The Arc brand, which is reportedly designed to compete with Nvidia GeForce and AMD Radeon, will cover hardware, software and services. It will span multiple hardware generations, with the first generation, based on the Xe HPG microarchitecture, code-named Alchemist (formerly known as DG2). The chip-maker had also revealed the code names of future generations under the Arc brand: Battlemage, Celestial and Druid. Now, YouTube channel Moore’s Law is Dead (via Videocardz) has posted some leaked images of the engineering samples....

The ATMs installed by Unocoin does not require any banking partnerships and are stand-alone machines that can accept and dispense cash. “We at Unocoin have always believed in serving our customers with the best of their interest and with the most secure services. Since December 2013, our team has been serving the Indian bitcoin and blockchain community by continuously innovating and making ways for a smoother and wider experience,” the company said in a post on its official website....

Launched on November 5, 2013 from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) mission, also known as Mangalyaan, was made on a small budget in comparison to other space missions. Launched at around the same time, NASA’s Maven Mars orbiter mission had cost about $671 million, whereas India’s Mars Orbiter Mission is said to cost about $74 million. From the time it’s been launched, MOM has gathered something of a cult following and been a success story for the ISRO....

In an announcement made on August 16, 2016, the U.S. National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) said it was ready to surrender control over the Internet domain name system (DNS) infrastructure to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a non-profit organization effective October 1, 2016. The DNS is basically a directory for internet-connected devices that helps translate domain names to numerical IP addresses. In other words, it is responsible for holding and pairing web addresses or its URL to its respective servers....

Anzhou states that Apple is developing a set of wireless “EarPods,” the brand name for the company’s own iPhone earphones. Instead of plugging in headphones through the jack, iPhone 7 users would have to either use wireless headphones or buy a pair of special Lightning headphones. Feng notes that Lightning headphones will be the wired alternative option, but Apple ‘expects’ most people to move to wireless particularly if Apple starts bundling wireless EarPods with the iPhone 7 as suggested....

— qwertyoruiop (@qwertyoruiopz) May 23, 2016 This however does not ensure that the jailbreak will be available to iPhone users around the world. Because, Todesco has similarly hacked the security system of previous iOS 9.3 versions but has not released the tools to public. However this time, Todesco may release the exploit to popular hacking groups like Team Pangu and Taig which could help in release a public version of iOS 9....

The illusion dubbed as “curvature blindness” is described and explained in the journal i-Perception, which provides scientific breakdown and analysis of the optical illusion. It describes how a wavy line can be perceived as a zigzag line on a white, grey and black background. “Here, we report a novel illusion —— Curvature Blindness Illusion —— that will provide novel implications for contour perception, in particular, for the underlying mechanisms of curve and corner perception,” Takahashi wrote....

Known as Everykey, it is basically an encrypted digital master key that will keep your password protected accounts safe with a simple mobile app. “Instead of carrying a bulky keychain and remembering a list of passwords, we want your access control to be something you don’t have to think about,” said McAfee in a press release . Describing his device as a “f***ing game changer”, McAfee says that when Everykey is in range of bluetooth enabled devices and accounts, it acts as a password and login manager....

Unquestionably, PDF is one of the mainstream document formats that’s used for everything ranging from educational ebooks to important banking statements. If you use, create, edit, combine, organize, annotate or even convert PDF files then it’s important to have a reliable PDF management application. Well, PDF Reader is a feature-packed PDF editing program that’s developed by Kdan Mobile and it simply gets the job done. In this article, we have shared a detailed review of Kdan PDF Reader followed by the three most noteworthy features of this program....

The new 4.05 kernel exploit dubbed as “namedobj” allows users to run arbitrary code on the gaming console, facilitating jailbreaking and kernel-level modifications to the system. However, the developer specifies that in the kernel exploit release there is no code related to the violation of the anti-piracy systems of PlayStation 4 and the execution of homebrew software. But this release can be used by other developers to create their own exploit including jailbreak....

Looks like Nokia will live up to its reputation of bringing the best to its smartphone buyers. The yesteryears smartphone king recently confirmed that it would be making its return to the smartphone business with Nokia Android smartphones somewhere in March 2017. According to the reports, Nokia’s Android smartphone will be showcased at the Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona, Spain in late February. HMD Global, a Finnish company that currently holds the right over Nokia’s logo has already unveiled the first new Nokia device – the Nokia 150 feature phone....

Long story short, the engineer believes that USB Type-C and Quick Charge 3.0 are unable to work together because of their specification differences. Not long ago, we discussed how a new Type-C USB specification has being brought forward by tech companies to not only counter the mass number of reports coming in that such ports fried expensive hardware, but to prevent malware from wreaking havoc on these devices. It may have been possible that USB Type-C specifications have not been updated, so the engineer might have decided to provide his own stance on things....

Xiaomi reached out to us about the post, and apparently Bluebox also because the prototype Bluebox was testing was found out to be illegal make of Xiaomi Mi4. The said model may have been manufactured by local vendors to make illicit gains by exploiting Xiaomi’s goodwill in the smartphone arena. The post has been updated by Techworm bringing the above into consideration. Xiaomi via its email has stated that its popular MIUI interface based on Android OS goes through rigorous QC testing and follows Google’s Android Compatibility Definition Document therefore a question of any Xiaomi smartphone having a forked Android as OS does not arise....

https://twitter.com/MartinShkreli/status/791488951781625856 https://twitter.com/MartinShkreli/status/796201087384637441 Shkreli, who bought the only copy of the Wu-Tang Clan’s 2015 Once Upon a Time in Shaolin for $2m, started leaking excerpts from the album in celebration of Donald Trump’s shock victory in the American presidential election. Americans need no introduction to Shkreli who is known as a real-life super-villain and labelled ‘Pharma Bro’, after he jacked the price on anti-HIV drug Daraprim from $US13.50 to $US750 per pill in September 2015....

The terms of the proposed settlement were disclosed in a court filing late on Thursday. However, this still needs to be approved by a judge in a San Francisco federal court, a hearing has been set for March of next year. Plaintiffs alleged that Facebook “granted numerous third parties access to their Facebook content and information without their consent, and that Facebook failed to adequately monitor the third parties’ access to, and use of, that information,” according to the law firms behind the lawsuit....

Microsoft’s Accidentally Releases Windows 10 Internal Build 16212 Which Crashes PCs and Laptops, Here’s What You Should Do Right AwayHere is what you should do if your PC/laptop/mobile is updated with the new Internal Build 16212 The issue was first noticed by MSPowerUser which reported that PC/laptops which automatically updated the faulty update. Microsoft accidentally rolled out the Windows 10 build 16212 for x86 PCs and phones running Windows 10. The immediate result of the update was bricked PC/laptops and smartphone running on Windows 10....

Back in 2001 Windows XP was the first system which had introduced the software activation key and the need for a proper license to activate the Operating system on any device. However, pirates started sharing some corporate license keys and since then the pirates have somehow been causing trouble to Microsoft throughout its various versions though Microsoft has been continuously trying to curb the software pirates. With this announcement of free upgrade, Windows seems to have finally decided to ignore the pirates because it has been seen that some new machines also have the pirated version of Windows and the users are not ever aware that they are using an illegal copy of the Operating System....

Microsoft employee Jerry Nixon, a developer evangelist speaking at the company’s Ignite conference this week said, “Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10.” Instead of releasing new major versions, the product will be bettered in regular instalments and automatic updates, much similar to apps and modern browsers. When Microsoft launched Windows 8.1 last year, it continued working on the base of Windows 10 all through last year, a strategy that will not occur again due to the OS’s rolling update status....

The fact remains that Linux was developed to fight Microsoft’s closed source architecture and break its hegemony over desktop computing. Microsoft will be joining the Linux Foundation, which oversees the development of the very popular free operating system Linux. If you are an old-timer, you will remember Bill Gates run Microsoft spent much of the ’90s fiercely competing with Linux, seeing it as a threat to the world dominance of Windows....

In a blog post on Tuesday, Microsoft has now officially confirmed that the project has been killed, although some of its best features will be brought to Windows 10. “Following a year-long exploration and engaging in conversations with customers, we realized that the technology of Windows 10X could be useful in more ways and serve more customers than we originally imagined. We concluded that the 10X technology shouldn’t just be confined to a subset of customers,” wrote Microsoft VP John Cable in the blog post....