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The justice ministry official was quoted by the government-aligned Al Riyadh newspaper as saying “The justice ministry will sue the person who described … the sentencing of a man to death for apostasy as being ‘ISIS-like,’” Reuters reports. The official did not define who the Twitter user was or what the potential punishment would be, but he did succeed in accidentally creating and trending two hashtags: #SaudiArabiaIsISIS and #SueMeSaudi. Saudi Arabia has been compared to ISIS ever since Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh was sentenced to death for “spreading atheism and disrespecting the prophet” in November....

On the other hand, optical computers beams data at the speed of light without generating all the heat and wasted energy of traditional electronic computers. How amazing would it be if there could be a way for both of these to work together as one unit? Well, may be. Scientists at the University of Technology, Sydney have found a material that has the capacity to combine both of those abilities in one surprisingly powerful computer of the future....

If you thought that emoji came with computers and smartphones, you are mistaken. Emojis have existed for years, however, the oldest emoji in existence was discovered recently. Researchers from the National Archives in Trencin, Slovakia claimed to found what they believe is the world’s oldest original emoji drawn by a lawyer called Jan Ladislaides – a 382-year-old smiley face. Head of the archive in Trencin Peter Brindza in Slovakia said: “We found a smiley face, which dates from the 17th century – from 1635 – by notary Jan Ladislaides next to his signature....

The patient started experiencing continuous déjà vu in 2007, after taking LSD during his first year of university. He has a history of anxiety and a family record of obsessive compulsive disorder. Although few of the incidents only lasted minutes, they could also carry on for much longer. The patient told scientists that he felt “trapped in a time loop” and found the experiences “very frightening”. As a result, he stopped watching TV, listening to the radio, or reading newspapers and magazines, because he felt like the content had been taken from his memories....

Due to the popularity and acceptance of PDF files, many PDF management and editing tools have emerged over the past few decades. Smallpdf is one of the most feature-packed, easy to navigate, and perfectly priced PDF management software that simply gets the job done. You will be surprised to know that SmallPDF offers more than a dozen of PDF tools. Every PDF management or editing tool offered by Smallpdf complements the other and vice-versa....

Turns out that this concept was first visualized by none other than the co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs. Yes, you heard it right! Apparently, Jobs wanted the original iPhone to not include a physical SIM card slot, said Tony Fadell, father of iPod and former iPod VP, in a recent interview with journalist Joanna Stern at a Computer History Museum special event. According to Fadell, when the original iPhone was in its early development stages, Jobs did not want the smartphone to have a SIM card slot because of his design preferences....

Syrian Electronic Army hacks several websites, Forbes, Ferrari, Independent, Daily Telegraph and many other websites hijackedGigiya — The Telegraph (@Telegraph) November 27, 2014 Among those hit were the websites of United Kingdom’s largest dailies like Daily Telegraph, Independent and Evening Standard. The SEA has also hacked websites of Forbes, Ferrari, Al Jazeera, PC World, Chicago Tribune and many more. Techworm is in contact with SEA to get latest news on the hacks as well the reason behind the hacks....

The hackers tweeted, the Syrian Electronic Army was here” #SEA #SYRIA, In French. followed by several tweets — Jon Passantino (@passantino) January 21, 2015 The Twitter Account was temporarily suspended after the hack attack. however it is back online now and the tweets posted by the Syrian Electronic Army were deleted. After gaining back the control, Le Monde tweeted that- After hacking into our account, our teams have now taken the hand....

To cash on this craze, even the mobile manufacturers have started creating smartphones with high resolution front cameras to extra wide apertures, and even wider angles to allow more of the background or people into the frame. A Swedish design firm has recently announced a smartphone camera attachment called the ViW to take advantage of this craze. The device is a small and thin device that clips on gadget that can attach itself to your smartphone’s camera....

On July 26, 2020, Telegram announced an update that brings Profile Videos along with improved People Nearby features, unlimited file sharing with up to 2GB per file, mini-thumbnails for your chat list, and notifications, group stats, and much more. Let’s have a look at the features rolled out in the latest update: Profile Videos You can now upload a video to your profile and choose any frame for your static profile picture in chats....

For those unaware, The Pirate Bay in mid-September was secretly running a Javascript-based cryptocurrency miner on its website through a technology called ‘Coinhive’ that utilizes CPU power from visitor’s computers to generate ‘Monero’, a very profitable cryptocurrency for the website. Users had started complaining about extremely high CPU utilisation when they loaded certain pages on their computers and a slowdown of the entire PC. At that time, The Pirate Bay operators said that they were testing Coinhive briefly to see if they could run it as a replacement for advertisements on the site....

The top tier companies in U.S. have fierce competition amongst them to acquire the very best young engineering talent. Not only this, internships are highly-prized too. You get only or minimum wage salaries here and no expenses. In fact, there are several tech interns who are paid upwards of $6,000 per month, which is much more than the earnings of some people in other industries who have decades of experience behind them....

The leaked data lead to many problems for many AM members with reports stating suicides by couple of members. When Ashley Madison was hacked last year, members had two straight choices — come clean to their other half, or stay calm and hope it all blew over. However, those who chose to remain calm have been receiving extortion demands from unknown blackmailers. Even after almost 6 months the AM hack continues to hang over their heads like the sword of Damocles....

Robotic Submarine injects poison and kills ‘Crown of Thorns Sea Stars’ to save Coral ReefsMajor causes for the infestations of these COTSS:Autonomous Robotic submarine used to inject poison and kill the COTSS: As per a research by the Australian Institute of Marine Science, it was observed that over the past 30 years, there has been a severe decline (almost 50 percent) of the coral cover on some surveyed reefs. Surprisingly, the study also reflected that besides climatic changes, pollution, over fishing by humans and fins of the scuba divers one of the major attribution to the destruction is by the Crown-of-thorns starfish a....

According to Cloudflare’s Year in Review report, TikTok has surpassed Google to become the most popular domain worldwide in 2021 in terms of internet traffic. Besides Google, TikTok, a short video-sharing platform, also went past tech giants like Twitter, Meta, and Apple. As per the report, Google.com (which includes Maps, Translate, Photos, Flights, Books, and News, among others) remained the undefeated leader in Cloudflare’s ranking leading from September to December 2020....

What is the meaning of Custom Android ROM : It includes anything from making changes to the custom codes in such a way so that the Android device starts running better. Basically here the original software provided by the manufacturer is wiped out or overwritten with the customized Android system so that it would include a change in the home screen, default screen and even background services. Users who are not satisfied with the Android software provided by their manufacturer can check the Custom ROMs mentioned in the below article....

You will find a lot of programmers in the market who come with a wide range of skill sets. Even though you may up-to-date on the latest programming languages and have mastered the technical skills you need to write great code, you are still required to possess a variety of traits necessary to stand out of the rest as a great programmer. Remember, programming is much more than just mechanical coding....

However, to enjoy the uninterrupted services of the internet, you need to have good connectivity. There are two important metrics in bandwidth allocation (measured in Megabits per second or Mbps): download and upload speed, denoting the speed of inbound and outbound data respectively. The average web page loads at 6.3 Mbps universally, a number that denotes how many million bits of data can be moved in a second. While 6....