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Web data collection is a technique for extracting massive amounts of data from selected websites to gather business insights, implement marketing plans, develop SEO strategies, or analyze the competition in the market. A proxy is a third-party server that allows you to route your request through their servers while using their IP address. However, various forms of proxies are available on multiple web data platforms, including different proxy applications....

Recently, Bkav, a Vietnamese security firm, challenged Apple’s Face ID unlock technology by using a 3D mask made of stone powder, with glued 2D images of the eyes and tricked its authentication system to unlock the device proving that Face ID is not an effective security measure. For those unaware, Apple has replaced its Touch ID in iPhone X in favor of Face ID, which uses the TrueDepth camera system on the top of the display to unlock the device....

According to Strategy Analytics, when Microsoft purchased Nokia, it had captured a sizable amount of the smartphone business market. However, with the downfall in the business after the purchase, Microsoft has not been able to make a mark in the smartphone market. As a result, Huawei just displaced it as the world’s third largest mobile phone vendor by shipping 30.6 million phones, which is close to 50 percent more than last year....

Originally a video game hardware developer, Hyperkin is all set to build a Game Boy compatible hand held device “Smart Boy” for iPhone 6 Plus and in future for other smartphones as well. The device Smart Boy, will be an attachment for the iPhone 6 which will give users the experience of playing the Game Boy game on a more sophisticated screen and also without the batteries as the device will be provided with in built batteries....

iCloud the reason behind Russia’s decision to ban iPhone from 2015Cloud lawAlternatives Cloud law This law applies to the servers where cloud data is kept. As per the law, if a company is storing data on a cloud server, the cloud server needs to be located within Russia, otherwise the service is banned from operating in the country. So the problem that Apple faces, is with iCloud. iCloud servers are based in the US....

Based on the ‘Skylake’ microarchitecture and built on Intel’s 14++nm process, the 10th-generation Comet Lake processor series includes 32 different SKUs divided between Intel Core i9, Core i7, Core i5, Core i3, Pentium Gold and Celeron processors. Intel also introduces Turbo Boost Max 3.0 and Thermal Velocity Boost (TVB) technology with the new 10th-gen, but they are limited only to the Core-i9 and Core-i7 CPU options. According to Intel, its flagship Intel Core i9-10900K is the “world’s fastest gaming processor” with 10 cores and 20 threads and offers speed with a base clock of 3....

The company is going to do this by blocking BCLK overclocking. Non-K Intel Skylake processors do not possess an unlocked multiplier (which ultimately makes it a breeze to overclock processors as long as they tweak the settings appropriately and have a cooler capable of dissipating all that heat), meaning that they will have to overclock the manual way, which is increasing the base clock frequency through the BIOS. Despite the fact that users are unable to reach high overclocking speeds through this method if they are carrying it out on a non-K processor, increasing the chip’s frequency by even 500-600MHz per core will deliver a handy amount of performance for pressing tasks....

President of mobile security firm Vkansee, Jason Chaikin, created a mold of his fingerprint. He then took the modeling clay Play-Doh, pressed it on to the mold and created a replica. Chaikin touched the Play-Doh on an iPhone’s fingerprint scanner and the device easily gave Chaikin access. — Arjun Kharpal (@ArjunKharpal) February 24, 2016 The hack demonstrated by Chaikin would not be practical for cyber criminals but it demonstrates how easily little ingenuity could trick the sensors....

However, there could be some good news for Mac users. According to a report from 9to5Mac’s Guilherme Rambo, some lines were discovered in WebKit’s source code (of a nightly build posted back in March) that suggest Apple is working on to allow apps to set dark theme components within Safari instance. This hints that Mac computers might get some kind of system-wide support for dark mode in the next update, which is macOS 10....

This development comes after Musk on Friday had tweeted asking users if they believed Twitter was rigorously adhering to free speech principles. He said, “Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?” He also ran a Twitter poll asking users to share their opinion and also stressed the “consequences” of the poll. He wrote, “The consequences of this poll will be important....

According to the company, this monetization solution is a fully transparent mediation and programmatic platform While self-serve is usually a term heard on the advertiser side, Glispa is touting their new fully transparent self-serve publisher side dashboard as the best in the business. According to the company, its new “Avocarrot” dashboard gives publishers complete freedom to customize the display ad offerings on their apps. Developers and app owners can get a high-level overview of their monetization, or they can drill deep and customize the offering displayed on their product to match their interest and brand....

The 9/11 terrorist attacks which is a national tragedy in the United States are apparently being celebrated by the supporters and affiliates of ISIS. On 11th September, 2001, terrorists from Al Qaeda launched a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks on the United States. The attacks consisted of suicide attacks used to target symbolic U.S. landmarks. The terrorists used three passenger airliners to crash into World Trade Center buildings and Pentagon while the fourth one was crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after its passengers tried to overcome the hijackers....

In a 25-minute video titled “Flames of the Supporters”, which is created in response to efforts by Facebook and Twitter to stop terrorist activity on their platforms, is made by an ISIS-supporting hacker group that calls itself “Sons of the Caliphate Army.” The video shows images of Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey sometimes engulfed in flames, or marked with bullet holes. A slide toward the end of the video reads, in English: “To Mark and Jack, founders of Twitter and Facebook / and to their Crusader government / You announce daily that you suspended many of our accounts / And to you we say: Is that all you can do?...

However, the most affected one is Cisco Systems, which is leading U.S. brand known for manufacturing of network equipment. In 2012 Cisco systems had 60 products on the Central Government Procurement Center’s (CGPC) list and now there is not a single product on the approved list! The well known brands which joined hands with Cisco were Apple, Intel, Citrix, security software firm McAfee and hence even they had to face the blow and have been dropped from the approved list....

Notebook Italia stated that some Russian online shops have started to update the lists revealing preview the features and prices of the both models , ASUS ZenPad 7 ( Z170C) and ASUS ZenPad 7 3G ( Z170CG). The two tablet should have a design very similar to that of FonePad , with a polycarbonate frame and a rough finish on the cover , which is interrupted only at the lower edge smooth....

The first sale of Lenovo A7000 is scheduled on April 15th at 2.00 pm and if you are interested in buying this smartphone, you can register on Flipkart now. Its first such sale has been scheduled to take place on April 15 at 2pm, and registrations for it are already underway on the e-commerce site. Onyx black and pearl white are the two color options which the Lenovo A7000 will be made available dressed in once it’s out....

LG Chem, a branch of LG, has its aims on climbing up the ranks of the small-battery market that feeds the smartwatch and wearables industry. In the medium to large-sized battery market, the company already claims to have the number one spot. It has plans to lead the competition by releasing a creative, hexagonal battery for smartwatches with circular faces such as LG’s own G Watch R and Watch Urbane and the Moto 360....

A similar thing shook the infosec world last week as TikTok was caught snooping on iPhone users through their clipboard. What Exactly Happened? A Twitter user, who goes by the handle name of @Doncubed, caught and exposed the LinkedIN snooping with their app on iOS 14.0 (with an iPad Pro) copying the keystrokes from the clipboard. What Exactly Happened?How did they get caught?Should Android users be worried? The user noticed the spying when he/she was using the notes apps....

Prominent features of Linux kernel 4.4 LTS include 3D support in the virtual GPU driver, allowing for 3D hardware-accelerated graphics in virtualization guests, a leaner and faster loop device that supports Asynchronous I/O and Direct I/O, thus increasing the system’s performance and saving memory, and support for Open-Channel Solid State Drives (SSDs) through LightNVM. Furthermore, Linux kernel 4.4 LTS adds journaled RAID5 MD support, fixing the RAID write hole, and perf and eBPF integration, allowing unprivileged users to run persistent eBPF programs....

This update was reported by a Redditor u/Mental-prison who received a “Time to celebrate” prompt in YouTube Music for Android. The message read, “You’re using YouTube Premium since 2222 days (or precisely 3,199,680 minutes) and we want to thank you for your incredible support. We’ve just enabled a little something on your account for you: YouTube and YouTube Music ad-free, offline, and in the background. 12-months free. That’s on us!...