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The warnings have no immediate consequences for the affected subscribers but are meant to deter pirates from sharing the high profile leaks. Readers will remember that a movie leaking group, Hive-CM8 had promised to leak 40 high quality Hollywood movie screeners. However they stopped after releasing 14 such screeners and offered an apology to the producers. Producers for these 14 screeners have started to issue takedown requests to various websites in the hope that this will prevent at least some people from downloading their films without permission....

The 14-year-old Muslim boy who had made headlines for bringing a homemade clock to school has been sent a White House invitation by none other than U.S. President Barack Obama. Ahmed Mohamed, a ninth-grade high school student from Irving, Texas, was arrested on Monday after his teachers reported him to the police for making a clock, which they said resembled a bomb. — President Obama (@POTUS44) September 16, 2015 The arrest led to an outburst of anger on social media with thousands expressing their annoyance and displeasure at authorities for arresting Ahmed over his school project....

The team led by Peter Garnavich, astrophysics professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, analysed light captured by Kepler every 30 minutes over a three-year period from 500 distant galaxies, searching some 50 trillion stars. They were hunting for signs of massive stellar death explosions known as supernovae. Supernovas tend to occur when an aging red giant star has expended the last of its nuclear fuel. Because the star can’t sustain itself any longer, it collapses before exploding in a massive burst of energy....

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced the award at an event Monday at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. The agency has contracted Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company of Palmdale, California to further develop the preliminary design of the aircraft, which they are referring as Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) and create baseline requirements for the plane’s performance, carrying capacity, noise levels, and other criteria against which a prototype plane will be tested....

Though the spacecraft has snapped few best pictures of the cluster of light; however space researchers do not have any proper explanation for this phenomenon seen on the asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, yet. As per the researchers, new images indicate that the brightest spots lay within the center of a crater which is 55 miles (90 kilometers) wide and further it is surrounded by other bright spots that vary in their sizes....

After the Airtel Zero controversy over net neutrality, Facebook promoted nternet.org has been aslo been panned for violating principles of net neutrality by hiding behind the garb of providing free internet to poor people in India. In fact it only users to access to the websites that have signed up for Internet.org platform, while blocking access to those that did not join the Facebook initiative. After much criticism from all over the world, Facebook opened up the platform to all developers earlier this week....

The devices in question here are the Samsung Galaxy S8 & S8+. Being the flagship these two devices usually display the best that Samsung has to offer. Both the devices come with IP68 dust and water resistance, a Quad HD display (2960 x 1440 ), 4 GB of RAM, 12 MP rear camera that is complimented by a 8 MP front camera, Android Nougat 7.0 and a host of other features....

The tiny computer that is powerful enough to run a server has obvious comparisons with Raspberry Pi, a low cost, credit-card sized computer that can plug into a computer monitor or TV. Ocean is a pocket-sized server with a 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A7 dual-core processor coupled with 1GB of RAM. It comes with a 4,200 mAh battery, which allows you to use it for up to two days without plugging in a charger....

“Various distorted accounts of comments allegedly made by Sunanda have appeared in the press. It appears that some personal and private comments responding to these unauthorised tweets — comments that were not intended for publication — have been misrepresented and led to some erroneous conclusions,” they added in the statement on Facebook. “We wish to stress that we are happily married and intend to remain that way. Sunanda has been ill and hospitalised this week and is seeking to rest....

Epic Games—the company behind Unreal Tournament and game development tool Unreal Engine—confirmed the hack in a statement on its website. The attack was carried out on August 11, according to breach notification site LeakedSource which obtained a copy of the database. According to ZDNet, the hackers allegedly exploited a known SQL injection vulnerability residing in an outdated version of the vBulletin forum software, which allows them to get access to the full database....

Well, the Chinese tech giant has just launched the successor to the POCO F1, i.e., the POCO F2 Pro. Xiaomi spinoff announced this smartphone at a global online event. So here’s everything you need to know about the new flagship killer smartphones from POCO. POCO F2 Pro: Specifications And Features The POCO F2 Pro offers a plethora of features that were unheard of in this price segment. This smartphone features a premium construction, and it’s available in Neon Blue, Phantom White, Electric Purple, and Cyber Gray color variants....

For those unaware, “Poco” was launched as a sub-brand of Xiaomi in August 2018 to represent the company’s line of mid-range smartphones. Poco F1 was the first-ever smartphone to be unveiled under this brand in the same month in India as well as in the international markets. The Poco X2 is not a direct successor to the Poco F1 and appears to be a rebranded version of the Redmi K30 4G....

“Web 3 Gaming will be the future,” Polium wrote on social media to celebrate the announcement. “The console will be powerful enough to run high-performance games and will be easy to use for a traditional gamer who doesn’t understand Web 3.” — Polium (@Polium__) July 2, 2022 For the unversed, Web3 has become a catch-all term for the vision of a new, better version of the World Wide Web for the past year or so....

For those unaware, in March, the IA had announced a “National Emergency Library” program and made 1.4 million digital books available for free temporarily from its e-book repository, Open Library to help educators and students with digital learning material, as most of the country’s schools and libraries have been shut down due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Normally, the IA online library can be accessed under certain “wait time” restrictions that allows one borrower at a time to gain access to a scanned book for 14 days....

The study found that the teens would rather accept £15 for their personal information, which is equivalent to the cost of a large pizza, than work for that kind of money. “As consumers, teens clearly understand the commercial value of their personal data,” the report says. IT solutions and managed service firm Logicalis surveyed some 1,000 U.K. teens aged between 13-17 over a period of 10 days in January. They found the kids to be “instinctively digital” and that they fully understood the value of their personal information....

The new protocol, which is called as “On-Off Noise Power Communication (ONPC), can extend the range of Internet of Things (IoT) devices like door sensors or motion detectors by more than 60 meters, according to test results. The new protocol is programmed right on top of the existing Wi-Fi protocol using the same hardware. “That’s the really cool thing about this technology: it’s all done in software,” said Phil Lundrigan, assistant professor of computer engineering at BYU....

Many of you may not know him but the laptops you use are based on the pioneering work John Ellenby did in 1980s. In fact, in the tech community, he is known as the Godfather of laptops. His son Thomas confirmed the death but said the cause had not been determined. Ellenby flirtation with laptops started when he founded Grid Systems, a company in Mountain View, Calif. As chief executive, he assembled an engineering and design team that included the noted British-born industrial designer William Moggridge....