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Nelson confronted the trio and requested them to stop this vandalism, the kids continued their act and their dad supported them in this act of vandalism as he did not think that his kids were doing wrong! During his confrontation, Nelson also understood that the trio belonged to California and they had reached Oregon via a rental car. On Monday, Nelson told KGW: “All I was trying to do was ask someone to stop doing something, and the reaction was completely opposite of what I thought would occur....

What Is VPN? A VPN (Virtual Private Network) enhances protection and offers improved privacy while you are browsing the internet. VPN works as a tunnel that directs your device’s internet connection through its private server and then transmits your data to the internet. What Is VPN?VPN By Google OneHow To Use VPN By Google One? Further, a VPN ensures that your origin never gets revealed, and it does so by hiding your IP address....

Corey Thuen, a security researcher at Digital Bond Labs says that the Snapshot is vulnerable to hacking and using the hacked Snapshot, a potential hacker can remotely hijack personal details of approximately 2 million car users in the United States who buy car insurance from Progressive Insurance. In extreme cases it can even be used to hijack the car itself says Thuen. Thuen will present his findings at the S4 conference in a talk titled Remote Control Automobiles about the Snapshot vulnerabilities....

Danish scientists say that your life satisfaction could rise significantly if you go cold turkey from Facebook for a week. For their study, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute, Meik Wiking and his colleagues used Facebook users from Denmark. They split 1,095 daily Facebook users into two groups, half given access to the site as normal and the remainder forced to quit Facebook for a week. The study showed those who were on a break for a week from the social network were happy and more satisfied with their life....

It appears that Karma Police that was named after the Radiohead song started as a top-secret operation to collect intelligence about people using the Internet to listen to radio shows. The main aim of the project was to research “potential misuse” of Internet radio stations to spread messages. In an attempt to recognize their Skype and social media accounts, listeners to streams that included Islamic religious content were targeted for more data collection....

Back Story IPv4 today, is one of the core protocols of standard based inter-networking methods in the internet. It was initially deployed along with ARPANET back in 1983. IPv4 as we know has a limit to the number of address with the ceiling being hit at 4.3 billion addresses owing to addresses in it being in 32-bits. While 4.3 billion was a lot when it was deployed, the internet has gone through a volcanic eruption of devices in the era of the smartphone....

According to a leak obtained by NokiaPowerUser (NPU), the high-end smartphone is expected to have a 5.5-inch QHD OLED display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, Adreno 540 GPU. Other leaked specs include two storage options: 64GB or 128GB. While Samsung S8 offers only 4GB RAM of internal memory, Nokia 9 is expected to come with a massive 6GB of RAM. On the camera front, Nokia 9 will come with a 22MP dual lens Carl Zeiss rear camera along with a 12MP front facing camera for selfies, while S8 sports a 12MP single primary camera combined with an 8MP secondary snapper....

The most important upgrade is also compulsory which means that Windows 10 users can opt out of it. Now it has been confirmed that the Windows 10 Anniversary Update has a major bug which causes PCs/laptops to freeze. The problem becomes even more severe for Windows 10 users is that they cant opt out of it and Microsoft says it has no fix for this freeze bug. The bug raised many queries on Microsoft Answers support site and ultimately Microsoft posted a new and self explanatory topic titled: ‘Windows 10 may freeze after installing the Anniversary Update’ and states there have been: Though the post says the issue has affected a small number of users, a Reddit thread shows that 1,000+ redditors say they have been affected....

This latest Windows 10 update known as KB4540673 was released on March 10, as part of Microsoft’s “Tuesday of fixes”. It appears to have created problems for those who have downloaded and installed it on their systems. This update was supposed to be a minor update and bring several security fixes as well as other small features. According to Windows Latest, the most recent cumulative update was for the two most recent major versions of Windows 10 – 1909 and 1903....

Microsoft has updated its Windows 10 Update history page for version 1809 that provides details of issues affecting Windows 10 client as well as Server. “Mapped drives may fail to reconnect after starting and logging onto a Windows device,” Microsoft says, noting that symptoms include a red X on the mapped network drives in File Explorer. Given below is the current status of Windows, version 1809, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server, version 1809 that are affected as of November 14: As you can see from above, Microsoft is having a compatibility issue between the 1809 update and Trend Micro’s OfficeScan and Worry-Free Business Security software....

So here’s everything you need to know about this issue coupled with its possible fixes. What Is Windows 10 Game Mode? As mentioned above, the Windows 10 Game Mode provides a boost to your PC’s gaming capabilities by optimizing CPU and GPU resources. The Game Mode prioritizes allocations of system resources for games instead of other applications. What Is Windows 10 Game Mode?Windows 10 Game Mode Freezing GamesHow To Fix Windows 10 Game Mode...

HoloFlex smartphone developed by the researchers runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop and can render 3D images with motion parallax and stereoscopy so that whatever’s on the screen looks like a floating hologram to anyone who is within viewing range, without the need for special eyewear. The research team in its promo says that users can watch Princess Leia of Star Wars come to life into their palms. “HoloFlex offers a completely new way of interacting with your smartphone....

The team, led by Nelson Sepulveda, an associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Michigan State University and lead investigator of the project, has created three devices: an LCD screen which “harvests energy from a user’s touch;” an array of LEDs which lights up when somebody squeezes its pressure pad; and a keyboard which is powered only by tapping its keys. The ground-breaking findings, published in the journal Nano Energy, suggest “we’re on the path toward wearable devices powered by human motion,” said Sepulveda....

The new feature called “Live Rings” will display a luminous red ring with the word “Live” around a channel’s profile picture when live streaming on the platform. Clicking on the channel avatar will directly take users to the live broadcast. — Neal Mohan (@nealmohan) February 18, 2022 Similar indicators for channels that are live streaming are already available on other social platforms such as TikTok and Instagram. While TikTok adds a pulsing ring effect on a channel’s profile picture to notify the user that it is live streaming, Instagram displays a colorful ring around the profile pictures of live streaming accounts....

Keeper Security, a US-based password management company, has revealed a list of the worst passwords of 2016. The list has been compiled by aggregating passwords leaked in data breaches during the past year. The Keeper team also assessed the top 25 passwords found in data from Leaked Source, Have I Been Pwned, Randomize and Tripwire. More than 10 million leaked user records were collated by the Keeper Security team, and after examining the leaked data, it was found that over 1....

Scientists genetically engineer mosquitoes that would wipe out their speciesFighting malaria with genetically modified mosquitoes that can pass on gene that renders their offspring sterile A team led by molecular biologist Dr Tony Nolan and vector biologist Prof Andrea Crisanti at Imperial College London, have recognized three genes in Anopheles gambiae that, when mutated, lead to infertility in females, which means that the genetically modified bugs carry a gene that disrupts the egg production in female mosquitoes....

This is because the upcoming iPhone 7 Plus is rumored to feature 3GB of RAM. Though more amount of RAM will obviously equal more battery consumption, we have a feeling that Apple will reduce this drawback through a large battery capacity. However, 3GB RAM is not the only impressive hardware spec that is going to be present inside the upcoming beast of an iPhone. iPhone 7 Plus has also been rumored to feature a dual-camera processing sensor, and if the rumor holds true, this iPhone is going to be the very first phone belonging to Apple to feature such a configuration....

The innovative methods from various players varied from using drones, to remote-controlled cars, automated vacuum cleaning systems, smartphone cases or just trying to sell accounts outright. We have also seen maps filled with Pokemon, players cheating their way to the max level of 40, and even hacks that require jailbreaks, which did not require the gamer to take a single step out of their home’s premises. If all the above was not enough, earlier this week, a video was released from YouTube channel jdsika that featured one-of-a-kind hardware-based solution to deal with the problem of having to step outside the comfort of their homes and take to the road to catch Pokemon....