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Now that Apple has released iPhone 7, should you ditch your old smartphone and upgrade to it?More water resistant than its predecessors Innovative new wireless headphones Dual camera functionality Well, it’s fair to say that these phones certainly don’t come cheap, so let’s find out if it’s worth shelling out for the newest model. More water resistant than its predecessors Unlike its predecessors, the Apple iPhone 7 is protected from dust and can survive in water up to a depth of one meter for approximately 30 minutes....

Similar to the Facebook Research app that offers up to $20 per month to users to sideload a VPN app on iOS, the VPN app installed by Screenwise Meter also used an Enterprise Certificate. This certificate indicates that an app is only meant for distributing internally to employees, and not to the public. Following the revelation, Google decided to shut down the Screenwise Meter iOS app. However, before Google could do so, Apple blocked the search giant from running its internal iOS apps....

Apple’s iOS 8 and above offer end to end encryption to the smartphone buyers. The data stored on iPhones running on iOS 8 and above is therefore impossible to be unlocked without the owner’s knowledge. The law enforcement agencies in United States however feel otherwise. They have filed a suit against Apple to make the data stored on iPhones available to them through the US department of justice. Apple made this submission in a brief filed on Monday, after a federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn, New York, sought its input as he weighed a U....

Apple has never revealed details of its top-secret smart car project, however, some leaks that surfaced last year pointed to the iPhone maker working on some kind of smart car. The reports got a further fill-up when Apple began poaching employees from other companies including Tesla and the makers of EV batteries. However, now the NYT report says that Apple is having a major policy rethink and is looking shelve the smart car project....

For those unaware, Apple offers a one-year free trial of its streaming service for anyone purchasing a new iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV or Mac. Customers need to redeem the offer within the first 90 days of purchase via the Apple TV app. The latest announcement now allows anyone with an Apple TV+ subscription whose free trial period is scheduled to end between now through June 2021 to enjoy their favorite shows as well as upcoming ones until July 2021....

The iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus will be enclosed in glass with a matching aluminum band and a black front. Both the iPhones will sport Retina HD display and will be powered by an A11 Bionic chip, which is specifically designed to enhance the augmented reality (AR) experience. The iPhone 8 Plus features dual 12MP cameras, which are capable of taking photos in Portrait mode with Portrait Lighting, bringing dramatic studio lighting effects to iPhone, allowing customers to capture stunning portraits with a shallow depth of field effect in five different lighting styles....

Scientists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have developed a new material using a composite material with nano-size particles that has been able to make test objects “disappear.” For the first time, researchers demonstrated a practical cloaking device that has the ability to make curved objects seem flat to electromagnetic waves. The material makes use of somehow “manipulating” radio waves for it not to appear to monitors. The researchers coated a curved surface with a nanocomposite medium, which has seven distinct layers (called graded index nanocomposite) with electric properties....

Compared to the current Raspberry Pi 3 Model B board, the Asus Tinker Board is definitely more powerful than the former, as it has a much faster processor. It also supports 4K video as well as 192Khz/24-bit audio. Let’s have a look at the specifications of the Tinker Board given below: • Rockchip RK3288 Quad-core 1.8GHz ARM Cortex-A17 CPU • Quad-core 600MHz ARM Mali-T760 MP4 GPU • 2GB LPDDR3 RAM (dual channel) • Gigabit LAN • 802....

The researchers state that they discovered two different vulnerabilities, one of which affects the web interface that allows an attacker to connect to a camera with a Telnet service. The second flaw makes it possible to compromise the root account, which allows the attacker to take complete control of vulnerable devices and use them to spy, or to disrupt camera functionality, or to launch attacks on other enterprise systems, or to make the devices part of a Mirai-like botnet....

There are some hackers who hack for the pure pleasure of hacking, while there are some who identify system vulnerabilities and access points for penetration, and prevent unwanted access to network and information systems and in return get lucratively paid for doing so. Then, there are those hackers who just want to exploit, embarrass and expose. So, which operating systems do you think hackers enjoy exploiting the most? Since most of the operating systems for hacking is based on Linux kernel, which means that Linux is always the favorite operating system for hackers....

With Christmas just two days far, we caught up with SkidNP’s member who goes by the name of K and asked him what SkidNP’s goals were. Here is the full interview : TW : Who are you guys and what is the aim of SkidNP? K (@Obstructable) : The leaders are me and @Stazexor we aim to break “Skids” Like @PhantomSecc and stop them from taking other peoples credits. we attack services to make them know what attacks are like so they can fix them TW : What are your targets for Christmas holidays?...

µTorrent Web (not to be confused with uTorrent) is a Web-based torrent client for Windows that aims to make torrenting simpler and most importantly it supports torrent streaming. “Our vision for µTorrent Web was to build a torrent client with quick playability and simplicity at its core,” said BitTorrent, Inc. in a press release statement. “Through years of serving the BitTorrent community with products used by hundreds of millions of users, we took our passion and experience to build a torrent client that meets the streaming demands of today’s users....

The spy agency was collecting primarily foreign intelligence by intercepting overseas phone and Internet traffic.As CSEC chief John Forster stated that they are not spying or targeting on anyone or any Canadian home user. But CSEC told that they are collecting signals to protect Canada and Canadians and collect all this data CSEC is legally authorised to collect and analyse Metadata.Metadata reveals the information about location, telephone numbers of all calls which is considered as private communication....

Haifa-based Wintego has released brochures for its CatchApp tool which it calls as a WhatsApp interceptor. Wintego promises that the Catchall App has an “unprecedented capability” to break through WhatsApp encryption and grab full data from a target’s account. It does so through a “man-in-the-middle” (MITM) attack; in theory, the traffic is intercepted between the app and the WhatsApp server and somehow the encryption is decoded by the device, though that may not be possible with the latest upgrades to the software’s cryptography....

The Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer, located at the state-funded Chinese National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, Jiangsu province was on Monday named the world’s fastest computer at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany. It is more than two times as powerful as the previous record-holder Tianhe-2. At the same time, the National Supercomputing Centre was also unveiled in China’s Jiangsu province, where the new-generation supercomputer is installed, Xinhua news agency reported. “Considering that just 10 years ago, China claimed a mere 28 systems on the list, with none ranked in the top 30, the nation has come further and faster than any other country in the history of supercomputing,” the TOP500 organizers said in a statement....

The EVs produced at the Great Wall factory will be aimed at the mass market and carry Xiaomi’s branding, said two of the sources, who declined to be identified as the information is not public. Further, the Chinese smartphone maker will receive engineering consultancy from Great Wall to help accelerate the design and production process of its EVs, one of the sources said. Both Xiaomi and Great Wall Motors plan to announce their partnership as soon as early next week....

Ukrainian YouTubers, Kreosan, who have a YouTube channel dedicated to DIY extreme home experiments, have demonstrated another such experiment. In their latest video, they showed how to make a sweet bottle rocket with a 20 oz bottle of Coke and volatile petroleum fuel Propane. When you fill the bottle with Propane gas and quickly flip it over, the gas react and you get a pretty noticeable explosion that can throw a plastic bottle meters up into the air....

While patent images, unofficial renders, and useful concepts for Microsoft’s Andromeda device have been doing the rounds for quite some time now, The Verge has now stumbled upon leaked documents that show how the dual-screen gadget could approach both gaming and productivity chores. As per The Verge, correspondence within Microsoft describes the product as the first in a “new and disruptive” category of devices set to bridge the gap between PCs and phones....

The tourism industry is a combination of various other fields in smaller bits that determine the outcome of travel experiences, especially for people traveling to unfamiliar destinations. People travel for different reasons such as work, vacation, exploration, e.t.c. Hence, depending on their specific reasons, individuals arriving to new destinations normally need some level of guidance either for their entire trip or at least the initial stages before they settle. The impact of online agencies Mainstream travel agencies have played significant roles in enabling tourists achieve convenience in their trips....

Sometimes, the targeted account holder is the perpetrator, but if the Wi-Fi network is unsecured, then it could also be another member of the household or even a complete stranger. The defendant (the father) has denied having downloaded an audiobook, as he wasn’t home at the time of the infringement. His wife and 11-year-old son were, and as the case progressed it became clear that the latter was the offender....