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Matteo Pisani, CTO and co-founder of Remoria VR, has reversed engineered a Google Daydream controller to make it function on an iOS device. For those unfamiliar, Google Daydream is a VR headset with a controller that is compatible with Android and not with iOS platform. Also, it is only compatible with Google’s Pixel and Motorola’s Moto Z smartphones running on Android 7.0 Nougat. Back in May, Clay Bavor, Google’s Virtual Reality department VP, had categorically stated that currently Google Daydream isn’t “compatible with iOS and won’t be for several years probably....

According to Bloomberg, the automotive giant violated the country’s advertisement laws by promoting and overstating the driving range and charging speed of its electric vehicles, as well as how much savings there would be on fuel costs by using its vehicles. South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) said at a press conference on Tuesday that Tesla had exaggerated the “driving ranges of its cars on a single charge, their fuel cost-effectiveness compared to gasoline vehicles as well as the performance of its Superchargers” on its official website in South Korea since August 2019 until recently....

The vulnerability, dubbed “Log4Shell” by cybersecurity researchers at LunaSec and credited to Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba, exploits results in Remote Code Execution (RCE) by logging a certain string, which allows attackers to gain uncontrolled access to computer systems and import malware putting millions of devices completely at risk. The 0-day was tweeted on December 9 along with a proof-of-concept (POC) posted on GitHub. According to the researchers, given how ubiquitous this library is, the impact of the exploit (full server control), and how easy it is to exploit, the impact of this vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) is “quite severe”....

Lockheimer reacted to an article from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that detailed how Apple has been rejecting the new messaging standard called Rich Communication Services (RCS) that is creating peer pressure among teenagers to use iMessage and turn away from Android-based texting. “Apple’s iMessage lock-in is a documented strategy. Using peer pressure and bullying as a way to sell products is disingenuous for a company that has humanity and equity as a core part of its marketing....

The viral Grandpa, who blew up on the Internet in 2018 with his passion for playing Pokémon GO on 15 phones simultaneously has evolved with time. While the hype around the game has faded down, the legendary Grandpa of Taiwan refused to budge in. The veteran Pokémon catcher was spotted on the streets of Taipei a few days ago with greater zeal and passion to catch ’em all. Meet the real Pokémon GO Grandpa The 72-year old Chen San-yuan is retired Feng Shui master who started playing soon after his grandson introduced the much-hyped game of 2018 to him....

Further, during the CES 2021 this year, TCL revealed a rollable concept device, dubbed an ‘AMOLED Rollable Display’, which can be extended from 6.7-inches to 7.8-inches with a simple tap of the finger, turning it from a smartphone into a tablet. Now, based on TCL’s sketches and renderings seen by CNET, the company is working on a smartphone that could integrate both foldable and rollable displays, which can be expanded into a tablet form device by unfolding the screen....

The teenager, Meetkumar Hiteshbhai Desai who discovered an iOS vulnerability stands indicted of sharing a link to a Javascript exploit that forced iPhones to repeatedly dial 911, according to a press release published by Maricopa County Sherrif’s Office on Thursday. According to authorities, Desai shared the critical iOS exploit on Twitter with over 12,000 followers, out of which more than 1,849 clicked on that link, activating over 100 ‘hangup calls’ to the 911 dispatch center in Surprise, Arizona, within a matter of minutes....

The pros and cons of Near Field Communications (NFC) technologyNFC: The Advantages NFC: The Risks Solutions Near Field Communications (NFC): NFC is a technology that is used to allow two electronic devices communicate with one another when in close proximity. Many people are sceptical about the safety of NFC, especially when using it to make payments through a stored credit card and rightly so. With the endless new technologies at our fingertips, a certain level of privacy is inevitably substituted but is it a risk that is worth taking and just how big the risk of using NFC does pose?...

Meanwhile, The ISO Zone, another retro gaming site, too decided to follow the footsteps of the above two ROM-hosting websites and pull-down curtains on its site, reports TorrentFreak. In fact, last week, EmuParadise, one of the web’s longest standing emulator and ROM (Read Only Memory) download portals, announced that it will no longer offer ROM downloads in light of Nintendo’s lawsuit against retro video game emulator sites. EmuParadise had been serving the retro-gaming industry for the past 18 years....

The powerful Mali-T720 GPU is able to display 4K HDR video, which promises richer colors and higher brightness. While there has been no way that we know of in which you will be able to run Windows 10, it can run Android 7.0 and features a host of ports ranging from a GbE port, and an HDMI 2.0a port. In short, if you cannot transform it into a PC, then it can definitely turn into a very capable Android media player....

According to its developers, Pilot, can translate between English, French, Spanish and Italian in real time and will be available to buyers by the end of this year. Pilot will cost $129 (£90) ?and will be available for pre-order on their website. Wavery Labs, the developers of the device, say on their website: “This little wearable uses translation technology to allow two people to speak different languages but still clearly understand each other”....

GhostShell was believed to be hacking sites just to prove any website was hackable while publicly mocking security firms like Trend Micro and Booz Allen Hamilton. The hacker who is the man behind hundreds of hacks that led to the disclosure of millions of personal records has been active since early 2012. GhostShell came into the limelight in 2012, hacking crucial data related to the US and Russian intelligence agencies, but almost disappeared for about three years after that....

This is how you can remotely turn off Android smartphones/tablets by sending a SMSSteps To Remotely Turn Off Any Android Smartphone/Tablet By Sending SMS In this article, we will discuss about the apps that will allow you to remotely shutdown Android smartphone/tablet by sending a single SMS that you will set in the app. This feature comes in handy if you have forgotten the phone at home and want no one to attend your calls....

Welcome this year’s Christmas with the coolest gift ever!Get Ready to See Supernatural Images in Real-TimeThe Hottest Gift Idea – the Therm-App Get Ready to See Supernatural Images in Real-Time So what can you do with an Android Thermal Camera? For starters, these make for unique gifts. Sure, people have heard about them, but they are new on the market. They are high-end tech devices, and they are surprisingly affordable gift ideas....

Artist and engineer Joel Murphy and his former student Conor Russomanno developed a working prototype when DARPA funded research into a brain-computer interface. In order to make the software and hardware cheap and accessible, they decided to further enhance the device. The duo launched a successful crowdfunding campaign in 2014 and ultimately created the Ultracortex, a $399 3D-printed electroencephalogram (EEG) headset, and the Ganglion, a $99 circuit board. While the electrodes in the Ultracortex track your body’s electrical signals, the Ganglion passes on the signals to your computer....

While Microsoft Teams comes with a range of security features built into its framework, this doesn’t necessarily mean that it is completely secure. Considering that as recently as April 2022, CyberArk exposed a weak point in Microsoft Teams security that completely bypassed all of their constructed defenses, it’s always a good idea to educate your team on how to stay safe despite the inherent cybersecurity that Teams employs. In this article, we’ll be taking a look at three easy steps that your admins and users can take to ensure your Microsoft Teams environment is as safe as it can be....

The researcher, Felix Krause, founder of the app-testing company Fastlane that was Google acquired five years ago, who discovered the findings said when the user opens any link on the TikTok iOS app, it is opened inside their in-app browser. “While you are interacting with the website, TikTok subscribes to all keyboard inputs (including passwords, credit card information, etc.) and every tap on the screen, like which buttons and links you click,” warns Krause in a blog post detailing the findings....

According to the paper titled “Traversable acausal retrograde domains in spacetime (TARDIS)” that published in IOPScience Classical and Quantum Gravity journal recently, experts have developed a mathematical model of a ‘time machine’ that could manipulate the space-time continuum enough to travel backwards through time. “People think of time travel as something as fiction,” says study author, theoretical physicist and mathematician, Ben Tippett from the University of British Columbia. “And we tend to think it’s not possible because we don’t actually do it....

Or, if you are using an Android smartphone, it is also powered by Linux. Linux is an OS used to control hardware like desktop and laptop computers, supercomputers, mobile devices, networking equipment, airplanes, and automobiles. Since Linux is used almost everywhere, there are a lot of people who wish to learn the Linux operating over Mac OS or Windows but don’t know where to begin. In this article, we bring to you a list of best Linux Channels and Playlists that can be found on YouTube, as it is one of the best places to learn Linux online....

However, the digital age brings its own challenges, and not least the skills that are required to survive and get ahead in the modern workplace. Demand for digitally competent professionals across all economic sectors continues to grow and is outperforming supply. According to the European Commission: As a sector, ICT is growing rapidly and creating about 120,000 new jobs each year. But due to differences in demands and skills, and despite high unemployment – especially among the young – Europe could face a shortage of up to 900,000 skilled ICT workers by 2020....