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Timothy Arcuri, analyst of Cowen and Company has cited Apple’s next iPhone could include some “form of facial/gesture recognition.” The research note written by him and distributed to clients by Cowen and Company on Wednesday includes several new details about Apple’s forthcoming iPhone, which is expected to launch in September. Timothy is expecting three new models this year, and he is referring to the premium variant as ‘iPhone X’ in his note....

Security research and developer Patrick Wardle has released a tool to reveal executables that automatically boot in Mac OS X. The Knock Knock tool was open source and built on an extensible framework to encourage the community to evolve the platform. You can download the Knock Knock tool from Github here. Synack’s Patrick, who has released this tool, said he designed the tool because he was concerned about the lack of insight into the potential for persistent malware to load on his OS X machine....

Koogeek has introduced its new HomeKit enabled Wi-Fi Smart LED Light Bulb that can be easily connected to a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi network without a hub or bridge. It works with Apple HomeKit technology and provides an easy, secure way to turn your connected light on or off, set light colors, or adjust light brightness and saturation through Siri voice control on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Apple Watch....

JavaScript ranks among the hottest programming languages being used today mainly because it is used by most tech companies and can land you a hot job. This popularity was won very hard, having to fight through a period where the language seemed to have stood still with no new features being released for a period of four years. Despite not being updated as regularly, developers take on to JavaScript mainly due to the technologies being developed on top of it, and more specifically Node....

LulzSec Leader Sabu Talks About Arrest in First TV Interview; ‘Sabu’ warns U.S. gov’t on critical infrastructure.The Arrest Prior to his arrest Sabu was looked upon with great honor in the Anonymous arena. He was arrested by the FBI in June 2011 alongwith two other LulzSec members. The Arrest Asked by Rose about the details of his arrest, Sabu said he had been noticing unusual activity around his apartment building in New York weeks before the authorities came knocking at his door but he did’nt pay too much attention....

The two handsets, Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL that are being developed are codenamed Talkman and Cityman, respectively, and the specifications of both have been leaked. Microsoft has been consistently releasing the technical preview version of the Windows 10 Mobile OS. But the Lumia 950 and the Lumia 950 XL flagships are likely to be the first handsets to come preloaded with final build of Windows 10 Mobile. The Microsoft Lumia 950 (codenamed Talkman) will feature a 5....

Playing virtual reality (VR) games means distancing yourself from the real world. While using VR headsets, your vision is obstructed by the headset and your hearing is blocked by noise-canceling headphones. While this is a great way to submerge oneself in a virtual world, users lose awareness of their physical surroundings which could result in injuries or prove fatal to one’s life, if not careful. That’s what happened when an unidentified 44-year old Russian man was found dead after suffering fatal wounds on Thursday in his apartment on Marshal Zhukov Avenue while moving around in VR glasses, according to Russia’s state-funded news agency TASS....

“We just launched Internet.org in Malawi, giving people on the TNM and Airtel Malawi networks access to free basic internet services. With this launch, Internet.org is now available to more than 1 billion people around the world! Giving people free access is the right thing to do. We will keep connecting more people and more countries, and we won’t stop until every person in the world can connect to the internet,” says Zuckerberg’s post which accompanied the infographic image....

During early access, players can subscribe to the new Luna+ game channel, which will offer action games like Resident Evil 7, Control, and Panzer Dragoon; adventure games like A Plague Tale: Innocence and The Surge 2; platformers like Yooka-Laylee and The Impossible Lair and Iconoclasts; and fan favorites like GRID, ABZU and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. The Luna+ service will be available for an “introductory price” of $5....

Through malware, phishing sites, and data information hacks and leaks, malicious companies are exposing more information than ever, going on to use this for identity theft or extortion. At the more drastic end of the effects, malware that takes control of your computer can even completely take your computer ransom. Often, malicious companies then request a large sum payment to unlock the device, with this sort of cyber breach costing a total of $11....

Joshi had no clue who Mark Zuckerberg was, as Facebook was not the behemoth that it is today. While he does not remember when he received the call, he does remember that Zuckerberg had flown down to Pantnagar, which is about 65 km from Nainital. He then drove to the ashram of Neeb Karori (mostly called Neem Karoli) Baba, who died in 1973 but still continues to charm many of the high-profile Americans....

Accounting standards such as the ASC 842 and IFRS 16 involve elaborate functions and crucial calculations that can eat up your employees’ productivity if you use manual methods. Instead, you should use reliable lease accounting software. It instantly and efficiently offers the needed functionalities and calculations to follow the financial reporting standards for your lease contracts. One robust lease accounting software and must-have tool to streamline your business operations is Trullion....

For those unaware, when Microsoft’s Windows 10X was announced last year, the Redmond giant back then had said that the operating system would be available for dual-screen devices only such as Surface Neo that was supposed to launch this fall. However, this has now changed with the recent announcement. Panos Panay, Microsoft’s Chief Product Officer for Windows and Devices in an official blog post updated the status of Windows 10X....

Several users took to Reddit to complain regarding the matter, which has been noticed in the new Microsoft’s new Edge browser that has been installed via Windows Update. To be clear, in the background information from Microsoft, Edge does ask users to import data from other browsers at the time of installation; but this act is done by the browser in the background even before users have permitted it. However, if a user denies Edge the permission to import any data, that information is quickly deleted from the browser....

This newly released SDK doesn’t add anything in the way of features, as the company had last week only added MSIX Support, which came with build 17682. MSIX is an app packaging format that combines MSI and APPX. While developers can use the MakeAppx tool to package their application with MSIX, they should also note that MSIX support is currently unsupported by the App Certification Kit or the Microsoft Store....

Microsoft engineers have worked pretty hard to make Cortana as personal as possible. However there is a line a user cannot cross. For instance, you can’t sexually harass her. It turns out users feel very comfortable talking freely with text and voice assistants. Humanizing the bots with names, faked emotions, personalities and genders (mostly female) helps build trust with users. It is a known fact that users often ask their personal digital assistants like Cortana, Siri or Google Now about their sex or their dress when they first access them....

New Operating System for Windows : Microsoft’s officially launches Windows 10 Build 10051 comes with Spartan browser and a lot of Apps for Windows Phones.How to set up Windows 10 build on your Lumia and other Windows Phones This now supports almost all Lumia phones. Do browse through the list of the phones supported here. However, it doesn’t support the Lumia Icon, 930 and even the 640XL due to scaling problem....

Announced in March, ‘Mesh for Microsoft Teams’ allows Teams users to appear as their own customized 3D virtual avatars in meetings. It allows knowledge workers to build and use self-expressive avatars and experience immersive spaces. The feature combines the mixed-reality capabilities of Microsoft Mesh, which allows people in different physical locations to join collaborative and shared holographic experiences, with the productivity tools of Microsoft Teams, where people can join virtual meetings, send chats, collaborate on shared documents, and more....