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Unquestionably, PDF is one of the mainstream document formats that’s used for everything ranging from educational ebooks to important banking statements. If you use, create, edit, combine, organize, annotate or even convert PDF files then it’s important to have a reliable PDF management application. Well, PDF Reader is a feature-packed PDF editing program that’s developed by Kdan Mobile and it simply gets the job done. In this article, we have shared a detailed review of Kdan PDF Reader followed by the three most noteworthy features of this program....

The 12big combines a storage capacity of up to 96TB looks like an aluminium full ATX tower, which is adorned with LaCie’s signature glowing blue eyeball. Even though it’s 17 inches tall, it’s actually not that big. LaCie helpfully notes that its 9.3-inch x 6.3-inch base gives it “a footprint smaller than a tablet.” With performance speeds of Thunderbolt 3 and RAID 5/6, it is aimed at helping video professionals and other creatives manage data from high-end cameras that record 4/5/and 6K footage....

The Cupertino giant claims that the CPU of M2 delivers 18 percent greater multithreaded performance than its first-generation of system-on-a-chip (SoC), the M1 while drawing the same amount of power. It also claims that the M2 provides 25% better performance at comparative power levels than the M1. Now, leaked M2 benchmarks discovered on Geekbench confirm that Apple’s new M2 chip is indeed up to 20% faster than M1. The results, which were published on June 15th, reveal that the test was conducted on a Mac with a model number of 14,7 (upcoming 13-inch MacBook Pro 2022 model) running macOS 12....

Going by the roadmap leaked, Xiaomi will bring out as many as four more devices in the balance of 2015 out of which Redmi Note series is prominent. Now it is continuing on the big bang releases with not one but two devices on May 18th as per reports. New leaks from @upleaks suggest that the Xiaomi Redmi successor will be Redmi Note 2. From the leaks, the Redmi Note 2 look quite similar to it’s predecessor with model name “H3Y” etched on the back of the metal-made phone....

If you wonder what this massive destroyer is figuring on Techworm. Well the Zumwalt computers are fully powered by Linux. Everything on Zumwalt including its weapons array and radar systems is powered by Linux. Even the destroyer’s onboard navigation system is powered by computers running Linux operating system though the Navy has not disclosed which distro of Linux is powering the destroyers computers. During the month of October, the Navy will commission the Zumwalt in Baltimore....

To break the dominance of Google on Android, Gael Duval, a former Linux developer and creator of now defunct but once hugely popular Mandrake Linux (later known as Mandriva Linux), has developed an open-source version of Android that is not connected to Google. Dubbed as ‘eelo’ that uses only free and open source software (FOSS), this will be an open source, non-profit project that will aim to free users from tech corporates like Google and Apple who invade our privacy by selling our data to advertisers....

Zuck’s headache started in November 2012 when a real estate developer, Mircea Voskerician, told him that he planned to build a 9,600 square foot house behind the very private Zuckerberg’s home in Palo Alto, Calif. Then Voskerician made Zuckerberg an offer he could not refuse which Zuckerberg’s financial advisor called “obscene proposal,” in a email to him. Voskerician proposed selling Zuckerberg a small piece of land in front of his Palo Alto residence....

Nonetheless, the web hasn’t changed much in that it is incredibly centralized to be controlled by governments, organizations, and corporations. There are gatekeepers on the web, and they determine the information that people can access. Sometimes these gatekeepers can alter/delete information – essentially the web in its current form lacks the trust and transparency that would be expected of a global record of human history. In 2017, a team of academics, developers, and entrepreneurs decided to create a truly decentralized web that provides an immutable storage of data on the web in a cost-effective way that doesn’t price users out of the market....

The Community Chats feature, which is similar to Discord channels or Twitter Spaces, will help people connect with their communities in real time around the topics they care about on both Facebook and Messenger via text, audio, and video. It will allow people to connect when, where, and how they want. In the coming weeks, Meta will start testing the ability for people to start Community Chats in Messenger, which will allow them to create a Facebook Group, start chats and audio channels, and invite others to join their new group all within the app....

Brad Sams from Thurrott was the first to discover a code hidden within a Windows Insider build 18334 – a beta version of the incoming Windows 10 April 2019 Update – that hints at the tech giant looking to merge the Xbox One and Windows PC games ecosystems together. This feature will allow PCs to read the Xbox file format. Twitter user WalkingCat notes that Microsoft.GamingServices app installs two drivers with references to Durango – the original codename for Xbox One....

Microsoft has made many changes to the upcoming Office 2016 for Mac, one of them is the user interface. Microsoft has tried to mix the features from previous Windows versions and blend it into the new 2016 version for Mac. So now the user interface looks and feels pretty much same if you have Windows version or a Mac 2016 version. Other distinctive change is that Microsoft has integrated all the Office 2016 for Mac with cloud storage....

The name “Windows Lite” first appeared in a Windows 10 SDK and will run applications from the Microsoft Windows Store and PWAs (Progressive Web Apps). The rumored Lite desktop OS does not replace any existing version of Windows and it is not something that the users would run on the desktop. Lite will also have instant-on functionality and it should be able to run on any CPU. Now, Zac Bowden, a journalist with Windows Central, reports that Microsoft has finalized a new codename “Santorini” instead of Lite for its new platform....

Woodside confirms This Wednesday evening at All Thing D’s D11 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. that Moto X will be assembled in a former Nokia plant in Fort Worth Texas, in the U.S. The Moto X, formerly known as Google’s X Phone, Designed to compete with high-end offerings from Apple and Samsung, Moto X will feature an organic LED display, thinner and lighter than older LCD displays, the device uses battery-friendly sensor technology, similar to that found in Motorola Mobility’s MotoActv smartwatch....

The other smartphones which are also now available cheaper are Moto E (2nd Gen) 3G and 4G version. The Moto E (2nd Gen) 3G is now available for Rs.6999.00 while the 4G version now retails at Rs.7999.00. Earlier Motorola has slashed the prices of its Moto G (2nd Gen) 3G from Rs.12,999.00 to Rs.10,999.00. The dual-SIM Moto E (1st Gen) comes with a 4.3-inch HD display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protective covering....

In a deal signed by Netflix Inc. and luxury theatre-chain iPic Entertainment, the former will release its films in theatres on the same day they are made available online, the Wall Street Journal reported. The theatre distribution deal reportedly includes 10 films that will make up the majority of Netflix’s original movies for the next year. Netflix movies will play in iPic’s New York and Los Angeles theatres, with the option of showing at iPic’s 13 other locations or independent theatres....

Arlo comes with a weatherproof design and has a true wireless with a night vision that is capable to provide security round the clock. It takes up very less space and the size is smaller than the bar of soap. The special attribute of this system is its real-time notifications system which with the help of cloud access provides a notification time-by-time that home, children, cars, pet, small business, vacation rental, etc....

This let’s the users decide on what personal data these apps should receive at the time of login and gives more command in the hands of the users. In addition, Facebook also has announced a new version of Facebook Login. This new version allows the users to decide and choose what information the apps should get by checking or unchecking categories one by one. Further, it does not allow the app to post any data to Facebook without the user’s permission....

The researchers believe that the naturally occurring compound, lanosterol, has the ability to dissolve the protein formations that cause cataracts to emerge. The Californian team claims that the treatment is long-term and, in some cases, permanent. The effects have yet to be tested on humans, the team from the University of California, San Diego hopes to imitate the findings in clinical trials and offer an alternative to the only treatment that’s currently available to cataract patients – painful and often prohibitively expensive surgery....

NFC is the new security threat vector, iPhone 5s, Galaxy S5 pwned in Mobile Pwn2OwnThe competitionApple iPhone 5SSamsung Galaxy S5Google Nexus 5Fire PhoneLumia 1520 The competition Here’s how the contest works. Security researchers choose the device they would like to try and hack into at the time of registration. They have to carry out the hack in a 30 minute time frame. The restrictions on this hack is that the vulnerabilities used, must be unknown prior to the event aka zero day attacks....

Withings’ products include weighing scales, thermometers, activity trackers, blood pressure monitors and baby monitors built on a digital platform. “We have said consistently that digital health was an area of strategic interest to Nokia, and we are now taking concrete action to tap the opportunity in this large and important market,” Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri said in a statement. “With this acquisition, Nokia is strengthening its position in the Internet of Things in a way that leverages the power of our trusted brand, fits with our company purpose of expanding the human possibilities of the connected world and puts us at the heart of a very large, addressable market where we can make a meaningful difference in peoples’ lives....