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10 Best Features of Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf

Shivam Patsariya 0 AppsnSoftSecure 1:16 PM

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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">SP's: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Ubuntu 15.10 is now released by Canonical and available for download. Read this article, know the features of Ubuntu 15.10 and take your upgrade decision.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">After six months in development, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf is released and available for download. You can either download the ISO images – or upgrade your existing Ubuntu 15.04 running system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In this article, we are here to tell you the 10 best features of Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf. Let’s take a look:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The Ubuntu 15.10 is based on the kernel version 4.2, which was released in the August end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Among the major improvements in Linux 4.2, there is new AMD GPU kernel driver support, new ARM development board support, NV-DIMM support, F2FS file-system encryption support and more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Ubuntu’s default desktop shell Unity has been given small fixes and improvements in 15.10. It offers a preview of Unity 8, Canonical’s next-gen user interface. One of the major noticeable change is Ubuntu leaving behind the Unity’s overlay scrollbars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now you can drag and drop apps from Unity Dash to the desktop, session exit button now have a click effect, page up/down keyboard navigation works like a scroll in the Dash, and many other minor improvements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Ubuntu Make is a command line utility that allows easier installation of popular developer tools. Now it supports even more platforms, services and frameworks, and a complete Android development environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">4. OpenStack 2014 2.0</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The Ubuntu 15.10 comes with the OpenStack 2014 2.0 which is codenamed Liberty. This open source software for creating private and public clouds is now in sync with the Ubuntu development cycle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The latest Linux Ubuntu 15.10 distro comes with stateless persistent network interface names. This means that naming the network interface with more comprehensive names is now possible and they’ll remain valid even after a restart or change in hardware.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">With the Ubuntu 15.10, there comes the upgraded GNOME 3.16.x and the most of the GNOME 3.16 applications have been now added. This could also be upgraded to GNOME 3.18. The MATE desktop used by the Ubuntu MATE is now version 1.10.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">7. LXD Container Technology</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">LXD for containers was debuted in Ubuntu 15.04, but is now production ready and comes with more capabilities like those of a virtual machine. According to Canonical, now you have the ability to take snapshot images and live container migration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The Ubuntu 15.10 has native Steam Controller support out of the box and the gamers don’t need any tweaks or modifications.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">All you need to do is install Steam using the Ubuntu package in the software center and plugin you new controller.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Ubuntu 15.10 has arrived with GCC 5 and Python 3.x support. Developers will have to wait for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, that will makes Python 3.x default.</span></div>
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10 Best Features of Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf

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Linux Ubuntu 15.10 Finally Released, Download Year’s 2nd Biggest Release

Shivam Patsariya 0 AppsnSoftSecure, tech 1:13 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's: </b>Linux Ubuntu 15.10, this year’s second Ubuntu release is finally here. You can find the download link below or check for the update in you already Ubuntu 15.04 running system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Canonical has finally unwrapped the Linux Ubuntu 15.10 distro. Ubuntu 15.10 is also referred to as the Wily Werewolf and it follows the Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet release of April 23.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Linux Ubuntu 15.10 comes with the latest OpenStack cloud computing platform and two new Canonical technologies: Autopilot tools for managing OpenStack deployment and LXD for containers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Linux Ubuntu 15.10 is based on the Linux kernel 4.2 that was unveiled on August 20th. Ubuntu 15.10 comes with new security and bug fixes and 9 months support.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">You can grab the official ISO image of Linux Ubuntu 15.10 from the links below or look for the upgrade in already running Ubuntu 15.04.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/15.10/?utm_source=omgubuntu">Download Ubuntu 15.10</a></span></div>
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Linux Ubuntu 15.10 Finally Released, Download Year’s 2nd Biggest Release

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Doodle 4 Google Contest Wants to You to Draw What Makes You…You

Shivam Patsariya 0 WebNdSocial 1:08 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>This year’s Doodle 4 Google contest has been flagged off by Google on October 19, asking to create something refreshing this time, an art unprecedented. The theme is ‘What makes me…me’</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Did you always wonder how Google come up with amazing doodles every other day? Well, it is just sheer creativity and an intense desire of expression. Now, you or your child can be a part of it too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Google has opened its <a href="http://www.google.de/doodle4google/">Google Doodle contest</a> in which the tech giant has asked the students from kindergarten to 12th grade to show their creativity and artistic side to the world. For that, Google has spread its homepage canvas for all the budding artists and if you are a lucky winner not only your Doodle will be displayed on its homepage but you’ll be rewarded with a college scholarship of $30,000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Google has asked the students to come up with refreshing ideas while telling the world “What makes me…me”, which is the theme of the Google Doodle contest by the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Doodle 4 Google contest will continue till December 7, 2015, so everyone would get ample time to submit their best art. Children can use any material while creating a Doodle which shows their uniqueness. It could be crayons, clay and even graphic designs. However, there is only one condition, the Doodle must incorporate the letters G-o-o-g-l-e. Fair enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, what are you waiting for! Get on with your drawing sheets and tell the world what makes you…you.</span></div>
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Doodle 4 Google Contest Wants to You to Draw What Makes You…You

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Future of Machine Learning: Business Implications and Big Data

Shivam Patsariya 1 Business, Science, tech 11:06 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>The proliferation of new applications for machine learning hints at its vast potential. Companies, governments, and researchers innovate new ways to mine big data for useful insights constantly. All it takes is some creativity and computing resources to turn data into intelligence. Read more to get an insight about the future business implications of machine learning.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The business world is so susceptible to fads and buzzwords that it has become a joke. That is why the rise of big data hasn’t been getting as much attention as it deserves. It is also unfortunate that big data is a tech concept, and recent developments in the tech sector have prompted some business journalists to ask if the economy is producing a tech bubble similar to the end of the 1990s. The truth is that big data is not just a fad or a bubble — it is a major and transformative force for the world economy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Having good access to information and being able to spread information quickly has been a hallmark of great revolutions in technology, from Gutenberg’s first printing press to the rise of the telegraph during the American Civil War, Bell’s work with the telephone, and, of course, the Internet. Both communications and data collection are fundamental not only for business decisions but also for medicine, governance, and many other fields. Big data is a quantitative evolution of the way people can accumulate information, but the sheer scale of large datasets yields an unprecedented level of detail for many applications. The difficulty of creating and manipulating a large dataset is dropping by the month, with simple <a href="http://atscale.com/bi-on-hadoop/">Hadoop </a>reporting taking the place of cumbersome SAS jobs and other outdated tools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Consider auto insurance. Right now, auto insurance carriers use complex statistical models that use demographic information about their customers to predict which of them are most likely to get into an accident and make a claim. They need to pay actuaries large amounts of money to build and test these models, and then they base their pricing on the models’ results. Recently, however, some insurers have decided to start using actual driving habits to price their products. They ask customers to install a device that plugs into their car and records speed, how fast the driver brakes, how tight they turn, and other metrics. Then they use that data to predict accidents over time as well as use this information to generate a more personalized <a href="http://www.netquote.com/auto-insurance">auto insurance quotes comparison</a>. This is a striking and creative use of data to solve a business problem: pricing, but in the near future it could go even further. Fine enough data would let the device predict when a driver was intoxicated, tired, or distracted based on their driving actions. This kind of data could save lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Data collection about <a href="http://www.nursetogether.com/why-personalized-medicine-isnt-far-away">patient health records</a> could be subjected to machine learning analysis, helping doctors predict disease and illness with better certainty than they can now. On the dark side of big data, governments can train machine learning programs on datasets containing the personal information of their citizens, making it easier to monitor their daily lives. It is a fine balance between using machine learning and big data to improve people’s lives and violating privacy on a massive scale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Right now, it comes down to case by case judgments. The legal system is not well equipped to handle questions pertaining to the details of statistics and technology, but that will need to change. Big data is not as flashy as some previous technological revolutions because it takes place in the silent realm of software, and machine learning is a much more obtuse concept than the telephone or the printed book. However, its potential to transform society is just as large, and big data stands poised to alter the way we think about privacy, prediction, business, and relationships.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The proliferation of new applications for machine learning hints at this potential. Companies, governments, and researchers innovate new ways to mine big data for useful insights constantly. All it takes is some creativity and computing resources to turn data into intelligence. Machine learning threatens to alter entire fields, like medicine and law, and to forever change the way we think about information. Soon, gleaning insight from data won’t be the exclusive realm of humans, but of algorithms. The task that remains in the hands of people is to decide what to do with that insight.</span></div>
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Future of Machine Learning: Business Implications and Big Data

SP's: The proliferation of new applications for machine learning hints at its vast potential. Companies, governments, and research...

Surprise! Now Yahoo Will Use “Google” to Show Its Results

Shivam Patsariya 0 tech, WebNdSocial 12:54 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's: </b>Yahoo has entered into a three-year non-exclusive deal with Google and will now show some specific results via Google search. Yahoo has kept the full rights of discretion when it will come to passing on the search to Google.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">After over a decade of bitter rivalry, this comes as a surprise to many. Yahoo is now free from the year 2009 deal with Microsoft that barred the once dominant search engine to partner with anyone except Bing. Now, the company has entered into a three-year non-exclusive deal with Google to show some of its search results including images and the search-based ads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, we know how big Google is and at the time when ‘Google it’ in itself has become a verb, we didn’t expect its arch nemeses to use it well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yahoo has kept the full rights of discretion when it will come to passing on the search to Google. Also, the non-exclusive clause will enable Yahoo to use services of other search engines as well, unlike in its previous deal with Microsoft.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This is not a drastic move on the part of Yahoo though. The corporate had a <a href="https://investor.yahoo.net/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=937519">miserable Q3 earnings</a> and with the competition as big as Google on their face, it was better to shake hands with your nemeses rather than waiting to be crushed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Up until now, Yahoo was only utilizing Microsoft Bing’s services, but with Google as its partner, the third most widely used search engine (USA) can redeem its revenues through the former’s advertisements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Needless to say, we will soon see Yahoo doing Google search as well. Tell us your views in the comments below.</span></div>
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Surprise! Now Yahoo Will Use “Google” to Show Its Results

SP's: Yahoo has entered into a three-year non-exclusive deal with Google and will now show some specific results via Google search....

Why This Google Employee Lives in a Truck in the Google’s Parking Lot?

Shivam Patsariya 0 News, tech 12:52 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>23-year-old Brandon S. lives in a truck in Google’s parking lot and he’s saving tons of money. This idea struck him last summer when he was interning at Google and paying a great amount of money for the cheapest available housing option. Know his whole story here.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">How’s the apartment rent in your city? I live in a major city and here it’s heavily overpriced. Well, here I’m going to tell you about a Google employee who’s living on a 128-square-foot truck and saving tons of money.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yes, that’s right. 23-year-old Brandon S. lives in a truck in Google’s parking lot. He says that he opted out of settling into an overpriced San Fransisco apartment and took this decision.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This idea struck him last summer when he was interning at Google and he was living in the cheapest corporate housing offered: 2 bedrooms and 4 people for about $65 a night (roughly $2,000 a month).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Talking to <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/A-23-year-old-Google-employee-lives-in-a-truck-in-the-companys-parking-lot-and-saves-90-of-his-income/articleshow/49473298.cms">BI</a>, he says,”I realized I was paying an exorbitant amount of money for the apartment I was staying in – and I was almost never home.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">So, instead of throwing that amount of money on housing, he decided to get a 2006 Ford truck with 157,000 miles on it that costed him $10,000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now he’s living in his truck and saving about 90% of his income, while eating at the San Fransisco’s restaurants on weekends and paying off his student loans. At the weekdays, he eats breakfast, lunch and dinner at Google’s corporate campus. After working out, he showers for free every morning at Google’s gym. Google also pays his phone bills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">He only has to take care about one major expense – his truck insurance, which is about $121 per month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“The main things that I have are a bed, a dresser, and I built a coat rack to hang up my clothes. Besides that, and a few stuffed animals, there’s pretty much nothing in there,” he tells BI.</span></div>
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SP's: 23-year-old Brandon S. lives in a truck in Google’s parking lot and he’s saving tons of money. This idea struck him last summ...

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;">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;">Watch the video below where the WiFi kettle hack is explained:</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;">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

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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;">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...