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The Air Quality Index (AQI) is a measure of how healthy (or unhealthy) the air is, i.e., whether it’s “Good”, “Moderate”, “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups”, “Unhealthy”, “Very Unhealthy”, or “Hazardous”. It will also provide guidance for outdoor activities based on the AQI when the information was last updated and links to learn more. “When you’re visiting a new place or planning outdoor activities, it can be helpful to know the air quality conditions — like whether it’s unusually smoggy....

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has discovered publicly available court documents that revealed the government has asked Google’s assistance to help the federal authorities hack into at least nine locked Android smartphones citing the 1789 law called the All Writs Act. The devices include phones from Alcatel, Kyocera, and Samsung, many of which shipped without the default device encryption that blocked the use of traditional forensic tools in the San Bernardino case....

Meanwhile, Google has also been working on improving its WearOS. That said, watches running on WearOS are not as feature-rich and reliable as Apple Watches. To compete with Apple Watches, Google will be paying Fossil $40 million to buy the company’s smartwatch-related intellectual property. So here’s everything you need to know about Google’s attempt to compete with Apple Watch. ALSO READ: Google Chrome’s Dark Mode For macOS To Arrive In Early 2019...

For those unaware, one of the interesting features introduced in Microsoft’s Windows 11 is its ability to support Android apps, which means it can run Android apps and games. “Google Play has helped billions of people find and play their favorite games across multiple platforms, including on mobile, tablets and ChromeOS. Starting in 2022, players will be able to experience their favorite Google Play games on more devices: seamlessly switching between a phone, tablet, Chromebook, and soon, Windows PCs,” Greg Hartrell, Product Director, Games on Android and Google Play, said in a statement....

It hopes that the visuals will aide the monster hunters in their adventures to finding Loch Ness monster. Upon visiting the Google Maps Loch Ness page the users will find panoramic view of the Urquhart Castle from the Loch Ness Lake. When searching the loch, users of the site will find Google’s yellow Pegman icon changes to a Nessie “peg-monster”. The Loch Ness monster is monster that reputedly inhabits the Loch Ness lake in the Scottish Highlands....

Another Goxing scandal hits Bitcoin community : The real story behind the Mintpal accquisition gone wrongThe beginning The DealThe FalloutAll of this occurred within a time span of a few daysEnd of story : Net effect another Goxing The beginning Mintpal, in its older version called Mintpal V1, was a beautiful system for crypto currency exchange. It was fast and good looking, but it lacked on the security front. An individual named Alex Green, claiming to be a security expert who had previously worked for Citibank....

A lot of heat is generated by the engine of a running vehicle such as car, a bike, and even a computer. Under normal condition this heat gets wasted; however just wonder if this heat is harvested and used to recharge the batteries of car or power the car’s air-conditioning, would it make some difference? Yes, of course this would bring a significant change in the next generation of automotive industry as this technology of converting heat into electricity would lead to lesser consumption of the fuel....

Angry over killing his online character in Grand Theft Auto, a gamer drives 50 miles and threatens to kill his brotherThe two brothers had been playing the crime game when one of the brothers killed the other’s character A gamer was forced to call police after his brother turned up with a baseball bat at his house and threatened to murder him because he had killed his Grand Theft Auto character....

Eltgroth a 26 year-old hacker from Texas was arrested on Sunday for reprogramming an electronic highway sign to read “DRIVE CRAZY YALL.” As we have reported over the years, hacking highway signs, billboards, advertising boards are pretty commonplace in US but Eltgroth seems to have hacked and defaced the highway sign at a wrong time and wrong place. Texas police has charged Eltgroth with an unlikely penalty: charges of felony criminal mischief, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison....

On July 7, Deric Lostutter, who went by the name KYAnonymous online and associated himself with the hacker group Anonymous, was indicted by a federal grand jury on four felony counts, including charges of hacking and making false statements to authorities. In 2013, Lostutter and an unnamed co-conspirator who went by the online name JustBatCat, reportedly leaked evidence that shed light on a 2012 Ohio rape case, in which a 16-year-old girl from West Virginia was raped by two Steubenville High School football players....

Brian also says that the cyber criminal gang which hacked Book2Park seems to be the same gang which hacked Target and Home Depot and stole more than 100 million credit and debit cards from them. Brian reports that a new batch of credit card numbers [dubbed “Denarius“] went up for sale on Rescator[dot]cm last week. Rescator is a online bazaar that earned became famous or rather infamous by selling the credit and debit cards stolen from Target and Home Depot....

“It was kind of an impulse. I had been looking into printers for a while prior to this, about a few months before. I saw multiple articles about printers, and it invoked my curiosity again, and yeah, it went from there,” the hacker told The Register. The hacker printed a warning for the internet-connected users who were using their printing devices without any firewall protection. This is the main reason why almost any hacker can exploit them, said the hacker....

If you own an iPhone, update it right now even as you read this article because it can be hacked using three zero-days. According to news reports, an Emirati human rights activist named Ahmed Mansoor’s iPhone was hacked using one of the three zero-days an. Mansoor reportedly received an SMS message which promised new details of torture in the country’s state prisons, along with a link to follow if he was interested....

Hackers can exploit the vulnerabilities of Industrial Ethernet Switches and take control over Nuclear Power Plants or the Hydroelectric Dams.What is an Industrial Ethernet Switch and why is it so very important? As per the The Daily Dot, the security researchers would be uncovering the entire details of the vulnerabilities present in the IES at the BlackHat cyber security conference which will be held next week in Las Vegas. What is an Industrial Ethernet Switch and why is it so very important?...

To answer that, Hashcat and oclHashcat went open source in order to allow penetration testers and forensic scientists alike to not only add, but to modify algorithms without compromising any sensitive information, which is obviously being passwords. Previously, Hashcast was not present for Apple’s OS X and was only supported by OpenCL (AMD processors) and CUDA (NVIDIA processors) and was available for Linux and Windows platforms. Apple does not allow offline compiling of kernel code, but now that the project has gone open source, users will be able to compile the GPU kernels and use oclHashcat on OS X without breaking a sweat....

Here are some great websites for compiling and executing your code onlineIDEOneCodePadCompile-OnlineJDoodle IDEOne Ideone is an online compiler and debugging tool which allows you to compile source code and execute it online in more than 60 programming languages. These include C, C++, C#, Objective C, Java, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Ada, COBOL, FORTRAN, Bash(Bash is a shell used in Linux) etc.’ CodePad codepad.org is an online compiler/interpreter, and a simple collaboration tool....

Blizzard’s Overwatch: All You Need To Know Before Starting The GameGameplayGame modesPlotSub-plot Gameplay Blizzard developers have striven to make Overwatch as enjoying as making it playable yet difficult. One of the intriguing changes Blizzard has brought to Overwatch is a departure from the developer’s previous hits, in which players usually viewed the world from a god-like, third-person perspective. Overwatch features squad-based combat with two opposing teams of six players each.Players choose one of several hero characters, each with their own unique abilities and role classes....

Unlike the like button, now Facebook users can give a any one of six emotional votes on the posts in their timeline. You can now “love,” “haha,” “wow,” “sad” or “angry” something with cute emojis. You can “wow” a friend’s appalling Tinder screengrab, send them a “sad” for emotional support during a period of anxiety or just “haha” their wack memes in sympathy. And Hong Kong’s Leung fell prey to the new reactions when thousands of users are showing their dislike clicking “angry” on his official Facebook entries....

Wesley Wineberg has blogged about his efforts on the Synack Labs website. He has been recognised by Microsoft in its official hall of fame of award winners for his help in protecting its online services. According to Microsoft, his work was celebrated between June and July 2015 and before. However, the amount of the reward has not been listed by Microsoft. Wineberg started his research by analysing how an attack on Hotmail, now known as Outlook....