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Vimal Govin Manikandan, an engineering student has gone ahead and built a real-life Iron Man suit using exoskeleton technology. While it doesn’t fly and can hardly walk, Manikandan and his team developed a novel way to control a walking robot suit. Manikandan says the suit was inspired by action movies especially the Hollywood blockbuster Avatar that featured machines designed for use by the military. The exoskeleton made by Manikandan weighs 220 pounds, and can roughly lift 330 pounds....

Covering your computer microphone with tape will do nothing, here’s what you should do insteadIt is quite simple. All you need to do is make your PC deaf to give hackers the run-around. While it may be thought that placing a tape over the microphone can ensure safety, Mashable decided to test this technique. However, on examination, they found that Zuckerberg’s method with clear tape as well as thicker gaffer’s tape did not work....

For those unaware, a couple of months ago, Broadcom had made an unexpected and unsolicited bid to acquire its rival chipmaker, Qualcomm for $130 billion in November 2017 but this initial bid was rejected by Qualcomm’s board of directors, and so were every subsequent counter offer claiming that Broadcom’s proposed price for the deal “undervalues” the company. In February 2018, a revised buyout of $121 billion was offered by Broadcom, which was too rejected by Qualcomm....

“TGIF has traditionally provided a place to come together, share progress, and ask questions, but it’s not working in its current form,” Pichai wrote in the email explaining the meeting change. He noted that Google is “unfortunately seeing a coordinated effort to share our conversations outside of the company after every TGIF.” Further, Pichai in his note referred to recent leaks given by the employees to the media. “I know this is new information to many of you, and it has affected our ability to use TGIF as a forum for candid conversations on important topics....

Leawo iOS Data Recovery is desktop software (with separate versions for Windows and Mac) that works with all iOS devices, including iPhone 7. It’s designed to recover and backup deleted data, including text messages, contacts, notes, and more. Additionally, it can quickly scan and extract 14 kinds of files, like photos, videos, contacts, WhatsApp files, calendars, etc. from iTunes and iCloud backups or obtain and backup the 14 kinds of files by directly scanning your iOS devices....

Except for a couple of regressions, things look to have calmed down for Linux 4.7. According to Linus Torvalds, this could just be the last RC for Linux kernel 4.7, which means that the final release will be announced on July 24, 2016. “We’ve had a nicely calm week, which is what I expected – the last RC really was bigger just due to random timing issues, and not some worrying pattern about this release cycle,” said Linus Torvalds in today’s announcement....

The Twitter hijack of Tesla account was noticed at 5 PM ET when it tweeted that Tesla was no longer in control of the Twitter account. The subsequent tweets suggest prank from the hijackers because they posted a phone number and told Tesla Twitter followers that those who called on that number could get a free car. The hackers also change the Tesla account name was changed to #RIPPRGANG....

For those unfamiliar, crypto-jacking, also often referred to as drive-by mining, is the process whereby hackers and websites host sections of code that have the ability to secretly siphon off your computer processing power towards mining cryptocurrency for the offenders to make money from. Currently, crypto-jacking is on the rise and so are cryptocurrency prices. “Cryptojacking just came out of nowhere,” said Kevin Haley, director of Symantec security response, adding that he doesn’t expect it to drop in popularity in 2018....

The accused, Balaram Mukhi sold his son for Rs 25,000, and out of that sum, he spent Rs 2,000 on the mobile phone, Rs 1,500 on a silver anklet for his seven year-old daughter and bought one saree for his wife, Sukuti Mukhi. The remaining money was used by Balaram to buy alcohol for his session of debauchery. Anup Sahoo, Bhadrak’s Superintendent of Police (SSP) said Mukhi has no regular income....

George Takei, Facebook’s resident sharer of stuff that makes us laugh, posted a video credited to the video feed Jukin Media in which an unnamed user is seen trying out an Oculus headset inside a Microsoft store. However, sometime later, while climbing up a virtual mountain, the man has an unexpected fall not only in-game but also in real life. The video has been viewed 8.5 million times. On checking the video, one can see that the man is playing a game in which he is climbing some virtual cliff or mountain....

“We just launched Internet.org in Malawi, giving people on the TNM and Airtel Malawi networks access to free basic internet services. With this launch, Internet.org is now available to more than 1 billion people around the world! Giving people free access is the right thing to do. We will keep connecting more people and more countries, and we won’t stop until every person in the world can connect to the internet,” says Zuckerberg’s post which accompanied the infographic image....

Everything went according to plan for Michael Bank, and he even got a “yes” from his significant other, but what happened next could have easily given his marriage a completely new direction. On his way back home, Bank decided to take a different and steeper path, so it didn’t take long until he became stranded on a ledge, according to a report by LA Times. Bank used the same iPhone that he used to propose to his girlfriend, to alert the emergency teams....

Dial back to now, Max Payne 1 and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne are being remade by Remedy Entertainment in association with Rockstar Games. The duo behind the original series is coming together to reignite the franchise that introduced groundbreaking story game-play to many gamers. “We were thrilled when our long-time friends at Remedy approached us about remaking the original Max Payne games,” said Rockstar Games founder Sam Houser in a press release....

Called “Zanco Tiny t1”, the phone has been developed by Clubit New Media, an 18-year-old company involved in retail and wholesale distribution of video games, collectibles, novelty gifts and gadgets. Zanco tiny t1 has been listed on a Kickstarter campaign. “The creation of the Zanco Tiny T1 was motivated purely by the challenge of whether or not it was possible to create a phone so small,” Robert Lattibeaudiere, operations manager at creators Clubit New Media, told Digital Trends....

Let’s have a look at the specs. The Micromax Canvas Hue 2 comes with an Android 4.4.2 KitKat operating system out of the box and offers dual-SIM support. It is powered by a 1.7GHz octa-core MediaTek processor coupled with 2GB of RAM. The smartphone features a 5-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display that supports HD (720p) resolution. It also come with 16GB of internal storage capacity, which can be further expanded up to 64GB via microSD card slot....

By doing so, the Redmond-based tech giant is attempting to convince its users to install other apps developed by them if they are not already installed on the user’s smartphone. Android Police discovered that while trying to share images using a Microsoft app, the Share menu now is advertising an option to share the images using OneDrive, even if it is not installed on the user’s device. Tapping on that option, which typically includes the “Install” tag next to it will bring you to the Google Play Store, where you can download and install the app....

Microsoft has described the InPrivate Desktop feature as a “throwaway sandbox for secure, one-time execution of untrusted software,” reports Bleeping Computer. The upcoming InPrivate Desktop feature has also been described as “an inbox, speedy VM (virtual machine) that is recycled when you close the app.” For those unaware, Sandbox is a security mechanism for separating running programs, usually in an effort to mitigate system failures or software vulnerabilities from spreading....

“All of a sudden people could be so much more productive,” says Armando Solar-Lezama at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was not involved in the work. “They could build systems that it [would be] impossible to build before.” The paper, DeepCoder: Learning to Write Programs, is a basic system with some limitations according to the researchers. However, it is a significant step forward in the world of coding and artificial intelligence (AI)....

Back then, Panoy told, “Artificial Intelligence is going to reinvent how you do everything on Windows, quite literally,” during a discussion with the host and AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su at the CES 2023. He spoke about the integration of AI in the Windows experience. The duo spoke mainly about the new AI engine in AMD’s Ryzen 7040 series chips, the first x86 processor to contain a dedicated AI engine that would enable Microsoft to build the next generation of AI-powered software....