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Visitors play games on PlayStation 4 (PS4) at the Paris Games Week, a trade fair for video games in Paris, France, October 26, 2016. REUTERS

Chinese leukemia patient spends treatment money worth S$31,000 on online games

The Guangzhou native, who suffers from Leukemia has blown off 150,000 yuan (S$31,000) on online games.

Jan 30, 2018

By Bihu Ray

Hackers steal cryptocurrency worth $150,000; tricks people to participate in fundraising campaign

Hackers loot bitcoin worth $150,000 by means of a fake fundraising campaign.

Jan 30, 2018

By Rahul K R

Hacker makes hay as rush for cryptocurrency pre-sale soars

The phishing mails contained spelling and grammatical errors and contained an offer of extra tokens if buyers made their purchase within 12 hours and the trick worked.

Jan 30, 2018

By Staff Reporter

OPPO partners Qualcomm to make 5G mobile phones

Chinese smartphone maker OPPO on Monday announced a partnership with global chip-maker Qualcomm Technologies where Qualcomm will support OPPO to make 5G-ready mobile phones.

Jan 30, 2018

By IANS

Indian-origin Google AR executive joins Facebook

Nikhil Chandhok, Indian-origin Director of Product for Augmented Reality (AR) at Google, is joining Facebook to lead product management of its camera team working on AR.

Jan 30, 2018

By IANS

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WhatsApp now supports Apple's CarPlay

WhatsApp Messenger version 2.18.20 can now be used on CarPlay while a person is at the wheel

Jan 30, 2018

By Mario Manlupig, Jr

Microsoft rolls urgent Windows update to kill Intel's faulty Spectre fix

Microsoft issued the out-of-band fix to disable Intel's fix for CVE-2017-7515, the Spectre Variant 2 strain known as "branch target injection vulnerability".

Jan 29, 2018

By Mario Manlupig, Jr

Google Play Store sale: Paid Android apps to get free of charge

Here are five premium Android apps you can now get for free.

Jan 29, 2018

By Mario Manlupig, Jr

Apple is cutting iPhone X production by half: Nikkei

Apple has reportedly informed its partner suppliers of the new target, from 40 million down to around 20 million units.

Jan 29, 2018

By Mario Manlupig, Jr

Google Bulletin puts citizen journalism on spotlight

Google describes Bulletin as an avenue for contributed hyperlocal stories.

Jan 29, 2018

By Mario Manlupig, Jr

Global gadgets' shipments to hit 2.32 bln units in 2018: Gartner

Mobile phone shipments will increase by 2.6 percent in 2018, with the total amounting to 1.9 billion units.

Jan 29, 2018

By IANS

Google Home fails to recognize Jesus, bars device from answering questions about all religious figures

Google Home's incapability to answering questions about Jesus has led the company to bar the device from answering questions about all religious figures, the media reported.

Jan 29, 2018

By IANS

Computers can now function like human brains: This is how

Researchers in US have developed a superconducting switch that "learns" like its biological counterpart. The switch, called a synapse, could connect processors and store memories within future computers operating like the human brain.

Jan 29, 2018

By IANS

Not transistors but new memristors to revolutionize future electronics

By 2020, when more than 200 billion interconnected devices will be there within the Internet of Things framework, new age memristors can handle the incredible amount of data that will need processing.

Jan 29, 2018

By Soorya Kiran NN

Cryptojackers target YouTube to mine digital coins

Cryptojackers use YouTube ads to mine digital coins

Attackers behind Coinhive reportedly hijacked CPUs and used its power to mine cryptocurrency.

Jan 29, 2018

By Mario Manlupig, Jr

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