Less than 24 hours since its release, you can already jailbreak iOS 4.3 Beta 1 on iPhone 4 with PwnageTool (unofficial). It only supports to jailbreak iPhone 4 iOS 4.3 for now, no other devices are supported. So, if you have upgraded to iOS 4.3 Beta 1, you can jailbreak iPhone 4 4.3 iOS with unofficial PwnageTool.


Here is the guide to help you along the process:

How to Jailbreak 4.3 iOS Beta 1 with PwnageTool
WARNING: This is guide uses unofficial version of PwnageTool that may not be stable and will NOT preserve your baseband. So, if you rely on carrier unlock with ultrasn0w, stay away from it. Continue at your own risk!

Before you Begin:
Download iOS 4.3 Beta 1
Download Unofficial PwnageTool [Link Removed .. see Update at the end of the post]

Step 1: Launch downloaded PwnageTool in “Expert Mode” and select your device.

Step 2: Browse for iOS 4.3 Beta 1 IPSW

Step 3: Click on “Build” to create custom iOS 4.3 IPSW file

Step 4: PwnageTool will process the firmware and will cook custom IPSW that you can use

Step 5: Once custom IPSW is created, put your device in DFU mode:

Press & hold Power button for 3 seconds
Continue holding Power button + Press & hold Home button for 10 seconds
Release Power button but continue holding Home button until iTunes detects iPhone in DFU mode.
Step 6: Once in DFU mode, you can load custom IPSW into your device. To do this:

On Windows: Press & hold Shift button and Click on Restore button in iTunes
On Mac OSX: Press & hold Alt button and Click on Restore button in iTunes
Step 7: Browse for custom IPSW that you created with PwnageTool

That’s all you got to do to jailbreak iOS 4.3.

According to different sources, Apple iPad 2 release date is expected to be April 2 or 9. We can expect Retina Display in iPad 2 with read and front cameras for taking photos and FaceTime. USB port is also expected to be a part of iPad 2. While it’s not official release date of iPad 2, there’s every chance that Apple might roll out next generation iPad at any one of first two Saturdays of April 2011. Last year, First version of Apple iPad was released on Saturday April 3, 2010 across the US.
If this rumor is true, we may not be far away from launch of iPad 2. There were hints for iPad 2 in recently released iOS 4.3 Beta 1 as well. So, we might see iPad 2 launch event by end of January or in first weeks of February.

The world’s first mirror thermometer called the Mirror Thermo.A Japanese NEC Avio Infrared Technologies firm Introduced a mirror-like thermometer that can identify a person and can detect flu-like symptoms, such as a fever.“Thermo Mirror,” which looks like a table mirror, measures the skin temperature of the person looking into it  from up to 30 centimeters (about 1 foot) away, without the need for physical contact, said the firm, NEC Avio Infrared Technologies.
The person’s temperature is displayed on the surface, and the device has an alarm that will beep when detecting a subject who is feverish.There will be two versions of Mirror Thermo priced in between $1,180-$1,440,the product costs less than 10 percent of thermography cameras used at airports to screen for people who might have communicable diseases, the company said.“We foresee uses at corporate receptions, schools, hospitals and public facilities,” NEC Avio said in a statement.The company said it aimed to sell 5,000 units in one year.

Pakistan cricket team coach Waqar Younis is pleased with the non-inclusion of Pakistani cricketers in the profitable IPL this year.Waqar believed that while on the one end it is a huge financial loss for the players but on the other it is in the best interest of the country that players are not playing in IPL which would keep them fresh and help them to maintain their focus on national duties. Pakistani players were restricted to take part in the last three season of IPL due to tension between the governments of both countries after Mumbai attacks and Waqar took it as blessing in disguise for Pakistan cricket.
Waqar admitted that the last six to eight months were very tough for Pakistan cricket but his boys have worked hard to earn the recent victories. “Our team has new set up and the boys are eager to win matches. We have tried different combinations and now developing into a good unit. We are hoping for more victories in international cricket this year and I am proud of my boys,” said Younis.

The Reserve Bank of India  has found that the 2nd season of the  IPL hosted in South Africa was mired with violations of overseas exchange laws.
According to news, the federal bank has found some serious violations by the Board of Control for BCCI during the Twenty20 cricket tournament held in 2009.
The RBI is said to have filed a report to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance in which it accused the Indian cricket board of not adhering to its foreign exchange protocols.
The Bank is apparently waiting for a report by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) before coming up with a suitable penalty for the BCCI.
At least four national banks Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, Yes Bank and State Bank of Travancore are also expected to be served showcause notices for allegedly being a party to move money to India from accounts in South Africa.

We’ve obtained a lot of on the job and also escapes from the Ps3 Phone referred to as Zeus Z1 and also now a relevant video have been noticed displaying a lucky person enjoying Resident Evil 2 and also Rage Racer on the PlayStation. The hardware is actually evidently around the upward or more, even though proven fact that the game titles needed to be packed via ROM Buddy (a third-party Android application with regard to operating ROMs) points too the software is still being tinkered with.
Or even until this is just about all a dreadful hoax. That said, it appears to be this thing is really a done deal. Discover for yourself following the break.

Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has been losing some half a million euros a week since it began publishing confidential US cables, the founder of the site Julian Assange said in an interview appearing on Monday.
When asked about the pressure put on him over the website’s move, Assange told Swiss newspapers Tribune de Geneve and 24 Heures: “From a personal point of view, no. I would say that the pressure reinforces my determination.
“But from a financial point of view, it’s another matter.
“We have been losing more than 600,000 francs (481,068 euros, USD 620,053) a week since the start of the publication of the diplomatic cables. To continue our business, we would need to find a way or other to get this money back,” he added.
There was no explanation of why Wikileaks was losing money with the publication, but several banks or payment systems have terminated business with the website in recent weeks.
The Australian is on bail in Britain facing extradition proceedings to Sweden on charges of sexual assault. The date of his trial is to be fixed during a hearing on Tuesday in London.
Media reports suggest that US prosecutors are also trying to build a case against him on the grounds that he encouraged a US soldier, Bradley Manning, to steal cables from a government computer and pass them to WikiLeaks.
Assange had also acknowledged during a December interview to Britain’s Sunday Times that financial difficulties had pushed him to sign more than one million pounds (1.2 million euros, USD 1.55 million) in deals for his autobiography.
He denied having already received this sum. “Contrary to what has been said, I have not received 1.1 million pounds to write my autobiography. I would get 1.1 million pounds in a couple of years’ time if my book became a success,” he told the Swiss newspapers.

A 65-year-old Palestinian farmer was on Monday shot dead by Israeli troops in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical and security officials said.
Adham Abu Selmiya, spokesman for the Hamas-run medical services, named the farmer as Shaaban al-Qarmoot, and said his body was being transferred to the nearby Kamal Adwan hospital.
The shooting occurred near the town of Beit Hanun, which lies very close to the Erez border crossing with Israel.

A US court has ordered Twitter to hand over information of the accounts of WikiLeaks and numerous supporters as part of a criminal investigation into the release of hundreds of thousands of secret documents.
The December 14 subpoena obtained by the Department of Justice and published by online magazine Salon.com on Friday said the records sought from the microblogging website were “relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation.”
It ordered Twitter to provide account information on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, the US Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking Pentagon documents made public last year by WikiLeaks.
The information sought by the government includes all connection records and session times, IP addresses used to access Twitter, email and residential addresses plus billing records and details of bank accounts and credit cards.
The subpoena included the accounts of WikiLeaks supporters Jacob Appelbaum, Rop Gonggrijp and Birgitta Jonsdottir, a former WikiLeaks volunteer and member of Iceland’s parliament.
“WikiLeaks strongly condemns this harassment of individuals by the US government,” Assange’s lawyer, Mark Stephens, said in a statement issued in London.
The government is examining whether criminal charges can be brought against Assange for helping to make public hundreds of thousands of confidential US diplomatic cables that embarrassed Washington and several of its allies.
Stephens said three of the four individuals targeted by the Department of Justice had never worked for WikiLeaks and were private citizens who supported WikiLeaks voluntarily as activists or politicians.
Two of them were instrumental in helping WikiLeaks make public the Pentagon video that showed a US helicopter crew firing on Iraqi civilians, Stephens said. WikiLeaks is instructing its lawyers to oppose the subpoena, he added.
Jonsdottir said she was seeking legal advice and had spoken to Iceland’s minister of justice, who is looking into the case.
“I have nothing to hide and have done nothing wrong — I have no intention to hand my information over willingly to DoJ (Department of Justice),” Jonsdottir wrote on Twitter.
The subpoena gave Twitter Inc three days to provide the records and ordered the San Francisco-based company not to inform the users under investigation.
A federal judge unsealed the order on January 5 after Twitter requested the right to inform the people involved.
Stephens said this legal action by Twitter had made public the existence of a criminal investigation of WikiLeaks.
The lawyer called on Facebook and Google to unseal any similar subpoenas requesting information about WikiLeaks.
Washington has accused WikiLeaks of acting without regard for the safety of those named in the cables, which contained candid remarks and assessments of foreign leaders and governments.
The State Department said on Friday it has warned several hundred people worldwide it believes may be imperiled by the release and has helped a handful of them relocate to safer places.

PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif has said his party does not seek mid-term elections and wants the elected government to complete its full phrase.He was addressing a press meeting at his Raiwind home after a meeting of senior party leaders on Monday.

A latest study has suggested that adopting healthy habits in youth is linked with more favourable cholesterol levels in middle age.

Costan G Magnussen, of University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, and University of Turku, Finland, and colleagues studied 539 young adults.

Participants had their cholesterol and triglyceride levels measured in 1985 when they were age 9, 12 or 15, and again at a follow-up between 2004 and 2006 (an average of 20 years later). High-risk levels were defined as a total cholesterol level of 240 milligrams per deciliter or higher, an LDL or “bad” cholesterol level of 160 milligrams per deciliter or higher, an HDL or “good” cholesterol level of less than 40 milligrams per deciliter or a triglyceride level of 200 milligrams per deciliter or higher.

In addition, their height, weight, waist circumference, skin-fold thickness, smoking behaviors, cardiorespiratory fitness and socioeconomic factors were recorded at both time points.

“Using established cut points, we found that substantial proportions of individuals with high-risk blood lipid and lipoprotein levels at baseline no longer had high-risk levels at follow-up,” the authors write.

Those who did remain high-risk gained more body fat and were more likely to begin or continue smoking during the follow-up period.

Participants who had low-risk profiles in youth but became high-risk as adults also had greater increases in body fat, were less likely to improve their socioeconomic conditions and became less fit between measurements than did those who remained low-risk.

When looking only at high-density lipoprotein levels (HDL, or “good” cholesterol), the authors found that participants who did not improve any lifestyle factors between youth and adulthood had more than double the prevalence of low HDL levels than the study average (26.2 percent vs. 11.9 percent). Conversely, those who had improved at least two lifestyle factors had a prevalence of low HDL less than one-fourth that of the study average.

“Our findings are important for two reasons. First, they suggest that beneficial changes in modifiable risk factors (smoking and adiposity) in the time between youth and adulthood have the potential to shift those with high-risk blood lipid and lipoprotein levels in youth to low-risk levels in adulthood. Second, they emphasize that preventive programs aimed at those who do not have high-risk blood lipid and lipoprotein levels in youth are equally important if the proportion of adults with high-risk levels is to be reduced.”

The study appears in the January issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

The study, published in the journal Molecular Nutrition & Food Research, reveals that an extracted compound, 9-oxo-octadecadienoic, has anti-dyslipidemic affects.

The team led by Dr Teruo Kawada, from Kyoto University and supported by the Research and Development Program for New Bio-industry Initiatives, Japan, focused their research on extracts which tackle dyslipidemia, a condition which is caused by an abnormal amount of lipids, such as cholesterol or fat, in the blood stream.

“Dyslipidemia itself usually causes no symptoms,” said Kawada, “however; it can lead to symptomatic vascular diseases, such as arteriosclerosis and cirrhosis. In order to prevent these diseases it is important to prevent an increased build up of lipids.”

Tomato is already known to contain many compounds beneficial to health. In this study the team analyzed 9-oxo-octadecadienoic acid, to test its potential anti-dyslipidemia properties.

The compound was found to enhance fatty acid oxidation and contributed to the regulation of hepatic lipid metabolism. These findings suggest that 9-oxo-octadecadienoic acid has anti- dyslipidemia affects and can therefore help prevent vascular diseases.

“Finding a compound which helps the prevention of obesity-related chronic diseases in foodstuffs is a great advantage to tackling these diseases”, concluded Kawada. “It means that the tomato allows people to easily manage the onset of dyslipidemia through their daily diet.”

The number of Britons killed by swine flu in the northern winter has reached 50 after a 32-year-old female became the most recent victim.

Sarah Applin had given birth to a son just two weeks ago.

When announcing her death, Ms Applin’s parents urged pregnant women and others considered at risk to have the flu vaccination.

Britain’s Health Protection Agency (HPA) says 11 people have died of swine flu in the past week and confirmed the flu has already claimed 47 lives, with three others dying from another strain known as type B.

Most of the deaths were children and young adults, with five deaths among under-fives and eight among those aged between five and 14.

British prime minister David Cameron has admitted parts of the country are now running low on vaccine stocks.

Britain has no central stockpile and vaccines are ordered every year by doctors’ surgeries.

According to the UK Vaccine Industry Group, 14.7 million doses of flu vaccine have been delivered across Britain, which has a population of around 62 million.

Authorities say more than 700 infected people are in intensive care and high-dependency hospital beds.

Hospitals are being told to cancel routine operations to make way for the most seriously ill flu patients.

Four solar and two total moon eclipses will be observed in different parts of the world. The first solar eclipse will take place Jan 4. It will begin at 06:40 GMT and will be visible from Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa.

At maximum eclipse in northern Europe, the moon will cover 86 percent of the Sun’s diameter.

The next solar eclipse will occur June 1. People on the Russian Kolguyev island in the Barents Sea will have a chance to observe the Moon covering 60 percent of the Sun’s diameter.

The eclipse will also be visible from the eastern Arctic, northern Canada, the Kamchatka peninsula and other regions of Russia’s Far East.

On June 15, a total moon eclipse will take place, which will be visible from India, the Middle East, Africa and southern Europe.

Soon after it, another solar eclipse will occur, but this time the moon will cast its shadow on less then 0.1 percent of the sun.

On Nov 25, the moon will cover a total of 90.4 percent of the sun’s diameter, but the eclipse will be visible only from Antarctica and its surrounding seas.

People of the entire Eurasia region, as well as of Australia and the northwestern part of North America will have a chance to observe the second and the last total moon eclipse Dec 10 this year.

Federal police are investigating an apparent hacker attack on the website of Brazil’s president, just a day after President Dilma Rousseff took office, officials told media Tuesday.

The attack on Sunday was being investigated by the Federal Data Processing Service, according to official sources cited by G1 reports and Agencia Folha.

“The federal police will probe anybody responsible for attempts to block the security of the president’s office,” Serpro’s spokesperson Carlos Marcos Torres told G1.

A group calling itself the “Fatal Error Crew” took credit for the apparent attack in a Twitter posting.

Serpro said there was an intentional flood of attempts to access presidencia.gov and brasil.gov, which knocked the sites out of service for a few hours.

In April, the ruling Workers Party had its website knocked out by a hacker for 24 hours.

If glasses-free 3D is really the future of TV, you wouldn’t know by the handful of companies that are showing off the technology at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

LG put their glasses-free TV right out on the demo floor. Unfortunately, the company also had to put a white line in the carpet to show onlookers where to stand. And even then you must stand dead-center to get a semi-decent 3D effect. Standing off to the side even by just a few inches reveals the limitations of glasses-free tech.

Over at the Toshiba booth, they made glasses-free 3D the centerpiece — literally — of their large booth. Convention-goers formed long, snaking lines to enter the black box housing several of the glasses-free sets.

And even though the set-up of the booth succeeded in drawing interested parties, what awaited inside was a letdown. While the Toshiba TV is viewable from a few more angles than the LG set, it still wouldn’t work for more than three people sitting very close together on the couch.

On a more positive note, one of my colleagues at Consumer Reports got her hands on the Nintendo 3DS portable gaming system. “The graphics were clear, and the 3D effects added a new dimension—pun intended—to the gameplay,” she wrote.

Companies like Samsung, RCA, JVC and Panasonic decided against bringing glasses-free technology. Sharp only demonstrated it on two prototypes for portable devices (one tablet-sized and one with a 3.8″ screen).

Speaking to Consumerist, reps for the companies that refrained from showing off glasses-free 3D voiced the opinion that the technology will someday be standard, but that it hasn’t been developed enough to sell to the retail market.