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Whether you are working on your next assignment, article or book, vigilance is the ultimate key. Writing is an art and a good writer is the one who values his time as well as the time of his clients or target audience. A careless piece of writing is not only going to serve you bad, but it will also be off-putting for anyone who reads it. Plagiarism & Grammar: Two Important Elements in Writing If you are a student or someone who writes for a living, then you must be well aware of two important terms: Plagiarism & Grammar....

The programme is only available to those who report faults in its mobile applications and websites. United has specifically forbidden the reporting of bugs affecting ”onboard Wi-Fi, entertainment systems or avionics”. Those carrying out the testing of these systems would be immediately barred from the programme and could face “possible criminal and/or legal investigation”. United Airlines has also forbidden vulnerability scans or automated scans on United servers. United Airlines with this new hacker initiative joins an increasing number of tech companies including Google, Facebook, and Microsoft that welcome friendly hackers....

This is one University open day which the officials of University of New South Wales would love to forget in a hurry. Unknown hackers hacked its Facebook page and flooded it NSFW content much to the embarrassment of university officials. The hackers posted graphic sexual images and links to soft-core adult websites on the University of New South Wales Facebook page early this morning, shortly before it kicked off it’s Open day....

ugleee deployed a quadcopter to catch his wife in the act. Though the video doesn’t prove conclusively that his wife is having an affair, ugleee decided to take counseling from Redditors on what he should do next. If you thought that uglee would be alone in his quest to catch his wife red-handed, he got overwhelming support from the Reddit community. His threat got 6k upvotes on Reddit. In fact, many Redditors suggested various improvements while others dwelt into the facts as to why wives cheat....

Further, there are two types of OLED displays: Passive-Matrix (PMOLED) and Active-Matrix (AMOLED). The difference is in the driving electronics – it can be either Passive Matrix (PM) or Active Matrix (AM). In this article, we will find out the difference in both the technology and their applications. A PMOLED display uses a simple control scheme in which you control each row (or line) in the display one after the other (one at a time)....

Facebook’s WhatsApp rakes up 700M monthly active usersFacebook a close secondZuckerberg under pressure Facebook a close second Facebook has been making its users use the stand alone messaging app to send instant messages instead of using the Facebook app. This has resulted in the Facebook messenger App reaching 500 million active users and taking the second spot. The social giant has now cornered both the top spots as far as instant messaging is concerned....

The smartphone stand alone instant messaging App, WhatsApp is once again in the news due to a certain tool which can break its security features. WhatsSpy Public tool which was recently released can give you status updates of any WhatsApp user, even if privacy options have been enabled. WhatsSpy Public uses the web-based utility to trace the moments of a WhatsApp user and shows them in a dashboard with events being displayed in a timeline....

Do you know why there is a tiny black hole between your iPhone camera and flash?Basically, every iPhone since the iPhone 5 has had a tiny black dot between the lens and flash. Have you ever wondered why it is there and what does it do? Basically, every iPhone since the iPhone 5 has had a tiny black dot between the lens and flash. Have you ever wondered why it is there and what does it do?...

For those unaware, KRACK (short for Key Reinstallation AttaCK) exploited vulnerabilities in the four-way handshake of WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access II) that happens when a client wants to join a protected Wi-Fi network. This will be the first upgrade to the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) protocol since 2006. “Security is a foundation of Wi-Fi Alliance certification programs, and we are excited to introduce new features to the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED family of security solutions”, said Edgar Figueroa, president and CEO of Wi-Fi Alliance....

On 11th August, Microsoft released yet another problematic security update for Windows 10. Users running the November 2019 Update (version 1909) and the May 2020 Update (version 2004) are bombarded with new and almost unresolvable errors. In addition to post-installation issues, users are experiencing problems while installing updates. For instance, unique error messages like 0x800f0988, 0x800f081f, and 0x800f08a are popping up while installing the cumulative updates KB4565351 and KB4566782. In this article, we have discussed the aforementioned errors accompanied by some solutions to resolve them....

The informal test was conducted by The Australian, where sets of identical twins tried fooling Windows to provide access to the computer. It seems you can easily trick the Windows 10’s face detection feature, as it wasn’t even fooled once. Six sets of identical twins were part of the experiment and in each case, the procedure was the same. One of the twins would register for the face recognition and set up the account and the other would test it the next time to log into the device....

Users stuck in endless reboot loop sequence due to Windows 10 update KB3081424 errorHow to fix it To end the problem, Microsoft had introduced a trouble shooter package, known as KB3081424, an update which allows a number of bug fixes and driver updates for the new operating system; however, the trouble shooter update has become a trouble maker for many Windows 10 upgraders. Windows 10 automatically goes back to a previous version whenever this happens....

The woman, known as Xiao Yun and now aged 24 year-old, left her family home in Zhejiang, east China, following an argument with her parents when she was 14,The South China Morning Post reports. Presumed dead by her family, she was finally found by police officers on Nov 20 after a routine check on an Internet cafe in the wee hours of the morning. Xiao Yun, who was carrying a fake identity card, was taken to a local police station for questioning where she revealed that she had been living in Internet cafes for the past decade....

According to the SEC filing, “The Board also determined that, following the Closing, it intends to cause the Company’s name to be changed to Altaba Inc.” After the dismal 2016 that Yahoo had, it’s not surprising that the company would want to rebrand itself. At the end of 2016, Yahoo disclosed two separate unauthorized data breaches; one involving some 500 million customer accounts and the second involving over a billion, making it the largest single-company data breaches in history....

NVIDIA and AMD GPUs have never been best of friends, but a startup called Stardock is about to revolutionize the video-card market for PCs and change all that. There are two ways how it will benefit PC gamers; it will make it more affordable and allow virtual reality content to be within reach of millions of consumers. GamesBeat conducted an exclusive interview with CEO Brad Wardell, who laid out the PC utility and gaming company’s initiative for the idea....

“This extra second, or leap second, makes it possible to align astronomical time, which is irregular and determined by Earth’s rotation, with UTC which is extremely stable and has been determined by atomic clocks since 1967,” the IERS (International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service) at the Paris Observatory said in a statement. Countries that use Coordinated Universal Time, which include several West African nations, Britain, Ireland and Iceland will add the leap second during the midnight countdown to 2017 making the year’s final minute of 2016 will last for 61 seconds long....

Trolls and pranksters on the social web are sending iPhone and Android users to a website that causes iPhone as well as Android smartphones to crash. The link which is being circulated by the trolls is crashsafari.co (don’t click!). However some trolls have upped the ante and are obfuscating crashsafari.com using link shortner services like Bit.ly making it pretty difficult for the iPhone and Android users to spot the buggy link....

There is a sizable chunk of computer audience who deserve the best ePUB reader for Windows 10 and earlier PCs to read books on their computers for different reasons and reading leisure. What is ePUB? EPUB is a document format, short form for ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION, published by International Digital Publishing Forum(IDPF) in 2007. What is ePUB?How to open epub files? What is an ePUB reader?10 Best ePUB Readers for Windows 101....

The Internet is full of news sources that are full of hoaxes, politically motivated content, state-sponsored news, and fake stories. Due to the same reason, we need to consume information from unbiased news sources that report factual news. In this article, we have listed the ten best unbiased news sources you can rely on. We have selected all these publications based on broad criteria. For instance, the news sources on this list have been in the journalism industry for years....