This Arduino-powered door automatically locks whenever you opens browser incognito mode
In Google Chrome – How do you go into private browsing?
I think everyone knows the answer :
If you don’t want Google Chrome to save a record of what you visit and download, you can always surf the web in incognito mode.
And what happens if you forget to lock the door while you are surfing “private stuffs” in web and your loved ones or any other uninvited guests burst into the room without warning . Yeah, an embarrassing situation.
So how it will be if your door automatically locks itself whenever you open browser incognito mode…pretty good..ha…… That’s exactly what Mike, CEO of the Useless Duck Company designed.
Arduino-powered door lock
YouTuber Mike created Arduino-powered door that automatically locks itself whenever you open a private browser or activate browser incognito mode.
This Arduino-powered door automatically locks whenever you opens browser incognito mode
Mike hooked his PC up to an Arduino Uno that’s connected to a servo-controlled lock. A self-written program that constantly scans the open browser windows on his computer, and if it spots an incognito window, it locks the door.
Check out his YouTube Channel to find out some other funny invention.
Nvidia launches their first ever video game and it's in VR
Nvidia – producer of powerful computer graphics – saving life of gamers since 1999. Now this GPU maker is going to become a major game producer too.Yes happy news gamers, Nvidia launched their first ever game and it’s a VR based game.
Yesterday,the company unveiled their first ever video game, VR Funhouse, alongside their unique and powerful screenshotting tool called Ansel.
The game is available for free via Valve’s Steam distribution platform for entertainment titles but is only playable on the $799 HTC Vive VR system. Vive itself is awesome if you can deal with the challenging setup, and devote a decent amount of physical space, free of obstacles, for what’s known as room-scale VR. Nvidia is opening up the source code inside VR Funhouse to developers.
VR Funhouse – Built using Unreal Engine 4 and demonstrates a number of VRWorks and GameWorks technologies, including FleX particle-based simulations, Nvidia Flow fluid simulations, HairWorks, PhysX, and Multi-Res Shading.
Playing VR Funhouse will require an immensely powerful gaming rig. To run the game just on ‘low’ settings, you’ll need to have a GeForce GTX 1060, 1070, 980 Ti, or Titan X in your system. If you have a GTX 1080, you can play at medium quality, while high quality requires a single GTX 1080 or two GTX 1070s, Titan Xs, or 980 TIs in SLI. On top of that, GPU PhysX effects require a dedicated GTX 980 Ti or greater.
And newly released camera tool called Nvidia Ansel will let gamers to capture stunning 360-degree imagery from within the games they play. The catch is that Ansel can only be activated in supported games. At launch, the only game that supports Ansel is Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, although Nvidia is working on support for other titles like The Witcher 3. To use Ansel, you’ll need to install the latest Nvidia drivers and game updates for Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, then press Alt+F2 during gameplay.
Nvidia also relesed GeForce 368.81 WHQL-certified graphics card drivers, which are Game Ready for a collection of VR titles: VR Funhouse, Raw Data, Obduction, Everest VR, and The Assembly. This driver can be downloaded automatically though GeForce Experience, or manually through our driver download section.
Pokemon GO - already beat Tinder,now going to overtake Twitter in daily active users on Android
“Pokemon GO” – new trending game from Nintendo and Niantic already hit internet. According to data from SimilarWeb, Pokemon Go has already been installed on more Android smartphones in the US than dating app Tinder.
As of 48 hours ago, Pokemon GO was installed on 5.6% of all Android devices in the United States and as of July 8th, the app was being used for an average of 43 minutes, 23 seconds a day, higher than Whatsapp, Instagram, Snapchat, and Messenger.
Pokemon GO vs Social media apps
According to a different metric, “Pokemon Go” is set to shortly overtake social network Twitter.
Pokemon GO hasn’t even launched globally. It’s currently only officially available in the US, New Zealand, and Australia. Niantic Labs has actually paused their global roll out due to overwhelming demands placed on their servers.
Outside of the US, users around the world have been trying to download Pokemon GO using an apk, bypassing the official app store. Since the app’s release, traffic to apkmirror.com absolutely exploded, increasing from just over 600,000 visits on July 5th to over 4 million visits on July 6th.
This massive interest in Pokemon GO has helped Nintendo Co’s stock surge more than 20%.
A huge home built computer only for playing Tetris
People who need a computer normally go to a store and buy one from anywhere between $500 and $3,000. But there are some geeks who like to built their own computer. Today we are going to meet a huge home built computer, sadly which only enough power to play Tetris.
James Newman from Cambridge, UK, started building “Megaprocessor” – a huge home built computer, in 2012. And he spent £40,000 ($53,000) to finish this 33ft (10m) wide and 6ft (2m) high computer. It contains 40,000 transistors, 10,000 LED lights and it weighs around half a tonne (500kg).
Because of its size now you think, it could be a supercomputer but sadly its not.
Megaprocessor does the job of a chip-sized microprocessor,because it’s a 16-bit machine that only has 256 Bytes of RAM (which, however small that number seems, takes up around 10 square feet of space) and a 20kHz-clocked processor. So far, he has used it to play the classic video game Tetris.
A huge home built computer only for playing Tetris
Mr Newman, a digital electronics engineer, started the project because he was learning about transistors and wanted to visualize how a microprocessor worked. Checkout his diary of the build progress.
In his website he said : “Computers are quite opaque, looking at them it’s impossible to see how they work. What I would like to do is get inside and see what’s going on. Trouble is we can’t shrink down small enough to walk inside a silicon chip. But we can go the other way; we can build the thing big enough that we can walk inside it. Not only that we can also put LEDs on everything so we can actually SEE the data moving and the logic happening. It’s going to be great.”
Mr Newman hopes the Megaprocessor will be used as an educational tool and is planning a series of open days at his home over the summer. “My dream is that it goes to a museum or educational institute so that people can learn from it,” he told the BBC.
Check out an overview of what the Megaprocessor consists of and what it can do in the video, below.
How to factory reset Windows 10 without losing your data
Simple guide to show how to factory reset Windows 10without losing your personal files or data.
Sometimes our Windows 10 PC crashes because of :
Some Registry errors or malware attacks or program-incompatibility issues. So getting rid off this crash or Windows 10 errors we go for reinstalling the OS which usually compel us to format our hard disk.
Since to reinstall Windows 10, we need installation media or Windows 10 free download ISO file in our CD/USB drive. And most of us don’t have it. But their is a hidden option in Windows 10 – which help you to reinstall Windows without installation CD or USB drive.
Yes you heard it right :
You can reinstall Windows 10 without installation media – also while keeping your personal files such as documents, music, etc. intact. …
So this Windows 10 hidden feature will work like a factory reset which deletes all the user installed programs without touching your personal data.
So lets start the guide :
How to factory reset Windows 10
Let me explain what exactly factory reset Windows 10 means :
Resetting will delete all user files in Windows partition.
Resetting will remove all apps and programs that didn’t come with PC.
Resetting will change your Windows 10 PC settings back to their defaults.
So before factory reset Windows 10, make sure you already moved your personal data or files from “C: Drive” or Windows partition. So checkout if their is any personal files like images,videos,pdf..etc in Desktop or Download folders. If yes – then move those files to another partition.
Because factory resetting Windows 10 PC means clearing user files or user installed programs – cleaning your Windows 10 partition.
Now a window will popup asking two options – how you want to handle Windows 10 reset :
Choose “Keep my files”
If you like to reinstall Windows 10 without deleting your personal files – choose first option ” Keep my files ” or if you want to wipe your data from hard disk and then reinstall Windows 10 – choose second option ” Remove everything “.
Here we are choosing first option because the whole tutorial is about resetting Windows 10 without losing personal data.
So after choosing first option, now a new window will open – which will show all the installed programs in your Windows 10 PC which is going to be removed during factory reset Windows 10.
List of programs going to removed
Don’t worry you will get list of removed programs in your Desktop once resets completes, so that you can reinstall them again.
Now hit ” Next ” button.
Again a new window will open to ask final confirmation about factory reset Windows 10. So click ” Reset “.
Click “Reset”
Now Windows 10 will restart to process factory reset. Wait several minutes to complete the process.
That’s it….. this is how yo reinstall Windows 10 without Windows ISO and keep your file intact during reset. If you got stuck during any steps, feel free to comment below and also let us know do resetting Windows 10 resolves your crashing issue?
Bad news for those who are still using 32-bit processors :
Ubuntu alongwith other Linux distributions are planning to end support to 32-bit PCs.
Since 64-bit CPUs were first released more than a decade ago, many people are still using 32-bit CPUs – the decision is going to affect them. So if you want to run a Linux distro with full power in future : you have to switch to 64-it processor..
Ubuntu is the latest operating system planning to end support to 32-bit processors. Ubuntu’s Dimitri John Ledkov put forth a proposal to wind down 32-bit support on the Ubuntu mailing list recently.
He reports that hardware that can’t run 64-bit software is becoming much less common, while creating 32-bit images, testing them, and supporting them takes time and effort. Ledkov also points out that Ubuntu wants to limit the number of new 32-bit installations, with Ubuntu 16.10. This next release will not offer a 32-bit Ubuntu Desktop or Ubuntu Server image. The software could still be installed for legacy compatibility purposes via more traditional installers. By Ubuntu 18.10 in October 2018, Ubuntu would completely end support for 32-bit software and encourage running it in a virtual machine or container instead.
Fedora has made a similar choice. Fedora Server no longer offers a 32-bit image as of Fedora 24.
OpenSUSE Leap hasn’t even offered 32-bit images since its inception. OpenSUSE Chairman Richard Brown explained on Reddit that it wasn’t worth supporting 32-bit for another three years after the release because downloads of 32-bit releases have steadily declined.
Yes, 32-Bit Linux distributions will still exist
Don’t worry, 32-bit Linux distributions will continue to exist for a long time. Because the recently released Ubuntu 16.04 LTS will be supported for five years until 2021. Even after many of the big Linux distributions stop releasing new versions for 32-bit hardware, there will be Linux distributions out there specializing in support for this older hardware. But, by then, more 32-bit hardware will be out of commission.
Hacker demands free Rift VR in exchange for Oculus CEO's hacked Twitter account
Facebook-owned virtual reality company,Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe had his Twitter account hacked Wednesday; and funny thing is the hacker demand a free Rift VR in exchange for hacked Twitter account.
The hacker, who has not been identified yet, changed Iribe’s cover photo and replaced his bio to “im not testing ya security im just having a laugh.”
The hack became apparent when a tweet from Iribe Twitter account was made saying: “We here @oculus are very excited to announce our new CEO. @Lid ! :)”
Even after two hours of the first tweet they were still visible on the page with new ones coming at intervals. It appears whether Iribe was not aware of the hack for a long time or the security team at Twitter is having a hard time taking back control of the handle. The hacker on the other hand seemed to be having fun.
A Twitter user named Qui, @Lid, is apparently behind the hack. The handle owner tweeted from his own account saying, “Lol just became CEO of this shit company @oculus.”
Declaring himself the CEO was just the beginning of a series of tweets. He later tweeted, “imagine creating the coolest s*** to ever be introduced to gaming and technology but using the same pass for 4 years lol… silly mr CEO!”
In other tweets the hacker demanded from Iribe to send him a free Oculus Rift VR. “If Brendan wants his twitter back i want a free oculus rift so i can watch porn the cool way,” the hacker said.
Hacker demands free Rift VR in exchange for Oculus CEO’s hacked Twitter account
All the tweets in question have since been removed from Iribe’s Twitter feed, and the account has now been restored.
The hacker later told Tech Crunch that he was able to get the hold on Iribe’s Twitter account by using his credentials exposed in recent MySpace data breach.
Earlier this month, Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter was also hacked, although, the Twitter hack was caused due to a LinkedIn hack which happened back in 2012. Unfortunately for Zuckerberg, he had been using the same password for both LinkedIn and Twitter. To add insult to the injury the password was “dadada”.
Secure-K, a portable Linux-based encrypted OS to protect your privacy and data
Here comes the next generation operating system – Secure-K, a portable Linux-based encrypted OS that can be securely loaded on any computer. Secure-K claimed to be the most secured OS which lives on a USB drive. Are you worried about your data and your online privacy, then you need this encrypted OS.
Secure-K, from Mon-K is an encrypted operating system enclosed in a USB stick that the company says will allow users to protect their data without sacrificing ease of use. The Secure-K is fitted with a pin-pad on the front which is needed to activate the OS, and Mon-K says the drive can be securely used on just about any computer without additional software. Being a Linux-based operating system, the hardware requirements are minimal. And also flash memory in a rugged shell, waterproof, break and tamper proof.
The company says Secure-K will come with a full suite of encrypted apps: chat, video, and VOIP tools, an anonymous internet browser, a full suite of office products, and the ability to sync with Mon-K’s secure cloud for back up and recovery in case you lose the actual USB drive. The company says encrypted email will be coming soon.
With hardware and software encryption, Secure-K is especially suitable for all those sectors in which security is a crucial factor such as finance, insurance, healthcare, education, telecommunication, oil & gas and companies operating in “hot” or politically unstable areas of the world.
Since we have to wait until October to find out what else this super secure OS can do. Mon-K says there will be personal and enterprise editions available in 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB variations when it launches, but the company has not announced pricing yet.
