COMPUTERS 
July 27, 2016 LG’s VPInput App Lets Users Control Their G4, G5, V10 Smartphones From PCs
HIGHLIGHTS The app is compatible with only the LG G4, G5, V10 It will allow remote access to the smartphone from the PC It requires a Bluetooth-integrated PC to work LG has launched a new app called VPInput to enable users get remote access to their smartphones via PCs and laptops as well. The app […]
ALL DEALS July 27, 2016 PayPal Launches Programme to Protect Online Sellers From Fraud
Digital payments platform PayPal on Wednesday announced the launch of its “Seller Protection Programme for Intangibles” – an expansion of its existing seller protection programme that earlier only covered merchants selling tangible goods like handicrafts, fashion and art. “Growing instances of online fraud act as a barrier for sellers selling online services and other intangible […]
ALL DEALS July 27, 2016 Supreme Court Dismisses PIL Seeking WhatsApp Encryption Key
HIGHLIGHTS Sudhir Yadav, an RTI activist has petitioned in SC to ban WhatsApp SC had asked Yadav to approach government for this matter Recently WhatsApp had implemented end to end encryption in its app The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a PIL urging it to ask the government to seek the private key from WhatsApp […]
COMPUTERS July 12, 2016 Researchers Probe How Humans Recognise Images Better Than Computers
What makes computers and a human brain different when it comes to recognising images? The presence of an “atomic” unit of recognition – a minimum amount of information an image must contain for the recognition to occur – in human brain, researchers report. Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and the Massachusetts […]
COMPUTERS July 12, 2016 Cybercriminals Snap Up Expired Domains to Serve Malicious Ads: Report
Expired domain names are becoming the latest route for cybercriminals to find their way into the computers of unsuspecting users. Cybercriminals launched a malicious advertising campaign this week targeting visitors of popular news and entertainment websites after gaining ownership of an expired web domain of an advertising company. Users visiting the websites of the New […]
COMPUTERS July 12, 2016 India Fourth-Most Affected Country by Downadup Malware: F-Secure
India is the fourth country that has most number of attacks by the Downadup malware family, a report by Finland-based online security and privacy company F-Secure, said. It added that besides India, this threat was most frequently detected in Finland, France, Germany, Italy and Norway. F-Secure Threat Round up Report 2015 details the trends and […]
COMPUTERS July 12, 2016 Adobe Issues Emergency Update to Flash After Ransomware Attacks
Adobe Systems Inc issued an emergency update on Thursday to its widely used Flash software for Internet browsers after researchers discovered a security flaw that was being exploited to deliver ransomware to Windows PCs. The software maker urged the more than 1 billion users of Flash on Windows, Mac, Chrome and Linux computers to update […]
COMPUTERS July 12, 2016 Intuition Helps Humans Beat Computers in Thorny Physics Game
Computers may have us beat at chess and checkers, but new research suggests our brains still have an edge when it comes to solving certain tricky problems thanks to a very human trait: intuition. Scientists in Denmark have found that people who played a game that simulated a complex calculation in physics sometimes did better […]
COMPUTERS July 12, 2016 Intel Announces Next-Gen ‘Apollo Lake’ Platform For Affordable ‘Cloudbook’ PCs
Intel formally announced its new Apollo Lake platform for affordable PCs at the 2016 edition of the annual Intel Developers Forum in Shenzhen, China. CPUs based on this design cane be used for a variety of device types, but the company is specifically targeting the new netbook-like “cloudbook” category of affordable clamshell devices. Apollo Lake […]
COMPUTERS July 12, 2016 Swift Says Customers Responsible for Securing Their Own Computers
Swift has told its bank customers that they are responsible for securing computers used to send messages over its global network, which was used to steal some $81 million from a Bangladesh central bank account at the New York Fed in February. The theft marked one of the biggest-ever cyber-heists. “Swift is not, and cannot, […]
COMPUTERS July 12, 2016 Chromebook Shipments Overtook Mac for the First Time in the US: IDC
HIGHLIGHTS An IDC analyst claimed that Chrome OS overtook OS X in the US. PC shipments recorded a decline last month. Dell overtook HP in the US PC shipments last month. Google’s Chrome OS-powered laptops and PCs have for the first time outsold Apple’s OS X-based Mac PCs in the US. The Verge cites IDC […]
COMPUTERS July 12, 2016 Spread of Locky Virus in Mantralaya PCs Contained, Data Safe: Official
HIGHLIGHTS The Locky virus had affected about 150 computers in Mantralaya. Virus was first detected on Friday last week. The virus has encrypted documents and files to locky files. The state’s Information Technology department has managed to contain the spread of Locky virus, a file-encrypting ransomware, in computer systems at Mantralaya and all the data […]
