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Launched on August 9, 2016 amid great fanfare on both the Playstation 4 console and PCs, the game received a lukewarm reception, as the incredibly hyped space exploration game debuted with game-breaking bugs. It also did not include important features promised by Hello Games, the independent development studio behind the game. While Hello Games has since released patches to fix the instability, there are still some users who are so dissatisfied with false advertising and empty promises that discussion threads have started coming up with advice on getting a refund for the $60 title....

Now, a second incident involving an iPhone 7 is making the rounds, but this time the smartphone did not go up in flames. According to the photos published by MyDrivers, it clearly shows an iPhone 7 with a faulty battery. However, on a closer look, it seems that the battery is simply “inflated” probably due to external factors like heat or maybe a drop that may have pushed the screen out from the rear shell despite of all the waterproofing used by Apple....

The iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6s Plus will have same 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch screens respectively and will reportedly follow the same external design as the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus. However, Apple would be looking to include a better metal casing to its new smartphones to take care of the bending issue of current iPhones. The introduction of Force Touch pressure-sensitive technology to the new iPhones’ displays will reportedly be the biggest key factor....

3D touch detects how hard a user is pressing on the screen – effectively enabling “right click” style gestures. For instance, a harder press on the camera icon on the iPhone 6S not only just loads the camera app, but also shows a menu that allows you to skip straight to selfie-mode. Since, Apple didn’t include pressure sensor on the iPad Pro’s display like on the Apple Watch, iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, Sood hooked the Apple Pencil pressure data to parts of iOS that drive the 3D Touch engine to mimic 3D Touch....

For months now, rumors have been floating around about upgraded models of Apple’s MacBook Pros. Currently, the updated notebooks are expected to be thinner, and include the strip of capacitive touch keys beneath an OLED screen for function keys, and USB Type-C for faster data transfer and various other connectivity uses, including charging. Apart from these details, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has now come up with few more details on the new range of MacBook Pro models....

The lawsuit alleged that the company was aware that its butterfly keys were prone to failure but concealed this fact from the customers. The proposed preliminary settlement, which still requires a judge’s approval, was filed in the federal court in San Jose, California on late Monday night. For those unaware, the so-called “butterfly” keyboard was developed and introduced as an innovation with the 2015 12-inch MacBook, to make the laptops look thinner....

According to Apple, M1 Pro and M1 Max are the most powerful chips that the company has ever built, delivering unprecedented performance and power efficiency. “Scaling up M1’s transformational architecture, M1 Pro offers amazing performance with industry-leading power efficiency, while M1 Max takes these capabilities to new heights,” Apple said in its press release on Monday. Let’s have a look at the specifications of M1 Pro and M1 Max: CPU Performance Vs....

Oxygen saturation, or SpO2, represents the percentage of oxygen being carried by red blood cells from the lungs to the rest of the body and indicates how well this oxygenated blood is being delivered throughout the body. The majority of people have a blood oxygen level of 95 – 99%. How Does Apple’s Blood Oxygen App Work? The Blood Oxygen app on Apple Watch 6 Series allows you to measure the oxygen level of your blood on-demand directly from your wrist....

Though no hack is suspected because EA had been having issues with the servers two days ago but a tweet from a Twitter handle KEEMSTARx raises certain eyebrows since this handle tweets the latest news of Lizard Squad. The Lizard Squad official twitter handles have been suspended by Twitter after the Taylor Swift hacking incident. https://twitter.com/KEEMSTARx/status/564311273270419456 Users and gamers are using the hashtag #EADown to make their displeasure known at not being able to play FIFA 15 and FUT online....

The vulnerability was discovered by serial bug finder and Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy. Ormandy has reported, the AVG Web TuneUp extension which is auto installed when a user installs AVG anti-virus and has little over nine million users on its Chrome Web Store page, was vulnerable to XSS (cross-site scripting) attacks. Ormandy says that potential hacker who is aware of this vulnerability could access a user’s cookies, browsing history, and various other details....

The eerie incident happened in ING Bank’s main data center located in Bucharest, Romania. The trigger for the incident was a failed fire extinguishing test which set a fire in the data center premises. But what happened next was a rare and shocking phenomenon never witnessed before. People heard a loud sound of inert gas being released and the next thing that happened shocked the data center employees as well as service engineers....

Yesterday in the BBC 4’s You and Yours programme, the reporter revealed how easily he accessed the bank account of the show’s producer, by informing the producer’s mobile provider he wished to swap similar cards. Using this trick, the reporter effectively changed the registered mobile number associated with the bank account. Once done, he was able to access the banking portal belonging to his producer. Banks often use mobile phones for two-factor authentication, where a user receives a text message code they need to enter into their online bank account to reset login details....

BBC to give free Micro Bit computers to children to help them write codes and test themFlashing lightsSales plan The device that features a programmable array of red LED lights has a built-in motion sensor and two buttons that were not considered in the prototype displayed in March. However, this change leaves no slot for a thin battery anymore, which in turn may reduce its appeal as a wearable device. To use it as a standalone product, an add-on power pack fitted with AA batteries will be required....

1.Notepadqq Being a clone of Notepad++, its no surprise to many to see this at the top of the list. With the look and popular functionalities being exactly same, this is a definite recommendation. You can check it out for yourself here. Installation Steps: 2. Gedit ( Gnome Text Editor ) This is one such text editor that a few users must be familiar with already, since it comes in-built with Ubuntu....

Techworm has the image of the hacked webpage. The images posted on the defaced face are very denigrative in nature hence we cant publish them here. However the hack comes at a time when the polls in India are going to start from today and whole of India is in a election frenzy. A Complaint has been lodged with ‘B’ division police over the incident, and the website is back to normal now....

He had reportedly bought the 64GB variant of the iPhone 6 from a leading mobile shop for Rs.60,000 ($950). The smartphone reportedly blew up on June 20, just two days after he had bought the handset according to report. Since, Yadav was using the phone on hands-free mode, it saved him from injury his face. During the phone call, the iPhone began sparking and became extremely hot, he said. He somehow managed to grasp the device and throw it out the window, where it exploded upon hitting the ground....

Once governments start to implement the necessary measures to pay back their colossal coronavirus relief debts, rising inflation and bearish stocks could see investors start to seek more opportunities to hedge their losses. One asset class that has never had to weather a global economic recession is cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin was born out of the last global financial crisis in 2008/2009, so this will be the first time digital assets have been tested in a broader bear market....

Apparently, Cyberpunk 2077 which has become a smashing hit after it was released through various legal distribution platforms on December 10, 2020, is reportedly being shared by an estimated 100,000+ users on public BitTorrent trackers alone. For those unaware, Cyberpunk 2077 is a 2020 action role-playing video game whose story takes place in Night City, an open world set in the Cyberpunk universe. Players assume the first-person perspective of a customisable mercenary known as V, who can acquire skills in hacking and machinery with options for melee and ranged combat According to stats available from Steam, at one point on the morning of December 10, 2020, a reported 1,003,264 players were roaming Night City, as compared to the hugely popular Counter-Strike: Global Offensive that’s been around for eight years and has an all-time peak of 1....

The malware known as BXAQ or Fengcai, is installed by security guards at the border who physically seize the phone. The software copies all the data including visitor’s text messages, calendar entries and phone logs to a Chinese server. It also scans the device for specific sets of files, including “Islamic extremist content”, as well as innocuous materials and academic books on Islam. “(This app) provides yet another source of evidence showing how pervasive mass surveillance is being carried out in Xinjiang,” said Maya Wang, China senior researcher at Human Rights Watch....

However, the letter was never sent. The CIA threw out its Inspector General’s report on the breach and instead charged the Senate of immodesty and carried out an in-house “investigation” clearing the CIA of illegal behavior. The letter was never sent or signed by Brennan. In the hope that the letter would never been seen again, it was filed somewhere away in the CIA’s archives. However, it was accidentally handed over to Jason Leopold much to the CIA’s embarrassment resulting in additional humiliation....