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According to South China Morning Post, the man surnamed Li from Sichuan province carried eight bags filled with 5 million yuan in cash, damp, mouldy banknotes. to a branch of the Agricultural Bank of China to open an account. The bank accepted his requested and the staff took to counting the huge horde of cash. Unfortunately, the counting devices took seven hours to count the total and eventually ‘burned out’ one unit....

For instance, according to the Prices and Earnings 2015 report released by UBS this week, it will take the average worker in Kiev about 627 hours (which is more than 13 weeks on the job to hit the mark) to pay for a 16GB iPhone 6, while it would take 468 hours in Jakarta and Nairobi. UBS took the average price paid by the survey participants in each city and where possible took into consideration Apple’s official local retail price as well, in order to calculate the price of the 16GB iPhone in each city....

The news of the supposed hacking of TikTok first appeared on the Breach Forums message board on Friday when a hacktivist group ‘AgainstTheWest’ (ATW) claimed to have found security breaches in TikTok and WeChat. The group published screenshots of an alleged database belonging to TikTok and WeChat, which the hacker claims had access to an Alibaba cloud instance containing data for both the app users. The threat actor says this server contained 2....

The new live-streaming application called TikTok Live Studio is a Windows program that allows users to broadcast live footage from a host of desktop applications, including games without the need to opt for a third-party streaming software. Currently, TikTok users are only able to stream live content from their mobile devices. Download TikTok Live Studio Download TikTok Live Studio now, which features camera support, which allows the viewers to see the person who is streaming content....

Top 10 Android games that you can play offlineTemple Run 2DotsThe WUUUUUUUUUUUUYou Must Build A BoatCook, Serve, Delicious!Punch QuestDoes Not CommuteX-Men: Days of Future PastMonument ValleyBadland Temple Run 2 Temple Run 2, like its predecessor is a classic game in the Play Store, wherein an exciting endless runner where your hero runs down a beaten jungle path. You must jump over deadly traps, swipe left, right, up and down just in time to turn corners, and slide under fallen logs among other dangerous obstacles....

You should know these top 10 hackers who turned activists1. Edward Snowden2. Aaron Swartz3. The Jester4. Barrett Brown5. Ron Gonggrijp6. Jake Davis (Topiary)7. Oxblood Ruffin8. Deric Lostutter (KYAnonymous)9. Gary McKinnon10. Jacob Appelbaum The term was coined by the Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) member known as “Omega” in 1994. Hacktivism is sometimes ambiguous and there exists significant disagreement over the kinds of activities and purposes it encompasses due to the different kind of meanings of its root words....

Programming is one particular area where many women have left their indelible mark. Numerous pioneering women have designed and developed programming languages that have had significant, lasting impact on software development. In this article, we take a look at such top 5 programming languages that are created by women and have made a significant impact in the way we do coding today. Top 5 programming languages created by women...

TopCoder With a million strong community that gives you daily and weekly coding challenges, TopCoder is one of the first sites that come to mind when talking about coding challenges. The challenges are known to be tough and require a lot of time and dedication to get through. HackerEarth Another recommended website to hone those coding skills. It provides a platform for automated assessment of technical and logical skills of candidates alongside acting as a developer aggregation and selection platform to enable organizations to find the best software developer to suit their needs....

Now, a new report from The Wall Street Journal states that Twitter may have held preliminary discussions on a potential “combination” with TikTok involving their U.S. operations, “people familiar with the matter”. While Twitter declined to comment on the report, a TikTok spokesperson said that the company doesn’t comment on market rumors. It is unclear whether Twitter will follow a deal with TikTok, which could likely face legal challenges after U....

Whether you are working on your next assignment, article or book, vigilance is the ultimate key. Writing is an art and a good writer is the one who values his time as well as the time of his clients or target audience. A careless piece of writing is not only going to serve you bad, but it will also be off-putting for anyone who reads it. Plagiarism & Grammar: Two Important Elements in Writing If you are a student or someone who writes for a living, then you must be well aware of two important terms: Plagiarism & Grammar....

The programme is only available to those who report faults in its mobile applications and websites. United has specifically forbidden the reporting of bugs affecting ”onboard Wi-Fi, entertainment systems or avionics”. Those carrying out the testing of these systems would be immediately barred from the programme and could face “possible criminal and/or legal investigation”. United Airlines has also forbidden vulnerability scans or automated scans on United servers. United Airlines with this new hacker initiative joins an increasing number of tech companies including Google, Facebook, and Microsoft that welcome friendly hackers....

This is one University open day which the officials of University of New South Wales would love to forget in a hurry. Unknown hackers hacked its Facebook page and flooded it NSFW content much to the embarrassment of university officials. The hackers posted graphic sexual images and links to soft-core adult websites on the University of New South Wales Facebook page early this morning, shortly before it kicked off it’s Open day....

ugleee deployed a quadcopter to catch his wife in the act. Though the video doesn’t prove conclusively that his wife is having an affair, ugleee decided to take counseling from Redditors on what he should do next. If you thought that uglee would be alone in his quest to catch his wife red-handed, he got overwhelming support from the Reddit community. His threat got 6k upvotes on Reddit. In fact, many Redditors suggested various improvements while others dwelt into the facts as to why wives cheat....

Further, there are two types of OLED displays: Passive-Matrix (PMOLED) and Active-Matrix (AMOLED). The difference is in the driving electronics – it can be either Passive Matrix (PM) or Active Matrix (AM). In this article, we will find out the difference in both the technology and their applications. A PMOLED display uses a simple control scheme in which you control each row (or line) in the display one after the other (one at a time)....

Facebook’s WhatsApp rakes up 700M monthly active usersFacebook a close secondZuckerberg under pressure Facebook a close second Facebook has been making its users use the stand alone messaging app to send instant messages instead of using the Facebook app. This has resulted in the Facebook messenger App reaching 500 million active users and taking the second spot. The social giant has now cornered both the top spots as far as instant messaging is concerned....

The smartphone stand alone instant messaging App, WhatsApp is once again in the news due to a certain tool which can break its security features. WhatsSpy Public tool which was recently released can give you status updates of any WhatsApp user, even if privacy options have been enabled. WhatsSpy Public uses the web-based utility to trace the moments of a WhatsApp user and shows them in a dashboard with events being displayed in a timeline....

Do you know why there is a tiny black hole between your iPhone camera and flash?Basically, every iPhone since the iPhone 5 has had a tiny black dot between the lens and flash. Have you ever wondered why it is there and what does it do? Basically, every iPhone since the iPhone 5 has had a tiny black dot between the lens and flash. Have you ever wondered why it is there and what does it do?...

For those unaware, KRACK (short for Key Reinstallation AttaCK) exploited vulnerabilities in the four-way handshake of WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access II) that happens when a client wants to join a protected Wi-Fi network. This will be the first upgrade to the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) protocol since 2006. “Security is a foundation of Wi-Fi Alliance certification programs, and we are excited to introduce new features to the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED family of security solutions”, said Edgar Figueroa, president and CEO of Wi-Fi Alliance....

On 11th August, Microsoft released yet another problematic security update for Windows 10. Users running the November 2019 Update (version 1909) and the May 2020 Update (version 2004) are bombarded with new and almost unresolvable errors. In addition to post-installation issues, users are experiencing problems while installing updates. For instance, unique error messages like 0x800f0988, 0x800f081f, and 0x800f08a are popping up while installing the cumulative updates KB4565351 and KB4566782. In this article, we have discussed the aforementioned errors accompanied by some solutions to resolve them....

The informal test was conducted by The Australian, where sets of identical twins tried fooling Windows to provide access to the computer. It seems you can easily trick the Windows 10’s face detection feature, as it wasn’t even fooled once. Six sets of identical twins were part of the experiment and in each case, the procedure was the same. One of the twins would register for the face recognition and set up the account and the other would test it the next time to log into the device....