Top reasons why you should not install expensive anti-virus software on your newly purchased PC/laptopIn Built MechanismsBrowsersSmart UseRansomware In Built Mechanisms Every device that you own has always contained some in-built security applications. With the release of Windows 8, Microsoft has managed to strengthen the in-built Microsoft Defender to such an extent that most critics admitted there was no more a need for a user to install a separate anti-virus software....

It powered most ATMs worldwide until a couple of years ago, and many still rely on it. The last service pack, the famous SP3, solved almost every problem an average user had with Windows. The list is endless, but random crashes to instability during average usage were commonplace. After downloading XP, you can rely on Rufus, a bootable creator for Windows OSes, to create bootable media. Virtual machine users can skip directly to the installation and start using the legacy OS....

The hacker known as 4a.m. for the last few years has been methodically cracking the DRM on old Apple II games and uploading them to the Internet Archive. 4a.m. is looked at as more of a game preservation hero than a bandit, since most of the games are entirely out of print, all-but-impossible to find, and run only on old computers. He told Motherboard that he has cracked 683 games until now and several games that came out in the early 1980s can be insignificantly cracked with automated utilities....

Smartphones come in various casing varying from metal to entirely plastic but what if someone offers you a smartphone with a casing entirely made out of grass? A pioneer in recycled products, Design Works has been testing a mobile phone that’s composed of entirely recycled and natural products, with one major ingredient being blades of grass. Designer Sean Miles has managed to create a complete smartphone case out of grass which not only would stand out in the crowd but also look pretty neat....

Developed by Facebook, the “Internet Defense Prize” is a scheme to reward researchers for projects and prototypes that encourage the safety of the Internet. A part of Facebook’s “Internet Defense Prize“, the cash prize is given at the USENIZ Security Symposium in Washington, D.C. Most importantly, the payout has doubled from last year’s inaugural payout of $50,000, which was awarded to German researchers. The won the prize for their work on using static analysis to identify “second-order vulnerabilities” in applications used to compromise users after being stored in web servers before time....

Besides Likes, Shares and Comments, Facebook now includes “time spent by user on any story” as one of the factor for its News Feed ranking.Redesigning of News Feed by Facebook: However, a recent survey carried out by Facebook, as a part of improvement on News Feed indicated that there are certain content which users prefer to read though they might not either click a Like or Share and also may not enter any comment....

Call it what you want, Fappening 2.0 or Fappening 3.0 but the NSFW leaks are real. The hackers on Thursday had promised more Fappening leaks and true to their word, the hackers leaked private and intimate images of Fifty Shades of Grey’s Dakota Johnson, actress Faye Alicia Brookes, Pussycat Dolls member Nicole Scherzinger, and Addison Timlin. The latest leak came days after the iCloud hackers had released explicit and private photos of Miley Cyrus, Kristen Stewart, Lindsey Vonn, Katharine McPhee and Anne Hathaway....

Moreover, these are called Bionic ANTs wherein ANT stands for Autonomous Networking Technologies. As per Festo the basis of future production systems would depend on the intelligent individual components which would readily adjust themselves to different production demands by communicating with each other. The wireless Bionic ANTs can communicate with each other using their wireless systems and hence easily adapt themselves to the wavering production environments. Along with this the robotic ants act intelligently exhibiting the co-operative behavior of the little creature using the complex control algorithms....

The study, which was a collaboration between University of Sussex (UK), Google, RIKEN (Japan), Siegen University (Germany), and Aarhus University (Denmark), is featured in the journal Science Advances. In the past, scientists had proposed using fiber optic connections to link individual computer modules to obtain efficient computing powers. The invention introduces connections created by electric fields that let charged atoms (ions) to be transported from one module to another. Researchers said they have managed to overcome some important obstacles, developing a “new approach (that) would allow 100,000 times faster connection speeds between individual quantum computing modules compared to current state-of-the-art fibre link technology,” said the study, which would be a leap forward toward building a universal quantum computer....

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According to Ford, isolated engine manufacturing issues have resulted in 2.5L HEV/PHEV engine failures involving engine block or oil pan breach. “Ford is issuing a safety recall for certain vehicles with 2.5-liter HEV/PHEV engine because in the event of an engine failure, significant quantities of engine oil and/or fuel vapor may be released into the under hood environment and may migrate to and/or accumulate near ignition sources resulting in potential under hood fire, localized melting of components, or smoke,” Ford Media told UPI in a statement....

Le Monde reports that according to an internal document being circulated among the power corridors in France, the two proposed changes to be brought before France’s parliament. The first addresses the use of “shared or open” Wi-Fi networks during a state of emergency: according to the police, suspects can use public Wi-Fi networks to communicate without being tracked down, so the legislation would shut down public Wi-Fi hotspots during a state of emergency....

For those unaware, Share-Online.biz was a popular file hosting platform with an average of 10 million monthly users that had hosted millions of files on several hundred servers. It allowed unregistered users to upload video and music content up to 1GB, while premium account users were allowed to upload up to 2GB for each file. On October 16, numerous commercial and residential properties in the Netherlands, in France and in Germany were searched and “extensive evidence” was secured....

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Now, when you compose a Gmail message you’ll have an even larger array of whimsical and descriptive emoji to accent your text-based missive. Google has recently added new hundreds of themes and some new emoji to the service for users to pick from. This move will enable you to customize the look and feel of the Gmail web interface to a great extent. Now Gmail will become more personal mail and much more fun to use....

For those unaware, Tenor is a San Francisco-based animated online GIF search engine with a keyboard app that can pull up GIFs while you type on desktop and mobile. It also has an API that allows other companies including Facebook (who uses it in Messenger), Twitter, Apple’s iMessage, WhatsApp, and new owner Google through its Gboard app to use its platform to easily search and share animated GIFs. “Most people use Google Images to find more information about a topic and to help them communicate and express themselves-case in point, we see millions of searches for GIFs every day,” Cathy Edwards, Director of Engineering, Google Images, wrote in a blog post on Tuesday....

Reuters who was the first to report the news via unnamed sources said the move by Google would mean that Huawei’s future devices would lose access to future OS updates and technical support along with access to Play Store, Google Play Service, Gmail, YouTube, and Maps. However, Huawei can still use the version of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) through an open source license. Google has confirmed in a statement said it was “complying with the order and reviewing the implications”....

For those unaware, Rich Communication Services (RCS) is a new online protocol between mobile-telephone carriers and between phone and carrier that aims to replace current texting standard SMS (Short Message Service) messages with a text-message system that is richer and can transmit in-call multimedia. In November 2019, Google rolled out support for RCS as Android’s primary texting platform for anyone who uses the Android Messages app in the U.S. and few countries of Europe....

The feat recalled IBM supercomputer Deep Blue’s 1997 match victory over chess world champion Garry Kasparov. But Go, a strategy board game most popular in places like China, South Korea and Japan, is vastly more complicated than chess. “Go is considered to be the pinnacle of game AI research,” said artificial intelligence researcher Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, the British company that developed the AlphaGo program. “It’s been the grand challenge, or holy grail if you like, of AI since Deep Blue beat Kasparov at chess....

Dart is a creation by members of Chrome’s V8 Javascript engine team. The idea of Dart was developed after these members were frustrated with some aspects of the 20-year-old language they had to deal on a day-to-day basis. The Dart on Android project was recently displayed by the group at a Dart Developer Summit. Dart on Android isn’t called something obvious like “Dart on Android,”—it’s going by the name of “Sky....