Dhiraj Mishra, a security researcher, discovered a vulnerability (CVE-2018-17780) in the official Desktop version of Telegram (tdesktop) for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Telegram Messenger for Windows apps that exposed and recorded the IP address of a user by default while taking a call due to its peer-to-peer (P2P) framework. The app leaked both public and private IP addresses during voice calls. Although users can disable P2P calls option in iOS and Android, they do not have an option to turn off the feature in the desktop client of the app and its Windows application....

Facebook now has more than 900 million users, Twitter over 500 million, LinkedIn more than 161 million, Google+ almost 400 million, and Instagram with over 80 million. These figures aren’t just numbers, but are concrete proof that social media really is stealing the scene when it comes to promoting, well, anything! Let’s face it, we all cannot hope to market or promote anything over the Web without using Twitter, at the very least....

Dubbed as OmniVision OV6948, the specialist medical camera is the size of a grain of sand, which provides high-quality images from the smallest parts of the human body. The company has developed these innovative medical imagers to address the many challenges posed by reusable medical imaging equipment, including cross-contamination risks and inefficiencies due to high maintenance costs. “At Yole Développement (Yole), we expect disposable endoscope shipments to grow at a 35....

Mike, CEO of the Useless Duck Company, has created an automatic door lock known as the Incognito Lock, which promptly stops anyone accessing a room whenever a private browser or activate browser incognito mode is opened. The gadget works via an Arduino-powered door bolt that locks itself whenever you start browsing privately in Google Chrome. To create the incognito lock, Mike connected his PC up to an Arduino Uno that’s connected to a servo-controlled lock....

And why not, as Facebook employees receive lots of perk that almost equivalent to their CEO Mark Zuckerberg. However, getting a job here is extremely difficult, as they have one of the toughest rounds of interviews in the industry. So, what do you need to do to get a job at the Menlo Park, California-based giant? Facebook global head of recruiting Miranda Kalinowski and VP of people Lori Goler recently spoke to Business Insider to discuss the company’s hiring process....

The 80-year-old Ortega inched past Gates when shares of Inditex (parent company to Zara, Massimo Dutti and Pull&Bear) went up 2.5% on Wednesday. It was an increase which equated to $1.7 billion for Ortega, which lifted Ortega’s net worth from $77.8 billion to $79.5 billion. On the other hand, Gates’ worth was an estimated $78.5 billion. However, the trading day on Friday saw Inditex’s shares drop by 2.8%, resulting in Ortega falling to second position and Gates gaining the top position again....

The researchers said that Futhark is meant to be more convenient to use than standard C/C++ frameworks for programming GPUs. The primary feature of Futhark is that it can automatically generate both C and Python code to be integrated with existing apps. Futhark is written in Haskell. As of today, most GPU programming involves using frameworks like OpenCL or CUDA, both of which use variations of C or C++ to generate code that runs on the GPU....

“The Insanely Great History of Apple 3.0” ($90) is a wide-ranging visual overview of Apple’s work that allows you to see all the Apple’s products that have appeared in the last four decades at once. The original chart was created by the Brooklyn infographic-makers in 2011 when the iPad2 was the latest invention. However, the chart has now been updated to include everything right from the iPhone SE to 9....

The Register reports that way back in December 2011 Thomas completely trashed his employer ClickMotive’s entire network. Not only that, Thomas proceeded to delete ClickMotive’s backups and notification systems for network problems leaving them high and dry. He also cut their VPN access and deleted internal wiki pages, and removed contact details for the organization’s outside tech support. Thomas’ revenge left ClckMotive stranded and without any means to troubleshoot the chaos that Thomas caused....

Chief Justice John Roberts’ decision in Elonis v. U.S. raises the bar for prosecutors looking to enforce laws against online threats, making it clear that they can still win a conviction by showing the writer intended to hurt a specific individual. While agreeing with the result, Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas still thought the decision left the standard for guilt unclear. The high court reversed the conviction of Douglas Elonis for posting speech under “Tone Dougie” that appeared to threaten mother of his two children, his amusement-park coworkers and state police and included disclaimers that the violent rap lyrics were “fictitious” bearing no intentional resemblance to real people....

Its just amazing to see that technology is advancing at a such a speed; just have a look at Apple store or any electronic store for that matter, one is sure to get the latest technology everywhere. A couple of years back to have a camera on the smartphone was a big thing and today we have so many smartphones with the latest technology embedded in it. Take the example of Apples Laptops its new Mac Book is one of the thinnest laptop available in the world today....

While there are many WhatsApp tips and tricks that you can use (check out our previous articles on best WhatsApp tips and tricks), we bring to you some lesser known features along with some best WhatsApp tips and tricks to help you master in the popular messaging service. How to edit WhatsApp picture messages You can now doodle on and edit pictures on WhatsApp before you send them. Thanks to the latest update....

Over the next two years, the company expects the TrueCaller app to be pre-installed in more than 100 million new smartphones. Truecaller is platform agnostic and aims to work with as many smartphone makers as possible in the future. Despite the app being pre-installed on the smartphone from the factory, Truecaller said that consumers are free to exercise their choice of using other phone apps with no guarantee of a new active user from start....

https://youtu.be/XjxkPcM8EMk In a symbolic message to the new government meant to show the political class that the Romanian nation is watching, the crowd of some 250,000 people gathered in front of the government building in Bucharest lit up the night sky with their smartphones. The Romanian demonstration on Sunday night was the largest protest in the country since the 1989 revolution. For those unfamiliar, people in Romania were protesting against an executive order that would have allowed many top politicians to dodge criminal investigations and even avoid prison time....

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Ground Zero, the online App developed by Carlos Labs gives you an idea of A-bomb like the Little Boy dropped by United States on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 to end the second world war, will impact your area. Ground Zero has various preset bombs which you can explore from 7 Kilotons to 400 Kilotons. The website also has an option for an Asteroid strike for you to check out....

The Link Alan Woodward, a UK based cyber security professor, has made this claim based on the research made public by the aforementioned security expert. The link is a similarity in the code used by the Lazarus group in earlier attacks targeted towards Sony and the country of Bangladesh. The claim has also been accepted by Kaspersky – another security firm based in Russia. The North Korean angle however, comes from an accepted belief that the Lazarus group – though based in China – works at the behest of the North Korean government....

The Hard Part of Investing in Bitcoin Bitcoin prices may be constantly going up, but they are also very volatile, which can scare away many investors. You will see many news stories covering this from various angles. Some will talk about how quickly Bitcoin has gone up and others will talk about the most recent drastic dip (despite the fact that Bitcoin is still up on the month). The point is volatility creates risk and scares away the investors who aren’t willing to lose all the money they put into it....

The end-to-end encryption feature of WhatsApp ensures that the message that only the sender and the recipient of the message can read what’s sent, and nobody in between, not even WhatsApp. For those unaware, on August 16th, Google and WhatsApp partnered together to provide WhatsApp users free and unlimited backups storage on Google Drive. Under the new agreement, there will be no restrictions for uploading WhatsApp backups on Google Drive....

According to a report by WABetaInfo, WhatsApp has introduced a feature for Android that will allow the users to restore deleted images from its server again. The feature was introduced in WhatsApp’s recent updates between version 2.18.106 and 2.18.110, says the report. “Recently, WhatsApp has modified this behavior: when a media is successfully downloaded, WhatsApp doesn’t delete it from the server, allowing the users to download it again if the file was accidentally deleted in the path where WhatsApp saves media”, said WABetaInfo....