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YES ! Your Smartphone Camera Can Be Hacked To Spy On You
A researcher claims to have written an Android app that takes photos and videos using a smartphone camera, even while the screen is turned off – a pretty handy tool for a spy or a creepy stalker. University student Szymon Sidor claimed in a blog post and a video...
Bijay Pokharel,
March 16, 2018
4 min read
What is the Difference Between NTFS and FAT32 File Systems
How do you think your data is stored, managed and organized on the hard drive, USB flash drives or portable sd card? A physical disk can just do 0’s or 1’s and it is the file system that gives meaning to such data. When people...
Bijay Pokharel,
March 12, 2018
4 min read
Why You Should Stop Using ‘Facebook Instant Articles’ ?
Recently, Facebook has launched Instant Articles features to everyone. It is a mobile publishing format that enables news publishers to distribute articles to Facebook’s app that load and display as much as 10 times faster that the standard mobile web. An Instant Article is an...
Bijay Pokharel,
March 9, 2018
5 min read
10 Ways to Boost Your Wi-Fi Signal
Browsing slowing to a crawl, the inability to stream, dropped Wi-Fi signals, wireless dead zones—every one of these problems is maddening in a world where getting online has become, for some, as necessary as breathing. Well, maybe not that critical, but important. If the only way you...
Bijay Pokharel,
February 9, 2018
7 min read
How to Earn Money from Facebook Page Using Instant Articles
Facebook Audience Network pays its publishers an eCPM rate based on the countries and also the volume of traffic each publisher gets, but I can certainly tell you that it pays more than any other CPM network I’ve ever worked with. Facebook Page’ is one of the...
Bijay Pokharel,
February 9, 2018
14 min read
What is 5G? Everything You Need To Know About 5G
5G is the coming fifth-generation wireless broadband technology based on the IEEE802.11ac standard. An important goal of 5G is to erase the differences between wireline and wireless networking to accommodate the growing mobility of network users. 5G will provide better speeds and coverage than the current 4G. 5G operates with a...
Bijay Pokharel,
February 8, 2018
9 min read
WIFI HACKING: HOW HACKERS BREAK INTO YOUR WIRELESS NETWORK
I think my Wi-Fi is hacked. A sentence that was probably unimaginable about a decade ago – completely understandable these days. Hacking has become so prevalent that it won’t be a surprise if your connection is being monitored by someone. There are millions of devices...
Bijay Pokharel,
January 19, 2018
5 min read
YouTube Tightens Rules Around What Channels Can Be Monetized
Channels will need 4,000 hours of annual viewing time and over 1,000 subscribers YouTube is tightening the rules around its partner program and raising the requirements that a channel/creator must meet in order to monetize videos. Effective immediately, to apply for monetization (and have ads...
Bijay Pokharel,
January 17, 2018
2 min read
Negative Effects Of Internet On Students And Teenagers
Internet is a useful tool in technology era. However, it still remains many negative aspects if it is abused by people especially student and children. According to the study by Stephen Siwek businesses that are related directly to the Internet created approximate $966 billion in...
Bijay Pokharel,
January 14, 2018
5 min read
12 Weird But True Facts About Technology
Technology is the collection of techniques, skills, methods, and processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific investigation. Technology can be the knowledge of techniques, processes, and the like, or it can be embedded in machines to allow for operation without detailed knowledge of their workings. Here we discuss top...
Bijay Pokharel,
January 11, 2018
7 min read
How to Keep Your iPhone or Android Phone Secure
You may have seen news reports over the last two days detailing a major security flaw in virtually all smartphones. The devices that are at risk are not limited to either iPhone or Android — all of us are affected. If you want to make sure your...
Bijay Pokharel,
January 8, 2018
4 min read
Everything You Need To Know About PayPal Service In Nepal
In the context of Nepal, PayPal is not supported yet. Because Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) Policy does not allow money transactions in foreign currency.
Bijay Pokharel,
January 7, 2018
2 min read
1.65 Million Hacked Computers Could Be Mining Cryptocurrency For Hackers This Year
Hopping on the Cryptocurrency train early is going to be a very rewarding move for, potentially, millions of people around the globe. Unfortunately, the unregulated currency also provides a safe haven for those who are involved in nefarious activities. This will include online drug dealers,...
Bijay Pokharel,
November 21, 2017
2 min read
Why You Should Consider Covering Up Your Webcam?
For the past half-decade, the technology industry has been racing to build better cameras into the hardware we use every day. Yet the surveillance age has inspired an odd cottage industry battling against this trend: a glut of cheap stickers and branded plastic slides designed...
Bijay Pokharel,
November 10, 2017
3 min read
Virtual Reality Is Alive and Flourishing
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he SIGGRAPH conference is a year event that focuses on the latest in computer graphics and other interactive arts. It is a multidiscipline show, mixing computer imaging with other physical creations. It is also a crossroads for the film, video game, commercial, research and education industries. It...
Bijay Pokharel,
September 17, 2017
6 min read
Alexa, Cortana Become New BFFs
Microsoft and Amazon this week announced a deal that will let their voice-controlled digital assistants, Cortana and Alexa, engage in cross-platform communications, a move that could expand radically both companies’ use of artificial intelligence. Microsoft customers will be able to access Alexa voice commands by...
Bijay Pokharel,
September 17, 2017
3 min read
What is The Difference Between IPv6 and IPv4?
There are currently two version of Internet Protocol (IP): IPv4 and a new version called IPv6. IPv6 is an evolutionary upgrade to the Internet Protocol. IPv6 will coexist with the older IPv4 for some time.
Bijay Pokharel,
September 17, 2017
3 min read
Facebook Likes Don’t Matter Anymore
Now this may seem like an odd question, of course we all want Likes on our Facebook Pages and posts. Like play a important role to the post and the contents. But given changes over time to the way the platform works and how the News...
Bijay Pokharel,
September 14, 2017
11 min read
Microsoft Patch Alert: Outstanding Problems With Recent Updates
August has seen a flurry of buggy patches: Win10 1607 – KB 4033637, which arrived last Friday via Auto Update, was documented early Thursday morning. It’s an update to the Compatibility Appraiser, to make it easier for Microsoft to upgrade your version of Windows. Win10 1507 and 1511 –...
Bijay Pokharel,
September 1, 2017
2 min read
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