According to CoinDesk, after breaking through the $1,000 mark on Sunday, the world’s leading digital crypto currency was trading at $1,027 US per Bitcoin on Monday, which is an increase of more than three percent within a day. It is now within reach of its historic high of more than $1,200 reached in 2013. Other crypto currencies that have risen in the wake of Bitcoin, includes Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin....
A Russian cryptocurrency investor and YouTube blogger who had taken to social media and posted videos to show off his wealth online has been found dead in an apparent suicide in his apartment. Pavel Myakushin, 23, also known as Pavel Nyashin, was the victim of a robbery in January, which saw 24 million Russian rubles (approximately $38,000 USD) stolen from his safe. At that time, the blogger had mentioned that he had boasted about his wealth on YouTube which accidentally revealed his address and made him an easy target for robbers....
While civil democrats nationwide warn regarding the rise of many states making use of unauthorized drones, municipalities and jurisdictions across the nation are taking full benefit of the technology much to the damage of privacy. The current restrictions on the amount of time a drone can spend in the air are directly linked to the amount of fuel energy an aerial vehicle without fleet is capable of carrying. If realized, this new Boeing patent could change radically or fundamentally the way drones are controlled and utilized....
It began on Monday when news broke that several of the core developers had decided to leave the PopcornTime.io project, fearing a possible lawsuit. Soon after, the application’s .io domain name stopped working, a domain that was controlled by one of the departed team members. Yesterday these issues seemed to be resolved but the comeback didn’t last long. The Popcorn Time team has just informed TorrentFreak that they have lost control again....
Even more wicked is that the same tool translated “Russians” to “occupiers” and the surname of Sergey Lavrov, the country’s Foreign Minister, to “sad little horse”. According to Google, the wicked translations happened due to an automatic bug which appeared in the online tool when users converted the Ukrainian language into Russian. However the terms actually mirror the language used by some Ukrainians for Russia following Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 so Google pinning the bug on ‘automatic’ holds shallow....
This time around a Chinese engineer who could not find a girlfriend married a robot recently. Zheng Jiajia, 31, an artificial intelligence expert who designs and creates robots in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, created the “female” robot at the end of last year and married her after failing to find a human spouse, reported Qianjiang Evening News. The female robot named “Yingying” can identify Chinese characters and images and say a few words....
CIBC customer’s hacked card used in U.S.CIBCWidespread Fraud CIBC CIBC or Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is the third largest credit card issue in Canada after Toronto-Dominion. It was in the first spot since 2005 but slipped to second position based on the outstanding balances in 2013 as per Nilson Report. Widespread Fraud “They advised me somehow someone had got a hold of my banking information and had duplicated a card and used that card to access my account and that I was one of 400 people that had been contacted at the Lower Sackville CIBC,” he said to a news channel....
Microsoft removed Clippy from the modern versions of the Microsoft Office Suite, but the latest rumour hints at possible return of the ‘Clippy’ along with Microsoft’s other assistant Cortana. ZDnet reports that Microsoft is now privately testing a new Windows Phone app called Work Assistant. Though not much is known about Work Assistant, the project could be related to a project that Bill Gates is working on for Microsoft called Personal Agent....
DNS changer Malware infected more than 4 million computers all over the world in late 2011 and early 2012, It is being reported that Cyber criminals were able to make more than 14 M dollars with the Notorious DNS changer malware.
The third-generation Mini drone from DJI offers numerous improvements like 4K/60fps video recording, improved flight time, a larger image sensor, and built-in obstacle avoidance. Thanks to the newly added features the new drone is now in line with the premium DJI offerings like the DJI Air 2s. Similar to every other drone in the Mini lineup the new Mini 3 Pro also weighs less than 250 grams. As a result, you won’t need to register it with the FAA....
How dns_probe_finished_no_internet error occur? There can be many reasons behind this. How dns_probe_finished_no_internet error occur?How to fix dns_probe_finished_no_internetMethod 1: Checking the Internet ConnectivityMethod 2: Using the Command PromptMethod 3: Changing Your own DNS to Google DNSMethod 4: Updating the DriverTroubleshooting Process of DNS_Probe_Finished_No_Internet Final Thoughts It may originate from multiple sources or It can be a result of several issues at once or just one at a time. So at first glance, you just can’t be sure on how to fix it, since different problems require different solutions....
Technology can be a veto as in the case of development of a new Android App that is proving to be a blessing to the people in a tyrant nation with censorship problems as well as those who are against the law like the suppliers of drugs and the rebels. These people usually look for methods to escape security checks or investigation from the crime squad and government authorities. DroidStealth helps to safely hide all the private data which user does not want to be seen by anyone, using the correct PIN access code....
The good news is that the Dutch Police have confirmed to Motherboard that they are able to read encrypted messages sent on PGP BlackBerry phones—custom, security-focused BlackBerry devices that come complete with an encrypted email feature, and which apparently may be used by organized criminal groups. The news first appeared when Dutch blog “misdaadnieuws.com,” or Crime News, published apparent documents sourced from the NFI (Netherlands Forensic Institute) in December last year, that indicated that deleted messages can be recovered, and encrypted emails read on BlackBerry devices....
The primary objective of the mission, due for takeoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 10:21 a.m. ET, is to deliver a robotic Dragon capsule with more than two and a half tons of supplies, equipment and experiments — ranging from a new docking adapter for accommodating future U.S.-built spaceships to a virtual-reality headset for the space station’s crew. This was supposed to be the first robotic cargo delivery since a Russian Progress capsule went bust in April, resulting in the loss of the craft’s 3-ton payload....
Epic Games, Inc., also known as Epic and formerly Epic MegaGames, is an American video game development company based in Cary, North Carolina and has now been bought by Chinese tech giant, Tencent Holdings. They are well known for their Unreal Engine technology, which has powered their popular in-house Unreal series of first-person shooters, and the Gears of War series for the Xbox 360. But if you visit the forum of Epic Games right now, this is what you’ll see…...
02G-P4-0952 02G-P4-0956 02G-P4-0954 02G-P4-0958 These new cards do not require auxiliary power connectors from the power supply and can be powered on by being placed inside the PCIe x16 slot. EVGA has released GPUs in the past that feature a smaller form factor and do not need to have power connectors inserted inside them from the power supply unit. These GPUs are based on NVIDIA’s cut-down GM206 graphics die (which features 768 stream processors, 48 texture units, 32 ROPs, 128 bit of GDDR5 memory interface)....
Keys, 28, who works as a managing editor for Grasswire, a news curation website, said he will continue to report until his sentencing. Keys, who also was a web producer for KTXL Fox 40 in Sacramento, owned by the Tribune Company, provided members of the hacker group Anonymous with login information for Tribune servers in 2010. “In 2010, Keys posted login credentials to the Tribune Company content management system (CMS) to a chatroom run by Anonymous, resulting in the defacement of an LA Times article online....
Created by Facebook’s artificial intelligence lab, the tool instead of searching and recognizing just the face of the user, tracks their unique characteristics such as hairdo, clothing, body shape, and pose as well to confirm identity, reports New Scientist website. “We humans can already recognize people with these cues quite well. People have characteristic aspects, even if you look at them from the back,” explained Yann LeCun, head of artificial intelligence at Facebook”....
After working on dating app, the social media giant is now developing another app dubbed as ‘LOL’. This new platform is designed as a “special feed of funny videos and GIF-like clips” using content “pulled from News Feed posts by top meme Pages on Facebook,” according to a new report from TechCrunch. “We are running a small scale test and the concept is in the early stages right now,” a Facebook spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch....
