Namotel Acche Din, world's cheapest smartphone, as claimed by promoter Madhava Reddy, has been priced at just Rs 99 and is available for booking from May 17th till May 25th, 2016 - handset is 3G-enabled.

Namotel Acche Din Rs 99 smartphone: Potemtial customers should know that the company has also added a note on its site that says, ‘Pictures shown on website is for illustration purposes only’.

Namotel Acche Din Rs 99 smartphone: Promoter Madhava Reddy has claimed that he is marketing the world’s cheapest smartphone, the 3G-enabled Namotel Acche Din, for just Rs 99.

Reddy  claimed that Namotel is the world’s cheapest phone with 4 inch display and it runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop and is powered by 1.3GHz quadcore processor along with 1 GB RAM.

The smartphone will be available for booking from May 17th to 25th May, 2016.

The website of the company, Namotel.com, shows that the price has been slashed from Rs 2,999 to Rs 99 and that the smartphone is available on cash-on-delivery basis – something called a ‘lifetime membership fee’ too will be charged. It also adds that nominal delivery charges will be levied.

The message that is being displayed by the company says, ‘Joy and freedom represents the logo! The same joy will flourish in billion Indians In the form of smart Connect with (3 different looks and shapes) Android Smart powerful Phone at 99. We make this product to show love for India it is a ‘’MAKE IN INDIA’ Initiative.This model is limited and it is applicable only for India and who holds Aadhar Identity.’

The company has also said that a ‘one year warranty’ applies to the product and that ‘This limited warranty shall apply to Namotel Smartphone and its Parts. For handset and accessory defects under normal use circumstances and at the discretion of the company, Namotel shall provide free of charge repair and/or replacement services within the warranty period.’

The company has also added a note on its site that says, ‘Pictures shown on website is for illustration purposes only’.

Namotel Acche Din mobile top 10 specs:
1. QUAD CORE PROCESSOR
2. 1GB RAM+ 4GB ROM
3. 3G smartphone
4. 2MP REAR + .3MP FRONT
5. DUAL SIM
6. 4″ HD DISPLAY
7. 1325 mAh BATTERY
8. PLASTIC HOUSING
9. WHITE, BLACK
10. ANDROID LOLLIPOP

How Google's AlphaGo Beat a Go World Champion

On March 19, 2016, the strongest Go player in the world, Lee Sedol, sits down for a game against Google DeepMind’s artificial-intelligence program, AlphaGo. They’re at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul’s Gwanghwamun district, and it’s a big deal: Most major South Korean television networks are carrying the game. In China, 60 million people are tuning in. For the English-speaking world, the American Go Association and DeepMind are running an English-language livestream on YouTube, and 100,000 people are watching. A few hundred members of the press are in adjacent rooms, watching the game alongside expert commentators.

The game room itself is spare: a table, two black leather chairs, some cameras. Three officials presiding over the match sit in the back. Across from Lee sits Aja Huang, one of AlphaGo’s lead programmers; and beside him is a computer monitor that displays AlphaGo’s move choices. Huang’s job is to physically place AlphaGo’s pieces on the board. AlphaGo itself is not any one machine—it’s a piece of distributed software supported by a team of more than 100 scientists.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 Released With New Features — The Most Popular Server Linux

Red Hat recently announced the latest iteration of its widely popular enterprise Linux — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8. This release comes with lots of new features, marking the Production Phase 2 of RHEL 6. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 provides new capabilities to system admins by making this dependable server Linux even more stable.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is one of the leading server Linux distributions around, including the likes of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).

The world’s leading open source solutions provider Red Hat, has announced the general availability of RHEL 6.8. With more than 6 years of successful run, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 has set the stage for delivering new capabilities and bringing a stable and trusted platform for IT admins.

Red Hat releases RHEL 6.8 with many new features!

The base image of RHEL 6.8 has been changed to allow sysadmins to migrate the workloads to containers. As usual, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 includes multiple changes to help the organizations improve their security and efficiency.

Improving the VPN security, RHEL 6.8 has switched to libreswan, replacing openswan as VPN endpoint solution.

Thanks to the improvements to the Identity Management client code (SSSD), the customers will see simpler management and client-side performance.

With the new adcli support, the Active Directory domain RHEL management has been simplified. Identity login has also been made simpler with client cached authentication.

In RHEL 6.8, Relax-and-Recover, a system archiving tool, has been included to make lives of system admins easier by helping them create backups in the familiar ISO formats.

The dealing with packages has also been made simpler with an enhanced yum tool. RHEL 6.8 also provides a better understanding of storage usage and performance. Another great change comes in the form of support for up to 300TB data in xfs filesystem.

This release also marks the Production Phase 2 of RHEL 6.

Russian Hacker who stole 160 million credit card details gets sentenced for 30 years in prison

Russian national pleads guilty in global hacking scheme

Russian Hacker Vladimir Drinkman faces 30 years sentence after pleading guilty to hacking NASDAQ, stealing 160 million credit cards.

Vladimir Drinkman, a 34 year old Russian hacker has pleaded guilty in US Federal Court for his role in hacking NASDAQ, JCPenny, 7 Eleven, Dow Jones, JetBlue and other major organisations in the United States. Reportedly, the hacker admitted his involvement in the world wide scheme that ultimately captured details of more than 160 million credit cards.

Federal attorneys in New Jersey who charged Drinkman with conspiracy charges involving wire fraud and unauthorized access to protected computers said the case was the largest to ever be prosecuted on U.S. soil. They alleged that the American companies and individuals lost more than $300 million because of the date breaches perpetrated by Drinkman.

Drinkman, who was arrested in the Netherlands in 2012 and extradited to the U.S. earlier this year, is scheduled to be sentenced in January.

“Defendants like Vladimir Drinkman, who have the skills to break into our computer networks and the inclination to do so, pose a cutting edge threat to our economic well-being, our privacy and our national security,” U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman of the District of New Jersey said in a statement.

Drinkman and his gang, a number of whom remain at large, would monitor the computers of target companies and scan for vulnerabilities in their SQL implementation to create backdoors and ultimately netting the confidential data and later selling it on “underground” forums of the Internet.

Three of his alleged co-conspirators remain fugitives. A fourth, Dmitriy Smilianets, 32, of Moscow, who allegedly sold the stolen information, remains in federal custody.

Virtual reality has won its first Emmy

Some of this year’s Emmys have already been awarded. There’s a few non-broadcast Emmy awards and even some non-ballot awards that are presented. There’s a kind of Emmy called a “juried award” that doesn’t even have a list of nominees. In the categories of Animation, Costumes for a Variety Program or Special, Motion Design, and Interactive Media, there are juried awards that are decided by a panel of experts in the field.

Picture this: a panel of professional costumers get together for some coffee and talk about the best costume work done for entertainment purposes on TV or in TV-related events. If they decide there was a single Emmy-worthy achievement, only one award is given out. If they decide there are three things worthy of awards, three winners are announced. If they decide the year sucked and nothing is worthy of special recognition, no awards are given out. As an example, this year, Over the Garden Wall, the animated Cartoon Network miniseries that aired last fall, won “Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation.” So did episodes of Adventure Time and Gravity Falls, but they didn’t beat a list of nominees, they were simply the best (according to the jury).

The reason the 2015 juried award Emmys are a bigger deal than other years is that this year saw the first virtual reality experience win an award. With consumer-friendly VR headsets making their way to the market for the first time, people are about to engage with their Oculus Rift or HTC Vive in new ways. Those ways are now worthy of award.

In the category of User Experience and Visual Design, the Emmy goes to Fox’s Sleepy Hollow Virtual Reality Experience that premiered at San Diego Comic-Con 2014. Using the Oculus Rift DK2 headset, users are transported into the world of Fox’s Sleepy Hollow TV series where Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) tells you the Headless Horseman is in the area. Then, the Horseman approaches the user and cuts his or her head off and lifts it off the ground where it falls. Using VR, it’s pretty simple, but it was also effective enough to get the Emmy.

The short was produced by a Canadian company called The Secret Location, which used a combination of CGI and live action elements to create the experience.

It seems like there’s a premium in introductory VR experiences based on horror premises. A lot of the noticeable VR popping up at film festivals in the past year has had a thriller or horror bent, and this year at E3, a demo called “Kitchen” where a demonic figure stabs the user in the leg with a knife and pulls their head back made waves as being gut-wrenching.

“Kitchen” ran on Sony’s Morpheus headset at E3, but seemed to have played with the basic thrill Sleepy Hollow provides: a shocking and sudden change in perspective without the user’s motion motivating the software. A Kotaku writer who tried Kitchenconcluded: “The demon’s gnarled fingers slowly slid over my eyes from behind and yanked my head back hard…The vision in the headset tilted upwards which means my eyes were pointing in a completely different direction to the way I was facing. It was a deliberately disorientating effect that caused a huge rush of vertigo; probably the worst I’ve ever experienced. And with that, the game cut to black.”

Although Sleepy Hollow‘s graphics aren’t cutting edge, a lot can be said for immersing new users in a new system of experiencing visual entertainment. If you’ve ever gotten to try a VR headset, you know the experience can occasionally feel claustrophobic and immersive simultaneously. It looks like the great leaps forward in VR story-telling will be made with things we can witness and feel even though we know them to be fake. Like the Headless Horseman decapitating you.

One small step for man, a giant leap for VR, and Sleepy Hollow‘s first Emmy as a show.

CHIP is the World’s Cheapest Computer and Costs Just $9

Is $35 Raspberry Pi a lot to spend for a PC? Here’s something that might interest you. CHIP is the new miniature $9 PC that has almost the same functions and power as a regular computer. This little powerhouse machine is created by a US start-up Next Thing Co.

Yes, CHIP is a real $9 computer. It houses a 1GHz processor, 4GB onboard storage and 512MB DDR3 RAM. This isn’t enough? Here’s a lot more to this story. CHIP comes with inbuilt Bluetooth to connect the devices and WiFi for network connections.

CHIP is powerful enough to run all kinds of software and runs mainline Linux. Chip comes with a completely integrated battery power circuit so that you don’t need external power. All you have to do is attach a 3.7V battery to CHIP and you are good to go.

“The goal for Chip is to give anyone who wants a $9 computer access to one [and] to make building things with computers as easy and accessible as possible,” said Dave Rauchwerk from Next Thing Co. He added, “It’s really powerful, it’s really tiny, but the other thing that we’re really excited about is that it’s completely open source.”

CHIP comes pre-installed with tons of useful apps, tools and games – VLC, Chrome, LibreOffice, Torrent, CAD and more. Apart from these, you can use thousands of free and open-source applications on CHIP.

Right now, CHIP is a Kickstarter project and you need to visit the website to get this amazing product.

Fascinated by this $9 open-source computer? Tell us your views in comments!

Big banks consider using Bitcoin blockchain technology

The basic technology underpinning the Bitcoin virtual currency could be used by some of the world's biggest banks.

Nine banks, including Barclays and Goldman Sachs, may adopt the blockchainsystem that logs who spends which virtual coins in an ever-expanding computer equivalent of a ledger.

The banks want to use the blockchain method because it is hard to fool - making fraud more difficult.

It could also speed up trading systems and make deals more transparent.

The project to test blockchain-like technology is being led by financial technology firm R3 which has signed nine banks up to the initiative.

The other seven are JP Morgan, State Street, UBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, Credit Suisse, BBVA and Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Technical meetings with the banks had prompted discussion of how it could be used within banks' trading arms, said David Rutter, head of R3 in an interview with Reuters.

For Bitcoin, the blockchain acts as a globally-distributed ledger that logs transactions. Everyone involved with the virtual currency contributes to the way the blockchain verifies each deal. The sheer number of people involved makes it very hard for one bitcoin user to get fraudulent deals verified and approved.

Despite this, Bitcoin has been hit by a series of scandals and thefts although most of these came about because hackers exploited weaknesses on exchanges where coins are traded or in digital wallets where they are held.

Mr Rutter said the banks were most interested in the technical architecture underpinning the blockchain that could be adapted for their own ends. The first place the blockchain was likely to find a role was as a log of who bought which stocks or shares, he said.

By adopting the technology banks could cut the cost of reporting transactions and working out who bought what and when, he added.

No timetable has been given for when technical trials of the blockchain-like technology might begin.