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Users stuck in endless reboot loop sequence due to Windows 10 update KB3081424 errorHow to fix it To end the problem, Microsoft had introduced a trouble shooter package, known as KB3081424, an update which allows a number of bug fixes and driver updates for the new operating system; however, the trouble shooter update has become a trouble maker for many Windows 10 upgraders. Windows 10 automatically goes back to a previous version whenever this happens....

The woman, known as Xiao Yun and now aged 24 year-old, left her family home in Zhejiang, east China, following an argument with her parents when she was 14,The South China Morning Post reports. Presumed dead by her family, she was finally found by police officers on Nov 20 after a routine check on an Internet cafe in the wee hours of the morning. Xiao Yun, who was carrying a fake identity card, was taken to a local police station for questioning where she revealed that she had been living in Internet cafes for the past decade....

According to the SEC filing, “The Board also determined that, following the Closing, it intends to cause the Company’s name to be changed to Altaba Inc.” After the dismal 2016 that Yahoo had, it’s not surprising that the company would want to rebrand itself. At the end of 2016, Yahoo disclosed two separate unauthorized data breaches; one involving some 500 million customer accounts and the second involving over a billion, making it the largest single-company data breaches in history....

NVIDIA and AMD GPUs have never been best of friends, but a startup called Stardock is about to revolutionize the video-card market for PCs and change all that. There are two ways how it will benefit PC gamers; it will make it more affordable and allow virtual reality content to be within reach of millions of consumers. GamesBeat conducted an exclusive interview with CEO Brad Wardell, who laid out the PC utility and gaming company’s initiative for the idea....

“This extra second, or leap second, makes it possible to align astronomical time, which is irregular and determined by Earth’s rotation, with UTC which is extremely stable and has been determined by atomic clocks since 1967,” the IERS (International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service) at the Paris Observatory said in a statement. Countries that use Coordinated Universal Time, which include several West African nations, Britain, Ireland and Iceland will add the leap second during the midnight countdown to 2017 making the year’s final minute of 2016 will last for 61 seconds long....

Trolls and pranksters on the social web are sending iPhone and Android users to a website that causes iPhone as well as Android smartphones to crash. The link which is being circulated by the trolls is crashsafari.co (don’t click!). However some trolls have upped the ante and are obfuscating crashsafari.com using link shortner services like Bit.ly making it pretty difficult for the iPhone and Android users to spot the buggy link....

There is a sizable chunk of computer audience who deserve the best ePUB reader for Windows 10 and earlier PCs to read books on their computers for different reasons and reading leisure. What is ePUB? EPUB is a document format, short form for ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION, published by International Digital Publishing Forum(IDPF) in 2007. What is ePUB?How to open epub files? What is an ePUB reader?10 Best ePUB Readers for Windows 101....

The Internet is full of news sources that are full of hoaxes, politically motivated content, state-sponsored news, and fake stories. Due to the same reason, we need to consume information from unbiased news sources that report factual news. In this article, we have listed the ten best unbiased news sources you can rely on. We have selected all these publications based on broad criteria. For instance, the news sources on this list have been in the journalism industry for years....

Protect your privacy in Mozilla’s Firefox using these 12 cool About:Config tips and tricksHow to access About:Config in Firefox :Tips and Tricks for tweaking Privacy settings in Firefox If you are using Mozilla’s Firefox browser you can add/edit certain features to enhance privacy using the awesome About:Config. The about:config page contains most (if not, all) of Firefox configuration options. It is so far the most effective, and the most powerful way to tweak and enhance your Firefox performance....

A 12 year old girl scores the highest in Mensa IQ test beating Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking!Lydia Sebastian, an Indian origin, British schoolgirl has beaten Einstein and Hawking with her exceptional IQ score in the Mensa IQ test which according to her is ‘pretty easy’.What is this Mensa IQ test and why is it so important: Lydia who is British school girl and from Langham in East Anglia, appeared for her Mensa paper during her school holidays and had scored the highest possible score in this IQ test....

Windows themes not only change your PC’s visual interface but also enhances the user experience. It adds a new look to the mouse cursor, screen background, desktop icon, icon packs and even file, and folder format on your Windows 10 PC. Some themes even give a good option to customize the look of your PC according to your wishes. Also Read– Best RainMeter Skins For Windows 10, 8, 7 In this article, we bring you the top 15 cool Windows 10 themes for your desktop computer or laptops which you can choose according to your choice and likes....

1. Free VPNs may track and sell your data VPNs require special infrastructure such as servers for them to run efficiently. Maintaining the infrastructure is expensive, and like any other business, costs will be incurred. If you have ever wondered how free VPNs make money, here is how: you are the product. Most free VPNs log all your internet activities, and others have been found to have trackers. To make money for maintaining the VPN service, free VPNs (unlike reputable VPN providers) sell your data to third-party organizations....

What is surprising is that each of these VPNs claims to follow a “no-log” policy, which means they do not record any user activity on their respective apps. According to the vpnMentor research team who uncovered the unsecured live server, a massive 1.207 TB of data with 1,083,997,361 records were found exposed to public access. The compromised user data include activity logs, PII (names, emails, home address), cleartext passwords, Bitcoin payment information, support messages, personal device information, tech specs, account info, and direct Paypal API links....

A DDoS attack is a common method for taking down a server by overloading it with requests. Amped Attacks takes down a website and tweets announcing it to the world. He/she uses the hashtag #tangodown in the tweets to announce the downing of website. This a hashtag commonly used by the online hacktivist group, Anonymous. However, other than #tangodown, there doesnt seem to any connection between the hacker and Anonymous....

Facebook said that it would expand its ad network of third-party apps and sites, which it calls Audience Network, to allow advertisers reach people who don’t use Facebook. By providing better and more relevant ads, the company believes that it will help both users and advertisers. Previously, only Facebook users who visited these apps or sites saw the ads. Now, Facebook will attempt to identify and track third-party site visitors with its own mix of cookies, buttons, and plugins, according to The Wall Street Journal....

How would you like to take someone’s speech available online and put your words into it? Till now this was impossible but now Adobe has been testing a software which could let you do just that. Adobe has demonstrated its latest software — codenamed Project VoCo — that’s capable of easily editing the speech of people by simply cutting, pasting, and adding words to a digital transcript. Adobe VoCo lets you edit recorded speech so that you can alter what that person said or create an entirely new sentence using their voice....

Called Reading Sidekick, this innovative Alexa feature is aimed to make reading more fun and help kids ages 6 to 9 become strong readers. It makes it easy for kids to read independently by exploring the stories they want to read, when they want to read. This feature will help kids grow into confident, independent readers, especially as they are still developing their reading skills. It is basically designed to complement the time kids spend reading with grownups....

UC Browser, the flagship product of UCWeb is one of most popular mobile web browsers. In June, 2014 the company had officially merged into the Chinese largest e-commerce company Alibaba. Before this merger, Alibaba had already held a 66% stake in the company while other 34% was brought during this merging period. As per the data shared by StatCounter, share of UC browser has grown from around 37.46 per cent to over 51 per cent at the end of September, while share of it’s close competitor Opera mobile browser has came down from 23 per cent to 21....

In a blog post on Friday, the company announced that its Everyday Robots Project — an unit under Google’s experimental X laboratories dedicated to creating “a general-purpose learning robot” — has moved out several of its robot prototypes from the lab to some of Google’s Bay Area campuses to do useful cleaning duties. These robots are autonomously performing a range of useful tasks around Google facilities in the U.S., including as wiping tables, sorting trash, gripping cups, and even opening meeting room doors to check if the room needs to be tidied or if it’s missing chairs....