The $100-million (AUD$130 million) research and engineering programme is expected to search for extraterrestrial intelligence by scanning the skies for radio and light signals from aliens. This program aims to suss out the scientific and engineering architecture needed to make an interstellar probe a reality. These nano-craft would have to travel roughly a thousand times faster than current spacecraft – and would also be much smaller, consisting of a light sail and a chip that could fit in your cellphone....

Hawking shares the credit of writing this theory with Cambridge University’s Malcolm J Perry and Harvard’s Andrew Strominger. This new discovery may very well earn the scientists a Nobel Prize. So, what is the black hole information paradox? According to Einstein’s general theory of relativity, the problem with black holes is that all information that crosses the boundary of a black hole – called the event horizon – is lost forever....

“Since 2009, Google has been running Doodle 4 Google contest. With ‘Doodle 4 Google’ competition, we aim to promote creativity, passion and imagination in younger users. We congratulate Anvita for being judged as the winner this year,” said Sapna Chadha, Head of Marketing, Google India, in a statement. Based on this year’s theme ‘If I could teach anyone anything, it would be’, Anvita had submitted her doodle titled ‘Live in the present’, which won compliments....

To stop such activities, DroneShield, an Australian and U.S. firm is introducing DroneGun, which is the firm’s six-kilogram gun that can apparently disable drone signals (including GPS and GLONASS positioning) at a range of 2km (1.2 miles). It forces the vehicle to land or return to its starting point. Besides disabling threats from a safe distance, anti-drone teams can also possibly locate their pilots. The highly-dramatic video (see below) from the firm shows a man armed with the gun and its accompanying backpack shooting down a drone that’s flying a short distance away....

University of Hamburg student Nikolai Philipp Tschacher was conducting an experiment as part of his bachelor thesis. He was testing whether he could fool coders using to run his program using a variation of a decade-old attack known as typosquatting Tschacher used the variation of typosquatting and uploaded his code to three popular developer communities and gave them names that were similar to widely used packages already submitted by other users....

Well, YouTuber Wermy has an answer. He has come up with a Game Boy Zero mod that does it all. His Game Boy Zero modification uses a Raspberry Pi Zero, a modified game cartridge and a fair amount of drilling to imitate classic NES, SNES and the Gameboy’s many iterations all up to and including Advanced, while at the same time preserving majority of the original Game Boy’s look and feel....

A prosecutor asked a Paris court to hand the three men, aged 22 to 27, a one-year suspended sentence and a 5,000 euro (5,500 dollar) fine each, a lawyer for the police officers. The three member of French wing of Anonymous are also accused of breaking into two government sites and blocking public access for days. Back in Jan,2012, Anonymous had called for Operation Megaupload in retaliation for the shutdown of the file sharing service Megaupload and the arrest of four workers....

“The Ministry of Information Technology has received many complaints from various sources including several reports about misuse of some mobile apps available on Android and iOS platforms for stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users’ data in an unauthorized manner to servers which have locations outside India,” the Ministry of Electronics and IT had said in a statement dated June 29, 2020. “The compilation of these data, its mining and profiling by elements hostile to national security and defence of India, which ultimately impinges upon the sovereignty and integrity of India, is a matter of very deep and immediate concern which requires emergency measures....

For those unaware, TIOBE Programming Community Index is calculated every month and the ratings are based on the number of search engine queries, which contain the name of the programming language as a keyword in popular search engines such as Google, Bing, and Wikipedia. In August 2017, C had slipped to its lowest-ever rating (6.477 percent). Since then, C has clawed back and climbed back up to 11.07 percent this month....

Best 10 Free Collaborative Tools For ProgrammersGitHubBitbucketSnowy EveningSlackGitter.IMCyberduckTrelloSourceTreeTodoistNotePad++ Listed in no particular order of importance, provided below are the top 10 and free collaborative tools for programmers. GitHub GitHub is a web-based Git repository hosting service and officially the largest code host in the world. It offers all of the distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git as well as adding its own features. It greatly encourages an open source mindset by making all code projects available to public by default....

In spite of having smartphones with higher image sensors and good optical image stabilization (OIS), there are times when you are looking to click that perfect picture from your phone but it still doesn’t turn out right even after a dozen attempts? That’s when photo-editing apps come to your rescue. While there are hundreds, maybe even thousands, of photo editor apps available, in this article we bring to you the best photo editing apps for Android that can be downloaded free of cost and be used to enhance the beauty of your favorite pictures....

With hundreds of apps (free and paid) available for download from Google Play Store, we have selected some of the Android apps that a beginner should have on their smartphone. In no particular order, given below are the top 5 Android apps for beginners. Kindly note that the apps given below are based on user needs, download rates, and reviews. However, this list could vary for each person depending on their need....

“Hacker” was a term used to denote a skilled programmer who had competency in machine code and operating systems. Such individuals were proficient in solving unsatisfactory problems and often interpreted competitors’ code to work as intelligence agents for small software companies. However, over a period of time, hacking has a more negative implication, as black hat hackers have caused irreparable damage by breaking into secure networks to destroy, modify, or steal data; or to make the network unusable for those who are authorized to use the network....

Torii, an autonomous SaaS management platform, enables IT teams to: gain visibility into SaaS usage improve internal workflows consolidate SaaS governance and budget data automate various routine tasks This allows you to better manage how much your organization spends on which tools and makes it easier to reduce security and compliance risks. In this article, we’ll explain how IT managers can use Torii to find out which SaaS applications their organization uses most, which ones are being renewed needlessly, and much more....

The resurrection must’ve been a blow to Swedish authorities; action against torrent sites is far from over. Investigation into The Pirate Bay and former operator Fredrik Neij is in process, while the police have struck again in the notorious torrent site’s backyard. This case is similar to December’s raid, where local authorities where providing a bare minimum of details. Mats Ljungqvist, a prosecutor said “We have made ??significant seizures, but I will not say more than that....

Possibly the most condemning charge against DEA officer Carl Mark Force IV which involves the undercover officer secretly screwed with the investigation to make money. The complaint says Force tried to extort Dread Pirate Roberts by saying he’d give the government information unless DPR paid $250,000. The complaint also says that Force created a persona called “French Maid” and convinced DPR to pay “French Maid” $100,000 for information on the government’s investigation....

Ever since it was reported that the yesteryears smartphone king is going to make a comeback with Android-run smartphone, people have been keenly awaiting for more news on that front. We had reported that Nokia will be entering the smartphone market again with two smartphones running on Android, one of which will be called Nokia P1. The primary reason, buyers are awaiting Nokia Android smartphones is that they still remember the ruggedness of Nokia 3310 and other feature phones that the company sold in olden times....

The woman in question is Tamara Fields whose husband, Lloyd Fields was killed in November last year in an attack on the police training center in Amman. She has also alleged that despite knowing that ISIS had accounts on Twitter, the social network failed to take appropriate steps and allowed them to remain on it, which gave them power to spread propaganda and raise money to attract new foreign fighters....

Ubuntu forum was used by Linux devs, Ubuntu users and aficionados to discuss the bugs, flaws, upcoming builds and other general Linux talk. “There has been a security breach on the Ubuntu Forums site. We take information security and user privacy very seriously, follow a strict set of security practices and this incident has triggered a thorough investigation. Corrective action has been taken, and full service of the Forums has been restored....