World’s ‘safest’ drone Fleye launches on Kickstarter

Drones are cool, but they can also be pretty scary up close. Just imagine four powerful propellers flying straight at your face at full speed. In selfie mode, the drone will record 1080p video (30 fps) while flying toward you. In manual, you’re able to program a route and the drone will fly it autonomously. Its even smart enough to react to and avoid obstacles it may encounter along the path....

December 6, 2015 · 1 min · 132 words · Dean Harris

Anonymous Release Hacked Data of More Than 1,415 Climate Change Officials

A member of the French delegation to the Paris climate talks said she was a victim of the hack. I changed my password and everything has been normal since, she said. source: www.techworm.net

December 5, 2015 · 1 min · 33 words · Matthew Montoya

Driver nabbed in for hit-and-run after her own vehicle’s emergency system called police dispatch

The vehicles emergency system helped police nab the perpetrator of a hit-and-run in United States. The incident happened on a Monday afternoon in Florida, USA. Preston was taken to the hospital with back injuries. She added that someone pulled out in front of her and that she was going home. She also said she had not been drinking and didnt know why her vehicle had called for help. Further the police also found that the airbag in Bernsteinss care had also been deployed....

December 5, 2015 · 1 min · 134 words · Kayla Calhoun

Google powered “Censys”, a search engine devoted to mapping Internet’s dark secrets

Censys uses a software called ZMap which has been developed by Durumeric and his colleagues. Censys searches the data harvested by software calledZMapand is updated very day with a fresh set of data. The paper contains a full description of Censyss architecture and several use cases. you’re free to visit Censyshereto try it out. For the first time users, the developers have even made a tutorial which can be accessedhere....

December 5, 2015 · 1 min · 72 words · Alisha Porter

It is 100 times faster but can Li-Fi actually be seen as a practical successor to Wi-Fi?

What about those regions that suffer from severe power outages? The very same thing can be said about regions that suffer from rainfall and storms. Before we jump to conclusions, there is one little thing that we would like to point. Li-Fi is a new form of technology, and has not even been deployed to the masses. For now, we will have to wait for technology to further mature before we jump to conclusions....

December 5, 2015 · 1 min · 95 words · Jennifer Santos

Microsoft beats Apple in online tablet sales

Apple is considered the pioneer of tablets and first brought out its iPad in 2010. Since it was introduced, iPad and its various iterations have been ruling the online tablet world. Microsoft seems to playing the right cards in the tablets market. The Surface Book and Surface Book 4 were both introduced by Microsoft in October itself. Price wise they are significantly more expensive than Apples iPad Pro which is the latest iPad version....

December 5, 2015 · 1 min · 76 words · John Black

Microsoft leads FBI and Interpol Coalition to destroy millions of Botnets

A collection of such zombies in a data pipe is called a botnet. Discovered in 2011 theWin32/Dorkbotmalware has spread to over a million Windows PCs worldwide. During the last six months alone it had been infecting over 100,000 machines a month. Microsoft announced on Wednesday they had teamed up to enact a coordinated malware eradication campaign to disrupt the botnet. Its primary aim was to steal online user credentials and any information that can personally identify you....

December 5, 2015 · 1 min · 177 words · Anthony Mcpherson

Microsoft to open source core components of Chakra, the JavaScript engine Edge browser works on

Microsoft made this announcement at the JSConf in Florida today. The code will be published to the MicrosoftsGitHub pagenext month. Microsoft is open sourcing what it calls ChakraCore. We intend to make it even more versatile over time, both within and beyond the Windows ecosystem. source: www.techworm.net

December 5, 2015 · 1 min · 47 words · Jimmy Potts

NASA releases clearest images of Pluto the world has never seen

In what seems to be the end of the year gift for star gazers, astronomers and hobbyists, NASA on Fridayreleased the highest resolution images of Pluto. The images released by NASA show Plutos varied terrain with a resolution of 77 to 85 meters per pixel and are perhaps, the best we would be seeing in our lifetime. The images, taken by NASAs New Horizons spacecraft, show craters, mountains and glacial terrain along a strip 50 miles (80 kilometers) wide....

December 5, 2015 · 2 min · 234 words · Andrew Robinson

Anonymous Trolls ISIS with Photoshopped Images and Memes on Twitter

Here are some of YANs choicest troll tweets which will have you in splits. source: www.techworm.net

December 4, 2015 · 1 min · 16 words · Alex Sandoval

Apple open sources Swift with a Linux port and Swift Compiler

Apple hopes to get developers to contribute to Apple App development through this move. Along with the open source launch,Apple has already published a Swift port for Linux computers. Apple says the port is a work in progress but useful to experiment with Swift on a Linux machine. The Swift Package Manager is also available to build code whilepackage repositories are available on GitHub. source: www.techworm.net

December 4, 2015 · 1 min · 66 words · Linda Williamson MD

Cracked : One of the most wtf Science questions solved

Even the air above the ground is travelling at around this speed in an easterly direction. So for an aeroplane to get anywhere at all, it has to be moving relative to the ground. source: www.techworm.net

December 4, 2015 · 1 min · 36 words · Joseph Espinoza DDS

Facebook to open up Live Broadcasting service for non-verified accounts soon

Facebook will be extending its service of live video broadcast from celebrities to common people without verified accounts. A broadcast can have a brief description and be shared publicly or just with your friends. We do know that the company is starting with a small percentage of iPhone users within the U.S. With Live for Facebook Mentions, we had to solve for huge traffic spikes. source: www.techworm.net

December 4, 2015 · 1 min · 67 words · Lori Hernandez