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The new iPad Pro 2020 are available in two models: 11-inch and 12.9-inch. “The new iPad Pro introduces advanced technologies never before available in mobile computing. Combining the most advanced mobile display with powerful performance, pro cameras, pro audio, the breakthrough LiDAR Scanner and new Magic Keyboard with Trackpad, this is another huge leap forward for iPad. There’s no other device in the world like the new iPad Pro and we think our customers are going to love it,” said Phil Schiller, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing....

In a recent incident, a Sydney bicycle rider suffered third degree burns from his exploding iPhone. Bondi management consultant Gareth Clear, 36, who was mountain biking by himself on Sunday afternoon in Manly Dam fell off his bike along with his iPhone. When he got up after the minor fall, the iPhone in his back pocket ignited and he saw smoke coming from his behind. “I just saw smoke coming out of my back pocket and I was completely bewildered about what it was and then all of a sudden I felt this surging pain,” he said....

This happened in Tulsa, Oklahoma in United States. Two roommates who were living together go into a violent fight to prove which smartphone was superior, Android or iPhone. When the Tulsa police arrived at the fight scene on Friday morning they found a man had been bludgeoned with a broken beer bottle. The police had been called after neighbours noticed that a young man was stumbling in the parking lot of the building with a bloody nose and shirt....

Luckily for the city dwellers, the hacking was foiled because the sluice gate happened to be offline for maintenance during the hack. But how could the hackers get such detailed information from Google? This method is called ‘Google Dorking’ Though it may sound childish but this is a pretty serious tool in wrong hands. What is Google Dorking? Google Dorking is the practice of using advanced search techniques – more specifically, specialized search parameters – to locate hard-to-find web pages and information....

Space Data Corporation has now filed a lawsuit against Google by jury trial for patent rights infringement by Google and Alphabet accusing the companies of stealing their balloon based communication technologies. For the unintiated, Project Loon is Google’s pet project which seeks to send thousands of helium balloons around the world and deliver Internet to users in remote areas. The project was started in June 2013 by the top secret Google Division X and currently being tested out in India, Australia, New Zealand, Nepal and Latin America....

The answers of over 11,000 respondents accessing several of its services was compiled by that the company that it had collected via a survey. The data includes information about the programming language developers use, for what they use the language, preferred frameworks, and general salary information. Based on what developers are using on a day-to-day basis, the survey showed that today’s top 10 programming languages ranking is made up of JavaScript, Python, Java, PHP, HTML (not a programming language though), C#, SQL, CSS (this too), C++, and R....

Now, Kalashnikov Concern, Russia’s most famous weapons manufacturer, unveiled a new state-of-the-art military robot at the Army-2018 international forum at the Patriot park just outside Moscow. For those unaware, Kalashnikov Concern, a Russian manufacturer known for the AK-47 assault rifle, manufactures around 95 percent of all small arms in Russia and stocks around 27 countries in the world. Dubbed as ‘Igorek’, the 13-ft tall bulletproof gold killer robot weighing 4....

It is nearly a 8 months since FBI and Polish police collaborated to arrest Artem Vaulin the owner of KickAssTorrents (KAT). On 20 July 2016, the United States Department of Justice announced that it had seized the KAT.cr domain and had identified its alleged owner. Artem Vaulin, a 30-year-old Ukrainian man known online as “tirm“, was detained in Poland after being charged with a four-count U.S. criminal indictment. The remaining domains were taken offline voluntarily after the KAT....

For those unaware, Kodi (formerly Xbox Media Center) is a free and open-source cross-platform software media player and entertainment hub developed by the XBMC (Xbox Media Center) Foundation for digital media for HTPCs (Home theater PCs) and TV audiences, which is totally free. It lets you play videos, music, podcasts and other digital media files from the internet, local storage or a home network. Kodi v18 will focus on stability and ease of use, with a task that will require rewriting large portions of code that have now become obsolete....

“TGIF has traditionally provided a place to come together, share progress, and ask questions, but it’s not working in its current form,” Pichai wrote in the email explaining the meeting change. He noted that Google is “unfortunately seeing a coordinated effort to share our conversations outside of the company after every TGIF.” Further, Pichai in his note referred to recent leaks given by the employees to the media. “I know this is new information to many of you, and it has affected our ability to use TGIF as a forum for candid conversations on important topics....

The announcement was made by the company on the Chinese microblogging website, Weibo wherein it confirmed the launch date and time of the phone. In a fresh promo teaser shared by Lenovo (via Sparrow News), the company has confirmed that the upcoming gaming phone will feature the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus (aka Snapdragon 865+ SoC) instead of Snapdragon 865 chipset to provide enhanced gaming performance. The upcoming Lenovo gaming phone is expected to feature a Full-HD+ (1,080×2,340 pixels) resolution display along with 144Hz refresh rate and have a 270Hz touch sampling rate for smooth scrolling....

It has also addressed problems discovered in the Btrfs and EXT4 file systems and patched the networking (IPv4) and sound issues. As expected, Linux kernel 3.14.41 LTS comes with numerous updated drivers, especially for ACPI, USB, Bluetooth, GPIO, MTD, Memory Stick, MD, GPU (Radeon and Intel i915), I2C, SCSI, Ethernet (Intel e1000), Wireless (rtl8192cu, wl18xx), InfiniBand, CLK, and SPI. “I’m announcing the release of the 3.14.41 kernel. All users of the 3....

The researchers found that Microsoft Defender’s command line tool “MpCmdRun.exe” was abused to side-load malicious DLLs that decrypt and install Cobalt Strike beacons on victims’ PCs. For those unaware, MpCmdRun is an important part of Microsoft’s Windows Security system that helps protect your PC from online threats and malware. “During a recent investigation, we found that threat actors were abusing the Windows Defender command line tool MpCmdRun.exe to decrypt and load Cobalt Strike payloads,” SentinelOne wrote in detail about the new attack in its blog post....

At a private dinner held at the White House in October 2019, Zuckerberg “made the case to President Trump that the rise of Chinese internet companies threatens American business, and should be a bigger concern than reining in Facebook,” WSJ reported, citing people familiar with the matter. In these meetings, Zuckerberg is said to have resounded the same fears he voiced in a meeting with students of Georgetown University in October....

The ExoMars spacecraft consisted of two parts, a Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and the Schiaparelli Entry, Descent and Landing demonstrator module. The 2020 mission will drill two metres into the Martian surface and study samples for any indicative signs of past or present life on the red planet. The main objective of the ExoMars mission is to search for evidence of methane — a gas produced by living microbes on Earth, and traces of which have been observed by previous Mars missions — and other trace atmospheric gases that could be signatures of active biological or geological processes....

Towards a cashless era At the global level, the financial ecosystem is approaching a cashless era, it is imminent that various innovations emerge, proffering solutions for effective and efficient transactions. The rapid change that is occuring in this sector a number of innovations springing up in different areas. Mobile wallet options like Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Wallet are all examples of innovations already in existence in line with this revolution....

The revelation came as Home Secretary Theresa May outlined a new bill regulating online surveillance by authorities. In her Commons statement, she referred to how successive governments to access data from communications companies under the 1984 Telecommunications Act. According to the BBC report, Mi5 didn’t record what was said during phone calls, just the fact contact was made. The programme was “so secret that few even in MI5 knew about it, let alone the public,” according to the BBC’s security correspondent....

Mr. Wheeler, was only 17, when he and his hacker gang was accused of hacking and stealing at least $US100 million ($A108.2 million) worth of software and data from Microsoft, Valve and the US Army. He was under police radar following a joint international investigation into five suspected hackers, most of them US-based. Facing a possible sentence of ten years, Mr. Wheeler fled the country almost after three years later....

Gates said that by allowing Google to develop Android even before Microsoft could develop a competing mobile operating system cost the company nearly $400 billion. “In the software world, particularly for platforms, these are winner-take-all markets. So the greatest mistake ever is whatever mismanagement I engaged in that caused Microsoft not to be what Android is. That is, Android is the standard non-Apple phone platform. That was a natural thing for Microsoft to win,” Gates told Eventbrite co-founder and CEO Julia Hartz....

For those unaware, WB Games is the video game division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and is a publisher behind popular game franchises such as Batman: Arkham, Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings. Microsoft’s interest in acquiring WB Games comes after Warner’s parent, AT&T, a telco giant, announced its intentions last month to sell off WarnerMedia’s gaming division in a deal that would pull in around $4 billion in order to help lessen its $154 billion debt, according to a CNBC report....