Millions of Android Devices Have Flawed

A security researcher was able to easily nullify Android’s full disk encryption that is utilized by millions of devices. According to Techspot, the implementation of full disk encryption on Google’s Android mobile operating system has been an important step forward in terms of security and personal privacy. However, the security measure is not fail proof, as…

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Check these Photos Of North Korea’s huge, weird buildings

In a country that keeps so much under wraps, the architecture ends up speaking volumes.  Entering the capital city of Pyongyang, visitors pass through the Arch of Reunification. The two women holding a conjoined North and South Korea symbolize supreme leader Kim Il Sung’s vision for the two countries. Nick Bonner Immediately, visitors are struck by…

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Why Can’t Girls Code?

Coding is the new lingua franca of the present age. But, for girls, entering into this male-dominant field is simply impossible because they have too many distractions in their lives — right? This is how a lot of people, with their sexist and outdated mindsets, think and carry pre-conceived notions about the things that girls…

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How I’d Live On $2 A Day – Bill Gates Notes

You might have read numerous hoax posts on the internet claiming to tell you ways to earn millions. Well, here I’ll tell you something opposite (no million dollar trick, no hoax). The world’s richest man has revealed what he would do to live on $2 a day. On his website Gates Notes, Microsoft co-founder has…

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The Cheat Sheet Of Basic Linux Commands

If you are willing to become a system administrator or trying to make a shift from Windows to Linux, you need to become well-versed with basic Linux commands. Even if you adopted Linux a long time ago, it becomes difficult to remember all the commands and use them to perform powerful tasks with just a few…

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The World’s Fastest 256GB microSD Card

Western Digital Announces World’s Fastest 256GB SanDisk microSD Card Storing data including movies and images on your smartphones got that much easier provided your smartphone can support 256GB microSD card. Western Digital Corporation (WDC), a global storage technology and solutions leader, has announced the new 256GB SanDisk Extreme microSDXC UHS-I card – the fastest microSD…

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This AI Beats Colonel In Aerial Combat Simulations

Every time artificial intelligence (AI) beats a human in something, the world cries “Skynet” and assumes the robot takeover is about to happen. Whereas we definitely don’t have to worryabout that happening anytime soon, a new AI has wandered onto the stage and, for once, aTerminator film series-inspired machine revolution appears to be somewhat possible….

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Why Elon Musk Is Wrong About AI

Will AI evolve to become an existential threat to humanity? Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and physicist Stephen Hawking seem to think so. They are amongst a number of luminaries who see intelligent machines as humanity’s way of committing collective suicide. But how right are they? Should we heed to their alarmist views? Is there anything…

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control your smartphone with your eyes

A team of international researchers, including an Indian-origin graduate student, is developing software that could let you control your smartphone through eye movements to play games, open apps and do other stuff. The team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Georgia and Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Informatics has so far been…

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Does your smartphone light affects you ?

It may be hard to stop, but looking at your phone at night is a terrible idea. Smartphone screens emit bright blue light so you can see them even at the sunniest times of day. But at night, your brain gets confused by that light, as it mimics the brightness of the sun. This causes the brain…

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Leaked iPhone 7 camera design photos

Over the weekend, a pair of photos purporting to show the rear casings of both the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus appeared online. Originally spotted byNowhereelse.fr, the images are largely similar to previous leaks we’ve seen over the past few weeks, with the unsightly antenna lines that plagued both the iPhone 6 and…

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This robot crawls and swims like a real salamander

The mad roboticists at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have produced another biomimetic mechanoid — this one based on the lithe locomotion of the salamander. “Pleurobot” imitates the amphibian’s ambulation with its own articulated vertebrae, allowing it to slither along on land or at sea. “Animal locomotion is a very interesting interplay between the…

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