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What is End-to-End Encryption? End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a method of secure communication that prevents third-parties from accessing data while it’s transferred from one end system or device to another, especially as they travel across the social web. In other words, it is designed to keep eavesdroppers out of the conversation. Even companies that own the messaging platform wouldn’t have the means to decrypt the files. In E2EE, the data is encrypted on the sender’s system or device and only the recipient is able to decrypt it....

The theft took place in China, and inside an internet Café. The owner of the smartphone was busy taking a nap and leaving his expensive Note 7 visible to unwelcoming eyes only means that the phone will soon be lost from his possession. Luckily for him, the Note 7 features a volatile battery and shortly after the thief was on his merry way with the expensive Android flagship, it exploded, and probably gave him a traumatizing experience along the way as well....

A recent report from Android Headlines disclosed that a Galaxy S7 Edge caught fire in Canada over the weekend while the owner, Elisha Loewen, was driving home from work. He saw smoke coming out of the console under the car radio, where he normally keeps his device. On realizing that his Galaxy S7 Edge had caught fire, he threw it out the window and covered it with snow to douse the flames....

The group hacked the website of Air France’s national mutual society called Air France’s National Personal Mutual (MNPAF) taking it down briefly on Sunday. The homepage of the website was momentarily replaced by a red and black screen promising to avenge the “blood” of the “Mujahideen of Algeria”. The hacking was done to commemorate the killing of 1020 Algerian peaceful protesters against the French rule on 8th, May 1945. “We represent our Martyrs and our Mujahideen....

The attacker succeeded in their effort by providing the representative with a fake address: a nearby hotel’s address that Eric had used to set up some domains, knowing that the WHOIS information would eventually become public. The phony customer then pressed the customer representative for more information and was quickly told the real address and phone number of Eric, as well as the balance of any gift cards on the account....

Reason being the fact that the midrange graphics card offers a small 32 MH/s. However, it does so at just 55 Watts. This makes the RX 6600 XT the most efficient cryptocurrency mining graphics card ever. The similarly priced and ultra-tweaked GeForce GTX 1660 Ti offers 28 MH/s at 80W. In terms of mining performance per watt, AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT is clearly the best out there. Earlier this crown was owned by AMD Radeon VII....

However, the Android OS – Chrome OS hybrid rumour converted to most likely reality after a cryptic tweet from Senior VP of Android, Google Play and Chrome Hiroshi Lockheimer. — Hiroshi Lockheimer (@lockheimer) September 24, 2016 While the tweet by Lockheimer does not elaborately state that Android and Chrome OS are merging, it is either an entirely new operating system is set to replace Android’s slot, or finally Google is announcing the long-rumoured merger during the October 4th event....

Earlier in the day, the front page of Japan’s National Tax Agency’s website became unable to be loaded occasionally from 8:36 a.m. and became totally inaccessible at 10:40 a.m. The trouble occurred at a time many people were using the site to prepare for upcoming annual tax declarations. Further, Japan External Trade Organization’s website appeared to be down for some users on Wednesday at 10:48 a.m. Also, reports of Japan Securities Finance Co....

The deface page was showing the Image of a child with the head of president of Peru, Ollanta Humala. Website was also showing a short message saying, Hello everyone, Official website of President of peru was hacked for the simple fact, that the country is being run by people with no brains, who only seeks power and does not care for his people. ‘Hopefully you realize that you are making the country corrupt, did not liked the damage’ The hacker identified himself as LulzSecPeru and tweeted, ‘Awwwww: (I just came up with the webmaster of https://www....

SeaWorld Entertainment operates and maintains eleven theme parks located throughout the United States. Anonymous allege that SeaWorld has been milking money at the expense of the poor fishes. Here is a list of accusations made by Anonymous against SeaWorld. You have been found GUILTY of Orca Kidnap and Murder. 51 have died in your care! 160 total have died in captivity. You have been found GUILTY of funding Taiji Dolphin Trade that also slaughter entire Dolphin pods for sushi!...

According to federal prosecutors, McAfee and his executive advisor-cum-bodyguard Jimmy Gale Watson Jr. exploited McAfee’s large Twitter following to artificially inflate prices of “altcoins” through a so-called pump-and-dump schemes. They earned nearly $2 million by urging Twitter followers to invest in cryptocurrencies like Reddcoin and Dogecoin. They also landed some £8m ($11m) from various fledgling cryptocurrency organisations as payments to promote the start-ups. “As alleged, McAfee and Watson exploited a widely used social media platform and enthusiasm among investors in the emerging cryptocurrency market to make millions through lies and deception....

For all the users who are facing default battery issues in their Apple iPhone 5 handsets, which was bought between September 2012 to January 2013 and which falls within a particular specified series, it is advisable to check on the Apple’s official website: iPhone 5 Battery Replacement Program Website, if they are still eligible for a battery replacement as Apple has extended this replacement program till January 2016. A word of caution for the users is that even if they are eligible for a replacement, the handset should be in good condition; in other words if the handset is damaged then it needs to be mended and then can proceed further for a replacement....

According to the notice on the support page, Apple says it has determined that a small percentage of AirPods Pro manufactured before October 2020 may experience sound issues. The faulty Apple AirPods Pro may exhibit one or more of the following behaviors: Crackling or static sounds that increase in loud environments, with exercise or while talking on the phone Active Noise Cancellation not working as expected, such as a loss of bass sound, or an increase in background sounds, such as street or airplane noise...

Apple CEO Tim Cook took to Twitter on Wednesday to announce that App Store had earned more than $50 billion for developers in what has been a “record-breaker” July 2016 for the Silicon Valley giant. He tweeted that Apple had generated the highest-ever monthly billings, as well as paid out the most money to developers in July compared to any other month since the birth of the App Store in 2008....

The patent is for ‘Finger Biometric Sensor Data Synchronization VIA A Cloud Computing Device And Related Methods’ and was published by the USPTO on December 17th, 2015. This is how the service is going to work; fingerprint information is going to be collected, stored on the device it was collected on and uploaded to the cloud, and able to be downloaded and used by a second device. The company security policy of using the individual’s personal data has been summarized below:...

Well Apple’s director of machine learning, Ian Goodfellow, definitely prefers WFH over going to office as he has resigned from Apple over the return-to-office policy. The name says it all, Apple’s return-to-office policy requires the staff to work at its various offices starting 11th April. Intially a hybrid work schedule will be followed where staff has to come one day per week in the office and gradually increase the in-office days over time....

Now, if the information coming out of Apple’s supply chain is to be believed, there are chances that an iPhone SE 2 could likely be introduced in 2020. As per a report by Mac Rumors, analysts associated with Barclays have been told by sources in Asia that Apple plans to take the internals of the iPhone 8 such as an A11 Bionic processor, 3GB of RAM and 64GB of storage and remodeling it into an iPhone SE 2 that would launch next year....

The incident occurred as the repair worker was removing battery from an iPhone, subsequently overheating and leaving him with minor burns on his hand. “At the same time, there was a slight build-up of smoke, which led to around 50 customers and employees having to leave the business temporarily,” a police statement said. “The staff responded well and correctly. It sprinkled quartz sand over the overheated battery so that the smoke could be contained and sucked out after switching on the ventilation....

Apparently, the Cupertino giant is looking to shift some of its productions outside China in order to lessen the effect of disruption in the country and diversify its business into other parts of the world. “They are looking to scale up the volumes that they make from India….It can rise by more than three times what they aim to make this year,” said a senior industry executive to the Livemint who wished to remain anonymous....

There are already rumours doing the rounds about the iPhone 8 to be launched on the 10th anniversary of the first iPhone next year with some major updates and improvements. However, analysts say Apple will skip the number ‘8’, and instead will launch iPhone 10 next year to celebrate a decade in the market. iPhone 7’s successor, which may be called as “iPhone 10” would bring huge sales for Apple, predict the analysts....