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15-year-old Boy Arrested Over the TalkTalk Hacking Attack

Shivam Patsariya 0 Security, tech 12:27 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>A 15-year-old has been arrested in Northern Ireland in connection with the cyber-attack on the TalkTalk’s website. This news of 15-year-old hacker’s arrest has stunned the security experts as it was assumed that a group of ISIS terrorists or Russia was behind this massive data breach.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The UK phone and broadband provider TalkTalk has reported a recent hacking attack. The company’s website and computers have been breached 3 times in the past eight months. As a result, it’s being understood that the personal information of users and bank details are circulating on the dark web.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In connection with the cyber-attack on the TalkTalk’s website, a 15-year-old has been arrested in Northern Ireland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The boy was arrested on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences after a house search in County Antrim. He was taken into custody at a County Antrim police station where he will be interrogated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The official statement from TalkTalk said: “We know this has been a worrying time for customers and we are grateful for the swift response and hard work of the police. We will continue to assist with the ongoing investigation.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This news of 15-year-old hacker’s arrest has stunned the security experts. Earlier, it was assumed that a group of ISIS terrorists or Russia was behind this massive data breach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The phone and broadband provider TalkTalk has about 4 million customers and the company has been heavily criticized for its way of handling the cyber attacks. The company said that currently there’s no evidence that customers’ bank accounts have been affected.</span></div>
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15-year-old Boy Arrested Over the TalkTalk Hacking Attack

SP's: A 15-year-old has been arrested in Northern Ireland in connection with the cyber-attack on the TalkTalk’s website. This news ...

Here’s How This Web Page Sniffs Anyone’s Browser History Using Sniffly Attack

Shivam Patsariya 0 Security, WebNdSocial 12:26 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>By abusing the HTTP policies of your web browser, a security engineer has devised a new technique to sniff the browsing history. Using Sniffly and HSTS timing attack, an arbitrary website can violate the privacy of its users. Read ahead to more about how it’s done in detail.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In this article, I’m going to tell you about Sniffly. It’s an attack that abuses the HTTP Strict Transport Security and Content Security Policy to allow a website to sniff a user’s past browser history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Today tracking the web users is something that website owners do very often using malware injection, cookies, enforcing paywalls and malicious ad scripts. Well, there’s a new technique using the browser fingerprinting is in town. In a demonstration at <a href="https://zyan.scripts.mit.edu/presentations/toorcon2015.pdf">ToorCon </a>2015, Yan Zhu, a privacy engineer, showed how to do this and the working of Sniffly attack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To showcase the demo, Yan has made a web page http://zyan.scripts.mit.edu/sniffly/. You can visit it in Firefox/Chrome/Opera with HTTPS everywhere and see how Sniffly digs your browsing history in the left column.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When you visit the Sniffly page, your web browser tries to load the images from various HSTS domains over HTTP. Sniffly sets a CSP policy that restricts images to HTTP, so that image sources are redirected to HTTPS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">When an image is blocked by CSP, the time taken for the image to be redirected from HTTP to HTTPS is calculated. If the time is of the order of a millisecond, it means no network request was made and it was HSTS redirect. This implies that the user had earlier visited this domain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">However, if the time the taken to redirect the request is of the order of 100 milliseconds, it means the user hasn’t visited the domain before as a network request probably occurred.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Sniffly attack is allowed if you visit a site that supports HSTS, it can sniff your browsing history by measuring the redirect time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To know more about the Sniffly attack, visit the Yan’s <a href="https://github.com/diracdeltas/sniffly">GitHub </a>page.</span></div>
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Here’s How This Web Page Sniffs Anyone’s Browser History Using Sniffly Attack

SP's: By abusing the HTTP policies of your web browser, a security engineer has devised a new technique to sniff the browsing histo...

Secure Your Password With Enigmaze Password Generating Book

Shivam Patsariya 0 Security, tech 12:24 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's: </b>Enigmaze Secure Password Generating Grid System Manager has come up with the most efficient and innovative ways of generating new and strong passwords, and protecting the existing ones. It is aided with features like hardcover password journal with 176 pages, removable label, 78 different grids, an invisible ink marker, and a UV light key chain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Today, while there are approximately 3 billion people across the world using the internet, most of us prefer using the same password for all our accounts, say, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or even for net banking, for the sake of ease in remembering them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Hence, once the password is decoded, the results could be fatal. This is exactly where the Enigmaze Secure Password Generating Grid System Manager comes into play.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It can be said to be the most efficient and innovative way of generating new, strong passwords and updating and protecting existing ones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">So, how does it work? Let’s tell you more about Enigmaze Password Generating Book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Amidst many ways for generation of a unique password, one can include adding different symbols to existing passwords as well.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Durable, hardcover password generating book</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">176 pages, removable label, and 78 different grids ensure that you’ll never have a problem in keeping your passwords protected and safe.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The notebooks are aided with an invisible ink marker and a UV light key chain.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> The plastic grid card makes it portable</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Estimated delivery is around December, 2015. So hurry up! Get one for yourself and secure your passwords!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Do you think this will prove to be a highly efficient way of securing passwords? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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Secure Your Password With Enigmaze Password Generating Book

SP's: Enigmaze Secure Password Generating Grid System Manager has come up with the most efficient and innovative ways of generating...

Secure Your Digital Life With SkyHub Cloud 1TB Backup for Lifetime

Shivam Patsariya 0 AppsnSoftSecure, Business, Offers, WebNdSocial 3:49 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Making an online backup is the best way to secure your digital life. As an exclusive fossBytes deal, you can grab the SkyHub Cloud 1TB Backup for the entire lifetime. Grab it and rest assured that all your data is secure – thanks to the advanced encryption security.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Storing your files on the cloud is a great way to keep them safe. Given their convenience, these days, for some purposes it has become our primary data storage solution. But, finding the right cloud storage solution isn’t an easy task. For situations life these, SkyHub Cloud 1TB Backup comes to your rescue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Via fossBytes Deals, we have brought SkyHub Cloud 1TB Backup deal whose benefits you can avail for the entire lifetime. The Wall Street Journal calls it the “Online file storage excellence” as SkyHub is the best and lifetime solution to your data needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">SkyHub Cloud 1TB Backup ensures regular automatic backup along with military grade 256-bit AES encryption. You can easily access your files on any device, anywhere, anytime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With just one account, you can automatically set up 4 computers for backup to SkyHub. You also get your online dashboard for accessing files for Macs, PCs, and mobile.</span></div>
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Secure Your Digital Life With SkyHub Cloud 1TB Backup for Lifetime

SP's: Making an online backup is the best way to secure your digital life. As an exclusive fossBytes deal, you can grab the SkyHub ...

Microsoft: Windows 10 Collects Data to Improve ‘Your’ Experience

Shivam Patsariya 0 Microsoft, Security, Software, tech 2:50 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b> In another attempt to clear the confusion clouds, Microsoft said that users shouldn’t worry about the Windows 10 data collection practices. In a recent interview, talking about the data collection, Microsoft’s VP Joe Belfiore said that the company feels that there are some compulsory data collection practices that are related to the system health issue.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Since the Windows 10 launch, from time-to-time we have received new updates about the privacy concerns in the new Microsoft OS. Users have noticed that their computers are now collecting more data by default and sending it to Microsoft.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the past, Microsoft has tried to clear the air by trying to assure the users with some incomplete answers. Once again to clarify the issues, Microsoft’s VP Joe Belfiore said in an interview with <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2996504/data-privacy/microsoft-doesnt-see-windows-10s-mandatory-data-collection-as-a-privacy-risk.html#jump">CW </a>that Windows 10 is not doing anything that should be called a privacy violation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While the company claims that users are having full control over the OS, there are a number of services that keep running all the time. Defending this, Microsoft VP said that these services are used to send app crash data to the Microsoft servers. He stresses on the fact that this data is encrypted, so users shouldn’t panic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“In the case of knowing that our system that we’ve created is crashing, or is having serious performance problems, we view that as so helpful to the ecosystem, and [therefore] not an issue of personal privacy, that today, we collect that data so that we make that experience better for everyone,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When asked about the tracking features that can’t be turned off, Microsoft VP said that the company doesn’t consider them to be a privacy issue as the data sent via these services is just regarding system health, and no personal information is sent back to the company servers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“In the cases where we’ve not provided options, we feel that those things have to do with the health of the system, and are not personal information or are not related to privacy,” he added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, not matter how genuine explanations Microsoft gives, the concern remains as the users must have the power to choose whether to share some info or nothing at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We hope that Microsoft decides to loosen up a bit in the next updates of Windows 10 and provides us more control. What are your thoughts regarding this issue? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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Microsoft: Windows 10 Collects Data to Improve ‘Your’ Experience

SP's: In another attempt to clear the confusion clouds, Microsoft said that users shouldn’t worry about the Windows 10 data collec...

This Open-source Program Recognize Your Faces in Real Time

Shivam Patsariya 0 ProgrammingBooks, Science, Security, Software 2:47 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>penFace, the open source face recognition technology developed by the researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University, has been rolled out. The OpenFace holds ground against the much-advanced proprietary face-recognition technologies by private endeavours.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Open-source technology is usually at par with the proprietary technology but in certain cases such as the face-recognition, the open-source lags far behind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The intelligentsia of the open-source community has now stepped up and created an open source face recognition system. The researchers at Carnegie Mellon University feel that the accuracies of the open-source face recognition system lag behind the advancements garnered by the tech giants with their exclusive state-of-the-art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Open source, as the name gives away, is the technology that derives its ideas from the 1970’s hacker culture defining the craze for programming and its subsequent availability to all. This philosophy was later subsumed by FOSS (Free and Open Source). The lack of resources for the projects that include hardware technology sometimes hinder the excellence in the open source community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">OpenFace is based on Google’s FaceNet face recognition system and can recognise the faces within few seconds with 10 reference photos. The datasets that the developers have used to train this program to recognize faces falls to a fraction as compared to the huge datasets of private endeavours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">However, the developers are quite happy with the results as the accuracy they achieved is remarkably high and exceeds in performance in comparison to the previous open source face recognition technology attempts on the standard LFW benchmark.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Watch OpenFace in action, recognizing the faces in real-time:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If you belong to an open-source community, perhaps you should take a look at the OpenFace project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For more information on the OpenFace project, visit <a href="https://github.com/cmusatyalab/openface">GitHub.com</a></span></div>
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This Open-source Program Recognize Your Faces in Real Time

SP's: penFace, the open source face recognition technology developed by the researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University, has been...

Apple Announces New Programs for Reduction Of Carbon Footprint In China

Shivam Patsariya 0 Freebies, Science, Tricks 2:37 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Apple has announced two clean energy programs in China for reducing carbon footprint. They aim at expanding more energy efficient projects across the country like solar projects and installing more than 2 gigawatts of new clean energy in the next couple of years.</i></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The above two will lead to the generation of energy equivalent to the amount of energy used by 2,65,000 Chinese homes in a year and hence cause reduction of carbon footprint</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Do you think Apple should initiate such, energy efficient programs in other countries as well? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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SP's: Apple has announced two clean energy programs in China for reducing carbon footprint. They aim at expanding more energy effic...

“Ethical” Fairphone 2 Beats Google’s Ara for World’s First Modular Phone

Shivam Patsariya 0 Mobiles, MobilesAndTablets, tech 10:49 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>A Dutch startup is ready to launch first ever consumer-ready modular smartphones in December in select European countries beating Google’s Project Ara for world’s first modular smartphones. Since Google announced a delay in its Project Ara, Fairphone took a lead in launching its “ethically sourced” Fairphone 2 modular smartphone.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Google created quite a buzz with its Project Ara modular phones at the start of the year but got beaten up in the race of creating the first one. Dutch-based startup Fairphone is all set to bring out the first ever consumer ready modular smartphones in the market.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For all those hard-liners who are confused what extra does the smartphone could have, since they have already started flying as well, the modular smartphones will prove beyond your imagination. The conventional smartphones are limited to their software flexibility, but the modular smartphones will give you a control over the hardware adaptability as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, that means if you are fed up with your old camera, you can replace it with a new high power camera module, if your phone is slow, you can just replace the processor – as simple as that. Read Smartphone of the future for more information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Since Google announced a delay in its Project Ara, Fairphone took a lead in launching its “ethically sourced” Fairphone 2 modular smartphone. Ethically sourced means that all the products and materials used while making the smartphone were collected from conflict-free zones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Fairphone 2 modular phone has 7 assembly components which means, you can replace seven of the components from your Fairphone 2. Namely battery, display, main chassis, back cover, receiver, speaker and rear camera modules.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The phone will be powered Snapdragon 801 SoC and use Android 5.1 Lollipop, but can also run other OS as well like Canonical’s Ubuntu, Jolla’s Sailfish OS, and Mozilla’s Firefox OS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The first hand Fairphone 2 set will have 8MP rear camera, 5-inch full HD LCD display with Gorilla Glass, 2 GB RAM and supports dual micro SIM.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The first modular smartphone is priced at $580 and will arrive in select European countries in December 2015. It will be rolled out for other countries by early 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Are you up for modular phones or will stick to your passive smartphones? Tell us in comments below.</span></div>
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SP's: A Dutch startup is ready to launch first ever consumer-ready modular smartphones in December in select European countries bea...

Make Your Own Robots With World’s First Modular Robot “CellRobot”

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines, tech 10:46 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>KEYi Technology had invented the world’s first modular robot which is offering 100 robots in a device. It can be configured and re-configured for performing various tasks. It is app-enabled and mainly consists of a heart, cell and x-cell.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Remember how all of us got charmed by the microbots in the movie Big Hero 6? And how much we wanted to own them?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, guess what? It just got REAL!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">KEYi Technology has come up with the world’s first smart modular robot which is offering 100 robots in one device called the CellRobot. It can be assembled in various forms, programmed and configured and then reprogrammed and reconfigured for performing various tasks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So what is it made up of?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The heart is the powerhouse of all the modules. Also, it ensures the CellRobot’s connection to smartphones or tablets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">X-CELL ensures the evolution of CellRobots helping them to be innovative. X-CELLS are made up of:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A 360 degrees panoramic camera that can be connected in any position</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">CellRobots are backed up by some of the most amazing features that make it truly unique. Here, take a look at these:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>APP. ENABLED: </b>This consists of mainly two modes: GUIDE mode and CUSTOM mode. The Guide Mode consists of predefined instruction set while the CUSTOM mode, as the name suggests lets one customize the cellrobots,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>HACKING:</b> Cellrobot platform can be used by hackers and creators from all over the world to create more X-CELLS</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>DIVERSITY: </b> Besides the option of choosing pre existing shapes from the Shape Library inside the APP, it also comes with a variety of colors in the joints of the cells</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>SIMPLICITY: </b>Being App enabled, it is simple to understand and easy to use</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Although there are a couple of disadvantages in CellRobots for now like it’s neither cheap nor fast. Also, it cannot fly. However, this innovative creature is a  learning robot and have huge scope in future.</span></div>
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Make Your Own Robots With World’s First Modular Robot “CellRobot”

SP's: KEYi Technology had invented the world’s first modular robot which is offering 100 robots in a device. It can be configured a...