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Your WhatsApp May Stop Working From 2018!

26Dec By RishabhNo Comments

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Your WhatsApp May Stop Working From 2018!

Facebook-owned instant messaging app WhatsApp has recently announced that it will end support for certain handsets from December 31, 2017. Eventually, time for some smartphone owners to let go of it or purchase a new one! WhatsApp in a recent release stated that starting January 1, 2018 the messaging app will stop working on Blackberry OS, Blackberry 10 and Windows Phone 8.0 and older. “We will no longer actively develop for these platforms, some features may stop functioning at any time. These platforms don't offer the kind of capabilities we need to expand our app's features in the future.,” the company said. WhatsApp had earlier announced it will stop support on many of these older devices. However, end of support may not strictly mean that the users will lose access to their W...

Samsung Develops ‘World’s Smallest’ DRAM Chip

20Dec By reutersNo Comments

Tech

Samsung Develops ‘World’s Smallest’ DRAM Chip

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Wednesday it has developed the world’s smallest DRAM chip, widening its technical lead on competitors as it tracks towards a record operating profit in 2017 driven by the semiconductor business. The “second-generation” 10-nanometre class, 8-gigabit DRAM chips with improved energy efficiency and data processing performance would be geared toward premium data-crunching electronics such as cloud computing centres, mobile devices and high-speed graphic cards, Samsung said in a statement. The global leader in computer chips, televisions and smartphones said it would shift most of its existing DRAM production capacity to 10-nano chips in 2018. This “aggressive” production expansion would “accommodate strong market demand,” said Gyoyoung Jin, president ...

Starbucks’ WiFi Was Hijacking Customer’s Laptop To Mine Cryptocurrency

14Dec By RishabhNo Comments

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Starbucks’ WiFi Was Hijacking Customer’s Laptop To Mine Cryptocurrency

A user, named Noah Dinkin recently revealed in a Twitter post that Starbucks' free in-store WiFi in Buenos Aires was secretly hijacking customers' laptops to mine cryptocurrency. The hijack was revealed on Dec. 2 when Stensul CEO Noah Dinkin noticed a 10 second delay while connecting to the public WiFi at a Starbucks cafeteria in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After a little research, he found out that customers who were trying to access the free WiFi were having their electronic devices infected with a malicious code which was mining cryptocurrencies. After the post went viral, Starbucks did apologize for the mishap, but after several customers exposed to the hijack. How did they do it? Dinkin revealed that he uncovered a suspicious code embedded in Starbucks' reward-site for Argentina tha...

These 5 Companies Dominate China’s Smartphone Market, Samsung Is Not Among Them!

7Dec By RishabhNo Comments

CHINA, Tech

These 5 Companies Dominate China’s Smartphone Market, Samsung Is Not Among Them!

Chinese market is the most popular smartphone maker and market in the world. China is now the world’s largest smartphone market and continues surging forward as its economy and people ramp up their consumption of things to match their already vast production. Kantar Worldpanel shows that now China's top five phone vendors own the market accounting for 91 percent of the overall market. The top five brands are; Huawei Xiaomi Apple Vivo Oppo That’s up from 79 percent a year earlier, extending a lead that now sees companies like ZTE, Meizu, and Lenovo struggling to find a foothold in their home country. Global smartphone leader Samsung is now at a 2.2 percent share in China and deteriorating, according to Kantar’s Dominic Sunnebo. Each of these companies have selected...

Do You Google Everything? That May Be Risky For Your Health

6Dec By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

ANALYSIS, Tech

Do You Google Everything? That May Be Risky For Your Health

Using Google frequently to search for information, rather than using our brains, may increase the risk of dementia, a UK researcher has warned. The researcher has described the practice as an "experiment" we are conducting on ourselves. "It's important to promote good brain health and to do that is to use it, but these days we seem to outsource our brain to the internet," said Frank Gunn-Moore, from the University of St Andrews in the UK. "If we want to know something, we look it up online rather than trying to recall the information from our memory," Gunn-Moore was quoted as saying to The Sunday Post. "It's an experiment the human race is running and we will have to wait and see if this outsourcing affects dementia prevalence," he said. Gun-Moore will be speaking at the annual ...

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Will Take Tesla’s Roadster To Mars

2Dec By RishabhNo Comments

News, Tech

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Will Take Tesla’s Roadster To Mars

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has up the stakes of an already difficult situation by today tweeting that the SpaceX's most powerful reusable rocket Falcon Heavy will launch next month from Apollo 11 pad. It was originally scheduled for November but the time was up for the launch. But, Elon Musk has seemingly confirmed the launch in the month of December. Falcon Heavy to launch next month from Apollo 11 pad at the Cape. Will have double thrust of next largest rocket. Guaranteed to be exciting, one way or another. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2017 Not only that, Falcon Heavy will be carrying Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster into the space. Musk first tweeted the idea on Friday evening. Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. Destination...

YouTube Sharpens How It Recommends Videos Despite Fears Of Isolating Users

29Nov By RishabhNo Comments

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YouTube Sharpens How It Recommends Videos Despite Fears Of Isolating Users

Google’s YouTube has updated its recommendation feature to spotlight videos users are likely to find the most gratifying, brushing aside concerns that such an approach can trap people in bubbles of misinformation and like-minded opinions. The new feature, which arrived in January but has not previously been reported, uses a measure of satisfaction derived from a massive and ongoing user survey to predict and promote videos that people would rank as among the best they have watched recently. The goal is to prevent the negative sentiments that can arise when people watch hours and hours of uninspired programs, said Jim McFadden and Cristos Goodrow, who work on recommendation technology at YouTube, which is part of Alphabet Inc. But the change comes at a time when YouTube and other social m...

High-Speed Quantum Encryption Could Stop Hackers: Study

25Nov By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

Tech

High-Speed Quantum Encryption Could Stop Hackers: Study

To fight back against the common security attacks, scientists have created a high-speed encryption system to stop hackers. The system is capable of distributing encryption codes at megabit-per-second rates, five to 10 times faster than existing methods and on par with current internet speeds when running several systems in parallel. In a study, published in the journal Science Advances, the researchers demonstrate that the technique is secure from common attacks, even in the face of equipment flaws that could open up leaks. "We are now likely to have a functioning quantum computer that might be able to start breaking the existing cryptographic codes in the near future," said Daniel Gauthier, from The Ohio State University in the US. "We really need to be thinking hard now of diff...

YouTube Steps Up Takedowns As Concerns About Kids’ Videos Grow

23Nov By reutersNo Comments

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YouTube Steps Up Takedowns As Concerns About Kids’ Videos Grow

YouTube stepped up enforcement of its guidelines for videos aimed at children, the unit of Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Wednesday, responding to criticism that it has failed to protect children from adult content. The streaming video service removed more than 50 user channels in the last week and stopped running ads on over 3.5 million videos since June, YouTube vice president Johanna Wright wrote in a blog post. “Across the board we have scaled up resources to ensure that thousands of people are working around the clock to monitor, review and make the right decisions across our ads and content policies,” Wright said. “These latest enforcement changes will take shape over the weeks and months ahead as we work to tackle this evolving challenge.” YouTube has become one of Google...

Google Will Track Your Location Even When You Turn It Off!

22Nov By RishabhNo Comments

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Google Will Track Your Location Even When You Turn It Off!

We realize that sometimes Android phones track our location to help us book an Uber or provide a better route on maps. But when we don't require GPS we turn location sharing off and think now we're off the grid! Well! That's where you're wrong! Google recently admitted that it is tracking its users even when they turn "location services" off. Or hey! even when they are not using any SIM Card. Can you believe that? Well, that's how they do it. How do they do it! Since the beginning of 2017, Android phones are collecting the addresses of nearby cellular towers, even when we disable the location services. The data hence collected, is sent back to the Google in an encrypted form. With this data, Google has access to all their users' location movements, place where they've been at, w...

Why Firefox Ditched Yahoo To Make Google Its Default Search Engine

15Nov By RishabhNo Comments

Tech

Why Firefox Ditched Yahoo To Make Google Its Default Search Engine

[dropcap]F[/dropcap]irefox Quantum is here. Mozilla took some time to come up with something like that, something which is better, faster and lighter. The last couple of years have not been great for Firefox. Chrome browser, that took it back in the late 2011 now dominates the market with more than 60 percent, figures as suggested by StatCounter. With this release, Mozilla has set aside his deal with Yahoo that he made in 2014, to make it the default search engine provider for users in US, with others as options. With this not being the only noticeable change, Firefox has now started to keep in mind user's interests, which it seemed to have forgotten long ago about. “We looked at real world hardware to make Firefox look great on any display, and we made sure that Firefox looks an...

Now Send And Receive Money Via Apple Pay Cash On iPhones

8Nov By AnkitaNo Comments

Tech

Now Send And Receive Money Via Apple Pay Cash On iPhones

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]pple has today launched a user-to-user payments system ,which is at the beta stage now, where users can send payments to each other on iMessage. The program launched today will be available on iOS 11.2 beta 2, and users can opt in the iOS public beta program if they wish to test the feature and provide feedback. Once updated, an Apple Pay button will be available in the apps section of iMessaage that will allow the initiation of the payment. Payments can also be triggered by simply asking for money in a message or tapping on a message sent by someone else asking for money. Although, this program is only available for US users running iOS 11.2 or later. Any transaction that will be carried out will charge the user's Debit/credit card with no additional fee c...