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We have all grown up learning about Mars as the fourth planet in the Solar System, right after our home planet Earth. It’s baffling to imagine that SpaceX, with the leadership of Elon Musk, may get the first human colonizers on the red planet as soon as 2024. Will the homo sapiens of Earth evolve to become another species on Mars? Short answer: probably!
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Have you ever received WhatsApp messages or emails offering massive discounts on popular e-commerce platforms? If so, making the mistake of clicking on them may make you a victim of phishing attacks. But what is it and how can you identify them to protect yourself?
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Talk about instant messengers and the first app that comes to our mind is WhatsApp. It’s no surprise though with WhatsApp’s immense popularity. In this article, we discuss why Telegram X, with over 10,000,000 installs on the Google Play Store is gaining popularity and why you should switch to it.
If you are a beginner in web technology or Android development, chances are you heard about JSON a lot. JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. In a nutshell, it is a simple and lightweight format for storing and transporting data over the internet. In this article, we will explain how data is stored and retrieved from a JSON file and why it is so popular today.
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There you are on a Sunday afternoon, chopping trees punching sheep and building mud huts, a few hours later you’ve been condemned to death by hunger games or something. Oh, the things we do for entertainment. If only the Romans with their bloody murder arenas could have seen us now. Perhaps they would have realized that maybe it would have been more beneficial to maintain a sustainable population of able-bodied men for that encroaching barbarian horde. If only they had picked up a game console instead of crazy uncle Frank’s issue of mutilation monthly when they were still young and impressionable.
This article has been contributed by Aditya Bhadra
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Consider this – whenever you think of the term “hacking” or hear about different cyber-attacks, the first image that may pop in your mind is probably a guy in a black hoodie, sitting in a dark room, typing away in his laptop. Well, that is not how it works in the real world. This is where social engineering comes into the picture. Social engineering is nothing new though, it dates back to the infamous Trojan Horse that leads to the fall of Troy, but is often overlooked due to lack of awareness.
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SQL stands for Structured Query Language. To understand what SQL Injection is, it is important to understand how information on the web is stored. A database is used to store data such that it is easy to access and manage data efficiently. There are two kinds of databases – Relational and Non-Relational. Relational database stores data in the form of rows and columns while non-relational database store data mainly in four fashions – Key-value, Graph, Column, and Document.
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