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Here are the 5 reasons why some Google employees live in parking lotsHigh rentsTo save moneyOn a challengeCould not find accommodationNot too difficult to stay “The benefits and care of employees is obviously world class, and compensation is almost unmatchable. But the company attracts some of the best talent and best people to work with in the world, which is the most important bit.” – Google Program Manager (San Francisco, CA)....

This guy who is absolutely obsessed with lasers has a vast majority of his inventions around them, including a laser tornado lamp, a drone with a laser and even a laser sword. Last year, he introduced his ridiculous 40W laser shotgun, an impressive and overkill rig that set pingpong balls on fire and will blind you if you look at it wrong. The bazooka is a somewhat similar design to the shotgun, although it works on a whole other order of magnitude....

Security firm CrowdStrike Inc. is reporting that seven different U.S. companies have been attacked by Chinese hackers since that date despite signing a no-hack pact last month. The no-hack deliberately omitted a clause that would not allow both US and China to hacking each other for national or political purposes. Even taking that into consideration, CrowdStrike believes the hackers in this instance were state-sponsored, the attacks appeared to be far more commercial....

According to the report by Citizen Labs, Chinese attackers used the Great Firewall’s offensive sister-system, named the Great Cannon, to launch a recent series of distributed denial of service attacks targeting the anti-censorship site, GreatFire.org, and the global code repository, Github. GreatFire.org which is a internet freedom group and specializes on censhorship activities in China was first targetted by the Great Cannon tool on March 16. A week later, the global code repository website, Github came under the attack from Great Cannon on March 26....

The research team from the University of Science and Technology of China and the University of Massachusetts Medical School published the results of their findings in the scientific journal ‘Cell’, a globally renowned scientific journal based in Massachusetts, on February 28. Researchers from the United States and China have created an “ocular nanoparticle” that can detect invisible near-infrared (NIR) light. The nanotechnology works by binding with the retinal cells in the eye that convert light into electric signals....

It could be certified as the hack that changed the way Hollywood celebrities view Internet. Nearly two years after hackers released hundreds of nude images of Hollywood stars in a major scandal that came to be known as the Fappening, new court documents reveal the name of the FBI’s top suspected hacker: Ed Majerczyk. Majerczyk, a Chicago man, is accused of phishing his way into sexually explicit photos from celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Justin Verlander, Kirsten Dunst, and others....

Apple manufactures most of its products in China to maximize profits. It also requires the low-cost labor in China to make its products competitive. In addition, China’s electronics supply chains are much larger than what the US has to offer. Speaking at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA., Trump intensified his speech-making on Apple’s overseas manufacturing, and claimed somehow the US would get back those jobs in the future. “We have such amazing people in this country: smart, sharp, energetic, they’re amazing,” Trump said....

Donald Trump is the45th President of the United States of AmericaTrump takes 276 electoral votes to 218 for Hillary Clinton Many left-liberals had said that they will move out of India after Indian Prime Minister Modi’s win and leave the United Kingdom after the Brexit win for conservatives. Similarly, many left-liberals in the United States had announced migrating to Canada if Donald Trump wins the US Presidential Elections of 2016. Even many Hollywood stars like Miley Cyrus, Amy Schumer announced that they would leave the US if Trump wins....

It is now learned that Musk has decided to terminate the deal to buy out the popular microblogging platform for not complying with its contractual obligations as required. According to a letter sent by Skadden Arps attorney Mike Ringler on behalf of Musk to the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday, it said that Twitter was “in material breach of multiple provisions” of the merger agreement. The letter states that “Mr....

Lo will report to the Vice President of Infrastructure Jason Taylor. “We’re excited to have Kevin join Facebook. Kevin will help shape our strategy and broader framework for Facebook’s infrastructure connectivity investments with partners. He will work alongside Facebook’s infrastructure and connectivity teams to help build an active partner ecosystem and accelerate the adoption of new technologies that can drastically change the economics of deploying internet infrastructure,” said Facebook in a statement....

A security researcher, Inti De Ceukelaire has published a detailed post how Facebook developers can spy on private links in Facebook Messenger. De Ceukelaire found that through the right API call he could summon links shared by specific FB users in private messages. The links were collected by the Facebook crawler, where De Ceukelaire discovered they were easily accessible to anyone running a Facebook app. De Ceukelaire found that the developers could access any link that could be popular news story or a link to some private website meant only for the reader....

In a few days you will be able to watch top music videos in your Facebook feedsUniversal, Sony and Warner Music declined to talk about the discussions with Facebook.The social network has made its video ambitions quite clear. The New York Times has reported that rather than joining the crowded streaming landscape, Facebook has its sites set on music videos, a territory which has been dominated for years by YouTube. Facebook, The social-networking giant has held licensing talks in recent weeks with major recording labels to insert music videos directly into users’ feeds, the newspaper reports, citing anonymous sources described as being brief on the talks....

Therefore, in order to help those candidates who are aspiring to work for Facebook, Glassdoor has scanned through thousands of online reviews submitted by people who went through the interview process and picked out some of the toughest questions asked. In this article, we provide you the 10 toughest interview questions Facebook asks job candidates. Interview candidate: Facebook data scientist Question: How many birthday posts occur on Facebook on a given day?...

More often than not, hackers often prefer bitcoin as their main medium of payment, due to its peer to peer decentralized ledger, which enables instantaneous transactions and asset settlement. Nevertheless, FBI, the USA’s top law enforcement agency which used to be the last resort for the companies that got hacked for help, has also left the victims in dismay. Last week, the FBI recommended that all victims of these hacking threats and data breaches pay the hackers....

Hacking Team is a secretive Milan-based firm which specializes in the sale of surveillance tools, malware and exploits to governments, law enforcement and private firms worldwide. The firm hit news headlines after it was hacked and much of 450GB data stolen from its servers was leaked online by the hackers. Rook has released a tool called “Milano utility” which scans systems for the presence of files associated with the recent Hacking Team breach....

According to the researchers, the malware, named Irongate, was first submitted to VirusTotal in 2014 but seems that it had gone unnoticed until it was identified in the course of FireEye’s research into droppers compiled with PyInstaller in late 2015. VirusTotal is a Google-owned website where users can submit suspicious files to be scanned by antivirus engines. The researchers discovered two malware samples that included a suspicious extension labeled SCADA....

For those unaware, Pwn2Own hacking contest is an effort to promote the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) program, that is designed to reward security researchers to exploit the latest and most popular mobile devices, web browsers, virtualization servers, enterprise applications, Windows RDP and demonstrate and disclose major zero-day vulnerabilities to tech companies. Following the contest, vendors will have 90 days to produce patches for these bugs. Day 1 at the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019 (Apple Safari) At the start of day one, Amat Cama and Richard Zhu from the Fluoroacetate team successfully targeted Apple Safari browser by using a bug in JIT with a heap overflow to escape the sandbox....

First Look Of The Mixcder Basso Wireless Sports EarbudsIn the boxDesign and ComfortFunctionalityAudio Quality and Battery LifePricing and Conclusion Mixcder, an audio-first company has created, what could possibly be the best wireless earphones for sports. The earbuds dubbed ‘Basso’ is what we will be taking a look at today. Mixcder Basso is a self-powered, rechargeable Bluetooth iem (BT iem) that supports BT 4.0 and aptX codec for enhanced audio quality. It is compatible with many Android, iOS and other devices that have BT 4....

The research team led by Ozghur Sahin, an associate professor of biological science & physics Columbia University, used the basic fundamental theory of evaporating water to build the innovative evaporation driven engine. Sahin says: “Water wants to evaporate. It has a desire to evaporate. If you make a surface wet, it will dry up, that’s the natural course. What we did was find a way to channel that desire into doing some useful work....

Ford Motors is the first one to introduce this new feature “Intelligent Speed Limiter Technology” in the car. Ford’s European division has confirmed this model will be available worldwide. How would the technology work: Basically a camera would be placed on the windshield which would read the different speed limit sign boards put up on the sides of the road. Once the car crosses the speed limit which is mentioned on the sign board, the”Intelligent Speed Limiter Technology” will automatically adjust the amount of fuel provided to the engine which leads to lowering the speed of the car hence the speed would fall within the limits mentioned in the sign board....