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The website, StarCon, is modeled on the famous social network, but in its North Korean incarnation is known as “Best Korea’s Social Network”.
Shortly after being spotted online, a clone of the Facebook social network apparently set up in North Korea has been hacked.
The website, StarCon, is modeled on the famous social network, but in its North Korean incarnation is known as “Best Korea’s Social Network”.
Like its multi-billion dollar cousin, according to RT

The researchers used ultrasonic waves to replicate the effects of 3D touch without the need for a special screen technology (Source: University of Michigan)
Engineers from University of Michigan have developed a Batman-inspired software that can allow users to command their smartphones with sense force or pressure on its screen or body.
“ForcePhone offers” a new way — like squeezing your smartphone to make a call — to bring pressure-sensitive display technology, similar

ls Microsoft Surface Book the best laptop money can buy? Read our review to find out.
Which is the ultimate laptop? A lot of people might be tempted to point their fingers at a MacBook. So let me rephrase. Which is the ultimate Windows laptop? Tough one, right? With so many manufacturers in the fray, even Microsoft will not be able to tell you which one is the best. Unless they themselves want to set the standards. And that is exactly what Redmond is trying to do with the Microsoft Surface Book

The website, StarCon, is modeled on the famous social network, but in its North Korean incarnation is known as “Best Korea’s Social Network”.
Shortly after being spotted online, a clone of the Facebook social network apparently set up in North Korea has been hacked.
The website, StarCon, is modeled on the famous social network, but in its North Korean incarnation is known as “Best Korea’s Social Network”.
Like its multi-billion dollar cousin, according to RT

LinkedIn admitted that the massive data breach in 2012 may result in millions of passwords being leaked to the internet
Hit by a massive data breach that put nearly 167 million users’ passwords and personal information in the hands of hackers four years back, the popular career-oriented platform LinkedIn has finally came out with an explanation and steps it has taken to protect users.
In an email sent out to all its members, LinkedIn admitted that the massive data breach in 2012 may resul

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ls Microsoft Surface Book the best laptop money can buy? Read our review to find out.
Which is the ultimate laptop? A lot of people might be tempted to point their fingers at a MacBook. So let me rephrase. Which is the ultimate Windows laptop? Tough one, right? With so many manufacturers in the fray, even Microsoft will not be able to tell you which one is the best. Unless they themselves want to set the standards. And that is exactly what Redmont is trying to do with the Microsoft Surface Book

LinkedIn admitted that the massive data breach in 2012 may result in millions of passwords being leaked to the internet
Hit by a massive data breach that put nearly 167 million users’ passwords and personal information in the hands of hackers four years back, the popular career-oriented platform LinkedIn has finally came out with an explanation and steps it has taken to protect users.
In an email sent out to all its members, LinkedIn admitted that the massive data breach in 2012 may resul

The researchers used ultrasonic waves to replicate the effects of 3D touch without the need for a special screen technology (Source: University of Michigan)
Engineers from University of Michigan have developed a Batman-inspired software that can allow users to command their smartphones with sense force or pressure on its screen or body.
“ForcePhone offers” a new way — like squeezing your smartphone to make a call — to bring pressure-sensitive display technology, similar

The jury unanimously upheld the claims made by Google that its use of Oracle’s Java development platform to create Android was protected under the fair-use provision of copyright law. (Reuters) In a major breather for Google, a US jury gave a verdict in favour of the internet giant in a long-running copyright battle with Oracle Corp over Android software being used to run most of the world’s smartphones.  The jury unanimously upheld the claims made by Google that its use of Ora

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will speak with three astronauts currently living and working aboard the ISS via Facebook Live on June 1
Taking connectivity to a new high, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will speak with three astronauts currently living and working aboard the International Space Station on June 1, NASA said in a statement.
Yoo too could watch the Earth-to-space call live on NASA’s Facebook page.
During the 20-minute Facebook Live video call with NASA ast

Researchers from University of Pennsylvania in the US used character assessment software to analyse the profile pictures of 66,000 Twitter users, and asked a further 434 people to fill in a psychological survey. (Reuters) Twitterati, take note! Your profile picture may not only show your followers how attractive you are, but also tell a lot about your personality, according to a new study.
Researchers from University of Pennsylvania in the US used character assessment software to analyse the pr

Facebook Inc said its customers’ ads would now be visible on third-party apps and websites to everyone who has ever visited its website (Source: AP)
Facebook Inc said its customers’ ads would now be visible on third-party apps and websites to everyone who has ever visited its website, and not just to users logged into its social networking service.
However, people can opt out of seeing ads on apps and websites not offered by Facebook, based on their ad preferences, the company said

Chinese users of Microsoft products are criticising the software company’s push to get them to mandatorily upgrade their Windows
Chinese users of Microsoft products are criticising the software company’s push to get them to mandatorily upgrade their Windows operating systems, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.
Posts critical of Microsoft on microblog site Weibo relating to the Windows 10 upgrade, which Microsoft users must switch to, have grown to over 1.2 million i

France will “go all the way” to ensure that multinationals operating on its soil pay their taxes and more cases could follow after Google and McDonald’s were targeted by tax raids, Finance Minister Michel Sapin said.
Sapin, speaking in an interview with Reuters and three European newspapers, ruled out negotiating any deal with Google on back taxes, as Britain did in January.
Dozens of French police raided Google’s Paris headquarters on Tuesday, escalating an investigation

NASA successfully inflated a new experimental room at the ISS on Saturday, producing the world’s first pump-it-up compartment for astronauts (Source: Reuters)
NASA successfully inflated a new experimental room at the International Space Station on Saturday, producing the world’s first pump-it-up compartment for astronauts.
The operation took much longer than expected, stretching over three days in all. But victory, when it came, was sweet.
“A significant milestone has been acc

Chinese users of Microsoft products are criticising the software company’s push to get them to mandatorily upgrade their Windows
Chinese users of Microsoft products are criticising the software company’s push to get them to mandatorily upgrade their Windows operating systems, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.
Posts critical of Microsoft on microblog site Weibo relating to the Windows 10 upgrade, which Microsoft users must switch to, have grown to over 1.2 million i

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will speak with three astronauts currently living and working aboard the ISS via Facebook Live on June 1
Taking connectivity to a new high, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will speak with three astronauts currently living and working aboard the International Space Station on June 1, NASA said in a statement.
Yoo too could watch the Earth-to-space call live on NASA’s Facebook page.
During the 20-minute Facebook Live video call with NASA ast

It will be the first quantum communication through a satellite in the world. (image for representational purpose only)
China will launch its first experimental quantum communication satellite in July, whose communications cannot be intercepted, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said.
It will be the first quantum communication through a satellite in the world, said Pan Jianwei, professor with University of Science and Technology of China.
Quantum communication boasts ultra-high security