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“We’re changing the way we name our releases. Our engineering team has always used internal code names for each version, based off of tasty treats, or desserts, in alphabetical order. This naming tradition has become a fun part of the release each year externally, too. But we’ve heard feedback over the years that the names weren’t always understood by everyone in the global community,” Google said in its official blog post....

The intention behind it is to see users interactions with voice search in new ways. All the user has to do is wear it on the chest, and activate the Google pin with a light tap. The prototype (pictured above) might output sound by connecting to headphones or through an onboard speaker. The thought was to make it easier for the users to communicate with Google without the need to remove their cell phones....

Now Google is reportedly toying the idea of releasing its own smartphone to give direct competition to Apple’s iPhone. The new Android smartphone by Google, which is expected to be launched by the end of 2016, is being looked as an attempt by search giant to firm its grip on mobile software. According to The Telegraph, this would allow Google to take more control over the “design, manufacturing and software” that doesn’t involve a partnership with a well-known brand....

In a statement, Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager said that “I am concerned that the company has given an unfair advantage to its own comparison shopping service, in breach of EU antitrust rules,” she said. “If the investigation confirmed our concerns, Google would have to face the legal consequences and change the way it does business in Europe”. Google Inc. has been sent a chargesheet by the EU to which it can respond....

For those unaware, the Google Phone app is pre-installed as a standard application on Pixel, Android One devices, and select Xiaomi smartphones sold in Europe. However, this app can now be directly installed from the Play Store on selected non-Pixel and non-Android One devices that include the “com.google.android.dialer.support” shared library to be able to install and run the app. To check if your phone has this library required for a successful installation, you can run following the ADB shell command, XDA notes....

The current leadership has shown a stunning disregard for proper communications with its members. The importance of immediate resignations (rather than gradual) is highlighted by the Board’s secret plans to move the Foundation’s headquarters to London without input from members and sponsors. Peter Vessenes has had a nine month conflict of interest regarding Mt. Gox given that his company CoinLab was involved in an active multi-million dollar lawsuit against Mark Karpeles and Mt....

Last weekend, someone managed to access the NYPD-only radio frequency and threatened a captain and reported a fake officer shooting. The first call apparently came on Saturday evening in Bronx, where a message was broadcasted across several divisions of the NYPD radio frequency asking to talk to a captain assigned to the Midtown South Precinct and started threatening him. The separate messages went on for several minutes. First, there was a false call from an anonymous person that a police officer had been shot in the Bronx....

The list was leaked by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet operator on a popular hacking forum, according to ZDNet which first reported the news. The list contained credentials such as IP addresses, usernames and passwords of more than 515,000 Telnet devices belonging to their respective ports. Telnet is an application protocol used on the Internet or local area network to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication facility using a virtual terminal connection....

Most antivirus software developers prefer not to talk about this fact, and only a few admit that “bad guys got better”. But even then they claim that they can’t cope with viruses developed by the militaries or intelligence agencies, and not by “ordinary criminals”. They want you to believe that only special services can afford to test malware’s ability to bypass commercial antiviruses prior to letting it loose on the Web....

The previously-unknown critical flaw allows the hackers to deliver the hack hidden inside an innocuous-looking photo in a social media or chat app. The flaw is so critical that smartphone owner doesn’t even have to click on the evil photo: as soon as its data is parsed by the phone, it will let the remote hacker take over the smartphone or simply brick it. Tim Strazzere, from security firm SentinelOne who uncovered the vulnerability says that the flaw resides in the way images used by certain Android apps parse the Exif data in an image....

The stolen vehicles had a common software that’s used by auto technicians and dealers, Houston police officer Jim Woods said. The hackers got access to the computerised data base of key passes and hacked them to work with their own keys using a specialised software according to Woods. “As you get more and more computers installed in vehicles—if somebody has that knowledge and that ability, they can turn around and figure out a way to manipulate the system,” he said....

So in short, Linux Mint 18 could be a very important and huge upgrade in terms of the number of features and overall improvements it is going to bring for users. According to the head of Linux Mint, the upcoming update is going to receive an updated look and feel that will not only make it appear pleasant to the eyes, but will also make it relatively easier to use compared to the previous updates....

Here are the top 8 websites to learn ethical hackingHackadayEvilzone ForumHackThisSiteBreak The SecurityEC-Council – CEH Ethical Hacking CourseHack In The BoxSecTools We provide you with a list of websites that offers you white hat content. However, it is important to note that as a beginner to not perform any hacking & cracking tactics that breach any cyber law. Hackaday Hackaday is one of the top ranked sites that provide hacking news and all kinds of tutorials for hacking and networks....

The researchers developed the camera based on terahertz radiation. For the uninitiated, terahertz radiation is also known as submillimeter radiation, terahertz waves, tremendously high frequency, T-rays or T-wave. Terahertz radiation is one of the bands of electromagnetic radiation that falls between microwaves and infrared light. One of its properties is that it can penetrate surfaces. Additionally, different materials absorb different terahertz radiation at various frequencies. The MIT researchers have used the very quality of terahertz radiation to created a camera....

Follow the trail One benefit of a company being public, is the information that becomes public as a result. Though Google does not share much, we do know that the aggregate capital expenditure by the company is $12 billion. Their most expensive data center has a cost tag of around half a billion dollars. By rough calculations, its safe to assume they would contain around 20 data centers. On their website, Google acknowledges that they have data centers in the following locations:...

Some of you here might be very much familiar with DVDFab, a well-known multimedia solution provider which has been dedicated to DVD & Blu-ray backup, conversion, and authoring, as well as video conversion for more than a decade, over 12 years, to be accurate. A few of you might even be their customers, as me myself recently became, thanks to the fact that DVDFab has a much-diversified product line. I was first deeply impressed, approximately 6 years ago, by its DVD ripper software known to many as DVDFab DVD Ripper, which I am not going to talk about today....

We get a lot of queries on how to hack a Facebook page or how to hack my girlfriends Facebook account? Another one is my boyfriend is cheating on me, how do I hack his Facebook account? We always tell these guys that we dont indulge in black hat hacking. However, a new tool available online claims to do all this in a few key strokes. And users, like the ones listed above are falling prey to it....

Using Ping First thing to test, is your internet connection. We do this, by using Ping. Ping is a Windows program that comes pre-installed with the OS. It is a text based program and therefore needs text based commands to execute. It’s the software used to test the latency on your connection. For those who don’t know, latency is the time taken to establish a connection between your computer and the web server hosting the website you requested....