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Next time you’re out in the open, and its freezing, your smartphone battery may have drainedWhat can be done to fix the problem These experts also claim that the colder the environment gets, the faster the smartphone batteries will continue to drain. So how exactly does this happen? Turns out that all smartphones feature lithium ion batteries and they increase their internal electrical resistance as the temperature drops. This reduces their overall capacity and makes them less efficient as opposed to cells that function in hotter climates....

The official Kodi team on their website too have mentioned that watching illegal content which would otherwise be paid for is not endorsed or approved by them, there’s are very few chances that people are following it. Also Read– Best ways to unblock Kodi in 2018 Though the legal threats have seen many put a stop on their activities, Kodi still remains to be popular with the public. Looking at the popularity of Kodi, Sony Australia is recommending users of its Android TVs to download Kodi to access add-ons, reports TorrentFreak....

Musk first revealed his plans at a SpaceX event in Seattle in January this year. The plan involves launching a constellation of 4,000 low-cost satellites that would transmit high-speed internet signals to all parts of the globe, including its most remote regions. Musk has said the effort “would be like rebuilding the Internet in space.” If the attempt turns out be successful, it would change SpaceX from a pure rocket company into a massive high-speed-internet provider that would not only compete against major companies in the developed world but also make Internet available for billions of first-time users who are currently not online....

At least, that’s how many early investors felt as the digital currency swelled in value in 2017. However, for all of its acclaim, Bitcoin has functioned as a digital investment vehicle, more akin to digital gold, than a functional currency. After all, nobody wants to face the same fate as Laszlo Hanyecz who purchased two pizzas for 10,000 Bitcoin in 2010. After Bitcoin’s meteoric rise in 2017, Hanyecz spent the equivalent of $10 million on those two pizzas....

Microsoft Lumia 1020 successor’s image leakedMicrosoft after taking a deep breath is now focusing on its successor to the much acclaimed Nokia Lumia 1020 smartphone. @evleaks posted the picture with a tweet saying, “Don’t give up hope, Windows fans,” indicating that Windows Phone fans can expect to re-live soon to get their hands back on a camera focused smartphone. It’s not so clear if the phone will be featuring a higher megapixel count or not (the Lumia 1020 sports a 41MP camera sensor)....

For those unaware, Tamilrockers, which was launched in 2011, is popularly known to publish illegal copies of newly released movies in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telegu, Malayalam, and Kannada on their website. The movie ‘Avengers: Endgame’ marks the culmination of 22 movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), a series that portrays the war between the Avengers and Thanos, the evil demigod. The two-part Avengers series, ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ and ‘Avengers: Endgame’ was announced in 2014, as a sequel to ‘Age of Ultron’....

Tesla Motors has started a bug bounty program that will pay researchers up to $1,000 for disclosing vulnerabilities in its website. As said above, rewards don’t apply to bugs found in the company’s vehicles. The Tesla bug bounty hunters have to find vulnerabilities in the main teslamotors.com domain and other domains owned by the company. The Tesla car sales website and other sites that are hosted by third parties are not included in the bug bounty, which is being administered by Bugcrowd....

Fortune 500 companies and specialized Java development companies use the language to build popular web, desktop, server-side, and Android applications. Businesses interested in building powerful applications with Java must ensure that they hire experienced and proficient software engineers capable of using the language to its full potential. The following skills are essential for Java developers. 1 DevOps Engineering DevOps as a concept has been embraced widely by the global tech community....

As per the executive of Xinhua news agency, Mountain Qomolangma in China has been moving at a speed of four centimeters per year and has been rising by 0.3 centimeter annually. This fact was collected by the bureau from 2005 to 2015. Geographical changes in the area have great influence on the climate, environment and ecology of East and South Asia, said by the citing experts. In the year 2005, the organization had set up a satellite monitoring system on Mount Everest to examine the mountain’s movement....

Then, the lights went off and music rumbled on. Twirling their heads, the robots began a synchronized dance to the ’80s hit “Mr Roboto” with blue spotlights flashing, waving flags grasped in their “hands,” and moving with flaunts and flourishes that had the crowd shouting with happiness. This noisy display was the “graduation ceremony” thrown for the ‘bots by Willow Garage, the company that had produced them with each at a rough cost of $400,000....

In an interview with The Guardian, Berners-Lee said people in prominent markets should “just say no” to the project. Speaking about the importance of privacy and the dangers of government snooping, he added that the initiative was not internet and that there were other ways of reducing the price of access. “When it comes to compromising on net neutrality, I tend to say ‘just say no’,” he said. According to the reports by The Guardian, Berners-Lee and the Web We Want festival came together to produce a Magna Carta for the 21st century on the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta....

As such, it’s of the utmost importance for businesses and individuals to ensure that their email service provider has adequate security features, especially when you consider that email is still the most widely used communication tool. So which email service providers should you use to ensure your communications remain secure? Top 5 Most Secure Email Service Providers in 2023 Here’s a list of the top five most secure email service providers that you can use in 2023:...

It seems that the ISPs in the United Kingdom are on a warpath with Torrent users. We had written about how the ISPs like Sky are sending a popup message when the user visits The Pirate Bay, ExtraTorrent, Torrentz2, Rarbg, 1337x, KickassTorrents and other file sharing sites. Now we have got hold of one such email that was sent to a TPB user by Sky, which is the premier Internet service provider in Britain....

Anushka Binoy, of Isleworth , scored 162 to gain membership of the exclusive society, where entry is reserved for Britain’s brainiest 2%. The average IQ is 100 and a score of over 155 on the Cattell III B scale puts you in the top 1% of the population. What is this Mensa IQ test and why is it so important: Mensa is considered to be one of the oldest intelligence society in the world and it accepts only those individuals as members who score in the 98th percentile on an IQ test....

The developers behind the App, SektionEins GmbH wrote on a blogpost : “[We] wanted to provide the public with a low cost solution that allows to find out if someone used one of the public jailbreak or a customized version to hack and backdoor your device,” the developers wrote in a blog post. The app is developed by a team led by Stefan Esser who is a well-known iPhone security researcher....

UK YouTuber Colin regularly makes bizarre devices for his YouTube channel. Colin’s whose hobbies include pyrotechnics and cannons has designed an impossibly dangerous-looking thermite cannon. He has just posted a video of YouTube, which is a homemade pneumatic launcher that pushes lit canisters of thermite. Thermite is a horrid chemical composition made of metal power and oxide that burns as hot as 2500 Celsius, which when ignite you do not want to be anywhere near it....

However, the act of rooting can be inherently dangerous. While Android rooting opens up a world of possibility, but it can also void your warranty, or even leave you with a bricked device. There are several ways of rooting an Android smartphone or tablet with several tools available but most of this ways are a little technical. Kingo Android Root, a new free Windows utility now makes rooting a one-click affair....

A British boy of Pakistani origin has become the world’s youngest qualified computer programmer at the age of seven, a media report claimed. Muhammad Hamza Shahzad, resident of Handsworth area in Birmingham has been trained by his father Asim Shahzad, who works with an American IT firm. “I want to be Bill Gates,” he told Birmingham Mail. This is not the first time when Hamza has set a world record....

Microsoft itself has now given up on Windows 8 and 8.1 and is pushing out its latest OS, Windows 10 which hopes will rework the magic of Windows XP. Lets see the numbers as per NetMarketShare: The reports indicate that last year Windows 8 and 8.1 combined showed 11.3%, Windows 7 showed 48.8% whereas market share of Windows XP showed 27.5%. Now lets check the market shares this year: Windows 8 and 8....

The Chinese-owned app said it is taking the decision to suspend the services in response to the new “fake news” law imposed in Russia last Friday, as it wants to keep its employees and users safe. For those unaware, the Russian lawmakers have passed a new media law that imposes prison sentences of up to 15 years for those spreading “false information” about Russia’s military and/or government. Also Read – Russia Blocks Access to Facebook over Sate Media Censorship “TikTok is an outlet for creativity and entertainment that can provide a source of relief and human connection during a time of war when people are facing immense tragedy and isolation....