According to a source, ISIS was able to respond to a threat from hacktivist group famously known as Anonymous. Anonymous has been on a rampage in reducing the influence of the extremist group as much as possible on the internet. Now here is the most interesting thing that you will read today. ISIS was able to reveal a list of devices and services that can be used by its members and supporters in order to stay away from the radar of agencies and governments....

Smart Lenses with AR Mojo Vision has been working on its AR-powered contact lenses application for some time now. The Mojo Lens was first introduced back in 2020 and just recently, the tech giant has demoed a prototype of the Artificial Reality contact lens dubbed as Mojo Lens. According to the reports, the Mojo Lens is a smart AR-powered contact lens capable of showing data including but not limited to sports matches, health information, weather information, and more as it ventures into the augmented reality world....

Despite the fact that smartwatches might not be able to store passwords, or that their owners refrain from doing so, Masters student by the name of Tony Beltramelli has proven that those things are not going to matter one bit. Studying at the IT University at Copenhagen, Beltramelli shows that our smartwatches can actually give away information about us that we did not know it had to begin with. According to Beltramelli, he refers to this as deep spying....

Speaking at Common Cause’s ‘Blueprint for Democracy’ conference today, Edward Snowden spoke about surveillance, personal liberties and of course, the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone. “The FBI says Apple has the ‘exclusive technical means’ to unlock the phone,” Snowden said. “Respectfully, that’s bullshit.” — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) March 8, 2016 In the link provided by Snowden, Daniel Kahn Gillmor of the American Civil Liberties Union argues that FBI is more than capable of unlocking the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone....

“They thought they could take Harambe down…they were wrong. Join Harambe as he uncovers the true motive behind his assassination attempt!” the game’s description reads. For those unfamiliar, Harambe was a 17-year-old Western lowland gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden. The animal was fatally shot in May to rescue a three-year-old who fell into a zoo enclosure where he was grabbed and dragged by Harambe. The tragic killing of the gorilla led to a public backlash with many questioning if the animal should’ve been killed and others demanding the toddler’s parents to be held accountable....

The patent filing titled ‘Configuration of Data and Power Transfer in Near Field Communications’, published earlier this month, was uncovered by tech site What Future, which describes a system by which two smartphones could wirelessly trade power via Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. However, the patent doesn’t specify that these devices would necessarily be phones, instead using the term “portable consumer electronic device.” So, basically one can assume that the tech may not be limited to phones and instead also apply to home appliances like fridges, microwaves, TVs, computers, and any other kind of electronic device that could carry an NFC chip....

Both smartphones have 5.5-inch full HD IPS display which will give 1920×1080 resolution to the user. They will run on 64-bit MediaTek MTK6752 SoC at 1.7GHz octa-core CPU and Mali 760 MP2 GPU. They will run on 2GB RAM and have 16GB internal memory which can be expanded to 128GB via microSD expansion slot. Clearly Sony is banking on making camera the USP of C4 with a 13MP rear camera with LED flash and a massive 5MP front camera which will come with LED flash....

Stock Google Email App Version 4.2.2 for Android vulnerable to remote code execution : CVE-2015-1574The vulnerabilityProof of Concept (PoC)Fix In plain English this means that a specially crafted email sent to the App can crash the email App. The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2015-1574 and is deemed critical. “No interaction from the user is needed to produce the crash just receive the malicious email,” the researchers stated on HMarco blog....

Are you thinking about moving into a smart home? One of the biggest advantages of automation technology is it can turn an otherwise lifeless home into a piece of modern technology. Plus, smart technology puts the owner in control of their electronic devices at the push of a button. If you currently have an existing home, it’s possible to redesign your residence and undergo a major renovation to turn it into a smart house....

The world’s most popular and most visited torrent website, The Pirate Bay seems to have fallen for the lure of money. According to reports, it is using a cryptocurrency miner on The Pirate Bay website. The cryptocurrency miner’s JavaScript code is tucked away in the footer of TPB and uses the power of visitors computer to mine coins called Monero coins. The Pirate Bay admin stand to make a lot of money as the Monero is trading upwards of $93 a coin as per latest price reports....

As per the Whois information, the Pirate Bay’s .SE domain was reactivated on October 23, 2017 and has been updated until October 7, 2018. However, it is still unclear whether The Pirate Bay had listed the deactivation or was it done on behalf of the Swedish Court of Appeals due to pending Supreme Court ruling in the current domain name battle. For those unaware, back in 2013, local anti-piracy groups in Sweden had filed a motion asking to seize control of thepiratebay....

SD-WAN has shifted from peripheral technology to the mainstream. SD-WAN benefits are so compelling that Gartner predicts that by 2018, more than 40% of WAN edge infrastructure refresh initiatives will be based on SD-WAN appliances from SD-WAN vendors or vCPE versus traditional routers (up from less than 2% today). According to IDC’s Worldwide SD-WAN Forecast, SD-WAN vendors are expected to see a 69% compound annual growth rate in sales over the next five years, reaching $8....

Handling all these messengers can be over whelming and it is something which most of us can relate to. Luckily, there’s an app to make your life much easier. The All-in-One Messenger, a web-based chat client available on Chrome, lets you use all your favorite messengers all in one place. It allows you to stay connected with everyone, without having to go through the hassle of continuously switching tabs and going back and forth between different apps....

“This pushes the bubble, and it blows up sparkles,” Jordan explained as she demonstrated the mechanism behind her creation, a glitter-blasting arm. Born with a left arm that stops just above the elbow, Reeves created the prosthetic arm cannon at the Superhero Cyborgs 2.0 program in San Francisco, a workshop hosted by non-profit KIDmob and 3-D software firm Autodesk. The program connects children between the ages of 10 to 15 with upper-limb differences with professional engineers so that they can design and create their own custom-made prosthetics that do, well, whatever the kids want them to do....

Most pubs and restaurants around the world give free beers, dinners, or lunch coupons in their Android App to lure potential customers. Gretzky though that it would be worthwhile to hack such an offer and get something in return. In a post on BreakDev.org, Kuba Gretzky explains how he hacked EatApp Android app to bypass the beacon and earn himself a free beer. Apparently, pubs and restaurants in Poland use Bluetooth Beacons for verifying purchases in a smartphone app to award bonus points and rewards....

Modelled on the popular Apple handset, the device discharges its powerful shock from two metal pin points at the top, fired by what is normally the volume buttons, the Mirror reported. The weapon is on sale on plenty of websites and sources indicate that there is a good demand for them from underworld. Website based in China, Germany and the US are selling these iPhone-style Stun Guns and the delivery escapes customs authorities because the when the parcel containing them is x-rayed, it gives the authorities a false impression of being iPhone because of similar dimensions....

Created by Berlin artist Aram Bartholl, the sculpture named ‘Keepalive’, tries to highlight the contrast between ancient and modern survival techniques. Keepalive is a thermoelectric Wi-Fi router powered up by lighting a campfire underneath the boulder. Once it’s activated, which is done by starting a fire at the base of the rock, the router connects to any nearby phones, piping in a list of downloadable survival guides. The network runs on Piratebox, a DIY-software that creates offline wireless networks....

Yes, you have heard it right! Alex Jason is on the threshold of opening a public museum that will have a collection of vintage Apple devices. Alex’s Apple Orchard has more than 250 rare Apple prototypes, most of which he purchased with money earned from mowing neighbours’ lawns. According to the Cult of Mac, Alex started collecting discarded Apple stuff at the age of 10. In just 5 years, he has become one of the top 20 Apple collectors in the world....

According to Time Warner, emails and password details were most likely gathered through malware that was able to get downloaded during phishing attacks or indirectly through data breaches. This could have taken place thanks to other companies that stored Time Warner Cable’s customer information, which also included email addresses, suggesting that even these companies did not do well in providing adequate security to customers. While these are just speculations, the company has stated that it was not able to isolate the problem on how exactly this information was obtained, but there was no indication that Time Warner Cable’s systems were breached....

Confused over which smartphone to buy, here is a list of top 10 Budget Smartphones Launched in April 2015Xiaomi Mi 4iLenovo A7000Lenovo A6000 PlusSpice Stellar 519Micromax Canvas SparkLenovo A5000Moto E2 (2nd Gen) 4GLava Iris Alfa LInfocus M330Oppo Joy Plus Xiaomi Mi 4i Xiaomi Mi 4i, the promising budget smartphone of Xiaomi was released at a global event that took place in India. Carrying the Mi 4 tag and with satisfactory specification, the phone is not meant for the mid budget category....