LG fingerprint sensor module now comes without home button

Fingerprint sensors are either mounted on the backside of the smartphone, or integrated in the home button, but the fact remains that they require a physical button or sensor with a form of a depression that needs to unlock the phone. However, LG Innotek, a subsidiary of the company has announced a new fingerprint sensor module that will be placed under the home button. LG was able to make this possible by cutting a shallow furrow of 0....

May 2, 2016 · 2 min · 298 words · Stephen Dalton

Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard drives

Surprisingly, the former Philadelphia Police Department sergeant, has not been charged of child sex abuse crime. The authorities believe that that suspects hard drive is filled with child abuse images and hope to nail him. The man is to remain jailed until such time that hefully complies with the decryption order. The case once again highlights the extent to which the authorities are going to crack encrypted devices. FBI dropped that case after they had paid a reported $1 million for a hack....

May 2, 2016 · 1 min · 98 words · Angela Hill

Snapdragon 820 deep learning SDK introduced by Qualcomm

The companys new SDK is built for Zeroth, which is a machine intelligence platform. However, for that to happen, your smartphone or tablet must be equipped with a Snapdragon 820. This is because companies can integrate it into any key in of smart devices. Question is, will the new SDK support upcoming mid-ranged chipsets? Looks like time will tell. source: www.techworm.net

May 2, 2016 · 1 min · 61 words · Raven Jones

This 25 year old hacker makes $100,000 a year moonlighting as ‘bug bounty’ hunter

Abma is the cofounder of a hot new startup calledHackerOnewhich is into the business of bug hunting. The duo then took control of the TV station and ran their own broadcast on live TV instead. The TV station was not amused, Abma toldBusiness Insider. Next up, both of them attended college together at Hanze University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. In college they found a flaw in the software that managed grades of the students....

May 2, 2016 · 2 min · 256 words · Troy Browning

This is how to switch to YouTube’s big Material Design makeover before it arrives officially

WhenGooglefirst announced its new Material Design guidelines, users were ecstatic. The new Material Design made Android the best-looking mobile platform compared to other operating systems. source: www.techworm.net

May 2, 2016 · 1 min · 27 words · Joel Lane

Tor and VPN users labeled as criminals will be hacked and spied by FBI under new law

The same judgement contains a innocuous para related to Tor and VPN users. Rule 41will become a law in December if the U.S. Congress doesnt take any legislative action against it. The new rule will affect millions of Tor and VPn users. Many Facebook users are already preferring Tor to surf FB. source: www.techworm.net

May 2, 2016 · 1 min · 54 words · Ms. Brittany Johnson

15 year-old boy sustains bullet injury in the head while taking ‘selfie’ with a gun

The statistics reveal that teenagers do god awful things to get that perfect selfie and India is no different. In the haste of taking the ultimate selfie, Ramandeep actually pulled the trigger and severely injured himself. The revolver belonged to Ramandeeps father Gurkirpal Singh who is a property dealer. We shall also ask familys neighbours about incident, the DSP said. source: www.techworm.net

May 1, 2016 · 1 min · 62 words · Luis Payne

Anonymous say The Humanity Party is fake and using their name for votes

Anonymous claims that Nemelka is not an Anonymous member but actually pushing Mormon agenda behind all the facade. There have been murmurs in the Anonymous rank and file over US elections and presidential candidate they should support. Anonymous members are beginning to notice and are reacting. Other groups also joined their campaign. source: www.techworm.net

May 1, 2016 · 1 min · 54 words · April Smith

Marissa Mayer to walk away with $55 million over dead Yahoo

Shareholders never took kindly to her approach and are now opposing the severance payout. Yahoo declined to comment beyond its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mayer received a compensation package valued at nearly $36 million last year under the SECs accounting rules. Yahoos board maintained in its filing that it was worth only about $14 million as of April 1. source: www.techworm.net

May 1, 2016 · 1 min · 64 words · Maria Moore

Microsoft’s Windows 95 on an Apple watch, this developer actually did it

Here we thought that Android was the only mobile OS right now that could support several different ROMs. source: www.techworm.net

May 1, 2016 · 1 min · 20 words · Corey Henry

New BlackArch Linux version released, now provides 1400 pentesting tools

The new ISOs include over 1400 tools. We wish to thank all of BlackArchs users, mirrors, and supporters. Thanks for your help. you’re able to download the new version ISO directly from the projectswebsite. The website also included FAQs and release notes for you to get started. source: www.techworm.net

May 1, 2016 · 1 min · 49 words · Karen Petersen

The man who invented ATM got just $15 from it

Your friendly neighbourhood ATM is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Its all about your stars. Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook and is now worth an estimated $50 billion. Facebook is useful just for social life but ATM has become a necessity for many of us. it’s possible for you to imagine how I feel when I see bankers getting 1m bonuses. I wonder what they contributed to the banking industry more than I did to merit a 1m bonus....

May 1, 2016 · 1 min · 148 words · Cynthia Moore

This new functional programming language can generate C, Python code for apps

Futhark is written in Haskell. This includes the ability to support nested parallelizations (parallel operations inside other parallel operations). The researchers claims are not unfounded.Preliminary benchmarkspitting Futhark GPU programs against other GPU libraries showed promising results. For a maximum segment sum test, Futhark was nearly twice as fast as a competing open source project. In other cases, it matched or was only slightly slower than the competition. Futharks developers attributed this to the newness of the language and its unrefined approach to allocating and reusing memory....

May 1, 2016 · 1 min · 132 words · Mary Davis