The ray is the brainchild of Kit Parker, a professor of bioengineering and applied physics from the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, who was motivated to develop the cyborg after visiting the New England Aquarium with his daughter, Caroline. “She was trying to pet a stingray and she put her hand in the water and the stingray quickly moved away from her hand in a very elegant way,” Parker told Gizmodo....

The pistol has been built into a single frame, and is a .380 caliber weapon that folds down and locks into place when opened. When it is closed, the trigger and trigger guard are completed covered by the grip, which gives the appearance of a smartphone packed inside a case. The company has also attached a bullet clip, but cleverly designed the pistol in such a manner that you will not be able to tell if it is loaded or not....

Scientists closely observed the west African chimps in their natural habitat centered around raffia palms from 1995 to 2012 and the entire action was recorded. The local communities in that area usually harvest sugary sap from the trees which then gets converted into an alcoholic brew within hours due to fermentation. The extraction of the sweet white sap is done by cutting a wedge in the tree and suspending a container beneath the wedge....

Unogs shows how much content is present according to the region that you are currently residing in. For example, in the image present below, you can clearly see that currently, there are a total of 852 videos available for those who are living in the United States. Naturally, these 852 videos have been divided into shows and movies, which have been listed below: • 651 movies • 201 series...

Readers will remember that in December, at the Federal Court, Justice John Nicholas ruled that The Pirate Bay, Torrentz, TorrentHound, IsoHunt and streaming service SolarMovie would all have to be rendered inaccessible to consumers in Australia. The judge also included a dozen of proxy and mirror torrent websites. Immediately after the court order, the movie producers pressurized the Australian ISPs to block the big daddy of torrent websites, The Pirate Bay....

As per the report by GizChina, a Chinese tech portal, Elephone revealed its mysterious smartphone in the Global Source Mobile Electronics Fair that was held in Hong Kong recently. During the fair Elephone flaunted its exclusive flagship smartphones which was available in two variants. One of them runs on Android 5.0 and it will be shipped in May whereas the other one has a dual boot facility wherein users can use both the Android 5....

Wright has now abruptly withdrawn from public life as suddenly as he appeared. Wright posted today that he would offer no more evidence to prove his identity, just two days after he publicly claimed to be the founder of Bitcoin. As said above, many in the bitcoin fraternity viewed Wright’s claims with utmost derision and felt that he was a con man using the Satoshi identity for personal gain. Wright sought to submit extraordinary evidence to shut those naysayers....

Shivang Desai, a researcher with an American security firm Zscaler, has found a new malicious Android app that claims it can get a “Coronavirus safety mask” for you. The multi-step scam website reads: “Get safety from coronavirus by using Face mask, click on this link download the app and order your own face mask – hxxp://coronasafetymask[.]tk.” Once the user clicks the link, it would take the user to a web portal where they are asked to download the app....

The Operation is organised on 20 July, Independence Day in Colombia. the Goal behind the operation is to attack the servers of the Colombian Government, said Max_Hcz fonder of team Anonymous GCC. this year Anonymous CCG, Colombian Hackers & Team Hack Argentino are united for the operation, he added. One of the hacked website carried a deface message, Several Government websites of Colombia were hacked and defaced as the operation commenced, List of websites defaced can be seen below: [1] https://armenia....

— tartarus_destroyer (@detoxransome) July 26, 2015 — tartarus_destroyer (@detoxransome) July 24, 2015 DetoxRansome has been demanding ransom from BitDefender according to Forbes. The hacker has even showed the Thomas Brewster of Forbes the unencrypted usernames and passwords purportedly belonging to the BitDefender customers. BitDefender in a emailed statement has stated that it found a potential security issue with a server and determined a single application was targeted – a component of its public cloud offering....

For those unaware, iOS is the operating system that powers many of Apple’s mobile devices, including the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. On the other hand, Corellium provides services as a mobile device virtualization solution to help security researchers determine vulnerabilities in iOS. According to Apple, Corellium’s iOS virtualization product infringes on Apple’s copyrights. “Corellium has simply copied everything: the code, the graphical user interface, the icons — all of it, in exacting detail,” Apple said in the complaint who is looking to shut down Corellium’s virtual iPhone....

For example, take the case of the leading fitness tracker maker Fitbit when it was made to recall one of its high-tech wristbands, the Fitbit Force, from the market. The reason? Some customers started complaining about skin irritation when wearing the wristband – which was not reported with its predecessor, the Fitbit Flex. It seems like the giants of the industry are followed by the curse of the wrist-bound irritation like the plague....

As far as specifications are concerned, ROG Phone 2 is the very first smartphone that will come with Qualcomm’s newly-enhanced Snapdragon 855 Plus SoC (system-on-chip) clocked at 2.9GHz, which promises to 4% higher CPU speed and 15% high GPU speeds than the standard variant. In terms of display, the ROG Phone 2 now has an upgraded 6.59-inch Full HD+ AMOLED display that refreshes at 120Hz along with 240Hz touch sampling rate as well as support for 10-bit HDR....

The update will also come to Indian Asus Zenfone 4, Zenfone 5 and Zenfone 6 buyers in a phased manner via an OTA update. Alternatively you can go to the settings of your smartphone and check for software update. Remember to update your smartphone using Wi-Fi as the firmware version update may exhaust your data plan on 2G/3G and 4G/LTE. The Asus Zenfone 2 was launched last week running Android 5....

The findings of their study are published in a paper titled [PDF]: ‘Blue Note: How Intentional Acoustic Interference Damages Availability and Integrity in Hard Disk Drives and Operating Systems.” The group presented their research last week in San Francisco at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. “Adversaries without special-purpose equipment can cause errors in the hard disk drive using either audible or ultrasonic acoustic waves. Audible waves vibrate the read/write head and platters; ultrasonic waves alter the output of the HDD’s shock sensor, intentionally causing the head to park,” the researchers state in their paper....

The confirmation of the breach by Bandai Namco comes after the ransomware group ALPHV, also known as BlackCat, suggested that it was about to leak information stolen from the Japanese video game company. According to Bandai Namco, they noticed unauthorized access within the company’s internal systems for offices in Asian regions, excluding Japan on July 3, 2022. In response to the unauthorized access, the company blocked access to the affected servers to prevent more damage....

The terms of the deal have not been disclosed, however it is thought that vCita have acquired all of WiseStamp’s intellectual property, assets and employees, including the founders. vCita is a software as a service (Saas) tool that encompasses all aspects of running a small or medium-sized enterprise. There are tools for making bookings, payments, customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing. WiseStamp serves a more narrow purpose. Their software allows users to take their email signature to the next level....

Canvas Juice2 has been provided with 5 inch HD IPS (In-Plane Switching) display with 720 x 1280 pixels resolution. Micromax has provided Canvas Juice 2 with a battery of 3000 mAh battery that can support a talk time of up to 9 hours and up to 435 hours or 18 days of standby time. Canvas Juice2 has dual SIM It has been powered with the latest Android 5.0 Lollipop OS and also has the Cornilla Gorilla Glass 3 Protection Processor: It has 1....

According to the company and the U.S. Department of Justice, the comprised data includes 140,000 Social Security numbers, 80,000 bank account numbers, in addition to the tens of millions of credit card applications stolen. The breach also compromised one million Canadian social insurance numbers — the equivalent of Social Security numbers for Americans, the company said. The information collected for credit card applications came from consumers and small businesses submitted from 2005 through early 2019....