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Now, we have another instance in which a Canadian man claims that his Nexus 6P handset exploded in the middle of the night while it was charging. Luckily, it seems that there were no injuries sustained. The Reddit user whose handle goes by the name ‘yamz66’ claims, “It was around 3AM and I woke up to a loud pop and was immediately in a thick cloud of smoke, sparks, and a bright red glow coming from my phone on my night stand, the same place it had been since the day I purchased it Nov 1, 2015....

Camera: 3.2 MP Dual sim standby time: upto 26 days System: GSM 900/1800 + WLAN; GSM 850/1900 +WLAN User Interface: Nokia Asha Softwrae Platform Dimension: 99.2 x 58 x 12.1 mm (H x W x T) Talk time: up to 17 hours 4GB Micro SD included in box, expandable upto 32GB Display: 3.0″ QVGA TFT Capacitive Display. Connectivity: Micro USB connector and Charging, 3.5 mm AV jack, 2mm charger connector....

According to the latest reports, two Nokia Android smartphones will be made by Finland’s HMD Global. The reports suggest that the smartphones might be available to buyers before the end of this year. The reports also suggest that Nokia will bring out two versions, one with 5.2-inch display and the other with 5.5-inch display. Both the Nokia Android smartphones will sport 2K resolution (QHD) displays and will come with IP68 certification, which effectively means they will be highly resistant to water and dust on the similar lines to phones like the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and Galaxy S7....

The widespread malware campaign targeting cryptocurrency users is believed to be carried out by the “Lazarus Group,” a state-sponsored hacking group linked to the North Korean government. According to researchers, this group has been involved in some notable crimes, such as the 2014 Sony Pictures hack, an $81 million Bangladesh cyber theft in 2016 and the worldwide WannaCry ransomware attacks in May this year. Citing the country’s National Intelligence Service (NIS), South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo reported that the cyberattacks credited to North Korean hackers also included the leaking of personal information from 36,000 accounts from South Korea’s biggest and one of the top five cryptocurrency exchange in the world, Bithumb, in June....

Work in Progress Anbox is described by its creator as a container based approach to boot a fully functional Android OS on top of a Linux Distro. Right now though, it is limited to Ubuntu. The project utilizes Linux Containers technology to achieve this. Alongside this, it also promises an integration of every Android app into the existing desktop environment of your Linux distro. Thus making them seem like any other application....

However, Windows 95 would still give many among us some nostalgic moments. Would you like to relive those moments? Yes now you can, thanks to Andrea Faulds, a 19-year-old developer in Scotland, who has managed to get Windows 95 to function fully in the browser without any plugins. Visiting Fauld’s masterpiece in the browser is a incredible nostalgic moment. The 20-year-old operating system comes fully functional in pure JavaScript which is amazing....

Earlier this year, Privacy International got a legal victory, according to which, if a person requests the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal to search the data GCHQ obtained from the NSA for information collected on them, they would have to do so. Further, the Tribunal are required to provide the information, if they find something. However, the catch is that the request has to be made before December 5, 2015. To make it easier, Privacy International has provided “Did GCHQ Illegally Spy on You?...

According to Nvidia, the GTX 1660Ti is aimed at those users who are still playing on systems with GeForce GTX 960-levels of performance, or with GPUs slower. Like the GeForce RTX graphics cards, the GTX 1660 Ti features numerous architectural enhancements that accelerate performance, improve efficiency, and deliver a superior gaming experience. Built on 12th-Gen Turing Architecture, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti does not feature any Tensor Cores or the RTX cores, which means no ray tracing or DLSS....

OnePlus Nord N10 5G: Specifications The OnePlus Nord N10 5G features a 6.49-inch FHD+ (2400 x 1080 pixels) resolution display with a 90Hz refresh rate that brings a fast and smooth display experience, whether you are gaming or watching videos on the smartphone. It comes with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, which can be expanded up to 512GB via microSD card for storing all your favorite apps, games, movies, and songs....

There is rumour in the market that the “OnePlus 2” is the next phone from OnePlus and Courtesy to information leaked online by benchmarking app, GeekBench, there is a device named OnePlus One A2001. This information confirmed that OnePlus 2 will come with Snapdragon 810 SoC. A report on GizChina had also noted how OnePlus CEO Pete Lau had said that OnePlus 2 is likely to be launched in the third quarter of 2015....

Especially, OnePlus has problems with problems sending MMS on some carriers, Bluetooth connectivity with in-car systems and most importantly issues with touch screen sensitivity. However, though, it looks now like these problems are finally fixed. There is finally some good news for the users of OnePlus One, as the latest release of Cyanogen OS Version YNG1TAS2I3 is meant to fix all the above three problems. The same was posted on the Cyanogen’s website....

Oppo Joy Plus is a natural successor to its predecessor to Oppo Joy. It sports a 4-inch WVGA display which gives a resolution of 480x800p display. Oppo stated that the Oppo Joy Plus will be available in white coloured variant with a frost matte gold frame and another variant with blue rear cover and electroplated frame. Oppo Joy Plus is powered by a 1.3GHz MediaTek MT6572 dual-core processor. It will run on 1GB RAM and have an internal storage of 4GB which can be expanded upto 32GB through a microSD card expansion slot....

The vulnerability has been deemed as critical and assigned CVE-2016-5696. Called the Linux TCP Bug, the flaw affects about 80 percent of all Android devices in circulation which means a billion plus Android smartphone owners should be worried. Android operating system is affected by this bug because Android ecosystem is built on a modified version of the Linux kernel. The Linux TCP Bug allows potential hackers probe servers or users for active connections and then sniff the packet sequence....

What’s New In Parrot OS 4.9? Parrot Security OS 4.9 introduces a new, more friendly installer and a new look and feel to the login screen, to make the system more appealing to newcomers and more comfortable for those users already aboard. What’s New In Parrot OS 4.9? Parrot Security OS 4.9 Download Or Upgrade Further, Parrot Security OS 4.9 ships with the Linux 5.5 kernel series that introduces more reliable hardware support, fixes a lot of Wi-Fi and intel GPU bugs, and introduces support to new hardware that wasn’t supported before....

To find out how stupid people really are, the research team littered 297 USB drives around their university’s grounds—in lecture theaters, parking lots, cafes, study areas and what have you. Then, they… waited. On the USB stick were a series of HTML files that were disguised to look like regular old files of notes, documents and photo albums. But if someone inserted a drive into their internet-connected computer and opened the files, the researchers were alerted....

One of the biggest perks of owning the 4K monitor is that the BDM430UC delivers a 60Hz refresh rate, meaning that if you have the right hardware, then you will easily be able to game at 60 frames per second without that irritating visual tearing or screen tearing issues that have been experienced by gamers for so many years. Other display enhancement technologies that you get are Philips’ Smart Uniformity display technology; it corrects inconsistencies in the brightness of the monitor’s backlighting....

The guys belonging to the hacking group Fail0verflow demonstrated Linux on PlayStation 4 at the 32nd Chaos Communication Congress (also known as 32c3) event that had taken place on December 30, 2015. In order to know how the group managed to accomplish such a feat, you will have to pay close attention to the video. Regardless, we will state the details here; the group managed to find some vulnerability in the PlayStation 4 gaming console, as the Linux kernel-based operating system is launched by tapping on the Settings options and then the ‘User’s Guide’....

For those uninitiated, Pokémon Go is a free mobile game that allows people to catch, train and battle their Pokémon ‘in the real world’ by walking outdoors and interacting with other users. Players can also pick up supplies at real-world landmarks that serve as ‘PokéStops’ in the game. The two authors, Mara Faccio and John McConnell of Purdue University, Indiana who have prepared a report titled ‘Death by Pokémon Go’ have blamed the game for “a disproportionate increase in vehicular crashes and associated vehicular damage, personal injuries, and fatalities in the vicinity of locations, called PokéStops, where users can play the game while driving....

In Pokemon Go, eggs aren’t supposed to do anything other than sit in your bag and hatch into a Pokemon when you’ve walked a certain distance. However, according to some news floating online, some hackers have placed a bug in Pokemon Go that is allowing its players to place eggs at gyms instead of a Pokemon. These are unbeatable gyms, where gym leaders are eggs. Eggs have no moves, and no HP....