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“The shift to digital forms of currencies is inevitable, bringing with it clear advantages in terms of financial inclusion and access; efficiency, speed and resilience of the payments system; and the ability for governments to disburse funds to citizens quickly,” PayPal President and CEO Dan Schulman said in a statement. “We are eager to work with central banks and regulators around the world to offer our support, and to meaningfully contribute to shaping the role that digital currencies will play in the future of global finance and commerce....

The brother-sister due targeted the accounts of nearly 18,000 victims, including European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, a member of the conclave that elected Pope Francis, and top officials in Italy’s tax police. According to the court documents, the hacker duo allegedly infiltrated Renzi’s account on at least two occasions in 2015, on 12th and 30th June respectively. On the other hand, Draghi’s account was penetrated once on the date of Brexit, that is when the UK voted to leave the EU (European Union) on 23rd June....

According to Daily Mail Australia: On Saturday Bella Crooke, from Melbourne, had been to a friend’s party where she lost her smartphone and the moment she realized that it was lost she dialed it, soon a security guard answered the call and assured her that he will hand it over to the police. However, Crooke was not able to reach the police station till 1 p.m. the next day, Sunday and she was not aware as to what all pranks police had been playing with her Facebook account....

Most of the engineers and programmers will naturally think about taking a job in the top tech companies. Out of 100 software engineers who pass out, less than 1 percent go on to open a startup, while 99 percent of them go on to join some tech firm. After they have decided to take up a job in a tech company like Facebook or Google, the only obstacle between them and a lucrative career is the interview....

Compared to the last year of 5S, there have been minor improvements in the specs department. However, the chipset stays the same as the Snapdragon 865, borrowed from the RedMagic 5G. What Changed? The company has assured of betting cooling with the new L-shaped cooling pipe, that claims to provide 4.3% more ventilation when coupled with the fan. What Changed?Buffed up SpecsPrice and Release Date Moreover, it will the first time ever when a company will use thermal as a compound for cooling its smartphone....

The GTX 1080 Ti is almost just a rebranded version of the latest Nvidia Titan X card. It uses the same Pascal-based GP102 GPU (graphics processing unit) as the Titan X but with a slightly faster clock speed. The GTX 1080 Ti is the fastest gaming graphics card clocking at an outstanding 2.481 GHz on LN2 cooling. The GTX 1080 Ti depends on 12 billion transistors, 3584 CUDA cores and 11GB of memory....

The swimming is made possible thanks to the Sherp’s self-inflating 1,600 x 600 x 25cm tyres, and helped by its (relatively) lightweight 2,866 pounds (1,300 kg). The Sherp is a giant truck that floats, which can only manage a paltry 6km/hr (3.7 mph) on water, depending on the wind and can still do 28 mph on land. It is expected to have a 44.3 horsepower along with 1.5 liter Kubota V1505 four-cylinder diesel linked to a five-speed manual....

So, how about a solution that lets the battery lasts while holding most of its charge in general? Well, Samsung and MIT might have an answer to this. Samsung and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working on figuring out a way to make batteries last ‘indefinitely’. So, how does this work? Batteries normally use a liquid as the electrolyte, the solution through which electricity is conducted. However, Samsung and MIT are of the opinion that replacing the existing liquid substance found inside most batteries with a solid material could instead increase the life of a battery rapidly....

The lawsuit, filed on February 2, 2016 states that consumers have lost significant amount of data and were left with broken hardware, as Seagate’s hard drives routinely failed at exceptionally high rates, violating federal consumer laws and Seagate’s own warranties after delivering faulty replacement hard drives. The lawsuit specifically relates to Seagate’s 3TB hard drive models: the Barracuda 3TB Hard Disk Drive, or the Backup Plus 3TB External Hard Disk Drive....

It seems the law keepers in America cannot distinguish between cyber criminals and genuine security researchers who take it upon themselves to report flaws to companies/authorities for greater good. The house of Justin Shafer, 36, of Texas, a dental computer technician and software security researcher, was raided by over a dozen FBI agents who in the past had reported security issues in the software and server infrastructure of a U....

This new method will ask you to hold up your smartphone and basically take a selfie as this is far easier than remembering yet another password. The “modernization” will allow 500 pilot users to take a photo instead of punching in PINs. Ajay Bhalla, MasterCard chief product security officer, says that this move will be very popular with youth and they will embrace it. Bhalla told CNN that the payment company will start experimenting with this new type of biometric security in the autumn....

Sheriff’s Office forced to pay $500 bitcoin RANSOM to unlock encrypted 72,000 case filesCryptoWall Detective Jeff McCliss said that a Ransomware malware on a computer locked the agency’s case files, which included autopsy reports, witness statements and crime scene photos. He stated that the malware, called “CryptoWall,” doesn’t tamper with files on a computer, but keeps them locked until a ransom is paid. After consulting with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the FBI, McCliss said the agency determined that the only way to get their files back was to pay the asking price: the $500 in bitcoins in ransom....

Similarly, some Silicon Valley investors are calling for California to secede from the U.S. Venture capitalist and Hyperloop One co-founder Shervin Pishevar took to Twitter posting a series of tweets announcing plans to fund “a legitimate campaign for California to become its own nation.” The potential movement has been dubbed ‘Calexit’, ‘Califrexit’ and ‘Caleavefornia’ on Twitter. Pishevar told CNBC that he is serious about the campaign, adding that the proposed independent nation would be called “New California....

A few days ago this technologically advanced space research center sent an email to all employees. This email informed the employees’ about the recent data breach through which hackers gained access to employees’ private information. So here’s everything you need to know about this security issue. ALSO READ: Uber and NASA collaborate for the flying taxi project Someone Hacked NASA: The Issue Someone Hacked NASA: The IssueSomeone Hacked NASA: The Aftermath...

The targeted torrent sites include Masquetorrent.com, Isohunt.to, Limetorrents.cc, Torlock.com, Torrentfunk.com, Extratorrent.cd and the most popular, 1337x.to. The local anti-piracy group, AGEDI, had submitted a lawsuit that led to the enforcement of the blocking measures on the aforementioned torrent sites. For those unaware, AGEDI (Association for the Management of Intellectual Property) is a non-profit association constituted by music producers to collectively manage the rights that the Intellectual Property Law (text recast of April 12, 1996) grants to producers of phonograms....

According to his LinkedIn page, Doll worked at Apple during the period 2003 to 2009. Apple and Google during this period were blamed for working together so as to not steal each other’s employees. As a result of a lawsuit based on those charges, these two companies along with other tech firms, agreed to a $415 million settlement with employees. When Doll received his check from that settlement, he tweeted that his check came out to approximately $1,000 a year for the time he worked at Apple....

The study shows that innocent looking apps were more prone to malware infections or hidden connections to remote servers that allow attackers to extract sensitive information from your phone. While on the other hand, the study found that gambling apps were not so dangerous other than having a bad social effect. Proofpoint says that it expected to find gambling apps targeted by cyber-criminals, it was more surprising when it detected similar spyware-like behavior in harmless flashlight apps and even religious applications that did nothing more than serve Bible, Quran, or Torah verses The researchers also tested 5,600 (Android) flashlight apps, finding that 26 contained known malicious code, while another 36 were deemed as “high risk....