Personal data of millions of children and adults may have been compromised after a creepy hack of the toymaker VTech servers happened last month. While the extent of the damage is not yet known, police in the U.K. have arrested a suspect on suspicion of crimes not related to the illegal access to a computer. […]
Facebook will start to include relevant results from all public posts in its search results. Facebook confirmed this major enhancement to its search function in an announcement last week. Facebook users can now expect to get better search results but not without some concern over privacy. When Facebook users search using the improved feature, relevant […]
A wildlife report by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) titled Hidden Himalayas: Asia’s Wonderland has confirmed the discovery of over 200 new species in the Eastern Himalayas, during the period of 2009 – 2014. The region well known for its diverse ecosystem and remarkable fauna is home to some weird and wonderful finds – […]
Verizon has been working hard to increase the speed of its wireless network while also surpassing its rivals in the 5G race. According to Roger Gurnani, chief information officer at Verizon, the company is going to test its new 5G (fifth generation) wireless technology sometime in the next year, and could become the first wireless […]
Within a day of launch almost 14 million devices have been installed with Windows 10, claims a blog post by Microsoft. The demand is unprecedented and the feedback overwhelmingly positive according to Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate VP of Windows, who wrote the post. On Wednesday Microsoft launched the much awaited Windows 10 operating system in 190 […]
The original iPad mini was discontinued from Apple’s online stores signalling the end-of-life for the once highly respected and attractively priced “smaller” tablet that Apple introduced in October 2012. The de-listing on 19th was a quite move and may have gone unnoticed if not for staff at 9to5 blog instantly spotting it. iPad minis were […]
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has proposed new rules that look to give cell phone owners more tools that will protect them from unwanted phone calls and text messages. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler introduced the proposal that would eliminate the loopholes within the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991. This is a law that restricts […]
More Android devices will soon have Microsoft apps pre-installed. The move is thanks to the company’s 20 new partnerships with tablet markets around the globe. The group of regional and global partners includes Sony, LG, Wortmann and Haier, and their future devices will have Word, Excel, Skype, PowerPoint and OneNote already installed. It’s not known […]
It was a rough Saturday for the IT department at Tesla: both their Twitter account and website had been hacked. It also appeared that the company’s CEO Elon Musk had his personal Twitter account also hacked for a short time. The first signs of the hacking appear around 2 p.m. Pacific time when a tweet […]
According to a new study, the color of light has a tremendous effect on the body’s clock, and how the brain uses it relative to time of day. The study, which hailed from the University of Manchester, looked at how light changes during dawn and dusk could actually help both animals and humans to figure […]