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Now, Microsoft’s CEO Panos Panay has released a new teaser video showcasing the beautifully redesigned MS Paint, a popular desktop application released in 1985. “Here’s another Windows 11 first look,” Mr. Panay tweeted today. “This is the beautifully redesigned Paint app, coming soon to Windows Insiders. Can’t wait to see your creations!” — Panos Panay (@panos_panay) August 18, 2021 It is no hidden fact that Microsoft is trying to bring the MS Paint app up to the more modern design language of Windows 11....

The Bulgarian authorities said that they were keeping the hackers name confidential so as to help the investigators gather evidence against him. They have however, given details of a raid on his house that was conducted June 13. In the raid, the Bulgarian police seized computers and data storage containing advanced hacking tools belonging to the hacker. Post the Charlie Hebdo massacre, the world was divided into two groups, one in support of the the murderers and one group opposing the massacre with #JeSuisCharlie handle....

“We’re happy to confirm Android 8.0 Oreo will be joining our fleet of Motorola smartphones, starting this fall,” read the company’s blogpost. Motorola also has an online tool that allows its handset owners to select their carrier and phone to find out if/when it will be updated. The smartphones that are set to be updated to Android 8.0 Oreo are Moto Z2 Force Moto Z2 Play Moto Z Force DROID Moto Z Moto Z Play Moto G5 Moto G5 Plus Moto GS5 Moto GS5 Plus...

A new SUMO search experiment launched by Mozilla on September 6th, 2021 is testing 1% of the Desktop user base with Bing as the default search engine. The study is expected to probably run until the end of January 2022. “From Sept 6, 2021 1% of the Desktop user base will be experimenting with Bing as the default search engine. The study will last into early 2022, likely wrapping up by the end of January,” reads the SUMO study description for September 2021....

The GS65 Stealth Thin is the first gaming notebook to feature a 15.6-inch, 144Hz 7ms wide-view angle display with 4.9mm bezels. This allows the new MSI device to achieve an impressive 82% screen-to-body ratio. The laptop is 17.9mm thin and only weighs 1.88Kg. While the bezels are extremely thin, the company has confirmed that the webcam placement was not compromised, instead it just left enough room on the top bezel so that the webcam can be placed in its native position....

New Man-in-the-Middle attack called DoubleDirect Attack targeting Android and iPhone usersDoubleDirectHow does DoubleDirect workWho is at risk? DoubleDirect The so-called DoubleDirect technique enables an attacker to redirect a victim’s traffic to the attacker’s device. Once redirected, the attacker can steal credentials and deliver malicious payloads to the victim’s mobile device that can not only quickly infect the device, but also spread throughout a corporate network,” according to mobile security firm Zimperium....

If you are a Windows 7/8.1 PC/laptop owner and you haven’t yet disabled the Get Windows 10 app, the prompt linked to the upgrade is now recommending you to install the new OS and even gives you two different options viz, upgrade now and start download, upgrade later. Microsoft has now removed the ‘no’ completely. The screenshot that you see here has been posted by PCWorld’s Brad Cachos, who himself received this upgrade prompt and said that although he didn’t press the small arrow on the right edge of the window, finding a way to reject the Windows 10 upgrade was more challenging than before....

While 3D printers have been in existence for quite some time, its potential gets better and better every time. It has assisted in designing a range of objects from a foetus face to a bridge, an innovative pen by 3Doodler that has brought the technology into the very hands of the user. The 3Doodler 2.0 pen allows its users to draw in the air by using headed plastic filament that cools instantly into a solid structure....

The futuristic suit in question is the R70i Age Suit, a robotic contraption complete with “augmented reality” goggles, which makes you feel like 85 once you slip in it. It is not exceptionally charming. An attendant controls the fader and your vision dissolves into melty, grayed-out blobs, giving you a very strong experience of hallucinations. “This is called age-related macular degeneration,” the suit’s designer, Bran Ferren, said at a sneak peak on Thursday....

The RTX 3080 Ti 12GB graphics cards were reportedly spotted by the publication with cartons marked “GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Ventus 3X 12G OC” during the process of shipment from Hong Kong to retail stores in the U.S. The carton also included several other graphics cards, including the RTX 3090, Radeon RX 580, and even GeForce GT 710. According to HKEPC, Nvidia has priced the RTX 3080 Ti at $999, which is the same as AMD’s 16 GB Radeon RX 6900 XT....

Operated by the Swiss National Supercomputer Centre CSCS in Lugano, it will have its 7.8 petaflop current performance doubled to nearly 16 petaflops. This is not the only upgrades that are going to be present in the Large Hadron Collider. Piz Daint’s CPUs will also receive a CPU upgrade; from Intel Sandy Bridge to the Haswell architecture. Perhaps the primary reason why the second generation of Intel processors are going to be replaced by the company’s 4th gen of chips is because the tasks carried out are most likely GPU intensive and might not require that much power from the CPUs....

Upgrades from Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 as previously announced are free for the first year of availability. Windows 7 Starter, Windows 8/8.1, Home Basic and Home Premium users will receive Windows 10 Home. Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate, and Windows 8.1 Pro users will receive Windows 10 Pro. However, Enterprise users will get nothing, as upgrading is usually considered a part of their license agreement. According to Microsoft, on July 29, you will be able to either buy a new Windows 10 PC from retailers or download Windows 10....

Software developer TechTac has decided to come to the rescue of these frustrated Pirate Bay users. He has developed an offline searchable torrents library of The Pirate Bay, known as “OfflineBay”. While the application currently downloads and updates dump files with torrents, the developer is hoping to replace it with a blockchain in the future. This would allow the torrent database to be stored and shared among users, without the need to import a dump file....

This issue created a new market for power bank, to carry portable batteries and recharge our phone. However, the issue still lies within; the cell phones take a long time to charge. So the next possible way to solve the issue is to avail fast charging options. Therefore the manufacturers have shifted their focus towards fast charging possibilities. In today’s world, copying a technology does not take much time. So now the issue lies with the consumers....

This next-generation smartphone includes a newly calibrated 120Hz Fluid AMOLED display, and the company’s fastest charging solution ever – Warp Charge 65. “With the OnePlus 8T, we’re offering pro-level capabilities for even more users across our flagship smartphone portfolio. Featuring a class-leading 120Hz AMOLED display, our upgraded 65W fast charging technology, and fresh, bold software in OxygenOS 11, the OnePlus 8T offers an impressive overall package of powerful hardware and smooth software,” said Pete Lau, Founder and CEO of OnePlus....

In Pokemon Go, eggs aren’t supposed to do anything other than sit in your bag and hatch into a Pokemon when you’ve walked a certain distance. However, according to some news floating online, some hackers have placed a bug in Pokemon Go that is allowing its players to place eggs at gyms instead of a Pokemon. These are unbeatable gyms, where gym leaders are eggs. Eggs have no moves, and no HP....

Thankfully for all the non-tech obsessed website owners out there, the current crop of premium CDNs are getting smarter so site owners don’t have to work harder. Cache-ing in with CDNs CDNs exist to improve website performance, mainly through faster page load times. A CDN can do so because it is a network of proxy cache servers located around the world. When a CDN is in use, a website’s users are automatically redirected to the server closest to them, which is ready to serve up a website’s cacheable content upon request....

In short, they did require human intervention, but the one you are going to read about does not. A brief list of components have been listed below: Raspberry Pi 2 16GB Class 10 MicroSD card 4G LTE USB modem 100Wp MonoCrystalline PV panel 52Ah SLA battery 10A Solar charge controller with advanced charging (including float charge) and temperature compensation INA219 board for voltage monitoring and graphing on the web 12-to-5V stepdown regulator...

“Right now, the human worker who does, say, $50,000 worth of work in a factory, that income is taxed and you get income tax, Social Security tax, all those things,” said Gates in an interview with Quartz’s editor-in-chief Kevin Delaney. “If a robot comes in to do the same thing, you’d think that we’d tax the robot at a similar level.” Gates is actually hopeful about the prospect of a workforce made up significantly of robots and, he emphasizes the jobs humans will still and always be needed to do....

In an advisory published by the NCSC, a Russian hacking group known as “APT29,” “The Dukes” and “Cozy Bear” is trying to steal “valuable intellectual property” from vaccine researchers. The group has been responsible for a slew of attacks against governments and other organizations in recent years. The group is “almost certainly part of the Russian intelligence services,” said the joint statement by the UK’s NCSC, Canadian Communication Security Establishment (CSE), the U....