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The incident came to light when on the OnePlus support forum on January 11 from a customer who said two of his credit cards used on the phone maker’s official website showed signs of fraud. “The only place that both of those credit cards had been used in the last 6 months was on the OnePlus website,” he wrote. Once this claim was made, several complaints were later posted to Twitter and Reddit that reported the same misuse of credit card....

“We realized that the current browsers stopped focusing on those Web parts,” Opera product manager Joanna Czajka said in a video about Neon’s release. “They treat the Web like documents in a briefcase, only there for you to manage. It doesn’t sound like a fun way of experiencing the Internet, right?” Opera’s developers and designers looked for ways to “bring the best parts of the Internet closer to people,” Czajka said....

News of the data breach comes just three weeks before the country’s national election on March 2. The security flaw was found on the mobile-based application, Elector designed by the Israeli software company Feed-b. This app is being used by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party for campaign management and to offer news and information on the upcoming election to voters. According to Haaretz, the breach discovered by a programmer in the Elector’s system could have potentially exposed the names, addresses, ID numbers, polling stations of eligible Israeli voters along with their phone numbers in many cases, gender and whether they were potential Likud voters....

Project Premonition, is an initiative of Microsoft; it is basically a system which focuses to detect the outbreak of infectious diseases before they get converted into an epidemic. The researchers at Microsoft plan to use a fleet of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in remote areas which are prone to dengue fever or malaria. Using the drone technology will help researchers to reach a huge crowd and save a larger number of lives from dreadful diseases....

Not all publishers are made the same, and not all of them understand how to create value through this new medium,” says Ofer Shina, CEO of Commfident, which has one of the largest sources of data on publisher performance. The company analyzes data about video publishing KPIs from over 100M views/impressions per day. Commfident aims to help both publishers and advertisers benefit from the growth of video. It is leading a new kind of targeting, which is based on the unique characteristics of each publisher and placement....

Researchers at the University of Washington claims to have successfully injected a malware program into a DNA sample and use it to hack into a computer that analyzes the sequence of that DNA. In other words, so that when a gene sequencer analyzes it the resulting data becomes a program that corrupts gene-sequencing software and takes control of the underlying computer. The team also explained its work in a more readable essay on its website that provides suggestions to tighten computer security and privacy protections in DNA synthesis, sequencing, and processing....

Earlier, medical field had witnessed the development of bionic arms and legs. Now, researchers have successfully completed a three year trial for the bionic eye retinal implants. Well, the technology has got an approval from FDA which appears it is safe and the trial results are promising. For individuals who have been blinded by Retinitis pigmentosa, the ‘biological eye retinal implant’ or ‘Argus II’ is a real boon as it functions to improve their vision....

“In celebration of this pioneering spirit, the Rolls-Royce Vision Next 100 has been designed as the ultimate expression of the future of super-luxury mobility,” said Adrian van Hooydonk, Head of BMW Group Design. “It is an enlightening vision of the fascinating possibilities of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars in the future.” Vision Next 100-style production cars would be configured specifically to customers’ requirements In keeping with Personal Vision. It will be built with innovative manufacturing technologies using the most advanced lightweight materials and zero emissions drivetrain....

He had recently stated that “I will bring back a better, safer and very innovative Note 8” and this decision comes from the want to offer owners of Galaxy Note 4 and Note 5 a Note product to upgrade. Now, according to a recent rumor provided by an industry insider on Twitter suggests that work has already begun on the new Note. It was accompanied by an image which you can see below....

SSD drives are quicker than regular hard disks and also a little bit safer to carry around since they have stationary parts. Samsung is proclaiming speeds that are up seven times quicker than a regular hard drive. The SSD weighs around 30 grams and comes with a black chrome metal finish. Targeting creative professionals and business travelers, the Portable SSD T1 comes with 256-bit hardware encryption, the Samsung Portable SSD T1 is powered by company’s 3D Vertical NAND (V-NAND) technology and is shock resistant up to 1500/0....

During his iMiD presentation, Park Won-sang, a principal engineer for Samsung Display Co., the company may introduce a, “full-screen display whose display area ratio reaches more than 90 percent next year,” which means very little bezel. The researcher added that Samsung may have devices with 99 percent display to body ratios in future devices, making smartphones all screen with no dead space. This means nearly the whole face of the Galaxy S8 would be a bezel-free display....

The flaw exposed those who used the web browser versions of WhatsApp and Telegram, both of which are fully synced with their mobile versions. The vulnerability allowed hackers to hijack hundreds of millions of WhatsApp and Telegram accounts simply by sending a malware-laden image. The hack targeted the method in which both Telegram and WhatsApp process images and multimedia files. “This new vulnerability put hundreds of millions of WhatsApp Web and Telegram Web users at risk of complete account take over,” said Check Point Head of Product Vulnerability Oded Vanunu in a release....

The goal is to “open up the ecosystem where this world of assistants that we’re used to today that have several dozen capabilities now has an opportunity to explode to hundreds of thousands and tens of thousands of times the number of capabilities that some of today’s assistants have,” he said in an interview after leaving the TC Disrupt stage. “We think the key to that is having a third party platform where anyone can add to the experience....

Siri Summons Police if you say “Charge my phone to 100%”Charge my phone to 100 % Siri was the first widely-deployed speech recognition system that worked indefinitely; she talks back to you in serene tones with a well fine-tuned accent; she’s (seemingly) calm and collected; and you can simply call her by name, as you might ask a friend to for her assistance. While smooth talking can get only so far, Siri has had along the way her fair share of security disagreement, privacy concerns, and even a little conspiracy theory....

Back in October, cyber criminals had managed to hack into a 3rd party Snapchat addon and leaked 13 gigs of images on 4Chan. The images database was thought to be full of pictures of minors sharing their intimate moments with their same aged friends. 4Chan mods quickly deleted the Snappening post but not before it was shared and reposted. The 13 gigs database eventually landed on torrent websites and was among the top downloaded torrents for some time....

For those unaware, aibo is a series of robotic pets designed and manufactured by the Japanese electronics company, Sony. The first consumer model was introduced in May 1999, but was discontinued in January 2006. Already a modest hit in Japan, Sony has til now sold 20,000 units after the January release in Japan earlier this year. “The Aibo has been received very well in Japan. We want to keep the momentum when selling it in the United States,” Senior Vice President Izumi Kawanishi told a news conference in New York on Thursday....

Similar to every other flagship smartphone the entire glass and metal construction of this smartphone looks and feels premium. Thanks to the 21:9 aspect ratio of the display the overall form-factor of the Sony Xperia 5 II is quite compact. In this article, we have shared everything you need to know about the Sony Xperia 5 II. Sony Xperia 5 II: Specifications And Features If design aesthetics are on top of your priority list then the latest flagship offering from Sony won’t disappoint you....

TeamViewer issued a patch for users on Tuesday to fix a vulnerability that allows users sharing a desktop session to gain control of another PC without the latter’s permission. This vulnerability affected versions of TeamViewer running on Windows, macOS and Linux machines. For those unaware, TeamViewer is a popular remote-support software for desktop sharing, online meetings, web conferencing and file transfer between computers over the internet from anywhere in the world....

According to the CEO, it is highly unlikely that you will find a better car than this, and to top it all, he says that Tesla Model 3’s base model can reach a speed from 0-60mph in just 6 seconds. There are other models that can achieve the same speed in a shorter amount of time, but the company has not unveiled those models as yet and chances are that they will carry a much larger price tag....