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How A Researcher Hacked iKettles to Steal WiFi Passwords All Across London

Shivam Patsariya 0 Security, tech 12:49 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's:  </b>A security researchers from the Pen Testers Partners has revealed that the smart iKettles in your homes are very “insecure.” This device could be used to leak your home’s private WiFi password and take over your digital life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The IoT security is much-debated topic that needs more attention in near future. It might seem convenient to connect your all home devices to the internet and track them on the move. But, it should be noted that it’s possible that your favorite home-gizmo is spilling your secrets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For example, take the humble tea kettle boiling a nice cuppa for you. A security researcher in England has been hacking into the smart iKettles all across the country and cracking the private WiFi passwords.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“If you haven’t configured the kettle, it’s trivially easy for hackers to find your house and take over your kettle,” says Ken Munro, a researcher with Pen Test Partners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The iKettle is actually a ‘smart’ kettle that can be turned on using a smartphone app. But, these smart kettles are reportedly ‘insecure’ if not configured properly and could cause a WiFi kettle hack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">He cracked the home WiFi passwords “easily” and explains the process of WiFi kettle hack: “Attackers will need to setup a malicious network with the same SSID but with a stronger signal that the iKettle connects to before sending a disassociation packet that will cause the device to drop its wireless link.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, a skillful hacker can just sit outside your home with an antenna pointed towards the home, boot the kettle off its access point and connect it to his device. Now he can easily steal your passwords in plain text to execute this WiFi kettle hack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Munro says the security of the Internet of Thing devices is “utterly bananas” and some urgent steps are the need of the hour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Watch the video below where the WiFi kettle hack is explained:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Have something to add to this WiFi kettle hack article? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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How A Researcher Hacked iKettles to Steal WiFi Passwords All Across London

SP's: A security researchers from the Pen Testers Partners has revealed that the smart iKettles in your homes are very “insecure.”...

Identical Earths Are Yet To Come Into Existence: NASA

Shivam Patsariya 0 Science 12:47 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's: </b>Scientists have come with a new theory as of why humans are unable to find identical Earths. Reason: We are too early into the party.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The world went into nostalgia when NASA announced and confirmed the existence of the Earth 2.0, an identical big brother version of our very own home planet that was twice the size and exhibited almost similar life-supporting conditions. Now, everyone (almost) is convinced that there are plenty of other sister Earths as well, we just have to pursue diligently.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">However, the reason that we have not bumped into more of identical Earths might have another explanation than our technological limitations. According to a theoretical study, the moment our solar system was born 4.6 billion years ago, only 8% of the total habitable planets had been in existence in the Universe up until then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Today, our Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and is sits comfortably among that special 8% inhabitable category. Now, here is the interesting part of the theory. What about the rest 92%?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, those are the planets that are yet to be born. There are billions of identical Earths (a lot more, actually) which are awaiting their existence. That means the Universe is not busy just cooking up more Suns, but there is more than enough matter left that could help brood more of Earth’s copies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This idea of our early evolution came as the scientists went through the chronicles of the Universe and saw the “family album” of the galaxy observations and star formations across time. All this was made possible due to the powerful Hubble telescope along with other masterpieces of science.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, this simply means we are a bit early in the party! We could become an all powerful and intelligent species till those planets start sprouting life (and you thought homo sapiens was a backward species). Just like it is shown in movies, only with the positions reversed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Our main motivation was understanding the Earth’s place in the context of the rest of the universe. Compared to all the planets that will ever form in the universe, the Earth is actually quite early.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The one important thing that matters apart from the chemical and physical composition of the evolving planet is the distance from its Sun. Based on this feature of the star’s habitable zone, scientists have predicted that there should be around 1 billion identical Earths in the Milky Way itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now if you add other 100 billion galaxies of this Universe, the probability of humans bumping into our juniors is overwhelming. Now that’s nostalgic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">How optimistic are you that humans would find more identical Earths while you are alive?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Via: <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/most-earth-like-worlds-have-yet-to-be-born-according-to-theoretical-study">NASA</a></span></div>
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Identical Earths Are Yet To Come Into Existence: NASA

SP's: Scientists have come with a new theory as of why humans are unable to find identical Earths. Reason: We are too early into th...

3 Students Arrested for Hacking the School Computer and Changing Their Grades

Shivam Patsariya 0 Security, tech 12:45 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>An incident of hacking into the school computer systems and changing the subject grades has been spotted in a New York high school. Three students have been accused and arrested for conducting this act.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Three students from a New York high school were recently arrested and accused of hacking into school computer system, where they changed their grades and the schedule for 300 students.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Daniel Soares, 17, of Commack, has been accused of breaking into the Commack High School after school hours and connecting a keylogger to a classroom computer on May 26. He performed the task with the help of his fellow Commack High School students Erick Vaysman and Alex Mosquera, both 17.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Daniel repeated the same activity in June, according to the officials. The keylogger recorded all the keystrokes made on the computer and by retrieving the device few days later, he was able to print every log-in username and password.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Also read: Facebook Will Tell You if Your Government is Trying to HACK You</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“That’s how we believe he got the usernames and passwords to get into the system,” according to Detective Sgt. John Best, of the Suffolk County Police Department Computer Crimes Section.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The police investigation has revealed that at least the grades of two more students has been changed.  “We would consider Daniel to be the ringleader,” Detective Sgt. John Best said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">According to the reports, he changed several of his grades in physics, economics and history. They also changed the schedule of other students, but the school was able to correct the schedule before it was distributed to the students.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With inputs from <a href="http://nypost.com/2015/10/20/modern-day-ferris-bueller-hacks-into-schools-computers-to-change-grades/">NYP</a></span></div>
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3 Students Arrested for Hacking the School Computer and Changing Their Grades

SP's: An incident of hacking into the school computer systems and changing the subject grades has been spotted in a New York high s...

Intel Launches Its First-Ever Complete NUC Windows 10 Mini PC

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines, tech 12:37 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b> Intel has launched the best version of its mini PC series. The Grass Canyon NUC comes with Windows 10 and 2GB RAM and costs $255. Know everything about it here.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Intel is moving beyond making the super powerful Skylake processors for others, instead the world’s largest semiconductor chipmaker is launching its first ever complete mini PC, the Grass Canyon NUC for the low-end users.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The new NUC mini PC has preinstalled Windows 10 which is the biggest refurbish in the Intel NUC mini-series. The earlier models in the NUC lineup came sans OS and RAM which made many buyers hop on to other options. However, with everything in place now and the price as low as $255, Intel Grass Canyon NUC Windows 10 mini PC is a complete package.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Intel’s latest offering comes with a quad-core Intel Pentium N3700 Braswell processor, 2GB DDR3l RAM and 32 GB eMMC onboard storage and equipped with a drive bay for additional HD/SSD has been provided as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">These features are customizable too. The RAM can be extended to up to 8GB in the Grass Canyon NUC and the user has the freedom to choose any of Windows 8, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Fedora, OpenSUSE and Android as the operating system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The tiny PC with a mighty package delivers the same performance and visuals as the full sized tower. Additional features such as 8-channel audio, built-in WiFi, and Bluetooth along with HDMI and wireless display capabilities makes NUC5PGYH an excellent home theater PC.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Intel Grass Canyon NUC mini PC is available on Amazon and ready to ship. The tiny powerhouse is not the cheapest, but it is a better option for the users who were considering the previous models of the Intel NUC mini-series which cost around $180.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Visit Intel’s <a href="http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/overview.html">website</a> for more information.</span></div>
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Intel Launches Its First-Ever Complete NUC Windows 10 Mini PC

SP's: Intel has launched the best version of its mini PC series. The Grass Canyon NUC comes with Windows 10 and 2GB RAM and costs ...

HTC Makes Its Own iPhone 6 That Runs on Android Marshmallow

Shivam Patsariya 0 MobilesAndTablets, tech 12:28 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Stung by the previous failure, HTC is back with a new phone which is the first non-Nexus phone to run Android Marshmallow. However, the phone looks like a complete ripoff of iPhone 6. Know more about it here.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I‘ve always been a fan of the innovative metallic design of HTC phones. However, the HTC One M9 introduced earlier this year was a bit disappointment and I wished to see some change in their design vision.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, who knew the change I was expecting was just around the corner and this much drastic! The Taiwanese company today revealed its 2nd hero smartphone of the year as HTC One A9, running on Android Marshmallow. It’s the most obvious and high-profile ripoff of iPhone 6 we’ve seen till now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, HTC made a iPhone 6 for itself in the form of HTC A9. Does the name sound somewhat familiar? Yes, the A9 chipset in the new iPhone 6s, obviously.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The HTC One A9 costs just $399 unlocked, half the price of an iPhone, with an all-aluminum body with round edges- just like an iPhone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And, where are my front-facing BoomSound stereo speakers?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Fighting the criticism, HTC says that HTC One A9 is the amalgamation of its two existing phones – the One M9 and the Desire 816. If you take a moment to look at these phones and combine their looks, you’ll understand what HTC is trying to say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, does it matter to the average person why “this” phone looks “that” way? No, it doesn’t.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">HTC One A9 is the first non-Nexus phone that will be running Android Marshmallow. It does look very attractive and the smooth glass-covered front panel feels very nice with its machined back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It’ll be interesting to see how long the struggle of HTC continues. What do you think? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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HTC Makes Its Own iPhone 6 That Runs on Android Marshmallow

SP's: Stung by the previous failure, HTC is back with a new phone which is the first non-Nexus phone to run Android Marshmallow. Ho...

Star Wars Facebook Page Just Made the Perfect Joke With Mark Zuckerberg

Shivam Patsariya 0 WebNdSocial 12:23 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>he final trailer of this year’s biggest movie “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is breaking all the records on social media and YouTube. Commenting on the Star Wars Facebook page, Mark Zuckerberg got the perfect response from the page. Read more to know the whole story. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As the release of this year’s biggest movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens is approaching, the social media team of Star Wars is getting more and more active to promote this mega-movie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Earlier today, Facebook exploded with the release of the final Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer and within the first 20 hours, 400,000 people shared the trailer and 1 million people watched it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Among the people who <a href="https://www.facebook.com/StarWars/videos/1042669312451336/?comment_id=1042800085771592&reply_comment_id=1042802425771358&total_comments=161&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D">commented </a>on the trailer, I spotted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. He said: <b>“This looks amazing. I love Star Wars.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Also read: Star Wars Fan Makes the Fully-functional Iconic Millennium Falcon Drone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, what you would have done if you were on the social media team of Star Wars? In reply, the official Star Wars page replied in the perfect manner that is reminiscent of the typical Han Solo: <b>“We know.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This may look like a general acknowledgement to the people who haven’t seen Star Wars, but it’s something that made Star Wars fans go crazy in the Empire Strikes Back. <a href="https://youtu.be/HJWr7nAt8ik">Watch here</a> Han Solo’s iconic “I Love You. I know.”</span></div>
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Star Wars Facebook Page Just Made the Perfect Joke With Mark Zuckerberg

SP's: he final trailer of this year’s biggest movie “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is breaking all the records on social media and ...

Microsoft Debuts Its First Release of Homemade SSH for Windows

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Long back in June, Microsoft revealed its intentions to bring SSH for Windows and contributing to the OpenSSH community. Working towards making it a reality, Redmond has released the first iteration of the Windows Powershell version of secure-shell (SSH) tool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">By integrating the OpenSSH support into the Windows PowerShell tool, Microsoft will allow system admins to securely log into the Windows boxes and control them using command line scripts just like Linux, BSD and other Unix-type systems. Linus Torvalds, are you listening?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">On its <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2015/10/19/openssh-for-windows-update.aspx">blog</a>, Microsoft has released an early work on a Windows port of OpenSSH 7.1. This is built as a joint effort with remote-access developer NoMachine. You can access the public code here on <a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH">GitHub</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“The NoMachine port was based on OpenSSH 5.9, so we’ve spent the time since our initial announcement working with NoMachine to bring this port in sync with OpenSSH 7.1,” Microsoft writes.</span></div>
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Microsoft Debuts Its First Release of Homemade SSH for Windows

SP's: Working to fulfill its promise, Microsoft has released the first build of the Windows Powershell version of SSH tool. The cod...

Tim Cook: Gear Up For The All Powerful 4th-Gen Apple TV

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Tim Cook revealed that the wait for the all powerful fourth generation Apple TV is almost over. The shipment is due next week. So are you guys ready for an unprecedented TV experience?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Tim Cook showed the world a glimpse of the future at its iPhone 6S launch event stage last month. On the big screen, people saw an all powerful and ever intelligent fourth-generation Apple TV, thanks to Siri.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Finally, the wait is over. Apple CEO Tim Cook, in his interview to the WSJ, revealed that the new Apple TV will soon be hitting the markets. The shipment of the tvOS powered Apple TV is due next week. For those who are still wondering what good will the “4th-gen-Apple TV” bring with itself, just wait to see what it can do.</span></div>
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How The French Startup Doctolib Managed To Raise $20 Million

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b> French startup Doctolib has created big news by raising $20 million Series B circular from Accel and industry angels. Currently, approximately 5,000 doctors use it for managing their bookings and currently have around 100 clinics.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">French startup Doctolib has created big news by raising $20 million Series B circular from Accel and industry angels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Wondering how? We are having the answers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, Doctolib lets you book appointments to doctors online in France. Currently, approximately 5,000 doctors use it for managing their bookings and currently have around 100 clinics. There are 8 billion physician appointments in keeping with per year in Europe. Also, estimations state that there will be 500 staff in less than 3 years – employed at various departments like marketing, enlargement of products etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“This marketplace is 20 times larger than eating place reservations. We are a booking control device — one hundred % of our fitness pros use our software.”</span></div>
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How The French Startup Doctolib Managed To Raise $20 Million

SP's: French startup Doctolib has created big news by raising $20 million Series B circular from Accel and industry angels. Curren...