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Created by the OpenSignal team, WiFiMapper is powered by almost 500 million global hotspots and it itself picks up the best free Wi-Fi spots. They have remixed their Wi-Fi data with others, such as Foursquare, so you not only can find the best free nearby hotspots, but also find out how good the coffee is. It can save users money on their roaming charges and data plan. It allows users to see Foursquare ratings of the location and receive Foursquare and WifiMapper comments about each of the venues, and it will even give you performance information about the hotspot before you begin using it....

They say that you can never expect a favor from the corporate world without them getting some profit. Oracle seems to be shutting shop on Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and has now decided to open source it. After earning millions from Java EE, now Oracle seems to have realized that it needs to move on. As per reports Oracle is saying goodbye to Java EE (Enterprise Edition) and has decided to outsource it to an open source foundation, as the company plans to evaluate different ways to enhance the development process of Java EE....

For those unaware, Nites.tv has a huge catalogue of films and a never-ending supply of classics, and offers more than 30,000 movies and over 100 live TV channels for free. The streaming website started gaining significant traction a few months ago but received a major setback when it suddenly disappeared around April 19. It was replaced by the familiar ‘seizure’ notice of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), a coalition of some 30 major global entertainment companies and film studios aimed at protecting profits from copyrighted material....

The original app suddenly started functioning again today — and received an update titled “Hail Hydra” with a number of bug fixes. Ironically, part of the infrastructure used for the surprise return is owned and controlled by the MPAA. Late last year the main Popcorn Time fork, operating from the PopcornTime.io domain name, shut down its website unexpectedly. The MPAA took credit for the fall announcing that it had filed a lawsuit against several of the developers in Canada....

Pro-Palestine hackers AnonGhost allegedly funded multiple Palestinian charities with money stolen from credit cards belonging to Israeli citizens.#OpIsrael paying off One of the key member and founder of AnonGhost, Mauritania Attacker told the Daily Dot that the group had paid out roughly $18,000 to an unspecified number of Palestinian charities using stolen cards on Tuesday. #OpIsrael paying off The Anonymous chapter belonging to Middle-East had launched #OpIsrael after promising a ‘Electronic Holocaust‘ on Israeli websites on 7th April....

The rally was for Valery Kalachev, a candidate for the Russian Parliament, who had rented the robot named Promobot for his campaign. Mr Kalachev has featured the robot at previous campaign stops. Promobot, is a Russian marketing robot and stands for Promotional Robot. They were created by Russian scientists to work in customer relations. While police did not confirm why they detained Promobot, but local media was reporting the company behind the robot said police were called because it was “recording voters’ opinions on [a] variety of topics for further processing and analysis by the candidate’s team”....

On the other hand, there is a feed over Instagram named ‘Rich Kids of Instagram’ and it is used as a platform to inspire the rich kids to create envious moments with the picture they upload. Some of the pictures features young and filthy rich brats in their private jets and yachts, while the other shows them horrendous amounts of champagne on each other. There is no doubt that in the years to come, this subject will become more famous and spoken about turning it into a sociological document....

Marcel Lehel Laz?r, widely known as Guccifer or Little Fume, is responsible for number of high level security breaches involving both current and former members of US Government. Just after three years after his debut on the world hacking stage, he is being sent to USA for prosecution of numerous illegal hacking activities. He is currently undergoing a sentence of four years and after his eighteen months in America, he will be brought back to Romania to complete his existing sentence....

The OS maker stated that the Russian hacking group known as Strontium (also commonly known as APT28 or Fancy Bear) was responsible for the new attack that took place in April. This group is also claimed to be responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee (DMC) in 2016, for the NotPetya attacks against Ukraine in 2017, and targeting political groups in Europe and North America throughout 2018. In April this year, security researchers in the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center, one of the OS maker’s cyber-security divisions, discovered that hackers were compromising popular IoT devices such as a VOIP (voice over internet protocol) phone, a connected office printer and a video decoder across multiple customer locations to breach computer networks....

The hackers were so deep into the DNC’s network that they were able to read all email and online chat communications, committee officials and security experts told The Washington Post, which first reported the hack. DNC had called in CrowdStrike to investigate a massive data breach. “They infiltrated the DNC’s network last summer and were monitoring their communications, their email servers, and the like,” CrowdStrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch told NPR....

According to Samsung, the pocket-sized portable SSD T7 Touch is twice as fast as its predecessor, the T5, and up to 9.5 times faster than external HDDs. Moreover, it can also reach its maximum speed when used with the NVMe interface. However, the highlight of the T7 Touch is the built-in fingerprint sensor feature for enhanced security. This is the first time Samsung has offered an integrated fingerprint sensor on SSD....

Samsung Electronics today announced that it has started mass producing 12Gb LPDDR4 RAM chips using its 20nm process technology. Samsung thus became the first company to mass produce such chips. Samsung itself noted in its press release, this will allow the creation of smartphones with 6GB of RAM. Samsung’s LPDDR4 chips are expected to significantly accelerate the adoption of high capacity mobile DRAM worldwide. The 12Gb LPDDR4 will bring largest capacity and highest speed available for a DRAM chip, while offering excellent energy efficiency, reliability and ease of design – all essential to developing next-generation mobile devices....

It might appear to be a regular belt that goes around your waist, but it is far more than that. According to Samsung, WELT stands for wellness belt, and is loaded with sensors that are easily able to sync with your smartphone. So what exactly is the purpose of having so many sensors present in a wearable like a belt? It becomes your fitness companion, and what better way to have a fitness companion than to have one strapped around your waist....

Scientists create electronic long term memory cells thus taking a crucial step towards building Bionic BrainsThe electronic long term memory cell created by researchers can retain and process information simultaneously mimicking the human brains. The electronic long term memory cell built by scientists at MicroNano Research Facility (MNRF) is quite thin almost 10,000 times thinner when compared to human hair due to which it has become infinitely versatile, scientists are much more excited about the “memristive” abilities of these new cells....

So now you can use Facebook Messenger even if you’re not one of the billion users or so people with a Facebook account – or even if you are, and you don’t want to associate your account with your messages. Facebook made this announcement in its official Newsroom blog, encouraging new users to simply use their phone numbers to create new Messenger profile. Interestingly, this is more or less what makes WhatsApp (which Facebook purchased for a staggering $22 billion back in February) appealing to so many people – both platforms are now essentially an end-run around text messages that at least some carriers still charge for....

Sharp has started accepting preorders for its adorable RoBoHoN robot, a 7.7-inch-tall (19.5 centimeter) humanoid that also comes with all the basic features of a smartphone. The company said it plans to release the robots in Japan on May 26 at a price of 198,000 yen — or more than $1,800. RoBoHoN runs on Android 5.0 mobile operating system and comes with 16 gigabytes of storage and an 8-megapixel camera....

Now, based on feedback from the community, Microsoft has added a biggest new feature, which is add support to the Skype app for group video calls. “We’ve lifted the limitation of two participants in an interview,” the company said in a post on the Skype dev blog. “Whether you want to have peer-reviewed interviews or have all aspects of the interview in one consolidated place, it’s as simple as sending interviewers the same link....

In short, the Xbox One prank can be described as the perfect way to get revenge. The story starts all the way back to 2007 when a YouTube user known as FPS gamer was ‘pranked’ on his 16th birthday. He narrates the story as follows: While the prank is not something out of the ordinary, we have to say that the Xbox One joke can be described as revenge being the sweetest thing ever....

So here’s everything you need to know about Spotify’s launch in India. ALSO, READ: How Spotify Premium APK Works, Is Downloading It Legal? Spotify Launched In India Last year Spotify CEO Daniel Ek announced that Spotify will be soon launched in India. Surprisingly, Spotify was silently launched in India on Tuesday evening. Consequently, users can now directly download and install Spotify application from the Google PlayStore. Spotify Launched In IndiaSpotify Launched In India: Subscription Pricing...

Once the victim visits such malicious websites, the vulnerabilities can lead to remote code execution on almost all devices that run Android, starting with version 1.0 of the OS released in 2008 to the latest 5.1.1, researchers from mobile security firm Zimperium said in a report scheduled to be published Thursday. Earlier Drake published details in August about critical Android vulnerabilities in the Stagefright media playback engine, he had promised there would be more issues in Android operating system....