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Last summer ,Mozilla’s Josh Carpenter said that the company knows that “achieving VR is really a big deal and it presents a great challenge- so we accept great challenges.” To give users a feeling of being in a really different and virtual world, you need to get the latency between head movements and the screen reacting to them down to an absolute minimum. Mozilla also said that, the company motto is not just only to benefit the VR experience, but also the web experience as a whole....

Now, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos on Thursday has confirmed during an interview at the Cannes Lions advertising festival about the company’s plan to add a new ad-supported tier to its subscription service in the near future to attract more customers, reports The Hollywood Reporter. “We’ve left a big customer segment off the table, which is people who say: ‘Hey, Netflix is too expensive for me and I don’t mind advertising,’” Sarandos told The Hollywood Reporter....

According to Forcepoint’s 2016 Global Threat Report, Jaku (Star Wars reference alert — Jakku) has claimed 19,000 victims across 134 countries so far. Most of its victims are from countries such as Japan and South Korea, which comprise 73 percent of all infections. A six month investigation by Forcepoint’s Special Investigations (SI) team revealed that “Jaku herds victims en masse and conducts highly targeted attacks on specific victims through the execution of concurrent operational campaigns....

The accused, Park Jin Hyok worked as part of a team of hackers, also known as the Lazarus Group, has been charged under the strategy planned by the U.S. government for naming and shaming the hackers in order to prevent future cyber attacks. According to an FBI wanted poster released on Thursday, Park is identified as an alleged North Korean programmer who is accused of being “part of a state-sponsored hacking organization responsible for some of the costliest computer intrusions in history....

The very first picture of NVIDIA’s GDDR6-based graphics card indicate that the GPU in the center of the board is missing, which suggest that the board in question is designed to support a next-gen Nvidia GPU. Although the prototype lacks a GPU, it does feature 12GB of VRAMs from Micron, a 384-bit memory bus, three 8-pin PCIe power connectors, a second generation NVLINK connector and a huge VRM setup with four fans....

NVIDIA’s P100 GPU will also come with several different models, and will be available in the 16GB and 12GB variants that come with memory bandwidths of 732GB/s and 549GB/s respectively. This means that there will be versions that use four 4GB HBM2 chips while there will be other versions with three active 4GB HBM2 memory chips. With this new GPU, NVIDIA is showcasing how scalable their new P100 GPUs can be when used with NV-link, which allows systems to scale up to 8 P100 GPUs in a single system....

1. Smartphone and Tablet Repair Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last decade, and you haven’t, you’ve noticed that no matter where you look, everyone has their noses stuck to their devices. People even pay more attention to their smartphones or tablets than their walking and driving, which really isn’t a good idea. You may be tempted to shout, “Look up! Enjoy the beautiful day!” but what if you could others’ obsessions into your pot of gold?...

It all started in the summer of 2015, when a security bug in Google’s V8 JavaScript engine that affected versions between 3.20 and 4.2, which are widely used in most Android built-in Web browsers. The same engine also underpins Chrome and Opera browsers, as well as apps that call it e.g. Tencent X5 SDK used in WeChat. However, only in August 2016 did the Chinese researchers discover that the V8 issue also affected a whole range of Android-related products where the older V8 engine versions had been deployed, despite this bug being public for more than a year....

Security researcher Nils Rodday at the RSA security conference in San Francisco on Wednesday demonstrated how defects in the $35,000 drone’s radio connection allowed him to completely take over the quadcopter with the help of just a laptop and a cheap radio chip connected via USB. Any hacker who’s able to reverse engineer the drone’s flight software can imitate that controller to send navigation commands by taking advantage of the lack of encryption between the drone and its controller module known as a “telemetry box....

A group known as Team Molecule have hacked the Sony’s PS Vita through the console’s web browser, which gives homebrew users full access to the Vita hardware. You can now reinvent it as a console emulator. The relatively simple jailbreak is known as Dubbed HENkaku and it works with the latest 3.60 Vita firmware. All Vita owners with the latest 3.6 version can simply browse to the HENkaku website and tap install....

The two multinational companies Sony and Microsoft had announced that the latest home consoles supporting 4K gaming will be sold at some point while the hardware revision (firmware) allegedly pertains to support viewing 4K movies only The new consoles supporting 4K theory gained ground after, John Hunt, Netflix exec, claimed that Sony has ‘promised’ a new version of the console that will include 4K video capability with additional capabilities of supporting HDR....

Some of suicidal tweets made by the hackers from his account and which are now deleted are given below : Even as the hackers were posting this worrying tweet, the rappers fans took to social media to console him with a hashtag #PrayForGriminal which was trending late into night. “I’m scared how I’ll die, but fk it. When I go, I go init. BRUV, EVERYTHING AROUND ME IS FKED “Everyone who ever dissed me was right, that’s why I deserve to die....

How often do you get a personal response for a job application from the CEO of that company? Hardly many times, right? Well, in case of this 7-year-old girl, who apparently after having an influential career talk with her father applied in the Google careers page, got a personal response on the same from the CEO of the company, Sundar Pichai. It all started when Chloe Bridgewater is in love with her Kindle Fire tablet and loves “bag chairs, go-karts and slides”, figured out that sending a job application was the logical thing to do....

For those unaware, Astra Linux is a Debian-based Linux operating system developed to meet the needs of the Russian army, other armed forces and intelligence agencies. It provides data protection up to the level of “top secret” in Russian classified information grade and has been officially certified by Russian Defense Ministry, Federal Service for Technical and Export Control and Federal Security Service. In fact, Astra Linux distribution was developed by Russian company RusBITech in 2008 for use by Russian private companies but it was later expanded to the local government sector, where it became popular with military contractors....

Galaxy S6, which is the recent flagship from Samsung had a 1440 x 2560 pixels Quad HD display, which means it gave 577 pixels per square inch. The company wants to do something mind boggling with its display. A smartphone display with an 11K resolution that converts into a 2250 pixels density per inch within the limitations of a 5.75 inch screen, which means the detailing and colors on the screen would be so intense that it will be able to reproduce a 3D-effect that would not even require you to wear special glasses....

Earlier this year at the CES, Samsung had showcased a smart belt called WELT as part of a line-up of prototypes born from its Creative Lab that goes around your waist like a regular belt and will track your waist size, the number of steps you take, your sitting time and will tell you when you should get up and walk around when you’ve eaten too much. Thanks to an embedded pedometer and a magnetic clasp fitted in the buckle....

‘Avian beak’ is the most important and prominent appendages of the animal kingdom. Scientists sort of carried out reverse bio engineering on the chicken embryo and figured out the genetics that is involved in the formation of the beak. They then tried to modify the protein produced by this gene and ultimately were able to produce Dinosaur snouts in the chicken embryo instead of their normal beaks. This entire study was an attempt by the scientists to understand the evolution of avian beaks and they feel that it was the genetic transition from one type of snout to another which led to formation of beaks in today’s avian species....

Although scientists had hypothesized about REMs for a long time, they did not have proper evidence to prove this phase. In a new study, conducted by researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel, scientists from France and Israel came together to investigate the actual details of REMs. Scientists were able to demonstrate that each movement of the eye reflects a new visual information in our dreams which means that the brain captures visual images when the eyes are moving during sleep and the person is actually able to see a new image in the dream world....

IT departments are faced with increased pressure to provide safe and easy access to a growing number of cloud applications while keeping company data secure. But rolling out application access securely, especially when businesses are yet to fully adopt cloud solutions can be challenging, slow and costly. This is where federated identity management (FIM) comes in. More companies are shifting from on-premise identity and access management solutions to identity federation management solutions....

As you might know, Slack and Microsft are two rival brands in the software departments. However, recently Slack announced that the company was working on an integration with Microsoft Teams. This integration will allow users to make voice and video calls using Microsoft’s service. Well, Slack is finally launching a new app to integrate Microsoft Teams’ calling features into its messaging app today. Presently, this newly launched app is in the beta stage....