If the rumors are to go by, it states that the rear-facing camera will be increased from 16MP to 27MP. If this turns out to be true, we could be looking at a very powerful smartphone camera. Maybe it’s looking to add a dual-camera setup, which is believed to be another reason for the large pixel-count. The LG G4 could not provide competition to Samsung’s Galaxy S6 because of its speed....

As announced by Linus Torvalds last month, Linux kernel 4.7 is currently in development. Every other Sunday, it will get around seven or eight RC (Release Candidate) milestones until it hits stable, which should happen sometime in the second or third week of July. However, until then, there’s a lot of work to be done. “Things are looking fairly normal, and there are fixes all over, with drivers and architecture code leading the charge as usual, but there’s stuff spread out all over the place, including filesystems, networking, mm, library helpers, etc etc,” Torvalds wrote....

So what exactly is so promising about Linux Kernel 4.5? It includes the implementation of initial support for the AMD PowerPlay power management technology, and also brings in high performance to the AMD GPU open-source driver for Radeon GPUs. As a result, it will improve scalability in the free space handling of the Btrfs file system, and better epoll multithreaded scalability. Furthermore, GCC, or GNU Compiler Collection’s UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer (UBSan) is now supported in Linux kernel 4....

Past Efforts After being around for more than a decade, BitTorrent can safely claim the title of an enduring P2P protocol. And through that time, the protocols haven’t developed much. So someone decided to do something about it, a new project called Magnetico aims to solve this by crawling BitTorrent’s Distributed Hash Table and generating an index on a machine controlled by the user. This week, TorrentFreak caught up with its creator....

There are hundreds of VPN providers so it is difficult for a user to choose a service based on the services it provides and the fees it charges. Choosing a VPN service provider is often a trial and error method, trying and choosing the one that suits us the best. That One Privacy Guy, a Redditor has made a incredible master spreadsheet detailing particulars of 100s of such VPN providers....

Perhaps only reading about it is not convincing enough, but when you’ll watch the video you will realize that this could be one of the coolest gadgets that you could ever own. The self flying drone that can capture everything you do is designed to follow you outdoors with the help of complex software and a GPS tracker. It can fly at a minimum altitude above your head of 5 ft (1....

The ridiculously expensive truck, who’s cost has been kept a secret, took a year to build at the manufacturer’s Wacol headquarters, south-west of Brisbane. The truck build by Mack was unveiled in King George Square in Brisbane’s CBD, truly seems to be a ride fit for a king, in this case His Majesty Ibrahim Ismail. The rig has some of the fanciest extras around, including a six-camera CCTV system, two flat screen TVs, a stone-topped kitchen area, barbecue, double bed and seats with 72,000 stitches of gold thread....

Realizing this, MegaBots has started a Kickstarter campaign to raise the $500,000, so that it can upgrade its mighty Mark II robot and increase its armor, speed and hand-to-hand fighting abilities, in order to defeat Kuratas. MegaBots first prototype, the Mark II, is 15 feet tall, lumbers along at just under 3 miles an hour, and fires giant paintballs from an arm cannon at 120 miles per hour. An updated version of Mark II would be 6-foot-long chainsaw provided with giant punching gloves....

Microsoft seems to be at it again; first puts up a buggy update only to remove itMicrosoft Security Advisory 2949927The workaround Microsoft Security Advisory 2949927 The said update was released on Tuesday and described in Microsoft Security Advisory 2949927. Microsoft Security Advisory 2949927 has added SHA-2 hash algorithm signing and verification for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. However the update seemed to be malworking causing the users to reboot their systems in a loop....

The market share data of desktop operating systems and web-browsers in March 2020 shows Microsoft’s Edge with a share of 7.59% is on the second spot gaining an increase of almost 2% compared to the same period last year. It is followed by Mozilla’s Firefox in the third position with 7.19%, which saw a fall of more than 2% from March 2019, from 9.27% to 7.19%. Internet Explorer comes in the fourth position with a 5....

Our true feelings are the last citadel of ourselves against being fully owned by Google and Facebook as averse to the current holding of their 75 percent stake. However, feelings now may become known to everyone. It is learnt that Microsoft has succeeded in obtaining a wearable glasses patent that can identify the feelings of anyone that falls in the vicinity of your vision. The patent is named “Wearable emotion detection and feedback system....

Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group has a webpage explaining how the company has considered the use of “adaptive hardware” over the years. This idea struck Microsoft back in 1999, involved PCs that could display dedicated action keys and hide the irrelevant keys for a given application, application mode, and application state. Steven Bathiche, Director of research in Microsoft’s applied sciences group spent years investigating keyboards that changed their function keys and actions based on the applications on the screen, as reported earlier by The Verge....

Last year, Microsoft announced that they are working on turning Windows into a more modular operating system, a vision that has been codenamed “Windows Core OS.” Windows Core OS which will eventually be the future basis for all forms of Windows 10 is designed to provide flexibility that creates a versatile and an excellent new Windows experience for multiple device-form factors. One such example is “Andromeda OS”, which is for the mobile version that will be installed on two-screen folding devices such as Surface Phone, operated primarily with the use of stylus....

The culprit in question is SearchUI.exe process, part of Cortana – Microsoft’s voice assistant present on all Windows PCs, that is taking 30-40% of CPU usage and even using system memory when not in use, reported users on Microsoft’s Feedback Hub and Reddit (1, 2). Apparently, Microsoft has released a faulty version of Cortana in the Windows 10 update, which besides using high CPU resources also does not show the search functionality in the Taskbar....

Ghost of Windows RT The old idea we’re referring to is the Windows RT. The version launched alongside Windows 8 and was so badly received that it didn’t even make it to the Windows 8.1 update cycle. The idea was to have a version of Windows locked onto to only using apps from the Windows Store. Windows RT however was more than just this. It was also specifically designed to run on ARM processors rather than Intel & AMD processors that PCs used....

Bringing space to Earth : MIT Scientists develop ‘human centrifuge’ for astronauts to feel the real affects of gravityThe new machine mimics the effects of gravity in space by using a special type of centrifuge which cancels out the effects of micro-gravity on astronauts.Actual Testing of the Human centrifuge: International Space Station (ISS) too offers a wide choice of exercise options to the astronauts. However, it has been observed that due to space travel many astronauts suffer from bone loss, muscle deterioration, issues related to balancing and cardio vascular systems....

Recent hacking events and data breaches have proved that smartphones have become a important part of the supply and data management chain. If hacked, smartphones which often contain sensitive company & personal and banking data becomes a very easy vector for hackers to tap into bank accounts of the victim. As per the reports published by CERT-In, India is the fourth most targeted country by hackers and malware droppers. C-DAC’s MKavach where m stands for mobile and Kavach means shield in Sanskrit, will shield the smartphone users from malwares and banking information stealing trojans....

The reproducible security threat was first showcased by Pakistan-based developer Ammar Askar on his blog two days before, after waiting for exactly two years for Mojang to respond. Askar first discovered the vulnerability in July 2013 which allowed him to crash the Minecraft game servers. Askar promptly contacted Mojang so the studio could patch it out however Mojang only responded once he had sent a second email but to date till the release of the above patch, the bug remained unfixed....

You want to own an Android phone with latest features and it should also be easy on your pockets? If the answer is yes, then you have some good news, Motorola has launched its latest Moto E yesterday which would cost $149 only. The new handset was delivered to some select members of the press and the box resembled a miniature of press conference with Moto E handset inside, must say wow!...