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According to the officially published notes by US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), this new product will be “configured to wireless transmit power over the wireless power transfer link.” It means that this new system may charge multiple devices simultaneously with both wired as well as wireless connections. Apple is currently focusing on short range wireless charging only because long range wireless charging is not feasible. Because as the distance increases from the charger, power decreases rapidly and there’s a limited amount of power which can be transmitted to single device....

Applemania has been sweeping through China over the past one year. Faced with a shortage of sperm donors, Chinese sperm banks have decided to catch on this craze by having a new marketing ploy: The are advertising iPhones in exchange for donations. According to a report by Shanghaiist.com, a sperm bank associated with Shanghai’s Renji Hospital is now offering eligible donors a rose gold iPhone 6s for sperm donation. The hospital’s website features several images of iPhones with things like “no need to sell your kidneys, easily have a 6s” underneath....

If you are still wondering if the report is too good to be true, in that case, you should note that this app can easily operate on several platforms such as Android or iOS, and this app is not dependent on any hardware or bionic sensor, which is present in iPhone X. There the app runs equally well on both the leading mobile operating systems. Isn’t very cool, when you can enjoy the same features without having an iPhone?...

An Islamic State (Isis) propaganda website on the dark web has been taken down by a Anonymous affiliated team called GhostSec. They went on to deface the hacked onion website with an advert for a site selling Viagra, Prozac etc. and a message for the ISIS : Too much Isis. Enhance your calm. Too many people are into this ISIS-stuff. Ghost Sec, a faction of the hacktivist collective Anonymous (unaffiliated with the counter-terrorism organisation Ghost Security Group), also told the ISIS that, “Please gaze upon this lovely ad so we can upgrade our infrastructure to give you Isis content you all so desperately crave....

While the graphical tweak will not allow you any shortcuts to complete the game at a quicker pace, it will deliver the same tone of visuals that made Borderlands popular in the first place. Keep in mind that graphics tweak is only for PC gamers so if you happen to be enjoying killing feral ghouls and Deathclaws in the wasteland using your PS4 or Xbox One, then you will not be able to apply this tweak....

However, there are no tools that allows developers to see how their website user experience compared to others. To help the developers with this, Google has launched the Chrome User Experience Report, a public dataset of key user experiences for top websites on the Internet. It is intended to give the developers a better insight into how users perceive and use their web pages on a day-to-day basis while using Google Chrome....

A few of Google’s Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL are experiencing battery and overheating issues after installing the February 2018 Android security update earlier this month. Pointed out first by 9to5Google, Pixel 2 and the Pixel 2 XL users have taken to Reddit and Google’s Pixel User Community website, to complain that their devices are running warm in standby mode and are experiencing reduction in battery life than usual....

Surprisingly, Google has offered several flagship Pixel exclusive features like three years of software updates, always-on music identification, voice-recorder with transcriptions, on-device dictation database, and many more on this device. Clearly, Pixel 4A is a direct competitor to the well-received OnePlus Nord and the 2020 iPhone SE. ALSO READ: Google Launches 2nd-Gen ‘Pixel Buds’ For $179 Pricing And Availability The $349 / Rs. 26,200 price tag of the Pixel 4A is one of the major highlights of this device....

For those unaware, The Great Suspender is an extension that focusses on reducing Google Chrome’s RAM usage by shutting down tabs that have not been used for a certain period. It replaces the suspended pages with a blank page until the users decide to use it again. Over the years, the Chrome browser has been infamously known for consuming a lot of RAM and taking up computer memory when a user opens multiple tabs....

Google has been on a silent crusade since August 2014 against websites contain unsolicited software or malware (or, as some AV vendors call them, potentially unwanted applications), as defined in this Google policy. Most unwanted software comfoulage their software into posing as a helpful download but ultimately these kind of softwares make changes to the users’ browser and its settings. Such changes that are profitable to the software’s creators but are a nuisance users....

June 8th, World Oceans Day is dedicated to keep safe the coral reefs and the life that prospers out of our sight. To honor this day, Google has decided to celebrate this day by sending its updated Street View service with lots of visual images from various underwater and seaside locations. On a serious note, Google points out, “Home to the majority of life on Earth, the ocean acts as its life support system, controlling everything from our weather and rainfall to the oxygen we breathe....

Government of India’s net neutrality disaster says you cant make Skype, Whatsapp voice calls within IndiaCalling your friends/relativesNo limit on messagesContent ‘Rules’Privacy is importantTwo areas where these don’t have significance Net neutrality is a principle that says Internet service providers should treat all traffic on their networks equally, and cannot slow down or block access to any website or content. The new report, prepared by the Department of Telecom (DoT), says net neutrality must be protected and that “content and application providers cannot be permitted to act as gatekeepers....

For those unaware, earlier this month, Neutrino had hacked a Casio fx-991MS scientific calculator and replaced the small solar panel on the device with a tiny OLED screen, added an ESP8266 Wi-Fi module, a rechargeable battery, and even a messaging functionality without modifying the physical appearance of the calculator. What’s more, the device was also able to communicate with similar devices nearby. The cleverly added electronics can be used to fetch pre-uploaded data from the mobile development platform, Firebase, which could be anything from mathematical formulas to laws, sentences, quotes or anything that could potentially be used to cheat in exams, as highlighted by Gizmodo in an article published on Neutrino’s invention....

For the unversed, Golang is a programming language that is gaining popularity among cybercriminals, as it can be utilized across multiple platforms for targeting Windows, Mac, and Linux. It also offers a much lower detection rate against security software and improved resistance to reverse engineering and analysis. In this campaign, the malware is being spread by a phishing email, which contains a Microsoft Office attachment. This includes an external reference hidden inside the document’s metadata that downloads a malicious template file....

Chris Valasek, Director of Vehicle-Security Research at IOActive, and Charlie Miller, who worked earlier at Twitter Inc., will join Uber’s Advanced Technologies Center, the San Francisco-based car-booking company said in a statement Friday. The duo would be working with Joe Sullivian & John Flynn, the Chief Security Officer and the Chief Information Security Officer at Uber. Together, they will work toward “building out a world-class safety and security program at Uber....

Every coder and wannabe programmer should read these five ‘must have’ booksThe Pragmatic ProgrammerClean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software CraftsmanshipThe Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional ProgrammersCode Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software ConstructionThe Mythical Man-month: Essays on Software EngineeringAlso Read PART II of the Here are the five must read books if you are a coder/programmer With the technology moving forward at a speed quicker than anytime in the history of mankind, there are new programming languages and tools every few months, seeking to be the silver bullet for all deficiencies of existing languages, tools and practices....

We give you some interesting titbits about what Commander Kelly will do/will have done during his year in space. Commander Kelly has already completed 6 months aboard ISS and he has sent very rivetting pictures of Earth. We are reproducing a few of those for our readers. Photos courtesy NASA

Artificial Intelligence and Big data power everything that the business does. According to Greg Chambers, the global director of digital innovation – “AI is the foundation for everything we do. We create intelligent experiences and AI is the kernel that powers that experience.” To stay on top of the game, Coca Cola is known to have plowed extensive research and development resources into AI in order to squeeze every drop of insight from the data it collects....

There are a lot of smartphone users who junk their old smartphones and buy flagship smartphones of their favorite manufacturer every time it launches a new product. This holds especially true for Apple and Samsung fanboys who are known to ditch their old Apple/Samsung product to buy the latest smartphone. However, for the majority of smartphone buyers, buying a flagship product is a one-time investment and the most relevant question they ask themselves is how long will the expensive flagship smartphone really last....

Now, after two weeks of investigation, it has been found out that the attackers simply spoofed emails to appear like official payment requests, a method known as “a whaling attack, CEO fraud or business email compromise.” They then proceeded to send them to a satellite at the Leoni factory in Bistrita, northern Romania, where about 6,000 people work. It is said to have been made to a bank in the Czech Republic, although investigators have not yet identified the scammers....