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Microsoft’s New ‘Scroogled’ Campaign Attempts To Strike Fear Over Android Users
Microsoft is working very hard not only to match with Google’s existing offerings by planning to implement an 2-step authentication, but also have been directly attacking Google’s Gmail and Google Shopping services by saying that Google’s policy allows them to use the name, email addresses and neighborhood’s details who purchase…
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Microsoft’s Next-Gen Xbox Wont Have Backwards Compatibility
Microsoft’s decision to switch to AMD’s chips for their next generation console to replace Xbox 360 may come at a higher price as reports coming in that the new generation console, rumoured to be called a “Xbox 720” does not have backwards compatibility with the older games. The next generation…
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Using Hands-on GPS While Driving In Californa Is Now Illegal
The lawmakers in the state of California have passed a new law which made it illegal for one to check their hands on GPS systems while driving in the hopes it will prevent most of the chances of accidents. This way drivers will not be distracted by driving, similar to…
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Berkeley Research Found A Way To Replace Passwords With ‘Passthoughts’
Researchers at UC Berkeley have found a way to replace passwords which typically uses a combination of mixed- cases and numbers with passthoughts. In short, you’re thought process or “will” can be used as an authentication method. The method involves using a biometric identifier to scan your brain activity and…
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Intel Shows Off 2 Of Their Newer Thunderbolt Controllers With 20 Gbps/ 4K Throughput
Intel introduced their next generation thunderbolt interface during NAB show 2013 in Las Vegas and the chipset maker assures that this will provide a data rate throughput to 20 Gbps download and upload. The previous generation thunderbolt can only allow 10 Gbps. What should be more interesting is that the next-…
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Microsoft Ordered To Adopt AMD Chip For Its Next-Gen Xbox Console
Microsoft adopted AMD’s ‘Jaguar’ processor for its next generation Xbox game console as the company wishes to keep the overall cost of the console as low as possible and get developers to make more titles. Game publishers did complain that the current generation consoles which used different architecture came with…
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Crucial M500 960GB SSD Up For Sale?
Crucial M500 960GB, a drive which was said that to be the first terabyte-class drive under $600 price mark and which was shown off in CES, but there was no word of its launch date. Recently, Tweaktown spotted the SSD in an Australian based online retail website Upgradable.com.au for AUD…
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Mozilla And Samsung Working Together On A New Browser Engine
Mozilla’ CRO Brendan Eich made an announcement that the company behind the famous internet browser is going to collaborate with Samsung to design a next- generation web browser called ‘Servo’ in the hopes to rebuild a web browser from scratch. This new browser engine will be written using Mozilla’s own…
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New Skype Malware Uses Its Victim’s System To Mine Bitcoins
It is recently being found that there’s a new type of malware which is spread via Skype has been discovered. This works once the recipient clicks on a link that he receives via Skype. Once this is done, the malicious code installs a Bitcoin miner application on the victims’s system…
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Intel’s Next-Gen Haswell Processors Now Being Shipped To PC Makers
Intel has started shipping its mainstream processor lineup, the 4th Gen Intel Core Series called ‘Haswell’ to major PC makers. Haswell will be launched later during this quarter by June. Haswell will be the next generation mainstream processor from Intel and will be powering up many systems, Ultrabooks and notebooks.…
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Google Fiber May Come To Austin, Texas.
Google and the City of Austin are apparently going to hold a meeting next week for an announcement as both has given away invitations to various media, but both have not provided any details about the reason for the event. As it says on the invitation itself: On Tuesday, April…
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Viking Release ArxCis-NV DIMMs
Viking has begun supplies of ArxCis-NV DIMM which are dual in-line memory kit that combines DDR3 modules with Flash NAND to make non-volatile memory for servers and storage arrays. In short, these memory kits are made so that the data stored in rams are not lost during a power loss…
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Anonymous Take Control of North Korea’s Twitter and Flickr Accounts
Notorious (and loved by many) hacktivist group ‘Anonymous’ has launched ‘Operation Free Korea’ and have launched their first series of attacks of online attacks over North Korea. The group seem to have taken access of North Korean’s propaganda website ‘Uriminzokkiri’ and stolen passwords of 15,000 of its users. Its demands…
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Teenager Builds DNA Testing Machine In His Bedroom, Stuns Scientists
Scientists are stunned by a teenager Fred Turner from Brighouse, West Yorkshire, who built a working DNA testing machine in his bedroom see if this brother, Gus, has a mutated gene to cause ginger hair. Yeah!! He wanted to know why is brother is Ginger, and he isn’t. He calls…
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Dropbox Partnered With The New Yahoo Mail For Sending Larger Sized Attachments
Until now, Yahoo mail had a limited attachment space of up to 25MB, but this time they’ve teamed up with DropBox to allow their email users to send attachments without any limits. The Dropbox integration is now available globally and available in Yahoo! mail for English, French, German, Italian and…
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