October 2015

SP’s: In a tweet on Friday, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that now he owns 4% Twitter shares. This unexpected announcement means that now he’s  one of the biggest shareholder’s of the micro-blogging website. Now…

SP’s: The developers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and the Stanford University have published an online video and a research paper named “Facial reenactment”. This technology uses a software that…

SP’s: As a result of an incorrect listing online, Lumia 520 phone was being sold at a price of $8 million on Walmart. Now the mistake has been corrected and it’s selling at a regular price….

SP’s: Linux is the largest collaborative project in the computing history. It’s literally everywhere. And to showcase this, The Linux Foundation has brought a video series named A World Without Linux. Watch the first episode here….

SP’s: The FCC is on the receiving end over its proposed rules to alter WiFi routers to make them secure as the experts are telling a different story. In an open letter,  Vint Cerf – the…

SP’s: Tesla has released the Autopilot version 7.0 for its electric vehicles. It boasts of features that are years ahead from its rivals. The updated car would also scan for the parking space for you and…

SP’s: OnePlus has announced, they will be assembling their devices locally in partnership with Foxconn. Foxconn has partnered with OnePlus to facilitate the assembling of new devices at their proposed Rising Star manufacturing facility in Andhra…

SP’s: In 2015, the infamous spyware FinFisher is spread in 32 countries to perform advanced citizen surveillance. Citizen Lab, a security watchdog, has uncovered the nearly untraceable IP addresses and servers of the spyware. Read more…

SP’s: In a bizarre incident, Facebook users are reportedly seeing increasing friend suggestions of the people they have dated before through Tinder. Is it six-degree separation or mere intrusion? In the 21st century, striving for privacy…

SP’s: Flying cars dream would soon change into a reality. So, get ready and pick your ride in advance. Good luck ? Most of us, in fact, all of us have dreamt about owning a flying…

SP’s: How many ordinary laser pointers will kill a human being? Well, we are not planning to do such evil thing, but here is the answer if you would like to know. Do you remember the…

SP’s: Simon Morris has invented a light bulb that combines magnetic levitation with the power transmission- ‘Flyte’. It consists of an LED bulb with a wireless power receiver and an electromagnet in its bottom.  Remember how…

SP’s: Researchers in the UK have announced to bring ‘useful’ quantum devices in two years and attain the most powerful quantum computer  by 2020. Arms race and space contests are the things of the past for…

SP’s:  If you Google “India’s first prime minister”, you’ll be getting the result with a picture of the current prime minister Narendra Modi. Know why this is happening. Do you remember the time when Google was…

SP’s:  Forbes has released its first ever list of the highest earning YouTube stars. The list comprises of 10 channels, topped by Felix Kjellberg, better known as PewDiePie. For the first time ever, Forbes has published…

SP’s: Visual Hacking is a security threat that is often overlooked by us. This is the act of stealing information by simple observation and it’s success rates are as high as 90%. Read more to know…

SP’s: EMV credit cards have till now been assumed to be unhackable. The security professor from the University of California explains how it is NOT so. With the advancing technology and due time given anything and…

Margaret Hamilton with the source-code of Apollo Guidance Computer in 1969 SP’s: Margaret Hamilton was the software genius of her times who made the smooth landing of the historic Apollo 11 on the Moon possible. The…

SP’s: ZERO from New York-based NoPhone is here to end your smartphone addiction. This phone has absolutely NO features at all. Read more to know what’s the idea behind it and everything else. Being a technology…

SP’s: Hannah Herbst devised a brilliant generator that harvests oceanic energy to generate clean electricity, that could further be used to provide clean water in developing countries. She won America’s Top young Scientist award and a…

SP’s: Continuing our “steps to effective security” series, we are here with a true story that tells about the basic security precautions we forget to take and risk our digital lives. Read this article and stay…

SP’s: Artificial Intelligence is exploding on the scene today. What would be its impacts on the future of professions? Could we be seeing a new crop of doctors, lawyers, and architects? The popular notion that machines…

SP’s: The latest Windows 10 Insider preview is coming with nested virtualization or Windowception. Read more about the Windows in Windows within your Windows. Running a virtual machine for various testing purposes is just another task…

SP’s: Forgetting PDF passwords is something that happens to us all the time. In this article, I’m here with the 5 best free PDF password remover software that will help you instantly. Take a look. Password…

SP’s: Microsoft has finally responded to the user complaints regarding the irritating rules of free Window 10 upgrade. With the upcoming Windows 10 builds, you can use your Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 activation keys. Riding…

SP’s: Car hacking is illegal as we know it, but if you have the skill, you can work for the Canadian military.  In the past few months, car hacking has become quite popular among the hackers….

SP’s: Chinese entrepreneurs are promising low-cost electric cars to their consumers. And not just any car, people can have a Tesla Model replica for almost half the price. It seems whatever China doesn’t want to import…

SP’s: Microsoft’s new Surface Book is now sold out for pre-order on Microsofts’s online stores. However, you can still buy Microsoft’s first laptop from Amazon (find the link below). In a very long time, a Microsoft…

SP’s: Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has come up with a new computer algorithm called Tumor Trace, that can detect several kinds and location of cancer in just 2 days with 85% accuracy. Cancer- the dreadful…

SP’s: An electrical engineer has utilised his great DIY skills to device his very own version of Thor’s hammer. Read ahead to know how he made it and watch the video. Do you remember that scene…