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To stop such activities, DroneShield, an Australian and U.S. firm is introducing DroneGun, which is the firm’s six-kilogram gun that can apparently disable drone signals (including GPS and GLONASS positioning) at a range of 2km (1.2 miles). It forces the vehicle to land or return to its starting point. Besides disabling threats from a safe distance, anti-drone teams can also possibly locate their pilots. The highly-dramatic video (see below) from the firm shows a man armed with the gun and its accompanying backpack shooting down a drone that’s flying a short distance away....

For those unaware, a business card typically bearing business information such as name, e-mail address, phone number, and website about a company or individual. They are shared during formal introductions as a convenience for retrieving contact information. George Hilliard, the creator of the Linux-run business card, said that the idea for the business card came to him when he thought, “These processors are nearly cheap enough to give away.” Although George has seen electronic business cards before that includes features such as emulating USB flash drives, blinkenlights, or even wireless transceivers, he has never seen one running Linux....

Anil Polat, a travel blogger and computer security engineer, has launched an interactive map, which offers every free Wi-Fi hotspot at each airport along with all the login information that you would need including usernames and passwords. Polat created WiFox, an app for Android and iOS and, after he realised how difficult it could be to access the free Wi-Fi that many airports claim to offer. “Finding an open wireless connection in many airports isn’t always easy, or possible, without a password,” Polat shares in his blog foXnoMad....

Well, Palmer Luckey, the father of modern virtual reality (VR), a defense contractor, and founder of Oculus, has actually developed a prototype of the first-ever killer VR headset that will literally kill the user if they die in the game they are playing. Luckey, who sold Oculus for $2 billion to Facebook in 2014, presented the idea of the headset in a blog post on November 6, 2022, to commemorate the anime and light novel Japanese series, Sword Art Online (SAO)....

A Tokyo-based artist and architect Hajime Narukawa has created a new map named the AuthaGraphic map, which is not only scientifically accurate but also visually appealing. The well received map has just won Japan’s prestigious Good Design Award for precisely representing the relative sizes of landmasses and bodies of water on Earth. The map is so uniformly accurate including the often neglected Antarctica that you can fold it up into a three-dimensional globe....

Within a time span of a few years, TikTok has taken over the world by storm. The vertical short-form videos concept introduced by TikTok is now being adopted by mainstream platforms like Instagram and YouTube and let’s not talk about the dozens of TikTok Alternatives. TikTok is primarily designed for Android and iOS smartphones. However, there are multiple ways to download and use TikTok on Windows and macOS PCs. So without further ado let’s Download TikTok For PC....

The 10 members of the group were indicted for hacking into various Turkish government websites like the ruling Justice and Development Party, the Turkish police force, Turkish national petroleum company OPET and lots of public utility websites. The Turkish police force had arrested 10 alleged members of RedHack and charged them with acting on behalf of Marxist, Leninist, Maoist, leftist and separatist terrorist organizations. The indictment read, “Hence, even though they are not members of those terrorist organizations, RedHack members can be considered to have perpetrated crimes in the name of those organizations....

The US Navy’s warfare systems paid Microsoft millions of dollars to continue with Microsoft Windows XPThe Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command signed a contract of US$9.1 million to access security patches for Windows XP, Office 2003, Exchange 2003 and Windows Server 2003. Earlier this month, a contract of US$9.1 million was signed by the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command who runs the Navy’s communications and information networks. This contract was signed for continued access to security patches for Windows XP, Office 2003, Exchange 2003 and Windows Server 2003....

The OnePlus 2 is going to have a different charging port, which is going to make your smartphone a lot better. Let’s have a look at the benefits that USB Type-C would provide. — OnePlus (@oneplus) June 22, 2015 Like Apple’s Lightning cable, it is reversible. No more clumsiness of the hands to plug it in the right way. It can transmit data at up to 10 Gbps, which is 10 times your crazy Google Fiber connection per second....

The lawsuit revolves around LinkedIn’s Add Connections feature, which would send out connection requests to people in a user’s contact list who did not already have a LinkedIn account. Users had to agree to send out that first connection request, but LinkedIn would then follow up with up to two more “reminder emails” if there was no response. The lawsuit alleges that users did not consent to LinkedIn sending those additional emails, nor give LinkedIn permission to use their names and images in them....

According to a recent report published by the cybersecurity firm SophosLabs, the malware dubbed as “vigilante” instead of stealing passwords or extorting a computer’s owner for ransom prevents victims from accessing pirated software platforms. “This malware blocks infected users’ computers from being able to visit a large number of websites dedicated to software piracy by modifying the HOSTS file on the infected system,” explains SophosLabs Principal Researcher Andrew Brandt in the report....

The SaaS market has taken the world by storm in the past few years, and it isn’t showing signs of slowing down any time soon. According to Statista, the SaaS market is anticipated to reach a global valuation of $208 billion in 2023, which is pretty staggering considering its $31.4 billion valuation in 2015. For the most part, this exponential growth is due to the immense value that SaaS firms bring to their customers through offering access to simplified, affordable, and highly effective software solutions....

Everything went south with the release of Windows Vista. Resource hogging, application incompatibility was the least of its problems. Vista introduced ReadyBoost, ReadyDrive and Superfetch to overcome the problem of memory ceiling, providing faster app loading, among other things to make the computer faster in operations for the user. Note – SuperFetch has been renamed as “SysMain” process since the build 1809 RTM build 17763.1 of Windows 10 that released almost 2 years back....

Different processor families have different characteristics that determine their levels of efficiency. In simpler terms, GHz and clock cycles matter less when compared to how much work is actually done in each clock cycle. The highest clock cycles on processors available today is around 4 GHz. But that is a number even the Pentium 4 was able to achieve. Yet, processors of today as far more powerful than the Pentium 4....

WhatsApp rolls out WhatsApp calling feature for all Android 4.0.0 and above devices, iOS and Blackberry have to wait a fortnightHowever we now show you the easiest method To avail this feature, we have already given you two methods, now here is a third method which does not take any tech savvyness but you have to sideload it onto your Android smartphone device. As many of our readers of the previous post pointed out, while enabling the WhatsApp calling through the rooted method, though they were successful, when they tried to make a call on the WhatsApp calling, the App gave a beeping sound and crashed....

Not Charging users yet According to reports, companies in Europe, Brazil, India and Indonesia are already said to be trying out this new feature. One of the first major corporation said to be trying out the feature is said to be KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. This news ties in to earlier reports that Facebook has been looking for ways to monetize WhatsApp after it abolished the platform’s $0.99 sign-up fee and made it free for everyone....

Moving one step further in a bid to curb illegal activity, WhatsApp has announced that it will start taking legal action against users and companies who misuse the app or send bulk messages to people in violation of its terms and conditions. “WhatsApp was designed for private messaging, so we’ve taken action to prevent bulk messaging and enforce limits on how WhatsApp can be used,” a spokesman for WhatsApp said....

WhatsApp wont work on old Nokia, BlackBerry, Android smartphones and iPhone 3GSSmartphones that wont get WhatsApp support from 1.1.2017 Earlier this year, the Facebook-owned messaging app had announced that it will drop support for several mobile operating systems from 2017, including Nokia’s dated Symbian. A popup message now appears to every WhatsApp user on Symbian OS, “Unfortunately, you won’t be able to use WhatsApp after 31/12/2016 because WhatsApp will no longer support your phone....

Why is ethical hacking, pentesting or security research the best career option of 2017?Businesses need ethical hackers now more than everBright career prospects in ethical hacking As mentioned in our earlier article here, white hat hackers are security researchers or ethical hackers who break security for non-malicious reasons, either to test their own security system, perform penetration tests or vulnerability assessments for a client or while working for a security company which makes security software....

Reasons why Android smartphone users go for iOS and then come back.1. Retina Display2. Smooth Operation3.Camera1. No Expandable Memory2.Nothing can be Customized :3.The Sliders are Annoying:4.Price is always Sky High: Okay! First lets discuss about exciting features of Apple devices: 1. Retina Display A display having pixels density more than 300 PPI(Pixels Per Inch). Apple used the term “Retina Display” for its such displays. It was said that the visual quality offered by retina display will be beyond amazing....