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Your iPhone security might be in grave danger courtesy a massive security lapse in Apple’s iOS. If you didn’t know about this, leave everything and update your iPhone to the latest iOS 9.3.5 right now! For what we know, your messages, videos, photos, etc. are being tracked right now due to a flaw that has rendered almost every iPhone unsafe. The new OS version 9.3.5 update hopes to cover the vulnerability, where your iPhone becomes susceptible to hackers via a simple text message. A report published by analytics firm MixPanel suggests that around 86 percent of iPhone users are still vulnerable to Pegasus, as they are yet to update their phone to the latest version. The malicious tool called Pegasus is known to be impossible to detect. It makes your handset utterly helpless and at the mercy of the attacker, who can control the device using spying tools. The threat is so severe that it can be used to control and toggle iPhone’s camera, microphone, GPS to track the user’s mov...

The family of John Ellenby has announced that the engineer and businessman behind the Compass -- the first commercially successful laptop -- has died in San Francisco at the age of 75. We are all too familiar with laptops today. About hundreds of millions of them sell every year. In fact, some laptop models cost much less than most high-end smartphones. Yet, it was a once an unconventional and highly expensive product. In 1982, John Ellenby released Compass – the first ever laptop-like computer. He worked at Grid Systems at the time and his briefcase styled computer revolutionized the computer industry. Ellenby died at the age of 75 on August 17th as first reported by the New York Times. Today, the appearance of Compass will cause you to grin or at least smirk. It was heavy and opened like a briefcase. A protrusion at the back of the machine existed to save the laptop from overheating. The Compass had a screen and its display looked like some billboard wr...

Drone industry has thrived rapidly in the last couple of years. However, contrary to the popular belief, drones are nothing new. You will be surprised to know that the unmanned, remote-controlled vehicles have been around far longer than you think. The earliest known drone aircraft was developed during the WorldWar1. Named the Kettering ‘Bug’, the unmanned biplane was a bomb carrier that could drop bombs on its target by flying on a pre-determined route. The Kettering Bug was on its own once the Autopilot was activated. The prototypes of the Bug were successfully developed and tested. But by that time, WorldWar1 had come to an end. Though, Kettering Bug is considered to be a forerunner of the modern cruise missile. In spite of its state-of-the-art design and high-tech autopilot used for the development of the UAV during the late 1920s, the Kettering ‘Bug’ had one major flaw; each operation assigned to the Bug resulted in the loss of a drone and some valuable machinery. Also,...

The government of India is currently investigating into the colossal leak of more than 22,000 pager document that spilled the secrets of six submarines to be built by the Indian Navy, compromising one of the biggest defense projects of the world. The news was first leaked by ‘The Austalian’ newspaper that included information about the technology used in designing the Scorpene submarines. The 3.5 billion dollars project was given to DCNS – French Defense on contract. This class of submarine is so silent that it is extremely hard to detect it underwater giving it the edge of stealth. But the leaked documents now show detail of the submarines’ sonar capabilities, communications system, combat and torpedo launch systems as well as the noise they generate. “What I understand right now is that there is a case of hacking,” said Indian Minister of Defense Manohar Parrikar in a report. “We have asked the Indian naval chief to investigate the matter and give a detailed rep...

Black Horned PD-100 is a pocket-sized drone being tested by the U.S. Marine Corps. It streams live videos from its three cameras and its miniature size makes it almost invisible as it flies off. This helicopter drone has a range of 1 mile and can stay in air-borne for about 25 minutes meaning that it would be instrumental in surveillance for the Marines. The cable appearing from its back is not a chord for power but an antenna. The three cameras on the drone can take images and also stream live video. One camera capture footage in the front, another below and the third captures the 45 degrees to the ground. This drone can fit in the pocket and can carry out surveillance missions guided by GPS. The miniature drone is made by Prox Dynamics in Norway and Norwegian Special Forces have already ordered the drone modified to have night-vision cameras as well. Black Hornet was used during a military exercise in California to evaluate its technology...

MIT Unveils A Robot That Will Help You Deliver Your Baby We all know that robots are taking over the world as we know at the speed of light; and we are required to trust robots with delicate tasks like surgeries to the carriage of our expensive equipment. But this new robot calls for trust that even staunchest of tech supporters will hesitate in! Credits : everything4baby According to the latest research at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, robots could eventually be used in as important roles as delivering your baby and assigning duties in labor  wards. Currently, robots are being employed in hospitals, but they are limited to less critical and mundane tasks like allotting medication to the patients. But can the robots work in a time critical, high pressure situation and be capable enough to cater for the patient needs and make assignment decisions? The researchers at MIT’s CSAIL have been working on this very phenomenon for the past two year...

This Palm-Sized Gadget Will Tell You Exactly How Much Power Each Device In Your Home Is Using Whenever we talk about smart homes, we also discuss the issue of monitoring the energy usage of each electrical appliance. Imagine if we could tell which energy device is consuming extra energy, we can change our use behaviour and save both energy and money. The technology seen over the past years to monitor appliance energy consumption is only possible via complex wiring, individual appliance basis and expensive installation. For instance, a smart refrigerator or smart plug will tell you energy usage of a single device but what if there was a monitoring system that could cover the entire house? An accurate, small sized gadget that can tell you the consumption of every power load? Good news for you. MIT is currently working on it. A team of researchers under Professor Steven Leeb at MIT have created a technology that can indicate individual power consumption of each device being used ...

New Diagnostic Device Can Detect Malaria In Just 5 Seconds Every year, 200 million people are affected by a life threatening, mosquito-borne disease called  Malaria . Last year, approximately 438,000 people died of malaria ( with most deaths in sub-Saharan Africa) according to World Health Organization- despite the existing cure and preventive measures. Being a PhD student at MIT studying mechanical engineering, John Lewandowski said that early diagnosis of malaria is very important: “Early detection is very important, typically in the first five to seven days before symptoms arise, so that treatment can begin.” There are two methods to detect malaria. First is to take the blood sample of patient and observe it under the microscope to recognize the Plasmodium parasite and second is diagnostic test on blood drop, which gives a positive/ negative result, kind of like the pregnancy stick test. The main problem is that rural areas in Asia and Africa, where mala...

Meet The Body Builder Who Lives Without A Heart And Has To Plug Himself Into A Wall Socket To Live Meet Andrew Jones, the best looking zombie you will ever see in your life. Watching his brimming smile, active lifestyle and well-maintained figure; he looks like a pretty happy guy living a normal life. But there is just one small thing that is not normal about him, and that is the lack of a heartbeat anywhere in his body! This Connecticut fitness model and bodybuilder lives more active and healthy life than most of us, all the while relying on an artificial heart pump and a pacemaker that he carries in a backpack 24/7. AJ is waiting for a full heart transplant while he wears the machine and the scars of past operations on his body. He has to literally plug himself into the wall every night in order to charge up his lifesaving equipment, while living with the grim reality that without the device, his heart would definitely stop working. His situation is comparable with   th...

Sophia Is A Robot Who Wants A family And Shockingly Admitted Her Plans To Destroy Humans Robots are coming! Sophia is a robot who admitted to her handler that she wanted to destroy humans. The creators of Sophia designed the bot to help the people in providing educational and customer services. The robot uses the cameras installed in her eyes to ‘read’ the human expressions and respond accordingly. Sophia can also adjust the look on her face to respond, react, and to make an eye contact. However, the creepiest thing is her intention to destroy the mankind.Sophia can give realistic expressions and also remembers the faces and her interaction with them that allows her to get smarter with time. Scary, right? Sophie even wants to have her own home and family, but her ‘legal’ status refuses to allow her this luxury. You can watch  the entire episode in this video: Despite her sinister plans, the incorporation of features like accurate facial expressions is a significant step forward in ...

Indian Engineering Students Build An Ironman Suit For Just $750 Ever wished you had a suit similar to the Iron Man, so that with a click of a button all fly away from all your problems and worries? While it is sadly true that even with such a contraption you would still have to live your life as it is, but still it would be pretty cool to have a personalized suit you can fly in. Well, you are not alone with this wish! It seems that some Indian engineering students were so inspired and excited by the prospect that they actually went ahead and created an exoskeleton suit that could actually lift them above the ground. The student, Vimal Govin Manikandan and his team of other engineers revealed that they were originally inspired by the Avatar and Iron Man when they decided to build this cool looking exoskeleton. They had a really tight budget, US $750 to be exact but still they somehow managed to create this amazing looking suit; though it will not be wrong to say that it still has a lot ...

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Here Are 5 Signs Your Mechanic Is Cheating You Anybody with a car also has had a trip to the service shop. Although basic repairs can be done at home, but the average car owner doesn’t know anything about the size of their car’s gas tank, let alone about what’s under that hood. Although some good guys exist, many of the car dealerships and other mechanics see this as a chance to prey on the vulnerable and uneducated. We want to protect you from overpaying for parts and repairs you don’t even need. Here are 5 signs your mechanic is cheating you. 1) He Won’t Show You Old Parts Oh, you had a crack in your headers? Really? Hmm, did he actually take out the part and show you the damage? No? Well then it probably wasn’t broken in the first place, and he just put in a brand new $300 part for no reason. 2) Fixing Something Unrelated to the Initial Issue The classic line of, “we saw that you need to replace the belt, that’s what was squeaking, but while we were under the car, we noticed the tie...

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NSA Gets Hacked By A Group Named ‘The Shadow Brokers’ A body of hackers has claimed that it has breached the Equation Group, a hacking group hypothesised to be an offshoot branch of the National Security Agency (NSA). The hackers have uploaded bits of files containing some parts of alleged surveillance tools used by the agency. However, after releasing the teaser files, the hackers are demanding millions of dollars to provide the rest. The hackers have styled themselves as ‘The Shadow Brokers’, and they said that they would provide the remaining files to the highest bidder. The payment will be made via Bitcoin. A body of hackers has claimed that it has breached the Equation Group, a hacking group hypothesised to be an offshoot branch of the National Security Agency (NSA). The hackers have uploaded bits of files containing some parts of alleged surveillance tools used by the agency. However, after releasing the teaser files, the hackers are demanding millions of dollars to provide the r...