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In a surprising New Year Eve event, President-elect Donald Trump warned guests at his annual party saying ‘no computer is safe’ and proposed people should send handwritten letters instead of emails to keep confidential and sensitive information safe. Security experts in the industry have long been proposing the idea of using alternative means other than heading online to share sensitive information. Donald Trump asserts that he rarely uses emails or electronic devices to share intricate information with others....

“The robot hit my son’s head and he fell down facing down on the floor and the robot did not stop and it kept moving forward,” Harwin’s mom Tiffany Teng said. Harwin was left with a sore head and swollen right foot, as well as bruises on his right leg. Luckily, the child didn’t suffer any broken bones. “He was crying like crazy and he never cries. He seldom cries,” Teng said....

Segate 600 SSD is designed for general costumers and the rest 3 is basically designed for enterprise use. First 5mm SSD By Segate: The Seagate 600 SSD is the first SSD on the market that’s available in both 7mm and 5mm thicknesses. Both Two choices are available with in three capacities, 120GB, 240GB, and 480GB. The 240GB and 480GB capacities offer up to 500MBps and 400MBps in sequential reading and writing, respectively....

The torrent index which announced its retirement has serviced more than 40 million unique users over the past 10 years. What Is SevenTorrents New Site? For those unaware, SevenTorrents has been serving torrents for around 10 years. Last year, it serviced around six million unique visitors and has around 200,000 members. What Is SevenTorrents New Site?Best SevenTorrents Alternatives1. YTS.mx2. 1337X3. LimeTorrentsWatchSoMuch New Address Although SevenTorrents has decided to pull its curtains, it has transferred its user database and moved to a brand-new torrent site, at the address WatchSoMuch....

During their study, researchers found that animals are dying almost 114 times faster than their normal rate between mass extinctions, this is known as the background rate. Researchers believe this occurs due to adverse climatic changes triggered by loss of habitat and extreme pollution. Scientists have further mentioned that their analysis is “extremely conservative”. They believe that if the species continue to disappear at the current rate, then the possibility of preventing the mass extinction or mass species disaster will be next to impossible....

If you aren’t familiar with containerism, then we’ll give you the quick and simple version. See, the use of virtual machines is the current trend, because virtual machines allow for the optimal utilization of the power of a computer system. Prior to the use of virtual machines, systems were limited to running a single process for fear that running two processes simultaneously would lead to a metaphorical tug-of-war for resources between the two processes....

The new preview feature will allow the user to host a video call on top of a code editor that runs in the Microsoft Edge or Chrome browser (version 32 or above). This means that the users need not download any applications and can access Skype.com on their browsers. The built-in code editor currently supports seven programming languages: C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Ruby. Syntax highlighting will be included for all these languages, along with a real-time execution feature to help prevent syntactic mistakes during an interview....

In parts of the world that don’t have steady access to the electricity grid, finding power for essential things like night lighting are an ongoing challenge. While you can burn kerosene in lamps to provide illumination, the unhealthy smoke and fumes make it a far from ideal solution. Luckily for the inhabitants of Nuevo Saposoa, a remote native community in Peru, they were chosen to be the recipients of experimental ‘plant lamps’ (Plantalámpara in Spanish)....

Two years ago, Google uncovered a lens project that detects someone’s blood sugar levels, designed to help diabetes patients. Similarly, three weeks ago, Samsung filed a patent application at the Korean Patent office for a contact lens with a tiny camera that can be controlled with the blink of the eyes. Showing similar interest in wearable technology, Sony also filed a new patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for smart contact lenses with camera-like features....

Despite this leak, TechCrunch reports that Spotify is denying a hack or any theft of user records. For its part, Spotify has denied that its own security has been breached. “Spotify has not been hacked and our user records are secure. We monitor Pastebin and other sites regularly. When we find Spotify credentials, we first verify that they are authentic, and if they are, we immediately notify affected users to change their passwords,” said the company in a statement....

According to the researchers they made it fly similar to a bee, but to ensure it could swim in water as well, they took inspiration from the Puffin. Puffin uses its wings to both fly and propel itself through the water when diving for fish. The researchers limited the robot’s wing speed from 120 flaps per second and adjusted the stroke angle of its wings so it could move through the water....

In a hope to revive itself, Polaroid on Wednesday unveiled a modernized version of its classic instant print camera, the Polaroid Snap at IFA 2015 in Berlin, Germany. Polaroid Snap revisits the company’s roots by merging instant prints with modern digital technology. It is designed to combine the best of both worlds in a pocket-sized camera that prints wallet sized photographs automatically after an image is captured. Further, the Polaroid Snap having more of a standard style is sleeker now....

Want a dual-boot tablet which has both Windows 10 and Android, try out Teclast Tbook 16 ProRating: 4.0 / 5 Price range: $209.99THE GOODTHE BADMy ViewTBook 16 Pro SpecsFinal thoughts Rating: 4.0 / 5 Price range: $209.99 My View With tablets gaining traction world over and outdoing laptops in sales, Teclast has come up with a good product to lure both laptop owners as well as tablet aficionados. Much like the tablets they have mostly superseded, these inexpensive 2-in-1s, popularized by the Asus T-series, are aimed mostly at casual content consumers....

Wi-Fi Assist is a feature on iOS 9 that automatically switches an iPhone user from a Wi-Fi hook up to a cellular connection if the Wi-Fi signal becomes weak. Many iPhone users have unknowingly used all their monthly data and have been hit with overage charges because of Wi-Fi Assist, as it is enabled by default. In the case of Ashton Finegold, the teen received a text saying that he was nearing his monthly data limit....

Reel life to Real lifeForensic medicine and security specialists to develop software to spot if pacemakers have been hacked DHS announced in October, 2014 that it is checking anything and everything which contains a programmable chip like pacemakers, defibrillators, bedside intravenous fluid pumps, scanners and hospital networks etc. Members of DHS’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) say that a heart pump by Hospira and cardiac implants by Medtronic and St Jude Medical all have security flaws that could make them vulnerable to external hacking....

Jatupat Boonpattararaksa was arrested in north-eastern Thailand and charged under the country’s lese-majeste law with royal insult under Article 112 of Thailand’s criminal code in the city of Khon Kaen. Apparently, this is the first arrest under the country’s tough lese-majeste law since King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun took the throne on Thursday, succeeding his father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died at the age of 88 in October. Article 112 says anyone who “defames, insults or threatens the king, the queen, the heir-apparent or the regent” will be punished with up to 15 years in prison....

For those unaware, a business card typically bearing business information such as name, e-mail address, phone number, and website about a company or individual. They are shared during formal introductions as a convenience for retrieving contact information. George Hilliard, the creator of the Linux-run business card, said that the idea for the business card came to him when he thought, “These processors are nearly cheap enough to give away.” Although George has seen electronic business cards before that includes features such as emulating USB flash drives, blinkenlights, or even wireless transceivers, he has never seen one running Linux....

Researchers at Harvard University have developed a new liquid flow battery that uses organic structures for power that could potentially help it last for a decade. Currently “flow batteries” store energy in a liquid and wear out rapidly when used regularly. Developed by a team at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), the battery stores organic molecules dissolved in neutral pH value water. According to the researchers, the new battery can run for a decade or more without maintenance....

So, what do you do when you are out trekking, or on a wildlife expedition and your smartphone is running out of battery and there are no power outlets to charge your device? In such a scenario, all you require is a little inventiveness that can turn random junk into a working hydro-electric generator. That is what YouTuber Thomas Kim showed in a video posted on YouTube. In the video, he demonstrated how he MacGyver’d some water bottles, disposable platters, 3 Phase stepping motor, rectifier circuit, metal pipes, and other materials into this hydro-electric generator....

Now, a cunning developer has brought the Nokia Lumia 520 back to life by getting the latest version of Android Nougat 7.1 run on it. The person behind this experiment is Nguyen Thinh who published details of his efforts on the XDA Developers forums, where he noted that the touchscreen, brightness levels, battery management, storage management, charging, sound and other features are all working well with his installation of the Nougat ROM....