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“We’re already a cyborg,” said Musk. “You have a digital version of yourself, a partial version of yourself online in the form of your emails, your social media, and all the things that you do.” We already have “super powers,” contends Musk, quoting the world’s access to personal computers and smartphones. “You have more power than the president of the United States had 20 years ago. You can answer any question, you can video conference with anyone, anywhere....

The group notes that it “foresees great societal benefits and opportunities ahead, but we also understand that as with every new technology there will be concerns and confusion associated with new applications and competencies, and we look forward to working together on these important issues. “We intend to come together to address these important issues, including ethics, safety, transparency, privacy, biases, and fairness.” In a press release on Wednesday, the group stated: “The objective of the partnership on AI is to address opportunities and challenges with AI technologies to benefit people and society....

TechCrunch says that the App was launched in a certain handful of countries in Asia and Africa including Bangladesh, Nepal, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Zimbabwe where the App is being tested for further upgradation and bug fixing. A report by TechCrunch says that the App has been built to accommodate lower end and Android devices. The Facebook Lite will be packed in just 252KB file size so that any lower end Android phone can run it smoothly....

Facebook is working on a standalone video app that would support 360-degree or “spherical” videos, like the ones that debuted on YouTube not too long ago, claims the report. The format, typically compiled from multiple cameras, allows users to change their viewing perspective in the video simply by panning and tilting their phones, as if they were at the video’s location. As conceived, the app is also said to play nicely with the likes of Apple Inc....

“A large fraction of people don’t connect to the internet because the wireless communications infrastructure is not available where they live, mostly in very rural areas of the world,” said Connectivity Lab’s Tobias Tiecke, who led the team in writing a paper that was published in the journal Optica. “We are developing communication technologies that are optimised for areas where people live far apart from each other.” As lasers can hold huge information and are able to broadcast it a long way, they are a smart way to transmit data over significant distances....

Apparently, the scammers are contacting users via Facebook and its photo-sharing site Instagram, pretending to be Mark Zuckerberg, and informing them they’ve supposedly won a lottery with a huge amount of winnings. However, in order to receive the prize-money, the victims were asked to wire a “delivery fee” to Facebook. While some were asked to send cash, some were told to transfer hundreds of dollars worth of iTunes gift card redemption codes....

VAIO stated last year that its new Windows 10 Mobile handset would target business buyers with mid-range specs. The company also added that the handset would provide support for the operating system’s PC-like Continuum mode, which is great. As for the hardware, VAIO’s unnamed smartphone is expected to pack a Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 chipset, along with 2GB RAM and 16GB of internal storage. While those are definitely not high-end specifications, they are not bad at all, seeing as how Windows 10 is much more fluid without requiring top-notch hardware to run it smoothly....

Foxconn generally hires thousands of temporary employees throughout the peak season to meet the seasonal demand of newly released iPhone models. The company typically renews workers’ contracts every month from August until January. The company then reduces the influx of temporary employees once the demand decreases. However, this time around, Foxconn has cut many of those contract jobs months earlier than expected. Weaker demand for the iPhone throughout late 2018 is believed to be the reason behind the cut....

In this article, we show quick and easy tips you can use to clear the temporary files (cache)from your phone, leaving you with more storage. You can see the trick in action in this video from YouTuber iTwe4kz titled “one weird trick” garbage. Let’s go through the full process that was tested on an iPhone 6 Plus. This method works best if you have less than 1GB of storage left....

However, the game was inspired by the graphic novel in which Superman kills The Joker for destroying the city of Metropolis and forcing him to murder the love of his life, Lois Lane and their unborn child. The game allows the player to take up the role of several characters from the DC comic book universe in a 1-on-1 fighting experience. However, it does seem strange that Samsung would be announcing the Injustice Gods Among Us version, especially when the game was announced a long time back....

The existence of this report was not accepted until 2008 by the German parliament, the Bundestag, who have struggled hard to keep the files private. However, two years later, Robert Fleischer, an UFO enthusiast from Exopolitic.org found that the Government had actually assigned the job of discovering the existence of extraterrestrial life to its scientific department, said The Express. The fight for the X-files has been to some extent to that of a David and Goliath fight, with Frank Reitemeyer, the German blogger dragging the Bundestag to court over the country’s lack of transparency related to its UFO research....

The GIF in question was sent by a 29-year-old John Rayne Rivello of Salisbury, Maryland, in December 2016 to a Dallas-based Newsweek Journalist, Kurt Eichenwald via Twitter as he was upset with his critical coverage of President Donald Trump. The grand jury along with the U.S. Department of Justice issued a series of indictments against Rivello, who is accused of sending a flashing Pepe the Frog image with the intention of inducing an epileptic seizure in Eichenwald, who is already suffering from epilepsy....

Google warns that surfing on Google.com is dangerous, here is why!Why Google.com is not safe? The world’s most visited website with approximate 1.7 billion visitors per month and a Alexa rank of 1 in world as well as United States can redirect users to malware laden websites according to Google’s own admission. This was discovered by Reddit user who mentioned this on a thread. It warns that “some pages on this website redirect visitors to dangerous [ones] that install malware on visitors’ computers....

According to the users, the fingerprint scanner on the new Pixel phones is not quick enough to respond to the touch of the user’s finger, which is making it difficult for them to unlock the phone. Now, Google has provided an explanation (although not a convincing one via Engadget) for the sluggish performance of the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro fingerprint scanner. It has responded to a complaint tweeted on the Made By Google Twitter account by a user @ianxcom1....

Every month Google is receiving dozens of millions of DMCA takedown requests from copyright holders, most of which are directed at its search engine only. However, with Google Fiber being rolled out in many cities, notices are targeting allegedly pirating Internet subscribers are becoming more and more common as well. These include regular takedown notices but also the more controversial part is the settlement demands which are being sent by companies such as Rightscorp and CEG TEK....

Google in a blog post said that they’ve noticed “continued demand” for the Voice and Vision Kits “especially from the STEM audience where parents and teachers alike have found the products to be great tools for the classroom.” Now, the search giant has released updated versions of its Voice Kit and Vision Kit that are not only easy to assemble but also more widely available. This will give students and educators an easy, cheap platform for developing and programming their own “smart” gadgets....

Kakkar’s parents are teachers at Delhi University. Rita Kakkar, his mother is in the faculty of chemistry department and Subhash Kakkar, his father is a teacher of management studies. A final year student of DTU’s information technology department, Kakkar will be joining Google, California with a compensation of Rs 1,25,74,200 ($190,000) after he completes his study in 2016. The highest offer made so far in DTU campus has been Rs 93 lakh....

Affected users took to Google’s issue tracker, support forums, and Reddit, to complain that their phones are being trapped in a Qualcomm EDL (emergency download) mode, instead of Android leaving their handsets effectively useless. For those unaware, EDL mode is a Qualcomm-enabled feature that can allow you to recover data from a device and perform tasks like unbricking the device, unlocking the bootloader, or modifying protected device parameters. Majority of the complaints dated back to June where Google Pixel 3 users reported issues such as waking up to a dead phone after an overnight security update or while listening to music....

The bug was discovered by Project Zero’s Felix Wilhelm on July 21. According to Wilhelm, the flaw deals with the fact that Actions’ workflow commands are “highly vulnerable to injection attacks”. These workflow commands act as a communication channel between the Action runner and the executed action. “The big problem with this feature is that it is highly vulnerable to injection attacks. As the runner process parses every line printed to STDOUT looking for workflow commands, every Github action that prints untrusted content as part of its execution is vulnerable....