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Developer recruitment platform CodinGame and online technical assessment platform CoderPad surveyed 4,000 tech recruiters to identify the most in-demand tech roles, technical skills, programming languages and frameworks in 2022. Over 10,000 developers were also polled to identify whether their skillsets and professional aspirations were aligned with the needs of employers. SEE: Employers are desperate for data scientists as demand booms The top three skills recruiters are looking to hire for this year are web development, DevOps and AI/machine learning, the survey found....

WeatherBug vs. Google Weather App Daily and Extended Forecast: Most top weather apps offer a daily and extended forecast, which can prepare you for your day by alerting you of weather changes. While both apps have a daily, and even an hourly forecast available, Google Weather app offers a 15 day extended forecast, while WeatherBug has a ten day extended forecast. Weather is constantly changing, and it is nice to be able to plan ahead whether it is for a vacation or a nice weekend....

Samsung’s 2013 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S4, launched in Japan today. Earlier this week I covered a rumor saying the Japanese operator would be getting a new “Blue Arctic” color variant. Well, it’s official, and below is a video demoing this new hue compared to the black model that we’re already familiar with. Now before you ask, no, I have no clue whether or not other countries will be getting this model....

In Summary Gmail is one of the most popular Google services out there for over a decade now. However, a lot of users want to delete their Gmail account due to spam emails or for shifting to a new email service. We are going to have a detailed look at how you can delete Gmail account with ease. However, once the Gmail account is deleted, you will lose access to all emails and attachments in that account....

In the previous article, we discussed how the sudden increase in the use of web services makes it an important attack vector. Also, we covered different components of web services, different elements of WSDL, their uses, where to start, and how to perform penetration testing. In this article we will be focusing more on automated tools available for web service penetration testing. Tools Tools play a very important role in any type of penetration test....

As expected, Motorola and Verizon have unveiled their new line-up of DROID phones for the big red carrier in the United States – the Droid Mini, Ultra and the Maxx. The Droid Mini is the direct successor to last year’s RAZR M, and is a “compact without compromise” smartphone with a 4.3-inch 720p OLED screen. The DROID Mini uses a new X8 processor from Motorola, which consists of eight dedicated cores for different purposes....

Both the Vivo X9 and the X9 Plus sport a dual front-facing camera. The primary camera shapes up in the form of a 20-Megapixel Sony IMX376 sensor offering f/2.0 aperture along with an 8-Megapixel sensor. The phones come equipped with a 16-Megapixel front camera with PDAF. The Vivo X9 is fitted with a 5.5-inch FHD Super AMOLED display and is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 clocked at 2GHz and paired with 4GB of RAM....

The integration with CarPlay is an extension of WA Police’s existing OneForce Core application, which is underpinned by technology based on Motorola Solutions PSCore public safety application. Using Apple CarPlay, frontline officers are able to use voice control features while driving, as well as issue digital infringement notices, instead of handwritten versions. “When police officers respond to an incident, they need accurate and relevant information to inform their decisions and keep themselves and community members safe....

Remember, these scams are typically carried out by professional crime syndicates that have the resources to do whatever it takes to steal your information. It’s their full-time job, after all! We recently warned you about shimmers, a smaller version of the skimmer that can steal both magnetic stripe and chip data from credit and debit cards. Well, the shimmer is not the only hi-tech tool that crooks are using now to steal your personal information....

The malicious software WanaCryptor 2.0 which is also known as WCry is now being used to carry out one of the biggest ransomware attacks of its kind. Visit this link to know everything about WanaCrypt0r Ransomware. Security researchers at Avast have recorded over 57,000 detections of WanaCryptor 2.0 ransomware in 99 countries. Let me tell you, after the attack, the ransom being demanded is $300 worth of bitcoins. Let me tell you, White House said on Monday that more than $70,000 has been already paid in a WanaCryptor ransomware attack....

Cybercriminals can accomplish a lot of trickery with just a little information. In fact, with just your name and a few bucks, someone could steal your government benefits. Tap or click here to see how scammers could file for unemployment in your name. On Sunday, a hacker shared 24 million records from Vimeo Livestream. A huge database of private information is available on the Dark Web. It has everything a scammer would need to hit you with a tricky phishing attack....

As recently, we reported that the bitcoin was over $16,000, and by the time I write that text, the CoinMarketCap, which does an average of quotations, shows that the cryptocurrency is already worth more than $16,800. On the day when we reported, the high came to almost $17 thousand. What is Bitcoin? We can refer in generic terms that it is a virtual currency created in 2009, based on the peer-to-peer (P2P) system....

Verizon is becoming the first wireless carrier to offer a same-day delivery to customer who order devices from Verizon’s website. The pilot shipping option will be available to customers who place their orders before 10AM on Monday through Friday. Customers will have to $20 for the service and will receive their orders before 7PM on the same day. The service is now available in Philadelphia and will soon expand to New York City, Dallas, San Francisco and Pittsburgh....

A security researcher has now shown in a video that how a hacker can punch an ATM, hook up a cable, and infect the ATM machine with malware to get free money. In recent years many reports and cases of ATM machines have been invaded appeared. Banks have been taking care of each of the schemes but in fact, most ATM boxes continue to work with the outdated Windows XP system, making them highly vulnerable to attack....

The new Viking model is a Silo SSD belonging to Viking’s Ultra High Capacity (UHC) product family, a range of memory units featuring a large storage space on a 3.5-inch And with a standard SAS interface. The new Silo SSD from the UHC series will be powered by a next generation flash processor with multilevel cells and will be available in two sizes: 25 TB and 50 TB. In terms of speeds, Viking Technology’s new solid-state hard drive has a sequential read speed of 500 MB/s and write speed of 300 MB/s, while the read and write speed is 60,000 IOPS and 10,000 IOPS respectively....

Google surveyed 33,000 tech pros to explore how DevOps – which broadly means aligning software development with IT operations – impacts cybersecurity as part of its annual Accelerate State of DevOps Report. As it notes, more than 22 billion records were exposed in 2021 through 4,145 publicly known breaches. The report comes as Australian telco Optus handles the fallout from a massive breach that exposed nearly 10 million residents’ personally identifiable information (PII) after a hacker on the internet waltzed through an application programming interface (API) on an cloud-hosted endpoint that didn’t require a password....

In a report originally published by The Information, and surfaced again through The Verge, Verizon Wireless may be planning to launch their own app store. Or, more specifically, “Verizon’s challenge to Google’s App Store.” In the report, it is believed that Verizon is looking to launch an app store that is not necessarily just tied down to the wireless carrier in the United States, but rather with a major focus on global availability....

Motorola’s Moto G is probably my favorite phone of 2013. Sure, it doesn’t have the Snapdragon 800 that’s in the Note 3, it doesn’t have the delicious 5.2 inch 1080p screen that’s in the LG G2, and the rear facing speaker is terrible compared to HTC BoomSound, but that’s OK. What the Moto G represents, to me at least, is the beginning of the era of “good enough” smartphones. You used to have to spend $600 on a phone to get even a decent experience, but that’s now dropped to sub-$200....

Late last week, the developer of Xposed — rovo89 — released a new version of the framework that offers improved compatibility with ROMs from Huawei and other Chinese OEMs. The version 86 of the framework now also rejects any incorrectly compiled modules thereby preventing you from applying them. Lastly, the framework packs in some general cleanup and bug fixes. Along with the release of the framework, rovo89 also detailed his future plans for it....

Last month, Microsoft had revealed that it has teamed up with Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, and will be allowing a selected group of Mi 4 users to run Windows 10 on their handset. Since then, the company has not revealed much about the program. Today though, a video of the Mi 4 running Windows 10 has surfaced on the Internet, which gives us the first glimpse of how Microsoft’s refresh of Windows Phone looks....