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What is a PDF? PDF is an acronym that stands for “Portable Document Format”. PDF, in general, is a format that is used to display electronic documents in a form that is independent of the software, hardware or the operating system that the documents will be viewed. Adobe® Systems developed PDF. The program was designed to be a universally compatible file format that was based on the PostScript format. It is now an international de-facto standard that is used to exchange documents and information between computers, smartphones and the internet....

Apparently, the law firm represented by a lawyer named Kerry Culpepper is using this data of YTS users and sending them threatening emails that demand them to pay cash settlements to make their potential lawsuits disappear. For those unaware, in April this year, YTS had settled a piracy lawsuit filed in January 2020 by a group of seven related movie companies. The torrent site had agreed to a consent judgment totalling $1,050,000 in damages....

Brandon Bourret, 39, and Athanasios Andrianakis, 26, were each arrested on Friday at their homes, the DOJ said. According to the DOJ press release the two men knowingly conspired to commit acts and offenses against the United States, namely computer fraud and abuse, access device fraud, identification document fraud and wire fraud between the period July 2012 and July 2014. DOJ says that the two aimed to make money by selling passwords and unauthorized access to private and password-protected information, images and videos....

The project called ‘Morpheus’ is a new approach to hardware design capable of creating an unhackable computer. In other words, scientists from the University of Michigan are developing a security system that is not based on software, but is implanted in the components of the system to detect vulnerabilities that could lead to backdoor exploits. U of M is one of nine grant recipients chosen as part of a $50 million R&D cybersecurity program by DARPA....

The Steam Deck features a 7-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 1280 x 800px (16:10 aspect ratio), ambient light sensor, 60Hz refresh rate, and maximum brightness level of 400 nits. It is powered by a custom AMD APU, which according to Valve, is optimized for handheld gaming. It sports a Zen 2-based CPU (4-cores and 8-threads) + RDNA 2 GPU (8 compute units), which delivers more than enough performance to run the latest AAA games....

In a statement made to Mirror Online, Mitchell added that there are some military officials who have seen the strange UFOs hovering over the area during weapons tests at US missile bases and the famous White Sands Proving Ground in the New Mexico desert, the place where world’s first nuclear bomb was detonated in 1945. Way back in 1971, Mitchell landed on the surface of the moon and has spent around nine hours in the Fra Mauro Highlands of the lunar surface and since then he has been believing the existence of aliens and has been frank enough in expressing his thoughts regarding the so called peace-keeping aliens....

For those unaware, FaceApp, which first went viral in 2017, is a free mobile application that uses advanced software algorithms, which transforms users’ selfies and other pictures using various filters and features. However, it was later opposed by many as it enabled users to change their ethnicity. As a result, the developers of the app removed the debatable filter that was designed to match a certain ethnicity of the user by changing the skin tone and facial features....

Virtual Private Servers: 5 Things to Look for When Taking Your Small Business OnlineCostSecurityPerformanceControlStability A VPS removes the need for your company to have its own physical servers. Access to a VPS gives your company the same advantages of having a physical server, but the operating system is run on the cloud. Anything that can be done on a physical server can be accomplished on a VPS without the expense of owning or leasing the physical equipment....

According to NASASpaceFlight.com NASA has successfully tested a revolutionary new means of space travel that could one day allow for humans to travel at insane speed. According to NASASpaceFlight, NASA is testing warp drive like speeds in hard vacuum like that of outer space for the first time and the technology is based on the electromagnetic drive, or EM drive. EM drive seeks to convert electrical energy into thrust without propellant (the fuel in rockets) which is technologically impossible because it violates the law of conservation of momentum....

Keep reading this article to know everything about the Apex Legends Rules 24, 32, 33, 34, 35 & 63. Apex Legends was developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts or EA. This is a free-to-play battle royale game available on almost all platforms. In addition, Apex Legends supports cross-play. What are Apex Legends Rules? The Apex Legends Rules are nothing more than a few online rules and regulations imposed by the players....

With countless videos uploaded on YouTube day and night, you can always find your interesting resource through the biggest online video library. However, the high update frequency enables it not an easy thing to re-find these beloved vines right away in such a huge video ocean. Hence, many hope to download those favorite videos to store for the convenience of watching them again whenever they want. Although YouTube offers free online video streaming, sharing, and more, there is no download button that appeared on the site....

The biggest advantages that Microsoft claimed that Windows 11 brought over its predecessor, Windows 10 include a new design with a centered Start menu and Taskbar, widgets, Snap Layouts and multitasking, strong video gaming features, Android apps integration, performance-improving features, and much more. Not just this, at its Architecture Day 2021 event last year, Microsoft even claimed that Windows 11 would take optimum advantage of Intel’s Alder Lake Performance Hybrid architecture and Thread Director technology in particular....

Windows versions 7, 8, 10, Server 2008 and Server 2012 vulnerable to Hot Potato exploit which gives total control of PC/laptop to hackersHot PotatoMitigation The Foxglove researchers have named the exploit as Hot Potato. Hot Potato relies on three different types of attacks, some of which were discovered back at the start of the new millennium, in 2000. By chaining these together, hackers can remotely gain complete access to the PCs/laptops running on above versions of Windows....

Here’s a look at the top 6 whackiest and crazy programming languagesTrumpScript: “We hope our efforts will make programming great again”LOLCODE: Lolspeak is realShakespeare: The ‘to be or not to be’ programming languageWhenever: Can you handle it?Chef: Hello World SouffléMalbolge: Programming from hell Esoteric programming language (sometimes shortened to esolang) is a programming language designed to test the boundaries of computer programming language design, as a proof of concept, as software art, as a hacking interface to another language (particularly functional programming or procedural programming languages), or as a joke....

Microsoft statement did not list the source of the leaks but the company said that the leaked keys have so far not been used in any cyber attack. In the security advisory released Wednesday, Microsoft said it has invalidated the leaked certificate. “To help protect customers from potentially fraudulent use of the SSL/TLS digital certificate, the certificate has been deemed no longer valid and Microsoft is updating the Certificate Trust list (CTL) for all supported releases of Microsoft Windows to remove the trust of the certificate,” reads the advisory....

Xiaomi has released a tweet with the teaser image of the invite. — Mi India (@XiaomiIndia) April 10, 2015 As said above choosing India over China is surprising because, only yesterday, Xiaomi broke a Guinness World Record by selling 2.11 million smartphones and accessories through online sales in China. Normally releases in India are done one to two months after global release but Xiaomi’s new Global Mi Phone will be will be launched in India ahead of all other markets, including China....

In this article, we have compared two concept smartphones namely the Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha and the Vivo APEX 2020 to see which one of the two better represents the future smartphones. Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha Vs Vivo APEX 2020: Design And Display The Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha and the recently unveiled Vivo APEX 2020 sport futuristic design ergonomics. Xiaomi’s Mi Mix Alpha features a 7.92 inches Flexible Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 2088 x 2250 pixels....

Known as Xiaomi’s ’90 Minutes Ultra Smart Sportswear’, it is powered by Intel’s Curie module under its Mi Ecosystem, which is also known as MiJia on its Mi Home crowd funding platform. The 90 Minutes Ultra Smart shoes by Xiaomi’s MiJia have apparently been designed by the Shanghai International Science & Technology institute in order to meet the needs of professional athletes. The shoes are cushioned in multiple layers made to give maximum comfort for runners and provide long lasting durability....