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TRAI had asked for public’s written views on draft suggestions for over-the-top services like WhatsApp and Skype as well as on net neutrality until April 24. The public were invited to post their comments to a common official email id of the regulator. However, the emails that were made public include a number of mails that have no connection to these draft proposals. Some of them even include personal and other official emails sent to TRAI....

Universal Pictures today released a second trailer of the move which will release on January 16 world wide. Blackhat begins with a prophetic quote made by former C.I.A. director Leon Panetta during a Senate hearing, “The next Pearl Harbor that we confront could very well be a cyber-attack.” The second trailer of this action packed crime thriller based on a hacker is given below

Mr. Trump and Xi Jinping, President of China, agreed to a trade truce between the two countries during a lunch meeting on the sidelines of a Group of 20 meetings in Osaka, Japan. Speaking at a press conference following the summit on Saturday, Mr. Trump reportedly said China and the U.S. can be “strategic partners”. “These are American companies producing the products. This is complex … highly scientific. We are the only one with the technology....

Keeping in line with the U.S sanctions, Mastercard and Visa stop services in CrimeaHitting Russian economyLatest SanctionsConsequences The United States action comes after Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula in March 2014. Crimea has been a part of internationally recognised boundary of Ukraine and Europe and United States have supported the Ukrainian government’s demand for Russian troops to leave Crimea. The economic blockade of Crimea is part of that support to Ukraine government....

A long development cycle that included eleven development releases, uGet 2.0 has been shifted to the stable channel and it is all set to take care all your downloads in style, irrespective of the Linux operating system used. At the moment of writing this article, there was no official announcement on the application’s website. uGet 2.0 includes many appealing features, such as a new settings dialog, support for uGet RSS messages in the banner and better BitTorrent and Metalink support in the aria2 plugin....

Troubled waters for companies 99% of all existing IT systems within enterprises don’t use or connect to any blockchain yet. Unibright wants to change that, offering outstanding features of its Framework which reflect the overall challenges for companies to adapt to blockchain. Long-term strategic planning Although still at an early stage of the blockchain, the first league of business-relevant protocols is expanding fast. It is close to impossible for companies to choose between all existing blockchains, offering different features, in order to set up solid business processes in the long run....

United Airlines spokesperson said that about 3,500 flights were being affected and the the delays could reach 235 domestic and 138 international destinations. “We experienced a network connectivity issue this morning,” United confirmed in a statement after 9 a.m. “We are working to resolve this and apologize to our customers for any inconvenience.” The Federal Aviation Administration specifically blamed the ground stop on “automation issues.” United Airline’s regional carriers however escaped the grounding because they have their own facilities....

US military and intelligence officials have recorded increased Russian activity along undersea cables in the North Sea, northeast Asia and by American shores. As the Russian Navy submarines and spy ships are said to be too close to the undersea cables that carry about 95% of the global Internet connections, speculations that an attempt by the Russians to cut the information carrying cables got everyone on the US intelligence to panic....

Microsoft is working towards bringing a new version of Windows 10 OS to its smartphones with a feature that users will have same experience as that of working on traditional desktop. “Since we’re building Windows 10 to be the same core platform for PCs, tablets and phones, it should be no surprise that participating in the program for phones will work pretty much the same way it has been working for PCs,” says Microsoft’s Gabe Aul....

The companies first smartphone, VAIO Phone VA-10J runs Android Lollipop 5.0 and has 4G Compatibility. The smartphone is set to be launched on March 20th in Japan in collaboration with b-mobile, a Japanese mobile carrier. Specs and Features Vaio Phone is priced at $33 (4,000 Yen) with unlimited data plans from B-mobile in Japan or about $420, or 51,000 yen without the carrier contracts.

1.4 million customers data of Viator.com compromisedCVV not breachedInvestigations into the breachParent Company TripAdvisor Comments Founded in 1995, Viator is a TripAdvisor company which is headquartered in San Francisco with regional offices in Sydney, London and Las Vegas. It is a leading global resource to discover and book travel activities, providing online and mobile access to thousands of curated trip activities including tours, attractions, shore excursions and private guides, in more than 1,500 destinations worldwide....

Over the weekend, Zapata released the first video that claims to show his new Flyboard Air with him in action. The Flyboard Air ditches the water jet for what appears to be a jet turbine engine, and allows him to soar in the sky to a maximum height of 10,000 feet (3,048 m) for maximum fly time of 10 minutes with a top ground speed of 150 km/h (93 mph)....

The father of Linux, Linus Torvalds has other views. As a part of promoting Linux, the Linux Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the growth of Linux, has recently published a new video starring the father of Linux, Linus Torvalds. The one minute video posted by Linux Foundation dwells on budding graduates can choose their IT careers, and why they should choose to work in Linux-powered and Open Source environments....

The difference between seeds, peers, and leechers in Torrents’ languageWhat are seeds, peers, and leechers in torrent? Also read– Best Torrent Sites To understand this, you should first know what is a “BitTorrent’? BitTorrent is a communications protocol of peer-to-peer file sharing (“P2P“)*** which is used to distribute large amounts of data and electronic files over the Internet, such as digital video files containing TV shows or video clips or digital audio files containing songs....

In the latest update, the company has made the WhatsApp voice-calling available for users of its Windows Phone app. The calling feature introduced in version 2.12.60 will work on device running Window Phone 8 and above. In addition, smartphones running Windows Phone version 8.1 can also use the updated app to send audio files. “Call your friends and family using WhatsApp for free, even if they’re in another country,” the updated app description reads....

WhatsApp wont work on old Nokia, BlackBerry, Android smartphones and iPhone 3GSSmartphones that wont get WhatsApp support from 1.1.2017 Earlier this year, the Facebook-owned messaging app had announced that it will drop support for several mobile operating systems from 2017, including Nokia’s dated Symbian. A popup message now appears to every WhatsApp user on Symbian OS, “Unfortunately, you won’t be able to use WhatsApp after 31/12/2016 because WhatsApp will no longer support your phone....

The narrative that’s meant to propel it goes something like this: through the interconnection of billions of autonomous devices embedded in everyday objects, data can be gathered, valuable insights gleaned, and systemwide improvements made in virtually every sector. No wonder experts are predicting that over half of new businesses will utilize IoT in some manner by next year. The idea of equipping physical objects with sensors, then connecting them to devices and systems such as cloud technologies, has more than a touch of science fiction to it....

The series chronicles Steven Avery, a convicted murderer currently serving a life sentence for the murder of Teresa Halbach. He previously served 18 years in prison for sexual assault, which DNA evidence later cleared him of. Avery was born in July, 1962 in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. According to the trailer for Making a Murderer, the Avery family “didn’t fit into the community” as they were particularly poor, had received poor education (Avery is described in the documentary as “barely functioning” and having an IQ of 70) and dressed differently to everyone else....

Hop on the grass A CLI-based framework named the Grasshopper has been built by the CIA to enable building “customized malware” payloads to break into Microsoft’s Windows operating system – even bypassing the anti virus.The leaked documents appear to be a user manual for spies only to be accessed by the members of the agency. As per the documents, the framework enables agency members to easily create malware depending on the operating system and anti virus installed on the target machine....