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Here are a few impressive facts about Sundar Pichai who rose from humble backgrounds to be the CEO of GoogleSundar Pichai on the Professional Front: Sundar Pichai’s Personal Life: Hence, certain major changes were made in the executive structure of Google which included the announcement of Sundar Pichai to be appointed as CEO of Google while Larry Page will totally concentrate on the new venture Alphabet Inc. and Sergey Brin would serve as President to Alphabet....

Today, however, the site has been pretty much unreachable showing only a CloudFlare error message The official message from Torrent Freak is: The EZTV team is aware of the issues and are working to resolve the downtime complications. Even with the outage there are new torrent releases coming out, and can be accessed through reverse proxies such as EZTV-proxy.net. The EZTV distribution group also continues to post its torrents on KickassTorrents, The Pirate Bay and other sites....

Trinity Mirror accepts liability in #Phonehacking caseTrinity Mirror PLCWhat is #phonehacking scandalTrinity Mirror link On 24 September 2014, Trinity Mirror had for the first time admitted that some its journalists had been involved in phone hacking scandal. It further agreed to pay compensation to entertainer Shane Richie, soap actresses Shobna Gulati and Lucy Benjamin and BBC creative director Alan Yentob. However as soon as it announced its intentions to compensate the victims of the alleged #phonehacking scandal, the number of claimants jumped to 50....

During her speech at the Democratic National Convention Platform hearing in Washington, D.C this week, Nancy went on to list different elements of the iPhone that various parts of the government had contributed to in certain ways. “Anybody here have a smartphone?” Pelosi asked an audience at a hearing on the Democratic National Convention platform. She then held up her iPhone, and said that “In this smartphone, almost everything came from federal investments in research....

However the hacking has already been done and at the time of writing this article the website of City of San Marcos, Texas as well as that of the San Marcos Police Department is down. Bitcoin Baron, the hacker who took down these sites said that the had targeted the sites to demand a police officer named James Palermo be fired from San Marcos Police Department and imprisoned for injuring Alexis Adelphi....

In January 2011, an isolated employee had gained access to “call charge records and text messages,” the company said on Saturday. Natalie O’Brien, a Fairfax Media journalist had uncovered a serious security flaw in 2011 in the company’s data storage methods. This meant that all the details of millions of customers that used generic passwords were available online, such as their names, addresses and credit card details. In 2012, Vodafone Group’s former Australian fraud boss, Colin Yates has sent an email highlighting his concern regarding the hacking of O’Brien’s phone that may become known to the public, disclosed the Internal Vodafone documents obtained by News Limited....

A report on Bloomberg stated Xiaomi’s Mi Power Bank sales have been hit very hard owing to a large number of replicated products in the market. It’s said that the company had a sales target of 30 million units for the year of 2014, but it only managed to achieve less than 50% of its predicted goal. 14.6 million Was much far from what was estimated and Xiaomi’s CEO Lei Jun has forged products to blame saying that ‘there are many fakes’ and if these copies didn’t exist, the company’s sales would have doubled or even tripled....

Apple OS X YosemiteSpotlight Search FeatureDisclaimerOther fixes in OS X Yosemite While the Yosemite has been received well by the Apple users, but a section of the users including privacy advocates have panned Apple for compromising the users privacy in the latest version of OS X Yosemite. Spotlight Search Feature Critics and pro privacy advocates pointed out that Yosemite sends location information to Apple by default via the Spotlight search feature....

Yuan Kang, CEO Terminal Sales South Asia, ZTE said “At ZTE it’s our mission to get the technology of the future in the hands of our customers today. The Indian consumer is getting ready for 4G and we want to make sure that not only compatible devices are available to the consumers, but are also available at an affordable price.” “We are extremely excited to introduce the ZTE Blade Qlux 4G to every Indian who wants to be tomorrow ready....

14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, a freshman at Irving MacArthur High School, said he took an electronic clock he built over the weekend to school on Monday morning to show his engineering teacher his skills with making things. However, the school authorities called the police mistaking the electronic clock for a bomb. The boy, who has won awards for his inventions, was taken in handcuffs to juvenile detention, The Dallas Morning News reported....

Israel Defense Forces, Official Government portal, website of Israeli’s ministry of Finance, Bank of Jerusalem, the Embassy of Israel to the United States, I.A.A. – Israeli Airports Authority, the Central Bureau of Statistics and Israeli Immigration, Bank of Israel, the Israeli PM’s Office and dozens of other Government websites were among the targets. How Long the Attack lasted: The cyber attack which started on Sunday morning may not be ending soon....

The wonder kid in question is American Reuben Paul, a cyber security expert and white hat hacker who’s currently studying in the sixth standard of a school in Austin, Texas. If you have been following Techworm, we had already reported about the hacking skills of Reuben way back in 2015 when he warned an audience about the dangers of smartphone hacking while delivering a keynote address as a 9-year-old. “From airplanes to automobiles, from smart phones to smart homes, anything or any toy can be part of the” Internet of Things (IOT),” Reuben told the crowd....

While cricket is very famous in countries like England, Australia, India, Pakistan, and New Zealand, people from all over the world love to watch cricket matches online. Well, if you have been looking for some of the best live cricket streaming sites or simply want to enjoy today’s live one-day, t20, or test match you can use the below-mentioned sites. So these are some of the excellent and free sites to watch cricket online that are worth checking out....

Symantec’s website has reported that more than 2500 Twitter accounts have been compromised to tweet links to websites whose expertise lies in adult dating and sex content. The attackers have also altered users’ profile pictures, biography and full name to further promote these sites, and keep in mind that these attackers are not just doing this for the sake of fun, because according to Symantec, these hackers are believed to have earned US $4....

The success of the project was so impressive that Microsoft has decided to create specific applications for Windows Phone and integrate the service in searches of Bing for faster access. Twins or Not is a similar service to How Old, you have to upload photographs of two persons to the website and it will tell you how much you resemble each other. Twins of Not takes two photos and will assess how similar the people in these photos are, giving you a score from 0 to a 100....

Defending its number two ranking is Apple, whose brand value shot up by 37% to $146.3 billion. However, the report’s authors described its future as “looking bleak.” “Apple has failed to diversify and grown overdependent on sales of its flagship iPhones, responsible for two thirds of revenue,” the report said. “With the advent of emerging world brands like Huawei, Apple’s increasing focus on what are effectively luxury products may cost the brand a fair share of the global mass market, limiting the potential for brand value growth....

The first new feature is reportedly called “Copy Less”, which will reportedly give your Android smartphone the ability to automatically identify the relevant information you would want to copy from a source when you are sending a text or an email. To demonstrate this feature, VentureBeat provides the following example: “[If] you and a friend are having a conversation in a chat about where to eat dinner and you find a good restaurant in the Yelp app, when you go back to your conversation and type “it’s at,” one automatically generated suggestion in Gboard would be the restaurant’s address....

Side-channel attack has been used earlier to hack into air gapped computers but this is the first time researchers have used this vector to steal encryption keys from Android smartphones and iOS devices. Five researchers from universities in Tel Aviv and Adelaide have devised a new crypto side-channel attack that can extract encryption keys from electromagnetic emanations coming out of Android and iOS devices that are running cryptographic operations. For the uninitiated, in cryptography, a side-channel attack is any attack based on information gained from the physical implementation of a cryptosystem, rather than brute force or theoretical weaknesses in the algorithms (compare cryptanalysis)....

Deadly Apple Store Crash The tragedy took place on November 21 when an SUV drove through the front glass window of Apple’s retail location at the Derby Street Shops plaza in Hingham, Massachusetts. The SUV driver, Bradley Rein, 53, of Hingham, claimed his right foot got stuck on the gas pedal and that he was unable to apply the brakes before his vehicle crashed into the store. However, a fire marshall who saw video footage (likely from CCTV) of the accident, said that the act seemed to be intentional....