Bitcoin, the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, has breached the $15,000 mark for the first time since January 2018, with the price of Bitcoin (BTC) at $15,532.56 at the time of writing. In the last 24 hours, the BTC price is up more than 5.00%. It is unclear if the notable price surge is related to the U.S. Presidential election or the resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. In July this year, the price of Bitcoin (BTC) had crossed the $11,000 mark for the first time in nearly a year....

DigitalOcean, the world’s leading web hosting platform, has confirmed that it exposed customer data after it accidentally left an internal Digital Ocean document online, according to a report from The Hacker News . According to the breach notification email sent to affected customers, the data leak took place when a DigitalOcean-owned document from 2018 was unintentionally made accessible on the internet without password protection. “This document contained your email address and/or account name (the name you gave your account at sign-up) as well as some data about your account that may have included Droplet count, bandwidth usage, some support or sales communications notes, and the amount you paid during 2018,” the company said in the breach notification email....

PS Vita is the eighth-generation console released after the juggernaut success of PlayStation Portable(PSP). Its predecessor was a storm that gave Nintendo a sweat for the first time in the handheld category. On the technical front, it excelled with the backward compatibility. Some games from PS2 were ported to PS Vita, including Final Fantasy X/X2 Remaster and Persona 4 Golden, amongst others. From a commercial point of view, PS Vita tanked and was deemed as a commercial failure....

Are you looking to download Windows 8.1 ISO file? Then you can find the direct links here. The OS was originally a free update to Windows 8 users who were stuck in the bug-laden operating system. Some called it another Vista but it was a giant leap ahead for Microsoft that didn’t exactly pan out as expected, so they shipped 8.1 to undo the damage. It continues to be supported with the recent update for it being shipped in January of this year so you will be covered against exploits and instability bugs....

X (formerly known as Twitter) CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday announced in a tweet that he is planning to speak to Apple CEO Tim Cook to lower App Store fees for creators who earn money through subscriptions on the microblogging platform. In order to maximize what creators receive, Musk is looking to propose Apple collect 30 percent of the creator fee that X keeps instead of the full 30% of subscription fees that a creator earns on Twitter....

Ever since the coronavirus pandemic has started, face masks have become the need of the hour in order to limit transmission of the virus as well as personal protection of oneself to prevent infection. While many companies have attempted to convert an ordinary face mask into a smart mask that can offer health benefits, engineers at Northwestern University have developed a new smart sensor platform for face masks that they are calling a “Fitbit for the face”....

Facebook on Thursday introduced a new feature called “Soundmojis”, which allows users to send short sound clips in a Messenger chat. The aim is to make its chat service more engaging. “Every day, people send more than 2.4 billion messages with emojis on Messenger. Emojis add color and vibrancy to Messenger chats all over the world, and we rely on them to say what words can’t,” wrote Loredana Crisan, Vice President of Messaging Group, Messenger in a blog post about the new feature....

Facebook in a blog post on Tuesday disclosed yet another privacy breach that gave unauthorized access to users’ data to roughly 100 partners over the last 18 months. In a recent security review, the social networking giant found that the apps- primarily social media management and video streaming apps – retained access to information like names and profile pictures of members in various Facebook groups, linked with their activity in those Groups, from the Groups API (application programming interface), despite announcing Groups API restrictions in April 2018....

Visa, Mastercard, eBay, and Stripe withdraw support from Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency Project Following in the footsteps of PayPal, eBay, Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe announced on Friday that they will no longer support Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project. PayPal was the first company to exit from the social media giant’s ambitious project on October 4. For those unaware, in June this year, Facebook had announced its own digital money (cryptocurrency) called ‘Libra’ with an aim to make sending money immediate, free and secure for billions of its users using its apps and social network....

Fappening 2.0 continues unabated: This time Netflix horror flick star ‘The Babysitter’ Samara Weaving’s nude photos leaked Another celebrity’s personal account has been hacked leading to some personal photos including nudes being leaked online. The celebrity victim is Samara Weaving and the notorious website Celeb Jihad has been the one to release the photos. Samara’s father has spoken out against the hack, though the actress herself has not yet made a statement....

Farbar Recovery scan tool is a free malware scan tool by Farbar. It is portable, so that you can run it on any Windows XP or later computer without a problem. It also looks for Windows Registry load points, services, driver services, Netsvcs entries, known DLLs, as well as drive and partition information. Additionally, it identifies crucial system files that malware may have altered. Then, you can take action by having an expert review the report....

Tech giant Google has again announced more job cuts to reduce its additional expenditures by hiring cheap labor outside the United States. The latest round of layoffs has affected employees across essential teams like Flutter, Dart, Python, and others, according to reports shared by affected employees on social media (via TechCrunch). “As we’ve said, we’re responsibly investing in our company’s biggest priorities and the significant opportunities ahead,” Alex García-Kummert, a Google spokesperson, confirmed to TechCrunch about the layoffs in three internal teams....

A second trove of hacked Ashley Madison data hits the dark web As predicted, The Impact Team, the group of hackers responsible for hacking the online adultery website, Ashley Madison yesterday leaked another 20GB of stolen data on the Dark Web. The Impact Team, which had made public approximately 10GB data on Wednesday , yesterday released a fresh 20 gigabytes of compressed data, doubling their first leak. The second leak contains data and emails pertaining to the upper echelons of Avid Life Media, the owner of Ashley Madison....

Here is a comprehensive way to check while files are incomplete, corrupted or modified There are several programs which you can use to check file integrity of your computer system. The common ones that we will be detailing have been listed below: MD5 and SHA Checksum Utility HashTools HashTab MD5 and SHA Checksum Utility If you don’t want to pay for this utility, then the free edition of MD5 and SHA Checksum Utility can calculate the following hashes:...

iPhones with time get cluttered and become low on space. Every app you install on your iPhone creates app cache. As you use the app this cache keeps on building and using lots of memory space. If you have a huge list of apps installed on your iPhone, the app cache created by them will occupy a significant amount of storage. If you have an iPhone with only 32GB or 64GB storage, you will soon run out of storage....

How To Download Movie Subtitles or srt Automatically using VLC Media Player Are you a movie buff and love watching movies in PC? Do you like to watch movies in languages that you do not understand? However, you are unable to understand the movie as it does not have sub-titles? Well, then VLC might be the answer for your problem. VLC is a great media player that can play almost any media format....

Microsoft’s Edge has become a browser to use right now. Powered by Chromium, it packs the right combination of features and usability. And just like Chrome , you can use flags here to add new features to the browser. You don’t need an extension for that. Edge flags are experimental features that Microsoft keeps on adding to the browser for testing. You can enable them to enjoy new features before others....

Truecaller is an insanely popular smartphone app that offers useful features like caller identification, call-blocking, flash-messaging, call-recording, and much more. The free app is available for both Android and iOS. However, you might have noticed that there are significant differences between how Truecaller works on an iPhone in comparison to an Android smartphone. In this article, we have shared details on how to properly enable and use Truecaller’s caller identification and spam blocking services on an iPhone....

Insta360, a Chinese company that specializes in advanced and accessible 360-degree cameras, on Tuesday, announced the third iteration of its smallest and compact action camera, the Insta360 GO 3. According to the company, “GO 3 eliminates the hassle of bulkier cameras and offers more unique creative possibilities”. In terms of features, the Insta360 GO 3 comes in smaller than thumb size and weighs in at only 1.2oz (35 grams), and measures just 1....

Meta-owned Instagram, the popular photo-sharing app, on Friday, started rolling out a new feature that allows users to create their own personalized “Add Yours” templates. This feature lets users add GIFs, text and gallery images to their Story templates to make it more engaging and fun for their followers to participate in. “Today, we rolled out the ability to create your own Add Yours templates. You’ll be able to develop and share your own custom, meme-able templates by pinning GIFs, text, and gallery images – and template creators will be credited when others participate in the trend,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri shared about the feature in his IG Updates Broadcast Channel on Instagram....