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If this is true than we would have a complicated situation where all our conversations and chats are spied upon by US government agencies. The FBI has demanded that Apple creates custom software (backdoor) that can bypass security features in iOS and allow law enforcement to brute force the passcode of the shooter’s iPhone 5C. Apple has since reiterated that making any modifications in iOS to allow access to FBI would set a dangerous precedent in offering backdoors into users’ smartphones....

In a notice posted on the ROG website (spotted by OC3D), Asus claims that AMD’s guidelines said to mount the cooler at a PSI of 30 to 40. However, after receiving user reports regarding temperature issues, ASUS conducted its testing to find that the optimal screw mounting pressure for its Radeon RX 5700 graphics cards is actually between 50 and 60 PSI. ASUS claimed that all ROG STRIX 5700 series cards shipped after January 2020 will have screws delivering the correct mounting pressure, resulting in improved heat transfer from the GPU to the heatsink....

Another thing that separates ASUS ZenFone 3 Deluxe from the top of the high-end smartphone chain is the fact that it features 6GB of RAM, which you don’t often see devices featuring. Another thing is that 256GB is the highest storage model of the smartphone and guess what? It does not support the eMMC standard but the much faster UFS 2.0, which results in higher internal storage read and write speeds....

The company’s pilot plant, which is operated by German startup Sunfire in Dresden, produced its first batches of the “e-diesel” this month. It is said to pump out 160 litres of the synthetic diesel every day in the coming months. Johanna Wanka, German Federal Minister of Education and Research, has already used a few liters of the fuel in her work car, an Audi A8, to celebrate the feat. The base fuel, which they are referring as ‘blue crude’ is created using a three-step process....

The New York City-based Drone Racing League (DRL) was launched yesterday and will kick off with six events in 2016 throughout the world. The first event will be in Miami on Feb. 22 and the second will be in Los Angeles in mid-March. Locations haven’t been finalized for the remaining four events, but locations under consideration include Detroit; Auckland, New Zealand; and Mexico City. For you to understand what drone racing is all about see the GIF below : All the DRL drone races will be in closed-door locations....

Amimon’s believes its Racing Drone FALCORE is the future of drone racing. Its patented “Shield” mode, automatically puts the drone in hover, allowing drone enthusiasts of all levels to fly without fear of crashing. If you are from my generation you probably remember the first remote control airplane. It was the first evolution of allowing us normal folk to feel like pilots. But as we have seen, technology knows no bounds, and drones, as well as UAVs, become the new trend....

This weekend Belgacom finally was able to find the Backdoor and remove it from their server to stop further access to their data by hackers. A spokes person from Belgacom said on monday, that their Network was hacked and some malware were planted in their servers, besides malware hackers used advanced encryption method to steal important data from their server.The malware has been now removed and better measures have been taken to secure servers now, said the spokes person from Belgacom....

Lt. Gen. Alan Lynn, the Defense Information Systems Agency, co-developers, has mentioned that NSA chief Adm. Michael Rogers, who handles top secret documents on a daily basis, was one of the first to test Boeing’s new Black smartphone. “The Boeing Black is the device we’re currently working with,” Lynn said. “We’re just now in the test phase,” he said. Earlier this year, Boeing told the FCC that if the device is tampered with it self-destructs: “Any attempt to break open the casing of the device would trigger functions that would delete the data and software contained within the device and make the device inoperable....

Bureau 121, North Korea’s elite cyber-warfare cell behind the Sony Hacks?Bureau 121Rich life in Poor North Korea Reuters today reported a sophisticated North Korean cyber-warfare cell called Bureau 121. Most of the information about Bureau 121 is obtained from North Korean defectors to South Korea as North Korea is a iron curtain country with severe restrictions any travel to and fro. Bureau 121 The specially created Bureau 121 comprises of around 1800 hard coded cyber warriors....

Apparently, researchers at Utah’s Brigham Young University (BYU) uses the method dubbed as “optical trap display” that is capable of projecting 3D “volumetric images” into “thin air”. According to a study published in Nature’s journal, the technology can be used to project small floating 3D volumetric images that can be viewed and interacted from all angles. Viewers can walk around the projections and even place a finger below them. “Often, when we think of an image that’s floating in space that’s 3D, we think of a hologram,” explains the lead researcher, Daniel Smalley, the study’s lead author and a BYU electrical and computer engineering professor and holography expert....

Thanks to the combined efforts of ElectroBOOM and his daughter, they tried to come up with several ways to salvage the parts of the device that still worked. So what were they able to create after accumulating all the parts together? An adorable toy robot whose primary body comprises up of the head of a toothbrush. This is how the talented duo were able to transform the broken Android phone into a toy robot; after taking the phone’s vibrator module, a coin cell battery, a switch and some wire, both of them mounted these items on top of the top of the toothbrush head....

Transgender Chelsea Manning is already serving life in prison for leaking state secrets. Chelsea called on friends and supporters from prison to inform them that the military court has found her guilty of four charges. The charges on which the new conviction has been made look frivolous and include possession of LGBTQ reading material like the Caitlyn Jenner issue of Vanity Fair, and having a tube of expired toothpaste in her cell....

The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that data from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Interior Department had been compromised. “The FBI is conducting an investigation to identify how and why this occurred,” the statement said. According the Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican senator, the hackers are based in China. Collins said that the breach was “yet another indication of a foreign power probing successfully and focusing on what appears to be data that would identify people with security clearances....

While Su, 50, is being celebrated as a hero in his home country, he has pled guilty to conspiring with others to break into the networks of Boeing and other American defense contractors in a federal court in Los Angeles, California. He admitted to conspiring with two unnamed accomplices in China to try to acquire plans for F-22 and F-35 fighter jets and C-17 transport aircraft. According to prosecutors, the hacking took place between October 2008 and March 2014....

Microsoft to launch Cortana for Android and iOS devicesMicrosoft’s ‘Einstein’ team working towards launching a new version of its “personal assistant” Cortana in Windows 10 which will also be available as standalone app in iOS and Android smartphones and tablets Microsoft’s research team called “Einstein” is working towards launching a new and advanced version of the Cortana which will available in desktops as well as smartphones powered by Windows 10 by this autumn....

Fredrik Neij, aka TIAMO, one of the co-founders of TPB, was a prime suspect in the criminal investigation started by Swedish police nearly five years ago when it had raided a data center that was believed to be hosting the notorious torrent site. However, over the past several years, Neij has always denied any recent involvement with the site. Apparently, Neij was in prison for his earlier Pirate Bay activities when the raid took place in 2014....

The appropriate section of Sarbanes-Oxley reads as follows: Khairullozhon Matanov, a friend of the Tsarnaev brothers, the Boston Marathon bombers was interviewed by the Federal authorities about his association with them. However, the federal authorities never accused him for any activity linked to the bombing nor have they said that he was having knowledge of their plans or felt for them. During the interviews, he did however perpetrate a few small lies, of which none had any actual relation to the case....

It is likely to offer substantial upgrades over the non-Pro variant including a larger battery, and an obstacle avoidance sensor among others. Upcoming DJI Mini 3 Pro photos and specs leaked Upcoming DJI Mini 3 Pro photos and specs leakedImproved DJI Mini 3 Pro Battery Pack According to a self-proclaimed DJI investigator, the upcoming DJI Mini 3 Pro offers two large sensors at the front that will enable it to avoid obstacles....

Top reasons why you should not install expensive anti-virus software on your newly purchased PC/laptopIn Built MechanismsBrowsersSmart UseRansomware In Built Mechanisms Every device that you own has always contained some in-built security applications. With the release of Windows 8, Microsoft has managed to strengthen the in-built Microsoft Defender to such an extent that most critics admitted there was no more a need for a user to install a separate anti-virus software....