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Difficult to believe this, as we hardly come across such news.

But trust me, a person managed to buy no ordinary .com domain, but — Google.com and that too for one whole minute.

Sanmay Ved, an ex-Google employee and current-Amazon employee, experienced something of a shock when he found that the world's largest search engine website, Google.com, was "available" for purchase.

How Amazon Employee bought 'Google.com' Domain for Only $12 from Google

It's the cost of the most-trafficked domain in the world — Only $12.

Expecting to get an error message, Ved added the domain to his shopping cart and made payment. The entire purchasing process went through without any difficulty.

Within moments, his inbox and Google Webmaster Tools were flooded with webmaster related messages confirming his ownership for Google.com.

We are just one step closer to creating a Harry Potter or ‘Star Trek’-style Transporter.

However, When we talk about Teleportation, we don't typically mean Teleporting any matter from one place to another as in the Science-fiction Movies.

Rather, Teleportation involves capturing the essential information about something — its "quantum state", to recreate it exactly someplace else

A month ago, The Hacker News had reported the battle between Quantum computers and Encryption.

Quantum Teleportation — Scientists Teleported Quantum Data over 60 Miles

I Support Digital India, But I haven't Changed My Facebook Profile Picture. Here's Why... DIGITAL INDIA – A Flagship

Programme of the Government of India with a vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society as well as a knowledge economy.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook launched a tool that allows you to change your Facebook profile picture to a Tricolor shade of Indian Flag, just like few months back 30 Millions Facebook users had changed their Profile picture with Rainbow color to support "Gay Marriages."

Google Wants Developers to Create Richer Apps

By increasing file size limit from 50 MB to 100 MB, Google wants to encourage developers for creating richer apps and games, as well as help avoid the need for downloading additional files after the initial APK download.

Google Play Store increases Android APK Size Limit from 50MB to 100MB

Beware Windows Users!A new dangerous unpatched

Zero-day Vulnerability has been detected in the latest version of WinRAR affects over millions of users worldwide.

According to Mohammad Reza Espargham, a security researcher at Vulnerability-Lab, the stable version of WinRAR 5.21 for Windows computers is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaw.

KILLER! Unpatched WinRAR Vulnerability Puts 500 Million Users At Risk

A network of compromised Linux servers has grown so powerful that it can blow large websites off the Internet by launching crippling Distributed Denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks of over 150 gigabits per second (Gbps).

The distributed denial-of-service network, dubbed XOR DDoS Botnet, targets over 20 websites per day, according to an advisory published by content delivery firm Akamai Technologies.

Over 90 percent of the XOR DDoS targets are located in Asia, and the most frequent targets are the gaming sector and educational institutions.

New Botnet Hunts for Linux — Launching 20 DDoS Attacks/Day at 150Gbps

Earlier this month, Microsoft surprised us all with the announcement that they built a Linux kernel-based operating system, Azure Cloud Switch (ACS), for developing software products for Network Devices.

Now, Microsoft just announced that they have selected Ubuntu as the operating system for their Cloud-based Big Data services.

Azure HDInsight is a Hadoop-based Big Data solution powered by Cloud that is now also available for Ubuntu, along with Windows OS.

Microsoft Chooses Ubuntu Linux for their Cloud-based Azure HDInsight Big Data Solution

After a number of controversial data mining features and privacy invasions within Microsoft's newest operating system, Microsoft finally broke the ice, almost two months since the launch of Windows 10.

Microsoft has finally responded to the growing privacy concerns around its new operating system to regain the trust of the users who are concerned about their online privacy related to Windows 10.

Microsoft Responds To Windows 10 Spying Concerns, But It will Still Collect Your Data

In a blog post published Monday, Windows chief Terry Myerson describes three ways in which Windows 10 collects and uses its users data – although he did admit that the OS does regularly phone home by default.

Microsoft Responds To Windows 10 Spying Concerns, But It will Still Collect Your Data

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