London businessman sues Google for ‘data breach’

So much so that he has taken Google to court. He suggests that some of them have also tried to blackmail him. The businessmans writ says that Google makes available two links to publications containing inaccurate information about him. source: www.techworm.net

February 8, 2016 · 1 min · 41 words · George Hughes

Meteorite claims first human life as man dies after getting hit

A meteorite is a piece of a comet or asteroid that makes it to Earths surface. A bus driver who was walking in the area was struck by the meteorite and killed. Saturdays blast also injured three people. It also created a crater and shattered windowpanes of nearby buses and buildings. Eyewitnesses claimed to have seen a flying object falling down and striking the campus at around Saturday noon. The probability of being killed by a meteorite is negligible, even witnessing one fall is rare....

February 8, 2016 · 1 min · 164 words · Robert Zuniga

Microsoft’s Cortana will get angry if you sexually harass her

Microsoft engineers have worked pretty hard to make Cortana as personal as possible. However there is a line a user cannot cross. For instance, you cant sexually harass her. It turns out users feel very comfortable talking freely with text and voice assistants. However, you cant do that with Cortana. If you say things that are particularly a**holeish to Cortana, she will get mad. Thats not the kind of interaction we want to encourage, Deborah Harrison is quoted as saying....

February 8, 2016 · 1 min · 109 words · Susan Adams

MIT’s 168-Core Chip Will Soon Bring AI to Smartphones, IoT Devices

Dubbed Eyeriss, neural nets are sometimes branded deep learning. Right now, the networks are pretty complex and are mostly run on high-power GPUs. You might also want to process locally for privacy reasons. And, of course, onboard neural networks would be useful to battery-powered autonomous robots. The networks can thus swell to enormous proportions, said MIT. Although they outperform more conventional algorithms on many visual-processing tasks, they require much greater computational resources....

February 8, 2016 · 1 min · 186 words · Danielle Andersen

Tor Project patches critical XSS bug in its blog after researcher publicly discloses it

The vulnerability was discovered by an independent cyber security researcherRoy Jansen. But their userbase/blog visitors are. Exploiting one of these, attackers fold malicious content into the content being delivered from the compromised site. The screenshot tweeted included a popup; Jansen says this means that an attacker could also inject malicious JavaScript. Roy told Techworm that its good Tor Project has patched vulnerability and a simple thanks would have helped! @torprojecthttps://t.co/zCfxpvhH5Z...

February 8, 2016 · 1 min · 78 words · Colleen Hahn

TRAI kicks out Facebook’s Free Basic out of India in favour of Net Neutrality

TRAI has today issued the Prohibition of Discriminatory Tariffs for Data Services Regulations, 2016? TRAI added that a penalty of Rs. 50,000 a day, capped at Rs. 50 lakh will be levied on service providers violating the rule. The policy may be reviewed every two years or sooner, TRAI said. TRAI has given service providers six months to comply with the new rules. However, there is no denial that both are co-related....

February 8, 2016 · 1 min · 161 words · Christina Richards

13 most useful Mac shortcuts that will help you do everything quickly

Given below are the most effective Mac shortcuts that will surely make your job much easier. 1) ? you’ve got the option to search the web, do sums, and convert currency. 2) ? F Find things in documentsNow do away with the tedious method of finding words in documents. F to speed up the finding process. This command can be used in Safari, Chrome, Pages, Word, and just about everywhere else....

February 7, 2016 · 2 min · 375 words · Kimberly King

Are you interested in making a $40 PC that runs Android or Linux!

This $45 PC can run on Android or Linux and offers serious competition to Raspberry Pi 2 If investing in an expensive personal computer is way above your budget line, then you might want to invest $40 in a Raspberry Pi 2 rival, which is called Hardkernels Odroid-C2 computer. While Raspberry Pi 2 costs $5 cheaper, Hardkernel states that its latest product delivers more horsepower compared to its rival. To get a better idea of what the computer is capable of, the specifications have been listed below:...

February 7, 2016 · 2 min · 222 words · John Mendez

BearTek Gen II smart gloves are wearable wireless remote controls

Thats where the new and improved BearTek Gen II smart gloves enters offering additional features. By just using simple finger movements, this pair of ordinary looking gloves can remotely control your smartphone. This is BearTeks second generation lineup, and it comes in different styles for different users. Depending on the models, connectivity is over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. With the Wi-Fi module, they can start and stop recording on a GoPro, or change shooting modes....

February 7, 2016 · 1 min · 149 words · Jennifer Ferrell

Einstein’s ‘Gravitational Waves’ might have been spotted

Looks like the scientists behind the LIGO are finally getting ready to reveal their latest findings. Ive been around a long time, so Ive seen rumors come and go. This one seems more credible. According to Burgesss email, both detectors spotted the black hole merger with the right time delay between them. Source:Sciencemag Read More source: www.techworm.net

February 7, 2016 · 1 min · 57 words · Maria Campbell

Here is the awesomest custom PC build of all time

One such gamer is Mike Schropp. He has build a custom gaming rig which has top-specs available in the market. Whats more, he has themed his gaming rig on Lego. Overlapping plates and bricks are used throughout the design, along with supports and beams to add stiffness. Another gamepoint to Schropp is that he has made each and every component of Lego Gaming PC easily swappable. There are no screws holding the outer cover on....

February 7, 2016 · 2 min · 222 words · Brian Brewer

Rumored 4-inch “iPhone 6c/5se” To Launch In Hot Pink Color

It is alleged that this color option will be exclusively available on the more expensive models. source: www.techworm.net

February 7, 2016 · 1 min · 18 words · Benjamin Jackson

Skype users targeted by malware which takes screenshots and records conversation

The T9000 specifically targets human rights activists, the automotive industry, and governments in the Asia-Pacific region. Security researchers Palo Alto Networks spotted T9000 inside spear phishing emails received by US organizations. Palo Alto researchers have identified three main modules. The first and most important module, tyeu.dat is responsible for spying on Skype conversations. The third module qhnj.dat, is the most dangerous of the three. Microsoft stated that now its security program, Windows Defender identifies and quarantines T9000 trojan....

February 7, 2016 · 1 min · 80 words · Gary Pratt