Venture capital (VC) is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth (in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, or both). A simplified industry Usually, the processes of acquiring funds from venture capitalists are quite stringent and sometimes the standards become unattainable for a lot of startups and small businesses....

First off, Alrawi, the messaging application is present on Android; in short, it is available for a mobile platform that is the least secure. With a flurry of devices running Google’s mobile OS, security is definitely far from top notch, particularly when you are running older updates of the operating system. This would allow authorities to easily penetrate the firewall and virtually eavesdrop (for lack of a better term) on what the next move of ISIS is going to be....

The Creator The reason Dennis Ritchie’s legacy is so important to us, is because this was the man who while working in Bell Labs in the late 60’s – early 70’s realized the limitations of assembly language. Therefore he, along with fellow Bell Labs researcher Ken Thompson decided to create a language that allowed them the flexibility to create a better version of UNIX. This language came to be known as B – which depending on the story – was either named after Thompson’s wife Bonnie or BCPL, a language developed at Cambridge in the mid-60s....

Read all about The Walking Dead “Season 3” hereWhat is there in Season 3 of ‘The Walking Dead’ Dennis Lenart, the Creative Director from Telltale spoke about the upcoming season of the game. He shared a few details about what to expect from the game while not disclosing much to spoil the story yet to come. The first new look of season 3 ‘The Walking Dead’ was also revealed as an image....

According to an announcement made by Martin Aircraft, it will start selling its manned jetpack for about $150,000 in the second half of 2016. The Martin Jetpack is made from carbon fibre and aluminium. It abstains from using the traditional rockets of science-fiction jetpacks, which are powerful but very hard to control, and uses fans as an alternative. https://youtu.be/i8gncCih7Js Martin says its jetpack, which has been developed over the past 35 years, is powered by a 200HP V4 petrol engine that drives two ducted fans for up to 30 minutes of flight time at speeds as fast as 74 kilometers per hour....

Its Oscar season and torrent fans are enjoying the sudden flood of ‘Screener’ versions of most of the movies in run for the Oscar movies nominations. Most of the notable Oscar contenders are now available as ‘Screener’ versions even those films which have not been released outside of NYC and L.A. It is believed that most of these films were sent to the members of the various nominating guilds for screening and somebody may have leaked these films hence the name ‘Screener’ versions....

For those unaware, Cellebrite specializes in extracting data from mobile phones for law enforcement agencies, and is being extensively used by the U.S. and UK police. However, recently news of a new mysterious iPhone unlocking device known as ‘GrayKey’ has surfaced that can be can disclose your iPhone passcode to law enforcement agencies in just a few hours. According to a report from security firm Malwarebytes, who also shared photos and additional information about the product, mention that the GrayKey box is a small, portable gray box equipped with dual Lightning cables that is designed for law enforcement officials....

Even though he does not have an engineering background, he has knowledge on automating things such as data processing, and other things. In order to apply to several companies in the shortest time possible, he made a tool to automate his job application processing. In a nutshell, his tool comprises of crawlers, spreadsheets, and scripts to help with the entire process. According to Fast Company, his tool was so effective that by the time he came back with a cup of coffee from down the street, the tool sent around 1,300 job applications....

This : — omar r quraishi (@omar_quraishi) December 15, 2015 He put up a giant billboard in Karachi in Urdu asking people to add him on Facebook. Allahwala put up his photo and details to his Facebook account, asking people to add him. He also stated on the billboard that he wishes to have a million Facebook friends. Not that Allahwala is unknown on the social media. He has a decent number of followers on Twitter, some 25,000 odd people....

This super easy iPhone feature was shared by an emergency room worker Katherine Jarmy. The feature can help doctors save your life in a life threatening situation. It’s called a Medical ID and it can be accessed through the “Emergency” option on your phone’s keypad, even when your phone is locked with a passcode. Medical ID is a default feature in every version of iPhone and lets you can add your name, a photo, emergency contacts from your phone, your blood type, medications, allergies, health problems, height, and weight....

Epicenter, a company in Stockholm, Sweden, implants chip into their employees, so that their bosses can monitor toilet breaks and how long they work. In other words, they are turning their employees into “cyborgs” by embedding them with tiny microchips. For those unfamiliar, Cyborg (Victor “Vic” Stone) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books, who is used by scientists as a test subject for various intelligence enhancement projects....

Disney+, Disney’s much-awaited streaming service, which was launched on November 12 in the U.S., Canada, and the Netherlands, gathered more than 10 million subscribers within 24 hours of its launch. Many Disney+ account users complained of facing technical difficulties within hours of its launch caused due to high volume of subscribers than expected. Not just this, there were also reports from some users being locked out of their accounts, as their usernames and passwords were changed by hackers....

Scientists were inspired to carry out further research on the problem, following a Cardiff University study that could identify potential cyber-attacks with up to 83 percent accuracy within five seconds and with up to 98 percent accuracy within 30 seconds, when a user clicked on a URL posted on Twitter and malware began to infect the device. Professor Omer Rana, principal investigator on the project, said “We are trying to build systems that can help law enforcement authorities make decisions in a changing cyber security landscape....

Here is how you can get the most out of Facebook Messenger without even leaving it1.Call an Uber or Lyft2.Integrating Additional apps with Messenger3.Send and Receive Money4.Making Group Video Calls5. Play Hidden Games 1.Call an Uber or Lyft You can summon a ride without having to leave Facebook Messenger. Just tap the transportation icon toward the bottom of the screen. If you don’t see the symbol, which looks like a car, press the More button....

These are the top NoSQL DBMS for year 2015Why use such databases ?Types of NoSQL Databases:1.CouchDB2. MongoDB3.Cassandra4. Redis5. HBase a relational database stores data as tables with numerous rows and columns.(I think this one is easy to understand). A key is a column (or set of columns) for a row, by which that row can be uniquely identified in the table. Rest of the columns of that row are called values....

According to The Verge, currently up to 90 percent of its funding comes from government donations. To kick off the campaign for donations, the organization has published a blog post called a ‘This is what a Tor Supporter looks like: Laura Poitras’, who is the filmmaker behind the documentary on the Edward Snowden-NSA leaks and a leading privacy advocate. “There are so many reasons…that we want to protect our privacy and not broadcast every move we make online....

A Twitter spokesman Said, While the statement was released by twitter officials, many peoples were still facing problems to see images on twitter feeds on twitter, Some users also mentioned they were having trouble reloading twitter. After about Half hour of tough fight from twitter security experts finally brought twitter.com Back to normal. And now it seems every thing is fine on twitter.Earlier today New York Times & Huffington post’s website was hacked by Syrian Electronic Army Syrian Electronic Army Confirmed they were having access to the Melbourne IT servers, which is a domain provider, and is used by high profile websites including twitter....

The blue verified badge helps people distinguish the authenticity of accounts that are of high public interest. It gives people on Twitter more context about who they are having conversations with so they can determine if it’s trustworthy. For those unaware, Twitter had suspended its public verification program in 2017 following public outrage over the verification of a prolific white supremacist. “We’re excited to share that starting today, we’ll begin rolling out our new verification application process and reviewing public applications for verification on Twitter,” the popular micro-blogging site said in a blog post on Thursday....

In the fake Twitter account, Andrew Walz’s bio reads, a “proven business leader” and a “passionate advocate for students” who is running for Congress with the tagline, “Let’s make change in Washington together.” Earlier this month, Walz’s account received the coveted blue “verified” checkmark from Twitter, as part of Twitter’s efforts to verify the authenticity of many Senate, House and gubernatorial candidates running for office. Twitter gives “blue checkmarks” to let people “know that an account of public interest is authentic....

The U.S. was joined by NATO, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and Canada in condemning the spying, which U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said posed “a major threat to our economic and national security.” The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been accused of using “criminal contract hackers” for conducting malicious cyber activity for their own personal gain, including activities involving ransomware, cryptojacking, and cyber-enabled extortion....