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Li-Fi is a wireless technology that transmits high-speed data using Visible Light Communication (VLC). Earlier this year, the lab testing saw scientists achieve speeds of 224 gigabits per second in the lab using Li-Fi. Estonian startup Velmenni has begun to offer the Li-Fi technology in a commercial setting. The company is using LiFi to send data at up to 1Gbps – more than 100x faster than current WiFi technologies. To put this in real-world terms, you could expect to download a high-definition film in just a few seconds....

In an attempt to enforce the default Microsoft Edge browser on its users, the Redmond giant decided to invent the microsoft-edge:// protocol to open links only in Edge. To counteract this behavioural change by Microsoft, Daniel Aleksandersen created a small helper app called “EdgeDeflector” in 2017 that parses the microsoft-edge:// links and redirects them to regular https:// links that it tells Windows to open in your default web browser. The user needs to simply to install the EdgeDeflector app and choose it as the default for microsoft-edge:// links instead of Microsoft Edge....

Microsoft engineers seem to have taken fancy to botching up the patch releases. We had earlier recounted how Microsoft was bungling with its patches not once or twice but three times in the recent past. It seems to have repeated its mistakes only this time its poor victims are Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 users. The latest instance of its botching the patch is a undocumented KB 3037639 release on 17th Feb 2015 which seems to be just a “re-release” of its KB 3013455 which had “Text Quality Degradation” issue for Vista and Windows server 2003....

Microsoft said it is looking into the issue and is working on a resolution. According to TechDows, who first reported on this issue, the crashes began after Windows 10 users upgraded to the stable version, Microsoft Edge 90. Apparently, the upgrade freezes and the Edge sub-process consumes a lot of CPU and RAM often causing a crash. Users took to Reddit [1, 2, 3] to report about the bug, which has been acknowledged by Microsoft....

This new change is supposed to make the upgrade experience easier for those who are eligible for the free Windows 10 offer said a Microsoft spokesperson. Few months earlier, Microsoft said that it would start to do this “early” in 2016, and now it’s happening. “As we shared in late October on the Windows Blog, we are committed to making it easy for our Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 customers to upgrade to Windows 10....

According to a report in The Verge, once you install a new browser on Windows 11 and open a web link for the first time, you will get a prompt for selecting the browser as the default app. However, this prompt will appear only once. At this stage, if you fail to tick “always use this app” to select a browser of your choice as the default app, Microsoft Edge will be automatically selected as the default browser....

The company, which revealed the changes in the announcement of Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17623 for Skip Ahead, said that “we will begin testing a change where links clicked on within the Windows Mail app will open in Microsoft Edge.” The company is testing the change in the latest test build of Windows 10. In a note to “Windows Insider” testers, Microsoft argued that Edge “provides the best, most secure and consistent experience on Windows 10 and across your devices”....

The images uploaded to the Facebook page celebrate LGBTQI+ inclusion and equity with a new special edition Pride theme for Windows that has a stylish purple gradient with traces of blue and orange on certain backgrounds. The new Start Menu is now much sleeker and cleaner with a translucent background and new Fluent Design-style icons. The images also confirm that Live Tiles are still very much part of the design, and the Live Tiles backgrounds will match your Windows 10 theme of choice (light or dark) and no longer be determined by the app color....

Microsoft .NET Core 1.0 development framework and its ASP.NET Core webpage-building ecosystem for Linux, macOS, and Windows operating systems will now be open source. Microsoft said that open sourcing .NET framework will make it easier for developers of varied operating systems to implement the framework. The Redmond giant intends to make .NET framework into a development platform that can be used on desktops, servers, and even on mobile simultaneously. Its new development was helped a great deal by its acquisition of Xamarin, which makes tools for developers to build mobile apps on Android and iOS using the ....

However until now the Windows 10 free upgrade program has so far concentrated on those Windows 7 and 8 users who reserved their copy in the weeks leading up to the operating system’s release. Microsoft plans to spread Windows 10 to a bigger audience over the coming months as per Windows blog. Microsoft will start making Windows 10 upgrade as an “Optional Update” now while it will be changed to “Recommended Update” starting from next year....

This year Google has released its list of the most searched terms of 2015. To get a perspective of the enormous data that is sifted through to make this list available, users make over over 3.5 billion searches are made on Google everyday — around 1.2 trillion per year — and the company combs through these to compile a list of the most popular. The list is a good way to measure what happened during the year and includes a mix of news events, films, celebrities, and apps....

According to the researcher, the first technique that can track down a Tor user is the speed at which they scroll through a page using their mouse wheel. This is definitely an effective way to track down movements, but what if there are millions of users who potentially have the same mouse scrolling speed? Turns out that an attacker could still identify patterns in the scroll events based on each individual’s idiosyncrasies....

NASA just announced that it is making all its publicly funded research available online for free. In other words, any published research funded by the space agency will now be available at no cost on a new portal called PubSpace, than anybody can access. NASA-funded research articles such as the effects of space station living on the hair follicles of astronauts to the chances of life on one of Saturn’s moons can now be found by the public on the new portal....

The vulnerability in AFNetworking code library which lets hackers perform the MiTM attacks was uncovered by SourceDNA. Cult of Mac reports that the older AFNetworking code library version had the vulnerability and has been fixed in version 2.5.2 but several App developers have not updated their Apps, leaving them open to attack. SourceDNA scanned around 1.4 million apps available on the Apple App Store and found out that around 1,500 Apps were not updated to the latest version of the AFNetworking code library....

Now a question may arise in your mind what is this “Bootkit”? According to Doctor Web this malware has been detected on more than 3,50,000 android mobile device around the world. there are 92 percent of the devices which are compromised devices are located in china. This malware doesn’t spread by simply Opening Attachments or browsing the Web. This malware is deployed by the physical access to device. Doctor Web explains that a device is first infected by adding Trojan component in boot partition of the file system and when the device is started the Trojan component loads and build itself and infect the device The Good thing is that this malware is mostly found in android device of Chinese manufacturer and Bad thing is that this malware is very difficult to remove....

However, there is a notable change. The mini-console will come with a replica version of the original NES controller, and packed with 30 built-in games, including classics like Super Mario Bros 1, 2 and 3, The Legend of Zelda, Punch Out, Balloon Fight, Castlevania, Final Fantasy, Donkey Kong, Bubble Bobble and more. The NES packs has much smaller form factor this time around, and judging by the promo shots it sits neatly in the palm of your hand....

A Samsung factory in China caught fire on Wednesday due to faulty batteries and other waste products. The incident took place at the Samsung SDI plant, located in the northern city of Tianjin in China. Samsung SDI is the affiliate responsible for designing and manufacturing the company’s batteries. A spokesman for Samsung SDI told that it was a “minor fire” that took place in a waste deposit area of the factor....

The office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a statement that according to a law passed by Congress in early June, the bulk telephony data that was the subject of leaks by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden surprising many in the US and abroad would be destroyed “as soon as possible” to comply with the law. The statement said that during the 180-day transition period needed under the USA Freedom Act, “analytic access to that historical metadata… will cease on November 29, 2015....

— Greymon55 (@greymon55) July 7, 2021 This rumor corroborates with a leaked laptop roadmap from Lenovo featuring an upcoming ThinkPad X1 Extreme G4 gaming laptop that would feature either Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Super or RTX 3070 Super. Currently, there is no information on the specs of the upcoming RTX 30 Super series GPUs. However, it is rumored that RTX 3080 Super and RTX 3070 Super GPUs will allegedly retain the same memory capacity configuration as GA104 based models, which is either 8GB or 16GB of GDDR6 memory....