Students from Fast.ai, a non-profit group that creates learning resources and is dedicated to making deep learning “accessible to all”, have created an AI algorithm that beats code from Google’s researchers. Researchers from Stanford measured the algorithm using a benchmark called DAWNBench that uses a common image classification task to track the speed of a deep-learning algorithm per dollar of compute power. According to the benchmark, the researchers found that the algorithm built by Fast....

Back in October, cyber criminals had managed to hack into a 3rd party Snapchat addon and leaked 13 gigs of images on 4Chan. The images database was thought to be full of pictures of minors sharing their intimate moments with their same aged friends. 4Chan mods quickly deleted the Snappening post but not before it was shared and reposted. The 13 gigs database eventually landed on torrent websites and was among the top downloaded torrents for some time....

Xperia Z4 is a refined copy of Sony’s earlier flagship Xperia Z3 with a powerful front camera for better selfies and the latest Snapdragon processor. Sony has also given the Xperia Z4 a slightly slimmer and lighter body. Other than that, Sony has repackaged Xperia Z4 with almost all other features of Xperia Z3. Sony said the Xperia Z4 will ship with latest Android 5.1 Lollipop and includes Qualcomm’s latest 64-bit octacore Snapdragon 810 processor....

According to the Spanish Data Protection Agency, the social networking giant collected personal information from its users in Spain without obtaining their “unequivocal consent” and without letting them know how such information would be used. “Facebook collects data on ideology, sex, religious beliefs, personal tastes or navigation without clearly informing about the use and purpose that it will give them,” the statement said. The privacy policy of Facebook “contains generic and unclear terms” and it “does not adequately collect the consent of either its users or nonusers, which constitutes a serious infringement” of data protection rules, said the watchdog....

Saivamsi Hanumanthu, resident of Pilot Hill Drive in Morrisville, was charged with felony accessing government computers, felony breaking and entering and misdemeanor accessing government computers. If convicted on all the charges, the student could be sentenced to up to four years in prison. Cary police began investigating a complaint filed by administration that someone had gained unauthorized access to Panther Creek High school database on October 13. During the investigation, police learned that multiple students’ class ranks and grades had been altered and one of them belonged to Hanumanthu....

Michael Vaga, a 19-year-old inventor, has invented and developed a smartphone charger known as HandEnergy, which uses energy from the human body to get the energy to charge your device. So, how does this work? All you need to do is just rotate your hand, which then activates the device’s gyroscope to generate energy that can either be used to immediately charge a mobile device or can be stored. The kickstarter campaign which was started to fund this invention with the hope of raising €50,000 has now managed to collect €71,333 from people who are hoping to own one soon....

The unidentified victim, 19, and a student at Foshan Polytechnic, was taking pictures while visiting a rose garden in Liantang village, a popular spot among tourists, near the southern City of Foshan, when the tragedy occurred. Photographs taken before the tragedy show the teenager, dressed in a blue skirt and white top, posing in front of the camera as the train approaches behind her. Witnesses explained how the teen stood too close to the tracks, and ignored blaring horns from the locomotive driver as well as warnings from people around her, in an apparent attempt to get the train in the background of her photo....

You will be surprised to know that there are over 200 Squid Game related apps and games on the Google Playstore. These Android apps have combined downloads of over one million worldwide. Sadly, scammers have utilized the aforementioned opportunity to commit cybercrime and infect the devices of users who download these apps. An app that goes by the name SG-themed wallpaper has been infecting Android devices. After installing this app you end up downloading a technological Trojan horse that would infect Android devices with Joker malware....

Doom is a series of first-person shooter video games developed by id Software. The classic FPS game was first released in 1993 and focuses on the exploits of an unnamed space marine operating under the UAC (Union Aerospace Corporation), who fights hordes of demons and the undead in order to survive. The game is so popular that even now modders make different maps of their own and release them online for other players....

Locky and Zepto, The Two Deadly RansomwareMartin BeltovLocky TroublesEnter ZeptoLocky and Zepto Are Part of Every Hacker Arsenal The situation with Locky is quite different – this ransomware has shown that it can evolve and change. In fact, cyber security experts no longer speak of Locky as a single type, but a whole family of related threats that are spread across the world. The most recent discovery is that Locky infects with DLL files now....

The laptop in question is an air-gapped Samsung NC10-14GB 10.2-Inch Blue Netbook (2008) running Windows XP SP3, which is being auctioned by Deep Instinct, a cybersecurity company, in collaboration with artist Guo O Dong, according to a report by Forbes. This Samsung laptop runs six of the deadliest malware released online, which are WannaCry DarkTequila, SoBig, MyDoom, ILOVEYOU, and BlackEnergy. These malware have collectively caused damages of nearly $100 billion around the world....

The Apple vs FBI has another side attached to it. Nationalism! This came to far when a county in United States banned its employees from buying iPhones because…..Apple is on the side of terrorists! Bill Montgomery, Attorney of Maricopa County this week issued a ban on the iPhone in response to Apple’s decision not to cooperate with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in unlocking the iPhone 5c of one of the San Bernardino shooters....

Cars that run on hydrogen are becoming more popular by automakers. While Pininfarina certainly is not the first automaker to explore the creation of hydrogen cars – Toyota, Audi, and Honda are known brands that are investing into the technology as well. Similarly, less mainstream automakers are interested in the technology as well, like Welsh firm Riversimple. However, Pininfarina is the first one to create a hydrogen-powered vehicle that is this fast....

As a result, Hambourg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of Germany issued a regulatory practice and ordered Facebook to stop collecting user data from WhatsApp and to delete any information it had already gathered. While an Indian high court has ordered WhatsApp to delete all user data for users choosing to disable the App before 25th Sept., 2016. Coming back to Facebook. It is an open secret that the social network giant knows more about you than you think....

Apple is coming out with iOS 8.4 this summeriOS 8.4 Beta Now AvailablePublic iOS 8.4 Beta MIAiOS 8.4 FeaturesiOS 8.4 Release Date Don’t worry Apple loves to surprise its clients. The iOS 8.3 update won’t be the last iOS 8 update before the release of iOS 9. Instead, Apple is planning to release an iOS 8.4 update for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch by this summer. In September, Apple released its iOS 8....

The Register reports that Johnson was working in a paper making factory called Georgia-Pacific for several years. On the fateful Valentine’s Day of 2014, the company decided to fire him. Johnson did not take the company’s decision in the right spirit and decided to get even with it. Johnson hacked into Georgia-Pacific servers using VPN once his employment was terminated. Once back inside the corporate network, he installed his own software and targeted the paper factory’s Port Hudson branch, which produces paper towels and tissues 24 hours a day....

So, how do we protect our online privacy? Brass Horns Communications, a UK-based non-profit internet service provider that focuses on privacy and anti-surveillance services, has an answer for this. The company is currently beta-testing a SIM card that will automatically route your data through Tor, thereby securing online privacy and evading surveillance. For those unaware, Tor (originally known as The Onion Router) is a free piece of software for enabling anonymous communication....

All thanks to its 3 founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. Ronald Wayne left Apple only after 12 days of its launch and the reason is that he saw no success of apple. But Steve jobs proved him wrong. He became the most successful entrepreneur in the world and made apple reach the heights of glory. So what are the reasons for Apple Success? Let’s find out....

For those unaware, Tor is a network technology that preserves users’ privacy by concealing their identity and location by bouncing web traffic randomly through a far-flung network of servers. (Tor – an acronym of “The Onion Router” – adds layers of anonymity to traffic that are difficult to be traced.) The Tor code is open-source and its servers are operated by volunteers. The Tor team, which had released the first alpha version of Tor Browser 8....

From the looks of it, this new Trusted Voice feature will allow the Android smartphone user to unlock and As a smart lock entry, it was fairly obvious that the option would allow users to unlock devices with their voice. For those who have Trusted Voice on their Android smartphones, tapping the option under smart lock will take users to the Google app’s settings. A popup warning advises that trusted voice unlocking is less secure than other options, but just a couple taps and you’ll be able to unlock and execute commands on your secured device by simply uttering, “Ok Google....