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Black Friday is an opportunity to grab the best deals and purchase items at discounted prices. Black Friday 2019 is just a day away and many companies have already started its Black Friday deals. For those who want to learn on the internet, Udemy’s Black Friday 2019 sale is an opportunity to grab courses at […]
Raspberry Pi boards have been the leaders in the single-board computer market, however, a new board from Lenovo’s Leez series might disrupt the Raspberry Pi board sales. Lenovo Leez RK3399 P710, announced at the World Mobile Congress in Spain last year, is now on sale for at Alibaba express for $140. Jean-Luc Aufranc of CNXSoft […]
Ubuntu Touch is the mobile version of the Ubuntu operating system designed for mobile devices. The operating system is developed and managed by UBPorts which has recently pushed an update that brings Ubuntu Touch to Raspberry Pi 3. With the weekly update, now you can run Ubuntu Touch on Raspberry Pi 3 using the official […]
Linus Torvalds has announced Linux kernel 5.4 dubbed “Kleptomaniac Octopus” as the last stable kernel release of 2019. The new Linux kernel accompanies a host of features such as support for the exFAT file system by Microsoft, kernel lockdown feature and support for AMD Radeon Navi 12 and 14 GPUs, AMD Radeon Arcturus GPUs, and […]
Apple has announced an expansion of its ‘Everyone Can Code’ program which provides free coding lessons to encourage programming among students. The company has redesigned the curriculum this year to reach out to more elementary and middle school students to coding. It has also added more resources for teachers, a new student guide, and refreshed […]
At the ongoing GitHub Universe event, COO Erica Brescia unveiled a series of announcements focused on securing the open-source code. The major highlights include the launch of a new community program Security Lab that will help developers and security researchers from different organizations to spot and fix bugs in open-source software. The founding members of this […]
We are being constantly monitored through the devices and apps we use on a regular basis. One of the biggest ways of surveillance is our smartphone and the majority of users are divided between two — Android and iOS. But there is a new Linux-based smartphone dubbed Volla Phone on Kickstarter, that rethinks the entire […]
A cryptocurrency is anything that exists in a binary format designed as an internet-based medium of exchange which uses strong cryptographic functions to conduct financial transactions. Cryptocurrencies use blockchain technology to an extent to gain decentralization, transparency, and immutability. Cryptocurrencies are a digital gold mine. A form of online money that is secure from political […]
The world of smartwatches is ruled mostly by the likes of Apple Watch and WearOS-based devices. But we have seen a few attempts from the open-source community, including PineTime and AsteroidOS. Now, the tech world has got something new to play with — an open-source hackable smartwatch called Bangle.js. It’s co-developed by NearForm Research and […]
In the Microsoft Build 2019 event that was held back in May, Microsoft announced ‘Visual Studio Online,’ an online code editor for developers. Visual Studio Online is a web-based version of its Visual Studio IDE. Until today, it was available for private preview which was open to a select number of developers only. Now, at […]
If you have recently updated Ubuntu, chances are a new bug might be sharing your media files with users on the same network. Reportedly, the problem is the part of Ubuntu’s easy media sharing feature in the latest version of Ubuntu 19.10. The feature under Settings ➔ Sharing ➔ Media enables users to send media […]
Google has already declared Kotlin language as the number one choice for Android app development. To further promote app development in Kotlin, Google has contributed another free course on Udacity. It is an intermediate level course that comprises of six lessons that should take about two months to complete. I’d recommend this course to those […]
It’s not a secret that technologies make our life easier and more comfortable. And education is no exception. Presently, lots of students rely on numerous technological advances that may help write a research paper, conduct research, organize study materials, and manage time more efficiently. In today’s article, we’re not going to talk about such trivial […]
Start backing up your data if you were a part of Samsung’s Linux on DeX beta program. In an email sent to early testers, Samsung has announced to shut down the beta program and “no longer provide support on future OS and device releases.” This means that all the supported Samsung devices will lose support […]
Windows licenses are usually expensive. For example, for an original license of Microsoft’s “Windows 10 Pro” in the official Microsoft store 199.99$ payable. A cheaper alternative is the key marketplace Whokeys.com. Here you can save on licenses for software or games properly! Whokeys is a global marketplace for all types of keys. So Whokeys is […]
Udacity is launching a free scholarship program under which it will offer 100,000 free skill-based learning courses to American workers. The program is a part of the Pledge to America’s Workers initiative launched by President Donald Trump’s government. In a blog post, Udacity announced that it will give away free training classes for technology-based courses […]
Multiple threats like climate disaster, nuclear war, depletion of resources keep looming over the world, and the idea of apocalypse seems inevitable. In any case, it’s never a bad idea to prepare for the future in advance. So a software developer named Virgil Dupras has developed a new self-replicating open-source ‘Collapse OS‘ that can survive […]
You might have come across numerous courses and explanatory material for Machine Learning — most of which are difficult to comprehend at times. But don’t give up on the chance to learn ML yet! Google has released a comic strip for Machine Learning that will teach the concepts of ML even to a noob. Those […]
It is a common practice among programmers to copy-paste code snippets from the popular Q&A forum Stack Overflow to solve their coding problems. But it turns out that this lazy habit runs a high-security risk. A paper titled “An Empirical Study of C++ Vulnerabilities in Crowd-Sourced Code Examples,” highlights the same. Copied codes can result […]
Currently, users mostly from in Eastern Europe & Russia are being targeted by this botnet. Recently, researchers from the Czech Technical University, UNCOYO University based in Argentina and Avast Security have found an Android botnet named Geost by collaborating in on the investigations and have presented it at the Virus Bulletin 2019 conference held in […]
In September alone, over 335 million Android users were tricked into downloading malware-infected apps from the Google Play Store. In all, 172 apps containing threats such as adware and automatic sign-up for fraudulent subscription services circumvented Google’s store security mechanism called Play Protect. The information was released on Tuesday, October 1st by ESET’s security researcher […]