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A person, namely Mark Kruger, aged 53, died by inhaling smoke. He died due to a fire caused by overheating his mobile phone, the iPhone 5, which he left to charge overnight. Assistant coroner for Berkshire, Ravi Sidhu , ordered a robe into the death of Kruger on Wednesday, February 3 at Reading Town Hall. Man dies after leaving his iPhone charging overnight The Probe stated that Mr. Kruger kept his mobile phone on his side and set it using an extension cord to make it more approachable....

The moment of Windows XP already happened a decade ago but, what would Windows XP be like in 2019? Welcome to Windows XP 2019 Edition. Remembering an old software with nostalgia is an excusable romantic exercise, but it has no practical utility. In computer science, evolution is ruthless, as it has no mercy with the old software. An old movie is completely enjoyable a century later, but an operating system 20 years ago, today is a real torture: slow, limited and prone to hanging on to the slightest opportunity....

Microsoft has released an in-depth report detailing how Russian cyberattacks against Ukraine were “strongly correlated” or “directly timed” with its military operations in the country. For example, on March 1, several Kyiv-based media companies were struck by destructive and information-stealing malware, which coincided with a missile strike on a Kyiv TV tower on the same day. SEE: Google: Multiple hacking groups are using the war in Ukraine as a lure in phishing attempts Then on March 13, a suspected Russian nation-state actor stole data from a nuclear safety organization, aligning with Russian troops seizing the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power plant....

While these can sometimes include new features and graphical overhauls, it generally plugs security vulnerabilities and flaws that hackers can exploit. September is essential if you have a Windows-based computer, as Microsoft patched 63 flaws with its latest release. Read on to see what the various patches fix and how you can install them on your computer. Here’s the backstory Microsoft’s contribution to September’s Patch Tuesday fixes 63 flaws, two of which are zero-days, while hackers are exploiting another....

Over the last few months, Google has slowly and steadily expanded the capabilities of Google Now by adding a plethora of new cards to it. However, it looks like the best is yet to come with the company probably saving it up for Google I/O. The excellent folks over at Android Police have unearthed a new upcoming Google Now feature — Nearby — that would allow your device to interact with other Android devices nearby, or even places, people and other things....

Currently, the most popular streaming service allows the users to first download the full content on the mobile or tablet and then view it offline. But, now the users don’t need to wait for the download process to complete. Netflix Now Lets you Watch Half Downloaded Shows on Android Back in the year 2016, Netflix announced the download feature to stream content offline or in the areas where you don’t have internet or have less internet....

As then-New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said at the time, two million net neutrality comments were fake. Schneiderman said: “Moving forward with this vote would make a mockery of our public comment process and reward those who perpetrated this fraud to advance their own hidden agenda.” Schneiderman was wrong. His successor, Letitia James, found after a multi-year investigation that there had been “18 million fake comments with the FCC,” including over 500,000 fake letters sent to Congress in support of the repeal....

The team over at iFixit is back today with the teardown of the Huawei-made Google Nexus 6P. If the premium unibody aluminium construction of the handset had not already made it clear, the tear down from iFixit definitely does: the Nexus 6P is a very tough phone to repair. Accessing the innards of the phone itself was a challenge for iFixit, and they note that opening the device without breaking the rear camera glass is a very tough job — if not impossible....

Nova Launcher, one of the most popular third-party launchers on the Play Store, has received a major update to v4.0 today. This is the first major stable release of Nova Launcher in 8 months and after numerous beta and alpha releases. There are quite a bunch of new goodies present in this update, including a Material Design makeover, more animations, updated launcher code and more. The full change log of the update is as follows: The developer had rolled out most of the features mentioned above to the beta channel of the app back in March itself....

The two companies announced today, at the VMware Explore 2022 conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco, a new data center platform they claim is designed for the era of AI, making standard a list of disparate functions – state-of-the-art AI modeling, AI inference, data science, and zero-trust security capabilities – in servers globally. The package combines Dell’s latest PowerEdge servers with Nvidia BlueField-2 data processing units (DPUs), GPUs, and AI enterprise software, all optimized for VMware’s new vSphere 8 enterprise workload platform, which also was introduced at the Aug....

According to a + post the you can now ask questions like, “Show me restaurants around my hotel” or “Give me directions to my hotel from here” get answers. The former will pull up suggestions of local eateries along with reviews, images, information from Zagat. Asking for directions will get directions back to your hotel, which depending on Maps settings could be via mass transit, car, foot, or bicycle. To make this magic work, you must have Now enabled on your device turn on the rsonal Options setting....

Unfortunately, there will always be criminals who don’t want to offer people jobs but rather steal their money. By posting fake ads or promises of employment, scammers use various tactics to line their own pockets. Students and other economically vulnerable people are often the prime targets for these scammers. Due to eagerness to earn money, victims might overlook some red flags in initial discussions. Here’s one of the latest job scams making the rounds....

And now, following these high-profile breaches, another major hotel chain has suffered a massive breach, this time affecting 500 million customers! If you made a reservation at one of these hotels these past few years, hackers may now have your data. Read and see if you’re affected and what you can do about it. Marriott-Starwood hotel chain breach Marriott has confirmed that it has suffered a massive data breach that has compromised the information of around 500 million guests who made reservations at their Starwood properties....

‘Make in India’ initiative is Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s ambitious plan to bring in industries and help them manufacture their products within the country itself. Barely a year since the launch of the initiative, a number of mobile handset manufacturers have boarded the ship, while many are mulling to do so in the future. In this article, we aim to talk about the advantages for manufacturing devices in India and would also touch upon the companies which have already joined the initiative....

Here’s how Microsoft officials explained how Viva Sales works: “As sellers are working, they can tag customers in Outlook, Teams or Office applications like Excel, and Viva Sales will automatically capture it as a customer record, layered with all relevant data about the customer. Being able to automatically capture this level of customer engagement data was not available previously. This data can easily be shared with team members while collaborating in Office and Teams without retyping or looking it up in a CRM....

Indian consumers have been awaiting the launch of the Moto G ever since the device was made official by the soon-to-be-owned-by-Lenovo Motorola, and that wait is finally coming to an end today. The Moto G has been launched in the country, at the price of Rs 12,499 for the 8 GB version and Rs 13,999 for the 16 GB model, both with dual SIM slots, making it an instant recommendation for anyone looking to buy a smartphone costing less than Rs....

As promised by Motorola, the developer edition of the Moto X is now up for sale on its website in the United States. The developer edition is available in two variants – GSM and Verizon (CDMA). Internally, the specs of the developer variants remain the same as the carrier variants of the Moto X, except that they come with 32GB of on-board storage space. Externally, the handsets cannot be customized by users prior to placing an order, but Motorola will be shipping the handsets with a two-tone color job – white back with a black front and the words ‘DEVELOPER EDITION’ etched on the back of the handset....

Motorola/Lenovo today launched the Moto E3 Power in India. The handset comes less than two weeks after the company unveiled the Moto G4 Play. The Moto E3 Power is the successor to the second generation Moto E, with the ‘Power’ moniker hinting at its beefy battery capacity. The handset features a design that is similar to other phones from Motorola in recent times. Made of polycarbonate plastic, the Moto E3 Power features a water-repellent coating....

The All New HTC One has just made its way to the Chinese device certification database TENAA, carrying information on the hardware accompanied by a few pictures of the handset. The smartphone shown here is the China Mobile variant with support for TD-LTE networks as you can see from the image above. While the mention of a 5 inch 1080p display and the quad core Snapdragon 801 chipset doesn’t surprise us, the camera resolution certainly looks interesting....

Did you know 62% of iOS devices experienced a failure of some sort over the last three months compared to just 47% of Android devices. Hence, a study carried out by a security company known as “Blancco Technology” who claims that the failure rate of iOS is 62%, compared to 47% of Android as we told. In that failure rate, it is taken into account virtually everything is out of the ordinary, such as application crashes, failures to make connections to a server, overheating while using an application, unexpected reboots, and so on....