August 6, 2015

Short Bytes: The viral video agency Thinkmodo came up with a real-life Human Torch drone stunt of thereel-life hero The Human Torch from Fantastic Four. These are not special effects, but a real Human Torch drone on…

SPR: This week, Google is releasing the “single largest software update the world has ever seen”. It has started rolling out patches for fixing the Android hijack bug Stagefright that targeted your phones with a single text. Android…

SPR: Thanks to NASA, humans now have a clear view of the Dark Side of the Moon. The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) has displayed a series of images of the dark side of the moon…

SPR: Lots of Windows 10 users are reporting on Reddit and Microsoft forums that some processes (stokrnl.exe) in Windows 10 are slowing down the OS by consuming tons of RAM and CPU power. Here are some ways…

It’s the Intel review you’ve been waiting for. Today is the launch of the first two CPUs from Intel’s Skylake architecture, the 6th Generation Core i7-6700K and the Core i5-6600K. With the new processors we get…

Sound wave hacking SPR: A team of security researchers have successfully demonstrated that the standard equipment inside computers, printers and other devices could be hacked to send information out of the offices as sound waves. Recently, this…

We need to simplify the following expression: e=(1+0×x)×3+12. Luckily for us, we won’t have to remember any elementary school arithmetic, because Harris’s excellent Handbook of Practical Logic and Automated Reasoning begins with a simple algorithm to do exactly that. It’s not…

SPR: With Windows 10, there comes a pre-installed app called Windows 10 Phone Companion app. This app helps you to sync your PC and phone data seamlessly.  E very Windows release brings lots of excitement and new…