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A 28-year-old woman from Philippines who was working as a maid at a house in Bahrain used Facebook to spread the message about herself, the way she was being treated and raped by her boss’s son. We all usually criticize Facebook for spying on people or sharing our data with the government, but there is a […]
Feels good to have lots of options to choose from, right? Then why stick to just one Operating System for a lifetime, it’s time you go out and try out the other distributions. The majority of OS other than Windows belongs to the Linux base. Linux Distros are huge in number, beautiful in design, innovative […]
Following the footsteps of Microsoft, Amazon has launched its first product for machine learning service. At the AWS Summit in San Francisco, Amazon Web Services announced a new machine learning platform. Amazon Web Services debuted a service that developers can use to implement machine learning in their applications. Recently, Microsoft announced Azure Machine Learning, which […]
Vifm What is Vifm (Vi File Manager)? Vifm is a ncurses library based file manager for Linux which allows you to perform almost every file related task (like viewing, moving, deleting etc) right from the shell. It has no GUI, so each task needs to be performed using the keyboard. This might seem odd to some […]
First look of WhatsApp’s Integration on Facebook for Android Finally Revealed. Fans have waited for more than a year to get the first glimpse of Facebook’s maiden integration with WhatsApp. Recently, we disclosed WhatsApp’s idea to integrate voice calls into the app’s features and now this is big news for the fans. After buying WhatsApp, Facebook […]
For many years, cyber criminals have deceived people into carrying out humiliating sexual acts online and later get blackmailed with the recordings of their acts. This mechanism has become easier to be conducted with the emergence of an Android app that facilitates sex extortion. The Irving, Texas, based Cyber security Company Trend Micro states that […]
JavaZone 2015 The meme, GIF and parody culture of the Internet appears to be more apparent for sweeping the popularity of TV shows like “Breaking Bad,” “House of Cards” and “Game of Thrones” than anything else. Even the programming community is finding ways to riff on the cultural lightning rods these series have become, and […]
Biohackers Identified the Way to Transform your Eyes into Night Vision Goggles — It requires injecting your eye balls with a chemical that serves as night vision serum. A small and independent group of researchers has identified a way to make humans see over 50m in the darkest areas during the night, thus, equipping them […]
ATTENTION!! Programmers, coders and hackers, students and professionals, techies and newbies – GEAR UP!! The countdown to one of the biggest programming events in the world – GOOGLE CODE JAM 2015 – has begun. With just less than 10 days to go to the Qualification Round, to be held on 10th April, brushing up on […]
Think Do-It-Yourself Computing, Think Raspberry Pi! Such a phenomenon this mini-computer has been! From the Pandora’s Box of Projects that is Kickstarter we bring you one of the most innovative applications of the Pi which has already raised £120,111 so far with more than 2000 backers- The PiJuice. The PiJuice serves the purpose of making […]
Researchers at MDSec, an IT security firm, have identified a method that allows thieves and hackers to bypass iPhone’s lockscreen utilizing equipment that costs merely few hundred dollars. In an iPhone, the lockscreen basically serves as a barrier between thieves and the phone since it bricks the device after 10 wrong guesses. Moreover, it has […]
Update: GitHub is fully functional now. Old Story: GitHub, one of the most popular websites among programmers and developers is was under continuous attack from Chinese hackers. The collaborative project development website is was facing a massive DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack. Whenever GitHub users outside China are trying to access web pages with advertisements served by […]
In an important policy change, the Government of India announced that it will adopt the open source software and make it mandatory for all the government software services and applications. Narendra Modi led government said that as a part if its Digital India campaign, all the e-governance projects will use the free and open source […]
Here is today’s best news for the Linux and open-source enthusiasts. The popular open-source desktop environment GNOME has released the latest stable update- GNOME 3.16. Over the years, GNOME desktop has seen its share of ups and downs evolving to become one of the most loved open-source environments. Each GNOME release continues to make it […]
Update: GitHub is fully functional now. Everything operating normally. — GitHub Status (@githubstatus) March 31, 2015 GitHub is one the most popular websites among programmers and developers and is currently having 3.4 million users with 2.2 million active repositories. This software development web site used for collaborative projects is currently being hit by a massive […]
Short Bytes: Here is this handy operator developed by Daniel Russell who comes in as a handy trick when you are googling stuff. It’s a handy trick, particularly when you’re looking for the combination of search terms (containing two or more search keywords) when one dominates the results, but you’re interested in the relationship between two query terms. […]
After the release of Ubuntu MATE 15.04 Beta 2, Ubuntu 15.04 Final Beta, Ubuntu Kylin 15.04 Beta 2 and Kubuntu 15.04 Beta 2, its time to greet the final beta release of Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vernet). Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2 has been released and you can download it to test and use. This Ubuntu release is […]
Facebook evidently hasn’t fully accepted the failure of Home and is now trying to swap your Android smartphone’s dialer with one of it’s own. It has been identified by Android Police tipsters that the social network giant Facebook is inspecting a dialer app that will reveal detailed information about the caller and will also block […]
Back in the year 2013, Facebook developed a tool to test its apps on slow connections named Augmented Traffic Control. Everyone is frustrated when mobile networks are slow and apps don’t respond smoothly. Augmented Traffic Control is being used by Facebook to know how its apps react when users are on a slow network connection. […]
A 12-year-old girl in Colorado has been arrested and charged for attempting to kill her mom through poisoning her with bleach just because she took away iPhone from her. Authorities claim that the circumstances are chilling. First time the mother felt a strange odor coming from her breakfast smoothie. On second occasion, mother felt thirsty […]
The new on-body detection feature will lock your phone when you set it down, so thieves who swipe it can’t access your data as easily. You need to protect your smartphone specially while on the go but it is also a fact that we unlock our smartphones about a dozen times daily even though it […]