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In an exclusive interview with ABC News this Wednesday, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook said that iPhone users will soon be able to turn off the power management feature on their devices that slows down iPhones when batteries are low on charge. According to Cook, the upcoming update will shows users the health of their batteries and how much they are reducing the performance. Users will also be able to decide whether they would like their iPhones to slow down and save battery life....

Joaquín Sorianello told MSA, the company that manufactures the Vot.ar e-voting system, that the SSL certificates used by the system to encode transmissions between the central election office and voting stations could be downloaded without any difficultly, providing the opportunity for possible voting fraud (or just a good traditional DDOS attack). Sorianello says that after informing the company regarding the flaw, he never received a phone call from MSA. However, he found out that his home was suddenly raided by Argentine police, who seized Kindles, computers and many storage devices (from a Google translation of the source): Speaking to numerous news outlets, Sorianello has pointed out the fact that he is a programmer and not a hacker....

As it is rightly said in India : “Don’t mind, its Holi.” Well Holi is a festival which people of all ages celebrate with much vigor throughout India. It is festival of colors, happiness, a festival of meeting dear and near ones, playing pranks and everyone enjoys the festival. People use colors and colored water for enjoyment. Also, they consume Gujiyas AND “Thandai” i.e. sweet milk. People in villages and cities meet up and apply colors to each other throw water and then have delicious lunch....

For those of us who don’t want to be in the shackles of predefined features and questionable privacy, Linux saves the day for the rest of us. Best Linux distros for Old Laptop and Computers I will cover some of the best Linux distros that are lightweight and can be used on older computers, especially laptops. They deserve some love too. Best Linux distros for Old Laptop and Computers1. MX Linux2....

Market Bubble The tulip bulbs that Dimon referred to is the Dutch Tulip Bulb crisis – a famous market crash that occurred in the 1600’s and is considered the first financial crash. A recent example, would be the real estate crash in 2008 that led to the period of recession across the globe. “If you were in Venezuela or Ecuador or North Korea or a bunch of parts like that, or if you were a drug dealer, a murderer, stuff like that, you are better off doing it in bitcoin than US dollars,” he said....

According to reports both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of Destiny were affected by the DDOS attack. A DDOS (distributed denial-of-service) attack is an attempt to make the service from a network unavailable through multiple requests. In this method hackers commonly uses botnets to flood the server with get request which the servers cant cope up with, causing data overload and service disruption. Several Gamers reported that they lost their connections to the servers in the middle of the game, with a error message which read “cattle” on the disconnection message....

Read how a person named Jennifer Null can break the computersWhen Jennifer Null tries to buy a plane ticket, she gets an error message on most websites. The site will say she has left the surname field blank and ask her to try again.Instead, she has to call the airline company by phone to book a ticket – but that’s not the end of the process.“I’ve been asked why I’m calling and when I try to explain the situation, I’ve been told, ‘there’s no way that’s true’,” she says....

“It will be the first quantum communication through a satellite in the world,” said Pan Jianwei, professor with University of Science and Technology of China. Quantum technology is seen as a future cornerstone in field of technology. Quantum communication boasts ultra-high security as a quantum photon can neither be separated nor duplicated. “It is hence impossible to wiretap, intercept or crack the information transmitted through it,” Pan said. The CAS’s project includes launch of a satellite and building of four ground stations for quantum communication and one space quantum teleportation experiment station....

The hacker also claims to breach into the database which contains server details, login credentials of many accounts from CNN that contain usernames and encrypted passwords. the paste can be seen here Although CNN has managed to delete the fake Articles Published, one of the screenshots is still available. Showing an Article Bill Gates horrifies children by injecting poison into their buttocks. According to the hacker group, the vulnerability in CNN’s Website have been fixed now....

Microsoft to launch Cortana for Android and iOS devicesMicrosoft’s ‘Einstein’ team working towards launching a new version of its “personal assistant” Cortana in Windows 10 which will also be available as standalone app in iOS and Android smartphones and tablets Microsoft’s research team called “Einstein” is working towards launching a new and advanced version of the Cortana which will available in desktops as well as smartphones powered by Windows 10 by this autumn....

While Windows 10X – a special Windows 10 version – is made for dual-screen and foldable devices, Twitter user and developer @imbushuo thinks otherwise, as he has managed to get Windows 10X running on the unsupported machine such as Apple’s MacBook. — Sunshine Biscuit at scale (@imbushuo) February 13, 2020 As seen in the video above, Windows 10X seems to be working smoothly on the MacBook without any noticeable glitch....

The year 2020 has been one of the most difficult times for businesses as the pandemic disrupted customer behaviors and dramatically diminished purchasing power. Standing out has become a must for businesses to survive the tighter competition with more businesses going online because of public activity restrictions. It might sound logical to think that customers are desperate to buy the things they need from online stores because brick and mortar ones have been forced to close temporarily....

The Nokia 3310 has more or less kept the shape of the original Nokia model but given it the features you need in 2017. The new Nokia 3310 features a 2.4 inch touchscreen QVGA resolution display, which is polarised and curved for better sunlight legibility and comes with a resolution of 240 pixels by 320 pixels. The dimensions of the phone are 115.6 x 51 x 12.8 mm, which makes it much sleeker than the original phone, which measured 113 mm x 48 mm x 22 mm....

Musk mentioned the design when he was questioned whether the company would ever look to develop an aquatic car. “It’s funny you should mention that. We do actually have a design for a submarine car, like the one from ‘The Spy Who Loved Me‘ – the Lotus turns into a sub,” he said. Musk was referencing the 1977 James Bond film starring Roger Moore in which the 1976 Lotus Esprit turned into an amphibious car and was driven on land and underwater....

The unexpected shutdown marks the end of an era that started at the turn of the decade. The beginning of the end came with a DDoS attack on the website around 10 days ago. The downtime raised concern among many BitTorrent users, not least because the site belongs to movie release group YIFY, which has dominated public BitTorrent sites for several years. Torrent Freak, citing inside sources says that YTS and YIFY will never return....

The hacker then sent an email to the press informing that they have been successful in stealing about 1.5 terabytes of data from HBO servers. On Monday, the top cable service company in US and many parts of the world confirmed the hack, although it is not saying yet what information, or how much, has been taken. HBO in a statement issued just minutes ago said, “HBO recently experienced a cyber incident, which resulted in the compromise of proprietary information....

Nissan’s official Twitter account in Mexico was hacked on Friday by an unidentified person who changed the handle’s name to “hacking for love.” English translation : “Hi Twitter, sorry Nissan but I had to hack you for love.” English translation : “Hacking Nissan is the most romantic thing I have done in my life.” The unknown hacker targeted Nissan’s Twitter account because the girl he fell in love with has a Nissan car....

“Both comparisons between users and nonusers and between low users and high users suggest that social media use is predictive of lower mortality. Happily, for almost all Facebook users, what we found is balanced use and a lower risk of mortality,” said James Fowler, Professor at the University of California-San Diego. “The association between longevity and social networks was identified in 1979 and has been replicated hundreds of times since....