Secure Your Android Device Over Public Wi-Fi With Hotspot Shield

Public hotspots are a risky business. You may have your precious data snooped away from your device over a public wi-fi network. However, there are certain tools with the help of which you can avoid such a happening. For instance, the Hotspot Shield app by AnchroFree is able to guard your device over a public wi-fi.

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FBI Arrested New Jersey Mayor For Hacking Recall Website

Last Thursday, FBI arrested New Jersey mayor Felix Roque and his son Joseph Roque on suspicion of hacking into a website of political foes who were seeking the Mayor’s recall. If the charge is proved, both the son and the father have to pay a long-term visit to prison that may extend up to 11 years, and have to pay fines up to $750,000.

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Caravan Of Three Autonomous Cars Completes 125 Miles Of Public Road Test

Autonomous driving has been becoming popular in today’s world. While Google may be company which is often in headlines for driverless cars, it turns out that there are many others out there who are trying out the concept and utilizing it to some very unique uses. Project SARTRE is one such example.

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Radiation Detecting Smartphone Unveiled By Japanese Carrier Softbank

In 2011, when tsunami and earthquake hit Japan, it was a huge disaster. While the humanitarian scale of losses was immense, the environmental toll was also great. For instance, the Fukushima nuclear plant ran into disaster as a result of the catastrophes and posed a major threat to the areas around it due to radiation leaks. As it turns out, the Japanese population is still worried about leaks from the site.

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Researchers Using Kinect In Nano-satellites For Docking In Space

Researchers at the University of Surrey are preparing for a new mission. For this, space innovators at the University of Surrey and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) are developing ‘STRaND-2’ (Surrey Training, Research, and Nanosatellite Demonstrator), a nano satellite which is the identical satellite of STRaND-1 and includes Xbox Kinect technology. The mission is to hook up both the satellites together in space.

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Total CyanogenMod Android Installs Reach 2 Million

CyanogenMod is one of the most popular hacked and customized Android-based ROM. Android being an open-source software, fans have been tweaking with it and there are a number of custom ROMs out there. But CyanogenMod has been the most popular and widely-used of these ROMs. Now, it has been found out that the total installs of this custom ROM have reached a massive figure of 2 million merely months after it crossed 1 million!

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Sony Cybershot DSC-HX20V With 40x Clear Image Zoom

What do you want from a point-n-shoot camera that you want carry when you go out on an adventure? At least, you will want that your camera will have long zoom, punchy colors, high quality movie mode and built-in GPS. With the Sony Cyber-shot HX20V digital camera, you can capture the moments and memories you want to preserve forever. The camera is a host of user-friendly features including 20x optical/40x Clear Image zoom, 18.2MP Exmor R CMOS sensor, Full 1080/60p HD video, Optical SteadyShot image stabilization, built-in GPS functionality, 10 fps shooting, Intelligent Scene Recognition mode, 3D Still Image and 3D Sweep Panorama Mode, Smile Shutter, Face Detection, and much more.

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Absinthe 2.0 Released, Jailbreaks iOS 5.1.1 Devices, Download Now!

Most iOS users have been eagerly waiting for an untethered jailbreak of their devices even since Apple rolled out iOS 5.1.1. Updating to a latest firmware version ends a jailbreak and that’s why many have been waiting for the jailbreak so that they can finally upgrade to iOS 5.1.1. We reported earlier that Absinthe 2.0 is expected to arrive at the Hack in the Box hackers event in Amsterdam and now it has proved to be true.

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