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This year Google has released its list of the most searched terms of 2015. To get a perspective of the enormous data that is sifted through to make this list available, users make over over 3.5 billion searches are made on Google everyday — around 1.2 trillion per year — and the company combs through these to compile a list of the most popular. The list is a good way to measure what happened during the year and includes a mix of news events, films, celebrities, and apps....

According to the researcher, the first technique that can track down a Tor user is the speed at which they scroll through a page using their mouse wheel. This is definitely an effective way to track down movements, but what if there are millions of users who potentially have the same mouse scrolling speed? Turns out that an attacker could still identify patterns in the scroll events based on each individual’s idiosyncrasies....

NASA just announced that it is making all its publicly funded research available online for free. In other words, any published research funded by the space agency will now be available at no cost on a new portal called PubSpace, than anybody can access. NASA-funded research articles such as the effects of space station living on the hair follicles of astronauts to the chances of life on one of Saturn’s moons can now be found by the public on the new portal....

The vulnerability in AFNetworking code library which lets hackers perform the MiTM attacks was uncovered by SourceDNA. Cult of Mac reports that the older AFNetworking code library version had the vulnerability and has been fixed in version 2.5.2 but several App developers have not updated their Apps, leaving them open to attack. SourceDNA scanned around 1.4 million apps available on the Apple App Store and found out that around 1,500 Apps were not updated to the latest version of the AFNetworking code library....

Now a question may arise in your mind what is this “Bootkit”? According to Doctor Web this malware has been detected on more than 3,50,000 android mobile device around the world. there are 92 percent of the devices which are compromised devices are located in china. This malware doesn’t spread by simply Opening Attachments or browsing the Web. This malware is deployed by the physical access to device. Doctor Web explains that a device is first infected by adding Trojan component in boot partition of the file system and when the device is started the Trojan component loads and build itself and infect the device The Good thing is that this malware is mostly found in android device of Chinese manufacturer and Bad thing is that this malware is very difficult to remove....

However, there is a notable change. The mini-console will come with a replica version of the original NES controller, and packed with 30 built-in games, including classics like Super Mario Bros 1, 2 and 3, The Legend of Zelda, Punch Out, Balloon Fight, Castlevania, Final Fantasy, Donkey Kong, Bubble Bobble and more. The NES packs has much smaller form factor this time around, and judging by the promo shots it sits neatly in the palm of your hand....

A Samsung factory in China caught fire on Wednesday due to faulty batteries and other waste products. The incident took place at the Samsung SDI plant, located in the northern city of Tianjin in China. Samsung SDI is the affiliate responsible for designing and manufacturing the company’s batteries. A spokesman for Samsung SDI told that it was a “minor fire” that took place in a waste deposit area of the factor....

The office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a statement that according to a law passed by Congress in early June, the bulk telephony data that was the subject of leaks by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden surprising many in the US and abroad would be destroyed “as soon as possible” to comply with the law. The statement said that during the 180-day transition period needed under the USA Freedom Act, “analytic access to that historical metadata… will cease on November 29, 2015....

— Greymon55 (@greymon55) July 7, 2021 This rumor corroborates with a leaked laptop roadmap from Lenovo featuring an upcoming ThinkPad X1 Extreme G4 gaming laptop that would feature either Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Super or RTX 3070 Super. Currently, there is no information on the specs of the upcoming RTX 30 Super series GPUs. However, it is rumored that RTX 3080 Super and RTX 3070 Super GPUs will allegedly retain the same memory capacity configuration as GA104 based models, which is either 8GB or 16GB of GDDR6 memory....

Now OnePlus has announced that its OnePlus One smartphones is available for purchase online without the requirements of ‘Invite’. The OnePlus One Invite was very much sought after in world tech forums and Facebook pages and is being sold/bartered at a premium. With this announcement the OnePlus One and its forthcoming OnePlus Two smartphones will be available to users without the mandatory invite. OnePlus had followed a policy of selling the OnePlus One handset via an invite-only system up to now but the company is opening up the smartphone sales for all users to buy through the more traditional channel for 24 hours each week....

Immediately after Twitter’s Jack Dorsey announced that it will be shutting down Vine, the adult site has quickly jumped in to rescue the six-sec video service. In a letter from Pornhub VP Corey Price to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Price stated that, Pornhub’s Price also told Dorsey that it will restore Vine to its pristine ‘NSFW glory.’ adding that the six-second video platform is perfectly suited for its operations. Price says that clips “of porn in six seconds is more than enough time for most people to enjoy themselves....

With more than a million members, the invite-only torrent site is facing a criminal investigation being supervised by the Prosecutor’s Office of the High Court of Cassation and Justice. Founded in 2007, Romania-based Filelist.ro saw between 7.5 million and 10 million monthly visits this year, according to SimilarWeb stats. Currently, when a user tries to access the site’s main domain (Filelist.ro), it displays the following message (translated in English) confirming that it is facing a criminal investigation: This domain name is seized in accordance with the provisions of art....

PUBG Mobile Can Make a Miraculous return The bone of contention has been the mobile game’s connection with the Tencent corporation, a Chinese tech-giant. PUBG Mobile Can Make a Miraculous return Call of Duty Mobile allegedly followed a Similar Route However, that is not the case anymore, as PUBG Corp is distancing itself from Tencent to make a comeback in India. PUBG Corp is a South Korean company, which partnered with Tencent in its nascent stage for their global ambitions....

Inspired by classic home computers like BBC Micros, ZX Spectrums, Commodore Amigas, and others, Raspberry Pi has integrated the motherboard directly into the keyboard for Pi 400. The Raspberry Pi 400 is powered by a quad-core 64-bit processor (an Arm Cortex-A72 CPU running at 1.8GHz) with 4GB of LPDDR4-3200 RAM. It also features Bluetooth 5.0 wireless display, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Gigabit Ethernet port, two USB 3.0 ports and one USB 2....

Prior to this, touchscreen support was provided either by using customized Linux kernels for distributions like Raspbian, a Debian-based computer operating system for Raspberry Pi devices or by custom kernel patching. Instead of HDMI, the Raspberry Pi touchscreen connects via the DSI port with power provided via GPIO pins. The touchscreen drivers will support 10-finger touch and other basic features. With now Raspberry Pi receiving support for the touchscreen, it can be used to make a DIY tablet or any other smart devices that need display....

Now, the Irvine-based company has announced its plans to manufacture and ship the concept N95 face mask. “We were thinking, this is a concept project and is this going to be relevant when vaccinations and everything has been rolled out,” said Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan while speaking in an interview with Yahoo Finance. “I think moving forward we decided — and I can tell you now — we are going to proceed in making it a reality and ship the smart mask....

Reliance Jio which is owned by India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani has unleashed brutal price war for Internet market in India to take on the existing players. The service from JIO is all set to be opened for all in coming days as the company finishes up with testing phase. The company is going to announce the tariff plans for its broadband service just as they did with 4G services....

Back in May, Microsoft Edge senior program manager Crispin Cowan made some bold predictions in the blog post Microsoft Edge: Building a safer browser. In the blog, Cowan assured us that: The article goes on at length to describe how Edge will be better than the bad, old IE, “including industry-leading sandboxing, compiler, and memory management techniques developed in close partnership with Windows.” Leohard writes that Patch Tuesday released by Microsoft yesterday and last month confirms his belief that Edge is carrying forward the IE vulnerabilities....

The groundbreaking research was led by Professor Magnus Berggren, Linköping University’s Strategic Research Centre for Organic Bioelectronics director and Organic Electronics professor. The team at Laboratory of Organic Electronics (LOE) is hopeful that the cutting-edge research would give birth to organic electronics and new tools. The team with the help of synthetic polymers managed to use the vascular system of rose stems to build the basic parts of electronic circuits inside the plant....