the meantime, gold was around $1,241.25 at the time. However, minutes later, Bitcoin fell below the yellow metal, but then bounced back again. As of 10:41 a.m. ET yesterday, Bitcoin had increased by 1.8% at $1,248.10, while gold was down 0.6% at $1,242.15. Get the latest Bitcoin price here.

A significant hybrid The Qtum blockchain which is popular for its property of merging the reliability of Bitcoin’s unfailing blockchain with the endless possibilities provided by Ethereum’s smart contracts is seen as an important technology within the ecosystem of emerging technologies behind the ongoing disruption. The platform is also seen by many as the foremost toolkit for building trusted decentralized applications, suited for real-world, business oriented use cases. Just recently, the crypto experienced a significant surge, rising by up to 189% within 8hrs, reaching a market capitalization of $3....

The players join a server and enter a Minecraft world. After that, they order computer components from the satellites orbiting around your world of Minecraft. Not only Windows 95, but players can also create computers that can boot up other operating systems. One Reddit user decided to up it a notch and have successfully run Doom on Windows 95 installed inside Minecraft. This has opened up endless possibilities for the future where people may try combinations like Windows plus Linux for a possible dual-boot scenario....

https://twitter.com/heisechanye/status/731115391204786177 The tweets from “shenfenzheng” leaked detailed information about CCP, PLA officials and top tycoons from China including their official ID cards to the residential addresses of prominent people in government, banking, technology and industry. In some cases, shenfenzheng even leaked details of their children. Many of the tweets were swiftly deleted but Bloomberg verified that at least two of the ID numbers posted in that fashion were authentic. That shenfenzheng seems to have access to such classified information in the heavily censored state of China is astonishing....

Citigroup Inc. has agreed to pay $7 million and admitted to wrongdoing to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges, the financial services firm gave the agency incomplete “blue sheet” information. The incomplete “blue sheet” was a result of a programming error in the software that Citigroup used from 1999 to 2014 for a whopping fifteen years. Blue sheets include the time, type, volume, and prices of trades, among other information....

Therefore, more and more people have been looking for a way to transform the Blu-ray or DVD to other digital formats for watching and permanent preservation. But there exists a big problem, Blu-ray/DVD producers from all over the world implement encryption to the discs to prevent others from ripping. Is there a way to work it out? Of course, using Leawo Blu-ray Ripper is a good choice. Being the best Blu-ray/DVD decryption tool, Leawo Blu-ray Ripper is good at decrypting the encrypted Blu-ray/DVD discs....

Aimed at gamers, content creators, and streamers, the CORSAIR VOYAGER a1600 comes in two versions: AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS (8-Core / 16-Thread, 4.4GHz+) and AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS CPU (8-Core / 16-Thread, 4.8GHz+) with a Radeon RX 6800M GPU for both. Both come with CORSAIR and Elgato’s vast ecosystem of exclusive software and technologies. Further, the gaming laptop features a 16” 2560×1600 QHD+ IPS display (16:10) that offers an ultra-high 240Hz refresh rate and support for AMD FreeSync Premium technology....

All these and more efforts from Microsoft to push Windows 10 down Windows 7 users throats seemed to have failed as per latest stats. With the trial period of the free upgrade targeted at Windows 7 and 8.1 users expiring in less than 30 days, one would expect Windows 10 to see an upsurge in the adoption of Windows 10 in the coming days. While it does, the only problem for Windows 10 is that Windows 7 shows signs of recovery too....

Look around you. It’s no longer an esoteric or ethereal concept – it’s real. The Internet of things is pervasive and it impacts the way we do business, the way we communicate, and the way we protect personal information. As we barrel ahead towards a cashless society, disruptive technology is affecting payments processing in ways we never dreamed possible. Cloud computing technology, social media, big data and mobile communications dominate the financial arena....

The Windows 10 update called KB3201845 was released by Microsoft yesterday and is designed to fix various issues with the new operating system. Before releasing it publicly to all Windows 10 users worldwide, Microsoft first tested the KB3201845 Windows 10 update with beta testers by issuing it to Windows Insiders in November. Surprisingly, none of the Windows Insider members flagged the issue then. Another surprise is that the newly released KB3201845 Windows 10 doesn’t even mention anything related to internet connectivity/networking....