Facebook Working on Personal Assistant for Messenger codenamed ‘Moneypenny’

The nickname has been taken from Miss Moneypenny Ms assistant in the James Bond series of books and movies. It is also not known when Moneypenny could launch. On top of the cost of the goods delivered, these startups also take a service charge. source: www.techworm.net

July 14, 2015 · 1 min · 46 words · Jon Gibson

IKO’s Prosthetic arm lets kids make their own awesome LEGO attachments

Otherwise, small kids easily get adapted to using the prosthetic limbs. What if kids could use their imagination to create their own tools according to their own needs? What if kids could make their own prosthetics and have fun at the same time? In this new prosthetic limb the kids can change the gripping attachments with their own customized Lego designs. The report further also reads: But movement isnt essential to the usefulness of the IKO....

July 14, 2015 · 1 min · 103 words · Karina Walker

Is it the end for Adobe’s Flash Player? After Facebook; Mozilla decides to kill it

Since then Flash Player has been on a downhill ride to hell. Now with the Hacking Team leaks becoming public, it seems, Adobes Flash Player seems ready for extermination. EvenYouTube has ditched Flash for HTML5. Now Facebook Security honcho, Alex Stamos has called for it to be killed off completely. https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/620306643360706561 Really simultaneously, Mozilla has also decided to kill Flash Player support in Firefox browsers. Facebooks Stamos was not so kind in his words for Flash Player....

July 14, 2015 · 1 min · 141 words · Alyssa Sullivan

Large Hadron Collider (LHC) scientists discover new Sub-atomic particle called pentaquark

Exotic pentaquark particles have been revealed through an experiment at Cerns Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The association has submitted today a paper reporting these results to the journalPhysical Review Letters. LHCb spokespersonGuy Wilkinson said, The pentaquark is not just any new element. Antiquarks are quarks of antimatter. In the year 1969, Gell-Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for this effort. Earlier experiments that have searched for pentaquarks have proved unconvincing....

July 14, 2015 · 1 min · 93 words · Roger Howard

Man arrested for stealing electricity for charging his iPhone

The sockets on overground trains are reserved for the use of cleaning staff. A police spokesman said a decision on further action would be made in due course. The Overground is part of Transport For Londons wider data pipe that also includes London Underground and the buses. She said Im abstracting electricity. She kept saying its a crime. We were just coming into the station and there happened to be about four police officers on the platform....

July 14, 2015 · 1 min · 141 words · Donald Holt

Now watch live computer simulation of New Horizons’ with the new app launched by JPL of NASA

With the help of this app users can view acomputer simulationofNew Horizons Pluto Flyby. New Horizons would traverse Plutos diameter in less than three minutes, thank to its extremely high speed. The spacecraft is expected to gather scientific data regarding Plutos atmosphere, geology and temperature. The photos would thus be released publicly around3 p.m. ET Wednesdayand that would be the earliest. The spacecraft will keep sending some of the most appealing images over the next few days....

July 14, 2015 · 1 min · 97 words · Christopher Cunningham

UC Berkeley scientists build graphene-based radio that allows for bat-like echolocation

The Zettl and Crommie research groups have previously published studies on graphene. The study appears online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The graphene loudspeakers and microphones operate from well below 20 hertz to over 500 kilohertz. The structure of the speaker is almost same (to the old one), Zhou said. One thing we improved was the production. The other part is the circuit, which works as a loudspeaker....

July 14, 2015 · 1 min · 113 words · Haley Johnson

‘Who Deleted Me’ app wont be accessible on any platform following Facebook takedown

The Who Deleted Me net online gate extension for Google Chrome has also been disabled. Well that was fun while it lasted! The app garnered a lot of attention from Facebook users keen to see what friends had deleted them. He did not specify what those other projects might be. But that didnt sit well with Facebook either, because it circumvented their anticipated restrictions, Mashable reported. What about U did U get to use the app before it got axed?...

July 14, 2015 · 1 min · 94 words · Jason Brooks

China’s Intel-based Tianhe-2 remains the fastest supercomputer in the world for fifth time

Supercomputers are used for very demanding computational tasks by governments and companies and well-funded research institutions. The machines consume huge amounts of electrical power and typically occupy many cabinets. It made its debut entry at number seven, with 5.536 petaflops. However, the number of US-based systems on the list is at historical lows, pointed out Top500. source: www.techworm.net

July 13, 2015 · 1 min · 58 words · William Mendoza

DDoS attack knocks Reddit alternative Voat offline

Voat has been hit by more DDoS attacks since users flocked to use its website during the Reddit lockdown. Again,Voatwrote citing a CloudFlare support engineer. What doesnt kill you makes you stronger, right? The website has already gone up since May. At first, it was ranked below 80,000 on Alexa. Currently, it is ranked 10 in the US and 33 by Alexa globally. Thats like, crazy and stuff, Voats administrators said on Twitter....

July 13, 2015 · 1 min · 87 words · Thomas Hoffman

German Government to release the secret UFO files to public, as it loses the right to keep them private

However, others seemed to be uncertain as to whether the documents would actually disclose anything new. source: www.techworm.net

July 13, 2015 · 1 min · 18 words · Diana Peterson

Get your body fat percentage calculated on this website with a single photo

Heres how it works. Firstly, you oughta upload a quality picture of your upper body. In other words, a picture with absolutely no flexing and only with just arms your relaxed. The above details along with the picture are taken from there by Bodywhat. How precise is it? Bodywhat claims that its confidence interval which is 95% lies somewhere between 3.0% and 3.5%. Bodywhat provides your body fat percentage, which is the most useful metric....

July 13, 2015 · 1 min · 186 words · John Abbott

No. 1 X6800 Rugged Smartphone To Come With A Massive 6,800mAh battery

However, the handset has another unique feature that makes it stand out from the competition. There are no details provided by the company as to how long the unit can last on backup. Apart from this amazing feature, the handset also comes with a 5.5 inch 720p display. It also sports a 1.3GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 64-bit processor coupled with 1GB of RAM. It comes with an 8GB in-built storage capacity, which can expanded up to 128GB via microSD card support....

July 13, 2015 · 1 min · 149 words · Jill Schneider