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The Sub1 cut under the previously set a record at 0.9-second using just 20 moves to make it happen, powered by a computer algorithm of its own. The robot’s creator says that it took him several hundred hours to build and program the robot. The victory video below shows an attempt that clocks in at 0.887 seconds. The video description includes some delightfully nerdy lines, like “Prior to the world record attempt, a WCA-conform modified speed cube was scrambled with a computer generated random array and positioned in the robot....

If anyone has paid even an ounce of attention to the ‘Terminator’ series, then they will realize that all of humanity was wiped out since Artificial Intelligence or AI started becoming self-aware, in order to preserve its existence. Additionally, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics states the following: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2....

The physics of quantum communication is definitely complex. Standard lasers are in reality not useful for secure communication in the physics of quantum communication, as they release what is called ‘classical’ light. Data eavesdroppers could intercept and read any data being carried via classical light without getting noticed. In contrast, the quantum internet would store data in individual particles of light – known as photons – rather than beams of light, which are currently used to transmit information across our existing fibre optic networks....

As a result, solar panels line Germany’s residential rooftops and top its low-slung barns. Also, more than twenty-two percent of Germany’s power is generated with renewables, of which close to quarter of that is provided by solar. Now, German scientists are testing what they term as “the world’s largest artificial sun,” which they hope can make way for producing hydrogen to use as a green fuel in the future. “Synlight” – a three storey electrically powered sun-lamp – constructed by the German Space Center (DLR) is being tested in Julich, a town located 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of Cologne....

As per The Intercept reports, the NSA does have a program called Skynet. However, it has a less lethal but legally dubious aims. This one is a surveillance program that makes use of phone metadata to record the call activities and location of doubtful terrorists. An Al Jazeera journalist reportedly became one of its victims after he was kept on a terrorist watch list. Chief bureau of Al Jazeera’s Islamabad office, Ahmad Muaffaq Zaidan got traced by Skynet after he was recognized by US intelligence as a possible Al Qaeda member and given a watch list number....

Sony hack attack data leak exposes, employee details, salary data; being shared on Sony’s PlayStation Network web servers and torrents.Documents being shared What is even more embarrassing for Sony is that the stolen files or parts of it are being shared on its own PlayStation Network web servers in addition to being shared on torrent networks. A Excel spreadsheet detailing the names, locations, employee ids, network username, base salary and date of birth of more than 6800 Sony employees is routinely being shared both on PSN and Torrents....

While four previous at-sea landing bids had failed, however, a Falcon 9 achieved a successful ground-based touchdown in December, the first ever during an actual commercial space mission. Friday’s feat marked yet another major milestone in the quest for billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and his privately owned Space Exploration Technologies in the quest to develop a cheap, reusable rocket, expanding his edge in the burgeoning commercial space launch industry....

Goldsmith said that ESD America was the only company which had systems in place to locate these private spy towers. The towers are called IMSI catchers, for the International Mobile Subscriber Identity that is attached to every cell phone. They mimic legitimate cell towers and reroute nearby cell transmissions through them. But they’re not phone company equipment. ESD said it discovered the IMSI catchers in the course of testing the company’s military-grade secure Cryptophone 500 cell phone....

Dave’s brother posted the news on his Facebook page Saturday morning. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared this post on his own page shortly after. Goldberg, 47, a former Yahoo executive, joined SurveyMonkey in 2009 and grew the closely held company from 12 staff to more than 450. “We are deeply heartbroken to say our CEO and friend, Dave Goldberg passed away last night,” a SurveyMonkey spokeswoman said. Dave was a ardent supporter of women rights and outspoken ally of his wife’s efforts to promote equal pay and treatment for women in the workplace....

Anthony Nguyen, a software developer studying at Queen’s University, has created SyntaxDB which is a ‘search engine’ for programming syntax. This website calls itself the programming syntax database and allows coders to search programming related query. Nguyen says SyntaxDB is especially helpful for those who often use search engines for their programming related queries. SyntaxDB appeals to a wannabe programmer with its clean UI and simple usage.You just need to enter a language or a concept and SyntaxDB throws up the relevant answers....

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According to a report from Laptop, it seems that OEMs such as Dell, HP, and Lenovo support engineers have one by one recommended users to uninstall Windows 10 and go back to their previous Windows version, be it 7 or 8.1. Laptop performed a test to determine how tech support services respond to certain technical questions about Windows 10. However, the answer was in every case odd and unexpected to everyone’s surprise....

What is a DDoS attack? A DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack is an attempt to make the service from a network unavailable by sending multiple get requests. In this method hackers commonly use botnets to flood the server with multiple get requests in minimum time, which the servers can’t cope up with, causing data overload and service disruption. The Telegram tweeted later confirming the attack, a DDoS, apparently in 10’s of Gigabytes....

At the Defcon hacker conference next month, two renowned security experts, Mark Rogers of “CloudFlare” and Kevin Mahaffey, co-founder of mobile security company “Lookout,” will reveal five glitches in the vehicle’s software design, according to a report from Forbes. A sixth flaw was independently uncovered by Tesla and has been fixed according to Rogers and Mahaffey. Talking to Forbes, they said they do not plan to reveal any insights linked to the glitches before their “epic” talk at the conference, aimed at uncovering vehicular software glitches live on stage for the first time....

The effect is an intricate environment with different operating and devices systems, which IT departments have to control, secure and make compliant. While doing so, they wish to provide access to business resources for employees on those devices, wherever they’re positioned, to boost efficiency. Answering Tough Questions About Enterprise Mobility In the event that you would like to provide access to corporate resources, internal files, confidential data, corporate mail or internal apps to an extensive range of devices, should not you first secure those devices and ensure the compliance of theirs with corporate policies before allowing access?...

The TV drama series will tell the story of how the world’s most famous file-sharing site came into being such as its inception and early years. It will also follow the website’s founders, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Swartholm, who were eventually sentenced to prison for operating the site. While the site’s founders are not part of the crew, the inputs for the TV drama series will be taken from various insiders....

Do you know that an astounding amount of data gets generated every minute of every day, when a Internet user connects to, or searches for, creates, downloads, watches, and shops for content. All this data does make sense as it is important for the growth and success of any company or brand. There are 3.2 billion people that make today’s global internet population, do you know what are they doing online?...

Cavalin, who has achieved major milestones graduated from community college when he was just 11. He then got a Bachelor’s in Math from the University of California, Los Angeles four years later. He has started online classes this year to get a master’s in cybersecurity through the Boston area’s Brandeis University. Since Cavalin assists NASA in developing surveillance technology for airplanes and drones, he has decided to put his master’s degree on hold for a couple of terms....

Apple fanboys have a reputation for being very, very loyal to Apple and iPhone. But do Apple fanboys really just buy anything Apple sells or they just make noise? Do they sing the praise of anything and everything Apple does? Apparently, the answer to all the above questions is yes. Over the years since Apple introduced its first iPhone, we have had news of Apple fanboys doing amazing things to get their hands on the latest Apple product and 2017 September is no different....

To visualize the landscape wireless world around us, a Dutch artist named Richard Vijgen, who is also a programmer from Netherlands has created a new iOS app called Architecture of Radio, which uses your GPS location to give a 360 degree visualization of the unseen digital world. “We are increasingly dependent on a global ecosystem of digital signals. We use them for so many things, yet we cannot see them,” reads Vijgen’s description of the app....