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USB Killer Version 2.0 is Here to Burn and Destroy Your Computer

Shivam Patsariya 0 Creative, Hack, Windows 11:38 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>he maker of USB Killer is here with the USB Killer version 2.0 – a more advanced version of the computer frying USB drive. The Killer USB v2.0 is more refined as it now dumps the -220V directly onto the USB signal wires.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Earlier this year, I told you about the a proof-of-concept computer-burning USB Killer drive, which was designed by a Russian researcher known as the “Dark Purple” in the online world. He, along with his colleagues from his workplace, created a USB drive that could destroy a laptop in no time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, Deep Purple has decided to develop the USB Killer Version 2.0 – a new version of his computer-frying USB Killer pen drive. As you would expect, USB Killer version 2.0 is more powerful than its predecessor and is capable of doing a lot more damage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The researcher used a small board, a DC/DC converter, a FET, and a few caps to create the first USB Killer pen drive. When that USB Killer was plugged into the PC, the converted charged the caps to -110V and then dumped that voltage into the USB signal wires. This process was repeated till the computer or the port fried.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The USB Killer Version 2.0 is more refined as it now dumps the -220V directly onto the USB signal wires.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“The main feature of the new version of the device is increased twice, “output” voltage, it is now 220 (strictly speaking, minus 220). Also in the new version the efforts were aimed at making the device even more compact, as in the first version had slightly modifying the body, so that everything fits,” describes Dark Purple.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the video below, Dark Purple shows how he destroyed his new Thinkpad X60 while testing the USB Killer 2.0.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After frying the laptop, Deep Purple wrote, “Do not worry about the laptop, the new motherboard is on the way – and the laptop will live again.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It should be noted that it’s not a brand new concept and USB drive are used as a valid weapon to compromise the system in air-gapped network.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, take a moment before you insert a newly-found USB drive in your laptop as it could KILL your laptop.</span></div>
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USB Killer Version 2.0 is Here to Burn and Destroy Your Computer

SP's: he maker of USB Killer is here with the USB Killer version 2.0 – a more advanced version of the computer frying USB drive....

How to Find Your Lost or Stolen Laptop?

Shivam Patsariya 0 Hack, Security, Software 11:34 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's: </b><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">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.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jokes apart, in this article we have added some ways that can be used to find your stolen laptop in case of any theft.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Trace your Laptop’s IP address:</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The magician who vanished your precious laptop might have the courage to peek into your business. There are great chances, that the person who took your laptop may check your mail account or other services. These services do provide tracking feature that can help you, trace the location and IP address of your device. You can get the device location of your stolen laptop if you use these services:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just open your Gmail account and move to the bottom of the page. Here you will find “Last Account Activity” written in the bottom left corner of the page. Click “Details” link right below it. A new window will open containing a list of all the recent Gmail sessions of your account, providing IP address and location of the sessions. You can click “Sign Out Of All Other Web Sessions” to protect your Gmail account from further trespassing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The social networking giant has also provided a feature to track your account activity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Open “Settings” in your Facebook account and then click “Security” option. You’ll find an option called “Where You’re Logged In”, just click that, and you’ll be presented with details of your Facebook sessions. To know the IP address of any session, just hover on the location name, and it will display the IP address of that session. You can click “End Activity” to log out that particular session or you can click “End All Activity” to log out of all your active Facebook session on any other device.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dropbox also provides a session tracking feature. Just sign-in to you Dropbox account and click your name, a drop down menu will appear. Then click on “Settings” option. Click on Security tab, here you’ll find the list of all your active and past sessions. Just hover on the “i” right next to the country name to know the approximate location and similarly, click the “i” next to time (under Most Recent Activity) to know the IP address and time of the session.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just note down the IP address and location from any of the above sources and contact the police for further assistance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It would be wise enough to be well prepared for such mishaps well in advance. Prey Inc. has come up with an efficient tool that can help you track your device very easily in case of any theft or lost. Though this platform is available for various operating systems like Windows, Mac, Android, and Linux, but we have tested Prey only for the Widows OS.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here are the steps you need to follow in order to setup Prey:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Prey allows you to lock the device remotely, play alarm, send message in case any humble person may return your laptop, if you have forgotten it somewhere. The only disadvantage of this service is that your laptop must be connected to the internet, and for that, “May the Force be with You”. You can add up to three devices in the free option. To add more devices, you’ll have to purchase their plans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In case of any theft, it is highly recommended to change your passwords for all the online services that you use to protect your valuable data and privacy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Keeping your laptop safe is a must in this technology driven world. You can protect your laptop by using these simple methods and it will save your valuable memories that you have collected all over your life. Apart from using these methods, you should always set a password to all of your devices, this will protect your data in case of any theft or if you might forget it somewhere.</span></div>
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Crypto Backdoor Isn’t The Only Way To Hack Into Your iPhone

Shivam Patsariya 0 Hack, iPhone, Science, Security 11:27 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: C</b>rypto backdoor entry isn’t the only way for the cops to access your data. You think your iPhone is the most secure device and you are safe from security breaches? </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Most people think that government has pacts with the tech service industry in order to get its hands on their data. But it is not so. Recently we saw Microsoft fighting with the government to protect your data.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The latest decision of the White House to dismiss the request of the intelligence officials to push tech companies to create a backdoor access to the encrypted data gives a glimmer of hope to the citizens. After all the crazy surveillance laws and confirmation of echelon– NSA’s secret spying program, this comes as a relief to the public as accessing their private data would not be that easy. Well, that’s the general opinion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Encryption has not been the best of the techniques to serve as a bastion against the law enforcement. In fact, cops easily bypass the encryption wall set up by the tech companies as a line of defence against the infringement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Chris Soghoian is a principal technologist for the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and he asserts that the standards of encryption that the users are provided is equivalent to protection from a thief stealing our laptop, but is no match to a dedicated cop who will ultimately get access to your data by any means, with or without a writ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">iPhone or other user-oriented computers that boast of their security measures are also vulnerable to exploits. Even when FBI claims Apple to be the hardest nut to crack in the tech and security business, there are other ways to get entry into an iPhone apart from the crypto backdoor system, according to Nick Weaver, a security researcher at Berkeley’s International Computer Science Institute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Apple proudly introduced default disk encryption for all its iPhones last year. But where does your data go? It is saved into your iCloud backup and there is now law to stop the cops to screen through all the information from the iCloud. All they need is to summon Apple and hell loses over your privacy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, to avoid that you must disable the automatic upload option in your iPhone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The revolutionary security tactic as claimed by Apple could actually favour cops against you. They don’t need to ask for your passwords or be deceived by wrong pattern designs. A thumb impression won’t be difficult for the officials to get from you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Many people have unencrypted phone backups on their laptops and cracking through one is not a big deal for the security experts. Also, the ‘pairing key’ that confirms an iPhone of the trusted PC, could be accessed and then used in any computer to retrieve your data.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Even if your iPhone is locked, there are chances that Siri will answer the questions if the feature is not disabled from the lock screen. Siri would even blurt out your recent call records and contacts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, a few weeks back we saw a bounty of $1 million for a zero-day exploit on Apple iOS 9. And, a method has already been devised to break in into any iPhone through its Airdrop BlueTooth connection. Although, the patch has been distributed for the flaw, but as we have always maintained- nothing is unhackable! S0 better raise your guards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, we see the high-level crypto backdoor technique isn’t the only weapon in the law enforcement arsenal. You can avoid these simple vulnerabilities by turning off the defaults in your iPhones and take extra care for your privacy.</span></div>
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Crypto Backdoor Isn’t The Only Way To Hack Into Your iPhone

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How Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Pays Less Tax than You?

Shivam Patsariya 0 Business, FbTrick 11:24 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b> If you are living in the UK, you are paying more tax than Facebook. Don’t be angry, it’s nobody’s fault. Read more to know how it’s possible. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just when you finished calculating your yearly taxes and cursed your government enough, this happens. In the UK, Facebook has paid just £4,327 for the year 2014 as the corporation tax and generated £105 million ($161 million) in sales.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is lesser than an average UK worker who paid about £5,393 and earned just  £26,500.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, how did this happen? Did Facebook do something illegal to save the taxes?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, you’ll be disappointed to know that the answer is NO and they didn’t make just the right kind of taxable profit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Still confused? Let’s get into the details (I’ll be thanking <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34505151/why-do-i-pay-more-tax-than-facebook" target="_blank">BBC </a>for that)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The corporation tax, we are talking here, is only paid by companies- not individuals. According to the UK laws, the firms making more than £300,000 a year need to pay 21% tax on the profits they make.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the UK alone, Facebook has made about £105 million ($161 million) in sales.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But, then comes the part where we talk about the technical aspects and loopholes. All the money that a company makes, isn’t a taxable profit, especially when the company spends a great portion of the earnings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Out of the total £105 million, Facebook spent more than £35 million on its UK-based staff and gave them share-based bonuses. So, as the BBC describes, before paying the taxes, Facebook made a “pre tax” loss of £28.5 million.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thanks to all these technicalities, Facebook manages to pay less tax that you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Even though everything is legal and well documented, Facebook is attracting some controversies. It’s being claimed that the social networking company is draining out its profits from the a country with the one of the lowest tax rates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, I’m talking about the Republic of Ireland, where tax rates are about half that of the UK.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In a statement to BBC, a Facebook spokesperson says: “I’m not saying no comment, but there is no further comment to the statement. We are compliant with UK tax law and in fact all countries where we have employees and offices. We continue to grow our business activities in the UK.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Have something to add? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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10 Steps To Defeat Hacking Attacks (And What To Do After You’ve Been Hacked)

Shivam Patsariya 0 Hack, Security 11:22 AM

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<i><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">SP's: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the third article of the “Steps to Effective Security” series, I’ll tell you 10 steps to defeat hacking attacks and what to do after you’ve been hacked. Read more to know them.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In my Steps to Effective Security series, previously I’ve written articles to tell you how to check if you’ve been hacked and what happens to your data after data breaches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In this article, I’m going to tell you the first steps that you need to take to defeat hacking attacks – and after you’ve been hacked. These days, getting phished, hacked or becoming a victim of some malware attack isn’t uncommon. The data breaches are on the rise and each day numerous types of malware are being discovered in the wild.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you’ve realized that you’ve been hacked or you’re vulnerable to hacking attacks- what is the next step? What to do after you’ve been hacked? How to defeat hacking attacks?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. Calm down. It happens. But it’s time to act.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If you’ve found that you are a victim of some data breach, most of the time it’s not even a threat. However, you need to ask yourself some questions. You need to introspect and revisit the security measures you are taking to secure your online life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The first and foremost step after you’ve been hacked it to reset all your passwords. Use new and strong passwords that are a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, digits and symbols.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Also, avoid reusing a password as it’s something that we do unconsciously. Another thing that you must keep in mind while creating strong passwords, don’t ever create a passwords that have your personal information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thoroughly review financial account statements related to the affected accounts for some unusual activity. Look for new payment methods, new accounts linked, or new shipping addresses. Hackers targetting your online accounts with one obvious reason related to money.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Very often, one online account is linked to other accounts. The compromised email account could be the one your used to verify some other email account. Same applies to your online banking and e-commerce accounts. So, it’s a safe practice to perform a security checked for all accounts and update the passwords.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While setting up the new accounts, enable the option of two-factor authentication. This method adds an extra layer of security to your accounts. Don’t skip it, it makes your account 4-5 times more secure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">All the major services like Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Google, Yahoo and Apple provide a detailed guide to get back your account after you lose its control. Just search for account recovery for your service and follow the steps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A very high percentage of hackers target yo using the vulnerabilities in your PC and phone operating systems. If you are running older versions, there is a possibility that your device isn’t getting regular security updates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Go to system settings and find the update system to perform the update. Make this a regular habit to protect yourself.</span></div>
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10 Steps To Defeat Hacking Attacks (And What To Do After You’ve Been Hacked)

SP's: In the third article of the “Steps to Effective Security” series, I’ll tell you 10 steps to defeat hacking attacks and what to...

Did Google Copy Qwant’s Logo or Is It Just A Coincidence?

Shivam Patsariya 0 Business, Security 11:15 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Google changed its logo on September 1, 2015, but it has raised many eyebrows with its striking similarity to the European search engine Qwant.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As Google revamped its logo on September 1, 2015, explaining the company’s futuristic approach and ideology, the logo made an instant news. While many appreciated the Futura-like font, others ripped off the new design as a copy from another search engine of Europe, Qwant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Qwant was launched in Europe in February 2013 and got its new logo in April 2015, four months before Google did it. Qwant is gaining popularity in Europe on its USP of security, privacy, and zero trafficking. Thanks to recent revelations by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden, Google is being targeted by many on these fronts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Google’s new logo and Qwant’s icon has many similarities. The netizens were the first to deduce the infringement or maybe a coincidence. Both the search engines got a fair share of supporters. Take a look:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, what do you think? Is it really a copy or a mere coincidence? Tell us in comments below.</span></div>
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Did Google Copy Qwant’s Logo or Is It Just A Coincidence?

SP's: Google changed its logo on September 1, 2015, but it has raised many eyebrows with its striking similarity to the European se...

Biggest Tech Deal of All Time: Dell Buys EMC For Record $67 Billion

Shivam Patsariya 0 Business, News, tech 11:09 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Dell Inc. has just bought EMC, a data storage and cloud company for $67 billion, making it the biggest tech deal of all time.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dell, presently the third largest maker of personal computers, along with its partners, has bought its rival data storage company EMC for $67 billion, making it by far the biggest tech deal of all time. The deal was hitherto rumoured to be around $50 billion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, VMware, the bigger part of the EMC will remain as a separate publicly traded company, but other than that EMC will now accede to Dell. EMC announced that along with Dell, now both these companies will become the world’s largest privately controlled and integrated technology company.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The deal is also amusing as Dell is almost half the worth of EMC, valuing around $25 billion. Michael Dell, the founder and CEO of Dell Inc. would look over both the companies now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The deal will boost Dell to expand and make it more diverse in the services industry. Dell is already quite popular with its personalised computers and now owning a cloud computing and storage facility, will help the company to compete with the likes of HP and IBM, the veterans in business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, amalgaming the work culture of these two giants would be a task for Michael who will succeed Joe Tucci as the CEO of EMC.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dell has bought EMC for $33.15 a share up from the anticipated $27. So, let’s wait and see if the biggest tech deal in history was worth the risk.</span></div>
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Biggest Tech Deal of All Time: Dell Buys EMC For Record $67 Billion

SP's: Dell Inc. has just bought EMC, a data storage and cloud company for $67 billion, making it the biggest tech deal of all time....

Crazy Amazon Deal: Indian Man Got Brick Instead of OnePlus One

Shivam Patsariya 0 Reviews 11:08 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Amazon India, in its first ever reported incident, sent a man a brick instead of a Rs. 22K OnePlus One. Apparently, the package was violated in the middle of the delivery process.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, this would definitely go into the great book of trolls. So, the story is, a man from India ordered a OnePlus One from Amazon. He was eagerly waiting for his sleek brand new smartphone which he would show-off to his friends. Finally, it arrived, 30 hours late (doesn’t matter, the new phone arrived at least). So, the guy opened the neat packing in excitement and bam… he got a piece of brick inside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Many of us prefer shopping online nowadays, but it happens, rarely though, that you get an unpleasant surprise like this guy did. Maninder Walia, the victim in this obnoxious incident posted his ordeal on Facebook and also commented on Amazon India’s Page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can see the interesting conversation between Maninder and Amazon on<a href="http://www.gadgetgyaan.com/gadgets/man-orders-oneplus-one-amazon-india-sends-brick-3578/" target="_blank"> gadgetgyaan</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The packaging was tampered and the phone was probably stolen. Amazon has not yet resolved the issue and its customer care had asked Maninder to have patience. Well, you pay Rs. 22K for a phone and you get a brick plus preaching of patience. Nice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Such incidents have occurred in the past, but this is the first known case with Amazon India. There were instances when people were shocked as they opened up the packaging to find notepads or well, bricks instead of iPhone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The OnePlus One is an Android smartphone by the Chinese OnePlus startup. It has a 5.5″ display with 1080 x 1920 pixel resolution, Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection and powered by Snapdragon 801 processor. The new Snapdragon 801 processors are also being used by Qualcomm for their drones. OnePlus One has a 13 MP rear camera with autofocus and dual LED flash and a 5MP front camera.</span></div>
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Crazy Amazon Deal: Indian Man Got Brick Instead of OnePlus One

SP's: Amazon India, in its first ever reported incident, sent a man a brick instead of a Rs. 22K OnePlus One. Apparently, the packag...

Pepsi Launching Its First Android Phone. Are You Going to Buy It?

Shivam Patsariya 0 Android 11:05 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>PepsiCo, one of the world’s largest companies, is rumored to launch its own smartphone called Pepsi P1. Read more to know everything.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There isn’t any typo in the article title. And I’m also not talking about some Chinese electronics company named after your favorite beverage brand Pepsi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">According to the reports, one of the world’s large companies, Pepsi, is planning to launch it’s first ever smartphone. This is a whole new area for Pepsi, but according to an official Pepsi account spotted on Weibo (also called the Chinese Twitter), an unannounced Pepsi P1 smartphone is in the making.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It won’t be wrong to expect that Pepsi will be contacting any one of the Asian phone manufacturers, who would happily make phones on behalf of PepsiCo. The leaks look original as the Pepsi Phone Weibo account was linked to the official Pepsi China Weibo account.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We’re talking about a Chinese smartphone, so it’s hard to tell if it’s something real or just another gimmick. Talking about the price, the Pepsi P1 is priced at $205 in China and it could cost higher in the other countries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Imagining a phone from Pepsi in US and Europe could be a little difficult. But, the Chinese and Japanese markets are more open to such improvisations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Anyway, let’s see what Pepsi P1 could offer us. The smartphone is running on the Android 5.1 Lollipop operating system and it comes with a full HD 5.5-inch IPS LCD capacitive display.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Pepsi phone is powered by a 1.7GHz octa-core MediakTek processor and 2GB of RAM. The phone  is rumored to come with 16GB internal memory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Are you ready for a Pepsi phone? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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Pepsi Launching Its First Android Phone. Are You Going to Buy It?

SP's: PepsiCo, one of the world’s largest companies, is rumored to launch its own smartphone called Pepsi P1. Read more to know eve...