Apple Engineer Fired After Daughter S Video On Iphone X Goes Viral Techworm

For those unaware, Brooke, a vlogger, had posted a YouTube video last Wednesday showing off the unreleased iPhone X, which was filmed in the cafeteria of Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California. Apparently, the phone belonged to her dad, who worked roughly for four years in RF and wireless circuit design for the iPhone. Since filming on Apple’s campus is strictly prohibited, the filming of the video is a clear violation of the company’s policies....

December 15, 2022 · 3 min · 457 words · Ashlie Walker

Apple Iphone 11 Iphone 11 Pro And Iphone 11 Pro Max Launched

In addition to the higher-end iPhone 11 Pro, Apple has also introduced the new budget-oriented Apple iPhone 11 for the masses. So here’s everything you need to know about the new 2019 iPhone’s. Apple iPhone 11: Specifications, Features, And Pricing The new iPhone 11 is an upgraded variant of the iPhone XR. Some of the major highlights of the Apple iPhone 11 are dual-camera setup, A13 Bionic chip, better IP68 water resistance, and many more....

December 15, 2022 · 4 min · 835 words · Gwen Donohue

Apple Iphone 15 Pro May Come Without Physical Sim Card Slot

The recent report suggests that the iPhone 15 Pro models slated for release in year 2023 will be Apple’s first SIM-free iPhone replacing current generation iPhones that use physical nano-SIM card slot. It will also have support for two e-SIM cards to guarantee dual SIM capability. The iPhone dual e-SIM feature will allow users to have two lines at the same time. “Apple has long been experimenting with ways to no longer need the SIM card (known in Brazil as the “carrier chip”), implementing e-SIM technology....

December 15, 2022 · 1 min · 161 words · Patricia Wang

Apple S Ios 13 Could Drop Support For Older Iphones

The iPhones that will not get the new software upgrade are iPhone 5s, iPhone SE, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Further, iOS 13 will also drop support for iPad mini 2 and iPad Air. In other words, the iOS devices that would be supported by iOS 13 includes the iPhone 6s and higher models, iPad Air 2 and higher, iPad 5 and higher, and iPad Mini 3 and higher models....

December 15, 2022 · 1 min · 165 words · Dorothea Franks

Apple Storing All Your Iphone Call Data In Icloud Says It Is For User S Convenience Techworm

This was revealed by Russian provider of iPhone hacking tools, Elcomsoft, who said that anyone who buys an iPhone/iPad is automatically saving such data to the iCloud and there was no way to turn it off bar shutting down iCloud Drive altogether. And this is done without the iPhone/iPad owner’s permission. The call log includes phone numbers, dates, and length of calls, the Russian security firm said. “There is no way to hide your calls from government requests other than disabling iCloud Drive,” wrote Vlatamir Katalov, CEO of Elcomsoft, in a company blog post....

December 15, 2022 · 2 min · 301 words · David Magee

Asus Zenfone 3 Deluxe Features A Snapdragon 820 6Gb Ram And A Price You Ll Drool Over Techworm

Another thing that separates ASUS ZenFone 3 Deluxe from the top of the high-end smartphone chain is the fact that it features 6GB of RAM, which you don’t often see devices featuring. Another thing is that 256GB is the highest storage model of the smartphone and guess what? It does not support the eMMC standard but the much faster UFS 2.0, which results in higher internal storage read and write speeds....

December 15, 2022 · 2 min · 229 words · Eva Wilson

Bebe Stores Hack Attack Customers Payment Data May Have Been Breached

Brian also reported that a new website called goodshop which deals in stolen credit and debit card data, was selling a big “dump,” or a large cache of stolen card numbers. This was noticed by a bank based in East Coast which acquired cards from a batch that Goodshop released on Dec. 1, called “Happy Winter Update.” The prices from that Happy Winter batch range from $10 to $27 per card and found them to be from Bebe....

December 15, 2022 · 3 min · 507 words · Ralph Kukauskas

Booking Your Trip To An Escape Room Became Easy With Nowescape Techworm

By setting itself apart from the crowd, NowEscape has easily managed to become one of the major players in the sector in London. The London Escape Rooms list has become longer in the recent past but NowEscape has managed to stay at the front line. At NowEscape, escape room enthusiasts from around the world are able to shop a wide range of gaming needs. Here, the players are offered a chance to not only explore NowEscape and compare escape rooms but they also get an opportunity to book for their next adventure with ease....

December 15, 2022 · 3 min · 517 words · Ronald Graf

Brave Browser Caught Adding Referral Codes To Cryptocurrency Urls

The discovery was first made by a popular cryptocurrency commentator, Cryptonator (@cryptonator1337) who noticed that the Brave browser is auto-completing certain domains to add a referral code. For instance, when he typed “binance.us” into the address bar, it automatically changed to “binance.us/en?ref=35089877”. Basically, the Brave browser is redirecting Binance links to a referral landing page, which Brave profits from. — Cryptonator1337 (@cryptonator1337) June 6, 2020 Brendan Eich, CEO and co-founder of Brave, said on Twitter that he doesn’t believe there is anything wrong with injecting affiliate codes into web addresses, as they “partner with Binance as an affiliate....

December 15, 2022 · 2 min · 335 words · Robert Royce

British Army S Twitter And Youtube Feeds Hacked To Promote Crypto Scams

The army’s Twitter feed, which currently has 362,000 followers, and the YouTube channel which has 177,000 subscribers, both were simultaneously compromised to promote two different crypto scams. “We are aware of a breach of the Army’s Twitter and YouTube accounts and an investigation is underway. The Army takes information security extremely seriously and is resolving the issue,” the UK Ministry of Defence Press Office said on Twitter. The hackers had renamed the British Army’s YouTube channel to ‘Ark Invest’, an investment management firm founded by an American investor, Cathie Wood....

December 15, 2022 · 3 min · 516 words · Barbara Wheeler

Can Blockchain Technology Change The Face Of Online Trading Techworm

With this technology in hand, other industries like stock trading changed as well. Online trading sites have now been around for years. As early as 1985, companies like Trade Plus and others were offering forms of online stock trading over dial-up networks. But as the industry became more complex, the sites required increasing improvement. New Tech, New Changes? The most recent technological marvel is blockchain technology. The system underlying cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, blockchain technology is fast being hailed as the next internet....

December 15, 2022 · 3 min · 545 words · Otis Nicholson

Canonical Launches Ubuntu Core 20 For Iot Devices And Embedded Systems

According to the company, this major version bolsters device security with secure boot, full disk encryption, and secure device recovery. “Every connected device needs guaranteed platform security and an app store” said Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical. “Ubuntu Core 20 enables innovators to create highly secure things and focus entirely on their own unique features and apps, with confinement and security updates built into the operating system.” Ubuntu Core 20 addresses the cost of design, development, and maintenance of secure devices with regular, automated and reliable updates included....

December 15, 2022 · 2 min · 267 words · Clarence Williams

Chess Grandmaster Banned As He Was Found To Use Hidden Iphone To Cheat During International Tournament

A representative of the Dubai Chess and Culture Club said: “The Armenian noticed the Georgian was oddly frequenting the toilet after each move during a crucial part of the game.” Immediately the officials checked Nigalidze however they did not find any gadgets on him. Next, the officials investigated the toilet that he was visiting and here they found an Apple iPhone that was wrapped in a toilet paper and hidden behind the toilet....

December 15, 2022 · 2 min · 366 words · Sandra Taylor

Chrome And Firefox Block The Pirate Bay Yet Again This Time For Harmful Programs Techworm

This is not the first time Chrome and Mozilla are blocking The Pirate Bay website, earlier in April, both the browsers actively stopped users from accessing TPB for two days. Starting a few hours ago Chrome and Firefox users are unable to access The Pirate Bay’s torrent download pages without running into a roadblock. While the ThePirateBay home page poses no problem, when TPB users visit the download page, they now see an ominous red warning banner stating “The site ahead contains harmful programs,” “Attackers on thepiratebay....

December 15, 2022 · 1 min · 170 words · Edna Haris

Commodore Smartphone That Plays Commodore 64 Games To Be Released Soon

In February, Commodore 64 fans were teased with the possibility of a Commodore smartphone when concept renders surfaced online. Well, now they can get the real deal with the Commodore PET when it launches this week. The soon-to-be-released Commodore PET smartphone runs a custom version of Android 5.0 Lollipop and lets you play both old Amiga and Commodore 64 games with its preinstalled VICE C64 and Uae4All2-SDL Amiga emulators. It will feature a 1....

December 15, 2022 · 2 min · 241 words · Lora Santillan

Computers Will Use More Electricity Than The Entire World Can Generate By 2040 Techworm

Semiconductor Industry Association has produced a study which said that computer-crazy society will be running short of electricity by 2040. The report, titled International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors 2.0′ (ITRS), predicts transistors will stop shrinking after the year 2021. The report claims that computing is facing far more serious issues than just to sustain Moore’s law. One of the biggest of these is electricity. As a report in The Register too points out quoting SIA study, “The world’s biggest computing infrastructure already uses a significant slice of the world’s power, and the ITRS says the current trajectory is self-limiting…....

December 15, 2022 · 2 min · 331 words · Patsy Bradford

Corning Launches Gorilla Glass Victus The Toughest Gorilla Glass Yet

Corning has announced the Corning Gorilla Victus, a next-generation aluminosilicate based glass for a variety of devices. The company claims that the new Victus can shrug-off fall(face-first) on a hard surface such as concrete from a height of 6.5 ft(2 meters). Corning currently provides glass for displays of Apple’s iPhones and several other mid-range phones by Samsung, Huawei, Asus, etc. The Difference – Corning Gorilla Glass 6 and Gorilla Glass Victus We leave non-corning glasses of the equation as the shatter from 0....

December 15, 2022 · 2 min · 275 words · Eva Young

Curtailing Natural Operational Losses Via Project Management Software Techworm

How to curtail your natural operational losses via Project Management SoftwareMaximizing EfficiencyMake It Look Like There’s No CushionFuture Possibilities The best solution is a balance between man and machine. People do the thinking work that they are good at, and the machines to the repetitive and detailed work that they are good at. But here’s the thing about well-designed machines: they’re only as smart as their operators. Computers are extremely literal....

December 15, 2022 · 3 min · 481 words · John Adamson

Darwanian Nuke Vulnerability In Os X And Ios Operating Systems Allows Hackers To Remotely Activate Denial Of Service Dos Attacks

Devices affected include those with 64-bit processors and iOS 8: iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air, iPad Air 2, iPad mini 2, and iPad mini 3. The researchers noted that the “Darwin Nuke” vulnerability is exploited while processing an IP packet of specific size and with invalid IP options. Remote attackers can execute a DoS (denial of service) attack on a device with OS X 10.10 or iOS 8, sending an incorrect network packet to the target....

December 15, 2022 · 2 min · 296 words · Glen Mcdaniel

Dell Is Considering Selling Itself To A Company It Already Owns Techworm

Dell currently owns and controls 80% of VMware, a company worth $55 billion. Dell, a private technology company that was once public, may again decide to become public by selling itself to VMware in a process that’s known as a reverse merger, according to CNBC. For those unaware, Dell, once a publicly traded company became private back in 2013 when it’s founder and CEO Michael Dell was able to purchase the company for $24....

December 15, 2022 · 2 min · 224 words · Lindsay Lewis