Apple files complaint against an ex-employee for defrauding Dhirendra Prasad has been indicted with a count of five charges including wire and mail fraud as well as two conspiracy to launder fraud proceeds among other charges. Prasad was an employee at Apple between December 2008 and December 2018 as a buyer in its Global Service Supply Chain department. The company alleges that Prasad used kickbacks from vendors as well as he used to steal parts using fake repair orders....

While Apple has many subscription services like Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, iCloud+ and more, the company is looking to venture into hardware subscription services. This new offering will allow users to “subscribe” to iPhone or other Apple products with their Apple ID and App Store account and use them during the subscription period for a monthly fee. The hardware subscription model will work well for those who are unable to buy an expensive ?...

The release is identical to developer code seeded on Wednesday. To download the public beta, you will have to sign up as a public beta tester with Apple’s Beta Software Program for iOS and OS X. Along with some new emoji, the build includes APIs for 3D Touch and Live Photos so the developers can get busy building apps that support those features. So, what’s in the new beta? According to MacRumors, iOS 9....

Apparently, Apple has shelved the ‘Walkie-Talkie’ feature for the time being, according to a new report from The Information citing sources familiar with the matter. For those unaware, there is a Walkie-Talkie feature available on Apple Watch that allows users to get in touch with each other at the touch of a button. However, this feature is different compared to the rumored one on iPhone, as the Walkie-Talkie feature on Apple Watch relies on either Wi-Fi or a cellular connection....

The Cupertino giant who had filed a patent back in June for a camera cut-out in the display has finally been approved. The patent titled “Integrated Camera Window” was approved by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on November 8. The folks at LetsGoDigital who discovered Apple’s new patent shows an iPhone with a hole for the camera in the display. In other words, Apple is looking to place the iPhone’s front camera under the device’s screen in its future phones, thereby killing the notch design....

Anandtech reports that Cortex-A73 possesses the same CPU design as the Cortex-A17, only this time, ARM has decided to focus on one thing; power efficiency. Poorly designed chipsets have let to consuming a large amount of power, ranging between 5-10 watts. This is completely unacceptable, and ARM is on a mission to make sure that sustained peak performance is not lost. When a processor present inside a chipset is running at its highest frequency, the temperature rise causes the processor to throttle and prevent it from continuing to run at its highest speed to keep the thermals under the safe zone....

The Taiwanese tech giant recently found themselves in hot waters as they admitted issues with their ROG series motherboard. Their ROG Maximus Hero Z690 motherboard is wreaking havoc for many of the users. Issues at hand include no POST, damaged motherboard components, and memory detection errors (QCODE 53). They have admitted the mistake and have agreed to replace the affected series of the model. What’s causing the issue? YouTuber Actual Hardcore Overclocking did his analysis and found one common problem across all the affected motherboards – two shorted and burned out MOSFETs, basically a capacitor that is responsible for switching on/off electrical components....

Speaking of specifications, the report suggests that the smartphone will feature a 5-inch (720x1280p) display and run on Mediatek’s rather old MT6582 chipset, which has a quad-core application processor and Mali-400 MP2 graphics processor. ZenFone Go is also said to have 2GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage. The smartphone also sports an 8MP primary camera and a 2MP secondry camera and supports 3G connectivity. However since it is based on a old chipset and will not support 4G/LTE, Asus may price this Zenfone Go at less than Rs....

StartSSL allows attackers obtain SSL certificates for domains they do not ownStartEncrypt comprises of design and implementation faultsStartEncrypt bug joined with OAuth 2.0 protocol conditionSeveral other issues discovered as well The StartEncrypt project was launched by StartCom, the CA (Certificate Authority) behind the StartSSL service on June 4, which was motivated by the success of the Let’s Encrypt project. Users who want to use free StartSSL certificates can take advantage of their StartEncrypt offering....

As far as the overall performance of the system is concerned, BackBox Linux 4.5 will come preinstalled with Linux kernel 4.2 and will also come with various new and special tools, such as Automotive Analysis and OpenVAS that assures to make a big difference, according to the release notes. The announcement reads, “In this release we have some special new features included to keep BackBox up to date with last developments in security world....

Top 29 U.S. tech companies to work for in 2019, according to GlassdoorZoom Video CommunicationsProcore TechnologiesLinkedInFacebook Google Salesforce HubSpot DocuSign Ultimate Software Paylocity Fast Enterprises SAP Adobe Compass Microsoft NVIDIA Intuit TaskUs Cengage Kronos Incorporated VMware AppDynamics Paycom Cisco Systems Apple NetApp HP Inc. Expedia Group World Wide Technology Organizations were ranked based on employee ratings across several factors, such as overall satisfaction, career opportunities, corporate culture, transparency, compensation and benefits, work-life balance, culture, values, and business outlook....

While the benefit of using a separate keyboard are many, it becomes essential for a particular category of PC users – the gamer. No matter your game of choice, having a good keyboard has never brought down anyone’s kill streak. For that reason, we’ve used our skills to gather for you some of the best gaming keyboards that 2017 has to offer. Razer BlackWidow Chroma V2 A gamer would be obviously aware of the Razer brand and true to their style they have released one of the best gaming keyboards available today....

The Twitter and Facebook handle of the popular online manga comics website has disappeared, and their newest domain name returns a blank page with the error “IP address not found”. The reaction to the news was clamoring in distress on online forums. Mangastream had some popular manga series like Black Clover, Dr. Slump, Naruto, One Piece, and several others. Mangastream has been around for almost a decade. Along with OneManga, they pretty much dominated the online manga scanlation space....

Apple and Samsung have been playing hide and seek with their respective products ever since the first iPhone was launched. iPhone revolutionized the smartphone industry by introducing the home button on its first phone and Samsung followed it up with Samsung Galaxy S III. Similarly, in the recent times, Samsung launched its Bezel-less Samsung Galaxy S8 and Apple followed it up with a bezel-less iPhone X. Now we seem to be moving to a different era where the smartphones will be foldable affair a-la wallet which can be folded and kept in your back pocket....

“At TCL Communication, we are committed to creating the best portfolio solutions, while ensuring the quality support to consumers and enterprise users who trust the integrity of the BlackBerry device and the brand’s security leadership, coupled with the Android platform,” said Nicolas Zibell, CEO of TCL Communication. “Together with BlackBerry’s smartphone software platform, this partnership will strengthen our position in the global mobile market.” Under the “long-term licensing agreement”, TCL (also Alcatel’s parent company) will “design, manufacture, sell, and provide customer support for BlackBerry-branded mobile devices....

In an interview with the BBC’s “Panorama” program, the whistle-blower said “They want to own your phone instead of you,” referring to Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) agency. Snowden claimed that GCHQ in Cheltenham used a secret programme called “Smurf Suite,” after the blue cartoon characters, The Smurfs to monitor citizens. “Nosey Smurf” is the ‘hot mic’ tool, which enables spies to turn the microphone on and listen to everything that’s going on around you....

Thanks to the combined efforts of ElectroBOOM and his daughter, they tried to come up with several ways to salvage the parts of the device that still worked. So what were they able to create after accumulating all the parts together? An adorable toy robot whose primary body comprises up of the head of a toothbrush. This is how the talented duo were able to transform the broken Android phone into a toy robot; after taking the phone’s vibrator module, a coin cell battery, a switch and some wire, both of them mounted these items on top of the top of the toothbrush head....

Here are the 5 reasons why some Google employees live in parking lotsHigh rentsTo save moneyOn a challengeCould not find accommodationNot too difficult to stay “The benefits and care of employees is obviously world class, and compensation is almost unmatchable. But the company attracts some of the best talent and best people to work with in the world, which is the most important bit.” – Google Program Manager (San Francisco, CA)....

This guy who is absolutely obsessed with lasers has a vast majority of his inventions around them, including a laser tornado lamp, a drone with a laser and even a laser sword. Last year, he introduced his ridiculous 40W laser shotgun, an impressive and overkill rig that set pingpong balls on fire and will blind you if you look at it wrong. The bazooka is a somewhat similar design to the shotgun, although it works on a whole other order of magnitude....