You can use VLC Player to convert any video format from one to another or video to audio formatAudio FormatsVideo Formats VLC Player is one of the best media players available. It can play almost any video format seamlessly. But there is also a very nice feature that VLC Player has! It can convert almost any video format to the format you want. So next time you download an unsupported video format, don’t sulk....
“We will have our own position determination system using our own navigation constellation, the IRNSS series which will be operational by middle of next year. It is a kind of replacement GPS…The US is offering the GPS navigation, IRNSS is indigenous,” said Deviprasad Karnik, the director of publication and public relations, ISRO. It will also aid in navigation and monitoring of fleet (trucks and ships) movement, the official added. Developed by ISRO, Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) is a regional navigation satellite that would provide accurate position information to users in the country, and will be under complete control of the Indian government....
White Hat Hackers According to reports coming in, the leak contains user details of approximately 1.7 million accounts. The group that has leaked the details seems to be a white hat hacker group. White hat hackers usually hack into software systems to find loopholes that can be exploited and then report them for a reward. From the reports so far, we gather this particular group is considered to be one of the top white hat hacking groups around....
This time around it is an 18-year-old boy, Rifath Sharook from Pallapatti town in Tamilnadu, India who has designed ‘KalamSat’, which is claimed to be the lightest and smallest satellite in the world for NASA. Weighing just 64 grams, ‘KalamSat’, which is named after India’s nuclear scientist and former President, APJ Abdul Kalam, will be launched by on an SR-4 rocket from Wallops Space Flight facility at Virginia, U.S. on June 21....
Earlier, the creators were allowed to make only 60-second videos. “We’re giving you more time to play on Reels, by extending the length to up to 90 seconds. You’ll have more time to share more about yourself, film extra behind-the-scenes clips, dig deeper into the nuances of your content, or whatever else you want to do with that extra time,” Instagram wrote in an official blog post on Thursday. Besides the time extension, the social networking platform has introduced new features such as fresh sound effects, import your own audio, and interactive stickers among others....
The social network also introduced another feature called “Candid Stories”, which is based on a concept similar to the popular rival photo-sharing application, BeReal, among other features. Let’s check out the new features added to Instagram: Notes: The new feature “Notes”, inspired by Twitter, allow users to type out posts of up to 60 characters using just text and emojis. Notes:Candid Stories:Add Yours:Group Profiles:Collaborative Collections: To leave a note, you need to go to the top of the inbox, then select the followers you follow back or people on your “Close Friends” list....
Apple “is considering a full takeover of McLaren or a strategic investment, according to three people briefed on the negotiations who said talks started several months ago,” the FT report said. The automotive engineering firm is valued at $1.3 billion to $2 billion, the FT said. Depending on how much of a chunk the iPhone maker acquires, a strategic investment in McLaren would likely cost Apple less. However, McLaren denied that a takeover or investment was currently in the works....
NPAPI was first introduced in 1995 as part of Netscape Navigator 2.0 to allow content types not otherwise supported to be viewed in the browser — using video plugins such as RealPlayer, QuickTime, or VLC. ther embedded content types, such as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Java applets are displayed in most browsers via NPAPI. For Internet Explorer (IE), this is achieved using ActiveX. Microsoft’s latest Project Spartan in Windows 10 will be shedding most IE features like IE 5....
This is the story of John Gordon Baden. John appears to have carried out these digital theft operations with 2 accomplices Jason Bailey and Victor Fernandez. The trio operated from a city in Mexico. The charges filed FBI ranges from computer hacking and goes all the way to identity theft. FBI says that the trio committed the above felony and the criminal activity between July 2011 up till August 2013....
The police had arrested 47-year-old William H. Merideth after he had confessed to them he had shot down a drone that was flying over his house. The $1800 drone was hit in mid-air and crashed in a field near Merideth’s home. After his arrest, Merideth was being produced in Bullit County District Court where the judge has determined that Merideth was within his rights when he pulled out a shotgun and shot down a drone that was allegedly spying on his family....
You can download Kodi from the Xbox Store right now. Simply search ‘Kodi’ and click on the app that shows up. You will then be brought to the page to download it. While it lists the version as v17.6, it actually installs Kodi 18.0-alpha1. Several users have tested this out and have confirmed this. Kodi 18.0-alpha1 supports features from the Windows 10 version since it is a UWP app. However, some features are not working as yet but they will be coming for you guys in the coming months....
While the whole world questioned the intentions of US authorities in asking Apple to unlock iPhone 5c belonging to the San Bernardino shooter, LAPD was able to quietly hack the elder sibling, iPhone 5s without any help from Apple. Los Angeles police investigators have discovered a workable method to bypass the hardened security features of a locked iPhone 5s belonging to the slain wife of “The Shield” actor Michael Jace, according to the court papers reviewed by The LA Times....
According to The Intercept, these tools are stated in documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Yesterday, The Intercept reported that the newly released documents from the cache of documents leaked by Snowden now seem to confirm that the 301MB archive of NSA hacking tools, exploits and data are indeed true. The hacking tools come from what’s called the “Equation Group,” another hacking group long believed to be an NSA offshoot....
In addition to making great headphones, microphones, gaming mice, the company also leads the front when making gaming keyboards and to remind the general public that it is still producing this particular gaming peripheral, Logitech unveiled a giant wall comprised of 160 Logitech G810 RGB keyboards. For those unfamiliar, Logitech G810 was announced earlier this year and it is a mechanical gaming keyboard, which has a higher lifespan compared to regular keyboards, which feature a membrane keypad....
The case came into limelight the first time in April 2015, when authorities started the trial of Eddie Raymond Tipton, 53, a former information security director for Iowa’s Multi-State Lottery Association (MSLA). In July 2015, Tipton was accused of two fraud charges by a judge for fixing a Hot Lotto lottery drawing that created a winning ticket worth $14.3 million (€12.65 million). While it was not proved by the prosecutors as to how Tipton manipulated the lottery drawing that produced the fraudulent ticket, but he recruited the help of Robert Clark Rhodes II, 46, of Sugarland, Texas, to cash out the winnings....
Occurrence of a ‘Blue Moon’ is a very rare occasion and it does happen “once in a blue moon” and we have not seen it since August 2012. However, if you have nothing on your hands this Friday then do make a point to just go out or watch out from your window to catch this rare celestial event. As per the lunar cycle every month there is one full moon and one no moon day....
According to Hinch, the Dell was causing problems in the recent months and gave him a blue screen of death which turned out to be the final time on that unfortunate evening. However, it is still not clear as to which version of Windows was the computer running before it met its tragic end. According to the local police blotter, Colorado Springs police reacted to the sound of the gunshots and charged Hinch for using his gun within city limits, which is a criminal offense....
Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 is basically a hybrid in the sense it is a tablet that can easily replace the laptop. Now, the models available vary in their pricing from $799 to $1799, however the maximum storage capacity offered by Microsoft in its expensive models of the Surface Pro 3 is 512 GB. Mr. Malagon purchased a Surface Pro 3 for $ 1,340 which had i7 processor, however the storage capacity was only 256 GB....
Just in case you are ever asked the question in an interview, the acknowledged father of the cell phone is a gentleman named Martin Cooper. What Cooper did was invent the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. From that point forward, the world was never the same ever before. Motherboard interviewed Marty Cooper, the 89-year-old creator of the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, which was the first handheld mobile phone-and Cooper made some bold predictions about the future of mobile technology....
