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This super easy iPhone feature was shared by an emergency room worker Katherine Jarmy. The feature can help doctors save your life in a life threatening situation. It’s called a Medical ID and it can be accessed through the “Emergency” option on your phone’s keypad, even when your phone is locked with a passcode. Medical ID is a default feature in every version of iPhone and lets you can add your name, a photo, emergency contacts from your phone, your blood type, medications, allergies, health problems, height, and weight....

Epicenter, a company in Stockholm, Sweden, implants chip into their employees, so that their bosses can monitor toilet breaks and how long they work. In other words, they are turning their employees into “cyborgs” by embedding them with tiny microchips. For those unfamiliar, Cyborg (Victor “Vic” Stone) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books, who is used by scientists as a test subject for various intelligence enhancement projects....

Disney+, Disney’s much-awaited streaming service, which was launched on November 12 in the U.S., Canada, and the Netherlands, gathered more than 10 million subscribers within 24 hours of its launch. Many Disney+ account users complained of facing technical difficulties within hours of its launch caused due to high volume of subscribers than expected. Not just this, there were also reports from some users being locked out of their accounts, as their usernames and passwords were changed by hackers....

Scientists were inspired to carry out further research on the problem, following a Cardiff University study that could identify potential cyber-attacks with up to 83 percent accuracy within five seconds and with up to 98 percent accuracy within 30 seconds, when a user clicked on a URL posted on Twitter and malware began to infect the device. Professor Omer Rana, principal investigator on the project, said “We are trying to build systems that can help law enforcement authorities make decisions in a changing cyber security landscape....

Here is how you can get the most out of Facebook Messenger without even leaving it1.Call an Uber or Lyft2.Integrating Additional apps with Messenger3.Send and Receive Money4.Making Group Video Calls5. Play Hidden Games 1.Call an Uber or Lyft You can summon a ride without having to leave Facebook Messenger. Just tap the transportation icon toward the bottom of the screen. If you don’t see the symbol, which looks like a car, press the More button....

These are the top NoSQL DBMS for year 2015Why use such databases ?Types of NoSQL Databases:1.CouchDB2. MongoDB3.Cassandra4. Redis5. HBase a relational database stores data as tables with numerous rows and columns.(I think this one is easy to understand). A key is a column (or set of columns) for a row, by which that row can be uniquely identified in the table. Rest of the columns of that row are called values....

According to The Verge, currently up to 90 percent of its funding comes from government donations. To kick off the campaign for donations, the organization has published a blog post called a ‘This is what a Tor Supporter looks like: Laura Poitras’, who is the filmmaker behind the documentary on the Edward Snowden-NSA leaks and a leading privacy advocate. “There are so many reasons…that we want to protect our privacy and not broadcast every move we make online....

A Twitter spokesman Said, While the statement was released by twitter officials, many peoples were still facing problems to see images on twitter feeds on twitter, Some users also mentioned they were having trouble reloading twitter. After about Half hour of tough fight from twitter security experts finally brought twitter.com Back to normal. And now it seems every thing is fine on twitter.Earlier today New York Times & Huffington post’s website was hacked by Syrian Electronic Army Syrian Electronic Army Confirmed they were having access to the Melbourne IT servers, which is a domain provider, and is used by high profile websites including twitter....

The blue verified badge helps people distinguish the authenticity of accounts that are of high public interest. It gives people on Twitter more context about who they are having conversations with so they can determine if it’s trustworthy. For those unaware, Twitter had suspended its public verification program in 2017 following public outrage over the verification of a prolific white supremacist. “We’re excited to share that starting today, we’ll begin rolling out our new verification application process and reviewing public applications for verification on Twitter,” the popular micro-blogging site said in a blog post on Thursday....

In the fake Twitter account, Andrew Walz’s bio reads, a “proven business leader” and a “passionate advocate for students” who is running for Congress with the tagline, “Let’s make change in Washington together.” Earlier this month, Walz’s account received the coveted blue “verified” checkmark from Twitter, as part of Twitter’s efforts to verify the authenticity of many Senate, House and gubernatorial candidates running for office. Twitter gives “blue checkmarks” to let people “know that an account of public interest is authentic....

The U.S. was joined by NATO, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and Canada in condemning the spying, which U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said posed “a major threat to our economic and national security.” The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been accused of using “criminal contract hackers” for conducting malicious cyber activity for their own personal gain, including activities involving ransomware, cryptojacking, and cyber-enabled extortion....

UCWeb says its UC Cleaner app has a simple and ad-free User Interface (UI), UC Cleaner is able to keep its size to less than 1.5MB. UC Cleaner is the latest app from UCWeb’s mobile app portfolio for international markets, which includes UC Browser and 9Apps, a third-party app store. The UC Cleaner app, much like other memory booster apps for Android, can free up memory (RAM) and closes apps that run in the background....

According to the patent details, the projector will not only be used as a medium to view video clips and images on a larger flat surface, but it will also possess holographic properties. In short, it is possible that you will be taking advantage of the projector in order to project a keyboard on a flat surface and start to tap those keys like you would normally do with the smartphone’s keyboard....

For starters, the machines that the military use are extremely expensive, which would also mean that they would be featuring extensive and sophisticated level of security, which is something that these machines might not possess if they are cheaper. This is possibly the reason why the drones were so easy to hack by the Mexican drug cartel. It is unsure if law enforcement agencies will resort to using military grade drones to carry out their surveillance activities, but we will keep you updated on that front....

Meet USB Killer v2.0 which can burn any PC in minutesUSB Killer 2.0 Can Damage Any Computer As It Is More Powerful Dark Purple works for a company that develops and manufactures electronic components. The same researcher has now launched a new version of his computer-frying USB Killer pendrive – USB Killer version 2.0, with a specific purpose that it “would burn half a laptop down.” USB Killer 2.0 is much more powerful than its previous version....

Besides the desktop version of uTorrent, even BitTorrent Mainline won’t be available on the new Mac OS Catalina (version 10.15 and up). Instead, all users will be automatically upgraded to the browser-based “Web” clients. For those unaware, uTorrent for Windows was first released in September 2005 and three years later, BitTorrent Inc. had released their version for Apple’s Mac OS users. While uTorrent for Windows is still the most widely used torrent client today, uTorrent for Mac has not able to gain the same kind of popularity as Windows, which could partly be due to the fact that there were already several well-known Mac torrent clients around, including Transmission and Vuze....

The wanted man posting taunting Facebook selfies at Lincoln police finally arrestedA man on run taunts police by posting provoking selfies to his Facebook account which are taken outside the police station is finally arrested by the Lincoln police and jailed. Since the appeal, Bee started his “Facebook selfie campaign” wherein he started posting and sharing multiple images of himself gesturing at the police, their vans, police station and their headquarters....

Cybersecurity expert Benjamin Tedesco who was touring Vienna was hanging out in Main Square, near the metro station when he walked up to an ATM machine. He decided to give the ATM reader a little pull, as he is very suspicious about such machines. The reader came out with a working skimmer that was designed exactly to like the same card slot on the original machine. “It pays to be paranoid,” he said....

But what is a liquidity pool exactly? It’s actually fairly simple – they serve as a big pool of funds that comes from multiple users. However, they serve many different purposes, as we shall learn below. Liquidity Pools Explained As we’ve established, liquidity pools are a large collection of funds that are locked into smart contracts, used to facilitate multiple DeFi services, including decentralized trading, borrowing and lending. Liquidity Pools ExplainedAutomated Market Makers vs Order BooksLiquidity Pools For Yield Farming Maximizing Liquidity Pool RewardsAdditional Uses Of Liquidity PoolsWhat Are The Risks Of Liquidity Pools?...