Pirate Bay founder builds Raspberry Pi powered ultimate copying machine ‘Kopimashin’

He believes that the movie companies and music companies cite exaggerated losses from piracy. When they calculate piracy costs, they often put too much value on pirated copies. It is his kopimi values that lead him to something about it. He has now built a ultimate copying machine called Kopimashin. This translates to more than eight million copies per day and roughly $10 million in losses. Peters machine is part of anart projectabout the value of digital copies which hes preparing for an upcoming exhibition....

December 19, 2015 · 2 min · 226 words · David Savage

This Amiga Emulator For Chrome Let’s You Relive The 80s

A ray tracing method was used, which simulates rays of light reflecting within a mathematically defined scene. Each image requires the calculation of 64,000 light rays and takes approximately 1 hour to generate. An image is compressed to about 10K bytes for storage. Images are expanded in less than 30 milliseconds. While the emulator runs in a net internet ride screen its possible to run it full-screen. Its also possible to connect an USB gamepad....

December 19, 2015 · 1 min · 161 words · Kayla Mitchell

Top 20 places to work in 2016 according to employees

On a 5-point scale, the reviewers rate their company: 1.0=very dissatisfied, 3.0=OK, 5.0=very satisfied. The list of companies below provides you the best 20 companies that you should look to work in 2016. It has over 1,500,000 listings in 34,000 cities and 190 countries. The people that work here are some of the best Ive met in my professional career. The culture is good. Airbnb Employee No. Incredibly supportive culture with an incredible focus on learning and mentoring....

December 19, 2015 · 4 min · 752 words · Mark Carter

Apple sued for data leakages in iPhone 5/5s

To catch up, the suit suggests Apple released iOS 6 without properly vetting the software. The case has not been assigned a judge and does is not yet scheduled for hearing. source: www.techworm.net

December 18, 2015 · 1 min · 33 words · Kevin Hall

BlackBerry CEO slams Apple for refusing to allow US authorities access to its products

We are indeed in a dark place when companies put their reputations above the greater good. Earlier versions, like iOS 7, can be accessed by Apple. We reject the notion that tech companies should refuse reasonable, lawful access requests. Technology, over the course of human existence, can be both used and abused. We all have a right to privacy as well as public protection. source: www.techworm.net

December 18, 2015 · 1 min · 66 words · Katrina Smith

Facebook forcing users to support Net Neutrality violation by supporting Free Basic Internet

But Free Basics is in danger in India. Tell the TRAI that you support Free Basics and digital equality in India, the Facebook message said. With Free Basics, we are letting developers offer zero-rated services. We are not being a filter of any content going through that. He added zero-rating is not against net neutrality. Many people took issue with both the content and tone of Facebooks message. source: www.techworm.net

December 18, 2015 · 1 min · 70 words · Billy King

Microsoft’s Edge Browser is not nearly as safe as Google’s Chrome browser

Microsoft Edge inherits Internet Explorers security holes, does that mean is it any more secure? This also meant that by default it was more safer than Googles Chrome or Mozillas Firefox browsers. At least, in some aspects. However, Microsoft now claims that Edge is capable of offering at least the same level of protection. Thats not a coincidence. Edge shares a universal code base across all form factors without the legacy add-on architecture of Internet Explorer....

December 18, 2015 · 1 min · 78 words · Brandon Smith

Researchers create a ‘Mother Robot’ that can design, build and test its ‘own’ children

While another study by researchers from University of Oxford states thatAI is an existential threat to human life. Researchers led by theUniversity of Cambridgehave built a mother robot that can independently design and test its own children. We developed a robot that creates robots. And if bad, just let it go. Natural selection is basically reproduction, assessment, reproduction, assessment and so on. Thats essentially what this robot is doing we can actually watch the improvement and diversification of the species....

December 18, 2015 · 1 min · 107 words · Charles Burnett

This is why ‘hoverboards’ are dangerous

Are hoverboards safe, as increasing incidents of them catching fire surface? These repeated demonstrations that hoverboards can constitute such serious fire hazards havent gone unnoticed. I do not want to downplay the fall hazard, he said. For now, the agency is actively investigating hoverboard-related fires across the country. However, looks like they wont have to look far for answers. -Do not charge a hoverboard overnight or when you are not able to observe the board....

December 18, 2015 · 1 min · 168 words · Andrew Collins

5 ways to find what Google knows about you

And also the location of the machine where your account is logged in. And your can use this service at the page GoogleSecuritywith your account. So visit theDashboardto see all these details. So visit GoogleAdspage today. This feature can be really helpful when you want to find any missing person by checking its location history. you’ve got the option to manage each and everything easily. You may like to visit GoogleLocation History....

December 17, 2015 · 1 min · 74 words · Jose Johnson

A single email can give hackers access to the entire network

Imagine what happens if there is a vulnerability in once such security unit meant to protect your internet. In some deployment configurations* an attacker could tamper with traffic, inserting backdoors or worse. The devices are supposed to passively monitor connection traffic from HTTP, FTP, SMTP connections. In instances where theres a file transfer, the security appliance will scan it for malware. The researchers used theJODEJava decompiler to reverse engineer Java Archive files used by the FireEye devices....

December 17, 2015 · 1 min · 92 words · William Howard

Anonymous reveal HOW they take down ISIS (video)

After a series of deadly attacks by the bloodthirsty jihadis, the cyber war against Daesh has stepped up. Anonymous and its supporters carried out a day of ISIS trolling to anger and belittle the extremists. While Anonymous hackers turn the screw on ISIS, a member spoke to Express.co.uk to reveal their methods. A lot of them will have a beheading as their banner. Calling itself a hacktivist group, Binary Sec is one strand of Anonymous....

December 17, 2015 · 1 min · 202 words · Alison Castro

Astronomers find Earth like habitable planet “Wolf 1061c”, 14 light years away from us

Dr Wright and his colleagues detected the planets using the so called wobble method. This does not mean that Wolf 1061c is anything like Earth. The surface of our Sun, on the other hand, regularly hits 5,800 Kelvin. Planets of similar size are often tidally locked to their parent stars due to the close proximity. And at the inner edge of its stars habitable zone, it is likely hotter than our home planet....

December 17, 2015 · 1 min · 86 words · Jeff Wheeler