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Some schools provide laptops, while others offer iPads and comparable technologies. These resources may not come free of obligation or responsibility, however. Make sure to find out what conditions accompany any school-provided device. Depending on your needs and the school’s policies, buying your own laptop may actually be more beneficial in the long run, even if it costs more now. Online schools that provide students a computer Many colleges and universities offer computers to online learners....

Why Phish the Chemical Industry? Generally, the cybercriminal’s aim of conducting a phishing attack is purely monetary, whatever method they use. From this goal, several realistic scenarios can be imagined. For instance, as in any other industry, a phishing email can be the way the hacker uses to steal bank account information, electronic account credentials, social security ID, credit/debit card information, or any other sensitive information about individuals. This gives the hacker the possibility to make a direct financial profit....

Niantic has started rolling out a new update for Pokémon Go that among some new features and bug fixes also disables the game from working on rooted Android devices. The company says that it has taken this step to eliminate “bots and scrapers” from the game. On the positive side, the update introduces Buddy Pokémon feature to the game that lets a trainer select one of their Pokémon as their Buddy Pokémon....

Still jazzed about the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Gear? Want to be the first in your neighborhood with one? If you are a Verizon Wireless customer, then you can secure your first adopter status by pre-ordering your goodies now. Verizon will be selling the Galaxy Note 3 in both black and white for $299 with a new two-year customer agreement. It’s also available for $699 without a contract or for $29....

Realme 5i: Design and Display The Realme 5i comes with a polycarbonate back with the sunrise design and comes in two color options: Aqua Blue and Forest Green. Towards the front, it features a 6.5-inch HD+ LCD display with an 89.8% screen-to-body ratio, a 20:9 aspect ration, and 1600 x 720 pixels screen resolution with 269ppi pixel density. Realme 5i: Performance At its core, the Realme 5i has an 11nm octa-core Snapdragon 665 processor with Adreno 610 GPU, coupled with 4GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 64GB of internal storage (expandable up to 512GB with microSD card)....

The survey of more than 2,000 managers and 4,000 staff found that employers are struggling to hire and retain skilled workers, leading to project delays and a failure to meet innovation goals. Conducted by online-learning platform Udacity and market research firm Ipsos, the survey found that 59% of organizations are seeing a “major or moderate” impact on business due to the lack of digitally skilled employees. Meanwhile, hiring initiatives are falling short....

The answer: Stay the course. In an interview, Hicks, who’s been with Red Hat since 2006, said, “[We’ll keep using] the same core fundamentals that we built 20-plus years ago.” Why? Because the combination of Linux, open-source software, and top support, “continues to play in new markets, whether that’s the shift to cloud and cloud services or to edge computing. In the next couple of quarters. we’ll just focus on executing....

Redmi has finally launched the Redmi 10 Prime in India. The latest from Redmi is powered by Helio G88 and is backed by a 6,000mAh battery. Global VP of Xiaomi Manu Jain recently teased Redmi 10 Prime. Redmi 10 Prime Features and Specifications The Redmi 10 Prime comes equipped with a 6.5-inch LCD display that offers a refresh rate of 90Hz at FHD+ resolution. Under the hood lies MediaTek Helio G88 paired with up to 6GB of RAM....

Russian based Dell SecureWorks, the senior security researcher Brett Stone-Gross told, “this group still in the eye of Cyber Metropolitan police in all over Europe and Russia, now have targeted Russian Bank. The group basically dubbed as The Tinba Banking Trojan, from the past years they are not targeting their own land, but now they started hacking their own lands banks, this Tiny Banker just now targeting Banks in Russia and the Payment service provider in Europe and Russia....

The South Korean tech giant was responding to the foundation’s Reinvent the Toilet Challenge that started in 2011, which aims to develop cost-effective toilets that can deliver inclusive sanitation services without the need for sewage treatment systems. The company’s advanced research arm Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology had been working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation since 2019. The institute recently completed the development of core technologies and made a prototype of the toilet that has gone through a user test, Samsung said....

Samsung’s Galaxy Premier 2014 event is scheduled for 7pm in New York today — roughly four hours from now — and the company is expected to unveil its new line of Galaxy Tab S with AMOLED displays there. Here’s how you can watch a livestream of the event as it happens. The event’s teaser, with its “Tab into color” title and colorful imagery, left little doubt in everyone’s mind that it will be focused on a new line of tablets with thin profiles and vibrant displays....

Moreover, the well-known Chinese smartphone manufacturer, of course, OnePlus has published a series of curious tweets in their official account. Just imagine that the well-known Chinese smartphone manufacturer, of course, OnePlus has developed a game that also with the help of the tech giant Google. Yes, it is true and the result is the Crackables, a mysterious video game of the well-known Chinese smartphone manufacturer, of course, OnePlus and the tech giant Google....

Today OnePlus released the OnePlus 8T with a 120Hz display and other new features. The folks at JerryRigEverything have already gotten hold of the OnePlus 8T and put it to instant torture. Thankfully, the OnePlus 8T fares as we expected. The latest device from OnePlus doesn’t suffer from durability issues, but neither is it exceptionally rugged. As always, JerryRigEverything tested the display for scratches. The OnePlus 8T display scratched at Mohs level 6 and graduated to “deeper grooves at a level 7....

In Summary The OnePlus Nord Buds are the first personal audio or hearable from OnePlus’ Nord range of devices. The TWS are very competitively priced at Rs 2,799 and come with an interesting design and good sound. Although they offer very good value for money, the Nord Buds will face stiff competition from entry level TWS offerings from the likes of Realme and Oppo. Smart design with a touch of fun It is a very promising debut as well....

In Summary The OnePlus Nord CE 2 is the successor of last year’s OnePlus Nord CE. Like the original Nord CE, the Nord CE 2 also focuses more on delivering a good basic smartphone experience at a relatively affordable price, rather than getting into the high-performance zone. It comes with OnePlus’ clean design and software, and is also the first OnePlus with expandable storage and has a 3.5 mm audio jack as well....

We’re not quite there yet, however. I’ve been playing with “GPT-2,” a program developed by the not-for-profit Silicon Valley company OpenAI. GPT-2 uses machine learning to automatically generate several paragraphs in a row of what seems like human writing. This is a fresh batch of code, released on Friday by OpenAI, and it’s more robust than what was first posted in February, when GPT-2 was announced. Unfortunately, this new code is not that much more impressive....

Opera made a lot of people angry earlier this year when they said they were going to stop working on their own web rendering engine and instead switch to WebKit. Personally, I didn’t see what all the fuss was about. I always thought it was an incredible waste of resources to have brilliant minds working on two separate projects, making each incrementally better, instead of combining efforts to really move the ball forward for the engine that powers almost everything....

These levels introduce the hurdles of debugging and developing exploits for the remote Format String and the Heap Unlink vulnerabilities. These will be further examined to see how they can be debugged and reverse engineered at the binary level to understand what input is to be expected. The VM used in this article can be downloaded from here. This level takes us back to the simple format string vulnerability, but this time, our target is a remote server....

In an interview with Forbes, Qualcomm’s VP of marketing Tim McDonough, has once again shot down rumors of the Snapdragon 810 chip overheating. McDonough says that the rumors are “rubbish” and that there are no “overheating problem with the Snapdragon 810 in commercial devices.” As for all the rumors floating around, McDonough says that since Qualcomm was the first to the market with its “premium-tier” Snapdragon 810 chipset in the LG G Flex 2, “somebody” decided to spread false rumors about the chip overheating....

The Qualcomm 845 will also be offering a 30% increase in the graphics performance. The new Kyro 385 design will be based on ARM cores and will be built on Samsung’s 2nd-gen 10nm process. The SoC will now come with an L3 cache with 2MB of memory along with a private L2 cache. As always the SoC will be manned by a set of high power and low power cores....