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And it's here! Terminator Genisys movie trailer is here! In cinemas July 2015. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, Jason Clarke, J.K. Simmons, Byung-Hun Lee and Matt Smith.

One of the main problems of Apple's iDevices is the screen cracking easily when dropped. Well, this will soon going to be changed, according to the latest patent granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office,  for a “Protective mechanism for an electronic device”. This mechanism should protect the sensitive hardware from Apple's devices when falling, meaning that the devices should turn in the air in such a way that will land on the back or sides. According to Apple's patent, this mechanism will take use of the already existing accelerometer, gyroscope, and GPS to complete it's task. While falling, these sensors will send data to a central processing unit. This unit will than send a command to a motor inside the mechanism, that will reposition the device in midair. The original system was developed by Nicholas V. King and Fletcher Rothkopf.

Today, Paramount Pictures released a teaser of Terminator Genisys, the next Terminator movie, in which  Schwarzenegger is BACK ! Also starring: Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, Jason Clarke, J.K. Simmons, Byung-Hun Lee and Matt Smith. The official trailer is supposed to be released tomorrow.

Flaviu Cernescu, a romanian daredevil, climbs a 280m (919-foot) chimney from Pitesti, Romania using an electrical cable for 20m, a rusty ladder without protective cage for 35m, the same rusty ladder but with a protective cage for 220m, and another 5m without the protective cage to the top of the chimney. When he makes it to the top, Flaviu Cernescu rounds the chimney and after that he walks twice across it on a metal beam. Official chimney info: skyscraperpage.com

Episode VII in the Star Wars Saga, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, opens in theaters December 18, 2015. Star Wars: The Force Awakens, directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan & Abrams, features a cast including actors John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o, Gwendoline Christie, Crystal Clarke, Pip Andersen, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow. They will join the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker. The film is being produced by Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams, and Bryan Burk, and John Williams returns as the composer.

Furious 7 - Official Trailer (HD) In Theaters and IMAX April 3, 2015 furious7.com imdb.com/title/tt2820852 Continuing the global exploits in the unstoppable franchise built on speed, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson lead the returning cast of Fast & Furious 7. James Wan directs this chapter of the hugely successful series that also welcomes back favorites Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Elsa Pataky and Lucas Black. They are joined by international action stars new to the franchise including Jason Statham, Djimon Hounsou, Tony Jaa, Ronda Rousey and Kurt Russell. Neal H. Moritz, Vin Diesel and Michael Fottrell return to produce the film written by Chris Morgan.

After the 2015 launch of 'The Avengers: Age of Ultron' and 'Ant-Man', Marvel revealed their plan for future movies. The first one will come in May 2016, and will be 'Captain America: Civil War' in which the Superhero Registration Act, an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity, starts a conflict between the Avengers since Iron Man agrees with it and Captain America is opposing the act. The rest of the Avengers will be forced to take sides. Second on the list, planed to arrive in November 2016 is 'Doctor Strange', a brilliant but arrogant surgeon whose career is destroyed, and it's taken under a sorcerer wings and trained to defend the world against evil. In 2017, Marvel planed to release 3 movies: - Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (moved from July to May 2017) - so far the plot is unknown, but rumors are that Peter Quill will reveal his family's past. - Thor: Ragnarok (July 2017) - there are not many facts known about ...

The latest Apple event, placed on 16th of October, the latest iMac was announced. It has a 27inch Retina display and a 5K resolution, 5120x2880 to be precise. The new iMac also comes with a new type of timing controller (TCON) that has an effective bandwidth of 40Gbps, providing enough power for all the 14.7 million pixels in the display to run smoothly. The display panel is oxide-based TFT (thin film transistor) LCD, with 23 layers that make up the 1.4‑mm display panel assembly alone. It also have a 5mm thin edge. Apple says that the new iMac is also environmentally friendly, being free of many harmful toxins, such as mercury, arsenic and PVC, and it uses just 1.2 watts of electricity in sleep mode. As hardware, the basic components will be: a 3.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU, an AMD Radeon R9 290X 2GB GDDR5 GPU, 8GB of RAM and a 1TB Fusion drive. All those for $2,499. If you are willing to pay more (~$4.5k), you can go up to a i7 Intel CPU of 4GHz, a AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4GB GDD...

eMag Oktoberfest - Festivalul promotiilor tari! (14-27 octombrie) http://bit.ly/1DcEquE

Apple announced past days that many customers will have to wait until next month for their iPhone 6 orders, as a record of 4 million pre-orders were logged in the first day. That's like double the number for the iPhone 5 from two years ago. The deliveries will start on Friday and will continue through October. According to analysts estimations, based on pre-orders so far, the sales for first-weekend could be up to 10 million. "Assuming preorders are similar to the 40 percent of first weekend sales for the iPhone 5, this would imply iPhone 6/6Plus first weekend sales could be around 10 million," Wells Fargo Securities analysts wrote in a note. Raymond James analysts said they expect sales of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus to top 9 million in the first weekend. "Apple will be selling every iPhone it can make, at least through October. Because of this, the first weekend sales are typically more indicative of supply than demand," they said.

Apple released the new iPhone. Actually they released 2 of them: iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. The iPhone 6 has a 4.7 inch display, while the iPhone 6 Plus has a 5.5 inch display, Apple attacking the phablet market now. The displays are Retina HD with resolutions of 1334x750 for iPhone 6, and 1920x1080 for iPhone 6 Plus. The new iPhones are both bigger and thinner, iPhone 6 being 6.9mm thin, and iPhone 6 Plus 7.1mm. All those are powered by the new A8 64-bit chip, that according to Apple is 50x times stronger, and an M8 motion coprocessor up to 84x times faster than the previous model. Also improved is the new 8MP iSight camera with f/2.2 aperture, a new sensor with Focus Pixel, and new video features like 1080p HD at 60 fps, slo-mo at 240 fps, and time-lapse video mode. Similar to iPhone 5 auto HDR for photos, the new models have now Auto HDR for videos also. The wireless got 802.11a/b/g/n Wi‑Fi, NFC was added, Voice over LTE (VoLTE) audio calling enabled,...

Apple's iCloud was hacked recently by a hacker that leaked celebrity nude pictures. Some of the victims are: Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kirsten Dunst, Yvonne Strahovski, Kim Kardashian, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, Jessica Brown Findlay, Aubrey Plaza, Tenna Torres, Teresa Palmer, McKayla Maroney, Lori Heuring, and maybe more. Many celebrities denied that the pictures are them and are fakes, but some released statements complaining about this situation. Initially, the leak was posted on the 4chan forum. Even if the post was deleted, some pictures can still be found online, and more could come, since the hacked said that he have hundreds...

Today, Intel launched 3 new processors: i7-5960K, i7-5930K, i7-5820K. Intel Core i7-5960K is Intel's first 8-core CPU. For this CPU a X99 chipset motherboard will be needed, using the new LGA 2011-3 socket. i7-5960K has a 3.0 GHz base clock speed that goes up to 3.5 GHz in Turbo, has 8 cores and 16 threads, 20MB cache, supports 4 memory channels of DDR4-2133, and has a 140W TDP. Together with i7-5960K, Intel also launched 2 6-core processors (12 threads), with 15MB cache. Those two have the same 4x DDR4 memmory channels, same 140W TDP, and same 2011-3 socket. The suggested price for these new CPUs are: -i7-5960K = $999 -i7-5930K = $583 -i7-5820K = $389 For more information check: - AnandTech - Toms's Hardware

Apple announced a special event on 9.9.2014, where the iPhone 6 should be unveiled, and rumors are that they will unveil also the iWatch. The iPhone 6 is supposed to have 2 sizes: 4.7 inch & 5.5 inch, should be thinner, and stronger, with a new processor, 64-bit A8. Also, in the same time, it's possible that the iOS 8 will be launched. All those rumors should be cleared on 9.9.2014, at the event held in Cupertino, California.

Telefon Mobil SAMSUNG Smartphone Galaxy S5 Mini G800F 16GB Procesor Quad 1.4 GHz Memorie RAM 1.5GB Ecran sAMOLED 4.5 inch (720x1280) Camera foto principala de 8 MP Inregistrare video 1080@30fps Camera foto secundara 2.1 MP A-GPS, 3G, 4G/LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi Direct MicroUSB 2.0 Baterie 2100 mAh Android 4.4

The USB Promoter Group announced that the reversible USB Type-C connector is ready for mass production. They call this the greatest invention in the universe :) The size of the reversible USB Type-C is the same as the existing Micro-USB connector used for smartphones. The new USB connector will have 18 pins, which is two standard USB 3.1 SuperSpeed having 4 pins, plus 5 more, in this way allowing a 10Gbps connections. Also supports the new USB Power Delivery specs, that allows up to 100 watts to be carried over a USB cable, enough to power a laptop or most of the peripherals, including a monitor. All it's left is for the USB Implementers Forum to make Type-C devices, cables and adapters.

Track produced by David Guetta, Avicii, Giorgio Tuinfort & Frédéric Riesterer

On 26th July 2014, the 2nd Annual Water Gun Festa took place in Sinchon, Korea. The streets ware full of people running and fighting around with water guns. Even the firefighters joined the event and sprayed everyone with the hose.

The Russian Government offers ~4 million ruble (~$111,000) to the one who decrypts data sent over Tor , an encrypted anonymizing network used by online users in order to hide their activities from law enforcement, government censors, and others. MVD (Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs) issued an notice on July 11, named “ Perform research, code ‘TOR’ (Navy) ”, an open call for Tor-cracking proposals whose winner will be chosen by August 20. Anonymity, which is of everybody’s interest, specially of activists, journalists, researchers, whistleblowers, who uses Tor anonymity service to hide their activities, are now under great threat from both sides. Source: thehackernews

Slightly Mad Studios revealed the Official PC Requirements for the much expected upcoming racing game, Project CARS: MINIMUM SPECS: -CPU – 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400, 3.0 GHz AMD Phenom II X4 940 -GRAPHICS – nVidia GTX 260, ATI Radeon HD 5770 -MEMORY – 4Gb RAM, 1Gb VRAM RECOMMENDED SPECS: -CPU – 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7 3700, 4.0 GHz AMD FX-8350 -GRAPHICS – nVidia GT600 series, AMD Radeon HD7000 series -MEMORY – 8Gb RAM, 2Gb VRAM

An estimated 50,000 websites ware compromised so far, due to MailPoet Newsletter plug-in flaw. The security flaw allows attackers to upload PHP files on the server and take control of the website. The flaw was fixed in the version 2.6.7 of the plug-in, so be sure you update it, if using. The Web security firm Sucuri also spotted injection attacks on vulnerable websites, PHP backdoor files being injected into thousand of WordPress websites

European Central Bank released on 24 July 2014 an announcement about the hack: Email addresses and contact data stolen from public ECB website Theft was from database that is separate from any internal system No market sensitive data compromised "The theft came to light after an anonymous email was sent to the ECB seeking financial compensation for the data. While most of the data were encrypted, parts of the database included email addresses, some street addresses and phone numbers that were not encrypted. The database also contains data on downloads from the ECB website in encrypted form." Source: ecb

Thought you escaped the IE vulnerabilities, with the new IE release ? You ware wrong! In 2014, the IE vulnerabilities increase with more than 100% than in 2013, surpassing Java and Flash, according to Infosecurity . Bromium Labs said that: “Both IE exploits released in 2014 (CVE-2014-1776, CVE-2014-0322) used Flash to build the ROP chain and launch shellcode” Source: infosecurity-magazine