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During an hour-long interview with David Rubenstein, Gates also spoke about his early days at Microsoft, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and his friendship with Warren Buffet. During the interview, Gates also claimed the two companies did some clever things too. “We were able to experiment with a lot of stuff, but more on the software side than the hardware,” said Gates. Gates attended Harvard as an undergraduate. However, he dropped out to start Microsoft....

“We’re excited to expand our bounty programs today to include the next version of Microsoft Edge and continue to grow and strengthen our partnership with the security research community,” Jarek Stanley, senior program manager at Microsoft, said in a Tuesday post. “We welcome researchers to seek out and disclose any high-impact vulnerabilities they may find in the next version of Microsoft Edge, based on Chromium, and offer rewards up to US $30,000 for eligible vulnerabilities in Dev and Beta channels....

Microsoft office has become the industry standard for office programs across different platforms. Office 2019 has made document creation easier with Microsoft word. Presentations are a walk in the park, thanks to PowerPoint. Managing multiple email accounts is a breeze with Outlook. Similarly, Microsoft Teams has made it easier to collaborate and work from home. Each app has pioneered its utility and serves a specific niche of users. Therefore, if you want to download Office 2019 for your windows PC look no further; here are easy ways to do it....

Earlier this week researchers at FireEye revealed that earlier versions of EMET have a key security weakness which allows hackers to use the free security tool to disable itself. Security specialists Abdulellah Alsaheel and Raghav Pande discovered that the portion of EMET’s code which is responsible for uploading the software can be used to disable EMET entirely, making the antimalware software completely useless. They also revealed that they have been working with Microsoft ahead of the launch of the 5....

In other words, the Redmond giant tech giant will no longer release any more software updates, technical support for any issues, and security updates or fixes for Windows 10 after that date. The information was recently updated on Microsoft’s Windows 10 Home and Pro Lifecycle Policy page. However, the company will continue to support at least one Windows 10 Semi-Annual Channel until October 14, 2025. When Microsoft had launched Windows 10, it had said that this would be the last version of the operating system it would ever make....

The new discount is effective on all 500GB drive versions, which will also come with a controller and Gears of War, Ultimate Edition. Microsoft also dropped the price of 1TB Xbox One consoles to $299. The discounts are available in the US for a “limited time,” said a Microsoft spokeswoman. However, according to the small print on the Microsoft Store, the first-gen Xbox One will be available for $279 until October 1....

This is a new record, which is in line with the increasing number of takedown requests Google has received, forcing the search giant to be more strict in its action against piracy. Copyright holders continue to flood Google with DMCA takedown requests, targeting “pirate links” in the company’s search results. In July this year, copyright holders had asked Google to remove more than 500,000,000 allegedly infringing links from its search engine in 2016....

Twelve years hence, enter Lenovo, which now control Motorola. Seeking to repeat the legendary success of Moto RAZR V3, Lenovo appears to be prepping a relaunch of this legendary model, according to its teaser video of a nostalgic walkthrough at a high school. One thing is sure, Lenovo is going to bet on Android for the upcoming RAZR flip smartphone, and we’re already quite stoked about that. The big unveil will take place at Lenovo Tech World on June 9th....

For instance, Mozilla’s recently released Firefox Quantum browser has given the Chrome a tough competition on certain parameters, such as faster downloading speeds, and being less of a memory hog. Quantum has been reported to load websites faster than Chrome. Mozilla is constantly working on Firefox Quantum and is expected to bring in more changes and improvements in future updates. Now, Mozilla is reportedly working on a new voice-controlled browser project called ‘Scout’, where it uses voice commands instead of the traditional mouse, keyboards, and even mobile touch inputs....

Instead, they provide you with free knife skins. The knife skins only make a knife beautiful, not powerful. Therefore, if you want free knife skins, check out our full list of Murder Mystery 2 codes below in this article. Murder Mystery 2 is a Roblox-based game developed by Nikilis. The game is inspired by Garry’s Mod. Casual, Assassin, and Hardcore are the three modes available in the game. In this game, a server comes up with 12 players....

As stated above, the video is believed to be shot from the International Space Station (ISS) and shows three unidentified flying objects (UFOs) shooting upward out of Earth’s atmosphere. However as soon as lights appear to blast off the planet, the video feed is cut by NASA, with a message displaying on screen stating: “Please stand by.” The message given by NASA is “The High Definition Earth Viewing experiment is either switching cameras, or we are experiencing a temporary loss of signal with the International Space Station....

New Man-in-the-Middle attack called DoubleDirect Attack targeting Android and iPhone usersDoubleDirectHow does DoubleDirect workWho is at risk? DoubleDirect The so-called DoubleDirect technique enables an attacker to redirect a victim’s traffic to the attacker’s device. Once redirected, the attacker can steal credentials and deliver malicious payloads to the victim’s mobile device that can not only quickly infect the device, but also spread throughout a corporate network,” according to mobile security firm Zimperium....

While the debut of Samsung’s Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ flagships is just less than a month away, new images of these two smartphones have appeared on the Twitter account of Evan Blass at Venturebeat, who is known to be an extremely reliable source when it comes to smartphone leaks and rumors. The newly leaked images of Galaxy S9 and S9+ show the devices will look similar to Galaxy S8 and S8+....

It is the first time that both 4G and the incoming 5G standard have been affected with such vulnerabilities. 4G and 5G network architecture are meant to provide faster speeds and better security, especially against law enforcement use of cell site simulators, known as “stingrays.” For those unaware, a stingray also known as “cell site simulators” or “IMSI catchers,” is a mobile surveillance device that mimics a wireless carrier cell tower and send out signals to trick all nearby mobile phones and other cellular data devices into connecting to it automatically....

Now, almost six months since the announcement, the USS Colorado – the U.S. Navy’s newest and largest Virginia-class attack submarine – went into service last Saturday. The USS Colorado is the first attack submarine to use an Xbox controller for maneuvering the photonics masts. Other submarines have joysticks. The controller operates two photonics masts, which house visible and infrared digital cameras on top of telescoping arms. “The Virginia-class, fast-attack submarine, USS Colorado (SSN 788) is equipped with non-penetrating digital camera periscopes called Photonics Masts....

Troy Hunt reported that a flaw with the electric vehicle’s companion app also meant data about drivers’ recent journeys could be spied on. The hack attack can be carried out from anywhere in the world as demonstrated by Hunt, who lives in Australia and Helme in the north of England, over 10,000 miles apart. Nissan has mobile app for Apple and Android devices for Nissan Leaf owners. The App which is called NissanConnect, allows the owners to check the following :...

Ever since Mark Zuckerberg announced his decision to donate 99 % of Facebook stock to “charity” on the occasion of birth of his daughter, Max, social media platforms including Twitter and Facebook are agog with complimentary posts to Zuckerberg and his wife’s philanthropic goals. But a very few know that Zuckerberg’s plan to give 99% to charity is a shrewd business plan. How? Check it yourself. The vehicle for his beneficence will be the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative LLC, a family-run foundation that he controls and through which he will maintain control of Facebook for “the foreseeable future....

In addition to these features, the Nokia 9 is also expected to feature glass finish at the back, very similar to the latest iPhone 8 series. The rendered images of the handset based on rumors also suggest that it is equipped with other features such as 6GB to 8GB RAM options, IP68 certification, and 128GB inbuilt storage, an iris scanner, 5.5-inch QHD (1440×2560 pixels) display powered by Snapdragon 835 SoC....

Now, a latest image of Nokia 9 has been spotted on Chinese networking website Weibo (via 91mobiles) shows the upcoming device’s all-screen front in its entirety. While the device will have extremely thin bezels on the left and right sides, but its top and bottom bezels seem to be a tad thick. With no Nokia branding or buttons on the front, it is likely that the fingerprint scanner will be on the back side....

1-Tbps is close to the theoretical maximum transfer rate of a fibre channel, referred to as the Shannon Limit, explained Nokia. “To guarantee a high customer experience for future services we need optical transmissions with increased capacities, reach and flexibility over deployed fibre infrastructures,” said Deutsche Telekom CTO Bruno Jacobfeuerborn, in a statement. The companies used a new modulation technique called Probabilistic Constellation Shaping to reach the high data rate....