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Well, CBSE is now planning to introduce Artificial Intelligence courses for classes 8, 9, and 10. So here’s everything you need to know about the introduction of Artificial Intelligence courses by CBSE. ALSO READ: China builds an ‘artificial sun’ that is 6 times hotter than our ‘natural sun’ Artificial Intelligence Courses For Classes 8, 9, 10 CBSE has decided to introduce Artificial Intelligence as an elective subject for students of class 8th, 9th, and 10th....

It was first presented as the ‘3D Express Coach’ concept by Chinese company Shenzen Hashi Future Parking Equipment Co. However, the latest iteration – the Land Airbus – has now been shown as a scale model and an animated concept by Transit Explore Bus, at this year’s High-tech Expo in Beijing. The first unit is currently under construction in China. The model version of the futuristic train-like ‘bus’ sits above two lanes of traffic which allows other vehicles on the road to pass below it....

Security researchers from Cisco discovered a piece of software that installed backdoors on 12 million computers around the world. Researchers determined that the application, installed with administrator rights, was capable not only of downloading and installing other software, such as a known scareware called System Healer, but also of harvesting personal information. Furthermore, experts found that the software is designed to detect the presence of sandboxes, antiviruses, security tools, forensic software and remote access doors....

Citigroup Inc. has agreed to pay $7 million and admitted to wrongdoing to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges, the financial services firm gave the agency incomplete “blue sheet” information. The incomplete “blue sheet” was a result of a programming error in the software that Citigroup used from 1999 to 2014 for a whopping fifteen years. Blue sheets include the time, type, volume, and prices of trades, among other information....

Now a Chinese consumer rights group has said enough is enough and filed a lawsuit against smartphone manufacturers Samsung and Oppo. The lawsuit was filed by Shanghai Consumer Rights Protection Commission on Thursday against Samsung and Oppo, two of the biggest smartphone sellers in China, over their practice of pre-installing apps on their smartphones. The lawsuit alleges that several smartphone models sold by both companies came with pre-installed apps that the consumers could not remove, and which, in some cases also “stole” cellular data....

Core i7-6700K runs at 4.0GHz, along with a base clock frequency of 4.2GHz, which means that you might be able to reach a high clock using air or even water cooling, but the overclocking expert was able to reach a clock speed of 7025.6MHz, which is absolutely phenomenal. Before you ask, you will not be able to reach this speed using conventional cooling methods. In short, in order to achieve the stated speed, you have no other option but to use liquid nitrogen....

Critical Schannel flaw in Windows exposed, Microsoft issues patchMicrosoft tight lippedThe Good News Microsoft tight lipped As in most cases of propriety software, Microsoft has not been very forth coming in the details and extent of this bug. The flaw can be exploited by an attacker to remotely attack a machine. In fact the flaw is pretty serious that every unpatched Windows machine round the globe is vulnerable to this attack....

Breaking Tor seems to everyone’s favourite hack this weekend as it comes less than 24 hours after the Tor Project developers accused the Federal Bureau of Investigation of paying Carnegie Mellon University $1 million to attack Tor. Zerodium is a security research company which pays high cash rewards to hackers and security researchers who find zero-day exploits. It makes money by paying hackers for exploits and then selling these very exploits to governments around the world, corporations in the defense, technology firms, and finance industries....

Bradford Tousley, an executive of DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office, provided an update on ALASA at 18th Annual Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s Commercial Space Transportation Conference in Washington, D.C. Tousley discussed several pivotal accomplishments and challenges which the company had to face to make the module up to date, including its Phase 1 design, preference for Boeing as primary executive for Phase 2 of a program, that includes conducting 12 orbital exam launches of an integrated antecedent system....

Security researchers from Senrio had earlier discovered this high-risk vulnerability in D-Link DCS-930L, a Wi-Fi enabled camera that can be controlled remotely through a smartphone app. In June, Senrio briefly described the issue on their company blog in which they demonstrated their PoC by using their custom tools to take over the Wi-Fi enabled camera. “The vulnerability allows code injection which lets the attacker set a custom password, granting remote access to the camera feed....

Following the similar lines, an 18-year old teenager from India who was addicted over the popular multiplayer online battle royale game, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), committed suicide after his parents refused to buy him a new, high-end smartphone to play the game. According to police, the teenager who lived in Kurla’s Nehru Nagar area of Mumbai, India, demanded that his parents buy him a smartphone costing Rs. 37,000 to play the PUBG mobile game....

University of Missouri-Columbia study whose results are published here, states that Facebook can make us sadder, but only if you’re using it to lurk from afar. Lurking from afar means using Facebook to check on how your old acquaintance/friend/ex-girl friend/boy friend is doing, which actually engaging with them through ‘likes’ comments or sharing their posts. The study by the two researchers Margaret Duffy and Edson Tandoc, has taken care to distinguish between the good kind and the bad kind of Facebook usage....

According to DuckDuckGo, its desktop browser will redefine user expectations of everyday online privacy. It promises “no complicated settings, no misleading warnings, no “levels” of privacy protection – just robust privacy protection that works by default, across search, browsing, email, and more.” “It’s not a “privacy browser”. It’s an everyday browsing app that respects your privacy because there’s never a bad time to stop companies from spying on your search and browsing history,” reads the blog post....

7 things a coder who has just started programming should knowLearn about the underlying systemsKnow command line toolsYour debugger is your friendLearn to write testsPlan on change and learning new systemsPlay well with othersDon’t be afraid to code yourself out of a job Learn about the underlying systems To have knowledge about programming languages is the main part of software development. It is also very important for developers to be aware about what’s going on lower down the stack....

A Houston area man who is also a ex-military man spoke to Click 2 Houston about his involvement with the global hacktivist group Anonymous and why he severed all ties with the elusive organization. Mike Jones claims he is one of the original members of Anonymous and has been at the forefront of several cyber attacks on government institutions, large corporations and terrorist groups. “We were looking for new ways, new ways of thinking,” Jones said....

The infected apps hide and promote themselves aggressively on Facebook showing continuous advertisements to victims in a variety of ways. When this malware is installed on the victim’s device, they run malicious services automatically upon installation even without needing any user interaction to open the apps. To promote these apps to new users, the malware authors created advertising pages on Facebook, as it is the link to Google Play distributed through legitimate social media, leaving little margin for doubt for the users....

This is how to use two separate display profile pictures in FacebookRemember this hack works only for profile pictures. Make sure you have at least 2 or more pictures in your “profile pictures” album.Steps to enable different pictures for thumbnail and display picture This Facebook hack basically allows you to change display picture in your Facebook profile while keeping the post thumbnail or the original one as it is. Once you have enabled this hack you will have a different pic for your thumbnail and a different pic for display....

“Every day, people send more than 2.4 billion messages with emojis on Messenger. Emojis add color and vibrancy to Messenger chats all over the world, and we rely on them to say what words can’t,” wrote Loredana Crisan, Vice President of Messaging Group, Messenger in a blog post about the new feature. “Now imagine if your emojis could talk — what sound would they make? Introducing Messenger’s latest feature: Soundmojis....

Facebook engineers have made the Messenger.com a full fledged websites and it resides outside of Facebook. One of the main reasons for the launch of standalone messaging App is that FB users sometimes need to chat with their friends and acquaintances without the distractions, popups and intimidations Facebook provides. When a user is logged into Facebook there are constant updates in the news feeds and the friends user profiles. The messaging website gives a way to FB users to just concentrate on messaging....

“Hello” for Android is the brainchild of Facebook Creative Labs, the company’s arm tasked with creating new applications outside of Facebook. Unlike WhatsApp voice calling where the user just sees the user’s profile on the smartphone screen, Hello is a full fledged dialler with caller id facility. Because it’s connected to Facebook, Hello users can see information about their callers’ identity even if the caller is not in their friends list....