Month: <span>July 2019</span>

Developer website for Google Fuchsia quietly goes live It is no secret that Google is quietly working on a modern operating system (OS) dubbed as “Fuchsia” for some years now. While there has been news about the development of Fuchsia OS project on and off, it was finally confirmed by Google that it is indeed […]

A few days ago, a group of engineers from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras developed India’s first open-source Shakti processor. This project was funded by the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information technology. Well, IIT Madras has now released the software development kit (SDK) for Shakti processor. Additionally, IIT Madras has also confirmed that the […]

Florida Lake City fires IT employee after paying $460k ransom in malware attack Lake Metropolis, Florida on Monday voted to pay 42 Bitcoins (or about $460,000) to hackers after a ransomware attack that crippled the city’s computer systems, according to a report by ZDNet. The city described the incident as a “triple threat” that affected everything […]

Android co-founder Andy Rubin’s wife blames him for concealing Google payments, running “sex ring” Android creator and former Google executive, Andy Rubin has been accused of having an “inappropriate relationship” with a subordinate, and also cheating his ex-wife out of millions of dollars, according to a civil complaint made public on Tuesday. The civil complaint, […]

A volcano has erupted on a small Italian island, sending tourists fleeing from their hotels. Fires were seen on Stromboli but no injuries have been reported. “We saw the explosion from the hotel. There was a loud roar,” Michela Favorito, who works in a hotel on the island, told Reuters news agency. “We plugged our […]

Bitcoin uses as much energy as the whole of Switzerland, a new online tool from the University of Cambridge shows. The tool makes it easier to see how the crypto-currency network’s energy usage compares with other entities. However, one expert argued that it was the crypto-currency’s carbon footprint that really mattered. Currently, the tool estimates that […]

Some Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users cannot upload photos, videos and files. A spokesman for Facebook, which owns all three apps, told BBC News: “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.” Together, the social networks have billions of users worldwide. In March, Facebook and Instagram suffered their longest period of disruption […]