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A few hours ago a cryptocurrency miner appeared on The Pirate Bay website, using the computer resources of visitors to mine Monero coins. The operators of The Pirate Bay are testing it as a new way to generate revenue, but many users aren't happy. Four years ago many popular torrent sites added an option to donate via Bitcoin. The Pirate Bay was one of the first to jump on board and still lists its address on the website. While there’s nothing wrong with using Bitcoin as a donation tool, adding a Javascript cryptocurrency miner to a site is of a totally different order. A few hours ago many Pirate Bay users began noticing that their CPU usage increased dramatically when they browsed certain Pirate Bay pages. Upon closer inspection, this spike appears to have been caused by a Bitcoin miner embedded on the site. The code in question is tucked away in the site’s footer and uses a miner provided by Coinhive. This service offers site owners the option to convert the ...

It seems like forever ago that Apple first teased the iMac Pro, the souped up, professional grade version of its all-in-one. Announced back at WWDC, the company promised the computer would arrive sometime in December, and in spite a few months of near radio silence on that front, it looks like it’s about to deliver. The dark gray desktop will be available in a matter of days, on December 14, bringing with it some pretty nutty internal specs and a price tag to match. The iMac Pro starts at $4,999 and includes up to an 18-core Xeon processor, 128GB of memory and 4TB of storage. This is pretty a serious piece of machinery in a form factor that was once considered a bit of an at-home computer starter kit. It’s clear the company still has its sights firmly set on creative professionals, and with the regular Mac Pro currently in a state of limbo, this is the company’s foremost machine for doing high performance tasks like editing 4K video and 3D graphics. No surprise then, that t...

After several rumors and leaks, ZTE has finally launched its foldable smartphone Axon M in the US. The ZTE Axon M is the company’s first phone with dual 1080p displays and it can be used in 4 different modes. ZTE Axon M has been launched exclusively with AT&T in the US and will be available for sale starting next month. ZTE has been touting the new Axon M as a foldable multimedia device which can be fitted in the pocket easily when folded despite having two displays. Also, the smartphone comes with four modes. It includes a Dual mode which allows users to use two different apps on the separate screens. Another one is an extended mode which allows users to play games or stream video on a full 6.75 inch full HD display. Next is Mirror mode which allows users to mirror the same content on both the screens when folded with both screens in different directions. And the last one is a traditional mode which allows users to use the device as a conventional smartphone. ZTE Ax...

"Be it internet explorer or youtube red, these were once popular but now hardly someone uses them. With the rise of new tech every year some older ones fall and this is the list of few which I think will fall this year." GoPro I LOVE watching GoPro's first-person stunt videos! They're super cool. BUT, unfortunately for GoPro, the company may have overestimated the number of vlogging surfers and Russian teen exhibitionists with death wishes out there. Last month, the company was forced to shed 15 percent of its workforce—around 200 full-time positions. In theory, these are the type of moves a company might make before they restructure, but the question remains if the few people who already purchased a GoPro in order to capture first-person footage of them jumping across roofs like a ninja might be persuaded to spend money to update to a new wearable camera in the near future. Its Karma drone, meanwhile, was recently recalled, which is never ...

Browsers have evolved far beyond their original mission of providing one-way windows into the internet. Indeed, as more services migrate to the cloud, browsers only reinforce their role as multi-function boxes of digital magic. All the important internet things are available in browser form—from communication tools to productivity suites to disposable escapist entertainment. It's almost like the browser has become an OS in and of itself. In fact, you could say that's exactly where things are headed. While there is plenty of debate out there as to which browser is best, for my money it's the sleek, minimalist package known as Google Chrome. And the data shows that most users agree: According to the latest numbers from W3Schools, 76.3 percent of people are using Chrome, more than double the next highest, Firefox (13.3 percent), with IE/Edge (4.6 percent) and Safari (3.3 percent) far behind. These numbers are based on visitors to W3's site, so they aren...

Gionee has announced two latest mid-range smartphones – M7 and M7 Power in its ‘M Series’ in China. The company has announced M7 Power smartphone as Big Gold Steel 2, however, it will be launched as the M7 Power in Thailand later this week. The Gionee M7 is priced at 2799 yuan (Rs. 27,485 approx.) and will go on sale from tomorrow, September 26. The Gionee M7 Power is priced at 1999 yuan (Rs. 19,620 approx.)  and will be available in China from September 30. Gionee M7 Specifications The Gionee M7 features a 6.01-inch FHD+ (2160 × 1080 pixels) FullView AMOLED 2.5D curved glass display with 18:9 aspect ratio. The metal unibody phone features a fingerprint sensor at the back. Dimension wise it measures 157 × 76 × 7.2mm and weighs 180g. Powering the M7 is an Octa-Core MediaTek Helio P30 16nm processor clocked at 2.3GHz with ARM Mali-G71 MP2 GPU. Memory wise it packs 6GB RLPDDR4X RAM, and 64GB internal storage which is expandable up to 256GB with microSD. On the s...

Tiny Device Allows You To Track Your Car Using Your Smartphone Have you ever lost your car on a parking lot? It happens. You park and go shopping. When you get back, you don't have a clue where your car is. Then you start roaming around clicking on the panic button on your car keys so the alarm goes off. It can be frustrating, especially on a hot, sunny day. No, you don't need to install an expensive GPS system to keep track of your car. That's way too expensive. You would need to pay a monthly subscription fee just to use it. Don't we have enough bills to pay already? The device "TrackR" has the size of a coin and can be placed everywhere But is there a way to track your vehicle without spending a fortune? Yes, now there is! A California-based startup company was able to make this a reality. They created a tiny device that works with your smartphone, and it could be exactly what you're looking for! What is it? ...

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Huawei has just announced their new mid-range smartphone in China, dubbed as the Huawei Maimang 6. Featuring a metal unibody design and a 5.9 inch display, the Huawei Maimang 6 boasts dual camera setup on both the front and back. It packs a Kirin 659 processor with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage. The Huawei Maimang 6 comes as a successor to the Huawei Maimang 5. The phone has minimum bezels and an 18:9 aspect ratio. Featuring dual rear and dual front cameras, the Maimang 6 is a mid-range device announced for the Chinese market. Here are the full specifications of the Huawei Maimang 6. Huawei Maimang 6 Specifications Huawei Maimang 6 image Starting with the build quality, the Huawei Maimang 6 comes with a metal unibody design with a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor, just below the vertically placed dual rear cameras. It sports a 5.9 inch display with full HD+ resolution. It has 18:9 aspect ratio with 2.5D curved glass with minimal bezels. In the optics department, the Huawei Maimang 6 fea...

"Quantum Computing merges two great scientific revolutions of the 20th century: computer science and quantum physics. Quantum physics is the theoretical basis of the transistor, the laser, and other technologies which enabled the computing revolution. But on the algorithmic level today's computing machinery still operates on "classical" Boolean logic. Quantum computing is the design of hardware and software that replaces Boolean logic by quantum law at the algorithmic level. For certain computations such as optimization, sampling, search or quantum simulation this promises dramatic speedups. Soon we hope to falsify the strong Church-Turing thesis: we will perform computations which current computers cannot replicate. We are particularly interested in applying quantum computing to artificial intelligence and machine learning. This is because many tasks in these areas rely on solving hard optimization problems or performing efficient sampling." We produc...