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A student in NYU OSIRIS security lab, who is only known as b0n0n, has found a way to jailbreak the first-generation or version 1 of Microsoft Band. Given as a school project, he figured out how the Band client software communicated. It also paves the way for “third-party” improvements that could be added by the developer community. As he describes in a post on his blog, his jailbreaking method essentially allows for serving the Microsoft Band a modified update file, which could principally mean that the device might acquire some other functionality that’s filled into custom binary files....

Looks like the Japanese company Suidobashi Heavy Industry has finally given its consent to the giant robot fighting challenge from US rival MegaBots Inc. Kogoro Kurata, founder of Suidobashi said: “Yeah, I’ll fight. Absolutely.” Kurata, who designed and built Suidobashi’s 4-ton mech robot, said: “We can’t let another country win this. Giant robots are Japanese culture.” It is unfortunate that neither MegaBots nor Suidobashi have provided any additional details as to where and when would the fight take place....

What were you doing when you were a 15-year-old? Probably studying hard to make good grades and enter a decent college. When most kids are busy with their academics, a whiz kid hacker was making $$$s with his DDoS tool. Adam Mudd used his hacking and coding skills to wreak vengeance all across the world from Greenland to Newzealand. As a 15-year-old, Mudd reported earned $500,000 from his nefarious activities which caused mayhem amongst Xbox Live users, and players of the computer games Runescape and Minecraft....

The victim, Ty Greer, 16, was using the device in a car last week in Lethbridge when the e-cigarette exploded. “It lit my kid’s face on fire, busted two teeth out,” Perry Greer, Ty’s father said Wednesday. “It burned the back of his throat, burned his tongue very badly. If he wasn’t wearing glasses, he possibly could have lost his eyes.” Greer said the family raced Ty to hospital. He remembers hugging his son as he squirmed in agony waiting for a dose of morphine to kick in....

The confirmation from Gadkari comes after Tesla CEO Elon Musk had said through an earlier tweet that the company would enter India in 2021. He was replying to a tweet from a handle called Tesla Club India about when the company plans to bring its vehicles to the country. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 2, 2020 In an interview with The Indian Express on Tuesday, Gadkari said that the country is focusing on developing electric cars and added that a lot of Indian firms companies, including Tata and Ola Cabs, are also working on electric vehicles....

The P versus NP problem is a major unsolved problem in computer science. Informally, it asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified by a computer can also be quickly solved by a computer. It was essentially first mentioned in a 1956 letter written by Kurt Gödel to John von Neumann. Gödel asked whether a certain NP-complete problem could be solved in quadratic or linear time. The precise statement of the P versus NP problem was introduced in 1971 by Stephen Cook in his seminal paper “The complexity of theorem proving procedures” and is considered by many to be the most important open problem in the field....

The leak was Announced From his twitter Account today, The tweet contains the link to the paste containing the database. The data contains Name, User Rank, password and email, Although the passwords are in encrypted format but it can be decryted easily by online tools. Paste here Also read an Exclusive online Interview with DomainerAnon Don’t be a silent user let us know what do you think about it in comments below 🙂

Created by augmented reality specialist Niantic Inc, the developer behind Google’s experimental AR game Ingress, it’s a massive-multiplayer, location-based spin-off from the role-playing fantasy series. The ease of playing Pokemon Go has meant that it became the game of the decade for Nintendo and quickly jumped to the top slot on Google Play Store as well as Apple’s store. Using a player’s smartphone camera and GPS signal, the game makes it seem as if wild Pokémon are cropping up on the streets of the real world....

Here is how Alan Turing became the real hero for cracking the Nazi codeThe Enigma machine was a very confusing contraption, but here is how the unbreakable Nazi code story was formed So how was this any different compared to the contraptions present in banks or financial institutions? This German machine had an additional layer of encoding. At the front of the machine was something called as a plugboard, which looked like a small switchboard....

A Manhattan couple is suing their lawyer, whose AOL email account was hacked, causing the couple to wire a $1.9 million down payment to an account taken over by scammers. Robert Millard, a managing partner at Realm Partners, and his wife, Bethany, blame their real estate attorney, Patricia Doran, for “cybercriminals” stealing the 10 percent deposit intended for a Manhattan co-op they were buying for $19.4 million, according to a new lawsuit filed in New York State Supreme Court....

Tommy DeVoss, a Facebook bug bounty hunter, couldn’t have asked for a better gift from Santa this Christmas. Last week, the social media giant paid him $5,000 for finding out a security vulnerability that gave him access to view the private email addresses of any Facebook user. “The hack allowed me to harvest as many email addresses as I wanted from anybody on Facebook,” DeVoss said. “It didn’t matter how private you thought your email address was – I could have grabbed it....

Nji Collins Gbah, who resides in a small, rural town far outside the capital of Cameroon, is Africa’s first Google Code-in champion. Google Code-in is a contest open to students around the world, aged 13 to 17. What makes this champion different is that Collins used the knowledge he gained from two years of learning how to code by reading books along with online resource to beat his 1,299 other young adult competitors from around the world who have regular access to wireless networks in order to win the competition....

The brains behind the Flowing Data website, Nathan Yau has created an interactive graphic that envisions how and when you are most likely to die. The statistics was collected by Yau from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s database that looked into the primary causes of death in the United States between 1999 and 2014. As Yau clarifies on the Flowing Data site: “Enter your sex, race, and age....

— Rudy Huyn (@RudyHuyn) January 7, 2016 The reason for this is that Snapchat originally stated that the removal of third-party apps was needed due to security concerns and targeted all platforms, but in the end, only Windows Phone was affected. Huyn successfully managed to create a Snapchat client called 6snap, but it was ultimately removed for the very same reason. Huyn explains the following, though he does state that he was not allowed to speak on the matter at all otherwise he could have been met with a serious lawsuit on his hands....

In order to make it possible, he used his computer and LED lights to design the program, and then connected his computer to the bookshelf, so that each section of the bookshelf could be programmed to play Tetris. Check out video below to believe it.

Originally called as Magic cube, Rubik’s Cube is a 3-D combination puzzle, which was invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ern? Rubik. In a classic Rubik’s Cube, each of the six faces is covered by nine stickers, each of one of six solid colours: white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow. In currently sold models, white is opposite yellow, blue is opposite green, and orange is opposite red, and the red, white and blue are arranged in that order in a clockwise arrangement....

Over the last 10 years, the company has been running a progressing commercial business by catering to owners of dogs, who wish to have their pets forever. Pet owners around the world have utilized the facility to preserve their beloved pets in clone form. Sooam Biotech clones many animals, including cattle and pigs for medical research and breed preservation, but is best known for its commercial dog service. The Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in Seoul headed by Dr Woo Suk Hwong has so far cloned 700 dogs to date and claim they can replicate any dog regardless of its age, size and breed....

Three days after the Masque Attack report, Apple respondsThreat downplayed by ApplePrevious Flaw Threat downplayed by Apple Apple in an official statement downplayed this very serious flaw, which has made users doubt the superior security claims of Apple. “We designed OS X and iOS with built-in security safeguards to help protect customers and warn them before installing potentially malicious software,” an Apple representative said, adding that the company was not aware of its customers actually falling victim to such an attack....

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....

Some of these technologies are quite pricey but very powerful and designed for professionals. We’ll also cover some affordable gadgets that will add easiness to everyday, mundane activities. Apple: Mac Pro This long-awaited tower from apple costs more than some people’s salaries. The computer isn’t meant for your average user and is packed with features for helping you create compelling content. The Mac Pro has a beautiful stainless steel space....