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After venturing into the mobile games market, Netflix is looking to expand its reach by launching a new cloud gaming studio in Southern California. For the unversed, this is the fifth studio of the popular streaming service, following its creation of a new internal Helsinki team and taking over of studios such as Oxenfree developer Night School Studio, Boss Fight Entertainment, and Next Games. The news was confirmed by Mike Verdu, Netflix’s Vice President of game development during the TechCrunch Disrupt event on Tuesday....

The researchers believe that the naturally occurring compound, lanosterol, has the ability to dissolve the protein formations that cause cataracts to emerge. The Californian team claims that the treatment is long-term and, in some cases, permanent. The effects have yet to be tested on humans, the team from the University of California, San Diego hopes to imitate the findings in clinical trials and offer an alternative to the only treatment that’s currently available to cataract patients – painful and often prohibitively expensive surgery....

Now FBI or for that matter, any law enforcement agency does not have to go anywhere to recover data from locked or encrypted smartphones as researchers have developed a new forensic tool which recovers data from smartphone RAM called Retroscope. The researchers from Purdue University have developed a new tool to recover information stored in smartphone’s volatile memory could give investigators important clues to solve criminal cases. Instead of trying to unlock the encrypted smartphone’s hardrive, which holds information after the phone is shut down, the researchers instead thought of delving in RAM which is volatile....

Scientists at South Korea’s Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology have developed new solar cells thinner than human hair and flexible enough to wrap around a pencil. These solar cells could power wearable electronics like fitness trackers and smart glasses. According to the scientists, the new solar cells are 1000 times smaller than human hair and could solve the huge space problem in smartwatches. At just a micrometre wide, the photovoltaic cells are thinner than a single human hair or a coat of paint, which both measure up at around 100 micrometres....

This move made by Niantic comes after a lot of people starting cheating the system and using various hacks to collect all the available Pokemon. Previously, Niantic has issued a temporary ban to those cheaters who were using GPS spoofing applications, which did not allow them to use Pokemon GO for at least a few hours. However, the ban this time is stricter, if you are caught using anything other than the game itself to catch various Pokemon....

Screenshot provided by the hacker shows he is having access to the admin panel of the server.

This Finland-based company has made some poor business decisions in the past, and the company ultimately had to sell their ‘Devices and Services’ business to Microsoft. Many people thought the company is done for, but Nokia made a comeback and manufactured their first Android-powered tablet, the Nokia N1. Well, Nokia didn’t manufacture this thing directly, Foxconn did it for them. The tablet is actually quite good, but its availability is still very limited....

Demarest also added that there hasn’t been any confirmation of government involvement either, but he didn’t elaborate on this statement. His comments were first reported by Reuters, shortly after they were made Tuesday morning. Though this may not be the official FBI statement but this comments mark the first time a senior FBI official has sought to delink the Sony hack attack from North Korea. As more and more proof emerges that the #GOP or Guardians of Peaces, as the hackers may be calling themselves are somehow linked to the Norks, Demarest’s statement assumes importance....

This is the third instance of a OnePlus Nord 2 smartphone exploding ever since its launch in July in India this year. Suhit Sharma, a Twitter user took to the microblogging site to report the incident on November 3rd. He posted images of the completely burnt OnePlus Nord 2 melted from the left side as well as the user’s burnt-up denims and serious burns caused on his thigh due to the blast....

Opera on Thursday announced that the latest build of its pre-release Windows and OS X browser will include a new “Power Saving Mode” feature that can increase a laptop’s battery life by 50% or even more in comparison to previous versions of the Opera browser as well as Google Chrome. Announcing the new feature, Krystian Kolondra, SVP of Engineering for Opera said, “It’s extremely frustrating to run out of battery on your computer, whether you are out travelling, watching videos, or you have just left your charger behind....

However, a blog post by a former Senior Engineering Manager at Tumblr, which labelled the iOS version of the Pokemon Go game “a huge security risk” with “full access to your Google account” has jolted the overwhelming excitement of a lot of users. The blog post, penned by Adam Reeve, made vague claims about what he presumed the app was allowed access to: “Let me be clear – Pokemon Go and Niantic can now: • Read all your email • Send email as you • Access all your Google drive documents (including deleting them) • Look at your search history and your Maps navigation history • Access any private photos you may store in Google Photos • And a whole lot more” Even though Pokemon Go does indeed request “full account access” from some iOS users that does not mean the app has permissions to perform any of the aforementioned actions....

Security researchers from Websense Security Lab have discovered that the most popular science reference site called Popular Science has been hacked and redirecting visitors to a third-party domain containing the popular Rig Exploit Kit. Once the visitors visit this third party page, the Rig Exploit Kit malware is downloaded on their computers. Popular Science Popular Science website is owned by Bonnier Magazine Group which also brings publishes a magazine called Popular Science in addition to having a dedicated mobile App for it called PopSci....

Moore faked the ‘Bail Orders’ with an illicit mobile while he was on remand, he posed as a senior court clerk and sent bail instructions to prison staff, the bail instructions was sent from a fake web domain email which closely resembled to that of the original court domain. His act came to light only after three days of his release from the prison when a solicitor who went to interview him found that he was already gone....

Advertised as a “complete desktop computer”, the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B offers 3x the processing power and 4x the multimedia performance of the previous generation. The new and improved Raspberry Pi 4 model uses a Broadcom BCM2711 SoC (a quad-core Cortex-A72 processor running at 1.5GHz), which is a significant upgrade from its predecessor, Raspberry Pi 3 that features Broadcom BCM2837 SoC (4× ARM Cortex-A53 running at 1.2GHz). Raspberry Pi 4 has two micro-HDMI ports, albeit in a micro HDMI format....

Here’s A List Of 9 Free Screen Recorder Apps For Recording Your Windows Desktop ScreenEzvidCamStudioBlueberry Flashback Express RecorderScreenrRylstim Screen RecorderWebinariaKrut Computer RecorderDVDVideoSoft Free Screen Video RecorderJing A screen recorder is a very easy-to-use screen-to-video capture program, developed on top of Windows Media Encoder, that lets you easily capture what is going on to a small video file and allows you to save that file to be shared with your friends or maybe upload it on YouTube....

According to a report from Economic Times, Reliance Jio is in talks with the U.S. based chipmaker Qualcomm to launch laptops running Windows 10 with built-in cellular connections (Jio 4G) for the Indian market. Qualcomm is already in talks with Jio and Reliance Retail to bring out a 4G feature phone. Miguel Nunes, senior director, product management, Qualcomm Technologies told Economic Times, “…we have talked to Jio. They could take the device and bundle it with data and content....

Over 90 percent of the market is dependent on indium tin oxide (ITO), and it’s among the most expensive materials in our displays today. While the actual electronics behind our screens have decreased in price, ITO fluctuated wildly from $200/kg to $1000/kg over the past decade and then back down to between $400 and $750/kg in recent years. It turns out most of the screen displays consist of ITO, a less-than-ideal metal which eats up to 40 percent of smartphone and tablet costs....

Still largely used for multimedia content, Flash made by Adobe Systems has been facing performance and security issues that has made Google take this decision. The recent discovery of Flash zero-day susceptibilities has led to browsers such as Firefox blocking all Flash content, and seeing major websites such as Twitch making the jump to HTML5. Also, the susceptibilities in Flash are one of the most common ways that malware ends up on computers....

A gang of robbers hijacked a truck that they believed to be full of Samsung Galaxy S6 devices. The robbers disabled the GPS unit in the truck to get away without being tracked. It could have been a masterplan for the thieves to get rich quickly but for one thing it did not contain the Samsung’s latest flagship. The truck was carrying motherboards and integrated circuits for smartphones which the thieves could have used to build their own Samsung Galaxy S6 or Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge but that seems far fetched....