About 10 percent of the worlds population still lives in remote or rural areas without internet connectivity. source: www.techworm.net

Hold it like a phone and you might run Android apps. It also has two operating systems: Android and a custom version of Debian Linux. It currently runs Android 5.1, but support for Android 6.0 is said to be in the works. The phone stays fully functional, Intels Nir Metzer, Path Finding Group Manager, told the Register. I have a multi-window environment. As soon as I plug in I can do spreadsheets, I can drag and drop, play video....

This next generation Atlas robot can do almost anything including survive bullying by humans! According to Boston Dynamics, the new Atlas is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated. Atlas is 59 (175 cms) tall and weighs 180 lbs (81 kg). The company isnt saying much more, but the video does give hints regarding a number of other improvements. The video shows the robot walking out of the firms office and across a snowy plateau....

Nissan has mobile app forAppleandAndroiddevices for Nissan Leaf owners. All Nissan Leafs share a VIN prefix of SJNFAAZE0U60 with the last 5 characters unique for each. Hunt says that to dive into the APIs the hacker just needs to know the full VIN. This code is usually stencilled into a cars windscreen, making it relatively easy to copy. To conduct the attack, the hacker need not even use the App, says Hunt....

Thus, in the absence of software piracy, Linux would be a more widely used operating system. In other words, it suggests that Microsofts dominant position is actually strengthened through piracy. source: www.techworm.net

Called the Ricochet, this software has been in development for around two years. Thats definitely something worth celebrating, Dr Dreyfus said. It uses the same technology that ran Silk Road, it uses dark web technology. Ricochet is the outcome of hundreds of hours of volunteer work. The group had made plans to create the system from scratch. Before this we had a disclaimer on it warning people not to use it for anything serious....

Oral-B Unveils The Worlds First Electric Smart Toothbrush Who doesnt want pearly white teeth? From brushing twice a day to flossing after every meal, we do everything to get those pearly whites. The users need to place their smartphone in a robust-looking holder on the mirror in front of them. Motion sensors inside the brush detect the areas being brushed. The toothbrush itself has Oral-B oscillating-rotating-pulsating tech to help clean teeth better....

Thats basically what Passive Wi-Fi delivers. We can get Wi-Fi for 10,000 times less power than the best thing thats out there. All the networking, heavy-lifting and power-consuming pieces are done by the one plugged-in gadget. The team basically decoupled the digital and analog operations involved in radio transmissions to achieve such low-power Wi-Fi transmissions. It could also simplify our data-intensive worlds. The journal MIT Technology Review has named the technology as one of the 10 breakthrough technologies of 2016....

The CAT S60 has special switches to block speaker and microphones when used underwater. Another thing that needs to be covered is the slots for dual SIM cards and a microSD card. Bullitt is debuting the phone at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona this week. It also makes ruggedized phones for JCB, even though those are feature phones, not smartphones. An app allows readout of the approximate temperature with a tap on the screen....

In comparison to its predecessor, the Galaxy S7 may be considered an S generation machine. According to rumors, the iPhone is expected to move towards AMOLED screen technology in the future. On iPhone, you have to wake the display to check the time or notifications. Image: DAVID RAMOS/GETTY In comparison to 1.22-micron for Apple, it would be 1.4-micron pixels for Samsung. MicroSD support A feature that is desired by many, the Galaxy S7 comes with expandable memory....

Tired of keeping your broken Android phone as a worthless paperweight? This happened with an Android smartphone owner who also owns a YouTube account ElectroBOOM. So what were they able to create after accumulating all the parts together? An adorable toy robot whose primary body comprises up of the head of a toothbrush. Flipping the switch would make the equipment vibrate, which resulted in the toothbrush head move around in circles....

Who knows, but Facebook definitely knows! While Facebooks Messenger is great for many things, its most recent among them is tracking sleep. He wrote a program that checks Facebook every 10 minutes to see who last checked Facebook and when. The program then compiled all his Friends and their downtime into an organized timeline. For those who are interested in knowing their friends sleeping patterns can find the source code for fb-sleep onGitHub....

In fact, wired mouse have taken a back seat after the launch of these wireless mice. But are they dangerous? Rouland stated that this flaw affects non-Bluetooth mice produced by Logitech, Dell, Lenovo and other brands. Bastille has branded with the hashtag-friendly word MouseJack, builds onpreviousresearchdone on hacking wireless keyboards. However, exploiting the flaw as claimed by Bastille is not easy. Users who want the fix have to download the firmware and install it themselves....