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BitTorrent was not only criticised on different websites but also on its own ?Torrent forum with users blasting it for installing the Epic Scale cryptocurrency miner without asking users for permission or warning them about it. Under the unrelenting barrage of criticism, BitTorrent today apologized to its ?Torrent torrent client users. Writing on the ?Torrent forum, a member of BitTorrent staff said that they had paused the installation of Epic Scale software with ?...

Sergeant Janelle Shoihet, from the RCMP of British Columbia, who was addressing a double homicide matter on Friday blamed “technical difficulties” for the error. She was giving a briefing about the double murders of American woman Chynna Noelle Deese, 24 and her Australian boyfriend Lucas Fowler, 23, whose bodies were found July 15 on a remote B.C. highway. In the original coverage on Friday, Shoihet is seen addressing the press conference with pointy pink ears, a kitty’s nose, and whiskers due to the cat filter....

The PIPL law, which takes effect on November 1, 2021, expands the ruling Communist Party’s clampdown on unscrupulous data collection by app developers by putting legal restriction on collection of user data. However, the policy is unlikely to affect the ruling party’s pervasive surveillance. The law, which lays out a comprehensive set of rules around data collection for the first time specifically targets how private companies should handle user data....

Although, China still has the fastest supercomputer in the world, in the last six months the country’s share of the top 500 high performance systems country has dropped by half. However, for the fifth consecutive time, China’s Tianhe-2 supercomputer has led the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the list-builders announced on Monday. Tianhe-2, which means Milky Way-2 in English, has a performance rating of 33.86 petaflops (quadrillions of calculations per second) and was clocked in the Linpack benchmark....

The driver can control the car by just wearing brain signal-reading equipment that can be used to make the car to go forward, or backwards, or come to a stop, and both lock and unlock the vehicle, all without moving their hands or feet. Speaking to Reuters, Zhang Zhao told that the equipment is made up of 16 sensors that capture EEG (electroencephalogram) signals from the driver’s brain. A computer program has been developed by the team that chooses the relevant signals and translates them, which helps in the controlling of the car....

Colorful calls the iGame GeForce RTX 3090 KUDAN a “Masterpiece” that features an “artistic and exquisite” shroud packed with the brand’s most advanced premium features. The RTX 3090 KUDAN comes with a hybrid cooling system that offers the perfect balance of air cooling and water cooling, enabling excellent overclocking stability even under extreme loads. In terms of air cooling subsystem, it is equipped with six 6mm high-performance heat pipes and a radiator as well as Colorful’s newly developed “Storm Chaser” three 90mm fans with fixed-rotating fan blades, incorporating iGame Vacuum Copper Plate Technology....

Being brought up in the 1990s, Windows 95 was the first ever operating system that I worked upon and till date I feel nostalgic about it. Windows 95 not just a graphical user interface running on top of MS-DOS. The operating system brought many new features such as improved windows control and appearance of windows, new introduced desktop, right button menu, new help system, taskbar and start menu, the way the user navigates, build-in network support with dial-up for different protocols, folder view of all kinds of files and resources, support of 32-bit application, and pre-emptive multitasking and thread....

A news report from UnleashThePhones states that Microsoft is bringing new features in Windows 10 that would allow PC users to start calls and send texts from their desktops directly through their phones. If what the post says is true than PC users can answer calls on their computers and use headphones and microphones to talk to their contacts. Sending text messages and emails could also be possible from the desktop once the new Windows 10 for phones becomes available....

Beta program testers will now find a toggle in the Settings menu titled as “Read incoming messages aloud.” Cortana by default will read messages loudly only when it is connected to a Bluetooth device when switched on. However, there are also alternatives to have the assistant always read messages aloud, or only when connected to a wired headset. This feature will make it easier for the users’ to use their phone hands-free especially in situations such as cooking or where one is driving a car while connected to a Bluetooth handset....

Haven’t upgraded to iOS 8 yet, this is must know news for you.Whats with this CVE-2014-4377Why is it dangerous now? Whats with this CVE-2014-4377 CVE-2014-4377, in layman’s language, is a memory corruption issue in iOS’s core graphics library which enables a potential hacker to deliver a malformed PDF through the Safari Browser and get you to execute a arbitrary code which will then turn over your device to the hacker. Though owning your iPhone is a long way off but the basic idea of arbitrary code execution is that it is used to describe an attacker’s ability to execute any commands of the attacker’s choice on a target machine or in a target process....

The PC-maker expanded its Alienware, XPS, Inspiron and tablet series with the release of the Alienware 15 and 17, XPS 13, Dell Inspiron 5000 laptops and the Venue 8. The XPS 13 will be up for sale at a starting price of Rs.70,990, while the Inspiron 5000 Series will be available at a starting price of Rs.39,990 for the Inspiron 15, which includes a 2 year at home (on-site) warranty....

Other companies, however, sensing the growth potential of this new industry, are clamoring for a piece of the pie. Just recently, Bloomberg reported that automaker GM plans to “start a pilot program this summer that will enable car owners to rent out their vehicles when they aren’t using them.” It will begin through GM’s Maven, a platform which allows vehicle owners to rent out their cars to other drivers while sharing the revenues with GM....

While my laptop charger has never bugged me, but I always felt strange at times to see a bump in my laptop charger right after it connects to the laptop. I always use to wonder why the charger has a bump and what purpose does it serve? You normally see these “bumps” on the mouse, keyboard and monitor cables in a typical computer system found in a home or office....

Business growth is directly proportional to profits recorded. Traditional marketing approaches are fading away. However, you can now count on current digital marketing methods for your business to gain traction. To get the best from digital advertising services, you need to turn to professional firms or agencies. Such agencies specialize in marketing brands and products digitally. Clients always expect results when they invest in a service. Professional marketers understand this need....

elementary OS Freya is the third stable version of elementary OS, Isis, which was proposed in August 2013 by Daniel Foré, the project leader. It was later changed to Freya to avoid association with the terrorist group ISIS. The first beta of Freya was released on 11 August 2014. The second beta of Freya was released on 8 February 2015. The final version was released on 11 April 2015, and now the team has come out with the next stable version of the OS....

Valued at about $67 billion when it was first announced almost a year ago, the transaction to combine Dell, a major manufacturer of PCs and servers and EMC, which makes data-storage and data centre products, on September 7, 2016, makes them the world’s largest privately held technology company. “This is an historic moment for both Dell and EMC. Combined, we will be exceptionally well-positioned for growth in the most strategic areas of next generation IT including digital transformation, software-defined data center, converged infrastructure, hybrid cloud, mobile and security,” said Michael Dell, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Technologies, in a statement....

Dubbed as “Spectrum”, this tool is a cross-platform image transcoding library that can easily be integrated into an Android or iOS project to efficiently perform common image operations. It aims to improve the reliability and quality of image uploads while reducing image uploading time and mobile data consumption. “As modern smartphones capture high-resolution images, the large file size makes uploads unreliable on some mobile networks. Sending it at full resolution is often wasteful, as the content delivery network (CDN) will resize the image for the recipient anyway,” said Facebook mobile software engineer Daniel Hugenroth....

Timothy J. Aveni, a junior software engineer on Facebook’s team dedicated to fighting misinformation, announced on LinkedIn and Facebook that he was leaving the company in protest, saying that the company is “on the wrong side of history.” Hundreds of Facebook employees staged a “virtual walkout” on June 1 by walking away from their work-from-home desks complaining that the company should have acted against Trump’s posts containing the phrase “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”....

Facebook will now start be using your Web-browsing data to target you with advertising. All this will be done thanks to Like and Share buttons placed on websites and apps that collect data about things you’re reading, watching, and interested in. The company announced it would use this data collected off Facebook in personalized ads last year, and on Tuesday, said it is beginning to use it more broadly. However Facebook has also given a way for users to opt out of this targeted advertisements....

Fake mails claiming to be from Viber used to infect malwarePCMobileAndroidiOSPrecautions PC If you click on this link using a PC, the link redirects you to download a backdoor malware app detected as BKDR_KULUOZ.VLU. Once this app has been downloaded onto the system, the system can be remotely accessed anytime by the attacker using this backdoor. This leaves your entire machine vulnerable at any time. Mobile The users who click on the link from the mobile devices are redirected to different URLs based on the platform....