With Premium Duo, couples living at the same address can share one plan while maintaining their own separate Spotify accounts. The subscription plan costs $12.99 (or market equivalent) per month where each individual gets their own Premium account under one plan in addition to receiving unique benefits for couples. Spotify is already offering an Individual plan that costs $9.99 per month, while its Family plan costs $14.99 per month. “Today we are proud to launch Spotify Premium Duo, a first-of-its-kind audio offering for just two people in the same household,” says Alex Norström, Spotify’s Chief Freemium Business Officer....

Staples comes clean: 1.16 million bank cards at risk after hackThe StatementRelated Revelations The Statement Staples’s said their investigations had revealed that 115 point of sale systems of its more than 1,400 U.S. retail stores were attacked by a malware. Upon detection of the malware, Staples claims to have taken immidiate action to eradicate the threat. To this means, it has also been working with external security experts. In hindsight of the data breach and keeping with industry standards, the company will be providing free identity protection services, including credit monitoring, identity theft insurance, and a free credit report, to customers who used a payment card at any of the affected stores during the relevant time periods....

These ancient and highly specialized organisms, called “extremophiles”, are thought to be able to grow pretty quickly in harsh conditions and are therefore an attractive candidate for the existence of life on other planets. In line with this, a team of researchers at the University of Arkansas is referring to methanogens, which belong to the domain Archaea and are among the simplest and oldest organisms on Earth.They use hydrogen as their energy source and carbon dioxide (CO2) as their carbon source to metabolize and produce methane, a natural gas....

SEA claimed that it has hacked scores of classified e-mail accounts, including the accounts of the Turkish Presidency, Foreign Ministry, Defense Ministry, Air Forces and the Saudi Arabia Government and Military documents. Syrian Electronic Army hacked the Turkish Ministry of Interior, Database back in June 2013 and hit the Saudi Arabian Government websites last year in January. However the Group has started leaking these documents, most of which contains highly classified and sensitive data from the two countries and their relations with the West, particularly United States....

A group of five researchers comprising of Mark Ven, a civil engineering PHD student at the National Chung Hsing University as well as Yang Ming-der, a professor there, plus another three team members have been working at PVD+ since 2013, developing software they call Dong coding to read hand gestures, notes a report by Reuters. After 18 months of research and application, the PVD+ team now say they can install the algorithm on any device and give it the ability to control directions....

You will find it almost on all new laptops coming preinstalled as a part of the software bundle. It has helped it become a market leader of the segment. However, it is not perfect for remote desktop connections as there are many Teamviewer alternatives that you should check out. Some don’t even require installation, and few run directly in the web browser itself. Don’t forget about the extra utilities/tools they offer without bogging down your computer resources....

The Pirate Bay (TPB), KickassTorrents, Other Torrent Users Will Need to Uninstall BitTorrent Apps Following Warning Advisories from UK ISPsGet It Right Campaign in the United Kingdom Get It Right Campaign in the United Kingdom Adding to the advisory to stop using TPB and other torrent websites, the ISPs are also advising their subscribers to uninstall BitTorrent, uTorrent and other torrent clients. In fact one of the major ISPs of UK, Sky has launched a dedicated webpage for torrent users, explaining why it has signed-up to the Get It Right campaign....

Built by Spanish OEM BQ, the 10.1-inch tablet runs the latest Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system, which can be easily converged into a personal computer when connecting to an external LCD, keyboard, and mouse – the first such device to do so. Canonical say the M10 is ‘the first in a series of converged devices’, suggesting that there would be more hardware announcements in the near future. Jane Silber, Canonical CEO in a statement said: “We’re bringing you everything you’ve come to expect from your Ubuntu PC, now on the tablet with BQ, soon on smartphones....

The deep-sea creatures he pulls up look downright terrifying, but Roman shows no signs of fear when handling the fish. On his twitter account, Roman has allegedly shown many creatures brought to light and one of which is the frilled shark, an elusive eel-like shark known to have rows of terrifying teeth. Due to its primitive features, the frilled shark is often called a living ‘relic’. The fisherman has also revealed photos of the bizarre chimaera, a fish commonly known as the ‘ghost shark....

You might have heard about gaming chairs, gaming desks, and gaming bean bags. However, a Japanese gaming furniture company namely Bauhutte has come up with a Gaming bed. The ultimate gaming bed created by Bauhutte consists of these eight components: Bed desk Elevating headboard Gaming blanket Gaming sofa Headphone hanger Energy wagon Slim bottle rack Long side table The small desk surface at the foot of this bed can effortlessly accommodate a dual monitor gaming setup coupled with a set of speakers and other small gaming accessories....

Encircling the Solar System are the inner and outer planets, Kuiper belt, Oort cloud, Alpha Centauri star, Perseus Arm, Milky Way galaxy, Andromeda galaxy, other nearby galaxies, the cosmic web, cosmic microwave radiation, and invisible plasma produced by the Big Bang at the outer rim. The Princeton team, led by astronomers J Richard Gott and Mario Juric, based their logarithmic map of the Universe on data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which over the past 15 years has been using a 2....

How it feels to work in such secrecy : Apple’s secretive internal corporate world disclosed by the employeesJustin Maxwell was a user interface designer with Apple. He says that the company controls what you talk about with your spouse.Knowing the code names, being part of the mystery is exciting!Former Apple designer, Chad Little: When Steve was alive, he got what he wantedFormer employee of Intel, Richard Francis, who worked on a project with Apple says on Quora:We terrified engineers into secrecy: Simon Woodside, program manager in Core OSIn order to track leaks, Apple makes grammar and punctuation changes in its internal documentsStay paranoid and keep running: Ariel MaislosDon Melton: Sunday is a work dayLuis Abreu: ‘We don’t waste time with the dumb’Ben Farrell: They will harass you in hospitalFormer Apple Designer, Andrew Borovsky: You get feedback from the topAnonymous: It’s awful, but the food is niceAustin Meyer: Working at Apple is like being at war....

16-year-old Mohammed Ali rejected a $6.72 million offer for his website, weneed1.com because he believes that the site will be worth a lot more in future. Mohammed Ali is not new to either tech or big money has earned more than £40,000 after creating his own video game and a financial app for the stock market. The school kid from Yorkshire, UK has instead launched his own price comparison search engine with 60-year-old business partner Chris Thorpe....

Satoru Iwata stood out due to his friendly and outward behavior and unabashed love for games amidst a sea of “professional CEOs”, In the 2000s, he won laurels for restoring Nintendo’s flagging fortunes, guiding it towards more user-friendly consoles such as the Nintendo DS and Wii. Here are some of the crucial moments in his life story. The self-taught video game programmer was also loved for his modest approach and his imagination of making gaming more inclusive....

Of course, CEOs around the world are anxious. In fact, 40% of them report being extremely concerned about cyber threats. And they feel compelled to take actions by improving their security processes and policies, training their employees, and leveling up their tech stack. But to do that effectively and prioritize their resources, businesses and other entities need to know what they are really up against. That is where a solution like Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) can help anticipate hackers’ thoughts and moves by flagging the weak spots of websites, email servers, and other IT systems in addition to unmasking scammers....

These 15 simple tips and tricks will help you use Facebook like a pro1. Edit a post or comment2. See everywhere you’re logged into Facebook and remotely log out3. Get alerted every time a login attempt is made for your account, and approve or deny it4. Get a notification every time a specific person posts something5. Unfollow people you don’t want to completely unfriend and don’t want to see in your News Feed6....

World’s 10 most famous hacking groups who have had most success in recent times1. Lizard Squad2. Syrian Electronic Army3. LulzSec4. Anonymous5. The Level Seven Crew6. Network Crack Program Hacker (NCPH) Group7. Chaos Computer Club (CCC)8. globalHell9. Iran’s Tarh Andishan10. TeaMp0isoN: Today we are listing top such 10 most notorious hackers of all time. 1. Lizard Squad The DDoS attack on Facebook that lowered the popular social media network as well the cyber attacks on Malaysia Airlines website that directed visitors to a page which read “404 – plane not found,” were carried out by the Lizard Squad....

Top 5 Tricks that will help Android smartphone and tablet users in reducing battery drainage and save battery lifeLess Apps Means Less Battery ConsumptionDisable GPS after its useReduce your Cloud access usage Use of Battery Saving AppsUse a dark colour backgroundConclusion Android devices are known to be battery guzzlers and occasionally suffer a bad rap for short battery life. Even if you stick to default Android settings, the phone battery, with no abuse by the owner, suddenly drains for no apparent reason....

However, millions of users of ToTok Messenger are reportedly being spied by the UAE. In its report, the New York Times stated that: It is worth noting that many features of famous messaging and calling services like WhatsApp and Skype are restricted in the UAE. Due to the privacy concerns mentioned above, ToTok was recently removed from the Google Playstore and Apple’s Appstore. According to ToTok, the messaging app was removed from the stores due to some technical issues....

Sometimes, it shows the most accurate of results, and sometimes, it shows a desolate environment, or some location that we are not even remotely aware of, suggesting that the project needs a fair amount of tweaking before it can be branded as completely reliable. Since you have a unique IP address, every time you sit in front of a different computer, the data associated with the registered IP starts to trace your location and thanks to the magic created by Google in the form of Street View and Static Maps, you will be able to view the things that you would normally see surrounding you....