While there are many WhatsApp tips and tricks that you can use (check out our previous articles on best WhatsApp tips and tricks), we bring to you some lesser known features along with some best WhatsApp tips and tricks to help you master in the popular messaging service. How to edit WhatsApp picture messages You can now doodle on and edit pictures on WhatsApp before you send them. Thanks to the latest update....
The tweet sent from hacked high-profile accounts urged their followers to send $1,000 in Bitcoin to a specific cryptocurrency wallet, with the promise that money sent would be doubled. The link to the Bitcoin wallet is consistent throughout all the tweets, suggesting a cryptocurrency scam. Most of the accounts that were accessed in the scam had at least a million followers. The first known scam tweet was sent from Elon Musk’s Twitter account at 20:17 UTC on July 15, 2020....
Now, this time it involves an incident where two men in their 20s who were playing the augmented reality game between E and F Streets in Encinitas fell off the cliff in North San Diego County. Police said the men became distracted while trying to catch Pokemon, causing them to fall from the cliff. According to authorities, Encinitas Fire Department found one of the men 80-90 feet down the cliff, on the beach....
The Justice Department filed a letter in a US District Court on Friday telling a judge that it still wants Apple to extract pictures, text messages and other digital data from an iPhone used by someone accused of trafficking in methamphetamines. According to a court filing unsealed on Friday, a U.S. magistrate judge in Boston in February ordered Apple to assist law enforcement officers in examining the iPhone of an alleged gang member....
A Turkish hacker has brought down the official Vatican City website www.vatican.va, following Pope Francis’ controversial statement in which he referred to the mass killings of Armenians by Turks as ‘genocide’. Pope Francis had termed the mass killings of Armenian Christians in Turkey as a ‘genocide’ on Sunday. This had caused a huge anger among the Turkish citizens and a huge diplomatic uproar between Ankara Vatican relations. Turkey had recalled its ambassador to the Vatican for “consultations” just hours after Francis’ comments....
Sounds good!!! Well there is a catch in this App comes with a built in backdoor which will let the law enforcement agencies access to otherwise secure phone conversations. Both Verizon and CellCrypt have stated that government agencies will be able to access communications that take place over Voice Cypher as long as they give legitimate proof of the requirement for doing so. Cellcrypt’s VP, Seth Polansky denies leaving such a backdoor is a security risk, “It’s only creating a weakness for government agencies,” he says....
Have you ever thought what really happens when you delete data on the Internet?FacebookGmailTwitterSnapchatInstagram The answer to this question is largely a grey area as no one can be absolutely sure about it. Behnam Dayanim, Esq., a Washington, D.C.-based lawyer who specializes in privacy and cyber security, says, “Whether or not something is deleted isn’t within the user’s control.” For instance, take a regular email. When you delete it from your inbox, it goes to a “Deleted Items” folder....
A new research paper tries to solve the age old mystery of “Black Hole” by explaining what could really happens if you touch itFuzzball theory claims Black Hole is not deadly and it just swallows whatever falls into it thereby creating imperfect copies of the same. A new paper tries to solve the age old mystery of Black Hole by putting up the weird Fuzzball theory to explain what actually happens if one would touch it....
According to Symantec researchers, the security flaw dubbed as “Media File Jacking” affected WhatsApp for Android by default, and Telegram for Android if certain features were enabled. The vulnerability arises from the lapse in time between when media files received through the apps are written to the disk, and when they are loaded in the apps’ chat user interface (UI) for users to consume. This critical time-lapse allows malicious actors to intrude and manipulate media files without the user’s knowledge....
The sound, described by some as a hiss or screech, has drawn comparisons to how a computer’s CPU/fan can begin to whirr when pushed to the edge. Basically, if the smartphone is working overtime by, for example, running lots of applications at once, it begins to make a faint hissing sound. The noise was first pointed out by Stephen Hackett at 512 Pixels and was quickly followed by other users reporting the same problem, including TechCrunch writer Darrell Etherington, who noticed the hiss while his iPhone 7 Plus was going through the setup process....
The grant for the new project – dubbed Knowledge Engine– is to be used “to advance new models for finding information by supporting stage one development of the Knowledge Engine by Wikipedia and explore ways to make the search and discovery of high-quality, trustworthy information on Wikipedia more accessible and open” the Knight Foundation’s grant letter to the Wikimedia Foundation read. Wikimedia’s grant application says that “commercial search engines dominate search-engine use of the internet, and they’re employing proprietary technologies to consolidate channels of access to the internet’s knowledge and information....
We are talking about the removal of Windows media player feature from Windows 7 and in fact Windows Media Center from Windows 7, 8, and 8.1. As stated by Windows, Microsoft itself has quietly updated a support document on January 26, in which they said the new metadata won’t be updated on media players in Windows 7, which implies to Windows Media Player and Media Center. Microsoft said that the decision has been made based on “customer’s feedback and data usage”, stating: Well, it’s important to note that discontinuation of this feature will not affect Windows Media Player on Windows 10....
The smartphone operating system market is dominated by Google’s open source Android OS while Apple’s closed operating system iOS takes the third place. Microsoft which has its own Windows Phone operating system is a distant third and Microsoft has been trying hard to make a dent in the smartphone OS market but has met with repeated failures. Its only chance of catching up with Android is its planned Windows 10 operating system which it says will be a cross platform single OS for all devices like PC’s, smartphones and tablet....
Security researcher creates an online anonymity device, ProxyHam which can connect anonymously to a Wi-Fi located 2.5 miles awayProxyHam allows its users to connect to a far-away public Wi-Fi network putting them miles away from their IP address and thus helping them with an additional layer of anonymity. Benjamin Caudill, a security researcher, however has created an online anonymity device which can help users to add an extra layer of obfuscation to the online user’s location....
Well, that’s what happened in the case of a North Carolina woman who was ordered by a judge to pay $500,000 fine for writing a post on Facebook that falsely accused an acquaintance for killing her son. According to a lawsuit filed in North Carolina Superior Court, claims that in November 2015, Jacquelyn Hammond from Asheville posted on Facebook about someone she knew, wherein she wrote, “I didn’t get drunk and kill my kid....
Why choosing a WordPress Plugin for SEO is probably wrongSearch Engine RankingWordPress PluginExpert AdviceProfessional ProductAutorespondersWordPress PluginExpert AdviceProfessional ProductDoing it All Yourself It costs $9. Really? They would sell the golden goose for $9? WordPress plugins do add essential functionality to those of us who have WordPress websites. Many free plugins do a great job, but can they compare to the professional services that they purport to replace? Let’s see. Search Engine Ranking This is the Holy Grail....
An exascale computer is capable of at least 1 quintillion (a billion billion) calculations per second, and could deliver vast dividends in deep learning and big data across a wide range of disciplines as varied as nuclear test research, code breaking, and weather forecasting. The Chinese government claims that the exascale computer will be a staggering 200 times more powerful than its first supercomputer Tianhe-1, which was recognized as the world’s fastest in 2010....
In the study carried out by the researchers, 83 participants were asked to read email responses to an ad for a housemate with typos and judge the person who’d written the email based on their perceived intelligence, friendliness, and other attributes, such as how good they would be as housemates. The participants were also asked at the end of the experiment whether or not they had spotted any grammatical errors or typos in the emails, and, if so, how much it had bothered them....
Sadly, this might soon change with the upcoming iOS 16. According to reliable sources, Apple may soon bring more ads to the apps that come pre-installed on your iPhone or iPad, including Maps, Books, and Podcasts. Apple has already internally tested search ads in Maps, which could display recommendations when you search for restaurants, stores, or other nearby businesses. Furthermore, while searching for an App on the App Store you may have noticed that the first result is generally an Ad....
