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Siri Summons Police if you say “Charge my phone to 100%”Charge my phone to 100 % Siri was the first widely-deployed speech recognition system that worked indefinitely; she talks back to you in serene tones with a well fine-tuned accent; she’s (seemingly) calm and collected; and you can simply call her by name, as you might ask a friend to for her assistance. While smooth talking can get only so far, Siri has had along the way her fair share of security disagreement, privacy concerns, and even a little conspiracy theory....

Sony has been tasked with making impressively designed smartphones, TVs and of course, its popular next-gen gaming console, PlayStation 4. However, company also has a division called Future Lab, which is basically just a fancy name for an R&D section designed to bring in products of the future. Looks like the company is at least ten steps ahead of the competition, because Future Lab has just introduced its next-generation projector that has the capability to turn any screen into a touchscreen....

Videos of the Tesla Model 3 bursting into flames and later exploding were captured by incoming drivers who shared it on the social media. — Paul Smith (@GreatPaulSmith) August 10, 2019 Alexey Tretiyakov, a 41-year-old financial market expert and the head of Arikapital investment company, was driving the Tesla Model 3 and his two children were seated at the back of the car, Russian broadcaster Zvezda reported on Sunday. According to reports, the car was on Autopilot....

The driver, Garrett Wilhelm, 22, was allegedly using Apple’s FaceTime video calling App when his car hit the rear of James and Bethany Modisette’s car at 65mph. Moriah Modisette, who was sitting in the backseat of her parents’ car later died of her injuries, while her parents and sister, Isabella, eight, were hurt. Right before the crash, the traffic had slowed down and it’s presumed that the offending driver wasn’t paying attention, which caused him to collide with the Modisette’s vehicle....

Finally, after 2 years, the United States Department of Justice has managed to identify the man behind the mega banking hack. A Maryland man accused of participating in a yearslong scheme described by the Justice Department as “securities fraud on cyber steroids” was arrested in Russia on immigration charges several months ago following a lengthy manhunt, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Joshua Aaron, 32, was arrested in May after police showed up at his apartment near downtown Moscow and found he had violated the terms of his visa....

So we should assume that the secluded and godforsaken communist holdout, North Korea may have a decent number of websites operating through its top-level country domain .kp. We were wrong, North Korea has only 28 websites operating using its top-level country domain, .kp. The usually hidden data came to light when by mistake, North Korea misconfigured its nameserver, leaking the list that holds information on all of the domains that exist for ....

Thankfully, coding bootcamps are stepping in to help educate a new generation of coding professionals. However, with so many different types of coding bootcamps emerging, it can be challenging to know how to choose the right one. While there are a variety of variables that will help you make the right choice, one of the most important factors to consider is the languages the bootcamp offers to teach you. Since bootcamps are designed to help you get your first job in tech, you’ll want to make sure they include the languages that are most in demand today....

The deface page was also showing a message to The Government of South Africa,

This super-censorship comes on the back of a decision by an Australian Federal Court order earlier today in the piracy related case. The Judge ordered all Australian ISPs to immediately start blocking 5 torrent websites, namely, The Pirate Bay, Torrentz, TorrentHound, ISOHunt, and SolarMovie. The court has given Australian ISPs 15 days to comply with its order. The judge ruled in favor of copyright holders Foxtel and Village Roadshow, who had filed a lawsuit in February 2016, calling for an Australia-wide ban on the four torrent websites and one movie streaming website on the grounds that they were infringing their copyright by illegally distributing pirated versions of their content....

According to the recent uploads page, no new torrents have been added since last weekend, which means that the site is effectively frozen, reports TorrentFreak. In other words, users can browse and download from the site but cannot add torrents to the website. The last upload that was done on the website was before 7:00 a.m Central European Time on Sunday morning, and since then no torrents have been uploaded....

A physicist and an inventor from Stanford University, Manu Prakash and his team have developed an amazing microscope which is made out of paper and is pretty easy to fold and use. TED fellow, Manu Prakash says this is “use and throw microscopy” which costs only 50 cents and it is very much useful and durable. While speaking to The Atlantic, bio-engineer Prakash says that the ease with which the device can be assembled will help kids to have fun and also enjoy the different science experiments....

LaCie has already announced its first Thunderbolt 3 external storage drive, the Bolt3. LaCie wants to take advantage of the fact that the Apple’s new MacBook Pro has abandoned all legacy connectors for four Thunderbolt 3 USB-C ports (and one 3.5mm headphone jack). LaCie took just 24 hours to announce the new Bolt3 external drive after Apple announced the new series of MacBook Pros. The Bolt3 uses a pair of PCIe SSDs for a total of 2TB of storage, and can transfer data at speeds of up to 2800MB/s, which LaCie claims makes it “the world’s fastest desktop drive....

The idea of the Hover camera is to focus on quick and easy photography, not the complexities of flying. Hover Camera uses Zero Zero’s AI algorithms that can track the facial and body recognition of a person and follow the person around to snap videos and photos. That custom AI work is implemented through Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Flight platform. The Hover camera folds up to about the size of a VHS tape for easy portability and can be fired up with a single button....

Why? Because it is just too easy for them to do so. Fusion’s Kevin Roose asked some of the best hackers at DEFCON to do their worst to him. But he didn’t knew the hackers would come so hard at him. It took just two weeks for hackers to take control of Roose’s email accounts, webcam, bank accounts, work and personal details. The hackers had chance to steal all his wealth and assets....

Anil Polat, a travel blogger and computer security engineer, has launched an interactive map, which offers every free Wi-Fi hotspot at each airport along with all the login information that you would need including usernames and passwords. Polat created WiFox, an app for Android and iOS and, after he realised how difficult it could be to access the free Wi-Fi that many airports claim to offer. “Finding an open wireless connection in many airports isn’t always easy, or possible, without a password,” Polat shares in his blog foXnoMad....

The latest among them is a graphic designer, AlHasan Husni who has put his skills to work recently on the iPhone 8 and uploaded them to YouTube. Based on the latest leaks and concept renders, Husni has managed to create few mockups of the device, showing what Apple’s rumoured iPhone 8 could look like. Firstly, the most notable design change one can see is the curved-edge display and the bezel-less form factor....

In a hangover-induced rage that started at 7AM thanks to noise pollution that was emanating next door, and that too on a Sunday morning, Kevin tore through his box of electronic scrap, which included capacitors and inductors. So that was going to be his plan; to make an EMP device. Since an electronic magnetic pulse is a very effective way to fry anything that is more advanced than the steam engine, Kevin decided that this was going to be only solution to his peace of life....

That is what a new ransomware known as “nRansomware” is doing. On Thursday, the researchers at MalwareHunterTeam, a research group focused on ransomware, discovered the ransomware software installed through a file called ‘nRansom.exe’, which demands ‘at least 10 nude photographs’ from the victim in order to get their files back. The victim is actually forced to create a Protomail account, which will then be ‘verified’ as legitimate by the attacker....

The Japanese National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Panasonic and Hiroshima University claim to have developed a terahertz (THz) transmitter that can achieve wireless data connections of up to 100Gbps (gigabits per second). This technology could open a new frontier in wireless communication with data rates ten times higher than current technology allows. Details of the technology were presented at the “International Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC) 2016,” held from January 31 to February 4 in San Francisco, California....

For those unfamiliar, the periodic table is a tabular arrangement of the chemical elements, ordered by their atomic number (number of protons), electron configurations, and recurring chemical properties. Thankfully for us, Seattle-based designer Keith Enevoldsen from elements.wlonk.com has come up with this awesome periodic table that puts the elements in the context of their uses, making for a far more relevant way to study chemistry. Enevoldsen has added helpful graphics and a short explanation of how each element is put to use along with the name and atomic number of each element....