A security researcher has uncovered a serious flaw in Facebook-owned WhatsApp messaging app. This loophole exists in both the desktop and mobile apps. He found that by sending about 4,000 smileys to a target, the WhatApp app starts to slow down and ultimately crashes.

According to a security researcher Indrajeet Bhuyan, there is a simple way to crash the popular instant messaging app WhatsApp by just sending an insane amount of smileys. This serious WhatsApp flaw can crash the mobile app as well as the WhatsApp Web.

In his discovery, we found that by sending about 4,000 smileys to a target, the WhatApp app starts to slow down and crashes due to “buffer overflow”. This flaw targets both the desktop and mobile apps.

How WhatsApp smiley bug works?

In the WhatsApp Web app, you are allowed to send a message with about 6,500-6,600 characters. But, after typing about 4,000-4,200 smileys, the browser/app starts to slow down. As you type more and more smiley faces, WhatsApp crashes when you type and send.

“….so it crashes while we type and send and in mobile too when it receives it overflows the buffer and it crashes,” Bhuyan explains.

This WhatsApp smiley bug affects Firefox, Opera, and Chrome PC browsers, along with iPhone and multiple versions of Android OS.

Video demonstration of WhatsApp smiley bug:

Here’s the video demonstration of the bug showing how the attack crashes WhatsApp:

WhatsApp smiley flaw?

Bhuyan has reported the smiley bug to WhatsApp. “This can also be used to do a Denial of service in the browser and it freezes the browser and gives a ‘not responding’ error,” he adds.

Till the issue is fixed, here’s a simple way to save yourself from the attack.

Once you receive this full-of-tons-of-smiley message from someone, you’ll have to open the messenger and delete the entire chat with the attacker.

Have something to add to this WhatsApp bug story? Tell us in the comments below.

LG unveils its new flexible, paper-thin TV

LG has shown off its new bendable, paper-thin TV panels, and it’s got us looking forward to a future with no cords, TV cabinets, and rickety stands. The South Korean company revealed a new 18-inch panel at a press show last week, plus two smaller iterations - one version that’s entirely transparent, and another that can be rolled up like a newspaper to a radius of just 3 centimetres.

According to LG, their new organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays are not only flexible enough to curve around the walls and corners of your home or office, they’re virtually impossible to break, and are thinner and lighter than any LCD screen currently on the market. You just need to attach a thin, magnetic base to your wall, and the ‘wallpaper’ screen can be placed on and peeled off at your leisure (see the video below).

So what’s the catch, I hear you ask? It could be the potential price tag - CNET reports that LG's 65-inch, 4k OLED TV costs about $9,000, and that’s without the paper-thin novelty - but that’s not even the least encouraging thing about it.According to AJC.com, it could be another five to 10 years before these wallpaper displays are made available, because LG still hasn’t quite figured out how to manufacture them properly. "LG said it has hit an 80 percent yield, meaning that 20 percent of manufactured televisions don't work," says AJC.com.

But don’t let go of your impossibly thin television dreams just yet. With the likes of Samsung, Nokia and Apple also well on their way to developing super-thin and flexible smartphone and tablet screens, good old-fashioned competition will likely steamroll this thing into our homes sooner rather than later.

LG Display continues to be the leading pioneer in flexible technology - debuting its new flexible TV panel at an event in Korea this week.

18 inches wide, the screen offers high definition viewing – but can be rolled up into a 3 cm radius without damage to the screen or technology.

The screen was made possible by its OLED, or organic light emitting diode, technology, which allows it to be lighter, thinner and more flexible than standard LCD screens.

At an event in Korea earlier this week, LG demonstrated its newest flexible display screens, which are 55 inches wide and paper-thin at 0.97 mm thick, and weigh just 1.9 kg – all the while still offering high definition. Attachable to surfaces via magnets, the new screen can be fitted to curved walls.

The benefits of this technology are that eventually, bendable TVs, tablets and smartphones will be much easier to transport and a lot less likely to sustain damage. Other companies such as Apple and Samsung have also been developing the technology – but although Apple offered up its most malleable iPhone yet in the form of the 6th generation smartphone, and Samsung previously promised flexible smartphones in 2015, neither have released any devices with the new fully-flexible technology.

apple Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, in Cupertino, CA by Steve Jobs,Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in the car garage at Jobs’ house. Apple launched many revolutionary products like the iPod, iPhone, Macintosh and iPad.

Company’s biggest achievement may be estimated by the fact that some people call every portable mp3 player an iPod, and they don’t know that iPod is a proprietary product of Apple Inc.

20 Facts About Apple That You Probably Don’t Know

Bad Decision:

Ronald Wayne also co-founded the company, but he stepped out only after 12 days Apple came into existence. At that time, he sold his 10% share for $800. You’ll be surprised to know if he had retained those shares, their current worth would be $60 billion. But the 81-year-old Wayne has no regrets on that note.

Samsung for Apple:

Apple users proudly show-off their iPad’s retina display and admire Apple for their awesome products, but most of them don’t have any idea that those retina displays are manufactured by Samsung for the iPads. It is hard to gulp the fact considering the Apple-Samsung legal fights being the talk-of-the-town since the past few years, and Samsung has been ordered to pay $548 million for copying iPhone designs.

No smoking near an Apple:

It is for the smokers, there is a weird clause by Apple. If you smoke near an Apple Computer, your device’s warranty will become void, so use the smoking zone or pay the repair charges next time your Mac breaks down.

Siri remembers everything:

Siri has been praised for its intelligence, but she has a long lasting memory too. Apple analyses and stores every voice command you give to Siri. So, all your embarrassing requests to Siri are safely resting in the Apple servers, you know what I’m talking about.

More money than the US government:

Apple is one of most valuable companies in the world, but they also have more cash than the US Treasury. With a $233 billion on its balance sheet, Apple can buy Disney, Coca-Cola, Uber and more.

It is 9:41 AM:

If you’ve seriously watched the Apple iPhone commercials, the time displayed is 9:41 AM. Have you ever thought why? This was the time when Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone in 2007.

Die-hard fans:

Apple fans have surpassed the limits when it comes to showing customer loyalty. One man waited in the line for 6 months to just buy the first iPhone 6 unit. A teenager in China sold his kidney because he didn’t have enough cash to buy an iPad.

There would not have been an iPod:

The man who is behind the creation of iPod, Tony Fadell, first went with his idea to Phillips and Real Networks, but they didn’t realize the true prospectives of his idea. And now we have Apple’s iPod.

Don’t use iTunes to make nuclear weapons

One more interesting addition to the facts list is a weird clause in the iTunes Terms and Conditions EULA. You can’t use it to make nuclear weapons and missiles.

Just $0.25 per year:

iPhones come at a pocket burning price, but that’s not the case when you need to buy electricity for them. Although Apple has launched the Smart Battery Case for iPhone 6S, if you give one full charge to your iPhone on a daily basis, at the end of one year it’ll cost you only $0.25. Quite manageable, isn’t it?

Tougher than Harvard:

If you apply for a job at an Apple store and a graduate course at Harvard, there better chances that you get selected in Harvard.

Bubbles tell everything:

When the first iPod prototype was presented to Steve Jobs, he dropped it in an aquarium to show that it could be shrunk further, considering there were air bubbles signifying the existence of empty space inside.

Quite Bulletproof:

MacBook’s battery loves you so much that it can take a bullet for you as they are designed so tough. Next time someone points a gun, just keep your MacBook in front of you.

Download the Apps:

App Store for iOS has around 1.4 million apps with 100 billion download counts, but 60% of them have never been downloaded.

Siri was for Android:

Siri is an original product by Siri Inc. and they made it for Android and Blackberry, but Apple bought Siri Inc. in April 2010. And now we have a cute, intelligent and naughty voice assistant for our iPhones.

I am the first:

When the number of employees started increasing at Apple, a numerical designation based on alphabetical order of the employee name was adopted. But Jobs didn’t like that he was #2 just behind Wozniak #1, thanks to the alphabets. So, he decided to take #0 retaining his belief to be the first every time.

Apple 1 computer auctioned:

Jobs and Woz sold the Apple 1 for $100, but they never knew, one of their $100 devices would be auctioned for $905,000 in the year 2014.

Apparels by Apple:

Apple has their history of digital revolution, many of us don’t know that Apple also launched a clothing line way back in 1986, but things didn’t work out well.

The highly secretive M68 Project:

Apple started the development of a highly secretive project code-named as “M68” in 2004. The secrecy of the project was so important, that the software team had no idea what the hardware would look like and hardware team had no clue what kind of software might run on the device. It was known to a very few people, what the device would be as a complete product. And then Steve Jobs finally unveiled it as iPhone on January 9, 2007.

R.I.P. Apple’s Lisa:

Around 2,700 units of the Lisa computer launched by Apple in 1983 are buried in a Utah landfill, all because the product was a big failure.

One Last Thing:

When Steve Jobs was asked to move out from Apple in 1985, he sold all his Apple shares. He then founded NeXT Computers and a year later he acquired the graphic division of LucasFilm which turned out to be Pixar, later acquired by Disney.

Apple’s Mac OS X operating system is a modified version of NeXTSTEP OS which Apple inherited when they bought NeXT in 1996 after paying $429 million cash and $1.5 billion Apple shares.

You didn’t realize, this is the 21st fact.

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New NVIDIA Pascal GPU Has 17 Billion Transistors and 32GB of VRAM

GPUs, or Graphic Processing Units, popularized by NVIDIA in 1999, wer a step towards accelerated computing to fasten memory intensive works like scientific analytic, engineering models, energy efficient data centers. And now, these processing units also come as separate graphic cards mostly famous for hard core gaming.

NVIDIA in 2016 will announce their next gen NVIDIA Pascal GPU with an introduction of new technologies. A successor to Maxwell GPU, these new NVIDIA Pascal GPU processors will have the latest HBM2 and 16nm FinFET designs. The new NVIDIA Pascal GPU are believed to have whopping 17 billion transistor network in its processing unit. These are almost double than on NVIDIA’a previous GM200 Maxwell that has 8 billion transistors and Fiji’s graphic processor that has 8.9 billion transistors.

The number of transistors in NVIDIA Pascal GPU assure of the best performing processing cores ever. The FinFET design technology increases the density of the transistors on the core by two times. Well, that’s the same thing that happened here. Also, the increased speed of above 60 percent and 70% less power consumption makes these GPUs’ wait worth it.

Also Read: Congrats Gamers! DirectX 11 is Coming to Linux

Along with the 17 billion transistors embedded into the core, the Pascal GPUs will also have access to up to 32 GB HBM memory across a 4096 bit memory interface. The new generation NVIDIA Pascal GPU cores have much more bandwidth compared to AMD’s Fiji and other graphic cards.

NVLINK is a unified Virtual Memory link with Gen 2.0 cache coherency features and the bandwidth increased to almost 5-12 times in comparison to general PCIe connection which will be introduced by NVIDIA Pascal GPU. NVLINK will enable connection of parallel GPUs that will enhance the performance in PCs for gaming and professional purposes.

The NVIDIA Pascal GPU promises incredible processing and for you an amazing user experience. The company plans to further exceed its computing prowess with Volta GPU with 150 Petaflops of performance and will be launched in 2017.

Best Graphic Design Software and Tools

The best free graphic design software for improving your business and boosting your creativity

SVG-Edit:

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is entirely built on HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript (indicating it runs on Web browser) and it does not require any server side processing. SVG is a graphic format and the shapes are detailed in XML which is further delivered by a SVG viewer. All the current web browsers can display SVG formats just as they can display JPG, GIF, PNG.

SVG is an open source hence by using the SVG-Edit a person can create, edit the documents and further also download and modify the code as per the individual requirement of a person. If you are looking out for two dimensional vector graphics then SVG is the apt answer. For 3 dimensional requirement one need to check the X3D. In case if someone is looking for SVG output or edit an existing SVG file then either they can opt for Adobe Illustrator or get the help from online editors as well.

Download from here http://create.visual.ly/

Inkscape: 

Inkscape is professional quality vector graphics editor that runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It is a free and open source editor used by design professionals and creative people worldwide, for creating a wide variety of graphics such as illustrations, icons, logos, diagrams, maps and web graphics.

Inkscape is a great option for entrepreneurs who cannot afford to move to Illustrator. Inkscape has been integrated with SVG which provides advanced features to the editor. With Inkscape, graphics can be re sized without compromising on the quality of the image.

Download from here https://inkscape.org/en/about/

DrawPlus Starter Edition from Serif:

DrawPlus, a two dimensional vector graphic editor runs on Windows. This software has been developed by a UK software company known as Serif. DrawPlus provides tools for vector drawing and for designing, editing as well as creation. Though the app seems to be very simple, however it offers a wide range of tools that is somewhat similar to the Illustrator and much more approachable. Again this is a free graphic design software that has been designed to be intuitive in use and opted even by professionals.

With DrawPlus one can make an object 3D by extrusion, apply a wide range of 3D styles, draw one’s own slanted profile which can be instantly applied to your object. Further, the software also provides a wide variety of brushes and pre defined templates which is capable of vector editing.

Download from here http://www.serif.com/free-graphic-design-software/

Google Developers: 

Web application developers can use the Google chart tools to create a variety of interactive charts from various data, received from browsers as well as smartphone devices. These charts can then be inserted into a webpage as per the requirement of the user who want to display live data on their site. The Google chart tools are powerful, free and very simple to use besides it is also user friendly.

The tool has a provision of adding a variety of graphs and charts into a spreadsheet including map charts, bar and lines. Further user can even save the chart as an image and insert it into any document or simply use it in some of their powerpoint presentations.

Download from here https://developers.google.com/chart/

Easel.ly: 

A free graphic design software, Easel.ly provides templates for its users to get started and create infographics. Since the software is still in early stages of development, users might have to face some minor imperfections, however the program can be used with much ease and this is the utmost key point of the software.

Easel.ly provides a variety templates which is already developed and users just need to pick their theme and objects and just drop in some text and within a short duration an impressive infographics is ready which has some professional look as well. The software also provides a variety of color coordinated themes, which is really worth trying as it is totally free of cost.

Download from here http://www.easel.ly/

Infogr.am:

Infogr.am is a free online service which provides a variety of charts, graphs and maps to its users. It offers almost 30 templates of interactive chart types from which users need to select whichever template they wish to. Users can then put up their data and visualize it in real time. Users can even share this data through their blog post and website.

Further it also allows uploading pictures and videos in the infographics. The online service is much user-friendly and users can easily create an infographic as per their requirement by dragging and dropping the required data in an intrinsic spread sheet engine which can be ingrained in a webpage or directly shared as a link or an image.

Download from here https://infogr.am/

Visual.ly:

If you are looking for some customized inforgraphic report then Visual.ly would be the right answer. Visual.ly is a sort of social network specially designed for infographics and visualization sharing of information. With this software users can not only create but also share their infographics via social media platforms.

Users can rearrange the data in the infographics created by this software moreover the data is very much interactive which is an added benefit. Visual.ly is has an easy UI and it is much flexible when compared to Illustrator, Photoshop or Tableau. Visual.ly has also introduced the Google Analytical report wherein users can get a customized infographic information regarding the performance of their website directly in their inbox on regular interval as per their requirement.

Download from here http://create.visual.ly/

Daz Studio:

For anyone looking out to build professional quality 3D scenes, Daz Studio is the apt software which renders high resolution animations and stills. Daz Studio offers 3D morphing, posing tools which allows users to render amazing digital animations and illustrations. The tool further also provides GPU accelerated real time rendering and realistic results. Hence if users are looking out for designing unique animations and artwork by using virtual accessories, environment etc then this is would be the apt tool for them. Users just need to select the right subject, rearrange the accessories and the light setting and thus channelize their creation to get an unique artwork.

The free tool can be used to produce specific illustrations for graphic novels, comics, books, as well as create graphic design elements and much more. The tool also offers interactive tutorials for any one who want to become a proficient 3D artist.re

Download from here https://www.daz3d.com/get_studio

Blender: 

Blender is a free and open source 3D graphic software which runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. Users can use Blender to create visual effects, animated films, 3D print models, art, video games and even interactive 3D applications.

Blender offers various features such as  Photorealistic rendering, Fast Modelling, Realistic materials, Fast Rigging, Animation toolset, Sculpting, Fast UV unwrapping, Full compositor, Amazing simulations, Game creation, Camera and object tracking, Library of extensions, Video editing, File formatting and Flexible Interface.

Download from here http://www.blender.org/features/

Sculptris:

This software is useful for the beginners who want to start off their journey into digital sculpting. For the professionals, Pixologic offers ZBrush. Sculptris is an ordinary and creative modelling application developed by Pixologic. It is almost a decade that Pixologic introduced its ZBrush which is an award winning software, Pixologic has thus established itself for being an innovator in the world of digital art.

Users can save Sculptris software as a native culture file and use it for editing as per their requirement. The working of this software is more or less similar to the Dynamic Topology of Blender and it further also allows users to create in-depth details without any further need of subdividing the entire model. If users want to import this into additional programs then they just need to export it as ZBrush or a Wavefront file. Thus, if users want to focus on their creativity then this software is a must on the user’s system.

Download from here http://pixologic.com/sculptris/