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Blocking access to torrent sites has become the new fad around town recently. Users from Europe and USA are the victims of censorship from sites, majority of which are sites holding torrent files. As the race to block user access to the world’s largest torrent sites continues, another website has stepped up to battle censorship. RARBG, one of the most-used torrent sites on the Internet, has just launched PirateSnoop, a free web browser designed to easily skirt web blockades across the globe....

The innocuous looking but seemingly out of place Google Street view car aroused suspicions of Matt Blaze. Blaze, a University of Pennsylvania computer and information science professor, discovered a SUV “tucked away in the shadows of the Philadelphia Convention Center’s tunnel” that was labeled as a Google Maps Street View car. Blaze noticed that it had two high-powered license plate reader cameras mounted on top, meaning it had to belong to a government agency....

The company also said that the decision was made after selling only 750,000 VHS pieces last year, which is a considerable decrease from 15 million pieces sold per year. Due to decreased production of VCRs, the parts for manufacturing have become rare and costly. Over the years, with the rise of DVDs, Blu-ray and streaming services like Netflix, the old-fashioned VCR have become completely obsolete. In 1983, Funai Electric was the first company to come up with a VCR for compact video cassettes (CVC)....

For those unfamiliar, Raspberry Pis are cheap, simple, credit card-sized, single board ARM computers with a focus on education and open source software. Due to its open nature, small size, and surplus of ports and software, it is loved by hardware hackers and DIYers. A new “device tree” appeared five weeks ago in the public-facing AOSP codebase for the Raspberry Pi 3 (a folder that will basically include Android files that play nicely with the Raspberry Pi 3’s special mix of hardware)....

Compared to the last year of 5S, there have been minor improvements in the specs department. However, the chipset stays the same as the Snapdragon 865, borrowed from the RedMagic 5G. What Changed? The company has assured of betting cooling with the new L-shaped cooling pipe, that claims to provide 4.3% more ventilation when coupled with the fan. What Changed?Buffed up SpecsPrice and Release Date Moreover, it will the first time ever when a company will use thermal as a compound for cooling its smartphone....

The owners who have complained on Apple’s support communities, Reddit and MacRumors Forums, have said that the occurrence has started after upgrading their device to iOS 9, Apple’s latest mobile OS. While 6s and 6s Plus users have seen the majority of incidents, there are some iPhone 6 users too who have also reported the issue. Some speculate that it may be related to the power button overheating, others believe that iOS 9 may the root of the problem....

The company said in a blog post that an unauthorized third party had socially engineered a customer support employee by phone on November 3rd and obtained access to certain customer support systems. Major Breach of Data The unauthorized party was able to obtain a list of email addresses for approximately five million people, and full names for a different group of approximately two million people. This included thousands of phone numbers as well, which are of importance to hackers....

Basically, electronics such as smartphones (including iPhones), computers, and smart TVs must be sold with locally-made Russian software pre-installed. This means that besides having the manufacturer’s own apps, the devices should also have Russian “alternatives pre-installed to qualify for their sale or else they will be banned from sale from July 2020. The proposed law was passed by the country’s lower house of parliament on Thursday. However, the complete list of the gadgets affected and the Russian-made software has yet to be determined by the government....

The Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2021 covers the period from July 2020 to June 2021, and its findings cover trends across nation-state activity, cybercrime, supply chain security, hybrid work, and disinformation. According to the report, attacks from Russian nation-state actors are “increasingly effective,” jumping from a 21% successful compromise rate last year to a 32% rate this year. Also, the rate of targeting government agencies for intelligence gathering has climbed from 3% of their targets a year ago to 53% in 2021....

The tests were carried out in Saitama, Japan, near Tokyo from October 17 through October 19. The equipment used for the test included Samsung’s 5G pre-commercial end-to-end solution, which consisted of a 5G router (CPE), a 5G Radio, virtualized core and a virtualized RAN. “The demonstration leveraged capabilities driven by 5G, such as high throughput, low latency and massive connections, which verified potential services that would be highly beneficial to passengers and operators of high-speed trains,” Samsung said....

The company has also said that its newly announced storage paraphernalia is 25 percent lighter than the previous generation of mobile hard drives. Seagate suggested that the drive should be targeted to both desktop and notebook owners, which is why its form factor was made sleek in the first place. In the process, this product will be able to attract a larger crowd. While the hard drive has more than enough space for you to store a multitude of different files, it is the speed category where we will have to see if the company pooled in its resources or not....

A few days ago this technologically advanced space research center sent an email to all employees. This email informed the employees’ about the recent data breach through which hackers gained access to employees’ private information. So here’s everything you need to know about this security issue. ALSO READ: Uber and NASA collaborate for the flying taxi project Someone Hacked NASA: The Issue Someone Hacked NASA: The IssueSomeone Hacked NASA: The Aftermath...

Sophia took her first few steps. It is a big revolution in the domain of AI and robotics. And of course, this happened in CES 2018, the annual Tech Trade show happening this year in Las Vegas. A Hong Kong based company, Hanson robotics, founded by David Hanson announced its partnership with Rainbow Robotics and Drones and Autonomous Systems Lab at the same event to help Sophia become a fully-fledged humanoid by integrating with DRC-HUBO body which possseses mechanical legs and ability to walk like a human....

Stock Google Email App Version 4.2.2 for Android vulnerable to remote code execution : CVE-2015-1574The vulnerabilityProof of Concept (PoC)Fix In plain English this means that a specially crafted email sent to the App can crash the email App. The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2015-1574 and is deemed critical. “No interaction from the user is needed to produce the crash just receive the malicious email,” the researchers stated on HMarco blog....

What is Tamagotchi? For those unaware, Tamagotchi is an egg-shaped keychain device featuring an LCD image of an animal-like ‘pet’, which was originally unveiled in November 1996 in Japan and in May 1997 in the rest of the world to challenge users to look after a digital pet without killing it. The name ‘Tamagotchi’ is a portmanteau of the Japanese word for egg and the English word watch. Tamagotchi had a total of 11 characters, which included one baby character, one toddler character, two teen characters, and seven adult characters....

Let’s have a look at the new Telegram features announced: Chat Themes In this update, coordination and decoration come together with new themes for individual chats. Telegram users will now be able to apply new Chat themes to specific private chats. There are 8 new themes that feature colorful gradient message bubbles, beautifully animated backgrounds, and unique background patterns. To set a theme for your chat on Android, tap the Chat Header > 3 dots > Change Colors....

On July 26, 2020, Telegram announced an update that brings Profile Videos along with improved People Nearby features, unlimited file sharing with up to 2GB per file, mini-thumbnails for your chat list, and notifications, group stats, and much more. Let’s have a look at the features rolled out in the latest update: Profile Videos You can now upload a video to your profile and choose any frame for your static profile picture in chats....

In an interview with The Guardian, Berners-Lee said people in prominent markets should “just say no” to the project. Speaking about the importance of privacy and the dangers of government snooping, he added that the initiative was not internet and that there were other ways of reducing the price of access. “When it comes to compromising on net neutrality, I tend to say ‘just say no’,” he said. According to the reports by The Guardian, Berners-Lee and the Web We Want festival came together to produce a Magna Carta for the 21st century on the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta....