Drone Carrying Contraband Goods Crashes In Oklahoma Prison

However not all crime pays. According to a report from Reuters, a drone has crashed in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. The crashed drone was found to be carrying all manner of contraband, including mobile phones, drugs, and hacksaw blades just to name a few. The prison authorities were quick to confiscate the illegal goods because of the crash. However it is not known whether the criminals had shipped the goods for some inmate lodged in the Oklahoma prison....

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 172 words · Aleta Laidlaw

Drone Startup Which Collected Record 3 4 Million Through Kickstarter Campaign Collapses Techworm

UK’s startup which collected $3.4 million on Kickstarter collapses after failing to deliver dronesIn a Wednesday statement sent to backers, the company wrote: Torquing troubles began earlier this month when cofounder and CEO Ivan Reedman abruptly left the company citing “personal health issues and irreconcilable differences.” For the uninitiated, Torquing Group raised around $4.3 million in January 2015 through a Kickstarter campaign to fund production of its handheld drone, known as the Zano....

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 190 words · Jed Furr

Drop Everything And Play Old Time Favourite Pacman Game On Google Maps

And while you are at it watch mini-roundabout because the enemies are lurking near buy. The game is available with the original rules of Pacman with 5 lives per game. The game even comes with the original music and the fatal ‘wooo wooo’ sound when you die. Be careful to choose a nice city with spaces on the streets or you will get this message

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 65 words · Robert Chavez

Eleven Electronic Road Signs Compromised In 3 States Of United States From 30Th May To 1St June Techworm

December 7, 2022 · 0 min · 0 words · Angela Davis

Elon Musk S Secret Meeting With Pentagon For Iron Man Like Flying Suit Techworm

According to a Defense Department spokesman, the focus of the closed-door get together was Carter’s attempt to “build bridges” in technology and learn more about the world of “innovation,” even though Musk is also looking to win more government business for SpaceX, which launches satellites into orbit. After their meeting neither Carter nor Musk spoke to reporters, but Defense Department spokesman Peter Cook said Monday that Carter “has been reaching out to a number of members of the technology community to get their ideas, their feedback, find out what’s going on in the world of innovation....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 387 words · Maxine Thomas

Elon Musk S Tesla Set To Launch New Pi Phone

According to speculations, the upcoming Tesla Pi Phone is expected to feature a 6.7 inch OLED display with a 1284 x 2778 pixel screen resolution, 120HZ refresh rate, pixel density of 458ppi, and brightness level of around 1600 nits. It will have an oleophobic coating and scratch-resistant glass for added protection. Further, Tesla’s Pi Phone will be powered by its own GPU, the Tesla GPU. It will come with 8GB of RAM and 512GB of internal storage....

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 208 words · John Kimble

Ex Google Executive Is Starting His Own Artificial Intelligence Church Techworm

According to IRS documents, the new church of AI will aim “to develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on artificial intelligence and through understanding and worship of the Godhead [to] contribute to the betterment of society.” Levandowski would be the leader – in this case “dean” – of the religion. The robot god will head a non-profit religious organization called “Way Of The Future” (WOTF). According to the website (wayofthefuture....

December 7, 2022 · 3 min · 530 words · Victoria Estes

Facebook And Intel Built A Doom Playing Ai That Dominated The Video Game Competition Techworm

The 1993 video game, in which a player fights the menace of hell, has become a hallmark for AI research for its simple 3D maps and potential for different styles of play. This competition is particularly interesting because these AI play Doom in a way that imitates how an actual human would – by “looking” at the screen (actually, the screen buffer), finding and evaluating what’s happening, making decisions and then sending inputs to the game as though the AI were using a mouse and keyboard, points out Engadget....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 281 words · Pauline Cancilla

Facebook Bids Goodbye To Adobe Flash Welcomes Html5 Techworm

“We are continuing to work together with Adobe to deliver a reliable and secure Flash experience for games on our platform,” Facebook front-end engineer Daniel Baulig wrote in a blog post, “but have shipped the change for video to all browsers by default.” The company explained that switching to a HTML5 video player made “development easier” and improves “the video experience for people on Facebook,” including videos playing faster and reports of fewer bugs....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 290 words · Kenneth Caruso

Facebook Launches Campus A Dedicated Space For College Students To Connect

This platform makes it easy for the students to find and start conversations within their college community. “This year, students across the country are facing new challenges as some campuses shift to partial or full-time remote learning, so it’s more important than ever to find a way to stay connected to college life. College is a time for making new friends, finding people who share similar interests, and discovering new opportunities to connect – from clubs to study groups, sports, and more....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 383 words · Shannon Dunlap

Facebook Offers A Vpn Client Under Protect Option For Ios Techworm

Apparently, Facebook is pushing its users to download and install a Facebook-owned VPN client called “Onavo Protect” on their devices under the pretext of protecting their account. VPN (short for virtual private network) is used to safeguard users’ online privacy and keep their IP address anonymous particularly when using public Wi-Fi networks by creating a secure connection to another network over the Internet. However, Onavo Protect is just doing exactly the opposite....

December 7, 2022 · 3 min · 495 words · Mark Walker

Facebook Scam Win A Dodge Charger 1970 Giveaway

The message on the Facebook page with the Dodge Charger 1970 giveaway is placed at the top and has over 300,000 likes, with the post dated April 15. The scam attempts to fool Facebook users into commenting on, liking and sharing the page, in order to have a chance to win one of the cars. By liking, sharing and commenting on the fake prize post, Facebook users inadvertently promote the Page across the network and expose all of their friends to the scam....

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 212 words · Jeffery Clark

Fastest Cars In Gta 5 Online Ranked By Top Speed In 2023

GTA 5 has around 690 Cars in the game which makes it hard to decide which one to go for. Everyone wants to own a cool-looking car that is the fastest in the Game. This gives an edge in GTA 5 Online racing events. With the right things by your side, winning these events can be fun and rewarding. But you cannot achieve it with the random cars you see around the streets....

December 7, 2022 · 12 min · 2356 words · Curtis Williams

Fbi Has Made A Video Game And It Really Sucks Techworm

While FBI’s attempt at creating the video game should be lauded for the reason behind it, the game really sucks. The video game invloves a goat dodging objects is made by the FBI to help educate kids about “the slippery slope to violent extremism.” Gizmodo wrote about the “Don’t Be A Puppet” website yesterday, comparing it to an “awful, out-of-touch 90s educational game.” I’m right there with them. FBI however has a different view of the game and describes it thus on its website: Kotaku’s Patrick Klepek says that the game is just plain ugly....

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 120 words · Janice Paine

Fedora Needs Your Help To Port Python Packages Techworm

Python 3 is currently being adopted by more and more GNU/Linux operating systems, as the world always tries to move forward and implement the newest of technologies. Additionally, support for Python 2 slowly starts to fade on some of the most popular OSes. Miro Hron?ok is a Fedora ambassador and packager working at Red Hat, focusing on the Python stack and 3D printing for the Fedora Linux operating system. Today, July 15, 2016, he has informed Softpedia that his team needs volunteers to help with the Python 3 porting of various packages from the Fedora Python 3 Porting Database....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 286 words · Hazel Dixon

Feds Accuse Russian Hacker Who Stole Information From Linkedin And Dropbox Techworm

Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, 29, of Moscow was arrested on October 5 by officials in Prague in response to an Interpol warrant issued at the request of the United States, where he remains in custody. He now faces a Czech extradition hearing, according to a statement issued by the U.S. Department of Justice. However, the Russian Embassy in Prague told that Moscow will be seeking his return to Russia. Moscow, an embassy source said, rejects “the U....

December 7, 2022 · 3 min · 452 words · Adrienne Arguellez

Firefox 51 Released Becomes The First Browser To Support All New Webgl 2 Techworm

While there are no standout features in this release, it however notably does have support for FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) content, a high-end gaming experience thanks to the implementation of WebGL 2 support, and the ability to view passwords before saving them in the built-in password manager. The users can now also save passwords for forms that don’t have “submit” events. They have also enabled Skia 2D graphics library for content rendering by default in the Linux build too....

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 188 words · Alisa Dinsmoor

Flipkart Pulls Out Of Airtel Zero Due To Social Media Backlash Flipkart Strongly Supports Net Neutrality

Airtel Zero will allow customers to access certain apps and websites without paying data charges as long as the makers of those apps and services pay certain revenue to Airtel for this free access. Experts argue that this is going against the concept of net neutrality, which demands that all data on the internet is equal and should not be discriminated against. Flipkart has announced its decision after a widespread backlash against the firm on social media and users voting down its app on the Android and Apple stores after its CEO, Sachin Bansal, tweeted in support of Airtel Zero....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 336 words · Celia Diercks

Fortisandbox Vm Sandboxing App Made Available By Fortinet

Fortinet Makes Sandbox Available as Virtual Appliance – FortiSandbox-VMFeatures Features A Sandbox is a developer term which stands for an environment that resembles a sandbox for kids. The kid, once placed inside a sandbox, can do whatever he wants with all toys that are already available. He cannot go out and is therefore secure inside. A sandbox in computer terms works pretty much the same way. Once an application or a website is put inside a sandbox, it can only use resources available inside the sandbox environment....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 329 words · Lisa Benefield

France Fines Google And Facebook Over Cookie Opt Out Breaches

The CNIL (Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés) said that following investigations on websites facebook.com, google.fr, and youtube.com, they found that these sites offer a button allowing the user to immediately accept cookies. However, they do not provide an equivalent solution (button or other) that allows the Internet user to easily refuse the deposit of these cookies. In fact, the user is required to click several times to refuse all cookies, as opposed to a single click to accept them....

December 7, 2022 · 3 min · 506 words · Ruben Collins