Apparently, Apple found out that screens of some iPhone X models either aren’t responsive to touch or responds intermittently to touch. In some cases, it noted that iPhone screen reacts even though it was not touched. “Apple has determined that some iPhone X displays may experience touch issues due to a component that might fail on the display module. Apple or an Apple Authorized Service Provider will replace the display module on eligible devices, free of charge....

Steve Jobs had to look no further according to a new biography, In Becoming Steve Jobs, which reveals that current Apple CEO Tim Cook once offered an ailing Jobs a portion of his liver. In Becoming Steve Jobs which will be released on March 24, is written by veteran technology reporter Brent Schlender and Fast Company executive editor Rick Tetzeli. An excerpt from the biography is given below : After going through all the necessary tests to determine whether Tim Cook could donate a part of his liver, he stopped by Jobs’s home in Palo Alto to tell ailing Jobs about his decision, Jobs refused....

The researchers said “the discovery of WireLurker poses a new era of malware” Rise and Spread WireLurker which has surfaced in China and is mostly being aimed at Chinese users of Apple devices was detected when a user realised that his iPhone was doing tasks it wasn’t supposed to. This malware has been doing the rounds for the past 6 months and the most surprising part – researchers still don’t know much on what this malware is supposed to do....

According to reliable reports, the bug recorded the interactions regardless of whether you opted out of the service. Apple has admitted the existence of this bug and has successfully patched it now in iOS 15.4 beta 2. It’s worth noting that the bug was first introduced in iOS 15. This bug automatically enabled the Improve Siri & Dictation setting on both iPhones and iPads. Once this setting is enabled it gives Apple the permission to record, store, and review your conversations with Siri....

“We know that our products can unleash the creative genius in every kid,” Cook said. The updated 9.7 inch iPad weighs 1 lbs and features a large Retina display, Apple’s A10 Fusion chip with 64-bit desktop-class architecture, Touch ID, a front-facing HD camera, 32GB of storage, an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera with 1080p HD video, up to10 hours of battery life, and LTE option. The tablet also enables support for Apple Pencil, which was previously only compatible with iPad Pro....

Code.org hosts Hour of Code, a global initiative every year, targeted at teaching the basics of computer programming tutorials to students. Hour of Code is sponsored by a number of technology companies that use their own products and services to help get students excited about coding. These events aim to teach a bit of coding in the space of an hour, not only proving that you can get across complicated learning’s in a fun and simple way, but also get that message across to growing minds, shaping them with strings of characters and variables with the hope that they will be able to turn these into award winning apps and a career later on....

According to the newly updated iPhone User Guide for iOS 12.1, it will include Group FaceTime, dual-SIM support for its newly-launched iPhones such as the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR, and the ability to adjust the depth of Portrait Mode pictures in the Camera app. iOS 12.1 will also allow users to conduct FaceTime video conference calls with up to 32 participants on a single group call....

The Cupertino giant announced the arrival of updated Mac mini 2020 at the end of the company’s press release for the new MacBook Air 2020. The $799 base configuration now comes standard with 256GB of storage, while the $1,099 configuration features 512GB of storage. “Whether they are using it as a desktop computer, a music and movie storage hub for the family, or as a code compile server for Xcode, customers love Mac mini....

Apple employs 5,000 people at its European headquarters in Lavitts Quay, Hollyhill and Model Farm Road, according to reports, but it’s not yet very clear whether any suspicious packages have been found or not. According to International Business Times, a employee working at the HQ stated that staff were told initially that it was a fire alarm but once they had left the building they were told it was a bomb scare....

Janice Duffy, 59, a former SA health department researcher took the internet search giant to court after claiming articles published on the “Ripoff Report” website from 2007 defamed her. The site is a “shaming platform” that allows anyone to post reports about people whom they suspect are behaving in a criminal or dishonest manner, regardless of its factual accuracy. Despite bringing the articles to their attention, Google denied her request to remove the webpages from its search engine inspite of telling them that her prospective employers could chance upon the material....

Hackers operating under the handle of Rex Mundi have claimed that they hacked into the systems of Banque Cantonale de Geneve (BCGE) and stolen the banks customer information including private emails. Now the hackers are demanding €10,000 for not making the data public. The hackers have given the Banks management a deadline until Friday to deliver the ransom. https://twitter.com/rexmundi14/status/553116466904825856 The threat was repeated again just four hours earlier, https://twitter.com/rexmundi14/status/553443879521746946 The Banque Cantonale de Geneve (BCGE) is a bank based in Geneva....

“Paul did the computer scheduling with me,” Gates said. “Unfortunately for him he was two years ahead of me and he was off to college by then. So I was the one who benefited by being able to have the nice girls at least sit near me. It wasn’t that I could talk to them or anything — but they were there. I think I was particularly inept at talking to girls, or thinking, ‘OK — do you ask them out, do you not?...

The cyber security firm said Wednesday that while Bluetooth devices are not vulnerable for the same kind of attack, wireless mouse and keyboards using radio communication protocols operating in the 2.4GHz ISM band are subject to hacking from up to 100 meters away. “They haven’t encrypted the mouse traffic that makes it possible for the attacker to send unencrypted traffic to the dongle pretending to be a keyboard and have it result as keystrokes on your computer....

As per the report from Science.Mic Jeffrey Tibbetts, the medical officer of Science for the Masses and biochem researcher Gabriel Licina together as a team have got a patent for their research paper known as “A Review on Night Enhancement Eyedrops Using Chlorin e6.” Now the team decided to carry out their first controlled experiment in what seems to be a sort of garage and Gabriel Licina agreed to become the guinea pig....

The KB3119142 update issued by Microsoft for Windows PCs and laptops keeps reinstalling itself even though it appears to successfully deploy at the first attempt. In a thread started on Microsoft Community forum, an user said that KB3119142 installed successfully on his PC but then installs itself 4-5 times a day for last week. Other users confirmed that the KB3119142 update installs repeatedly on users’ computers even though the same update seems to install correctly....

China has finished building the world’s biggest radio telescope, which it will use to explore space and hunt for extraterrestrial life, according to the state media Xinhua. About 300 “builders, experts, science fiction enthusiasts and reporters” watched the installation of the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (aka FAST) in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou. The project took five years and $180 million to complete, and the reflector covers the area of roughly 30 football fields....

“Understanding the various ways text is used on Facebook can help us improve people’s experiences with our products, whether we’re surfacing more of the content that people want to see or filtering out undesirable content like spam,” the company said in a blog post. “Every minute, Facebook users make 4,000 new posts,” with 180 million comments made on public Facebook posts per day, says Hussein Mehanna, an engineering director with Facebook’s Applied Machine Learning team....

The new ultralight and foldable Mini 2 weighs less than 249 grams (0.55lb), which allows users to fly the drone without needing to register with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The drone has folded dimensions of 138×81×58 mm (L×W×H) and unfolded dimensions of 159×203×56 mm (L×W×H). DJI Mini 2 supports up to 4K video resolution at 30 fps (frames per second) at a 100Mbps video bitrate, which is up from 2....

They also mentioned the unauthorized access to account information was from a third-party software installed on the Drupal.org server infrastructure, and was not the result of a vulnerability within Drupal itself. Sites running Drupal are not affected and there’s no evidence that credit card numbers have been intercepted. Information exposed includes usernames, email addresses, and country information, as well as hashed passwords. Drupal have resetted all passwords, which can be seen by users when they are trying to login....