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Researchers added that a massive asteroid banged into the ocean off Mexico some 66 million years ago “rang the Earth like a bell” triggered enormous volcanic eruptions around the globe was the main cause of disaster and extinction of many species. They further argued that the impact was likely responsible for triggering the massive eruptions of lava in India that is now referred to as the Deccan Traps. The researchers have elucidated a close coincidence between the Deccan Traps eruptions and the impact....

However, Asus has silently revealed a direct successor to the Pegasus X002, which was announced last year. Nicknamed as the Pegasus 2 Plus X550, the smartphone was exhibited at a Chinese exhibition in Nanjing on Saturday. The Asus Pegasus 2 Plus features a 5.5-inch full-HD (1080×1920 pixels) display. It has 3GB of RAM and is powered by the 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 octacore SoC. It comes with 16GB or 32GB of internal storage depending on which version you choose....

Today they leaked database from Russian Republic Bank, well we still don’t know if they got it themselves or simply copied it from someone else. and that is because few hours before they posted the leaked data, same data was posted by Other hacker team Xhàcker TN, the difference in data leak was more than 1 hours, with Xhàcker TN leaking it before Palestine Elite Force.Here are some of the screenshots that can show the time difference:...

“Facebook never lets an opportunity to gather more information about us pass,” a post on Belgian’s official police website reads. “The [reactions] icons help not only express your feelings, they also help Facebook assess the effectiveness of ads on your profile.” “One more reason to not rush to click if you want to protect your privacy,” the police statement ended. In February this year, Facebook had released reaction emojis to users around the world....

All the information about pros and cons of this company, its features, and options you can get in the ibVPN review on company’s website. Pros of this provider: You can use this VPN service for about $3 per month; Servers in more than 40 countries around the world; Opportunity to ask for refund during 14 days; Possibility to connect two devices at the same time; It can be used on Mac, Windows, Android, iPhone, Linux and some others; Support for more than 4 protocols for better security; Opportunity to use Live Chat....

BitCannon developers hope to fill this void with their open source tool. BitCannon aspires to bring torrent site preservation into the hands of everyone with a PC. The behind BitCannon say that the idea is pretty easy. BitCannon software allows user and torrent fans to download and import torrent site contents into a database hosted on a local machine. Once the torrent websites details are saved onto the PC, the users can browse and surf for the torrents pretty much the same way they do with online torrents sites....

On November 24 (Tuesday), the price of the world’s most widely traded cryptocurrency was trading above $19,300. However, the crypto began to fall at rates with the price sliding from $18,824 at 2 a.m. Thursday to $16,857 by 9 a.m., according to data from industry site CoinDesk. Antoni Trenchev, a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Nexo, a large crypto lender, told CNBC: “Long term I don’t see anything derailing Bitcoin’s irrevocable rise higher....

According to local news outlet Tass (translation), Dmitry Fedotov, aka “Paunch,” who is well known as creator of Blackhole exploit kit is among those convicted. Fedotov was arrested in October 2013 by Russian authorities together with twelve other suspects. Fedotov who is well known in underground forums as ‘Paunch’ is the master coder behind the dangerous Blackhole exploit kit. Paunch made the kit available to cyber criminals on a rental scheme for years on the dark web underground forums....

However, Microsoft itself has announced yesterday that the latest cumulative update comes with a known bug that makes several PCs very slow once it is installed on Windows 10. Fortunately, there’s a possible fix if your PC is affected. Microsoft’s John Wink, Senior Program Manager Lead working on Windows 10 updates, said on Reddit that “if you find that your PC is abnormally slow after installing the update, you may be seeing a problem that I’ve been trying to track down for a couple of weeks....

Exactly fifteen minutes after posting the comment on FB he went into a branch of Tesco at King’s Lynn with a knife and demanded cash. After stealing around £410 ($600), he also used the knife point to steal a car from a retired couple who had come to Tesco to use the ATM. Police tracked Hennells down to a nearby pub where he still had the knife, as well as £410 he had stolen....

Joe McCloskey operated a Facebook page called ‘Keeping Our Kids Safe From Predators 2’ with the purpose of naming and shaming child abusers in public and acting as a deterrent for such kind of acts. However based on a complaint filed by man identified only as CG, Mr.Justice Stephens held that Facebook will have to pay £20,000 ($30000) in damages to CG. The judge also held the page operator, McCloskey equally liable for misusing private information and ordered the closure of the ‘Keeping Our Kids Safe From Predators 2’ Facebook page....

The DoJ made the submission in the second circuit court of appeals is between the US and Microsoft over the US government’s right to demand user emails from Microsoft held on a Hotmail server in Ireland. Microsoft holds the position that the United State government has no right over the emails as they are hosted in a country outside the jurisdiction of US. Big tech firms and media houses like Apple, the government of Ireland, Fox News, NPR and the Guardian have filed amicus briefs with the federal court, arguing the case could set a precedent for governments around the world to seize information held in the cloud....

An ethical hacker, who goes by the username of @cowereth has revisited the issue that was reported a year back on Github as a bug. It was brushed under the carpet then due to various overlapping reasons. The Issue at Hand – Again DuckDuckGo stores the favicons(a small website icon that shows in the address bar or bookmark tabs) of the websites on a different internal server hosted at a subdomain icons....

Apparently, this man who left backdoors in the websites he developed has left email accounts of 20,000 people being hacked, warns law enforcement. The Leeuwarden man portrayed himself as a legitimate webmaster building e-commerce sites, but instead stole customer logins using the backdoor. A notice published by Dutch police says that “Various companies used him to build sites with web shop functionality. The man was able to capture usernames and passwords by installing a special script....

How do you listen to your audio? Headphones have been around for ages, and although you’ve probably been through a few different styles, little has changed in the actual parts that count, the drivers. The best standard drivers are tuned to sound great and have diaphragms engineered to widen frequency range. With all this tech you still can’t beat the physical limitations of a single driver. When a single driver is pressed to produce a full range, it will distort much easier than if it was only covering a smaller range....

Margrethe Vestager, EU Antitrust Chief who is in charge of the competition policy, said that the U.S. tech giant has been unlawfully using Android’s near-monopoly since 2011 to improve usage of its own search engine and browser and to strengthen its dominant position in general Internet search. “Today the commission has decided to fine Google 4.34 billion euros (USD 5 billion) for breaching EU antitrust rules,” Vestager told a press conference in Brussels....

Apparently, too much smartphone usage could cause convergent strabismus. Strabismus, commonly known as cross-eyed or wall-eyed, is a vision condition in which someone cannot align both eyes concurrently under normal conditions. One or both of the eyes may turn in, out, up or down. The study also found that the children held smartphones too close to their face. During the study, it was noted that the children were holding smartphones eight to twelve inches from their face....

Facebook officially launches its dating service in ColumbiaHow Does Facebook Dating Works?Facebook Dating feature now rolling out in Columbia For those unaware, Facebook had originally announced the feature at the F8 developer conference in May this year. The online Facebook Dating feature will allow people able to create a dating profile that is separate from their Facebook profile – and potential matches will be recommended based on dating preferences, things in common, and mutual friends....

According to Cjrobe, it all began when he sent a Google Sheet link comprising of his work portfolio with “anyone with the link can view” permission to his brother through Facebook Messenger using his web browser. However, the link displayed an error, “Sorry, this feature isn’t available right now” instead of getting delivered to his brother. It yielded the same result for Cjrobe when he tried sending the link after a while....

How does this Facebook bug work: The bug discovered by Melamed is similar to another bug made public by a security researcher, Pranav Hivarekar. Hivarekar had discovered a way to attach theFacebook victim’s video to a comment in order to delete it. In order to exploit this vulnerability, Melamed first created a public event on the Facebook page and uploaded a video on the Discussion part of the event. While uploading the video, Melamed tampered with the POST request and replaced the Video ID value on his video with the Video ID value of any other video on the social media platform....