Bill Gates discloses the 8 songs he would take with him to a desert island – and why

Thats what the BBC asked Gates. The castaways also choose a book and a luxury item. Heres are the records, book, and luxury item that Gates selected and why. Gates said he knew he should be careful not to judge fellow workers by his own standards. Eventually, I had to loosen up, as the company got to a reasonable size. Blue Skies, Willie NelsonThis was his favorite of the picks said Gates....

February 1, 2016 · 1 min · 199 words · Susan Bell

Dutch police are training Eagles to take down drones

But they can be dangerous if they fall from the sky above crowds of people. Drones with built-in cameras also pose privacy risks. There are situations in which drones are not allowed to fly. This has almost always to do with security, he added. That is what we are making use of in this project. This means that they are going to be well looked after and comfortable with their handlers....

February 1, 2016 · 1 min · 131 words · Michael Love

Master list of 100s of VPN service providers based on their performance and prices

He has said that it hours to make the spreadsheet so that he could choose the right VPN. It did take hours! Be advised that there may be some mistakes here and there and some information may not have been updated. source: www.techworm.net

February 1, 2016 · 1 min · 43 words · Thomas Stanley

Microsoft is testing underwater data centers in deep ocean

Deep water deployment offers ready access to cooling, renewable power sources, and a controlled environment. Microsoft isnt running any Web services, like Office 365, through data center infrastructure inside of these capsules. The Redmond-based company foresees these capsules which are fully recyclable typically remaining underwater for five years at a time. But the servers, storage, and networking equipment have got to live somewhere. One might think putting data centers in an ocean might have environmental repercussions....

February 1, 2016 · 1 min · 103 words · Glen Hill

Photonic Modem : NASA is devloping a data modem driven by light

Its not the first time NASA has experimented with laser communications in place of radio signals. However, the LCRD project is designed to be an operational system after an initial two-year demonstration period. This means that it will be several times smaller than the fibre-optic receivers in use in spacecraft today. ILLUMA incorporates an emerging technology integrated photonics that is expected to transform any technology that employs light. This technology will enable all types of NASA missions, not just optical communications on LCRD....

February 1, 2016 · 1 min · 112 words · Jeanette Avila

Running “rm -rf /” Is Now Bricking UEFI Based Linux Systems

An user, Laloch detailedthis systemd bug reporton GitHub requesting that UEFI variables be mounted as read-only by default. To his query, Lennart Poettering said, Well, there are tools that actually want to write it. We also expose /dev/sda accessible for root, even though it can be used to hose your system. But beyond that: root can do anything really. He then closed the ticket. I think you get to blame me instead....

February 1, 2016 · 1 min · 113 words · Laura Johnson

Samsung Galaxy S7 Likely To Debut On February 21st

The teaser video includes an image of a partially opened box with two glowing edges forming a 7. Both will be Super AMOLED displays at QHD resolution. It will come with 4GB of RAM along with inbuilt storages of 32GB or 64GB. Depending upon the market, the phones will either come with a Snapdragon 820 chipset or an Exynos 8890. It could also be water resistant, just like the Galaxy S5....

February 1, 2016 · 1 min · 100 words · Alexis Brown

This Raspberry Pi bot tweets when Comcast Internet speeds are lousy

I pay for 150mbps down and 10mbps up, AleskeyP wrote on Reddit. The raspberry pi runs a series of speedtests every hour and stores the data. Comcast customer service reps regularly respond to the tweets hours later, but Aleksey never gives them his info. He wants to prove a point. Thats a bit counterintuitive when ISPs rarely do anything without a formal complaint in hand. source: www.techworm.net

February 1, 2016 · 1 min · 67 words · Kelly Kennedy

CLX Osiris 17 from CybertronPC is a gaming laptop with desktop hardware packing inside

Side by side, the company also unveiled its less powerful variants, called CLX Anubis gaming PC. These gaming laptops can pack an Intel Core i7-6700HQ processor, along with a single NVIDIA GTX 970M GPU. Another drawback is that this particular gaming machine does have not have a mechanical keyboard. source: www.techworm.net

January 31, 2016 · 1 min · 51 words · Angela Adams

Default settings on Apache Web servers can reveal details about Tor traffic

This has happened the second time in this week. Leaving default setting open after the product has been released can cause serious problems for the product users. Latest to join this default party is Tor. As you know, the dark web which hosts .onion websites can be accessed using Tor anonymity web client. This was reported to the Tor Project admin and also covered on Reddit but to no avail....

January 31, 2016 · 1 min · 89 words · Terry Bennett

Droneboarding on snow is the latest sport that will take the world by storm

So how does this sport work exactly? source: www.techworm.net

January 31, 2016 · 1 min · 9 words · Laurie Jackson

Facebook discloses how many minutes you spend watching videos everyday

Do you know how many minutes you waste watching videos on Facebook everyday? Facebook has an answer! In other words, users are watching about 12 minutes of video per day on Facebook on an average. The numbers disclosed on Wednesday only reflect plays from Facebooks native video player confirmed a Facebook spokesperson. If Facebook are able to convert YouTube loyalists, a separate space for video could increase viewership. At the moment, video search functions of Facebook need to be more organized....

January 31, 2016 · 1 min · 156 words · Tina Salinas

Google’s Solar-Powered 5G Drone Crashes Due To Wing Failure during test flight

This drone was part of Googles larger effort to deliver Internet from the stratosphere. Luckily, the test flight crashed in an unpopulated desert area and no one was injured. Google didnt immediately respond to a request for comment on the report. Instead, Facebook purchased U.K.-based Ascenta, which is developing its own high-altitude drones, for $20 million. source: www.techworm.net

January 31, 2016 · 1 min · 58 words · Robin Johnson