Did Grandma Remember Her Pills? This Dispenser Tells You!

Everything has to be smart these days, and while smartening things up is a good incentive to tip your own toes into the whole IoT field, many of these undertakings are oftentimes just solutions looking for a problem. Best case, however, you actually make someone’s life easier with it, or …read more

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Elcomsoft Phone Viewer 5.0 gains the ability to display conversation histories and secret chats in Telegram

ElcomSoft updates Elcomsoft Phone Viewer, the company’s forensic extraction tool. Version 5.0 gains the ability to display conversation histories and secret chats in Telegram, one of the world’s most popular instant messaging apps. Telegram… Continue reading Elcomsoft Phone Viewer 5.0 gains the ability to display conversation histories and secret chats in Telegram

Leverice is a team messenger app that’s taking aim at information overload

Meet Leverice: A team messenger and collaboration platform that’s aiming to compete with b2b giants like Slack by tackling an issue that continues to plague real-time messaging — namely, ‘always-on’ information overload. This means these tools can feel like they’re eating into productivity as much as aiding it. Or else leave users stressed and overwhelmed […] Continue reading Leverice is a team messenger app that’s taking aim at information overload

DIY ESP32 Alarm System Leverages 433 MHz Sensors

There’s a huge market for 433 MHz alarm system hardware out there, from PIR motion detectors to door and window sensors. If you want to put them to work, all you need is a receiver, a network-enabled microcontroller, and some code. In his latest video, [Aaron Christophel] shows how easy …read more

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Hamas Ensnares Israeli Soldiers with Pretty ‘Ladies’

The third catfish attempt in three years from the Palestinian militant group adds a few technical advances to the mix. Continue reading Hamas Ensnares Israeli Soldiers with Pretty ‘Ladies’

A Battery Sipping Cellular Mailbox Notifier

Like many of us, [Zak Kemble] has an indeterminate number of tiny packages coming his way from all over the globe at any given time. Unfortunately, the somewhat unpredictable nature of the postal service where he lives meant he found himself making a lot of wasted trips out to the …read more

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How Telegram encryption is proprietary, yet their client is open-source? [closed]

NOTE: If you are looking for an answer to the question similar to the one in title, you are, in all probability, confused (as I was) see update below for details.

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Quick And Dirty: Operate An Intercom Via Telegram

Never underestimate the quick and dirty hack. It’s very satisfying to rapidly solve a real problem with whatever you have on hand, and helps to keep your hacking skills sharp for those big beautifully engineered projects. [Guillaume M] needed a way to remotely open his apartment building door for deliveries, …read more

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