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Google’s Nexus 5 is a very popular Android smartphone. In fact, it was one of the best sellers for 2013 when it was launched. However, one of the limitations is that the Nexus 5 comes with a limited storage space, in either 16GB or 32GB variant. One brave soul decided that enough was enough and managed to increase the memory of his Nexus 5 from 16GB to 64GB. The Nexus 5 owner from Ukraine decide to physically hack his smartphone to install a 64GB memory....

While bed, TV, fridge and Wi-Fi connectivity are the basic common amenities that a hotel offers its customers during their stay, i hotel located in the Taoyuan district, which is about an hour’s train ride away from Taipei, provides proper gaming rigs in all its rooms for its gamer customers. The rooms in this hotel come equipped with two gaming PCs with i5-7400 processors and 32-inch screens powered by ASUS....

Here is how you can increase your reduced Internet speed due to Windows 10 Anniversary updateTo do this type netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled into the command prompt and hit enter.In the command prompt, type netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal and hit enter. But now Windows 10 users are reporting a new and unique problem they are facing after updating to Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Many users have noted in various forums that their Internet speeds have greatly decreased once they have updated their PC/laptops with the anniversary update....

However, a Pokemon Go cheat that went viral previously showed how to unban the soft ban using a few easy steps. However, this time around, there is a crazy hack in Pokemon Go that allows you to walk around undetected. But this hack is possible only if you have an iPhone and you are willing to sacrifice your iPhone to be jailbroken for this. In a YouTube video (see below) posted by iCrackUriDevice, it shows how to install the “Pokemon Go” cheat software inside a jailbroken iPhone and install the newly updated Pokemon Go tweak as well....

Fancy, a portable desktop computer Running Chromium OS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Android TV and powered by AMD 5350 Quad-Core x86 processorFancy Configuration Dylan Callahan works with the Chromium OS for All SBCs projects and thought of Fancy as a desktop computer which could bring best features of Chromium, Ubuntu and Android TV on a single platform. And Fancy Computer does just that. Fancy is also a powerful desktop computer which is surprisingly small....

But, thanks to the folks at Redmond Pie, who have come up with the latest 1.12 hack that unlocks the feature for all the levels in the game. Here’s how you can install the latest hack by following the simple step-by-step guide to install the modified version of Super Mario Run on non-jailbroken devices: Step 1: Firstly, install the latest version of modified Super Mario Run IPA file from here....

The Cosmo Communicator is inspired by vintage personal digital assistants (PDAs) such as Nokia Communicator, Sharp Netwalker and Psion Series 5. Last year, Planet Computers started a crowdfunding campaign for a PDA-inspired hybrid smartphone. This campaign managed to attract under 4,000 backers and collect $2.05 million (€1.86m) in funding. About Cosmo Communicator The Cosmo Communicator is a tiny, dual-screen smartphone device. It has a fully tactile, physical backlit keyboard and individually illuminated keys with 5 brightness levels....

TikTok, the hugely popular video-sharing app, on Thursday said that it will stop its app from constantly copying the data from iOS users’ clipboards after it was exposed by a new feature in iOS 14 beta. For those unaware, Apple has introduced a new privacy feature in iOS 14 beta that sends a notification whenever a third-party app accesses your clipboard, a temporary store for text, and other copied assets....

10 Highest-Paying Job Titles In The Technology Industry In 20161. Executive VP (tech), CTO or CIO2. Engineering manager3. Enterprise level services developer4. Mobile Developer, iOS5. Data Scientist6. Developer with statistics or mathematics background7. Embedded application developer8. DevOps9. Back-End Web Developers10. Mobile Developers Recently, U.S. based StackFlow, one of the world’s largest online community for programmers, released 2016 Developer Hiring Landscape. The annual developer survey that received over 50,000 responses from 173 countries looked across industry segments ranging from software development and web services to more traditional sectors like manufacturing, defense, automotive, and aerospace to find out most desirable job titles in the technology industry....

We had reported a landmark judgement by the United States Supreme Court, which will give FBI powers to hack any computer in the world using a single warrant. The same judgement contains a innocuous para related to Tor and VPN users. The newly approved rule change by the U.S. Supreme Court will allow FBI to search and seize any computer around the world, found to be using privacy tools like VPN or Tor....

The company’s front-end server for YouTube and its YouTube API are mainly written in Python, and run on CPython 2.7, as opposed to other implementations (Jython, PyPy, or IronPython). The project began out of a need to improve Python execution on YouTube, which runs its front end on CPython 2.7, to handle concurrent workloads well. “Grumpy cannot leverage the wealth of existing Python C extensions, but it gave us a lot of flexibility to design an API and object representation that scales for parallel workloads,” said Dylan Trotter, a staff software engineer within YouTube Engineering at Google in a blog post....

Twitter’s new Status feature is very similar to Facebook’s older status feature that allowed users to create a post by adding pre-written labels and text of their choice to give additional context to their posts. Some of the Twitter statuses, include “Shower thoughts,” “Picture of the day,” “AMA,” “Vacation Mode,” “Spoiler alert,” “Hot take,” “Traveling,” “Unpopular opinion,” and more are also accompanied by emojis. At present, users cannot customize their status and need to select from Twitter’s existing list....

Khaled Abdel Fattah, a man based in Tennessee has been arrested for withdrawing money using his debit card. The problem? He re-programmed the ATMs to dispense $20 dollar bills instead of $1 ones. He had taken help of his accomplice Chris Folad, and both of them from Tennessee, United States withdrew more than $400,000 from the ATMS around Nashville. Former employee goes rogue When a small-time Tennessee restaurateur named Khaled Abdel Fattah was running short of cash he went to an ATM machine....

However, the unknown hackers were still able to get away with about $US80 million by breaking through the bank’s internal security. They then took that information to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where they made more than dozens of payment transfer to “entities in the Philippines and Sri Lanka.” The Fed allowed four requests to go through totaling $81 million to the Philippines. However, the fifth for $US20 million, to a Sri Lankan non-profit organisation didn’t made it because the hackers misspelled the name of the NGO as “foundation” as “fandation....

The security breach had exposed the data of approximately 50,000 drivers across multiple U.S. states. Data included names of the independent contractors that collaborate with Uber, routes that were taken, clients that requested them, and even the name, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of said clients were stored on a cloud where any third party could have had access to them. The matter came to light when Uber’s New York manager, Josh Mohrer revealed to a journalist that he was both tracking her Uber ride and accessed her ride history logs without permission, including through the company’s “God View” tool....

The latest build of Ultimate Windows Tweaker comes with over 200 tweaks which is an increase of 20 percent over the Ultimate Windows Tweaker 3.1.2, Like its predecessors, it’s a portable tool (so requires no installation), and ships in a small 549KB zip archive. Windows Ultimate Tweaker is the ultimate tool if you want to enhance or change the way your Windows 10 works. For example, if you are recording your Windows 10 screen and want “borderless fullscreen window” mode....

Popular hacking Linux distro Parrot Security upgrades to version 3.5, brings Cryptkeeper, Kernel and additional hacking toolsWhat’s new with Parrot Security 3.5 Linux Distro? The new version was in development for more than 2 months according to Parrot Security devs. It comes a little over two months after the first and also the last maintenance update to the Parrot Security OS 3.4 series, and includes quite some improvements and new features, starting with native VirtualBox and VMware virtual machine guest support and the latest, long-term supported Linux 4....

Matthew Keys faces 25 years in jail for merely defacing the LA Times website, but a rapist gets lessThe Law Keys, a 28-year-old social-media journalist known for his work at Reuters, was convicted by a California federal jury on three criminal counts, stemming from the defacement of The Los Angeles Times’ website in 2010. The prosecutors were able to prove to the court that Keys helped the global hacktivist group, Anonymous in launching the hack attack....

An Intel spokesman said that, last August, Intel had stopped the shipments and applied for an export license when the Santa Clara chipmaker received a letter from the US Commerce Department stating Intel would require an export license for supplying chips for a Chinese supercomputer Tianhe-2, which translates to “Milky Way-2.” Chuck Molloy, an Intel spokesman said: “We were selling them standard off-the-shelf parts. Once we got the letter, we stopped shipment of parts....