Coding school 42 has ambitious aims to educate a total of 10,000 students for free

Coding school 42 has been doing well in France. Coding school 42 will welcome all students between the ages of 18 and 30. Another thing that should be noted here is that Coding school 42 is far from your average university. They do this by relying on reviews, coding projects, internships and gamification. Students who remain motivated between these 3-5 years become extremely capable software engineers of the future. source: www....

May 18, 2016 · 1 min · 71 words · Heather Dean

Face recognition App FindFace is a privacy nightmare

It also works with crowds and has an overall reliability of 70%. The App has quickly become popular and has clocked 500,000 downloads so far. Unlike other face recognition technology, their algorithm allows quick searches in big data sets. It could also be used by police and government authorities for surveillance. Privacy activists says that FindFace has the potential of destroying public anonymity and putting lots of people at risk....

May 18, 2016 · 1 min · 72 words · Sean Morgan

Hacker selling 117 million LinkedIn emails and passwords on underground forums

In 2012, LinkedIn was hacked and at that time hackers had leaked 6.5 million encrypted passwords online. Now with this sale offer of 117 million login credentials, their fears have come true. People may not have taken it very seriously back then as it was not spread. To my knowledge the database was kept within a small group of Russians. Motherboard quoted a LinkedIn spokesman as saying the company was looking into the incident....

May 18, 2016 · 1 min · 76 words · Joshua Contreras

Harassed by FBI, Tor Developer flees from United States to Germany

It all started from the FBIs need to hack Tor anonymity web connection net internet ride. FBI feels thats Tor is used by criminals to hide their identities and wants to hack Tor. The FBIs attempts to break into Tor led them to Lovecruft six months back. However, Lovecruft repulsed FBIs efforts to glean any information from her. FBI not to be stopped at mere harassment decided to subpoena her to testify in a criminal hacking investigation....

May 18, 2016 · 1 min · 145 words · Andrew Gregory

IBM patents a printer that can’t print or copy copyrighted material

If approved, we could see the technology company rolling out this printer in commercial production very soon. The technology works by parsing content for potential copyrighted material. It will not allow the printer to copy or print the job, if such material is found. The printer can also be used to scan through large amounts of text and conduct plagiarism checks. source: www.techworm.net

May 18, 2016 · 1 min · 63 words · Rachel Daugherty

Iraq pulls plug on Internet for three days to prevent exam cheating

However, this is not the first time, the communications ministry done the same thing in 2015. The diktat was implemented during the national exam days but no Iraqi official ever admitted it. source: www.techworm.net

May 18, 2016 · 1 min · 34 words · Marc Scott

Microsoft makes one last deceptive effort to upgrade you to Windows 10

News is that Microsoft is making last ditch attempt to make Windows 7/8.1 users upgrade to Windows 10. Another tech website, CNET also found similar force upgrade happening. Also read:Here is how to stop your Windows 7/8.1 PC from automatically upgrading to Windows 10 Read More source: www.techworm.net

May 18, 2016 · 1 min · 48 words · William Scott

New earpiece gadget fits in your year and translates your conversations in real-time

An US start-up has created an earpiece just for that. Called Pilot, the App can live translate conversations in different languages. source: www.techworm.net

May 18, 2016 · 1 min · 23 words · Donna Larsen

Nexus 5X can run Windows 10 Mobile as evidenced in this video

Nexus 5X might spin up the purest form of Googles Android OS, but the latest video shows that in addition to running stock Android, the phone can also run Windows 10 Mobile. Most readers would not even believe that the smartphone would be capable of doing such a thing, but thanks to Slashgear, the latest video shows that the phone is seamlessly running Microsofts Windows 10 Mobile. Windows 10 Mobile is not without its problems, and there are a ton of fixes needed that will allow Windows Phones, particularly those with low-end hardware to run properly, but Nexus 5X is able to hold its own against the operating system, which is quite impressive to say the least....

May 18, 2016 · 2 min · 277 words · Amy Mcfarland

Soon, self-driving trucks could be a reality in United States

The company, which is completely self-funded, has yet to raise external funding. source: www.techworm.net

May 18, 2016 · 1 min · 14 words · Mary Clark

Arch Linux and SparkyLinux are the first to offer Linux 4.6

Additionally, they have also provided users instructions on how to install it on their SparkyLinux-powered computers. Whatever processor you decide to run Linux will have a more complex conversation concerning varying its clock speed. you might read all about the different forms of support that Linux 4.6 has added in its latest releasereport. source: www.techworm.net

May 17, 2016 · 1 min · 55 words · Amanda Singleton

Congressional candidate forgets to close porn tabs while exposing rival

One little mistake on his part and the whole world came to know that he enjoys viewing porn websites. He then notes his social media growth 25% growth in Facebook page likes in just one day! and adds, Perhaps, what does not kill you does make you stronger. source: www.techworm.net

May 17, 2016 · 1 min · 50 words · Lori Sanchez

Hacker finds a flaw that would have let anyone steal $25 billion from a bank

If it was somebody with evil intent, he could have made off with a cool $25 billion. According to Prakash, when he analyzed the banks app, he found it had several bugs. So invoking the fund transfer API call directly via CURL, bypassed the receiver/beneficiary account validation. Prakash successfully tested this flaw using his parents accounts. The bank took cognizance of his discovery and promptly updated the banking App to patch the flaws....

May 17, 2016 · 1 min · 75 words · William Parker