SP's: Taking part in the Star Wars hysteria, Google has released another Easter egg. All you need to do is Google “A long time ago in a galaxy far far away” and see the hidden surprise. To celebrate the upcoming release of Star Wars: The Force Awak… Read more »
SP's: Google has decided to kill its Chrome OS that is used to power the Chromebooks. All the good parts of the OS will now be bundled into Android to form a better and more efficient OS. Google is killing the Chrome OS being used in the Chromebooks… Read more »
SP's : Microsoft has officially launched its Arrow Launcher for the Android community. The launcher is all about quickness and added more customization features compared to the beta release. Check for yourself. One of the reasons for the popularity… Read more »
SP's: In another attempt to clear the confusion clouds, Microsoft said that users shouldn’t worry about the Windows 10 data collection practices. In a recent interview, talking about the data collection, Microsoft’s VP Joe Belfiore said that the co… Read more »
SP's: penFace, the open source face recognition technology developed by the researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University, has been rolled out. The OpenFace holds ground against the much-advanced proprietary face-recognition technologies by private … Read more »
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 tha… Read more »
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 co-inventor of the Internet – along with 260 other experts, has… Read more »
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 and find out … Read more »
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 everything about it. Visual Hacking is a relatively … Read more »
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 everything can be hacked. We have a… Read more »
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 whole world knows of Neil Armstro… Read more »
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 for the develo… Read more »
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 hardware is getting tons of appre… Read more »
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 disease that has plagued the world … Read more »
SP's: Microsoft has issued critical security fixes as a part of this month’s patch Tuesday. Users are advised to download these security updates and make their systems secure. As a part of this month’s patch Tuesday, Microsoft has rolled out six sec… Read more »
SP's: Having your laptop stolen is the biggest nightmare anyone can face in the era of our gadget-centric lives. Here are some ways that can help you get back your valuable laptop in case of any theft. Electronic devices, especially laptops, have be… Read more »
SP's: DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg takes a dig at Google in his AMA session saying, “It is a myth you need to track people to make money in Web search”. There are less evil ways to make money and the self-proclaimed privacy-focused search engine … Read more »