Apple claims that M1 is the world’s first chip for the PC to be built on 5-nanometer process technology. In this article, we have shared everything that you need to know about the M1 chip from Apple. Apple M1 5nm Octa-Core SoC Similar to every other SoC in existence, the new Apple M1 combines CPU, GPU, I/O, memory, security, and more into a single chip. The M1 SoC has an 8-core CPU consisting of four high-performance cores and four high-efficiency cores....

Additionally, the 6th Gen iPad Mini was also launched at the event today. The new iPad Mini features a design that’s almost similar to iPad Pro. Due to the narrow borders, Touch ID on iPad Mini has been moved to the top button. As the title suggests, in this article we have shared everything you need to know about the new iPad 9th Gen and the iPad Mini 6th Gen....

The recent report suggests that the iPhone 15 Pro models slated for release in year 2023 will be Apple’s first SIM-free iPhone replacing current generation iPhones that use physical nano-SIM card slot. It will also have support for two e-SIM cards to guarantee dual SIM capability. The iPhone dual e-SIM feature will allow users to have two lines at the same time. “Apple has long been experimenting with ways to no longer need the SIM card (known in Brazil as the “carrier chip”), implementing e-SIM technology....

At first Apple refused to pay off this company for the ideas their employees spent years innovating but unfortunately Apple has been left with no choice but to take this fight up through the U.S. Patent court system. Which in the end sided with Smartflash LLC. Despite Apple and its legal savvy attorneys that battled with the likes of the mega corporation of Samsung for violating its patents One has to wonder how the hell Apple lost to the likes of an 8th grade dropout who created a trollish company called Smartflash LLC....

This is the second bug-fixing update (18R402) for watchOS after Apple released watchOS 7 in September this year. The Cupertino giant had released the first bug-fix update on September 24 just a week after it released the original version. This watchOS 7.0.1 update contained improvements and bug fixes, including fixing an issue where some payment cards in Wallet were disabled for some users. According to Apple’s release notes, watchOS 7....

Researchers at Khovd Museum who excavated the mummy’s grave unearthed several possessions such as a clay vase, a saddle, pillows, a trough, a bridle, an iron kettle, a wooden bowl, four ‘dool’ (ancient Mongolian clothes) and the carcass of a whole horse. However, the item that created an online stir was that the ancient human was found buried wearing a pair of boots with a design that somehow resembles the Adidas logo....

Emoji Passwords Launched By UK Firm To Replace Four-Digit Pin CodeHere is Emoji password in action Intelligent Environments say its Emoji Passcode service is more safe because there are more possible combinations of the 44 emojis than there are of the numbers 0-9. The intense complexity of the emoji character makes it difficult to break into bank accounts to a greater extent. They also claim that some digital banks have already shown interest in the idea....

Joaquín Sorianello told MSA, the company that manufactures the Vot.ar e-voting system, that the SSL certificates used by the system to encode transmissions between the central election office and voting stations could be downloaded without any difficultly, providing the opportunity for possible voting fraud (or just a good traditional DDOS attack). Sorianello says that after informing the company regarding the flaw, he never received a phone call from MSA. However, he found out that his home was suddenly raided by Argentine police, who seized Kindles, computers and many storage devices (from a Google translation of the source): Speaking to numerous news outlets, Sorianello has pointed out the fact that he is a programmer and not a hacker....

Ubisoft is celebrating its 30th birthday in the video gaming field this year. The French multinational video game publisher is offering PC gamers seven digital games (from June to December) free of charge on Uplay, their own PC gaming platform. Yesterday, the big publisher made another classic Assassin’s Creed III available to its fans as the last gift to finish the year. Prince of Persia: Sands of Time was the first free game back in June, followed up by Splinter Cell in July, Rayman Origins in August, The Crew in September, Beyond Good & Evil in October, and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon in November....

The detailed study of the discovery of distant world, known as KELT-4Ab was published in the Astronomical Journal. While the planet orbits one star in the system, that star is circled by a pair of stars. Standing on the surface of the KELT-4Ab, the two orbiting stars would appear as bright as the full moon does in our sky. In addition to describing an exotic solar system, the study also provides new details on the evolution of a “hot Jupiter,” or a gas giant that orbits close to its host star....

The Taiwanese tech giant recently found themselves in hot waters as they admitted issues with their ROG series motherboard. Their ROG Maximus Hero Z690 motherboard is wreaking havoc for many of the users. Issues at hand include no POST, damaged motherboard components, and memory detection errors (QCODE 53). They have admitted the mistake and have agreed to replace the affected series of the model. What’s causing the issue? YouTuber Actual Hardcore Overclocking did his analysis and found one common problem across all the affected motherboards – two shorted and burned out MOSFETs, basically a capacitor that is responsible for switching on/off electrical components....

According to the attorneys, the law firm claims that Windows 10 threatens user privacy, as the operating system collects browser history, passwords, location, emails, calendar events and voice samples and passes them on to third parties. The request could suggest that Microsoft could use this data for its own purpose and also to transfer them to third parties, from advertisers to security services to courts. The attorneys are mainly concerned with maintaining legal confidentiality....

The eerie incident happened in ING Bank’s main data center located in Bucharest, Romania. The trigger for the incident was a failed fire extinguishing test which set a fire in the data center premises. But what happened next was a rare and shocking phenomenon never witnessed before. People heard a loud sound of inert gas being released and the next thing that happened shocked the data center employees as well as service engineers....

The cyber security firm said Wednesday that while Bluetooth devices are not vulnerable for the same kind of attack, wireless mouse and keyboards using radio communication protocols operating in the 2.4GHz ISM band are subject to hacking from up to 100 meters away. “They haven’t encrypted the mouse traffic that makes it possible for the attacker to send unencrypted traffic to the dongle pretending to be a keyboard and have it result as keystrokes on your computer....

The person in question is Larry Mitchell, of Kokomo, Indiana, who wants people to donate to his GoFundMe page so that they can send him back to Africa. “Send me ‘back’ to Africa fund … If you want me to go back to Africa I will gladly go … you can help make your dream and mine come true … accepting all donations … KKK, Skin Heads and anyone else with like mind thinking are welcome to donate … Thank you....

At the time of termination of services, devices running BlackBerry 7.1 OS and earlier software, BlackBerry 10 software, and BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 and earlier software through either carrier or Wi-Fi connections will no longer reliably function. These devices will lack the ability to receive over-the-air provisioning updates and as such, this functionality will no longer be expected to reliably function, including for data, phone calls, SMS, and 9-1-1 functionality....

The bug also affects latest versions of Opera while opening the special characters in Firefox causes the browser to load deformed url. If you want to try out the bug just type out into your browser address bar. However the bug does not affect Chrome on Mac PCs or on Android smartphones. Though some users have noted that the Chrome build on Android smartphones returns the dreadful ‘Aw! Snap’ error page....

42 year old Arthur Budovsky, its creator first started the digital currency service in 2006 from Costa Rica. However it fell foul with US authorities and the Liberty Reserve creator was arrested. In a ruling yesterday, a US judge sentenced Budovsky to 20 years. The U.S. government contended that the whole thing was just a massive, $6 billion money laundering operation. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Denise L. Cote sentenced him to two decades in federal prison....

In the latest development from Silicon Valley, a Palo Alto startup called Knightscope has developed a fleet of crime-fighting machinery for a safer tomorrow. The Knightscope K5 Security Robot has begun patrolling the streets to fight crime, and these robots have the capability to see, hear, feel and smell. These robots are cute and inviting to the public. “We’ve had people go up and hug it, and embrace it for whatever reason,” said Stacy Stephens, co-founder of the borderline cartoonishly named Knightscope....

Researcher discovers new privilege escalation Zero-day in OS X Yosemite including v10.10.5Macs still vulnerable as Apple doesnt know about the vulnerability Apple moved quickly and released a patch for the DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE vulnerability with a new OS X point release. However, Italian talian developer Luca Todesco has discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in the Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite operating system, affecting all available updates, including the recently released v10.10.5. https://twitter.com/qwertyoruiop/status/632665422593179649 The exploit which is given on GitHub page here, relies on a combination of attacks including a null pointer dereference in the I/O Kit open-source framework that lets developers write device drivers for Apple’s OS X and iOS operating systems, for dropping a proof-of-concept payload into a root shell....