Dell Introduces Two Ubuntu Linux Laptops That Are The Most Powerful In The World Right Now Techworm

First, they have been named the Precision 7520 and Precision 7720 and feature screen sizes of 15 and 17 inches respectively. They do not come close to the thinness of Apple’s MacBook Pro, and with all the powerful hardware underneath them, you cannot expect them to. Since these have been labeled as Dell’s workstations, you can either choose to use Intel’s 7th generation Kaby Lake processors or Xeon E3 1505M or 1535M CPUs....

November 24, 2022 · 2 min · 251 words · Lynn Lemay

Discord For Android Is Not Working With Bluetooth Headsets

For the unversed, Discord is mostly used by gamers all across the globe to communicate with other gamers while playing games. Thanks to useful features like Keybinds, Priority Speaker, and YouTube / Twitch Integration, Discord has become one of the best VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) applications. However, according to a new report by 9To5Google, Discord users on Android have been reporting issues with the app’s audio on their Bluetooth headsets....

November 24, 2022 · 2 min · 333 words · Erika Fiene

Elephone P9000 To Be The World S First Smartphone To Have Deca Core Chip

MediaTek had officially launched its deca-core Helio X20 chip for mobile back in May, which features a tri-cluster CPU configuration that included two Cortex A72 clocked at 2.5GHz and eight Cortex A53 cores, of which four clocked at 2.0GHz and four at 1.4GHz. After its launch, the Helio X20 had caused a bit of a stir many questioning its performance, consumption of energy and even the theoretical multi-core use cases of MediaTek’s latest design choice....

November 24, 2022 · 2 min · 270 words · Kenneth Brunke

Elon Musk S Neuralink Will Connect Human Brains With Computers

Shedding more light on Neuralink’s progress at an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Musk said it has plans to insert highly flexible brain reading “threads” into the brain that would link a human brain directly to a computer to detect the activity of neurons. According to Musk, the technology will help “solve brain disorders of all kinds” and let humans merge with artificial intelligence (AI). The chip called “N1 sensor” sits outside the head and will wirelessly receive information from “threads” embedded in the brain....

November 24, 2022 · 2 min · 407 words · Lindsey Wright

Employees Connect Nuclear Power Plant To The Internet To Mine Cryptocurrency

The incident was first reported by the English-language Ukrainian news site UNIAN. The episode occurred took place in July at the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant at Yuzhnoukrainsk, in southern Ukraine. The employees installed several bitcoin mining equipment at one of the plant’s administrative buildings to take advantage of the uninterruptible electricity from the local grid as well as the plant’s internet connectivity. By doing so, they unintentionally disclosed information on the site’s security arrangements at the nuclear facility....

November 24, 2022 · 2 min · 340 words · James Rumsey

Epic Case Court Rules Apple Cannot Force Developers To Use In App Purchasing

For those unaware, Epic Games had filed a lawsuit against Apple in August 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, related to Apple’s practices in the iOS App Store. Epic Games specifically had challenged Apple’s restrictions on apps from having other in-app purchasing options outside of the one provided by the App Store. Apple typically takes a 15% to 30% revenue cut of gross sales on each purchase made in the App Store, which was challenged by Epic Games’ founder Tim Sweeney....

November 24, 2022 · 4 min · 640 words · Kerry Elrod

Ex Employee Exacts Revenge By Posting Sh Ty Tweet On 2Ue News Twitter Account

Somebody used the Twitter account of 2UE News and tweeted a text saying It is believed that this tweet was a work of a disgruntled ex-employee of the network following the sackings of high profile staff as a result of the Macquarie/Fairfax Radio Network merger. The news company however says that the ROGUE tweet is a random hack rather than an act of revenge by a former employee. The alert security team of 2UE removed the tweet 11 minutes after it was posted but not before many noticed it...

November 24, 2022 · 1 min · 173 words · Stanley Hardy

Explosion Of Us Military Satellite Has Led To Hazardous Smaller Space Debris Which Is Risky To Spacecrafts

ESA scientists are now worried because a recent study reveals that though the space debris that can be detected by radar do not pose much threat to other spacecrafts however the smaller space debris, that are non detectable by radar, are the ones that are hazardous to the future missions and spacecrafts. Hugh Lewis said it is essential to understand these objects and added: “Even though many of these objects will be no bigger than the ball in a ballpoint pen, they can disable a spacecraft in a collision because of their enormous speed....

November 24, 2022 · 3 min · 466 words · Laura Robinson

Extratorrent Cc Shutdown Effect The Pirate Bay Keeps Crashing Intermittently Techworm

The Pirate Bay Keeps Crashing and Giving CloudFlare Error After ExtraTorrent.cc ShutdownMore Torrent website shutdowns to come? ExtraTorrent shuts down permanently; Top 3 alternatives The problem is somewhat aggravated by the sudden spurt of ExtraTorrent clones and proxies which are filled with malware, adware and viruses. Torrent users prefer the cleaner and safer TPB to these clones and as such are flocking to TPB resulting in users getting constant errors when browsing TPB....

November 24, 2022 · 3 min · 467 words · Cheryl Cooke

Eztv Goes Live Again After Being Shut Down For Two Weeks

The EZTV takedown hit the torrent fans hard as EZTV specialises in TV torrents. But fortunately for EZTV, its crew had managed to recover several servers after the raids and takedowns, which they used today to restart the services and serve the latest TV torrents again. EZTV crew told TorrentFreak that getting the entire site up and running was a difficult challenge but they have successfully completed it today. With it being up, torrent fans seem to queuing up for their fresh dose of TV shows....

November 24, 2022 · 1 min · 150 words · Francis Clayton

Facebook Discloses How Many Minutes You Spend Watching Videos Everyday Techworm

In other words, users are watching about 12 minutes of video per day on Facebook on an average. The numbers disclosed on Wednesday only reflect plays from Facebook’s native video player confirmed a Facebook spokesperson. These numbers represent people who click on other third-party sites or YouTube to watch videos that are not included in their news feeds. While those numbers might appear a lot, people spend 12 minutes pales in comparison to the 40 minutes on average in watching videos on YouTube from their mobile devices....

November 24, 2022 · 2 min · 310 words · Crystal Fernandez

Facebook Dispute Results In A 14 Year Old Girl Being Shot Dead

The online Facebook brawl between two groups of friends spilled out into the streets with a fistfight and later ended in gunfire that killed a 14-year-old girl and wounded two others in Alabama on Friday, authorities said. The fistfight between the girls was to be recorded for posting online according to th police. Birmingham police said 14-year Kierra’onna Rice was shot and killed at around 5 p.m. in Birmingham after two males opened fire after Rice and several other girls met at a park to fight....

November 24, 2022 · 1 min · 211 words · Henry Jeffries

Facebook Executive Predicts Phone Numbers Will Die By End Of 2016 Techworm

Telephone numbers came into existence in 1879 when a local doctor thought of them for the first time. The use of telephone numbers instead of subscriber names to indicate to the telephone operator what destination line a caller wished to be connected to was developed and first used in the autumn of 1879 in Lowell, Massachusetts during a measles epidemic. Moses Greeley Parker, a local doctor, realized that if all four of the city’s operators were incapacitated by the epidemic, their replacements would have great trouble quickly learning which of the switchboard’s 200 jacks were assigned to which subscribers....

November 24, 2022 · 2 min · 417 words · Elizabeth Anderson

Facebook Shows Bias Towards Left As It Omitted Conservative News In Trends Techworm

A former employee told Gizmodo that when he or she would log on, they noticed popular conservative topics were left off the homepage list. The employee, a conservative, guessed that the person running the list “didn’t recognize the news topic” or was biased against a conservative figure involved. Last week, Gizmodo published a story explaining the conditions behind the trending team, which is required to write headlines and summaries for dozens of news stories to be included on the website’s ticker....

November 24, 2022 · 2 min · 350 words · John Stassinos

Famisafe The Parental Control App To Safeguard Your Kids

Inspite of having numerous advantages, there are many serious problems like social media anxiety, gaming addiction, cyberbullying, and many others associated with giving access to smartphones to kids. Well, if you are a parent or a guardian and are looking for a reliable parental control solution, then FamiSafe is bound to impress you. In this article, we have shared some of the noteworthy features of FamiSafe application and explained how this app could fulfill your remote parental control needs....

November 24, 2022 · 4 min · 844 words · Tiffany Purington

Game Of Thrones Season 6 Episode 5 Leaked And Available For Download Techworm

The fifth episode of the immensely popular fantasy show Game of Thrones season has been made widely available on torrents and streaming sites, courtesy of the most unexpected entity to do so, HBO Nordic. According to viewers, HBO Nordic, which has made a large number of strides protecting its content from piracy was the sole reason behind this leak, and we have to say that it has made a large number of viewers extremely happy, naturally at the expense of the company....

November 24, 2022 · 2 min · 266 words · Chris Plumlee

Germany Fires A Revolutionary Nuclear Fusion Machine For The First Time Ever Techworm

The world’s largest nuclear fusion machines have been just fired for the first time announced the physicists in Germany. The machine was successfully able to contain ‘plasma’, which are nothing but super-hot blobs of helium gas. A type of nuclear fusion device called a stellarator, the 16-metre-wide machine is the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X). Stellarators are extremely difficult to construct. It took scientists about 19 years of to construct W7-X. This is the first time a team has demonstrated that it can produce and control plasma just as well as other fusion reactor designs....

November 24, 2022 · 3 min · 572 words · Curtis Stockbridge

Google And Udacity Offering Scholarships To 75 000 Aspiring Developers Techworm

Google in partnership with Udacity are now offering 75,000 Android and Web Development scholarships for aspiring developers and data scientists looking to follow careers in the digital field. Over the past two years, Google and Udacity have been able to roll out 1,000 and 10,000 scholarships for coders in 2015 and 2016, respectively. This year, German media company Bertelsmann too will be involved in their latest initiative. “We were humbled by the overwhelming demand for these courses, so I’m happy to announce that together with Bertelsmann & Udacity we’ll be offering 75,000 more people the opportunity to benefit from free developer courses,” said Google’s EMEA President Matt Brittin....

November 24, 2022 · 2 min · 230 words · Gregory Boston

Google Confirms Some Android Devices Came Preinstalled With Backdoor

In a detailed study post, Google has explained how some hackers cleverly managed to put Triada, a malware designed to install spam apps on a device that displays ads, on Android devices by tampering the pre-installed software. The creators of Triada collected revenue from the ads displayed by the spam apps. “Triada infects device system images through a third-party during the production process. Sometimes OEMs want to include features that aren’t part of the Android Open Source Project, such as face unlock....

November 24, 2022 · 3 min · 587 words · Suzanne Vest

Google Ending Gmail Google Starts Migrating Users To A All New Inbox Techworm

The pop-up appears when Inbox users login and states “Thanks for trying Inbox! To make it easier we’ve updated Gmail to redirect you here”. Even the old familiar inbox.google.com url has disappeared and now Inbox instead resides at gmail.com. Inbox by Gmail, which Forbes reports offers more tech-savvy features like smart recognition of photos and documents, Google is now giving them the option to opt out. Some Gmail users are reportedly signing in and being redirected to inbox....

November 24, 2022 · 2 min · 224 words · James Favuzza