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Just think about your password or group of passwords you use for a second. Are they any good? Or are they just simple word or phrases that you can remember easily? Remember those scenes from films or TV series you watch, where a person is trying to figure out the password of the other person. The hacker then suddenly remembers that one key feature about that person and types in that password and gets into the computer. Well, this can happen if you don’t choose your passwords carefully. The threat that the password of a student to be cracked might not be that much but if you’re an employee of a corporation where your password might be a gateway to all of your important information and bank accounts, there is a high probability that this might happen.

New Tool:

Well, there is an ingenious tool developed by a team from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Chicago that provides constructive suggestion to the user to change various parts of the password to make it more secure. The main core of this tool implements AI as a part of its thinking process specifically artificial neural network as that of our brain. This tool, instead of just showing the boring old “how strong your your password is” like they display in all major email service providers, tells you that a portion of your password needs change

The team developed this tool by feeding it with more than 135 million passwords and over 10 million natural-language words. For this reason, this tool can tell you whether the password you typed has been used before and can warn you not to use it again. Once the users begin typing in a password, the tool will indicate what requirements have been met and and also parts that need significant correction to create a strong password. At the end of the day, it depends on the user to accept or disregard the suggestion made by the tool.

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Verdict:

I think this is a brilliant tool that helps us as a user to improve the strength of our passwords and is clearly better than the one that just shows how strong the typed password is. However, there is one thing that bugs me about an AI giving me tips to change my password as if it is trying to manipulate me into shaping my password according to its opinion. There’s a high probability of critical information getting into the wrong hands. However, if you are not sure on how you can improve the strength of your password this can surely help you.

Should this be implemented in all the sites where passwords need to be created? Comment down below on your views.

Instagram is the world’s biggest photo sharing platform with more than 700 million users. It is the place for all your selfies, photo filters, food photos and what not. Instagram is strategizing its growth and has been rolling out new features. Recently we saw the offline feature on Instagram which allowed to comment and Like on Posts and Follow people even while offline. But that was all for the Instagram App but the Instagram Web has been pretty much left untouched, till now!

Instagram Web just allowed to View, Like and Comment on Posts, Follow and Search for people. It was missing the major feature of Instagram or the thing Instagram was made for, photo sharing! Now, that feature has been secretly enabled on the Instagram Web for Mobile and Tablets. Despite being allowed to upload photos, you’re still missing an integral experience of Instagram sharing. That is, you cannot apply filters or edit photos on the go, no Direct Messages, Upload to Stories and no Geotagging. You can, however, toggle between square and wide crop and rotate the image. Lightweight Explore Tab is also enabled. 

This feature has been enabled to attract more users to the Instagram platform. Specifically, for those in areas where internet connectivity is poor and cannot download the entire Instagram app. And for those who don’t have powerful phones and enough storage to run the app.

Note:

This feature is just for the Instagram Web on Mobile and Tablets. A similar feature for the desktop will be rolling out soon.  You still cannot upload videos.

These days, the launch of smartphones with 4,000 mAh battery leave us in an awe. We praise the manufacturers for thinking about their customers and including a battery that could last 2 or even 3 days in total. But what if a manufacturer came up with a smartphone whose battery could last a whopping 15 days in total? Well, the day we can witness this may not be far as Oukitel, a smartphone manufacturer from Shenzhen, China, is set to launch a smartphone with 10,000 mAh battery next this June.

The Oukitel K10000 Pro isn’t the first smartphone from the company to feature such a massive battery. It had previously launched the Oukitel K10000 back in December 2015. And using the slogan ‘To Be the King’, the manufacturer is set to launch another beast of a device again.

Specification wise, the Oukitel K10000 Pro will sport a 5.5-inch display with the resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels. The display will wear a version of Corning Gorilla Glass which the company hasn’t mentioned yet. Under the hood, it will run on a 1.5 GHz Octa-core MediaTek MT6750 processor which will be coupled with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage.

Oukitel is yet to disclose other specifications and the price tag of the device. Whatever the price tag is, the fact that it will house a 10,000 mAh battery is more than impressive. But how long will it take to charge this battery completely? Oukitel has said that the K10000 pro will come with a 12V/2A flash charger which is capable of charging the battery in about 3 hours.

The fact that it has such a huge battery means that the Oukitel K10000 pro will have a heft to it. The device will weigh 292.5 gram. In comparison, the Samsung Galaxy S8 weighs 155 gram whereas the iPhone 7 weighs 138 gram.

So what do you think about the Oukitel K10000 pro? Are you interested in buying this device? Are devices with such a large battery a necessity? Let us know in the comment section below!