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The lowest “time on” LTE was recorded by England’s 3 UK , while CricKet USA was the slowest among all the eligible networks. It is important to note that several networks were excluded from the survey because their speed and coverage readings did not provide enough sample size for data comparison. It was found that Vodafone ES from Spain gave the fastest 4G LTE network speed averaging 18 Mbps and Vodafone ES in itself measured a speed of 25....

Now, an official Alder Lake CPU slide has been leaked and shared online by Videocardz, which provides more details on Intel’s upcoming 12th generation processor. According to the report, the CPUs will offer up to 20% single-thread performance uplift and a 100% increase in multithreaded performance due to the new Golden Cove high-performance cores and Gracemont power-saving cores. Based on a hybrid architecture, the Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs are expected to use the 10 nm Enhanced SuperFin (ESF) process to deliver smarter, faster, and more efficient real-world computing....

Two teenage boys, Chris Harris and a friend, visiting from the San Francisco Bay Area, were staying at their family’s vacation home and had tied their boat to a buoy on Tuesday evening. When they woke up the next day, they heard motorboat sounds and when they looked out their window, they realized that it was their boat that was being driven off. The boys called 911 and Harris took action....

The master has spoken. Tesla owner Elon Musk who has had a history of being wary of artificial intelligence has warned that more people will be killed in the future by AI rather than nuclear bombs. As of today, it is believed that the nuclear and hydrogen bombs are the ultimate risk to the human race. Tesla’s warning or prophecy may change the way we look at artificial intelligence. Musk was speaking in regard to the ongoing war of threats between the United States and North Korea, The belligerent regime of Kim Jong Un is hell bent on testing a nuclear device which President Trump and the US think tanks believe could alter the world peace....

Techworm takes a behind the scene non partisan look at Rehana. WHO is the real Rehana? Whatever we have heard about her is from social networks which are not authenticated. The miracle of Rehana was started by a Indian blogger Pawan Durani with this tweet on 13th Oct, 2014 which started a trend with 5K Retweets and instant like for this mysterious blonde assassin dressed in military fatigues. — Pawan Durani (@PawanDurani) October 13, 2014 But is Pawan’s claim really true?...

Like Microsoft, Google and other big tech companies, Apple asks both technical questions depending on your past work experience and some mind-boggling puzzles. The questions that are basically directed to determine the interviewee’s communication skills, problem solving ability and creativity. Given below excerpts are interesting, puzzling and wacky and have been taken from the interview data from Glassdoor. These questions were asked to prospective Apple employees during their job interviews....

After Canarevo announced his plans to cut off a man’s head and put it onto another body, he drew a lot of fascination and criticism for the same. There were many of them who believed that the operation would probably never happen until the team was announced. According to Russia Today, Canarevo is hoping to finish the procedure, which will take 36-hours, and cost $11 million by December 2017. The operation is set to take place at a hospital affiliated to Harbin Medical University in Heilongjiang, China with a team made up largely of doctors from the country....

To remind you, the USB killer does not comprise up of any flash memory soldered on the PCB, but several capacitors that send out a huge surge of current that pretty much fries anything you plug the device into. There are ways that manufacturers have prevented the USB killer from carrying its destructive objectives and in some instances, when you plug in the flash drive, it will not necessarily kill the device, but it will fry the charging port....

EMSense treats your body as a giant antenna as you touch objects so that it could read their otherwise invisible electromagnetic (EM) signals and “see” what you touch. Carnegie Mellon graduate student Gierad Laput says “[Most devices] have EM signatures. But for passive objects like steel ladders—which are conductive—they pick up EM signals from their immediate environment, like fluorescent lights or power lines. Meanwhile, non-conductive objects like pens and plastic chairs are not capable of generating EM signals....

Two researchers at the Michigan State University have found a cheap and faster method of hacking smartphones that use fingerprint biometrics to secure and lock the user’s data. Kai Cao and Anil K. Jain from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University have devised a simpler technique that uses an off-the-shelf printer and special photo paper to spoof fingerprints that can be carried out under 15 minutes....

Anvitha Vijay, a nine-year-old Indian-origin girl who develops educational applications for children, was one of the youngest attendee that Apple selected to attend the WWDC 2016 in San Francisco. Vijay is attending the annual WWDC’s event this year as part of Apple’s scholarship program, which gives free tickets to developers around the world who build applications for Apple devices. She had applied for the scholarship online. This event is quite a huge opportunity for developers and coders worldwide, being able to attend it is dream come true for Anvitha Vijay....

An Indian security researcher has discovered a zero-day in the Facebook Page which allowed him to hijack any FB Page belonging to any organisation. Arun Sureshkumar discovered a zero-day in how the Facebook handles requests for its business accounts. Arun has described his bug discovery on his Blogspot where he says he can take over Facebook Page belonging to anybody like President Obama, Prime Minister Modi etc. Facebook Business Manager lets businesses more securely share and control access to their ad accounts, Pages, and other assets on Facebook....

And it happened again, this time in India. Meet Mr.Mohammed Javed Shaikh from Ahmedabad in Gujarat. Bragging about his status on social media proved costly to a Shaikh who is a local builder. Shaikh was seeking divorce and filed a petition in the court to prove that he was ‘poor’ to save on the alimony money. On the moment of boast, Shaikh posted an image on Facebook flaunting his expensive Rada watch....

For those unfamiliar, this newly discovered bug is an upgraded version of an annoying old bug known as concon. This was a computer bug that appeared in the Windows 95 and Windows 98 operating systems and was considered as a security vulnerability because malicious web pages would crash systems with links such as file:///C:/con/con. So, how does this new iteration of bug work? This bug allows a malicious website to load an image file with the “$MFT” name in the directory path....

In a video explaining the design, the creators show how the phone case contains a slide-out drawer, inside of which lies a tiny four-propeller drone and a camera. The little drone is hidden inside a compartment between the case and the back of the phone, which works by connecting to one of the case’s tethered, detachable cameras. When the drone is taken out of the case, the foldable propellers move into the correct position....

Here are some tips to go invisible on WhatsApp and get some privacy1. Hide your Last Seen:2. Hide your Status:3. Hide your profile photo:4. No Blue Ticks please:5. Snooze or pause WhatsApp: However, it is not easy to become invisible in the recent popular messaging service, WhatsApp. So, what can you do to get rid of continuous pings and get some momentarily peace and privacy on WhatsApp. Check out the methods explained below that can help you become invisible on WhatsApp:...

Tor has announced that it is shuttering down the Tor Cloud service platform. The reasons given for the closure is some major bug that is present in the service. Tor explained the reasons in blog post,

Screenshot showing domain New York Times domain registered with Syrian Electronic Army While this Article was being Written, Twitter U.K went down. Screenshot showing domain Twitter U.K domain registered with Syrian Electronic Army Soon After twitter U.K twitter.ae went down. DNS of all these websites were changed to: ns1.syrianelectronicarmy.com ns2.syrianelectronicarmy.com Which is same as that of Official Syrian Electronic Army’s website, due to which Visitors visting on New York Times, Huffington Post were redirected to official SEA website....

AnonGhost, a pro-Palestine hacker collective has been on a unending hacking spree. The latest victim of AnonGhost cyber assault is United Nations. AnonGhost today defaced the United Nations (UN) website. They have released a statement on stating that they hacked United Nations website under the #OpSaveAlAqsa following rising tensions between Israel and Palestine surrounding the future of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem. The latest attack has seen AnonGhost hit a UN website which is used by officials to log into the UN system....