This ‘Minecraft’ Redstone PC created by a windows 10 fan is awesome

The chat pad might have been overkill… Just like the game, this entire build process was going to be an epic adventure, he adds. According to Kern, The original inspiration for this build came from a little Redstone block light up toy. source: www.techworm.net

August 17, 2015 · 1 min · 44 words · Angelica Ferrell

UK testing new roads that wirelessly recharges your electric car as you drive

Electric vehicle manufacturers are still having a tough time to woo customers to buy them. This week, the UK government announced that it wants to begin testing this tech, and soon. Highways England, is a government organization responsible for road infrastructure maintenance. UK government is looking for bids from contractors wanting to develop the test infrastructure. The report notes that the power transfer could most likely work for all types of vehicles....

August 17, 2015 · 1 min · 83 words · Thomas Jackson

Want free Wi-Fi? Clean your surroundings and get free Internet

These Indian duo have created a Wi-Fi Trash Bin that generates a unique code whenever someone dumps trash in. This code can then be availed for free Wi-Fi. They both came up with the idea during their visit to a music festival called NH7 Weekender. …It took us six hours to find our friends. Since there was no online grid, we could not reach them through a phone call. The duo said that they have received queries from GAIL and currently talks are in due process....

August 17, 2015 · 1 min · 98 words · Jennifer Carpenter

World’s first smartphone from IBM “Simon” turns 21

The IBM Simon arrived as a personal communicator. The term smartphone did not arrive on the scene until 1995. The screen was also touch sensitive and could be operated with a stylus. source: www.techworm.net

August 17, 2015 · 1 min · 34 words · Laura Lane

AT&T helped NSA to Spy on United States Internet Traffic

United Nations is an AT&T customer. source: www.techworm.net

August 16, 2015 · 1 min · 8 words · Heather Walker

BitTorrent can be exploited to launch DoS attacks

While in other torrent clients, uTorrrent and Vuze the attack is boosted by 39 and 54 times respectively. The attacker only needs a valid info-hash, or the secret in case of BitTorrent Sync. With a single BitTorrent Sync ping message, an attacker can amplify the traffic up to 120 times. However uTorrent and Vuze are still vulnerable to a DHT attack. source: www.techworm.net

August 16, 2015 · 1 min · 63 words · Brandon Lee MD

China’s Tianhe-1A supercomputer and space programme shut down due to the Tianjin blast

The twin blasts resulted in broken glass and damaged windows at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin. The rescue operation has cost the lives of 17 fire-fighters as well. Also, there was no damage to its database. However, the centres director Liu Guangming said it had decided to shut the unit citing security concerns. Rated as the worlds fastest supercomputer in 2010, The Tianhe-1A has been primarily used in Chinas space programme....

August 16, 2015 · 1 min · 115 words · Mrs. Laura Morris

Critical Zero-day in Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite lets attackers gain root access

We had countless vulnerabilities discovered in Android. Apple too had its share with a serious zero-day vulnerability in Apples OS X 10.10 Yosemite operating system. The DYLD exploit allowed attackers to install malware and adware without the need for administrative privileges. Apple moved quickly and released a patch for the DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE vulnerability with a new OS X point release. So as of the time of writing this article Macbooks across the world are vulnerable to this Zero-day....

August 16, 2015 · 1 min · 79 words · David Gray

Firefox stealthily loads webpages when you hover over links, here is how to prevent it

However, Firefox does so stealthily. Mozilla Firefox would send the users data to this site without discrimination causing huge privacy and security related problems. Simply follow these instructions. It includes the steps described below. source: www.techworm.net

August 16, 2015 · 1 min · 36 words · Laura Morse

Kaspersky Lab allegedly created fake malware to discredit competitors

The company had hit its peak between 2009 and 2013. Eugene considered this stealing, said one of the former employees. Such actions are unethical, dishonest and their legality is at least questionable. It was decided to provide some problems for rivals, said one ex-employee. It is not only damaging for a competing company but also damaging for users computers. Hence, most of the campaign was carried out against Microsoft, AVG and Avast, reported Reuters....

August 16, 2015 · 1 min · 174 words · Michael Perez

The Journey of Sundar Pichai from a modest Indian family to CEO of Google

Google is now part of this new collaboration, which is a collection of companies including the Life Sciences. Sundar Pichai has been associated with Google for more than 10 years. Later in 2013, Sundar took over Andy Rubins portfolio and was in charge of Android. Sundar was the director of Jive Software Inc. as well as among the board of advisors for Ruba Inc. The project aimed to provide affordable smartphones to all people all over the world....

August 16, 2015 · 1 min · 210 words · Kimberly Morris

Veteran moon astronaut claims “Aliens prevented nuclear war on Earth”

During his interview withMirror Online, Mitchell said: You dont know the area like I do. They wanted to know about our military capabilities. They told me UFOs were frequently seen overhead and often disabled their missiles. There was a lot of activity in those days. Chances are theyd be millions of years ahead of us and could do anything they wanted to. source: www.techworm.net

August 16, 2015 · 1 min · 64 words · Jeffrey Vasquez

Why The Year 2100 Will Not Be A Leap Year?

Get to know the reason in this article. Earths Revolution is when Earth moves around the Sun and one revolution makes up for one year. Mathematicians give this reason as to why 2100 will not be a leap year. However, one Earth year is not exactly 365 days and it is 11 minutes less. So after a few years, the clock and days would not be in sync with each other....

August 16, 2015 · 1 min · 201 words · Emily Lee