How would you like to take someone’s speech available online and put your words into it? Till now this was impossible but now Adobe has been testing a software which could let you do just that. Adobe has demonstrated its latest software — codenamed Project VoCo — that’s capable of easily editing the speech of people by simply cutting, pasting, and adding words to a digital transcript. Adobe VoCo lets you edit recorded speech so that you can alter what that person said or create an entirely new sentence using their voice....

Called Reading Sidekick, this innovative Alexa feature is aimed to make reading more fun and help kids ages 6 to 9 become strong readers. It makes it easy for kids to read independently by exploring the stories they want to read, when they want to read. This feature will help kids grow into confident, independent readers, especially as they are still developing their reading skills. It is basically designed to complement the time kids spend reading with grownups....

UC Browser, the flagship product of UCWeb is one of most popular mobile web browsers. In June, 2014 the company had officially merged into the Chinese largest e-commerce company Alibaba. Before this merger, Alibaba had already held a 66% stake in the company while other 34% was brought during this merging period. As per the data shared by StatCounter, share of UC browser has grown from around 37.46 per cent to over 51 per cent at the end of September, while share of it’s close competitor Opera mobile browser has came down from 23 per cent to 21....

In a blog post on Friday, the company announced that its Everyday Robots Project — an unit under Google’s experimental X laboratories dedicated to creating “a general-purpose learning robot” — has moved out several of its robot prototypes from the lab to some of Google’s Bay Area campuses to do useful cleaning duties. These robots are autonomously performing a range of useful tasks around Google facilities in the U.S., including as wiping tables, sorting trash, gripping cups, and even opening meeting room doors to check if the room needs to be tidied or if it’s missing chairs....

https://twitter.com/0x2Taylor/status/751427727748628480 “When they first got Kindles and set them up, all their stuff was being logged and put into a database,” @0x2Taylor said. He added that the database includes a user’s email, password, city, state, phone number, zip code, user-agent, LastLoginIP, Proxy IP and street. “Personally I don’t want to leak the data,” he said. https://twitter.com/0x2Taylor/status/751419300582395904 “They’re a big company and they should have enough money to have the proper security defenses,” he added....

The updated Keyboard 5.1 app has one of the better new features of Android N and comes with a range of new coloured themes and more emojis and ever, plus the ability to add your own typing background images. It will also find the key boarder toggle, which gives keys a bit of extra visibility when you type. The new version also includes Unicode 9 emoji with selectable skin tone, which will only work on Android N and not older versions of Google’s mobile OS....

Apparently, around 40 percent of Android device owners prefer using popular screen pattern lock as compared to using PIN codes or text passwords. Pattern lock is a screen unlock tool that allows user to unlock their touchscreen based devices such as smartphone or tablet by drawing a specific pattern using the nine dots divided into a 3×3 grid without lifting the finger. While one may think that having screen pattern lock is more secure than using PIN codes or text passwords, then you may have to think again....

Case Files The actions of the United States government against this man has been termed fierce by many. Prosecutors in the Northern District of Texas have written that Brown, along with the activist group Anonymous, sought to overthrow the U.S. government. He was arrested under hacking charges that put him on the way to get a 100 year long prison sentence. A lot of what was happening never made the headlines as the prosecution succeeded in getting a gag order on the case, limiting what part of the case could be made public....

A KKK leader says you shouldn’t believe Anonymous after Anonymous release details of KKK membersKu Klux Klan says dont believe Anonymous Anonymous released the list on Saturday as part of Anonymous’ larger data hack of the KKK. Anonymous had declared cyber war on the KKK after the white supremacist group threatened to use “lethal force” on protesters of the 2014 Ferguson, Missouri, protests after the killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown....

Under the new authentication protocol setup, a iCloud user will have to opt for the new Two-Factor authentication. The two-factor authentication process requires the input of an additional dynamically generated four-digit pass code, sent to a user’s smartphone in addition to the login and password details. Users are required to verify their accounts with a SMS-capable phone number for their accounts in order register a trusted device and use the security system....

The overall design aesthetics of the Apple Watch Series 6 are still similar to that of the Series 4. However many new sensors have been added to the Series 6 smartwatch. On the other hand, Apple Watch SE is an upgrade to the beloved Apple Watch Series 3. So here’s everything you need to know about the two new Apple Watches. Apple Watch Series 6: Features And Pricing Apple Watch Series 6 is powered by a faster S6 processor....

“As part of Apple’s commitment to security, this program is designed to help improve security for all iOS users, bring more researchers to iPhone, and improve efficiency for those who already work on iOS security. It features an iPhone dedicated exclusively to security research, with unique code execution and containment policies,” the company says. These special iPhones that are less locked down than consumer devices will be given to skilled and vetted researchers....

However, Apple refused to acknowledge the issue then, leaving many users dissatisfied. At that time, repair vendor iFixit had clearly reported that the issue stemmed through a faulty controller chip soldered to the logic board. The repair solution provided by him required opening up the phone and soldering the two chips that cover the touch responsiveness on the iPhone. This led many users paying for more expensive logic board replacements....

According to the recently revamped guidelines of Apple, developers cannot list apps on the App Store that collect and share data with third-parties for any reason other than enhancing the app’s experience or ads. Onavo Protect, a Facebook Inc. owned free security app, is a VPN (virtual private network) service. Facebook acquired the Tel Aviv-based mobile analytics company, Onavo in 2013. The Onavo Protect app was primarily designed to help users keep their data safe, block potentially harmful websites, secure their personal information and keep tabs on their mobile data usage....

This is the second bug-fixing update (18R402) for watchOS after Apple released watchOS 7 in September this year. The Cupertino giant had released the first bug-fix update on September 24 just a week after it released the original version. This watchOS 7.0.1 update contained improvements and bug fixes, including fixing an issue where some payment cards in Wallet were disabled for some users. According to Apple’s release notes, watchOS 7....

The 11 internal video guides (now removed) gives a sneak peak into Apple’s process of repairing various devices, for instance, it showed the company’s methods to fix some components of the iPhone X, the iMac Pro 2017, and the MacBook Pro 2016 and 2017, reports Motherboard. Just a little over a month ago, a user by the name ‘Arman Haji’ had posted the 11 videos in question on YouTube. These videos were originally discovered by a Reddit user “turnby” on Twitter....

This place is none other than the first floor of Facebook’s sprawling Menlo Park, California, headquarters – Area 404, which is a highly secure, pristine room filled with expensive and potentially dangerous equipment. Only around ten or so Facebook employees are authorized to get in the room, and all have received special safety training. Facebook’s Area 404 is a new 22,000-square-foot hardware lab built at its Menlo Park Campus whose main idea is to provide one big space for all of the social network’s various teams, including the still-very-secretive denizens of Building 8, to apply the “Move Fast and Break Things” philosophy to making real physical objects, not just software....

Telstra decided to atone for a network outage last Tuesday with the launch of “Free Mobile Data Sunday.” The free mobile data day was truly free as there were no restrictions on what could be posted, browsed, shared and streamed, allowing Telstra customers to gobble up a record 1,841 terabytes of data in 24 hours. “As we anticipated, the high demand meant some customers had slower than normal data speeds on 4G services, but overall the network performed as designed,” Telstra group managing director networks Mike Wright said....

Yu says the attacker can leverage this vulnerability to pass as a WPAD or ISATAP server and redirect all the victim’s network traffic through a point controlled by the attacker. The vulnerability is so critical that it means the potential hacker can hijack all traffic, not HTTP and HTTPS. This includes OS updates, software upgrades, Certificate Revocation List updates via Microsoft’s Crypto API, and other OS maintenance operations. In a hypothetical scenario, if a hacker exploits the NetBios implementation exploit, he/she can redirect all of victims traffic to a malware laden point from where he/she can remotely takeover the PC....

The app, BeNews, only requested three permissions from a user when installed, and was able to avoid Google’s automated app checks as no exploit was contained within its code. One the App was installed, its malicious payload would then snoop on the user and report his/her whereabouts back to the command and control server. This was reported by security research company Trend Micro Labs. Trend Micro said that Hacking Team than sold this App to its customers with instructions to take advantage of the app, and a Google Play account that they could use....