Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research; CERN, Geneva achieved a new energy record on Wednesday night, by colliding protons together at 13 TeV (TeraelectronVolts) in Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for the very first time, thus breaking the previous energy records. LHC, the world’s largest particle accelerator ended its first run in early 2013 and then LHC could achieve a speed of upto 8 TeV. Then, the CERN scientists had discovered Higgs boson particle which is an elementary particle responsible for giving mass to other particles and this had baffled the scientists for almost 50 long years....

However, in a press conference held last Wednesday, Chinese officials appear to have confirmed that China is no longer in control of its space station and is expected to die a fiery death in Earth’s atmosphere towards the second half of next year. However, it’s unlikely anyone on the Earth will be injured. China’s Tiangong-1 space station, which has been orbiting the planet for about 5 years was recently decommissioned and the Chinese astronauts returned to the surface....

While it is said to be part of China’s counter-terrorism laws, the controversial law under the guise of counter-terrorism, is the Chinese government’s attempt to curtail the activities of militants and political activists. China already faces criticism from around the world not only for the infamous Great Firewall of China, but also the blatant online surveillance and censorship that takes place. This latest move is one that will be view very suspiciously by foreign companies operating within China, or looking to do so....

Now, a similar MoviePass like movie subscription service, dubbed cPass, is set to be launched in the UK and Europe. This service will allow users to pre-register for an all-new service that will allow them to see one movie in the participating theatre each day for a flat subscription rate of £9.95 a month. In other words, depending on the month, a cPass subscriber can visit the theatres either 30 or 31 days in a row, and pay only a total of $9....

What are the differences between DoS and DDoS? You’ll be surprised to find outDoSDDoS DoS: Denial of Service DDoS: Distributed Denial of Service Now that you know the differences between the two terms as far as their full forms are concerned, what are the primary differences between the two in terms of functionality? DoS A DoS attack means that one computer and one internet connection is being used to flood a server with packets (also known as TCP/UDP)....

In less than three years of its release, Windows 10 managed to surpass records of all other Windows operating systems with over a billion installs. It became Microsoft’s most successful operating system. You can download Windows 10 files for free through their official servers. There are three legal ways to download Windows 10 ISO files from the official servers, which have been discussed in this article. You can start with the direct links for the operating system and then proceed to the Microsoft website if the latest version is required....

According to Yahoo Finance’s annual survey of 2021, Microsoft was named the “Company of the Year” for smashing the $2 trillion market capitalization mark and witnessing a 53% increase in its stock price as of December 2021. On the other hand, social media giant Facebook (now Meta) was crowned the “Worst Company of the Year” mainly for rebranding to Metaverse irking and upsetting its users. The open-ended survey was carried out on Survey Monkey via the Yahoo Finance home page from December 4th to December 5th where 1,541 people had taken part and responded to the survey....

In the updated App, when you are uploading a image, you will see a new sticker icon that will bring up a menu of graphics you can choose to add to a photo to Facebook image. All you have to do is select the sticker you want to add, drag it to the image, change the size, rotate it and preview it before you decide to upload the photo to Facebook....

The report alleges that Facebook intentionally crashed the app for some users for several weeks to see how many of its users would continue using the platform despite the issues faced or abandon the platform altogether. “The company wasn’t able to reach the threshold,” the site says, with someone familiar with the experiment adding that “people never stopped coming back”. The users simply used the mobile web version of the site, rather than give up on Facebook entirely....

The video calling feature introduced on its mobile messaging platform allows users to have a face-to-face conversation with their friends by just pressing a single button inside the Messenger app. The reports by The Verge state this new feature is believed to pit Messenger against similar products from other companies like Microsoft’s Skype, Google Hangouts, and Apple’s FaceTime. According to Stan Chudnovsky, Facebook’s VP of growth and global strategy, said that the center of interest of Facebook’s developers was on making the video work well on relatively low-bandwidth cell networks....

Facebook’s rapid rise may point out investor confidence that the company will persist in increasing mobile-advertising sales on its application and others. To some extent, the increase in value also reflects froth in tech stocks; since Facebook went public, the Nasdaq Internet Index has almost doubled. Facebook’s shares trade at 87 times earnings, almost five times the average in the S&P 500. At the same time, companies in the Nasdaq Internet Index trade at a price-earnings ratio of 27....

Here is what your stolen data is being sold for on the dark webCredit/Debit card detailsPayPal accountsGift cardsPassport scansTicketsHotel loyalty programsEmail ids and passwordsGaming accountsCloud accounts for IaaSHBO GO accountsSports network streaming service accounts Credit/Debit card details A hacker gets around $5 per record for basic account number and expiration date details, which is nothing when you think some of the hacks that have got hundreds of thousands of these records....

These separate containers will allow the user to log into a website using different identities. For example, one tab can be logged into Facebook using one account for friends and family, while another tab displays a second work-related Facebook account. By default, Firefox Nightly comes with four different containers called Personal (blue), Work (orange), Banking (green), and Shopping (pink), which means users would be able to log in with four different IDs....

Growing health conscious and smartphone owning population in India along with the success of Xiaomi’s Mi Band of fitness wearables seems to have egged Fitbit into entering the price conscious Indian market. James Park, CEO and Co-founder of Fitbit added: “With a growing focus on personal health, fitness and wellbeing across India, and the strong demand for mobile devices and technology in the market, Fitbit is thrilled to provide consumers in India with our full line of trackers—at affordable prices across all mobile platforms—ensuring that everyone can find the right fit for their lifestyle and their goals....

The European Space Agency said that it had received signals from the lander, named Philae, late on Thursday, when it began “speaking” with its team on the ground for the first time as it went into emergency hibernation following a poor landing on the comet in November. Scientists think that the space probe is receiving increasing amounts of sunlight as the comet comes closer to the sun which enables its solar panels to generate the power required to send data....

Fortnite and Xbox raised USD 144 million for Ukraine Fortnite officially made a tweet that they were able to generate 144 million USD for the people in Ukraine along with Microsoft Xbox. The proceeds will be used for people living in Ukraine, affected by the war, refugees who had to relocate, and the food that people need in the war affected country. Together with the Fortnite community and @Xbox, we raised $144 million USD for @DirectRelief @UNICEF, @WFP, @Refugees and @WCKitchen....

2014 Protests in Hong Kong The 2014 Hong Kong protests, which is also known as the Umbrella Movement or Umbrella Revolution, began in September 2014 when activists in Hong Kong protested outside the government headquarters and occupied several major city intersections after the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPCSC) announced its decision to nominate only the Mainland China vetted candidates. The protesters who are made up of mostly students and pro-democracy advocacy groups based in Hong Kong dont want a Beijing controlled puppet government in Hong Kong and also want that they be allowed to nominate and choose their own leaders....

And now one of the biggest news of this week is the leaked script of GOT Season 8 on internet. Going according to DNA’s reports, one of the Reddit users posted four pages of Game of Thrones’ script: one page from Episode three, two from Episode 5, and one from Episode 6. According to the leaked scripts, Arya Stark (Maisie Williams), Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage), Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie), Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner), Podrick Payne (Daniel Portman), and the Hound (Rory McCann) will try to run away from a group of wights using the Hound driven wagon....

Launched in technical preview last year, GitHub Copilot is powered by OpenAI Codex, an AI system trained on billions of lines of public code. It is an AI pair programmer tool that developers to write code faster and with less work. It draws context from comments and code to suggest individual lines and whole functions instantly. So, how does GitHub Copilot work? OpenAI Codex was trained on publicly available source code and natural language, so it works for both programming and human languages....

For those unaware, this is GitHub’s first major update since it was officially acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion in October last year. While GitHub always had a free tier that developers can use to store and manage their code, the company, however, charged $7 a month for a private repository. “For the first time, developers can use GitHub for their private projects with up to three collaborators per repository for free,” the company said in a brief blog post....